Becoming A Business Person

I never wanted to become a business person.

When I was younger, when I was really young, I wanted to become a doctor. I wanted to work in medicine as an assistant and things of that nature.

But then, when I started being a bit more conscious and aware of the things I like, I realised I really like engineering. I like technology. As much as I like building things.

And so I started doing that. I started working as an engineer on various projects when I was 13. And I started working on more and more complex projects.

Then I had some issues with migraines. I realized I was thinking too much about all of the different problems that I had to solve as an engineer. And they were provoking me migraines.

And so I needed to shift gears into something that I felt was infinitely easier, which was sales.

How I became a business person

I started doing sales when I was around 18. And then I kept doing various degrees of sales or marketing for the next few years, working in various other companies and multinationals in Europe and in Asia.

And after working for a few of them and always hitting my goals and exceeding my targets, I realized that the companies didn’t really care about me.

They didn’t respect me as an individual. They weren’t treating me as an equal or as someone with a voice in the company and so on and so forth.

Oh, and the other companies also, to some degree, I felt weren’t ethical. And some of them just simply weren’t making the world a better place.

So, their main KPI was money and making more money and growing the business and so on and so forth. However without serious regard for their employees or their clients.

And I didn’t like that. So after many bad experiences in various different companies, I said that I’m going to start my own business.

I wanted to show the world that you could do business in an ethical way and still make money.

Businesses should be ethical

I almost started a nonprofit, because I didn’t want to make any money – I just wanted to work and to make the world a better place.

And then at the last minute, I decided to make a for profit, a real company, because I wanted to be an example.

I realized that it’s better to be a corporation. So that’s when I funded Wesrom Corporation. At the same time, it is a for profit entity with a nonprofit heart.

Yes, we are a corporation. Yes, we ask to be paid for all of our work, but at the same time we treat all of our employees fairly. We respect them. We are patient with them. And we give them opportunities to grow.

And at the same time we treat our clients fairly. We’re always ethical, we always deliver on our promises, and so on and so forth. And then we’re together with employees and clients.

We’re making the world a better place one project at a time, one person at a time.

And since the first business, I realized that I can help multiple other businesses to grow more, to be more ethical, to give more back, to create more jobs.

And ultimately to be a steuart of more companies that helped me achieve my goal of creating a better tomorrow faster.

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Habits And Wealth

Wealth is difficult to grasp and I have a very different opinion on habits than most people do.

Once people start talking about habits, and “understand the power of habits”, many of them find them appealing. At one level or another, they get excited by the prospect of them, living their best lives on autopilot. This is without thinking about it, without even being conscious about it.

What excites them is that I don’t need to think about working out, I work out. I don’t need to think about eating a healthy meal – I, by default, eat a healthy meal. I don’t think about x, y, z, and by default, I do it.

In other words, they’re excited by the prospect of living their lives on autopilot. And I don’t like it. I don’t like the idea of it and I don’t like even the prospect of it.

What point is there in living “your best life” without being conscious while doing it? You’re on autopilot. You’re as similar to a robot as possible.

These robots are productive 24/7. They’re just in a constant flow of productivity because they know what they have to do at the exact time and the exact way they need to do it. And I don’t find that attractive at all.

So, I do believe that there is a lot of potential, a lot of power in creating the habits that will help you attain the levels of success and wealth that you want.

Still, I don’t believe that should ever be for the purpose of doing them on autopilot. Because that takes away from your power and that takes away from your mental capacity as a human being.

There are wealthy habits as well

However, I also like to have habits. For example, I like the habit of fasting every single day. Every day I try to keep the window in which I eat as small as possible. And on most days I manage to eat just one meal a day. I have one very good meal and I even call it a Feast.

I feast, I eat as much as I want, obviously of healthy food, because if I eat unhealthy food, no amount of fasting will help me, or not as much as it could if I would give my body the nutrients it needs to repair itself and to live a very good life.

So that’s one habit that I have. Another habit that I have is going on walks as many times as I can, daily if I can. Another habit that I have is hugging and kissing my wife every single morning, no exceptions.

If we’re in the same house every single morning, we cuddle up, we hug, we kiss each other. We say “good morning”, we say “I love you” and so on and so forth.

But I don’t do that on autopilot. I have no intention of doing that on autopilot. I have no intention of going for a walk on autopilot.

Instead, I have my full intention of being there present with my wife. Seeing how beautiful she is, looking at her, hugging her because I want to, kissing her because I want to.

I go out for a walk and I enjoy the scenery. I feel the wind on my cheeks, I see the leaves, I see the other people that are walking about in their own lives. Or I see a dog that is outstandingly happy to be outside, it’s like the best thing that has happened to them their entire life. I love that.

And I take all of that in, and I am conscious of whilst I’m doing it. So yes, I do believe in the power of habits. But at the same time, I believe in doing them consciously.

Wealth comes with staying fit

Another habit that I have is going to the gym. And I kid you not, even though almost everyone wants to go to the gym, I think 90% of people have a bad taste of it.

They are like, “Oh, I need to go to the gym”, or they go to the gym, and they feel like it’s some form of struggle or a sacrifice of their time and their life energy that they’re doing to go to the gym. It’s not.

It’s a decision, you want to, you know it’s good for you. Why are you not enjoying it? That doesn’t make any sense. Once you start to analyze it, you will see that the only reason you’re not enjoying it is because of your internal dialogue, which is very off.

