All about wealth
Building a flywheel of success for life and career
Wealth = 🚗? 🏠? ⌚️? 👔?
For some people, wealth means driving a fancy car.
Or living in a big house.
Or collecting expensive watches.
Or wearing the latest fashion.
There’s nothing wrong with that.
But that’s not what wealth means to me.
# What wealth means to me
I look at wealth through three lenses:
- Can I experience life fully?
- Do I have options?
- Can I pay it forward?
# 1. Wealth = Experiences
For me, wealth means I can live fully.
Can I travel when I want?
Can I slow down and enjoy a place, talk to locals, eat the food, soak in the culture?
I’ve stood on the Eiffel Tower.
Treked through the Samaria Gorge in Greece.
Watched the sunset from Hampi Hills.
But I’ve also had daily breakfast with my family.
Driven to hill stations on a whim.
Sat with a friend for hours when he needed someone.
That’s what I want.
Experiences, not just things.
And if wealth helps me do more of that, I consider myself wealthy.
If I can experience life in all its beauty and variety, I’m wealthy.
# 2. Wealth = Options
Now think of the opposite.
You’re forced to do things you don’t want to.
Take on projects you hate.
Work with people you don’t respect.
Attend late meetings. Miss family time. All because you need the money.
That’s not freedom. That’s survival.
But when I have options, I win.
I work three days a week.
I homeschool my boys.
I run a podcast.
We eat breakfast and lunch together almost every day.
I’m not chasing the biggest house or the flashiest car.
But I have control over my time.
That’s wealth to me.
If I can choose what I work on, and who I work with, that’s real wealth.
# 3. Wealth = Paying it forward
When income goes up, most people raise their lifestyle.
I try to raise my giving.
Can I send gifts to friends just because I feel like it?
Can I spend time mentoring people without worrying about billing for every hour?
Can I eat with people, walk with them, build with them, without calculating ROI?
That’s the kind of wealth I want.
If I can give freely—time, money, energy—I’m wealthy.
# So what’s the point?
Wealth, for me, is freedom.
Freedom to do the work I love.
With the people I love.
In the way I want to.
That’s the only wealth that matters.
Everything else is just a burden with a shiny price tag.
Wealth is part of Thriving with WINS
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