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Meaning & Purpose of Life #8 The Money Treasure Exercise

Many of us are kind of trapped on a daily basis by the pursuit of making money. We do that for different reasons: Need to cover one's expenses, social conditioning, to afford this or that, to get a better appliance / car / house, prove that you have more / are better than some else, and so on...

In doing so kind assume by without questioning that the Meaning and our Purpose in life would be to make money. We forget that life is more that that. It can be explored, experienced and enjoyed and many other ways.


Meaning & Purpose of Life #7 

The Money Treasure Exercise




Imagine that you had the good fortune of stumbling upon a financial treasure. It could be a Lotto Win, an Inheritance from a rich relative, a gift form God or a total stranger, an actual buried treasure that you uncover,.....

Basically what it means is that all of you Wants, Wishes and Needs are covered not just for the rest of your life but many lives over. In financial terms now you're one of the richest man on earth.  You don't have to go to work for money.


So What Now?

Since the justification / excuse that  working for money is how you had to spend your life no longer applies what now?


How would you spend your time now?

What would you work for?

What would you no longer do?

What would you start doing?

Where would you live?

With Whom would like to surround yourself?

What would you live for?

How would you spend the money?

What have you always wanted to do but used not having money as an excuse?

Where would like to live?


For what Purpose would you continue to live now that you have all the money that you could have ever wanted?

For what Reasons will you continue to work now? 

What kind of work would you do?

What does it mean that you no longer have to work for money?

What would the Meaning of life be now that you have more Money than you could have wished for?


Please do the Exercises and Experiments from the previous posts to explore alternative ways to Discover or to Design the Meaning and Purpose of our Life:


  • #1 Future Self Experiment
  • #2 - Be the Creator Experiment
  • #3 - Be the Writer, Director and Actor
  • #4 - Childhood Eyes Exercise
  • #5 - Probe for what Drives, Animates, Energizes
  • #6 - Metaphors and Analogies for Life Exercise
  • #7 - Encyclopedia Entry Experiment

  • Which one is your favorite Exercise and Why?

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