Section I: Emotional Wealth
Create Your Headspace
“All we are is what we have thought.” – Buddha
Emotional Wealth is the first and arguably the most important Principle of Wealth. It’s your foundation on which all of your riches will be built.
The first step to true wealth is a focus on increasing your positive emotions. No matter where you are in life, you can become immensely wealthy in this category.
It doesn’t matter if you’re unemployed, at a job you hate, in a relationship that’s gone cold, or the opposite of all three. They are all self-limiting beliefs you tell yourself through your internal narrative. Remember: you are the director of your mental movie. All the happiness and dissatisfaction you feel is because of you and you alone.
All you need to do is to train yourself to mentally seek out and spread positivity. You see what you condition yourself to see in the world, so start thinking positive!
Positive thoughts lead to positive experiences, which cause uplifting emotions, which lead to positive actions, which then leads to an increasingly positive mindset, after which the process repeats itself.
True Wealth is connected and perpetual.
Before any other wealth is achieved or riches gained, you need to increase your emotional wherewithal. Not only do you need positive emotions, but you need to be in control of your emotional stability.
Look, no one’s perfect. We’re all human. We will have bad days, sometimes even weeks. But if you have emotional control, and insulate yourself from external factors, you’ll be much more able to bounce back to a high-level of happiness.
Think of your Emotional Wealth as the emotional savings account of your net worth. It’s your baseline, and is liquid enough to be drawn on at a moment’s notice. No matter who you are or where you are, you should always have a full savings account.
So, how can we maximize our Emotional Wealth and become truly rich in this category?
There are five strategies, that if followed and implemented, will create a baseline of positivity rarely found among even the most “traditionally successful.” Just think about what you can do with an advantage that massive!