Trees and Fruit

If you are able to build Capital, you have to internalise discipline. Because you *can* spend Capital. If you stop it working. If you turn it into cash. Then consume it. It depends on the story you tell yourself. You can look at money as trees and fruit. You can live off the fruit, but if you start cutting down trees, there is going to come a tipping point where sustainability comes into question. “No Money” will again be the enforcer of discipline. It is analogous to the planet and our natural resources. While we were growing, and while we were living hand-to-mouth, we have not adequately considered the sustainability of our environment. You have to think in a long-term fashion. Normal panic is, “I am not going to be okay at the end of the month.” It is a different type of worry you have when you change the way you look at money. You have to realise when “this is not sustainable”. You might have to change your habits even if you are okay for the next three to five years. Because you are not okay... for ever. And that worries you. That is an important worry to have. One that requires a change in the way you act.