Can you imagine if people could grow forever? If, instead of becoming an adult, we just kept on getting taller and taller and bigger and bigger until we died? What would we need to sustain ourselves if we kept on growing throughout our 20s, 30s, 60s, 80s? We’d need more food; more clothes too. More […]
Category Archives: Wealth
The fear behind the phrase ‘just enough’
Have you ever stopped to think about the phrase ‘just enough’? We use it all the time – “I’ve got just enough to make this recipe” “He’s done just enough to pass the exam” “They have just enough money to get by” Whenever we use it, we’re implying a negative situation – sure, you have enough, […]
Is Jeff Bezos really worth more than all the UK’s nurses?
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos earnings in one year: £62,300,000,000 (Source) Annual salary of all 300,000 NHS nurses combined:£8,280,000,000 (Source) That’s over seven times less money, shared between 299,999 more people. One runs an online store. The others save lives. Sources: To pay all 300,000 nurses in the UK costs approx £8,195,700,000 – £8.2 billion – […]
It’s ok to be ‘money-driven’
“She’s chasing the money” “He’s completely money-driven” “They’re only in it for the cash” As a society, we’re great at judging people for wanting to make money. We talk about it in terms of displaying a lack of values. We insult them, directly or implicitly. These people are superficial. Shallow. Greedy. We think of money-driven […]
How being forced to live with less changed my life
“Yeah, it’s a great property,” said my brother, Tim. “You know, as a starter home.” I looked at the two-bedroom house and garden I’d recently bought in Manchester and thought, “Yeah, I guess you’re right.” I was in my late twenties, a first-time buyer, and this was a first step on the property ladder. A […]
Why ‘starting with growth’ is dangerous
Grow your business Grow the economy Grow your team We hear phrases like this all the time. But none of them focuses on making a positive difference. All they focus on is doing more of something. More of anything. When we start our goals with ‘growth’, we deprioritise purpose. What if we replace the word […]
What do billionaires and hoarders have in common?
Hoarding can be defined as “excessive accumulation of items, regardless of actual value, occurs.” The TV show ‘Hoarders’ shows this in all its horrific glory – quantities of things that people will never be able to use, with reasons for holding on to them that defy logical explanation. These look like tragic cases because they […]