Measuring your real wealth
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What is wealth? It is a question all of us need to ask ourselves every so often. If not, we lose track of where we are heading and where we’ve been.
As you’re reading this, I am nowhere near my computer. In fact, I’m not even in the office today. I spent the last three days increasing my “wealth.”
We all have different definitions of the word. Some of us give it a strictly monetary connotation. There is nothing wrong with that. In its most straight-forward definition, wealth is the abundance of money.
But if I can take the risk of getting touchy-feely for a minute or two, I’d like to take it a bit further. To me, wealth is the…
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