IMPOVERISHED (FEEL LIKE A MILLION)
"There are people who have money and people who are rich." Coco G. Chanel
We must attend to our own well-being. In fact, we are the only ones who can do it properly.
Taking better care of your money is the same thing as taking better care of yourself.
What's your definition of luxury? Wearing real cashmere? A huge plate of fresh oysters all for your self? A spritz of Joy perfume every morning? Going first class when you usually fly steerage? A split of champagne with lunch? Luxury isn't so much in the thing itself; it's in the details: Having an OVERABUNDANCE
of raspberries, taking a taxi when you usually walk, having a hot shower after a week of camping. To feel rich, know what your luxuries are and get alittle on a regular basis---but not too much, too often, because then they won't be luxuries anymore.
Spoil yourself with little treats:
Take the afternoon off; try a new toothpaste; splurge on $15 worth of caviar; buy yourself a present and have it gift-wrapped; get a subscription to Oprah magazine; have your nails done; test-drive a BMW.
INNER AFFLUENCE
Try choosing the absolute best---not necessarily the most expensive---option in all the little things for a feeling of inner affluence. Do this to generate that feeling of well-being that being good to yourself brings---and because you deserve the best!
Choose your favorite painting at a local museum. Picasso? Matisse? You can visit it every day and get to know its every nuance. You will "own" that Picasso in a much more authentic way than the billionaire who barely glances at "his" Picasso.
USE THE GOOD CHINA EVERYDAY.
Be like a wealthy socialite: "You don't have to be rich, you just have to learn
to live rich." ---B.Pepper
