Article 8: Competencies are the Building Blocks of Wealth

Competencies, capacities, strengths …. all are talking about the same thing: what can you do?

Competencies are a major component of our Wealth Potential and include the combination of talents, skills, knowledge, experiences, contacts and many more resources that are an integral part of who we are. It is a part of the Unique Value Proposition that each of us can contribute in exchange for what we want, specifically, wealth in whatever dimension we desire.

If you are employed, your employer expects that you will contribute value to the company’s objectives above and beyond what they are paying you. If you buy a service - cell phones, yard maintenance, business coaching … whatever - you expect a certain value in return for the money you pay.

If you help your neighbor rebuild his deck, you have a reasonable expectation that he will return the favor. This is not necessarily WHY you help him in the first place as giving of yourself has it’s own rewards beyond an in-kind exchange. Realistically though, you would feel as though the balance sheet was a bit awry if when it came time to rebuild your deck, The Neighbor was ‘tied-up’ for three weekends in a row.

Identifying and deploying your competencies builds on the foundation of values I discussed in an earlier post. It is an integral part of The Wealth Manifesto system and something everyone can do … everyone can create value.

This is part of the path to wealth.

Divine Grace - The Consecration of Your Soul

This title sort of came from, well, divine grace? Out of the blue? My subconscious? Today’s writing goes deep…

One of things about writing a book is that you and your ideas at the time of printing are frozen forevermore. One of the nice things about something like a blog or a newsletter is that you can keep your readers up to date on what you thinking about, how your thinking is evolving, what new revelations have come your way. The idea - I have been told this is the idea anyway - is that you build a relationship with those readers, they get to know you, and if they appreciate what you have to say, they hang around to see what you are going to say next.

In the course of writing The Wealth Manifesto, a number of profound changes have come over me. I have told a few close friends that the book is the way I plan to live my life. In it are many things that I have learned and experienced and do in fact live everyday. Others are things I know to be true by observing others or through research. Still others are the way I would like to be but just don’t have my act together to quite be there yet. One of these is my own spirituality. I’m on a journey - just as every other conscious being - to discover more about my own spiritual wellbeing.

One of the ways that I suggest as an avenue to discover that about yourself is through your Wealth Potential. In my book, I proposed the idea that this is one of the most tangible methods to uncover purpose and create meaning in your life. When you are using your capacities, your passions, working in alignment with your values and what feels good, you are fulfilling your part. You are doing what you were meant to be doing. This does not mean you have to believe in anything - God, Higher Power, etc. - other than yourself. You and you alone are able to create meaning in your life. I can figure out what my gifts are, what I am passionate about, what interests and fulfills me. Attaching significance does not need to go beyond ‘I am enjoying life. I am content. Doing (this) makes my happy.’ If your beliefs are religious and you are fulfilling God’s will, God’s plan for you, deploying and putting your Wealth Potential into use works seamlessly with any religious preference. God is the Creator of all things, including you. If you are using your God-given talents and everything else that you are, it is impossible for you to be doing anything but operating according to God’s plan.

I do believe of course, that there is a connection between us and the Infinite. That our Wealth Potential - our ability to create value and enhance our own wellbeing and that of others - is a form of personal sacrament. It is our connection to the superconscious mind that is the Source of all intuition, the Source of unlimited abundance and how we do indeed play our part in this synergy of life. Our Wealth Potential is the real world manifestation of our sacred purpose, the consecration of our heart and soul to creating wealth. For ourselves and the world.

That is big ….

Article 3: Your Wealth Potential

When you work for someone, the theory is that you are doing something of value that the employer/boss/owner compensates you for based on some prior agreement (you do ___. you get paid $____). Pretty straightforward exchange of value. When you are accessible and empathic to someone’s situation, they will find you more likable, and subsequently will be more interested in being your friend. When you contribute of your time and/or your financial wealth to charitable causes or needy individuals, you find that not only does this make you feel good (helping with the wellbeing of others) but that you are recognized for it by your peers, maybe even the Universe that continues to send opportunities and other forms of abundance to you with no real connection to any specific acts of generosity that you have performed but, gosh, it just seems like are one lucky person.

Baloney.

What you are doing is exercising your Wealth Potential and the rest of your reality is responding according to the universal principles and laws that govern the creation of wealth (specifically in these examples, the principle of ‘what goes around comes around’).

OK, so what’s “Wealth Potential”? Wealth potential is pretty much just what it says: it represents the potential you (and everyone else) has to create wealth.  Since you now know (from reading the previous blogs … if you haven’t done that yet, get going and catch up) that wealth is multidimensional, you can see how it was created in all of the instances about: financial wealth (pay check), better quality relationships, increased self-esteem and coincidences. These are all forms of wellbeing that were created on your behalf because you were exercising your Wealth Potential.

Wealth Potential is the subject of the 3rd Article of The Wealth Manifesto: Your Wealth Potential represents the value you have to yourself and to others.

Your WP consists of any and all of the resources that are at the core of your needs for personal fulfillment and/or what can be a part of the unique value proposition you have to offer anyone else. It consists of your knowledge, skills, talents, passion, relationships, beliefs, attitudes and anything else that contributes to your ability to offer value.  In short, we get what we want by exercising using our wealth potential.

Forget about money for a moment.  If we are using our skills, doing things we are passionate about, things that make us feel good (gardening, reading, playing golf with friends, creating something, starting a business, etc), we are satisfying different levels of needs (and different dimensions of wealth) by both the act and the result.  Everything from the Bible to the work of Abraham Maslow has said that to become a full human being we must live the fullest of our capacities.  Interestingly enough, my approach in helping people to develop their Wealth Potential is that the things that many people find most rewarding personally, can also be applied in the marketplace as something unique and valuable that others are willing to pay for.  This is where the second half of the article comes into play.  When you are able to figure out how your internal motivations are best satisfied, this can be turned into a marketable asset that can get you whatever type of wealth you want, including money.  This is where your Unique Value Proposition comes in.  Ill talk about this in the next blog in a few days.

Cheers to your wealth!