We’re all aware that many people feel that we must be careful when focusing on money or affluence or abundance… that in the pursuit of those things there is danger. All I (Jim Rohn) do agree. If you make money your love and pursue affluence to the exclusion of other values in life, you have lost, not won.
However, let’s consider this question: if you could do better financially, should you? That’s not a bad question. In the time you’ve allotted to labor, economics, success, achievement, productivity, the creation of value, the development of skills and creativity, if you could do better, should you?
I think that one of the greatest satisfactions of living life to the fullest is doing the best you can with whatever you have. Doing less than your best has ways of eroding the psyche. We seem to be creatures of enterprise. Surely this is the reason for the seasons. The soil and the sun and the rain and the seed all seem to say, “What can you do with us? Do you have the genius to make something unique of us?” Life says, “Here is the raw material. What splendid things can you produce from all there is?” So go for high productivity, the full use of your genius, the full development of your potential in all areas of your life, including earning money. That is the essence of an enterprising life.
* Source: Leading an Inspired Life by Jim Rohn