If you have the economical power and the opportunity to safely go to a gym and work out, you do not understand probably just how blessed you are. And just how lucky you are to be able to live in a society that allows you to do that.

There are many, many areas of the world where you can’t do that. People don’t even think of going to the gym. People think “Will I eat anything today?” They think “Can I feed my children tomorrow?” and they think “How can I protect my children from the imminent dangers in my country or in my region?”

Those are real issues, those are real things that people are dealing with. And then on the other side of the world, there are people that believe going to the gym is a struggle. But it’s obviously not.

So yes, I believe in habits, but I believe we should do them consciously. And I believe we should just live our entire lives as consciously as we can.

P.S.: If you ever need to talk with someone, have any questions whatsoever, or just want to say hi, please email me@robertindries.com. I’d love to meet you.

Cultivating Patience And Wealth

Wealth cannot be achieved by being impatient. This is a bit trickier to explain because everyone has their own levels of patience and many times that depends on what personalities we have.

Some of us are just naturally more impatient than others.

I know people that can do the same activity, day after day after day, every single day, for years and even decades, and still have the patience to keep going.

And I know people that do the same thing for two weeks or even one week and they say, “Gosh, this is so hard and difficult and why don’t I see results?” and so on.

Regardless of where you are on that spectrum, you will notice that impatience is not good. You will understand that to have patience, to work little by little, step by step, day by day on your goals is a good thing.

The simplest way I can explain or I can be of service to help people that are impatient is to remind them to listen to their higher level of consciousness, to listen to their gut feelings.

Basically, to listen to the truth. And the truth is that patience towards whatever it is that we do always pays dividends in the long run.

We can of course decide, at any point in time, to change direction.

Wealth cannot be achieved by being impatient.

For example, let’s say we are a person that does marketing, and we want to make SEO work and we try that. We do it daily for 10 days, 20 days, 30 days, and we’re not seeing results. We can say “Okay, well, this isn’t working. I’m going to change direction.”

At the same time, you know that other people have figured this out, other people have made this work. So instead of changing direction on something that you know should work, instead of sort of giving up on something and moving to something else, which is very typical of people that don’t have patience, instead of that you can improve your strategy.

For example, let’s say you do social media for a week, and you don’t get any new clients or nothing really happens. You can’t tell how this is adding value to the long run.

You try changing it up, you learn a bit more, you analyze the people that are doing it well, and you keep on this constant and never-ending cycle of improvement.

Something amazing happens when you do that. You never feel impatient anymore, because you constantly feel a level of internal progress. You’re constantly getting better.

Obviously, it might negatively affect you that you don’t have results after a week. However, I can tell you that the rate at which you get results is almost directly correlated with the rate at which you make improvements on your tactics, on your strategy.

You might have a strategy of “let me post on social media every day”. And then you get no leads – then you know that strategy is not okay. You don’t need to keep doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting a different result.

That is, by Albert Einstein’s words, the definition of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over, and over again and expecting a different result.

I have conversations about this with entrepreneurs all the time. They do something and they keep doing it, and they keep doing it, and they keep doing it, but it doesn’t get any results.

Have you changed your strategy? Have you changed your scripts? Or have you learned more about how to do this properly? Did you invest in a course? Did you invest in a book? Have you actually read the book? Have you actually made tweaks to your strategy based on that book? Etc, etc, etc.

So once you stop focusing on the outcome itself, you start focusing on the process of constantly becoming better at attaining that outcome.

The outcome in itself isn’t something you could impact. The outcome, by definition is a result. You’re looking to get a certain result or certain outcome. By definition, you cannot directly impact that.

The only thing you can impact is how well and how quickly you are going to attain that result through the things that you’re doing on a daily basis. As a result, you can now see that the better you do the things you do, the faster you’re going to get to that outcome.

Abraham Lincoln said that if you gave him one hour to cut down a tree, he would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening his axe. I don’t like the metaphor in itself. Because I don’t like the idea of cutting down trees for no good reason. However, It’s a very good metaphor for constantly investing in yourself.

So you take an hour, or two, or three, to do the action that you propose yourself to do. Whether that’s reaching out to people on social media, whether that’s posting, you do that. And then you take another hour, or two hours to see how you could do it better tomorrow.

You ask yourself “How could I do better? How can I improve my strategy?”. And you keep doing that. You keep sharpening your saw every single day. Or every single week at least, if it’s not something you could or is feasible to improve every day.

This is how one achieves wealth. It’s a constant struggle. The moment you start doing that, you will notice that more, and more, and more patience just magically comes upon you. Because you cannot be impatient with the process anymore. The process keeps changing. And your way of implementing everything keeps evolving.

So you’re never actually doing the same thing over and over again. You’re doing it better and better every single week. And that is how you stop being impatient with things.

Instead of focusing on the goal, you just have the goal in mind. You have the outcome in mind, but you focus on making the process better and better and making the strategy better and better. At the end of it, you will feel so much more rewarded.

There’s also a saying, “It’s not about making a million dollars. It’s about the person you become on the journey to get there”. This is true in all aspects of wealth and all aspects of our lives.

It’s true in health, regarding what I need to learn about my body and how food impacts my body. And how movements impact my body. How my muscles and my joints and my bones work together. All of this is invaluable.

