85 | The RwM Manifesto

When it comes to finances, regardless of level of financial wealth, almost everyone and everything has told us that "more" is the only option.

"More" will lead to abundance, security, energy, leisure, fulfillment, peace of mind, and freedom.

This is not true.

In fact, it couldn't be further from the truth.

We've been trained to...

Fixate on details instead of zooming out to see the story being written.

Increase complexity instead of trusting simplicity.

Search for tactics instead of clarifying our "why".

Seek perfection instead of embracing trade offs.

Perpetuate the taboo nature of money instead of promoting transparency.

Grasp for certainty instead of building resilience.

In a sneaky way, these default attitudes and behaviors have further solidified the idea that "more" is the only option and have ironically distracted us from the things that are most important to us.

In the process, we've replaced abundance with scarcity, security with anxiety, energy with exhaustion, leisure with busy, fulfillment with disappointment, peace of mind with restlessness, and freedom with fear.

We are here to break down this unacceptable status quo and improve our collective relationships with money so that we can move towards actually experiencing abundance, security, energy, leisure, fulfillment, peace of mind, and freedom.