Real Wealth

What is wealth for me?

This is where the misconceptions about money initiate for most people

·         Is an individual like myself considered a wealthy individual? Why? Because I’m an investment banker and work from an air conditioned office?

·         Is the neighbor who parks an X5 that is fully leased as he struggles monthly to pay a huge installment of over E15, 000 in front of his rented flat eMobeni, wealthy?

·         Is the friend who is always dressed in designer label clothes and accessories bought through a maxed up credit card from Luciano, Luella or LV, wealthy?

·         Is the one who is always seen dining in expensive restaurants, drinking the most expensive wines, the one who is wealthy?

·         What about the humble man who wakes up every day to attend to his 50 cattle on a farm that he fully owns, spends his days sweating it out on his vast green fields on a tractor tending to his luscious green vegetables ensuring that they are ready to feed the whole community? This same man who late in the evening will drive in his basic Toyota van a few kilometers to his humble 2 bedroom house surrounded by singular units where his wife and children have his dinner ready. Is he wealthy?

For me the latter man is the wealthiest individual of this group. Yes he may not look it at first glance when you overtake him on the road in his old van, but this man, everything about him to me spells Wealth!

 

True Value

The true value of wealth therefore is not defined by the amount of debt that you have, or the car you drive nor the clothes that you wear. True wealth begins and settles in the heart of man.

It is not just about the amount of money you have (although that is also critically important in your stride to harness a secure future), but true wealth measures the love that you have in your heart, the hunger you have for knowledge, for helping and giving out to the needy, the cry to always know more than you did the day before.

True wealth is not a destination, but a journey.

For the more you know, the better positioned you are to create the sort of riches that will ultimately bless other people. True wealth comes not just from how much money you have in your bank account, but rather from how much money you use to change the world ONE day at a time, change the world giving to the needy, sharing the knowledge you have of life and of making more money, sharing a piece of yourself in whatever way God has blessed you.

We each have a vocation, a true gift. In sharing that gift, only then can we make this world a better place. Therefore, true wealth lies in your heart!