5 Ways To Prevent Money from Consuming Your Life

Money is everywhere

It’s found its way into virtually all aspects of our society and our lives.

It’s polluting our democracy, our oceans, our education system, and our police forces.

It’s taken over our bodies — our brains, our thoughts, and our hearts.

Money is consuming our lives.

It’s consuming our society and our democracy.

Based on our current relationship with money and our current trajectory, we’re headed for tough times.

But I’m an optimist. I do not believe that blazing infernos, civil wars, mass extinction, and killer pandemics are our future.

I believe we can dramatically improve our collective relationship with money, and in doing so reshape our trajectory.

My thinking has been shaped, in part, by an excellent book from Yancey Strickler, co-founder and former CEO of Kickstarter. In his 2019 book, This Could Be Our Future, Mr. Strickler describes our era of financial maximization and explains how we got here.

And, most controversially, he suggests we’re actually nearing the end of this troubled era.

First, you may be asking…what is financial maximization?