If You Desire to Save Your Wealth?

Money is definitely not the most important thing in life, but certainly it is one of the most important things. Most of the modern day activities revolve around money. Life without money or with less money is possible, but it will be comparatively painful. The amount of money in most of the cases will determine whether a person will survive or will thrive?

One who has sufficient money takes decisions and this is how the world works. If you have anything big in your mind then most probably you will require putting some money at some stage for the plan to become reality.

What’s available for money can be bought only with money and in most of the cases there exists no alternative.

It’s a well known fact that “Money is not everything”. Also we know that “Money can’t buy happiness”. All those concepts are 100% valid in their own context and should never be misinterpreted or quoted out of context.

A man with reason succeeds in life, and opposite is the case for a man with excuses.

Let’s now focus on the billion dollar question i.e. “How to save money?”. Below is a Chanakya Quote that might help help you in saving a lot.

“अर्थसमादाने वैरिणां सङ्ग एव न कर्तव्यः” i.e. “अगर घन बचाना है तो शत्रुओ का साथ छोड़ दो ” i.e. “Abandon your enemies in order to save your wealth“.

This is a simple inspirational quote with a very deep meaning and it relates to multiple aspects of life. Please feel free to spend a few minutes.

Who are your Enemies?

Before you could isolate yourself from your enemies you would require identifying them. I believe that you already know what an enemy is and therefore we will skip the definition. Enemies can be classified into two categories:

• Identifiable
• Hard to identify

When it comes about enemies who openly oppose you, the associated risk is quite manageable. As you are well aware about the intentions of the other party and therefore in most of the cases you are in a position to take robust measures necessary in order to safeguard your interests against already known (most of them) potential threats.

In a perfect world a man must have no enemies at all, but as we all live on planet Earth therefore be assured that you cannot make everyone happy. Still, it would be best in your interest to keep the count of your opponents as low as possible. You can do so by eliminating your opponent by eliminating enmity (Of course if possible). To be true the approach mentioned previously hardly works, but if applicable it must be implemented first of all.

Why it’s so important to stay away from your enemies? The following examples might help you in gaining a better understanding.

• Major destruction happens when opposite armies come close to each other on a battlefield. Otherwise things remain quite peaceful in their barracks.
• When competition rises in any market, the profit margins come down.

Be it war or business the cost increases exponentially when opponents come closer. When cost increases it becomes hard to save money.

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Let’s now discuss a few things about the enemies who are hard to identify.

• If identifiable enemies were bad then these are even worse.
• They are hard to diagnose and slowly bleed you out of money.
• The biggest issue is that if you are not smart enough, you will notice nothing until it’s too late.

Hidden enemies include, but are not restricted to:

• So called friends  or relatives (who envy you or  don’t care at all about your wellbeing)
• You yourself

Such friends or relatives are nothing better than parasites. Any man with a sound mind will not allow those parasites to crawl around him. Just figure out a painless and harmonious way to get rid of them.

Caution: There are people who are genuinely dependent on you. Please take care of them and be respectful towards them.

Not everybody, but most of the people sometimes act as if they are enemies of themselves. The list of such activities is too long to be discussed in this article. A few of them are mentioned below:

• Expenditure on unnecessary things and on not so great people is a major issue. Someone wasting your own money cannot be considered as your friend. Stop others and even yourself from wasting your own money. ( Charity is good and I encourage you to do so within feasible limits.)
• Overeating
• Binge drinking
• Rash driving
• Bunking classes
• Lack of control on words

All I have to say is that “Be GOOD and Be NICE towards yourself”. You can save yourself from manythings, but not from yourself.

Conclusion:

• Beware of your enemies (both Identifiable and hidden)
• Money is just a form of wealth. Other types include health, peace of mind, happiness, relationships etc.
• Be good and be beneficial to yourself.