15 Things That Quietly Change After You Become Rich

Getting rich doesn’t just change what you can buy, it changes how you think, who you trust, and what you value. Some people say that money can’t change them and even if that might be true money does change the things around you. These are 15 things that change once you get rich.

1. Your Inner Circle

Now you might be thinking to yourself yeah that’s never going to happen. I’m going to stick with the same friends I’ve had since childhood but usually wealth doesn’t just happen it comes to you gradually over several years, and during these years you’ll be struggling to build your life to grow your business. While some of your friends will keep living the same way they’ve always done.

You won’t be hanging out with them as often and even when you do there isn’t really that much to talk about anymore. You don’t have the same problems nor the same goals anymore. Things are just not clicking like they used to and when you do end up cashing in those old friends will want a piece of it. That’s when you learn who your true friends are.

2. What You Consume

Now one of the first things most people change after getting some money is what type of foods they eat. It’s one of those things you realize you’ve been missing out on. Once you experience what proper nutrition does to your energy levels and overall well-being, well you can’t really go back to sandwiches and noodle packs. On top of this you develop taste you actually have a favorite cuisine now. You might even try to make it yourself because your kitchen is fully stacked. You start putting a larger emphasis on health and less on what’s on sale on the delivery app.

3. Where You Live

In your early days the place you live has a pure utility value. It’s either close to work close to home or it’s cheap enough that it fits in your budget. It’s the place you go crash after being out grinding for the whole day, but after you get rich the place you live in is no longer a shelter it is a sanctuary. It’s the place you ideally would never want to leave unless out of necessity. It has everything you’ll ever need to be creative to relax to be at peace and to get some work done.

4. The Way You Look

You’re not ugly you might just be poor. Google pictures of the Kardashians before all the money and fame. Money unlocks character customization from the clothes you wear to how your face looks everything can now be customized and despite what everyone tells you appearances do go a long way. Money can’t buy you taste but it can get you a closet bigger than a shopping mall and a copy pasting the look of someone’s face isn’t that hard anymore and that’s why so many people are looking eerily the same these days.

5. You Finally Understand What Personal Development Looks Like

If there’s one big lesson this journey has taught you it’s that things don’t just happen organically. Slow and steady doesn’t always win the race, it’s slow steady and increasingly better that does it. This final ingredient is what actually gets you there. Adding new skills, learning new things getting advised by others this is what really matters.

6. Your Holidays

The hotels you’re staying at get another star added to their name. You get fancy shampoos in the bathroom, premium bath robes, scented candles in your room and you actually have a view now. Now, to be honest if you’re a self-made person you’ll still look at that mini bar as a massive rip off but, now you actually have the option to go open it. If before you went on local vacations because you needed a break now you go to distant lands because you want to explore.

7. How You Go from A To B

This is the first time in your life where time actually equals money. You are most likely needed in different places; you have people to meet and things to do and they all live all over the place. Waiting in line or getting stuck in traffic is just out of the question, so your means of transportation evolve. It’s the first time you start considering helicopter rides to the airport instead of calling an uber.

8. The Way People Treat You

Now this is one thing you don’t expect to happen and it catches a lot of people off guard. Even those around you start treating you differently. Some out of respect others out of envy. Authenticity and sincerity are things you’ll start looking for and rarely finding them. You start to doubt others because you never know they’re true intentions.

9. People Will Start Coming After What You Have

The first thing you must expect after getting money is people trying to grab a piece of it. You are a prime target for lawsuits because they expect you to pay to avoid the hassle. People from your past will start to remind you about that one time they helped you find your keys or whatever and how they deserve some kind of reward now. It feels like you always have a target on your back.

10. You Don’t Need Approval Anymore

In the early days nobody took you seriously and all you wanted in the back of your mind is to prove them and to yourself that you can make it. But after you do something interesting happens, you don’t really care about it that much anymore you’ve got nothing to prove to anyone. You realize it’s just you on this journey and what people think or don’t think doesn’t really affect your trajectory.

11. Your Goals

Once you accomplish your first goals, you start to look at the world a bit differently. Life expands and contracts in accordance to what you believe is possible and after your first win you realize that your initial goals were far too small to begin with. You can accomplish way more than you thought would be possible because now you’re in a different position and your goals become more complex, more nuanced. It’s not about making some extra money anymore it’s about building a certain life.

12. The Things That Make You Happy

You start off by enjoying the little things then reality comes crashing down making you realize that you won’t be able to enjoy these little things forever unless you solve life first and in the journey of solving life whatever that journey looks like for you lose the joy of enjoying the little things. Now something interesting happens when you make it, the pressure you felt is gone you’re relieved of the constant cloud that may or may not come tomorrow and this gives you mental space to start enjoying the little things once again.

13. What You Consider Valuable

When starting out the most valuable things you had were the things that cost a lot of money but when you have money the most valuable things become those which cannot be bought. Things like time with your family, a peaceful mind and a healthy attitude toward life. Most of the time what you take for granted early on becomes immensely valuable later. Your priority list changes even that view you paid so much money for eventually gets old especially if you don’t have anyone to enjoy it with.

14. You Start Thinking a Lot More About Your Impact

You’re now in a position, where your actions can have a huge impact on the lives of multiple people. What you decide to do with this position is up to you but this thought will always be in the back of your mind. Will you mentor other people, will you share your journey, will you use your resources to better the lives of others these are things that very few people get to think about.

15. You Discover What Freedom Looks Like (And It’s Not What You Thought)

Most people believe freedom means not having to do anything but after you make it you realize that true freedom means doing anything you want without the fear of it not working out.

People usually have a pretty decent idea of what makes them happy and fulfilled the problem is most of the time those things are not viable career paths and at the end of the day it’s really hard to enjoy something when you don’t know you should be doing something else instead. This is where true freedom comes in.