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The Real Meaning of Wealth

Most people want to be wealthy. Yet although they chase money, wealth can be very elusive. If you've been chasing money, and find that you just keep running, then have you omitted to change your context? Are you...

Hauling Buckets - or Building a Pipeline?

Robert Kiyosaki, of 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' fame, tells a great story, here rewritten from memory:

Once upon a time there was a little village in the middle of nowhere. It was a great village and, for many of the villagers, life was wonderful. But there was one problem, its location was definitely a mistake. The river was a fair distance away, and they had to walk to the river and back every day for water.

After much debate, the village elders decided to change their lives for the better, they would do something about the problem. They put out a tender for the supply of water on an ongoing basis.

To their surprise they received two bids to supply water, not just one. More debate ensued and wisdom finally prevailed. The elders realized the whole village would benefit since competition would make them more effective, so they accepted both bids.

The First Supplier's Solution

The first winning bidder, Billy Buckets, understood exactly what was needed. He bought two buckets, a piece of wood and some string. He tied the buckets to the piece of wood, put it on his shoulders, and started walking back and forth to the river. He poured the water into the concrete holding tank that the elders had built.

The second winning bidder, Peter Pipeline, just disappeared.

Initially, Billy had a monopoly on the supply of water. The village was a lot better off, but occasionally, on holidays and weekends, they would run out of water. It still wasn't perfect.

The Return of the Second Bidder

Nine months later, Peter Pipeline came back with a construction crew. He had written a business plan, found four investors and hired a crew to build a pipeline from the river to the village. A year on, the pipeline was ready, water was flowing and Billy had competition.

At the grand opening ceremony for the pipeline, Peter made a speech.

1. This water is clean, we filter every drop, he smiled. He knew that one of the problems with Billy Buckets' water was that sometimes leaves and mud fell into the buckets during the journey.
   
   
2. This water is available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, he noted. He'd been told that Billy's water sometimes ran out on holidays and over the weekend.
   
   
3. And best of all, this water only costs twenty-five cents, he announced. He realized that Billy had taken advantage of his monopoly position, and charged accordingly. Peter's price was just one quarter the cost of Billy's water.
   

And the villagers all clapped and cheered.

Billy Bucket's Response

Since the competition was so effective, Billy understood he had to do something immediately.

1. Improving productivity was crucial, so he rushed out to get two more buckets
   
   
2. Cleaner water was a big concern, so he bought lids for all four buckets, and
   
   
3. More time would solve the occasional supply failure. He hired his teenage sons to work on holidays and weekends so the village would never run out of water
   

Billy started running, not walking, back and forth to the river. Along with the extra water carried with the extra buckets, he was able to slash his price to match the twenty-five cents charged by Peter Pipeline. Life wasn't nearly so comfortable, but he was making a living.

A few years later, his experience was even more dismal. He was rushing back and forth to the river, even on weekends. His sons had not come back after studying at university, despite his exhortations to hurry back. They didn't seem that interested in having a job guaranteed for life!

The Benefits for Peter Pipeline

Peter Pipeline’s bank account was enjoying the regular cash flow that his change in perspective had brought. He experienced the success that a good idea, together with lots of hard work and energy, can bring.

He fine-tuned his original business plan, went to other villages and made even more effective proposals for pipelines. Many accepted, and each time it become easier finding investors for the project. Eventually his cash flow meant that he no longer needed outside investors.

Although he only made a fraction of a cent on each bucket of water, his wisdom made him very wealthy. The pipelines not only delivered a constant stream of clean water to his customers, they also delivered a constant stream of money to his bank account.

The Moral of this Story

There's a moral to this story. Which are you doing?

• Are you hauling buckets, or
  
  
• Are you building a pipeline?
  

Then you need to answer these vital questions about your family's future:

• If you stop putting in time, would your income along with your expenses continue unchanged? When would the cash flow also stop?
  

• If you found yourself unable to work tomorrow, or just stopped working, what would you have to let go of? Where would you be living in a few years time? How significantly would the loss of income affect your standard of living?
  

If your answers don't inspire you, you urgently need some clarity. So explore these even more important questions:

• What would you prefer to be doing in the future?
  
  
• Why are you continuing to do what you’re doing now?
  

• How would you rather be earning your income?
  

At Life Strategies, you will learn how to achieve what you really want to achieve, and how natural law can bring you what you don’t want. You should also realize that having what you do want also includes having more time for it.

There are always consequences. If you spend most of your life working, when will you have the time to enjoy your family, your friends, your money, and yourself? Money without having more time to enjoy it is a mistake, one you probably do not want to make!

Yet if this wasn’t already abundantly clear to you, what else but self-sabotage could have stopped you from reaching this conclusion?

But I Know All This, some say

Are you one of the many who believe they know all this, despite having little if any time for yourself? But although you may understand all this, how can you really know it?. You can't fool the universe - the proof of the pudding is in the eating. The real answer is in your experience!

Much of the human race lives in denial. And this doesn't mean on the river in Egypt! We say we want:

• to care for the Earth, yet we chop down her rain-forests and plunder her resources as unlimited
  
  
• a society free of rage and violence, then we entertain ourselves - and our children - with TV programs of graphic rage and violence
  

• our young ones to be responsible, yet our school "Zero-Tolerance" laws take that responsibility away by mandating totally disproportionate responses
  

• the truth, yet we follow Adolf Hitler's strategy of lying whenever we think it expedient. After all - doesn't The End Justify The Means?
  

Do any of these strategies work to give us the outcomes that we desire? Isn't there sufficient evidence of their inevitable consequences right in front of our eyes?

If you don't have the results you really want - which means you live a stress-free life while choosing how to spend your time as well as your money - then you cannot really know "All This." You’ll find your experience will change when you change your perspective.

If you're finding that any of this speaks to your heart, then you know that truth has its own beauty. The elegance of truth gladdens the heart. If you continue exploring these truths, they will bring amazing joy into your life.

The distinction between just knowing about something, and the wisdom found in real knowledge, makes a world of difference. Has your self-sabotage been keeping this perspective from you?

Stop your Self-Sabotage

Achieving what you really want means learning how to overcome your self-sabotage mechanism. Everyone has one, and it operates all the time.

The self-sabotage mechanism generally operates through context, not through content. What's the difference?

• your context is where you come from when you do what you do
  
  
• your content is what you do, how you handle your affairs
  

So manage your context and stop your self-sabotage. Find out how to do what works, and not do what doesn't work. Learn how you can achieve more while saving both time and energy with this Life Strategies ground-breaking, twenty-first century, e-book program and action plan.

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An investment has a return, and your return in stopping your self-sabotage is enormous. There's no bigger return than in improving your capabilities, in becoming more effective. Life Strategies clients experience becoming at least 20% more effective, and one client recently reported an increase of ninety percent after just one year.

In the long run, your increase in effectiveness will increase your earnings by at least the same amount. And the increase is permanent. As Benjamin Franklin famously observed,


How much will a twenty percent increase in earnings amount to in dollars over the rest of your lifetime?

Work this out right now. Don't allow yourself to procrastinate - a very common strategy to self-sabotage. Take all the time you need to answer this crucial question this very moment! It will change your life!

The result of your calculations will prove to you beyond doubt that your increase in earnings will pay for your investment in yourself many, many times over.

Yet, just like heat from a fire, results always take a little time and effort. You first have to buy the logs, then you need to put some kindling in the stove before putting in the wood. Only then can you light and look after the fire, which after a delay will give you heat.

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