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Describe one of your favorite moments.

💸 When I Realized Money is Just Energy: A Favorite Life Moment

One of my favorite moments in life wasn’t about a big payday or a windfall. It was a quiet realization — the kind that creeps up on you after months of questioning, a few nights staring at the ceiling, and a day when you finally connect the dots: money is energy — my energy.

I don’t remember the day so well but  I was sitting alone, checking my bank balance for the umpteenth time, feeling that familiar knot in my chest. I was broke — again. But instead of spiraling into self-blame, I paused and asked myself a new question: What if money is just the trail of how I spend my breath, my strength, my ideas?

That thought alone shifted something inside me.

I looked around at my life — the jobs I had done, the work I loved, the time I wasted, the moments I gave freely, the things I tolerated that drained me. Suddenly, money wasn’t this mystical force that some people had and some people didn’t. It was simply a mirror reflecting how well (or poorly) I was using my own energy.

In that moment, I promised myself: If I am broke now, then my energy is being poured into the wrong vessels.

From that day on, I saw every breath, every hour of rest, every spark of creativity as a unit of currency. I asked myself daily: Is this thought worthy of my energy? Is this job feeding my energy or draining it? Is this worry paying me back in any way?

I stopped waiting for money to come from luck or pity or a raise. I began to cultivate my energy like a garden: clear mind, rested body, meaningful work, less noise. And I swear, once I treated my own life force like wealth, the  money — not always fast, but always in flow with how I honored my own resources.

So that moment — that bank check on a broke afternoon — will always be one of my favorite memories. It taught me something no payday ever could: money is not just dollars and cents. It’s a reflection of how fiercely or carelessly we guard the breath that keeps us alive.

If you ever feel broke, don’t panic — look at where your breath is going. Reclaim your energy, and the currency will follow.

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