The moment I become the healthiest version of myself, I not only attained the outcome that I wanted, but I am now also able to maintain that for the rest of my life and keep improving it even further.

Hopefully this helps and gives you a better perspective on how to stop being impatient and how to start living in a constant flow of self-improvement. And that should help you on your journey.

P.S.: If you ever need to talk with someone, have any questions whatsoever, or just want to say hi, please email me@robertindries.com. I’d love to meet you.

Wealth And Finding Motivation

Wealth comes once we start taking 100% responsibility for every aspect of our lives. Then we will also be intrinsically motivated the way others are every single day.

Only if we have not yet taken full responsibility for our lives, only then do we need to seek motivation. Only then do we need to find ways in which we will get ourselves to do the things we want to do.

Part of taking 100% responsibility is to have a purpose for everything that you do and I call this living with intention.

Once you start living with purpose and living with intention, you will notice that passion is being created within you. Motivation and desire start coming from within you.

The reason why this is an amazing place to be is that the quantity of passion and excitement and motivation that can come from within you is limitless. It is truly limitless.

Wealth means limitless passion and excitement and motivation

You can, at any point in time, tap into your own reserves of desire, of living, of creating, of expression of self. You will notice that this does not take away from your energy, but instead it gives you energy.

A woman that has children and is a single mother will find the energy within herself to work the jobs that she needs to work. And she will also prepare food and clean and so on and so forth. That does not mean that she does not experience stress. That does not mean that she does not experience fear, or things of that nature. Those are things that we all experience.

However, that woman gets up in the morning and gets going to do what she sets out to do so that she can take care of and provide for her family. I said a woman but obviously, a father can be the same way.

The moment you are living with purpose, you’re living with intention and you’re taking responsibility for everything in your life. Then energy is abundant. Then you do not need to find the motivation to do things, but you actually go and do those things.

Wealth comes once we start taking 100% responsibility for every aspect of our lives

The same person that is trying to take care of their children and working a lot, that same person can seek to get promotions. Or they can apply for jobs that would pay them more for less working hours.

Just because someone is in a certain moment of their lives right now, it doesn’t mean they’re stuck there. If they’re not at the level of income they desire that does not mean that they can’t have it. The same goes if they don’t have the relationship that they want, or they don’t have the physical aesthetics or weight or health that they want,

The only thing that means is that until now they haven’t completely lived with intention. They have allowed themselves to eat that dessert or that piece of cake. They have allowed themselves to drink the energy drinks, they have allowed themselves to smoke. Also, they have allowed themselves to do everything that they know they shouldn’t be doing.

Now, that doesn’t mean that they had it easy. That doesn’t mean that if they would have had the time to go to the grocery store, they wouldn’t have. Maybe then they would buy the right vegetables and ingredients and make a great and healthy meal. It just means that they didn’t, as a result of their circumstances, or as a result of focusing on other parts of their lives instead of this one.

Wealthy people do not judge each other

There can be a very thin line in which people can be very quick to judge one another. I know a lot of people that see others and see that they are overweight, and then immediately judge them for it. But we don’t know what’s in the life of that person. They’re obviously overeating for some reason. We don’t know why.

However, we shouldn’t judge them before we understand their context and before we have a conversation with them. If we never have a conversation with them on the topic we just leave it be for what it is. We accept others for who they are because they have their own struggles, they have their own stresses, they have their own lives.

Just because we can physically see that something is wrong, that doesn’t mean that the person that looks perfectly healthy on the outside, isn’t going through a horrible divorce that they provoked for themselves. Or anything else for that matter.

They might be having a very bad, rough patch in their career, and so on and so forth. But we don’t see that. So we don’t judge them as much as we do someone that we visually see that has something or there is an issue with them.

So, coming back to our topic for today, which is what motivates me or anyone to do things. The only place from where you can tap into endless streams of motivation is from within yourself.

That is in the form of 1 – taking responsibility for everything in your life, 2 – living your life with intention, and then 3 – living your life with purpose.

You will notice that the last two are parts of the first one. Once we start taking responsibility for everything in our lives, we will by default live with intention and we will by default feel a much higher level of purpose in our lives.

We don’t just automatically go through life. We don’t just unconsciously do things. Also, we don’t unconsciously eat, we do not unconsciously work, we are not unconsciously in a conversation with someone. We do not unconsciously work out.

Wealth means doing things consciously

Instead, we are conscious of every single thing we do. We are living with intention. If I’m looking at some food or drinks that I know won’t do me any good even if I’m hungry, I won’t eat it. I’ll just wait until I do have something good to eat. I will do this with the knowledge in my brain that fasting is actually a good thing.

I can go fasting. As long as I drink water I can fast for two months and absolutely nothing bad should happen to me. There are obviously exceptions and I am not a doctor.

However, statistically speaking, most people will be fine with fasting for a few hours. Then they can go eating later when they can get a healthy meal or a healthier option. Like a banana or some oranges or some vegetables, based on your taste, of course. Whatever you prefer to eat – maybe a salad or something similar.

Hopefully, this helps and gives you another perspective on what motivation can look like in your life. You’ll also see that all of this excitement we see on TV and on social media, almost all of it is overrated.

The people on the planet that tend to be the happiest individuals and the ones experiencing wealth to its fullest are not usually very exciting, because they’re at peace.

They can burst into excitement if something happens in their lives. And they probably burst into excitement many times, but 90% of the time they’re at peace.

