Moneyism vs Meaningism
There is a multi-billion industry convincing us to get better and do more of the very things that are stripping meaning from our lives
When we are young, it starts with to-do lists
Next, we get into goals and plans
Before we know it, we are bought into their model
mission, vision, strategy, planning, objectives, goals, projects and tasks
This model is outside-in approach to life
Meaning what do I want in the future and how do I get it
Now, there are hundreds of thousands of well-written books and well-intentioned people selling products to help us get better at some part of the outside-in model
This is a multi-billion dollar industry that takes people in the wrong direction
This model of doing things releases the motivational chemicals of dopamine (getting things done) and cortisol (my life is in danger)
Overtime, these two, in a life run outside-in, are deadly cocktails
I call this model
Moneyism
Moneyism strips your life of meaning, but before we go there, let’s continue
The opposite of and outside-in approach to life is... inside-out
Inside-out is focused on what you have inside you to create and deliver value
It is a different way of thinking and being
Instead of focusing on delaying living your life until after a goal is finally met…
It brings your focus into how to deliver value into the moment
It releases the motivational chemicals of oxytocin and serotonin
Those chemicals are responsible for meaning, fulfillment, leadership, etc..
Thus, why we call an inside-out approach to life meaningism
Now we need both sets of chemical in us
But when we run our lives mostly from the corporate outside-in method, …
as discussed earlier, they become a deadly cocktail
Because they strip meaning from life (oxytocin and serotonin)
Think of two sets of chemicals like tanks filling up, where moneyism looks like this
When moneyism goes up, meaningism goes down and so does our health
We believe that the healthiest balance over time is the opposite of what we have been taught and are being told and sold by the self-help industry
And we accomplish this through...
