18th March, 2013
I trust you are following the series on the RULES FOR WEALTH which we started two weeks ago. It is by putting into practice the nuggets shared in the articles that you can gain any advantage. I encourage you commit yourself to implementing at least one nugget in every article you read.
We treated Rule 1 during which we discussed the need to have a wealth plan in place. In this rule, we are asserting that having a plan for your wealth adventure will help give you speed. Let me emphasize this: You cannot expect to become wealthy by just reading each of the rules. You have to dig deeper. Every rule is loaded but it can make a difference in your life if you are willing to tear the veil off every code in the rule, meditate on it, brainstorm with other fortune hunters, apply the rule with diligence and, as some pastors would say, ‘Push Until Something Happens’ (P.U.S.H)!
I was in my mentor’s house on a Saturday and without wasting time, he just started shooting straight on our topic of discussion (Start with correct interpretation).
“From my experience, the starting point for generating wealth is to first of all, have your own definition of wealth and why you want to be wealthy.
I have observed that the reason many people are desperate to make money is because they don’t understand the purpose for wealth. Some are ready to kill to make money. Don’t you read in the newspaper accounts of how people kill other human beings for wealth rituals?
“Many people think wealth is the Naira note they carry around. They have missed it ab initio. So, everyone who desires to be wealthy must have correct interpretation of that concept.”
In that meeting, my mentor asked my opinion of what wealth is and what came to my mind was what my billionaire arts collector once shared with me and I related it to him. While I was in his place, I had asked to understand his view and perception of money.
He gave this line: “Very well then,” my friend replied, “let me discuss some of my belief system about money with you. This will take some time because I really want you to avoid the traps many people have fallen into in search of money. I will title the first nugget: Search for wealth, not money.”
I feel very sad, very sad indeed when I see people doing all manner of things to acquire money. How I wish they labour to create wealth instead of running after money. There is a lot of difference between wealth and money. Wealth has to do with both the tangible and intangible part of human life. There are some people you see with a lot of cash but if you consider their totality as a person, they cannot be deemed to be wealthy. If you have money and you do not have the know how to use money, you cannot be said to be wealthy.
Wealth is how the instrument of money has been programmed such that it can continue to generate money from any opportunity. That is, a wealthy person can generate cash at will because he has mastered the principles for wealth acquisition. Money, on the other hand, exists on a momentary basis and that is why it is sometimes said that money has wings and can fly away.
You are wealthy when you have mastered the principles for attracting instruments of value at will. Being wealthy entails far more than having money. It encompasses different instruments of value that can ensure that whatever you have today is managed, as money can continue to regenerate almost indefinitely. Wealth has to do with your personality. It has to do with your attitude to life.
You can be wealthy without having money. If you look back, you would recall that some of our grand fathers were wealthy without having so much cash to spend. You could pinpoint their sources of livelihood and many people looked forward to becoming like them. You can have little money and so much wealth. Whereas you can have plenty of cash with little self-value— I won’t consider a person in this category as wealthy.
Wealth is much more. Building wealth requires good preparations on how you intend to deploy the wealth when it is acquired. Very wealthy people are people who don’t make noise. They prepare well for the wealth and they understand the real meaning of wealth. It has a lot to do with your value system. Look at Bill Gates. He has a wife and three children (Jennifer Katharine, Rory John and Phoebe Adele), and he is busy travelling around the world giving part of his money back to the society. The same is true of his friend, Warren Buffet, who gave almost 70 per cent of his money back to the society.
Let me share this with you and I suggest you learn it by heart if you really want to have fulfillment. The truth is that at the end of the day, we are all on a conveyor belt of life. You will come and go. We are at different portions of the conveyor belt. We drop at different points. There are coffins on both sides of the conveyor belt. There are different entry points and different exit points. We enter at different points and at different times and we all must exit at different points and at different times. There is always a coffin waiting at different points.
The question that would be asked at the exit points is what you did with the portion of time you had on the conveyor belt. That is what determines the values of a person. “Nobody will remember what you held while you were on the conveyor belt of life. They’ll remember what you left behind that germinated— the value has to be right.”
I can’t wait to catch up with you on the next rule. Remain moneywise throughout the week because you are blessed and highly favoured.
Prosperously yours.
NUGGETS
•Before you embark on the search for money, sit down to reflect on what you want to use it for when it comes.
•If you missed this step, you may have missed it all, because chasing money for the sake of it is an illusion. Money has wings.
•Decide from the start to make your wealth affect humanity. That is true wealth.