Too much is never enough

So recently I met a highly successful businessperson in their late 40s. As they told their story as an entrepreneur, they had earned amazing wealth by their late 20s, then moved continents and made 10x that much again within a few years, only to find they had reached such a high profile that politics stepped in and they had the feeling of losing it all. This individual is quite brilliant at business and so has gone on since then to once again be highly successful.

However, what do we mean by the word “success”? Is it all about making money and using that money to buy material things? Or, as this person explained, for them they do love to build businesses and so that means they make money, but since their tough experience with their first success, they look at success differently now.

This did get me thinking.

Meeting our Basic Needs

To start with, let us all recognise that such a conversation is one that comes from a place of privilege, for people who know they can always meet their basic needs. For so many in the world there is a daily struggle for this and so, so many around the world, even if on the surface all seems well, are anxious in the knowledge that they have no savings, often have real debt, so are only a few pieces of bad luck away from real and desperate need.