How many meals can you eat in one day?

Why do you want to be rich, financially free and to earn lots and lots of money?

Why do you want to rich?

Why do you want to be financially free?

Why do you want to have lots and lots of money?

Some of you want to be rich because you don't want to be poor. Some of you want to be financially free so that you don't have to work under your horrible boss. Some of you want to have lots and lots of money so that you can buy whatever you want, eat whatever you want without worrying about how much the bill would cost!

There are no right or wrong answers in your motivations for wanting to achieve financial freedom. All of us have to decide for ourselves what drives us in our quest to be financially free where our passive income exceeds our living expenses.

No matter how much money you have, you can only eat three meals a day
In my quest for financial freedom, I realise a large part of it is to live a simple lifestyle. Some detractors may think that financial freedom by living within your means, saving and investing and leading a simple life defeats the purpose of living. Why scrimp and save for tomorrow is another day and we know not if we will live or die?

Some prefer a high earning and high spending lifestyle, where you drive the latest Subaru WRX or Lexus LS400, or perhaps a nice condominium in the city or that fashionable labels that adorn your body. That is life to some, that is living to others.

I'd like to look at it from a slightly different perspective. No matter if you eat at kopitiam, Swensons or Lei Gardens, you can only eat three meals (or in some cases, five small meals a day!). How many of us can eat and eat and eat and not suffer the consequences of gluttony and overeating? There is a limit to how much food we can ingest to live an how much food we can savour to enjoy.

Difference between appetite and hunger
I read that one of the reasons why we overeat is due to us not being able to distinguish between hunger and appetite. Hunger or that familiar growling of your stomach as your gastric juices are activated is your body's way of telling you, "feed me!" Now, in addition to the body telling you, our brain also chips in to say "feed me!" but for different reasons. The brain is susceptible to other messages that goes beyond satisfying our physical hunger. Our brain at times makes us eat beyond our hunger because it is satisfying other needs such as for the pleasurable activity of eating tasty food and even emotional needs. Some of us use food to remind ourselves of the pleasurable or comfortable experiences they associate with their childhoods or with positive life experiences.

Our lifestyle is a reflection of this ongoing struggle between satisfying our appetite and our hunger. Taking our three meals a day. You can eat very simple and nutritional meal that does not cost a lot to survive. You can also eat very exotic meals that costs a lot to survive. The choice is yours to make. No matter which choice you decide, you will realise that the law of diminishing marginal utility takes effect and after that x bowl of scallops or sharksfin soup, your body will tell you "enough"!

Eat to live or live to eat
Life is about possibilities and choices. We choose the lifestyle we want to live. We choose the food we want to eat. We choose how much we want to spend on consumption.

Financial freedom is about choices and choosing. It is a type of multiple choice question exam. you decide which choices you want to tick.

Be well and prosper.