{"id":14325,"date":"2014-03-28T08:10:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T13:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=14325"},"modified":"2014-04-03T06:55:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T11:55:12","slug":"re-inventing-how-we-use-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/re-inventing-how-we-use-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-inventing how we use Money?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1394\" alt=\"raining-money\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/raining-money-278x300.jpg\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/raining-money-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/raining-money.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>When you don&#8217;t have enough money, you start to question the idea of it in the first place.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who controls it? Why? and how?<\/p>\n<p>You start to wonder if the typical system makes sense or if it&#8217;s really up to any good.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve often wondered why the most important work doesn&#8217;t pay well. The answers are more complicated than I can talk about here or even truly understand without a lot of research. Nevertheless, many of the answers tend to stem from issues of power, the sources of control\/power, and the desire to keep things a certain way for people who have amassed wealth and power.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The capital of the United States is now the richest city in the country and awash in new millionaires and billionaires; not because these folks created important and noble things, but because they are following a gravy train of money, special favors, and power for a very few.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t subscribe to all of<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/charleseisenstein.net\/about-charles\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Charles Eisenstein<\/span><\/a>&#8216;s<\/span> views, but what he has to say about money and what we can do to make our relationships better and the world a better place are worth hearing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to question the influential things in our lives. It&#8217;s smart to vet them for their goodness and test them for their true benefits. <strong>If our ways are left wanting, it&#8217;s good to re-invent how we interact and exchange with one another.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, I give you this video as food-for-thought. <em><strong>How could we do things differently?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m planning a webinar on\u00a0April 24th with my friend Bill Fox. I&#8217;ve learned that he is beginning to use a gifting model for his work. It&#8217;s intrigued me and I&#8217;m starting to investigate it for my purposes too. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">More on the webinar (topics and schedule) will be coming in the next week or so&#8230;stay tuned!&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h3><em>OKAY UPDATE!<\/em> My newest resource is now available using the gifting system. Check out the details <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gumroad.com\/l\/jumpstarterkit\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HERE<\/span><\/a>!<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O4LsktuiaOU?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fMKLXx6ZCcw?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZLMCJoN53LU?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please share this post with others. It costs you nothing :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you don&#8217;t have enough money, you start to question the idea of it in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,76],"tags":[5838,4378,413,6417,6420,6418,961,4377,6247,5298,1369,6419,1503,1515,4716,1763,2048,5134,2248,2521,2581,5651,4798,5840,2834,2856,5646,5855,4859,6130,3421,4075,3557,3598,3657,3698,3711,3735,89,5465],"class_list":["post-14325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-spirituality","tag-answers","tag-be","tag-bill","tag-bill-fox","tag-charles-ei","tag-charles-eisenstein","tag-desire","tag-do","tag-enough","tag-following","tag-friend","tag-gifting","tag-good","tag-goodness","tag-if","tag-in","tag-lisa-delay","tag-model","tag-money","tag-people","tag-planning","tag-post","tag-power","tag-question","tag-relationships","tag-resource","tag-share","tag-special","tag-start","tag-test","tag-things","tag-true","tag-united-states","tag-video","tag-wealth","tag-why","tag-will","tag-wonder","tag-work","tag-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14325"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14363,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14325\/revisions\/14363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}