Friday, November 13, 2009

MONEY

Money alone doesn’t ensure happiness. What we call money is only a medium of exchange for goods and services. It replaced barter systems of old because it became impractical to carry around exchangeable goods such as clothes, livestock, etc. Credit card companies have begun to penalize consumers for paying their balance off too early. Banks and gun manufacturers made the most gain in profit. Fear is associated with your money including but not limited to the lack of it, what it is, how to manage it, how to keep it, invest it or use it. As a medium of exchange, money has become a major social control mechanism. Halloween is touted as being the 6th leading financial generating holiday in America. Black Friday begins the day after Thanksgiving when the ridiculous spending begins. The entire economy will be based on the amount you spend for gifts this Christmas. Folk have become so caught up in the things that money buys that they measure their lives and success by the amount they have.

Hello, folk! Wake up and let’s examine this one. What is the impact to the soul? What about debt slavery? Are there tips to know as they relate to balancing a checkbook, reducing mortgage, wealth, savings that will help us. Join us as we examine the impact of financial capital on our bodies, our soul and ultimately – our world. Sandra Hurst states, “Five major definitions of wealth combine to form our subconscious attitudes and reactions to money (financial, intellectual, interpersonal, physical and spiritual) and that all are important for excellence and prosperity.”

Check out the full article www.hh-bb.com Featured Guest: Brian Riley, President and CEO of Synergy Financial Services located in Silver Spring, Maryland. SFS is a full service firm with a mission to educate and provide comprehensive 21st century financial solutions - teaching financial stewardship while ultimately becoming the lender.  Look at this site: SYNERGY OF SERVICES 

- Emilo Williams, radio host, activist for change & thought

3 comments:

  1. Money has always held a certain mystique for me. I have never really cared much about it. Of course I would like to have enough to pay my bills, but I've never been interested in collecting it. My relationship with money is similar to that of a woman who stops looking for a man...invariably, that's when he shows up. By ignoring it, enough money usually makes it's way to my pocket. Not that I recommend this approach - since sometimes I do find myself holding my breath, wondering if the money will arrive on time. Somehow, it always does though. It also helps to use it vigorously - sort of like exercise. I suppose using it well gives it more energy and power (I mean this in a good way). Anyway, I like to give it away - put it where it is needed and used well. The unintended benefit seems to be that more of it finds it's way back to my pocket. Weird thing, money.

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  2. You speak of money as energy. My father is an accomplished man who has always seen money as a tool to get one's life mission done. No more than that.

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  3. We are living in a capitalist society, and there are other views, or relationships with money that don't necessarily fit well in American life. In this society the relationship with money is horizontal. It is about ownership, and a slave owner vs. slave worker relationship. Slave, in the context of money, is about money working for us. Most people don’t own a concept of money separate from their worldview, and more often than not that view is full of defeat.

    In other worlds (like mine) money is an energy force created by need, want, responsibility and relationship people, elders, ancestors, other world entities. Reconciling these two worldviews has been a challenge for me throughout my whole life. As an older man it has taken on another shape. I am very comfortable talking to Brian about finances, and learning from him. He wears his passion and honesty easily, and his wife validates his life work, and sense of manhood. I am also comforted by his discipline and need to study his craft as deep as he does. Brian being an African-American man settles my trust concerns. –Gregory E. Woods

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