This is something I truly have been studying for 10+ years. I have read books, watched videos, listened to tapes, and CD's, and can honestly say that until recently, I never truly understood what it all meant. I always believed that money was what created wealth. I was focused on the creation of the almighty $. Then when I wasn't focused on that, I was focused on keeping and sustaining whatever $ I may have or have in the future. Sounds great doesn't it? Build up a fortune and learn how to keep it as safe as possible and still grow in taxed advantaged ways.
Wealth isn't just financial. Wealth is so much more than just having money. Literally in the last 2 years of my life I have met more financially wealthy people than I ever thought I would have ever dreamed of meeting, but until recently I didn't realize how many of them were truly wealthy. The funny thing is, I have learned more in the last 3 months than I did in the entire last 10 years pertaining to wealth. Now, don't get me wrong, you have to have some money to be wealthy, but you can have all the money in the world and still not be wealthy.
The truly wealthy people of the world can have very little money on the grand scheme of things compared to the richest people on Earth, but if the richest man on Earth doesn't have Love, Time, Emotional Intelligence, then they are not wealthy. You have to have the correct mindset to be wealthy...you have to have the time to be wealthy...and you have to have Love to be wealthy.
First and foremost you have to have the mindset: choose to be happy...choose to get up in the morning....choose to do what is necessary...choose to do this or that, but understand that most things in life are a choice, unless you choose to be happy you never will be.
"Life is not about ME, it's about WE." ~ Tony Robbins