They are having a beautiful conversation with their wife/ their husband. They are working on whatever it is that they’re working to add value to the company, to their community. Also, they are mindful of the things that they eat, and so on and so forth.

For they’re literally at peace all the time and they don’t allow their internal dialogues to affect them. But that’s a topic for another discussion. However, if you do have internal dialogues that make you sad or otherwise, you should know that’s only in your brain. The same happens if you feel lonely, or unworthy of certain things, or whatever it is that you feel.

You cannot live life with intention and with purpose and be sad, or at least not for a prolonged period of time. Sadness, just like happiness comes and goes, comes and goes. So hopefully this has helped. Thank you so much and speak to you soon.

P.S.:
If you ever need to talk with someone, have any questions whatsoever, or just want to say hi, please email me@robertindries.com. I’d love to meet you.

P.P.S.:Imagine having an entire team helping you acquire all your goals . Wealth was born with a very clear mission: To be the absolute best source of practical wisdom someone on their journey toward wealth could ever have access to. If you’re interested, learn more and apply here: https://robertindries.com/wealth/

The Role Of Ethics In Achieving Wealth

In order for us to understand wealth for what it is, we need to understand that no one that is experiencing wealth will intentionally make any action that is unethical or unjust.

That’s because wealth is a state of complete abundance, love, understanding, respect for others and yourself. One cannot combine that with unethical behaviour.

You cannot treat people poorly intentionally and be wealthy. You cannot do things you know you should not do and be wealthy. They are opposites.

One can only experience true wealth if their thoughts, words, and actions are aligned. And if those thoughts, words, and actions are aligned with the best version of themselves.

Of course, for every person, this is different, as the best version of ourselves will achieve different things. That is what it means to be part of society, part of the community, part of the human race.

Some people will become amazing writers of children’s books, that do not talk about deceit or saving a helpless princess or things of that nature, like in old folklore.

Instead, they will talk about the power each one of us has to change their circumstances. Or about how none of us needs someone else to save them from anything. How we can have the power to do anything we wish, and so on and so forth.

Others can build amazing solar power engines to help us travel intergalactically. Each one of us has their own talents, their own things that make them happy, and things they feel are their ways of contributing best to society and to our evolution.

At the same time, you cannot experience true wealth if you do things in an unethical manner. They’re just opposites of one another.

If someone believes that they can attain wealth by stealing from others that is just them being deceitful towards themselves and them lying to themselves.

The same goes if they are treating others left than they would treat themselves. And the same goes for when they think they can get away with injustice or things of that nature.

One cannot achieve wealth without ethics.

P.S.:
If you ever need to talk with someone, have any questions whatsoever, or just want to say hi, please email me@robertindries.com. I’d love to meet you.

P.P.S.:Imagine having an entire team helping you acquire all your goals . Wealth was born with a very clear mission: To be the absolute best source of practical wisdom someone on their journey toward wealth could ever have access to. If you’re interested, learn more and apply here: https://robertindries.com/wealth/

Wealth And Learning From Other People

Wealth comes with the capacity to learn from those around us. I can say that I learn from everyone that has attained the results that I myself want to attain.

In my personal life, I do not take health advice from someone that is fat, that’s smoking, or that consumes sugar or sodas, or things of that nature that I know are harmful. I do not follow them. I do not listen to them, I do not take advice from them.

Likewise, I would not take relationship or family advice from someone that’s single. If they’re single because they became widowed then that’s a totally different story.

They might be 50 years of age and they were widowed, but they had a very very happy and long relationship before that. Ok, in this case I can take advice from that person.

But if they’re single or their marriage isn’t going exactly the way it should, then why would I? That wouldn’t make sense.

Just like that, I have the same philosophy around everything else in life. So I learn from people that have achieved the results and success that I want to achieve.

I take my wisdom advice from people that have attained wisdom and logic, and that take responsibility for their lives and act accordingly and think accordingly.

Wealth and business

Regarding business, I take business advice from people that have built multi billion dollar businesses. Because that is what I want to create. I look to people like Richard Branson, or Warren Buffett. I look to many, many other people in business and I take everything that would work for me.

We talked about this in another article. We need to truly, truly understand that each one of us is unique. So the way someone does business and the business culture that they create and the values that they have, and the ethics that they have might be very different from mine.

But at the same time I can learn from them how to help people become productive. I can learn how to motivate employees, how to provide great customer service. I can learn how to put in place great HR processes, and so on, and so on, and so on.

So I can learn so much from people that have succeeded. I do not need to copy them, I need to learn from them and then go on my own path.

If I would be, for example, a programmer, I would learn from people that have built things that I have no idea how to build.

If I were a marketing person, I would learn from people that have gotten results that I was never able to get. In terms of PPC, in terms of SEO, in terms of social media or whatever.

So I learn from people that have attained what I am seeking. If, for example, I am very sad, I learn from people that have experienced sadness and have overcome it. They are happy. What did they do to be happy?

For example, something that happy people do, in most cases, is that they don’t judge events. They don’t judge necessarily if something is good or bad. They take life for what it is.

Wealthy people are resilient

You will notice the happiest people on the planet, the worst things can happen to them, but they’re like ”Oh, well, that’s life. It happens. So that happened, let me see what I can do now. Now I have more data. Based on this data, the variables of my life have now changed. What am I going to do from here?”

So, you can find so much wisdom in people that have actually managed to do what it is that you want to do.

