Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style.

I'm your host, Shannon Ables.

And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a

cafe ole. Thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. The Welcome to the simple sophisticated.

Hopefully you had a wonderful weekend and you are now in the middle of,

or not the middle I should say, we are beginning March. I can't even believe it.

But that also means that we are a couple weeks away from a change of seasons, which is even more

crazy to consider. The year is flown by.

2015 is already two months down and you may remember at the beginning of the year one of

the things I talked about in the blog and here on this podcast was this idea of getting back to simple back to simple in every avenue of our lives every arena of our lives and so today we're going to talk about money or more generally true

wealth because when we think about what wealth really is, yes it does involve

money but it also involves a handful of other things.

We're going to talk about that today exactly what is the definition of true wealth.

And a lot of what true wealth involves is conscious decision-making every single day, how we spend our lives,

yes where we spend our money, but also what we do with our time, with our attention, with our thoughts.

All those decisions add up to building

either a very wealthy life,

which by no means requires a six-figure income or a life of

poverty and that doesn't even mean that you are living someplace that would be

considered at poverty level it's just a matter of

incorporating all the necessary ingredients and really paying attention to them. That is

what's going to determine someone's true wealth.

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