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10 Ways Being Broke is Good for Your Family-A New Perspective
Prosperity equals advantage.
Do you believe that?
All of us believe, somewhere deep within, that to prosper financially puts us at an advantage. And in many ways that can be true (nor am I an advocate of “poor on purpose.”) Hey, we’re an entrepreneur family; I think of ways to make money in my sleep.
But history reveals hundreds of men and women whose very hardship catapulted them to distinction through the chiseling of character, (snatching our bosom-clutched, false assumptions right out of our hands), yet we still refuse to nod at scarcity or give it its due reward for human improvement.
Hard times can have immensely positive effects on people, families and society.
Scarcity doesn’t feel nice; maybe that’s the bottom line. But a panoramic view gives us slightly more confidence to praise the attributes of living on less. We might be better–the whole society, it seems, was better in a less prosperous era.
From a USA News article, Americans are finding “things they can live without.” Interestingly, when one thing is lost, another, often better thing takes its place.
