How Rich Are You Really?

As a lifelong practitioner in the financial services industry, money has often been a high priority for me—securing funding for companies, making money for my clients as well as for myself. After all, I’ve raised over a billion U.S. dollars in investment capital. But after losing all my own wealth many years ago due to unscrupulous partners, I’ve come to a different view of it. Of course meeting our basic material needs is important, but beyond that, how do you define wealth?

Many of us live in poverty and we don’t even know it—poverty of the heart, sprit and mind. I believe that true abundance is found in the awareness of appreciation, love and understanding. When we feel and express compassion for others, when we truly accept others just as they are without any desire to change them, we open our hearts to becoming our best selves by allowing others to be themselves as well. When we can do that, we dwell then in the realm of forgiveness, allowance and reason.

Who could you forgive today, and how might that change your life and theirs?

Among the ways I count my riches are the numerous wonderful people I’ve come to know over the years I’ve been doing my Core Value Training. Enjoying the loyalty and trust of valued colleagues over the course of many years is something that money absolutely cannot buy. Another way in which I feel very wealthy is in the love and affection that’s retuned to me by my students and mentorees from all over the world. It’s humbling to know that my programs have had such a huge effect on so many lives, and that those benefits continue to ripple down through generations and families and friends as students return again and again and bring their loved ones to also experience Core Value courses.

And on a personal level, there really is no way to measure the abundance I feel when I examine my own spiritual growth over my lifetime. Teaching is a circular experience, and I never complete a training without learning something new myself. What a blessing that is. Staying centered in the truth of what is really valuable about my life allows me to continue doing this work from a place of love and gratitude.

I challenge you to try a new way of looking at abundance and to make this your richest day ever!