How old were you when you noticed that so many of life's hurdles and obstacles boil down to money?

I was about 35 when I realized that money doesn’t cure life’s most difficult obstacles and hurdles; honesty, humility, responisbility do.

Am yet to get there.

Lack of money creates lots of problems. But having money doesn’t necessarily solve problems.

I learned that at an early age (childhood) as we grew up in near poverty times and their was a definate deviding line between classes of people.

Obstacles and hurdles is LIFE.

Money related obstacles and hurdles usually result from not having enough to meet our needs and/or immature management of money.

I was in my late teens when I learned the hard lesson of yearning for things I didn’t need and couldn’t afford. I learned a harder lesson accumulating credit card debt without really understanding what a credit card was. I spent years paying off debt for things I no longer wanted, no longer used or no longer had.

The BIGGEST hurdle or obstacle in life is the belief that acquiring things will make us happy. It might temporarily, but it keeps us caught in a never ending cycle of useless spending.

The truth is we’re always going to have hurdles and obstacles, but money can help us alleviate some of them if we maintain a steady income and learn how to spend whatever money we make responsibly.