Probably many of my readers have been wondering what happened to me, because I haven’t been posting anything on my blog lately, since February.
Well, I just decided to take a long break, that’s all – but to my esteemed readers and those of you who’ve been missing my articles, I say sorry. In fact I didn’t even know that people read my blog until recently when I met a friend who told me that he still visits my blog. To that friend and many others, I say, “kudos” – keep up the motivation. You ready inspire me to continue giving you whatever comes to me from above – my divine source of inspiration. This one’s for you.
In this three-part series, we will begin to examine the wealth environment – what it is, and what it’s not, and we will end with examples and a few exiting ways we can create enormous wealth both in the real world and on the Internet.
Wealth is an environment. Many of you may wonder what I mean by this. Ok – Be patient and take a deep breath. Wealth is not money. And certainly, wealth is not the material things that you see all around you – beautiful houses, beautiful cars, buildings, gold, diamonds, jewelry, etc., although these are part of it. I’m sure the accountant will disagree with me a million times, but I’m not worried about this. Believe me, I spent the best part of my prime life doing nothing but number crunching (also known in the U.S.A. as “bean counting”), and working with some of the largest multinational companies in the world such as CPC International and Nestlé. What really worries me more is that many people do not really understand what wealth is, and if need be, I will spend the rest of my life teaching this subject, God willing.
Therefore many people tend to measure how rich they are or how rich they’re not by the material things they own or don’t have, especially the money aspect of it – how much money they have or don’t have. Yet money itself is not wealth but a symbol for measuring the economic value of wealth and a medium of exchange. This will come as a shock to you, but have you realized that many people worry more about the things they don’t have than the things they have?
You see, in the natural sense, material things are widely regarded as wealth – and I will not argue with you because they are tangible and they really are wealth. Since I also use these things and I also seek them for the purposes of this life, I would be shooting myself on the foot if I argued to the contrary. So, I also think that they are wealth and they’re certainly important – and if you are patient I will show you in a moment how you can acquire them very easily.
Let’s start with an example. A prostitute exchanges her precious body and soul – something very precious and priceless, for money – a medium of exchange and something that’s not wealth in itself, because she wants to satisfy a temporary need or desire. This desire might be hunger, nice clothes, poverty, sexual pleasure or all of the above. On the other hand if she had been patient enough, resisted the temptation and waited for a while, she would have attracted a wealthy young man who would have given her all these and much more – beautiful house, beautiful car, respect, self esteem, good friends, prestige, class, fame etc. Money has no value in itself, but these other things certainly have more value and are more durable than money which is consumed immediately. The only reason we carry money around is so that we can spend it. If you don’t carry money around, you won’t spend it.
The key to unlocking wealth is in the understanding of what it is and what it’s not. And one of the keys to understanding wealth is in the understanding of the term, “durability”. If you look all around you, you will notice that the things that are more durable are also more expensive than things that are not durable. For example, pure leather is more expensive than synthetic leather, wool is more expensive than cotton, metal is more expensive than plastic, gold is more expensive than iron etc. I could give you more examples but you could also think of many others. Therefore we can safely say that wealth is relative to durability.
In a short while I will show you several ways you can use, which the rich have used for centuries to create enormous wealth, and in my next series of articles, I will specify the exact ways you can begin to create durable wealth immediately. Then I will show you surprising new ways that people are using to make millions on the Internet.
Coca-Cola is one of the most successful companies in the world. Actually, the key to the success of Coca-Cola is not the famous Coca-Cola drink. Rather, it’s a secret formula for the chief ingredient to manufacture the drink. According to tradition, this formula is held under lock and key that’s entrusted to only three people on earth, through a very strict corporate tradition of succession. It is believed that the founders of Coca-Cola bought the formula from the original owner only after everyone else had declined to buy it, saying it was a “tasteless concoction made of unknown substances”. This was around the 1930s during the great depression.
At this moment you’re wondering what I’m driving at. The key to unlocking wealth is the potential to create wealth. And the potential to create wealth lies in the knowledge to create wealth that is found in the human brain.
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