Comments on: Money And The Game http://legacydaily.com/2009/02/money-and-the-game/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=money-and-the-game thoughts, lessons, observations, and experiences from a life's journey Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: legacy daily http://legacydaily.com/2009/02/money-and-the-game/#comment-404 legacy daily Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:25:04 +0000 http://legacydaily.com/?p=222#comment-404 Jeff, Tristram - I couldn't have said it half as well as you did. Thank you very much for contributing. Jeff, Tristram – I couldn’t have said it half as well as you did. Thank you very much for contributing.

]]> By: Tristram http://legacydaily.com/2009/02/money-and-the-game/#comment-401 Tristram Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:05:59 +0000 http://legacydaily.com/?p=222#comment-401 If there is one thing that this recent period has demonstrated it is that money is only one way to keep score, and the value of that scorecard is only what you want it to be. The problem that many people are now facing is that the only measure of their existence is related to the objects they have acquired as a way of displaying their success at the game. Money is a great creator of opportunity and exchange, even a score card, but I believe the trap is when that paper, the electronic numbers in an account decline, or are overladen with a negative number on the other side of the ledger. What then? I am more inclined to regard a man with integrity and character as a success than a man with copious amounts of "success" on display. When the money is gone a man with character and integrity still has something of value, the other man is lost. In other words the game of life has different scorecards. The difficult decision we all face is what one or ones we wish to measured by. And I agree with you about time. Time is one thing that you can take from someone and they will never get it back. To waste a persons time in my view is a matter of the highest disrespect. If there is one thing that this recent period has demonstrated it is that money is only one way to keep score, and the value of that scorecard is only what you want it to be.

The problem that many people are now facing is that the only measure of their existence is related to the objects they have acquired as a way of displaying their success at the game. Money is a great creator of opportunity and exchange, even a score card, but I believe the trap is when that paper, the electronic numbers in an account decline, or are overladen with a negative number on the other side of the ledger. What then?

I am more inclined to regard a man with integrity and character as a success than a man with copious amounts of “success” on display. When the money is gone a man with character and integrity still has something of value, the other man is lost. In other words the game of life has different scorecards. The difficult decision we all face is what one or ones we wish to measured by.

And I agree with you about time. Time is one thing that you can take from someone and they will never get it back. To waste a persons time in my view is a matter of the highest disrespect.

]]> By: jeff watson http://legacydaily.com/2009/02/money-and-the-game/#comment-399 jeff watson Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:30:00 +0000 http://legacydaily.com/?p=222#comment-399 I used to complain that I was always in tax trouble. It was pointed out to me that being in tax trouble is a good thing, that means you're making money. People who don't make money are never in tax trouble. Money is just a way of keeping score in the game, much like chips on the poker table. My idea of happiness is playing the game, surfing, and surrounding myself with beautiful art and music. Anything else is just noise. Great post. Jeff I used to complain that I was always in tax trouble. It was pointed out to me that being in tax trouble is a good thing, that means you’re making money. People who don’t make money are never in tax trouble.

Money is just a way of keeping score in the game, much like chips on the poker table.

My idea of happiness is playing the game, surfing, and surrounding myself with beautiful art and music. Anything else is just noise.

Great post.

Jeff

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