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Money
If Money Were No Object
It’s a tool, not the object
At what point are any of us able to say “money is no object” and mean it? I know that my friend Rasheed Hooda would say that money is never a problem — or, as he wrote in Why I Didn’t Worry When My Cash Flow Stopped:
All I need to do is show up in the world with what I have to offer, that’s all.
We live in an abundant world. There is more than enough for everyone. When the time arrives, our needs are fulfilled in some mysterious way.
Most of us don’t have Rasheed’s sense of confidence that the universe will provide — even if he and I share a favorite quotation from William Hutchison Murray published “The Scottish Himalayan Expedition”:
Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt…
