Are people in Singapore and the region too obsessed about becoming rich?
About a month ago, I had a chance to attend the annual 3-day National Achievers Congress held in the Singapore Expo. With the many speakers touching on various “how to get rich” topics, ranging from property investment, professional speaking, stocks trading, internet marketing, investment, writing a book etc, most Singaporeans are spoilt with choice and actually get more confused about the path they should choose when it comes to creating their ideal “money-making machine”.
Why Less Means More, and More May Actually Mean Less!
Perhaps I’d love to begin this topic by sharing this powerful principle that I first learned in school close to 20 years ago- Pareto Principle. Also known as the 80-20 rule, the Pareto Principle explains why we should always FOCUS most of our energy and efforts on the 20% of activities and processes which reward us with 80% of the results.For instance, if you are a salesperson, you may realize that 80% of your success lies in doing just “a few things” (20% of what you do) right.[pullquote style=”left” quote=”dark”]Wealth is not how much money you have. Wealth is what you are left with if you lost all your money![/pullquote] Unfortunately, the education system in Singapore and many parts of the world has anchored many people to acquire “General Knowledge” rather than “Specialized Knowledge”. As a result, the majority of the population tends to spend much of their time studying and learning things which they hardly have the opportunity to use in the REAL WORLD.
Think about that: how much of what you previously learned in school is currently relevant for use in your career or the workplace? lies in first knowing what your VALUES truly are and who you REALLY want to be. It is essential for us to be a Master and not a Jack of all trades, running around in circles hoping to find that “lucky breakthrough” and gain financial freedom. FREEDOM comes from having the FAITH to follow your heart and FOCUS on mastering your own game of FLOW.
Thus while there is an exponential growth of wealth creating opportunities around the globe, there’s a greater danger of us losing track of what we really want to achieve at the end of the day. From what I have noticed, many people today are too caught up with taking “short-cuts” in life by picking up various new skills and tools such that they have forgotten to apply the greatest recipe for success in life- MASTERY.
What Exactly Is Wealth?
Perhaps the key to creating massive wealth is to first identify what wealth is about. What does wealth mean to you? If you were to ask most people around you, I believe a common definition of wealth is the possession of lots of money.
Yet, if there’s one big secret that most wealthy people know, it is that wealth is a state of consciousness. This means that you can never create the “wealth” that you desire in your external world unless you first create it in your inner world. After all, here’s how Roger Hamilton, the founder of the Wealth Dynamics defines wealth: Wealth is not how much money you have. Wealth is what you are left with if you lost all your money!
4 Simple Steps to Create Wealth
Know where you are presently in the area of your finances (current state).
In NLP, one of the most important things we will always do is to help our clients to develop a higher level of self-awareness. Unless we know where we are now, we can never get to where we want to be. Thus a question to ask may be: Are you currently struggling with your finances and keeping yourself out of debt, or are you on the way to creating financial freedom?
Finding what your values are.
Having worked with thousands of NLP Practitioners in Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and the region, I realize this is something that most people tend to overlook. Few people clearly know what their values are. However, interview some of the wealthiest and most successful people, and you will realize something they share in common: They all LOVE and VALUE what they do.
Find your FLOW in wealth creation.
While NLP is highly effective in helping many of our past graduates to discover their values in life, we also tap into another powerful tool known as the Wealth Dynamics in our unique NLP coaching process to help them discover their Flow in wealth creation. Essentially, when you have successfully found your flow in wealth creation, this means you are more likely to see yourself attracting wealth into your life rather than chasing after it. (We will be discussing more about the concept of Flow in the next article)
Modeling the “right” person.
Modeling is one of the most powerful concepts you can ever learn in NLP since it has helped many NLP Practitioners and successful people in the past to achieve their desired results much more rapidly. However, while most conventional NLP training and coaching process emphasizes on the use of modeling to acquire any skills and talent quickly, we at Acme Achievers are more concerned about teaching our NLP Practitioners how to model with wisdom.
While it is possible to use NLP to model anyone and master a skill swiftly, isn’t it wiser for us to teach a fish how to swim better instead of learning how to fly? Since everybody is born into this world with unique talent, he should learn how to best harness those gifts, instead of “trying too hard” to work things out.