Too many times we take advice and we listen to and we learn from people that really we shouldn’t.

So, that’s basically my answer. I always learn from people that have achieved what it is that I want to achieve, and I also learn from people that aren’t successful. I have conversations with them and I try to understand their point of view.

It also helps me to talk to someone that isn’t in a marriage or in a relationship. I talk with them about their beliefs around their ideal spouse. Or about how they should treat them and so on and so forth.

I know that is the reason they are single. I know that’s the reason why they are in the situation that they are.

Everything we do, and believe, and say, all of these things will result in our context. Whether I am rich or poor is because of who I am, is because of my beliefs, is because of what I have done until now and so on and so forth.

Obviously, if I am very, very young, if I’m 15 years of age, it’s whatever my parents have done. But we’re talking about people that are 18, 20 and above.

You’ve had your education, you’ve had your own set of drama, ( we all have them), you had your history until now, but that’s the past. Now, the future is in your hands.

You can pursue any career you may want. You can make as much money as you want, you can be at the level of health, and fitness, and energy, and vitality that you want. Also, you can have the family that you want, you can have children or not have children, if that’s what you want, and so on and so forth.

Wealth means to be able to learn from those around us

Wealth comes with the capacity to learn from those around us.

Basically, you can be the person that you want by learning from people that have already attained what you want. And talking to people that haven’t, can reinforce the negative versus the positive.

And obviously you can try to help those people, but I have a rule that I do not give advice when it is not called for. You would be surprised how many times I shared ground breaking wisdom with people, just to have it ignored completely.

And these are people that asked me to share wisdom. They asked me what I would do. They asked me for perspectives. We discussed, and yet they take no action, they keep doing the opposite of what it is that we discussed.

And so, that’s just a way of being and that’s also a great example on why people stay poor. Or why people stay unhealthy, or why they stay unhappy in their relationships and so on.

It is because you tell them. They seek and then they get the answers that are the real answers of what they should do, or say, or believe. But then they just don’t do it.

That enforces the fact that people of wealth, people that attain wealth, are those that listen to wisdom from people that have attained what they want. And then actually do that and actually believe that, in their own way of course.

They can be slightly different. But they need to understand that if they’re going to do something differently than the other person, they might get a different result. And they might like the different result or they might not.

So, that’s it for today’s article. Hopefully, you guys enjoyed it and you found value in it and I hope to hear your questions and I hope to speak to you soon.

P.S.:
If you ever need to talk with someone, have any questions whatsoever, or just want to say hi, please email me@robertindries.com. I’d love to meet you.

P.P.S.:Imagine having an entire team helping you acquire all your goals . Wealth was born with a very clear mission: To be the absolute best source of practical wisdom someone on their journey toward wealth could ever have access to. If you’re interested, learn more and apply here: https://robertindries.com/wealth/

Values That Go Hand In Hand With Wealth

As we think we understand that every person is different, most of the time people just say it, but they don’t truly understand what that means. They really don’t conceptualize what those differences mean.

For example, you see people doing a certain type of workout and eating in a certain way and then they get certain results: they become very muscular, they become lean, they don’t have any pains. It just works for them. So they put that on youtube and thousands of other people follow it.

Many of those people will eat the exact same way that person eats and will do the exact same thing that the other person does. However, they may observe they have inflammation in their body, or aches and pains. Maybe they will not get the results that the other person got in the same time frame, even though their starting point was very similar.

So they go and ask themselves ”Why am I not getting their results?” or ”Why am I going through this and they haven’t?” That simple question tells you that the person, just like most human beings, doesn’t truly understand that each one of us is different.

Likewise, one medical treatment provided to a patient might have a very different effect on another patient. People expect medicine and treatments and nutrition to apply to them in the same way: ”if it worked for somebody else, it should work for me too”, or ”if this treatment for this illness is a good one, that means it must work for me as well”.

Well, no. You are a unique individual and you need to start to understand that. Fully understand that, not just say that we’re all unique and so on and so forth. It’s like a trend now: everyone says ”Oh, we’re all unique, every business is unique, every person is unique”, and so on and so forth.

But people don’t really understand it. And when it comes to aspects that matter, like in values, like in believes, like in things that actually impact your life, people just forget that everyone is unique. They forget that no one has to live the same life, no one has to be in a certain way, or react in a certain way to various things from the outside.

So, that being said, even though all of us can have unique desires, unique values, unique beliefs, unique aspirations, there are a few that seem to be a must every single time when someone is to enjoy wealth to its fullest.

Constantly seeking wisdom and knowledge and betterment, because you cannot be fully wealthy if you’re not constantly evolving.

Number one – the first value would be that of taking 100% responsibility for everything in your life. That means everything that you do, everything your friends do and everything everyone else does. It means taking responsibility for your context. If you like your job or dislike it, it’s your responsibility. It might be the job’s problem, it might be your problem.

If you do not have the amount of capital you would like to have in your bank account, that’s your responsibility as well. It does not matter if you should have more capital in your bank. We’re not judging that. We are judging whether you believe you should have more or not.

Some people are outstandingly happy having ten thousands dollars in their bank. They know that they can survive, they know that ”for the next 6 months I have no problems, I can lose my job, I can lose everything, in 6 months I can get it back”. They’re just at peace, they’re happy.

