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Find the way to work you love by changing your relationship to money

Alex Papworth
5 min readOct 29, 2023
are you focussing on the right things?

In this article I will explain why our relationship to money can hold us back and keep us in a job or a career that doesn’t fulfil us. Or… stop us from adjusting our (working) lives to make a contribution that we naturally enjoy.
[it isn’t always necessary to start from scratch like I have!]

The photo shows us how we can choose what we give our focus. It reminds me of the quote:

Fish don’t know they’re in water

This is a handy way of introducing culture as something that is fundamental to our lives but we don’t normally see. Or, put another way, we are unconsciously influenced by it but we are not consciously aware of it.

And culture can be big and remote (think national identity) or small and close (think the family’s unstated expectations of what is right).

This influence can come in the form of feelings which guide us.

These can be difficult to articulate sometimes because you just ‘know’ what is right or wrong. This is one of humanity’s great successes — it allows us to evolve much faster than the rest of the natural world because we can change our ‘programming’ through culture (there is some suggested reading and viewing at the bottom of this article if you want to…

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Alex Papworth
Alex Papworth

Written by Alex Papworth

An adventurer who helps professionals find inspiration on their own adventure

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