Daily blog (audio): Interest is paid on the balance not the difference [Not just with out money]

<p>Interest is paid on the balance not the difference [Not just with out money]</p> <p><br></p> <p>We're on a mission to help one million people RISE by 2030 - join the movement at <a href="http://www.myrise.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.myrise.co.uk</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>If you have money in your bank account, how much of it is interest paid on?</p> <p>Go on, it’s not a trick question.</p> <p>All of it, isn’t it?</p> <p>It’s not on how much more you’ve got than someone else has in their bank account, is it?</p> <p>Or how much less.</p> <p>Every extra bit in there is of equal value.</p> <p>Pound number one, pound number one thousand and pound number one million all generate the same interest individually.</p> <p>But we’re tempted to think differently in the other ‘assets’ we could accumulate.</p> <p>We look at how much slimmer or fitter other people seem to be than us.</p> <p>How much more fun their lives (as displayed on social media) appear to be.</p> <p>Or some other ‘gap’ between where we are and where we feel we should be.</p> <p>And we forget to collect the ‘interest’ on what we do have.</p> <p>To enjoy the benefits of what’s already there.</p> <p>The difference between zero and what we do have, not the difference between what we do have and what we (perceive) others have.</p> <p>And slowly build on it over time.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Much love,</p> <p>Jon ‘Rates’ Hall</p>