This is an excerpt from YOUR MONEY: Reimaging Wealth in 101 Simple Sketches by Carl Richards. Every month, I get pitched a new investment opportunity, whether it’s my neighbor wanting to buy real estate or a friend starting a business. I used to go down these financial rabbit holes… Spending weeks of my time talking about it, researching it, and considering it. One day, in an act of frustration, I paused and asked myself some pretty basic questions. Why am I doing this? Why is money important to me?