The spirit of money :: Mmegi Online

Have you ever experienced how money makes you feel? Due to either bad spending habits or some unforeseen situation, upon receiving money most of us lose our cool and spend a major part of it, even during the first few days of receiving our checks. Then for the majority of the month we find ourselves either eking our way through or borrowing just to stay afloat till the next check.

Not long ago, I had a visit from Personal Finance Trainer, former Church Evangelist and Guardian Money columnist, Nelson Letswhene. During our conversation about all things metaphysical, he mentioned 'the spirit of money.' "There is a spirit of money?" I asked.

"Sometimes we don't think of money as a living thing. We think that it's just a thing but there is nothing that's not living," he said. It took me a few more weeks of reading up on the 'spirit of money' to come to fully appreciate the power of a legal tender.

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