I'm realizing that when I try to aim to MAKE MORE MONEY, I feel selfish & grabby but I feel more sane & Whole-some when I aim to HELP MORE PEOPLE, in sustainable ways when I aim to CREATE MORE WEALTH, while capturing a similar fraction of the wealth I create as I do now
Aiming to help more people instead of make more money
7 tweets · May 2023 · 145 likes · 4 retweets · read on Twitter
like yes, I need more money in order to have the life I want to have. but I'm seeing if I can reorient towards the idea that if I'm not making enough money that that means either: - I'm not helping the world enough - I don't have my wealth-creation hooked up to my own engine
this makes me realize that in some ways, by keeping my business super small, that I've been being... not exactly "selfish", but... not as *kind* as I could be being! which transforms my ambition into "how can I become more kind? how can I serve the world better?"
importantly, I'm not considering myself to have obligations here to be kind or serve the world I only need to help the world enough that it helps ME enough for me to have the life I want. (more than that, I can do if I want to! which I often do)
I'm not saying this can't also goodhart lots of grifters convince themselves that they're helping people and that the people who don't finish the their expensive courses they pressured them into buying are just lazy or whatever
but it seems to at least start from a better place I guess in some ways this whole thing is the same idea as this quote from one of the main inspirations for my business:
anyway, the proof is in the pudding & so far I've neither helped more people nor made more money, so don't take this thread as having much credibility we'll see if this reframe/re-aim helps me over the coming months & years. it feels right. how do you think about it?