Someone else that has a different expectation for their life, they might look at ten thousand dollars and say ”Oh, I should be at a hundred thousand, right now, or I should be at a million right now”, or whatever. We don’t judge that and that’s a very good segway to the next point.

No one that is truly wealthy judges others. We just don’t. I don’t think that someone is greedy or not greedy, I don’t think that someone should dress in a certain way and not in another way, or someone should speak in a certain way and not in another way. Everyone can do whatever they want.

There is this trend now, of people getting offended. Everyone and anyone just gets offended by anything someone else says or does. I like to ask those people if they’re religious or spiritual, and a vast majority of them say yes, so I tell them ”Well, if that’s the case, then why are you judging this person?” That’s not your job. You have God, or you have Jesus, you have Allah, or you have the universe, or whatever, karma.

“Others have the responsibility to judge a person on their death. Many people believe that, so why are you doing the judging work?” It’s quite the opposite, in the Bible for example it says that you should love thy neighbour. Loving thy neighbour is the opposite of judging them for whatever it is that they did. Judging someone for any form of words or actions is definitely not something we should do.

Obviously, if we go into extremes, for example someone just killed someone else ,or is killing animals, or is cutting down trees, or whatever. We can discuss that with that person and we can apply proper punishments. We can try to understand why did they do that, and what can we do to make sure they don’t do it again. What can we do to make sure they understand the severity of their actions, but without judgement.

If someone, for example, is cutting down trees in the forest, we need to ask them ”Why are you doing that?”. In most cases it’s not out of pleasure. In most cases someone paid them to do that or they’ve gone rogue to do that. But they’ve gone rogue because their family is starving and they have no other means of getting money. This is the only means that they know how to do.

So then we can obviously enforce punishment because they did something illegal, but at the same time have a conversation with that person and help them find a career that is productive, that actually helps take humanity forward.

For example, if they like cutting down trees and being lumberjack, maybe there’s a job somewhere where they do that. They cut down all trees, which is something they should be doing because old trees can rot and infest the forest. So you cut down the old ones and then plant new ones. Maybe he’ll love that, if he actually loves being in the forest and maintaining forests and so on.

So, again, acting, being responsible for everything around us, but not judging anything. I don’t judge whether what happened now is good or bad. That’s besides the point. Let’s look at the consequences of what’s going on, locally and globally, and then let’s decide based on that.

A third value would be the value of constantly seeking wisdom and knowledge and betterment. This is because you cannot be fully wealthy if you’re not constantly evolving. Stagnation is the equivalent of death.

If you look at life versus death you will notice something very, very clearly. Death is represented by stillness, by motionless, by being static, a lack of movement, a lack of emotion. Whereas in terms of life, life is constantly flowing. Life is motion, life is emotion, life is everything that has to do with that.

As a result, the brain functions in a very similar way as it keeps needing to evolve. It keeps needing to become wiser and better. We will never be happy if we start stagnating, with regards to our career path, with regards to our knowledge, with regards to our imagination, creativity, and so on and so forth. Moreover, you will notice that many times you are at your happiest when you’re progressing.

So, these three values thus far tend to be the values that every single person that wants to experience wealth should have. And there are many others that are recommended, but they will all fall within one of these three.

For example, if you would say that the value of family and having a happy family is important, then you will notice that that would fall under taking responsibility for yourself and everything around you. And it might also fall under lack of judging others.

So if I take full responsibility for my actions and my words, I will never offend my wife, or I will very rarely offend her, and if I do, and I take responsibility, I will also take responsibility for saying I’m sorry and explaining why I did what I did, why now I believe it’s not the right thing to do, and it wasn’t, and what am I going to do to try to better myself in our relationship next time.

With regards to judgement, if they say or do something I don’t like, instead of getting angry, or upset, or offended, what I do is I write down my thoughts. And then I have a productive conversation with them, on the subject, and I ask ”What made you say that? Why did you feel like saying that, or doing that? I just want to understand.”

Then, with regards to wisdom, I would constantly seek to better my relationships. I would constantly seek to read books that are aligned with the value of family. As in how to have productive conversations, how to love my spouse the way that they want to be loved, how to educate my children or how to treat them, how to help them become responsible individuals, productive individuals, and so on and so forth.

You will notice that every other value that someone uniquely wants in their life, will fall within these three. If I have the value of family, that doesn’t mean someone else has to have that. If I have the value of being a good father, that does not mean someone else has to have that.

I know people that like being single. They just love it and they connect in other ways. They’re very connected with themselves, they love themselves, not in a narcissistic way, but in a truly loving way. They’re at peace with themselves, they can spend hours alone, and they are very, very happy.

They are also connected with friends, digitally and live, in person. But they do not feel the need to share the bed with someone, or to share a house. They really don’t feel that. Likewise, they don’t really like children. When I say they don’t like children, I don’t mean that they hate them or that they have something against them. They would just prefer not to have them in their own lives.

So, we should remember that we are all unique. And we should remember to not judge others just because they want different things than we do. They don’t have to want what we do.

So, as long as someone has those three values, then they should become wealthy if they aren’t already. But they need to take 100% responsibility for their actions and their life. They need to stop judging the things that happens in their lives. And then, they need to always seek to become more, to create more, to learn more, to do more.

Because once you fully immerse yourselves in those values, and if you’ve truly become one with those values, wealth will come into your life Faster than you would ever expect, because you will become at peace, and you will experience a sense of abundance much quicker than you would have imagined.

