You measure your worth by your net worth
When your finances are up you feel like someone; when they drop you feel like nothing. Your sense of who you are rides entirely on the balance, and you cannot shake the feeling that your value as a person is written in your bank account.
This is a belief worth examining at the root, because it governs how you feel about your very self. You absorbed an equation — worth equals wealth — and never tested it. So test it: does a rich scoundrel outrank a poor person of integrity? If not, the equation is false, and you have been measuring yourself with a broken instrument, one that makes your dignity lurch with the markets. Reason counsels anchoring your worth in what you actually govern — your honesty, your conduct, your thought — which no downturn can halve. Let us examine the equation you never chose.
What changes unlock by starting
- You test the equation of worth and wealth
- You see it fails examination
- You stop making dignity hostage to a number
- You anchor your worth in what you govern