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seem worth it if you had to watch your weak, unhappy child
struggle and fail in dealing with life’s everyday challenges?

Would your kid find all those bucks worth the misery of
being emotionally broke?

And how do you believe other people would size up the sit-
uation? Do you think they’d see all that money and take it
as proof that you’d raised a strong child?

Not if they looked very close. They’d shake their heads and

say, “The poor little weakling…all that money, but such a
bleak future.” Even the fortune itself would look fragile in
the hands of a person so short on emotional assets. You’d be
afraid to turn over control of the purse strings.

WHY MONEY ISN’T THE BEST MEASURING STICK

Now imagine a different situation.

Let’s say you’re running a business and the numbers look
good. From a dollars and cents standpoint, things appear to

be in fine shape. So is it a strong company?

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