Again, if you truly, truly, live those values, not if you live them for a week and then you stop. So, hopefully this helps. This was a long article, but if it adds value, then it was worth it. Thank you so much

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How To Make Decisions That Lead Us To Wealth?

Every single thing we do in life we can consciously decide on, so that we can bring wealth to our lives.

Society today and the vast majority of people live most of their lives in a state of auto-pilot.

They are a living human being that just goes through the motion. And thinks of as many different things that they can do automatically.

For example, I’m sure you’ve heard of habits. There are many, many books on how to create habits.

And there is a very large following of people that want to build good habits for themselves. Why do those people want to build habits?

Well, I can tell you that most of them want to build good habits because they want to live an amazing life almost on auto-pilot.

They do not want to think about going to the gym, they want to go to the gym. They want it to be a habit, to be automatic. Also, they don’t want to think about what they are going to eat, they just want to make sure they eat healthy food every single time, on auto-pilot.

And, perhaps, they do not want to think about achieving wealth, but want to be wealthy on auto-pilot.

It’s like making the decisions very easy for them. And there is some form of benefit there. However, most people do not see how their goal of making things easier and making things more automatic is taking away from their life as much as it adds to their lives, in case they are good habits.

This is how one actually looses wealth. And this is a subject we talk about in this article as well.

Yes, it’s amazing to work out every single day. But let’s say you work out every single day on auto-pilot. And you eat healthy meals every single day on auto-pilot.

And you read few pages of books every single day on auto-pilot. If you truly stay to think about it, you would be not much different from a robot.

Because the robots are the things we create to do things on auto-pilot. To basically have a pattern and then follow that.

Useful habits can support wealth

And so there is an urge to create useful habits, and I have many myself, and I have some bad ones as well, that I keep doing.

At the same time, I would like to invite everyone to start analysing the things that they do. Not for the purpose of not doing them. Especially if they are good actions and healthy things that make you wealthier. But just to be more conscious and to do things with more responsibility for what you do every single day.

So you will notice, if you start doing that, that you will know what the good decision is. Let’s say you have a decision to make in the morning. After 8 hours of sleep, you have to get out of bed or just stay there and do nothing.

Your gut feeling, your instinct will tell you that ”I shouldn’t sleep the rest of my life. I should get up and do something that will bring me closer to my goals”.

It might be uncomfortable because it’s very, very warm under the sheets and it’s very comfy. However, you know, or you feel at least, that there is some conflict.

The only time someone makes decisions is when they have options. They have multiple options and then they need to choose one of them. A

nd so we have to make decisions, like ”Do I work on this project or do I not?/ Do I go out for a walk or do I not?” Many times it’s not as simple as this. ”Do I go out for a walk or do I work on my project?”.

Well, that’s less about decision making and more about prioritising and planning. If both of the things that you want to do are good for you and are aligned with complete wealth, that means you should do both even though many times you cannot do two things at the same time.

If both of the things that you want to do are good for you and are aligned with complete wealth, that means you should do both

That does not mean that you cannot sit down in the morning, or at the end of the week and plan out your day or your week in advance. You can plan as best as you can so you can get as many things as you want done.

If you engage in these planning sessions, initially you might notice that your plans do not always come about the way you envisioned them. This is going to be perfectly fine and normal.

Planning and strategising is a skill in itself, so you cannot expect yourself to be world-class at a skill where you maybe have not put in the right amount of practice.

So if you create a plan for today and you notice that 50% of it doesn’t happen, I urge you to see if the things you’ve done instead of what you planned were more important than the things you actually planned.

If they are that great, you’ve taken great decisions today. If not, then you can analyse and see what has driven you to be unproductive. Or what has driven you to live a life below what you believe would be a life of complete wealth and abundance.

Once you do that analysis, you have to adapt your future plans based on your new-found wisdom about yourself, about your environment, about planning itself.

So, basically, there are two main things that we have to consider. 1- in most cases we will have a gut feeling that tells us what is the good decision to take and we can follow that. Then, 2 – we can always plan in advance to help us make less decisions in the moment.

So you can decide in advance to go for a 15-20 minutes walk at 7 a.m. and then after that, come home and take a shower.

And then after that you can go to work, or if you work from home, start working on your project. Or have a healthy meal. Or whatever it is that you want to do so that you’re in alignment with your best self.

Then, a final point I would add as a bonus is that to make better and better and wiser and wiser decisions in life, it is outstandingly helpful to learn from people that have already achieved what we want to achieve.

For example, if you have specific career goals — let’s say you work in marketing, or public relations — you can read books on marketing, you can read articles on public relations, you can sign up for courses on how to do SEO, you can go to a seminar on how to do conversion rate optimisation, or user experience optimisation.

There are so, so many things that you can do. And then those will allow you to make better decisions in your career.

If we’re talking about health, you can study books on health, on nutrition, and on how food impacts the body. Then you will know how to decide between a burger with fries or a burger with a salad. Because you will understand how much damage the fries do to your body. And at the same time you will understand how much nutritional value you will add to your body if you choose the salad.

Let’s say you think about it in terms of taste, and how it makes you feel and the dopamine it gives you. If that’s your only criteria, then obviously your decisions wouldn’t be as optimal. Even though in the back of your mind you know you should choose the salad.

The gut feeling will be there. At the same time, if you have limited amounts of data, you will not know why one is infinitely better than the other.

