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When is Enough Good Enough

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Since I do not want to mention a name, suffice it to say that RR a billionaire was just sentenced to an eleven year jail term for insider trading. Everyone does it, but he got caught. It saved him a whopping $70,000,000. Now remember, he is a billionaire. I do not wish to bash RR, I am just using his situation as an example.

My question to you is, when is enough? What is enough? How much money do we need to generate, to be satisfied? Is 10 billion enough? Looked upon as one of the richest in the world, enough? If we have adequate food, shelter and clothing is that enough? Are a pair of nameless jeans not good enough?

The dictionary states that it is: “as much or as many as required”. So the truth is, we are the ones to decide how much is enough and when is enough.

So in the end it is a matter of choice. Time and again, our choices make a difference to our environment, our friends and our fellow man. It does not mean to relinquish ambition and success. It means to know when enough is enough.

Today, here is my prayer for you:
May you be satisfied with your day
May your accomplishments give you hope
May your needs be met
May your health get better
May you live a fulfilling life
May what you have serve to satisfy all your needs.

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  • When Rockefeller was asked how much more money he needed before he would have enough, he famously answered, “Just a little more.”  I prefer the line from the Tao Te Ching, “He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.”

    • Bless you Galen. So true. You got my point. Thank you.

  • Anna L Walls

    Way too many people in our society think ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ is a must. Unless they do, they think the ‘Joneses’ will look down on them, and they can’t have that.

    • But we still have a choice. Thank you for stopping by. I am honored.

  • Fanoor56

    This then is the KEY to contentment. Gratitude & Blessing

    • Exactly! Thank you for coming by. I am blessed.

  • Enough for me is:
    Rent money
    Money for bills
    Money for food
    Money for my wife and I to have a date night
    Money to be able to buy the things I enjoy like books, movies and music.
    If I have enough for all that, then I have enough to be happy.

    • Yep! It is what you have now. I am thrilled. Big hugs John. Thank you for stopping by.

  • Tasteofbeirut

    I can relate; greed is something that I find hard to understand. But then, I have never even been close to a million in my pocket, so I don’t know how it feels. 
    Linked the recipe to semsemieh in reply to your comment

    • Thank you for the recipe. I am in your debt. Yes, I am not even close to that kind of money and could not understand that guy at all.

  • Janaki Nagaraj

    I am comfortable in what I have and also happy that I am able to ‘give’. I should have enough to ‘give.’
    Nice post.

    • That is wonderful Jana. Enough is what we have. 🙂 

  • Allan Douglas

    It seems that wealth generation is addictive – the more you have, the more you want: you never get to where you say, “That’s enough, I can get by on this.”  To find out how much you need to get by, you must go in the opposite direction: devalue generating wealth and emphasize living on what you have.  Rarely do we do this voluntarily, but once done great serenity often results.

    • Giving up what we have is a major turn about in our life. So true. Thank you Allan. I am thrilled you could come by.

  • I think by nature we are all driven to continually want more.  It takes a very special skill to be able to sit back and be content with our current situations…

    I think the ultimate is to be happy and content with what you have but have a drive to be constantly improving.  This is more than monetarily though, we need to be always be improving and moving forward….it is just our society for some reason only asssociates it with monetary gain.

    Great post as always

    • Yes, very true. for some reason many societies now attribute it with money. It was the intention too in this post. I was appalled  when I read about the Billionaire going to jail. Wow.

  • I always find it intriguing that people with that much money hoard what they have and try to amass more. Maybe it’s an addiction. Maybe they don’t know how to do anything else.

    • Yep! Exactly. But, I wonder if it is ignorance or just greed. 🙂

  • Those who have too much but again what is and how much is too much?… always are in the need or seeking for more… Does this cycle ever stop…yes when there is no need to fill the empty spaces with useless things… or when one is ready to break this cycle

    • Yes, Savy, so right. A choice, always! Thank you for stopping. I am blessed.

  • Anna Romano

    In my opinion if you have food on the table a  roof over your head, health to be able to work and are surrounded by love it would be the ultimate to satisfy, then any amount of extra finance to allow one to spoil themseleves with a holiday, or or that newcar , or whatever else that is a bonus. I think that for therich and super rich no amount is ever enough…..

    • Yes, it seems that way. 🙂 Thank you Anna.

  • Live simply…
    so that others may simply live. 

  • I had a similar conversation with my husband this weekend, worrying about my brother. He has a well-paying job now, but still seems to be living on the edge of his means. I thought, when he got this job that he was lucky enough to find something to financially cover his “wants”, but now his “wants have grown larger – not much larger, thankfully, but enough to make me worry.

    Having left my own job for medical reasons, I am in the complete OPPOSITE position – every day learning to live with less, but I asked my husband, “If we were to get more money, would I walk the same path as my brother? Is my clarity of vision only present because of my current circumstances?” It really makes me wonder.

    So, Sonia, I thank you for your prayer. 🙂

    …and for this post, as it expresses something that has been on my mind!

    • I have followed you for the last year and love your blog. I am honored that mine could help in any small way. When our bodies break down, it is not natural. It makes even the smallest thing in life seem magnified. Sometimes hard to remember what it was like to be whole. I did home care for many years. God bless always.

  • I’m visiting from Corinne’s blog.  Glad I did.  This is a wonderful post.  Thank you for your prayer.

    • You are most welcome Myrna. Welcome to my home blog. I am honored for your visit. Corinne is a precious and wonderful friend.

  • symphonyforlove

    I think there is nothing wrong with money itself . Perhaps it would be more correct to say that the pursuit of money at all cost is the root of all evil. Its pursuit is motivated by greed. Greed is the antithesis of sharing. Sharing is the essence of love. Therefore, money is not the root of all evil, it is greed. Thank  you Sonia for sharing your thoughs and the prayer.
    Symphonyforlove