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If you have a family, kids, bills, you have a degree of responsibility that must surely be your main priority.

One can hardly say "My new priority is my new business idea" and then drop the responsibility of being a good parent/wife/husband.

It has to be a trade off or compromise.

You can’t forsake one for the other. Maybe it would work, but what would you lose?

My brother in law changed his priority from family and the responsibility that goes with it and focused on his desire to get rich.

Now he’s rich, divorced and has one of his kids in therapy and the other one hates his guts for seemingly abandoning them, because one day Dad decided that his family wasn’t a priority anymore, chasing wealth became the new priority.

Should he have done that? Could he have balanced it better? Maybe. He got what he wanted, but what was the price? He doesn't seem any happier now that he has money.

Sure if you haven’t got a wife and kids, the worse thing that can happen is you save up, chuck your job in and devote your life to your new priority.

Having bills is one thing, but having a family of your own is a completely different thing. It changes everything. You can have it all but there’s no such thing as something for nothing.

You can have anything you want in life, there are no restrictions as long as you’re prepared to pay the price.

And sometimes people realize too late that the price was way too high.

Max

PS A happy family home life and wealth through desire and action? Of course it can be done, but it isn’t easy, somewhere there has to be a balance, a compromise where the two can exist on the same level without endangering the other.

I suppose if it was easy, then everyone could do it.