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Article #153: Intangible Wealth Statement - Are You Encompassing All The Multifaceted Gifts Of Life?

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Empowered Millionaires always express conditions into my life. These factors
vast gratitude for the abundance of hold massive importance in the initial
blessings in their lives; whether stages of designing my ideal lifestyle.
financial blessings or the thousand and For instance, there is no point in
one tiny miracles that take place in our complaining about cold weather and
lives every day. So, for me on my journey lamenting this fact year after year, when
to millionaire status, I must first it is my choice to live in a cold
display appreciation for all creation and climate. Within reason, over a period of
develop a better understanding of the time, literally anyone can live where
power of gratitude. The true nature of they want to live and do what they want
being gracious is found in the to do. These factors will help me clarify
wholehearted gratefulness given by the what I like and what I don't like. For
human heart to everything that has ever extra clarity, I should place the words
been, or ever will be, manifested "I love…" before what I write on this
throughout the universe. Gratitude, which list:
is giving thanks for all abundance, • I love… being slim and fit and
represents acknowledging the energy that healthy
flows through all things, bringing • … having a massage
wondrous blessings to us in the form of • … looking at the stars
the fulfillment of our desires. • … reading a good book
It is said that there is calmness and • … hugging my children
serenity to a life lived in gratitude, • … running my own business
solitude of the soul, and quiet joy that • … listening to my favorite music
results from a wholehearted appreciation • … savoring the taste of my favorite
of our blessings. For me, when my heart foods
is overflowing with gratitude it is in a • … watching the sunset with a drink
state of gratefulness, which means its in hand
focus is on abundance. This means I am • … swimming at sandy shores on
developing a prosperity consciousness. To sunshiny days
be fulfilled, I must focus on my 3. Physical Factors
blessings; I must cultivate an attitude Here I shall make a list of all my bodily
of gratitude. This is done by blessings. These are my physical
appreciating all things. Whenever I attributes or assets, most of which I
appreciate something or someone, I am take for granted because it seems that
giving value with this approval, I am almost every person has them. These
increasing its worth. Therefore, from Physical Factors can be as innocuous as
this moment forth, I shall focus on the the ability to taste ice-cream on my
beauty of life, becoming an appreciator tongue or as significant as my ability to
of all creation. be a parent. This time for extra clarity,
This article looks at the Empowered I should place the words "I am thankful
Millionaire's Intangible Wealth for possessing…" before what I write on
Statement, which encompasses all the this list:
multifaceted gifts of life to be • I am thankful for possessing… vivid
appreciative for. Intangible wealth is memories of happy days
the riches that we are not automatically • … feet with which to carry me
conscious of possessing, such as our through life
choice to walk barefooted along a sandy • … a heart with which I can love all
beach or our ability to jog for a long mankind
distance without being winded. • … eyes with which to see a majestic
There are three areas that comprise the sunset
Intangible Wealth Statement: • … knees upon which I can pray to
1. Gratitude Factors God almighty
As an Empowered Millionaire, I shall • … a tongue with which I can taste
focus my attention on what I do have, not gourmet delights
on what I don't have. As such, here I • … ears with which to listen to
shall make a list of Gratitude Factors. birds in the springtime
These are the things I am most grateful • … fingers with which to play a
for in my life at this present moment; melodic piano concerto
not including those things I like (my • … feelings of happiness and sadness
Feel Good Factors) and my bodily and joy and sorrow
blessings (my Physical Assets), which • … a mind capable of thoughts that
shall be written on the next two lists. can traverse the universe
For extra clarity, I should place the My intangible wealth is so vast as to be
words "I am grateful for…" before what incalculable; giving me the personal net
I write on this first list: worth of a multi-millionaire, even a
• I am grateful for… my power of billionaire. Think of the wealthiest
unlimited choice individuals on the planet-perhaps Bill
• … my ability to drive a car Gates or Warren Buffet or The Sultan of
• … working at a career I enjoy Brunei or one of the Asian tycoons-and
• … living in the 'Information Age' think of their vast financial wealth. And
• … living in a free enterprise now that I have thought of their huge
society mountains of money, I shall dismiss this
• … the love of my wife and children entirely from my mind.
• … my aptitude in surfing the Here on my Intangible Wealth Statement,
Internet financial worth is of no consequence.
• … sunshine and rain and wind and Instead, of most importance are my hidden
snow assets, my everyday blessings. For
• … my mother and father as wonderful example, if I am younger than Bill Gates
role models or Warren Buffet and healthier than both
• … having a roof over my head and of them, so what if they are worth
food on my table billions of dollars? My 'age wealth' and
2. Feel Good Factors my 'health wealth' exceed theirs. What
My Feel Good Factors, as the name about happiness and peace of mind? If I
implies, are those things that make me am happier than The Sultan of Brunei and
feel good. They may not necessarily all have greater peace of mind than him, my
be good for me, but they give me 'happiness wealth' and my 'peace of mind
psychological sunshine and bring blissful wealth' both exceed his.






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