Widening Your Financial Perspective

When thinking about prosperity, it is important not to be too narrow-minded. This will only limit your success and will not allow you to reach your full prosperity potential.

Take a look at the four cornerstones of prosperity:

1. Clarity of intention: you must actively WANT prosperity. Prosperity must be an actualized goal… It cannot be something that you are half-hearted about obtaining.

2. Conscious choice: once you have clarified your intention (to be prosperous!) you must make a conscious choice to invest, NOT spend your money. In order to be prosperous, you must have money available to invest. It may seem simple, but it’s very important to monitor your spending and contribute your money towards your investments and your future prosperity.

3. Sustainability: your money will outlive you. What do you want to leave to your dependants—debt or prosperity? Investing now to become prosperous later could help sustain your family after you are gone. Also important in today’s world is the sustainability of the economy. We must begin to take care of the Earth so that our descendants will have an Earth to live on. What we do today (with our money and with our world) will impact future generations. It is time to begin making wise and healthy choices, and to stop hurting both our financial pocketbooks and our environment.

4. Enoughness: when is there enough? If there’s never an end to our quest for ‘more,’ is there peace? This is not to say that you should stop trying to further yourself and better your circumstances, but there has to be a point where you can relax and be happy. If you never achieve this point, you will always be frustrated and living with a focus only on the future instead of living in the moment and enjoying yourself.

Some of us are trading our life energy for money!! It’s important to take a step back and ask yourself ‘Do I feel good about who I am?’. The answer may not always be what we want it to be, and in that case it is important to take a step back and widen our perspective from just accumulating money—look also at prosperity and happiness. What’s the point in having piles of money if you’re not enjoying your life and are always striving to get more money? Take your time. Enjoy yourself, your life, and your family.