Happy Sunday!
Five minutes each week to reset, reflect, and move forward with intention.
1 INSIGHT TO CONSIDER
Wealth isn’t a number. It’s a relationship to a number.
Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller were at a party thrown by a billionaire. Vonnegut needled his friend: their host had made more money in a single day than Heller’s novel Catch-22 had earned in its entire history. Heller didn’t flinch. He said he had something the billionaire could never have: enough. A man surrounded by unimaginable wealth, and the writer in the room was the rich one. Most of us never define our number - so no number ever satisfies. The ladder just keeps extending. But the moment you can name what enough looks like for you, you can actually arrive somewhere.
2 REFLECTIONS TO SIT WITH
If you don’t define enough, the world will happily define “more” for you forever.
Contentment is knowing where the finish line is.
3 PROMPTS FOR THE WEEK
What does enough actually look like for me - in real numbers, in real life?
Where am I chasing more out of habit rather than need?
What would I do differently this year if I knew my number and was closer than I thought?
I’d love to hear what’s landing for you on this, hit reply, or add your comment below…
Until next week,
Chris
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Heller could have spent that whole party comparing his book’s earnings with the host’s money. Having a sense of enough let him leave that comparison alone. It’s easy to keep raising the target when someone else’s income becomes the measure of what you need.