When we hear the word “richness” or “rich” we often associate it with money and materialistic elements.
When we hear the word “richness” or “rich” we often associate it with money and materialistic elements. However, wealth doesn’t indicate money but it is related to various other factors other than money. In life’s chase of running behind temporary materialistic things, we often lose track about what we should actually go after. Sooner or later we do realise that what we have been going after is not worth the effort. What we must value is something that we realise in the duration of the chaos of life’s pursuits.
State Of Mind “The more you give, the more you get. The more you drive a business with passion, the more money you will attract. When you run behind something/someone, it will always elude you. Stop looking for it and it will find you.” These are things that are always said at leadership and motivation seminars by the best of speakers. Why Because there is a merit to it. The richest of people practice Vairagya. Warren Buffett still lives in his family home even though he has the riches to buy a couple of countries. India too has its fair share of fantastic success stories. Successful people tend to reduce their desires and focus on what drives them, their passions and celebrate their achievements. So, focus on the task at hand, be content with what you have with an eye out for the future without worrying about the bills. The money will find you.
Raise Your Standard Of Giving The more calm and relaxed we are, the more clarity of ideas flow into us, and opportunities are easily caught, resulting in business growing effortlessly. When fate rewards you financially don’t grow your ‘standard of living’ but grow your ‘standard of giving’. There is an abundance of wealth for everyone in this world, learn the art of giving and in turn receiving, just by reversing our thinking world upside down success would be at your doorstep. Believe in a higher cause, and like minded people will join you. Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates and the likes have given more from their profits that you and I can ever earn in our lifetime.
Be Yourself Have the courage to be your own true self and more importantly love yourself the way you are. This is an extremely powerful source of motivation and growth. The resulting happiness puts you in a state of passion where you see the best in everyone including yourself and hence result in giving the best to everyone. You cannot ‘try’ to be happy with yourself. To be happy is not something to be desired, it is to be discovered.
Your Health It is your greatest wealth. If you have bad health, it’s harder to enjoy. What is the use of having crores and crores of rupees when in the end you have to spend it all in the hospitals It’s one of your greatest assets so start expanding your perceptions of what’s important in life. Wake up every day and thank the divine intelligence or the Universe or God for yet another day of good health. Exercise regularly. Your body is your temple so treat it like one. Personal Growth When you stagnate, your business will also stagnate. Invest in your learning on a regular basis. The more you invest in your own personal self, outward and inward, it will make you grow as a person.
Your Relationship Having a healthy relationship with your spouse is a wonderful thing. Our deepest desires as humans are not really about making money but finding true love. Having a loving rapport with your children, friends, spouse are the key things to live happily.
The energy you derive from your personal relationships will flow into your professional ones too. And the vice versa. My guruji, Shri Rishi Prabhakarji always told me, “How rich you are can be measured not by your bank balance but by your trust account. How many people are there in your life who can do anything for you That is, your richness. Increase your trust and love account and the bank account will automatically increase.”
The more loving relations, you have, the richer you will feel inside. Money just flows in when you are happy, joyful and sharing it with others.
The writer is a business and life coach
