Essential money skill 3 Values and Morals

We are all taught right or wrong from the time we are children to the moment we leave the safety and protection of a safe environment to the hostility of reality in the  world. I had an interesting conversation about which ideal was the more important in teaching  children about handling themselves in the outside world, nature or nurture? So what is the nature ideal? It refers to to a individual's innate qualities, what is programed into our genes the physical and personality traits regardless of where you were born or raised and family and biological factors. Now for the nurture ideal, what is it and what doe's it bring to the table for an individuals characteristic's. Nurture  refers to your personal experiences, your childhood and how your were brought up. A person can be born with good genes but if not nourished properly may acquire physical and or mental deficiencies, and failure to develop as expected, this may lead to corruption in social or environmental factors.

There is always a price to be paid either for doing what is right or what is wrong. The hope is that positive behavior will bring positive results and rewards but negative behavior will bring correction and penalties or penalization. The aim is to change behavior to a more socially accepted parameter where the individual's actions will fit in with others and complement the populace as a whole hopefully moving the evolution ball down the road for the better. But history teaches that there will all ways be those whom desire power not for the good of the many but for the profit of the few and will have no hesitation to take  any foothold of power to accomplish there objective. A man once said all it takes for evil to thrive is for good men to do nothing. In each of us there is a struggle going  for control, the good honorable  and just desires and the selfish, self serving ideas fighting for control of you personality and emotion and actions and the only way you will understand this conflict is to be honest with yourself.

This personality conflict is symbolized in the picture of the yin-yang symbol where half of the circle is black and the other is white but even in the two there is a spot of the other color therefore showing the balance that is necessary for everyone to have a healthy and productive character which should give you positive actions. It is all ways to an individual's best interest to try to do the right thing because it is much easier to reach you goals by being positive than trying to get there by using negative or   unscrupulous action's but many will try and many will fail this is the nature of human beings. I am not judging or putting my own doctrine out there I am only stating the obvious because there are some who will say  the opposite to get there own agenda thru.

There are some human activities that are inspired by emotions and desires, understanding them will give you the capacity to understand peoples motives and reasoning for why people do what they do. The emotion of love is the most powerful of the emotions, whole civilizations have been made and destroyed for this one emotion. It is believed that the human race itself is created and protected for this one emotion. Truly love is a very powerful thing and must be respected as such. The desire for sex is  a part of the desire for love but more of a physical expression, some become confused and blinded by  the feeling of this motivator and think this is a means of itself to and ends but sex is meant to be a outward expression of love and a means of reproduction and regeneration. The act of procreation has been manipulated and twisted by those would would push their own agenda for personal gain, power and recognition.  Another very powerful motivator of human activity is the desire for money and material gain. During the stock market crash in 1929, people lost all there life savings business's collapsed and people were jumping out of windows and committing suicide because of fortunes lost and life styles that would be no more because of economic collapse. Many could not take the lose and forfeited their very lives for there misplaced ideals. The desire for self-expression and freedom of body and mind was and still is strong a motivators of the twenty first century. Also the perpetuation of life after death is a major contributor to the naming of grand building streets and monument to the gratification of ideals and society's. The emotion of fear is a powerful and important motivator because it not only has a negative effect but also a positive effect as well. Let me explain positive aspect of fear is it will cause not to take any unnecessary action like walking out in the middle of traffic because the fear of getting run over by an automobile is present or getting into a relationship with someone who you no nothing about, but fear for the most part has a more prevalent negative side that is the killer of many hopes and dreams and once you identify these cause you can take action to eliminate them thus freeing yourself for achievements. These cause are; the fear of poverty, the fear of criticism, the fear of ill health, the fear of loss of love, the fear of loss of liberty, the fear of old age and the fear of death. We can go on naming specific fears but these are the most basic that cause most people to lose faith and give up on their hopes, dreams and goals.

The only way to to truly take the high road that leads to honor is to develop an unbreakable faith. A assurance that you are made in the image of most sovereign  creator who cares  about you and what you do, and to have enough faith in yourself to trust and believe. In closing my final thought is to be aware of books and ideals that reduce God's moral rule's to an easy formula. We are given a great gift the gift of choice, we can chose right from wrong good or bad love or hate. We are more than animals and insects whom follow their instincts to survive or perish, we were given the ability to reason and judge so I implore you to use it wisely for the greater good of all.