Wealth is more than money. It is abundance, or as the Italians call it, abundanceabundance, overflowing supply.
Wealth is health and happiness, enjoyment and learning, opportunity and growth.
When we go beyond a narrow definition of wealth, we find that loving, caring, and sharing bring us the good things we want from life.
Love is much more than an emotion. It is an attitude of unconditional acceptance of oneself and others. It is the willingness to look past criticism, blame, and even fear, and to fully appreciate ourselves and others.
Once we can focus on the good in people, then we develop a kindness and tolerance that brings us peace and success in relationships.
This love is then expressed as care. We start to worry about ourselves, and we start to worry about our family and relatives, and we start to worry about our colleagues; and pretty soon, we can be kind and compassionate to strangers.
At this point, the money will also start to appear. Why? It’s because more people want to do business with us. We gain trust through our self-love and trust through our open and spontaneous relationship with others. If you are employed, you will begin to attract attention as someone to be promoted; If you are an entrepreneur, people are attracted to buy your products and services because they see that you are someone with quality.
When your goodwill attitude and financial wealth reach a certain threshold, you will feel an urge to pour out your good. Those who hoard build a mentality of scarcity, and like Scrooge, the ghosts of repercussions will haunt him to distribute his wealth and help those who need a hand to get to a better place in life.
Generosity, curiously, will not impoverish you, but it will enrich you. And I don’t mean just feel good. More money will begin to appear in your life from the most unexpected sources. Many of the richest people on the planet have received a big heart and find that their wealth actually expands.
If you aspire to wealth, you will find that you can start exactly where you are now. From a change of attitude the process will begin. Loving creates caring, caring creates sharing, and along the way, as you win friends and influence people, so does wealth, in financial terms. Success begins with your willingness to love others.