Fortune-Building [In All Areas of Your Life]

F1 – Self Mastery

Being intimate with your personal gifts & talents.

Knowing your vision for this year.

Overcoming your fears.

Self-Mastery: Becoming the person you know in your heart you are meant to be. Presenting your genius to the world. It’s definitely a form of wealth.

F2 – Health

In one wisdom tradition they say, “When we are young we would sacrifice all of our health for wealth. And yet—when we grow older and wise we would sacrifice all of our wealth for one good day of health.”

F3 – Family

You don’t want to get to world-class success and be there alone.

F4 – Craft

It’s another big one.

There’s such joy that comes from being the best in the world at what you do.

There’s such enthusiasm and energy that comes with being on the process of becoming the best in the world at what you do.

It’s not really becoming the grand master of your craft.

At the end of the day, that is the real value.

It’s what the process of getting to BIW / Best in the world at what you do makes of you.

What you have to go through. Who you must become through the early mornings or late nights of practice. Through the reading. Through the difficulties. Overcoming the trials, the self-doubt.

That’s the real value of focusing on your craft.

It’s definitely a form of wealth.

F15 - Prosperity

This is your personal net worth. It’s abundance. It’s money. And of course it is important. It allows you freedom. Allows you to be a philanthropist. Allows you to do beautiful things for your family. Allows you to do amazing things for strangers.

F6 - Circle of Genius

And that is really about the people you surround yourself. Your circle. You do become your conversations. You do become who you drink coffee with.

Nicholas Christakis at Harvard University has done some profound research, he has found that we are influenced by our friends. He has also found out that we are also influenced by the friends of our friends. Here’s the thing, he has also found that we are influenced by the friends of the friends of our friends. Why? Because we mirror neurons. There are types of brain cell where we automatically become & operate & behave like the people we surround ourselves with. It goes back to the primitive days when we were tribal. We would automatically model innovations of the chief, we would automatically behave like the dominant person in the hood.

And here it is in the modern day, we automatically behave like the people we are around.

2nd thing to think about is the concept called emotional contagion. We adopt the emotions of the people we spend most of our time with.

If you are around positive people, game changers, A players, people who are loving and enthusiastic and excellent — you will become like them.

Please make sure you release the energy vampires from your life, starting this week.

The toxic people, the people who every time you say, “here’s a new goal, I have, a new ambition, here’s a new habit I am installing, a new book I read” — and they laugh at you, or don’t understand you, or they minimise you, or they mock you.

Delete those people from your life. Or at least only talk to them once a week if you were talking to them every day.

Because I really do believe you can live the greatest year of your life yet or you can be surrounded by people who bring you down. But you don’t get to do both.

F7 – Adventure

The human brain craves novelty. We are happiest when we are nomadic because at our core a human being is nomadic. So adventure is a great form of wealth.

It injects inspiration into your life.

Make sure you have adventure at least every week. Maybe if you usually eat Italian food, you try Vietnamese food. If usually you hang around with people who do yoga, go talk to an entrepreneur.

Maybe your adventure will come from listening to new music.

Reading new books. For me, I love travelling. I love going to new places. I feel alive when I am adventuring.

F8 – Impact

You can call it usefulness, you can call it helpfulness. It’s really all about using your life to make the world a better place.

When I was researching The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, I came across a curious story of an Indian Maharaja.

And then every morning he would wake up and he did something very strange, he would celebrate his own funeral. All the while chanting, “I have lived fully.”

8 forms of Wealth: Extracted from Robin Sharma’s The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari Method of Prosperity