You should start reading about it. And start understanding the benefits of spinach, of leafy greens, or of all of those different vegetables.

Learn about how they add value to your body, and to your health. And to your longevity, to your energy and to every single thing in your body. Then you can make a much better decision next time.

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How Is Fear Impacting Our Wealth?

Fear is something every single one of us deals with. There are outstandingly few people that do not feel fear. Those people typically tend to have – what we would call in society – a disability. They are incapable of feeling fear.

A disability is something that dissolves the capabilities a human being should have. So we can only attribute a disability to something that we should be able to do. As a result, we can deduce that fear is something everyone should be able to experience.

I have a strong belief that fear is one of the most potent blessings we have received from nature during our evolutionary course. That may sound a bit strange to some, but I can provide very clear arguments to this and allow you to think about it and analyze your own life. The reason why fear is so potent is because you can never fear reality.

Reality in this present moment is what it is. You cannot change it. You cannot change the present, you cannot change the past, you cannot change the future. It is what it is. Our entire life is lived in one second or one moment – increments of reality. If you think about it, you can never fear reality. You can only fear the future. You can only fear your imagination.

This is a very important aspect. Because you can only fear the future, or you can only fear imagination, it means that you have the capability of envisioning a future and that you have the capability to set in motion actions and events that will change that future you fear so much.

So, for example, if I am scared that I will lose my job in the next month, because the company is going bankrupt or because something else is going on, I can allow that fear to paralyze me, or I can use it to start applying for other jobs, or I can use it to have a conversation with my manager to ask what it is that we could do so we don’t lose our business. You can prevent something that you are scared of.

Sometimes, I understand that we feel hopeless and we believe that we cannot prevent future pain or future suffering. However, if you have the internet bandwidth and technological ability to listen or read this message, then I can almost guarantee that you have enough power to make a change in your life or to avoid future outcomes that you did not desire.

I’m not saying that it’s going to be easy, or I’m not saying you will have all the answers. The only thing I am sharing with you today, and I warmly invite you to do, is to consider fear as one of your best friends. This ability to fear a future outcome can, if you use it properly, help you create the exact future that you desire for yourself, for your family, and for your community.

I can, as a world leader, fear a war and in order to avoid it I can invite embassies and other leaders, the ones I’m going to war with, to have a discussion and to agree on peaceful terms. Or, at a much smaller scale, I can fear not meeting a deadline on a project I’m working on, that is maybe three days away, so what I can do is I can talk to my manager and tell them ”Look, I’m scared that I won’t meet this deadline. What I think we can do is x, y and z.”

And you come up with solutions. If you don’t have answers and solutions, you can ask for help. You can ask your colleagues, you can ask your peers, you can ask your manager, and so on and so forth. But basically, instead of living with the fear, you can face it head-on, in advance of anything actually happening.

Remember, we can never fear the present, we can only fear the future. We can only fear our imagination so that will always help us in preventing the negative outcomes. Does that mean we will prevent undesirable outcomes every single time? No, of course not. However, we as a species have the ability to prevent them. Again: the ability, the blessing.

A lion cannot think one month in advance. It does not have any plans, it cannot make any plans, it cannot envision anything. It cannot imagine anything. Just like a dog couldn’t, or a cat, and so on and so forth. They live in the moment. And by the way that’s why they’re most of the time so happy and calm.

We, on the other hand, have the ability to envision the future, which also gives us the responsibility to make it as best as possible – for ourselves and everyone around us.

Hopefully, this gives you something to think about and hopefully, moving onward, you will use fear for what it can become, and that is a tool to help you on your journey. Thank you so much. Bye.

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What Do I Dream To Accomplish With Wealth?

Ever since I was very young, I always enjoyed peace. I always enjoyed peaceful outcomes. Despite injustice, despite people being mean. When I say despite — it might be a harsh word for some — but I really, really dislike those things.

As I evolved and grew, I became more and more pulled in by this vision, this dream, that society can reach a peak of existence where everyone would enjoy complete abundance and wealth. Prosperity, kindness, love, innovation, education, and so on and so forth. Care for local environments, care for the world in general, care for themselves.

I know it sounds utopic. However, it’s very important to note that everything in reality is possible. Just because something has never been done before does not mean that it cannot be achieved.

I became pulled in by this dream, that society can reach a peak of existence where everyone would enjoy complete abundance and wealth.

Many physical limits and limitations that we thought we had as humans — we’ve surpassed. Many engineering limitations that we thought we had –we’ve passed. Even intellectually and spiritually. There are many people that manage to reach very high levels of wisdom and mindfulness, of love and responsibility.

Everyone has their own journey through life and their own things that they’re passionate about. However, I believe that we can all contribute towards that future, that utopic future, of complete wealth for all of society.

When I say wealth, it is very important to remember that I do not only mean financially. Financial wealth is just one part of wealth. There are many other parts. Such as complete health, such as caring for the environment, caring for your family, and caring for society. You can read more about wealth in this article.

So, what I dream of — and I see this very vividly in my mind very often — is an existence where the entire world is at peace. There is no more war, there is no more corruption, there is no more injustice, there is no more poverty. All of those are exchanged by complete respect for one another, complete respect for our environment, complete drive towards evolution and innovation and progress.

That is what I dream of and I will do the best I can during my lifetime to help humanity get as close to that level as possible. Thank you.

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