Comments on: What is it Worth? http://magiawen.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/what-is-it-worth/ Self-Styled Life Stylist Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:43:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: magiawen http://magiawen.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/what-is-it-worth/#comment-14 magiawen Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:05:25 +0000 http://magiawen.wordpress.com/?p=84#comment-14 Good for you John. Truly. More people need to do it in my opinion. I'm still working on what I really want. I know what it is, just working to get there. Thought I had it once, but was just fooling myself like many others. I am glad you found your happiness! Good for you John. Truly. More people need to do it in my opinion. I’m still working on what I really want. I know what it is, just working to get there.

Thought I had it once, but was just fooling myself like many others.

I am glad you found your happiness!

]]> By: John Jacob http://magiawen.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/what-is-it-worth/#comment-10 John Jacob Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:04:45 +0000 http://magiawen.wordpress.com/?p=84#comment-10 I can identify with what you are talking about. Money was only a way to make barter easier. It was to represent your time and effort. The farmer took his work, in the form of grain or livestock, to market for others that needed it, and he needed Iron for a new plow shoe but if the people in town did not have the Iron then he would need a means to take his worth to another place that did… thus currency. About 14 years ago (I was a little younger than you are now) I decided that it was time to really look at my life. To put things in to prospective, I really had not had any money worries for some time at that point. I lived in more countries than most people have ever visited. My vacations where usually 2 weeks in Le Lavandou at a hotel that was above 5 star rating and that I only had to call and they would know my voice and have my suite ready (by the way it is still called the John Jacob suite as far as I know), or in March my ex-wife and I would go to Palm Beach for a month. I did not even consider the future and really didn’t think about money. The Government paid all my bills and my ex-wife managed my banking. I just did my job and played. Suddenly my world turned upside down and I left my job. I started really thinking about who I was and what I had done. I truly did not like what I saw and initially tried to fix it by changing fields. Over about 2 years I realized that my ex-wife was married to my old job, life and money and she wanted it back. I gave her everything and took the debts to just be done with the marriage (of course there was a great deal more involved). I decided that I would pay my debts and live simple and be the person that I felt I should have been. I found a wonderful wife (ironically she is from Den Haag, Holland and I met her here in a very small town in North Florida) settled down and quit trying to be top dog. The people that knew me from the old days would never recognize me now. Like everyone else I lost nearly everything in my 401K and frankly…. Oh Well! I have the best thing I could ever have wanted. A family that truly loves me, the knowledge that what I do now is definitely good…. And most important, life is not about money it is about love. We really do need to get things in prospective. I can identify with what you are talking about. Money was only a way to make barter easier. It was to represent your time and effort. The farmer took his work, in the form of grain or livestock, to market for others that needed it, and he needed Iron for a new plow shoe but if the people in town did not have the Iron then he would need a means to take his worth to another place that did… thus currency.

About 14 years ago (I was a little younger than you are now) I decided that it was time to really look at my life. To put things in to prospective, I really had not had any money worries for some time at that point. I lived in more countries than most people have ever visited. My vacations where usually 2 weeks in Le Lavandou at a hotel that was above 5 star rating and that I only had to call and they would know my voice and have my suite ready (by the way it is still called the John Jacob suite as far as I know), or in March my ex-wife and I would go to Palm Beach for a month. I did not even consider the future and really didn’t think about money. The Government paid all my bills and my ex-wife managed my banking. I just did my job and played. Suddenly my world turned upside down and I left my job. I started really thinking about who I was and what I had done. I truly did not like what I saw and initially tried to fix it by changing fields. Over about 2 years I realized that my ex-wife was married to my old job, life and money and she wanted it back. I gave her everything and took the debts to just be done with the marriage (of course there was a great deal more involved). I decided that I would pay my debts and live simple and be the person that I felt I should have been. I found a wonderful wife (ironically she is from Den Haag, Holland and I met her here in a very small town in North Florida) settled down and quit trying to be top dog. The people that knew me from the old days would never recognize me now. Like everyone else I lost nearly everything in my 401K and frankly…. Oh Well! I have the best thing I could ever have wanted. A family that truly loves me, the knowledge that what I do now is definitely good…. And most important, life is not about money it is about love. We really do need to get things in prospective.

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