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I met three friends for lunch a few days ago.
They are all financially free, having sufficient passive income to meet their expenses in life and more.
They do not spend time chasing after money now.
We talked about a mutual friend of ours who is richer than any of us but seems to be more interested in getting even richer faster, sacrificing what we thought were more important things in life in doing so.
We only need so much money in life.
The rest is for showing off.
To be financially free, ultimately, is to be free from working for money.
What is the point of having more than enough money but not enough time to live life the way we want to?
Life is too fragile and I decided to be nicer to myself after a series of unfortunate events which happened in the last couple of years.
A friend told me some time ago:
"You worked so hard for financial freedom. You have the resources to do whatever you want to do now. You should."
Yesterday, I said something similar to another friend who has achieved financial freedom but still drags himself to work because he thinks he doesn't have enough money.
For some, it could one day be a case of having too much money and not enough time.
We should know when we have enough money so that we can have more time.
How Jack Ma sees his retirement?
“When I retired from the CEO position, I told the CEO team (in 2013) I should have more time playing golf on the beach.
“But I find, oh my God, spent 870 hours in the air last year, and this year, 1,000 hours,” said Ma.
“The thing is, I don’t want to die in my office. I want to die on the beach.”
He famously said his “biggest mistake was I made Alibaba”, because of the enormous pressure and responsibility he has had to shoulder to steer the US$420 billion company with more than 86,000 employees.
“I was just trying to do a small business and [not] grow that big, take that many responsibilities and get so much trouble.
“Every day is like being as busy as a president, and I don’t have any power. I don’t have my life,” Ma said. (Source: SCMP)
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