Keeping Up with “The Joneses’”: The Next Generation
Stress Management, Time and Money Management, Inner Clutter: Consciousness Building and Self-Care Add comments
For decades we’ve heard the phrase, “You have to keep up with ‘The Joneses!’”
What that has meant in the past is that you have to have the latest, greatest stuff: car, clothes, shoes, accessories, bling, the right school and college, the right job, the highest income, the party, the house, lawn, the yacht! And, let’s not forget a big dash of perfection!
Well, it’s way past time to rethink and debunk this old and undermining, stress and money crazed idea.
Keeping up with whoever your “Joneses” are might mean keeping up with people who live lives stressed, in fear and jumping hoops to please their “Joneses”. A big game that’s very unnecessary.
Become your own “Joneses” and enjoy what is right for you. NO MATTER WHAT anyone else thinks.
Don’t compare yourself to anyone else.
Do what is best for you and your family.
If you want to watch TV shows about MORE MONEY and EASY MONEY and backstabbing and greed, feel free, but in your reality, keep it simple and sublime, out of debt and out of stress. No comparing.
If you’re feeling like you’re not “keeping” up with someone else, step back and re-decide what you really want and just do your own doing towards it.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:32 am
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