They say that humans are motivated mostly by two things: a) money and b) recognition – and their subconscious minds don’t care much about which one of the two they get.
However, better still is to have both money AND recognition.
Humans need recognition to feel accepted and to feel as if they are “someone”.
My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier you’ll be a general; if you become a priest you will end up as the pope. Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso”.
Pablo Picasso.
Unless you are a very good painter, you will need an another way to find money and recognition. The best way to do that is to merely become wealthy. Unless you already have fame of some sort, it’s difficult to “be someone” if you don’t have money. It’s easier to be someone if you have money. It’s easier to make a difference to the world if you have money. It’s easier for your kids to be someone if you have money.
I suppose it’s a bit embarrassing to speak like this. We could be seen as hollow.
It is not to say you are no-one without some wealth. However if two equal people walked into a room – one with money and one without, the drums beat all the louder for the richer person. That’s just how things work.
Our day job at Canterbury is to make people richer using only their present resources.
It won’t take long before you get a lot more recognition from your bank manager – and everyone else.