Money is only one form of wealth. I’ll make this message for today fairly short, but it just might be one of the most important ones I’ve sent to you in a while.
Our culture has pushed and trained and brainwashed so many of us to chase money and watches and things so we become “rich.”
It’s sad. Because people get hurt (by getting nice things and losing their soul along the way).
And this brainwashing is designed to make us think that if we exhaust our energy and spend our lifeforce on this pursuit, we’ll get to a place where we wake up happy.
It’ll never happen. Never. Ever.
I’ve seen it time and time again with the billionaire clients that I’ve mentored for decades. They feel happy for a week and then the scientific phenomenon of hedonic adaptation takes effect, they normalize the new rewards and, of course, they want more.
Personally, I must share that though I’ve sold well over 25 million books and spoken in stadium after stadium for most of my adult life, such things have made pretty much no difference to my satisfaction levels. There are so many more important priorities for me.
20 years ago I introduced The 8 Forms of Wealth. My clients have found it deeply helpful in the building of an honestly beautiful life.
Once you learn each of them and then spend a little time each day making them more real in your hours I can assure you, you’ll become truly (versus fakely) rich.
A great life may have financial independence in it and if that’s important to you then win in this area, please. But without wellness, love, craft and the other forms (along with my unspecific tools that optimize each one) a person ends up as the richest person in the graveyard.
As we step into September, I just wanted you to take some time to reflect on what mountains you’re climbing. So you climb the correct ones.And, if you’d like to significantly increase your creativity and productivity between now and December so you end this year super strong, I enthusiastically encourage you to invest in a membership in my value-rich online course, HabitCamp. Here are the details.
I’ll leave you with one of my favorite quotes to keep you strong. I wish you a great day. Thank you for following my work. You’re great you know?
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all.” – Ayn Rand
Love + respect,
Robin