⟁ What does your Prosperity Pyramid include?
+ SXSW'ers: Head to the Non-Obvious team's 7-minute book giveaway this Sunday! 📚
Hi Friends,
This week marks my fifteen year biziversary — I honestly never thought I’d make it to five months when leaving my corporate job all those years ago.
I’m still working through this awkward teenage stage, but one thing I am proud of is taking a stand for free time in the midst of all the upheaval these last six years. Not for the sake of more time spent sitting on the couch—but for helping all of us reduce those Burdensome B’s of boredom, bureaucracy, burnout, and bottlenecks.
The world needs more of our best work (not our busy work), and it desperately needs those of us who are Heart-Based Business owners now more than ever.
As I say in the introduction to Free Time, I wrote Pivot for people who are high net growth; you’re here reading if you’re also high net freedom, where money is important but it is certainly not everything—especially not ego-based expansion that sacrifices our integrity, our relationships, or our health.
The other day I heard a fellow business owner share that they created a “Prosperity Pyramid,” to remind them of what matters most in the face of a society obsessed with materialism and hyper-productivity.
Their Prosperity Pyramid, in order of importance, includes:
Connection to their higher power
The strength of their relationships
Thriving health, and only then—in fourth place,
Material wealth
Even material wealth is “not about the numbers, but about gratitude for the abundance I already have—in all areas of my life.”
💬 I’d love to hear from you in comments . . .
How would you order your prosperity pyramid? What else would you include?
📆 Upcoming Events
Are any of you attending SXSW this weekend? Even though it’s one of my all-time favorites, sadly I won’t be able to make it to my favorite serendipity scene this time around 😢 — but Free Time will be!
Rohit Bhargava and the Non-Obvious Insights team are doing another famous seven-minute book giveaway this Sunday, on March 15 at 12:30 p.m. Please help spread the word if you know anyone who is going! 🎉
📚 Official Book Giveaway Session Info » (but you don’t need a badge to go)
💻 Join our Free Time Hang Next Week
Register to join our next Free Time Community Call coming up next week on March 19 at 12:30 ET! We’ll meet for 45 minutes with a new format: a short reading from Free Time, followed by optional 2-3 minute shares and optional hot-seats for getting group input on a question or challenge in your business.
🎙 Check out these related episodes from the archives:
📝 Permission Slip
Redefine what prosperity means to you. If your balance sheet temporarily looks like this right now . . . so what? What abundance is already present in your life based on the values-based choices you are making while running your business?
🎉 Thank you for reading, and here’s to embracing a more expansive prosperity pyramid for all of us!
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Happy business anniversary, Jenny! I've been sending love for your in-laws too, thinking of them. 🙏