Know Wealthy To Be Wealthy
We talked about how you need to be wealthy in order to have the things that a wealthy person has; in order to build wealth. But how can you be wealthy if you don’t know what that is? There is only one answer, then. To learn what it is to be wealthy.
What Is Wealth?
What is wealth? How do you learn what wealth is? What it is to be wealthy? Can you read it? Maybe. Someone else’s definition might give you some guidance, but more than likely you will have to define the term for yourself.
Wealth means many different things to many different people. Of course here we are mostly talking about financial wealth (although we also recognize that financial wealth contributes to other forms of wealth), but we do recognize that there is more to wealth than money. Wealth might also be
• Abundance
• Absence of need
• Happiness
• Contentment
• Success
• Enjoyment
…or anything else meaningful that you want to add to the list.
If we can accept things such as these as characteristics of the wealthy, then we can be wealthy in many ways even before we have the money that is so often used to define wealth (which is a subjective measure anyway).
The real point is that you can be wealthy, as we talked about, without money. You can be wealthy right now if you really want to be—if you decide to be. When you define what wealth is, you can change your thoughts to be wealthy thoughts. For instance, if wealth means absence of need, change your thoughts from being needy thoughts into being proactive thoughts. Instead of thinking you need something and you cannot have it, think that you are taking measures to obtain it.
You should create your own list of attributes and definitions, as wealth is personal. Develop that list, and then look for the possibilities within it-look for how you are wealthy now, and how you can become wealthier. When you do, you can start taking those wealthy actions, and then you will begin to have those things (money, financial wealth, things that money can buy) that wealthy actions reap.
Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
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Tags: Abundance, Building Wealth, Financial, Financial Freedom, Make Money, Success, Wealth
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Know Wealthy To Be Wealthy …a nice topic.
i just know many wealthy on AffluentMeet.com (well, that’s a millionaire dating community. i guess many people are seeking friendship with those rich there, too) of course, wealthy people’s remarks and behaviors can affect ours. lt’s useful to learn from the way they think.
July 6th, 2008 at 8:33 am
[...] The concept is so simplistic that many people find it hard to accept as the way to financial freedom. It’s not unusual for someone to say that they have tried to think their way to wealth, and just had no results, so the concept must be flawed. The answer to that is that the concept is not flawed—but you do have to take care with its implementation. There is more to the wealth creation mindset than having intermittent, fleeting thoughts of wealth. [...]