It’s Not About the Money

ByJowi Witt

When you’re scrolling through X/Threads, it seems like it’s all about wealth.
The business community is all about generating more wealth.

Yesterday I was thinking about the three eternal wants:
​Wealth, health, and relationships.​
I was trying to figure out what connection they have.

They seem easy to chase in loops.
They link to each other on many levels.

This morning a thought struck:
Often we think of them as goals.
We want more wealth, better health, and better relationships.

Yet the moment we look at the eternal relationship aspect, there is a hierarchy.

Money can buy you many things.​
But it can’t buy your life.
It can get you better health care, but you will die eventually.
Then you need to leave all your wealth behind.

That’s also the conclusion Solomon draws.

Same for your health.
You want to stay in good health for as long as you can.
Yet again, you’re fighting a losing battle—because in the end, you’ll die.

That leaves us with relationships.

Since we all die, they’re also not eternal.
The thing about relationships, though, is that at the deathbed, you’d rather be surrounded by people you love than in a bed with doctors around you.

And you also don’t care about the big house when you’re alone in it.

What’s my point with all of this?

I’d say: The idea to have enough wealth, good health, and better relationships—

Where does that leave us?

That’s why I believe to build your business around being present.
Don’t build it to be absent from your family.

Build it as the One Dad Business.
For you to become a better father and husband.

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