This is the most important article you have ever read because it will teach you the 100% proven way to quickly get on the right path to real richness and freedom. Many claim to have the right recipe, but their advice is often wrong, misleading and doesn’t work. To achieve it, we first have to explain what freedom is.
People don’t really know what freedom is. Many think it’s having money. But they don’t understand that money demands worship. You start serving it. Either you’re addicted to spending, burning cash to soothe your restlessness, or you’re obsessed with investing and saving, living in constant fear you’ll lose it. When the first thing you do in the morning is check the price of gold, Bitcoin, or the Dow Jones—who do you really serve?
Others think freedom lies in proper ambition. In being a workaholic. Invest in yourself, they say. But you end up chained to your calendar, a slave to performance reviews and colleagues who’d eat you alive if they could. And academia isn’t much better. If you’re an entrepreneur it’s even worse. The treadmill runs faster. The fears and worries grow sharper teeth.
Then there are those who think that investing in knowledge, body, and skills will lead them to wisdom and grace. But skills dull. Languages are forgotten. Habits slip out of practice. Bellies and wrinkles arrive before you know it.
Some are slaves to perfection. They think if they do every job right, if they give everything they have, the reward will come. But perfection was never meant for humans. Error and black swans are woven into our destiny—and they’re actually beneficial, the very signposts showing us the right way.
Then there’s the humble type. They say they don’t want riches or excess—just a decent, ordinary life. A house, a car, a “normal” job, a spouse, kids. But they often end up more enslaved than anyone else. Houses grow too tight. “Nice things” upgrade themselves from Omega to Rolex. The burden of keeping up becomes its own prison.
There are those who are slaves to dreams and plans. They live in the future so much they forget the present. You can bring them to the most beautiful place on Earth and they’d still be somewhere else in their heads.
Some are addicted to attention and approval. To talking, to expressing themselves, to imposing their opinions, to being heard. Some serve technology—newsfeeds, comment sections, notifications—claiming they’re “staying informed” while really needing the distraction to avoid doing anything that matters.
Others seek oblivion. Booze, drugs, anything to blur the world. Chasing other forms of life, they become another life form themselves.
Then there are those addicted to realism, terrified of dreaming—and the dreamers too afraid to open their eyes. People who lose themselves in spreadsheets, and people who lose themselves in their fantasies.
Then there are those who avoid relationships like the plague, fearing they’ll lose their freedom or be domesticated or submitted. They don’t understand how much joy and purpose family, a spouse, and children can bring.
And finally, there are those who think love will save them. That loving a woman or man will bring final happiness and fulfillment. But people fall out of love. They leave. They die. Children grow up and go. Some don’t even talk to you anymore. And you’re left a slave to memory. Sorrow devours your days. Guilt feeds on your nights.
Here’s the recipe for freedom: only surrendering to God in complete faith makes you truly free. What does that mean? It’s complicated. But don’t worry—you have a whole life to make it simple.
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I’m not kidding: the way is the goal—as Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” And yes, the title was meant to bait you and lure you in, so it could change your stupid paradigms to the right one. Richness isn’t about money; it’s about freedom.