I will speak to you here about balance, wealth, prosperity
and wisdom and add thoughts about a few other things.
One of my rituals of gratitude that I use every morning and
sometimes throughout my day is to breathe in deep breaths stating silently: “health,
wealth, prosperity, and wisdom”. Then, I breathe out and silently state: “Thank
you, thank you; thank you”; I do this for three times. (You will find me explaining
this in other articles and in my workshops and seminars).
Did you notice that within the four words which I confess
when breathing in, included are both wealth and prosperity? Some readers may
think that I am professing, confessing and affirming the same thing when I use
both wealth and prosperity in the same “mantra”; but I will tell you that they
are indeed different and further, when you do not have both in your life that
you are not in “balance”.
Using wisdom will tell you that if both words meant the same
thing, that we would not have a reason for one of them. Let’s look at the *definition
of both and I will then follow with an interesting story that illustrates my
reasoning.
Wealth: a
great quantity
or store of money, valuable possessions,
property, or other riches: the wealth of a city.
Prosperity:
a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in
financial respects; good fortune.
You’ll quickly see (I used the first of the definitions given
for each) that they are a bit similar; but they are different. Note that wealth
has to do more with “money” but prosperity has to do more with the “condition”
of having everything; which includes money. If I were to choose, I’d want the
later which includes everything, wouldn’t you?
LESSON: It’s impossible
to experience prosperity if you don’t give. (So, what have you given
today)? Pinterest with qr code to blog article.
In Wes Beavis’ book titled: Escape to Prosperity, he shares
a story about a man who would cut the hair of Howard Hughes; who you may know
was a billionaire. Although most of the barber’s customers would tip, Mr.
Hughes never did. If you know anything about the story of this billionaire you
would know that he lived his later life as a recluse and without having many
friends. It (If you care to know more about
Howard Hughes, CLICK HERE). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes
This would tell us that he indeed had money, but not prosperity.
When author Beavis was making his point, that we need to
give so that we prosper, he was speaking more about giving in the way of money as
with tithing. But since prosperity has to do with money and overall abundance,
we should give not only in the way of money but also in all areas such as time,
talents and other areas. In the area of finances, when we give money we will receive
money in return but it also returns back into our overall prosperity “bank”.
When we give in the area of time, we’ll receive time (we’ll find that we’ll get
more done with our time) in our prosperity bank, and so on.
Think of giving money as planting a money seed and
harvesting a money vegetable just as when planting a tomato seed produces
tomatoes. Likewise, when planting the seed of your time, perhaps by
volunteering or helping a friend, you’ll produce the vegetable of time in
return. Money and time are only two of your vegetables in your garden which is
called “abundance” or prosperity. Money and time are just two vegetables in
your garden called prosperity. Plant more seeds from all areas in your life
(but do so in balance) and you’ll have a great garden of prosperity.
We could be like Howard Hughes and have money and still not
be prosperous. We could have the money of a million millionaires and still be
out of balance with our life because we would be rich in money but poor in our time,
friends and relationships; and in all the other areas of what I call the Major
8 ™ in my Attainment Rules and my Living Life in Balance program.
I invite your comments and questions below. Also if you
appreciated my words, please let others know about this blog.
Make it a great day!
Ter Scott!
(*I usually use Dictionary.com
for my definitions).
Ter Scott is available for private consulting and to speak
at your event. His program, “Living in Balance” is definitely life changing.
Contact Ter at: www.terscott.com/speaker.
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