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Money is like love. Money is limitless.
Before we go any further, there is an important aspect of money you should understand.
Answer: The money is limitless. Money can be limitless. The more you create, the more you have spend or invest, and that leads to others having more to spend a invest.
What you need to understand is that money is like love. You can always create for love. If a mother has one child, she can give that child all her love. The instant a second child is for she has just as much love for the one. That is 100% instant increase.
One of the great things about love is that the more love there is in a home, the more love gets created. A loving community creates love faster, far faster than an uncaring one.
For someone to get more love they don’t have steal love from someone else. A new baby in the house may take a mother’s time for the older child, but never her love. Time is finite. Love is not.
Money is much like love. To have it doesn’t necessarily mean you have permanently diminished someone else’s pile. Certainly their pile might get smaller for the moment. However you have created value for them. Never traded them something they can use, either to sustain themselves or to help them create value and earn more money. That, after all, is the proper use for their money, they are storehouse of value.
Remember this. Money, like love, can be created. Money, like love, is limitless. Money, like love, is most easily created where it already exists.
The True Nature of Money-making : Serving Others
To make big bucks, one doesn’t have to take anyone else’s money and leave them deprived. One can create value for them. That leaves them better equipped to create value for someone else. There is no limit to wealth. There is no limit to the money you can make. And that’s the word, ’make’. It’s not "taking", it’s "making". What is really so great is that the better those around you do, the better you will do.
What you have read so far is the truth, but it is not the whole truth. Creating wealth by creating value is the honest way to make money as far as any righteous person is concerned. Some money makers, and some very successful ones at that, become wealthy by stealing money from others, not creating new wealth. Some of these people wind up in jail. Others who may be unethical, but not legally groups, can even wind up as public heroes.
The real creation of money comes from serving others. It is honourable. Creativity is a gift from God, and we honour or when we use His gifts to serve others.
The Test of Joy
All right now lets understand the first secret : the test of joy.
Let’s start with a simple question. What is money?
Answer: Money is a storehouse of value.
next question: What creates value?
Answer: Providing goods or services that someone else needs. Doing something.
Value is determined by what people say value is, for something they need are want.
There is an important distinction here you need to understand. The buyers determine the value, but you create the value. It’s a creative process. It’s doing something.
So making money is about doing what people value. Doing the right thing. Being in the right business.
That being said, let’s get back to the point. Value is determined by what people will pay for something they want. But you create what they value. It is making. It’s doing. It’s about doing the right thing, and the right work.
So what’s the right thing?
It’s not possible to tell you what the right thing is for you. But it is possible to tell you how to find out. That’s what the test of joy is all about.
What follows is the first and greatest secret of making money. It is more powerful than any of the others. It is the answer to the test of joy. Unless you meet this test, unless you understand and believe in the secret, you will never make big money.
The Test of Joy
You Can’t Make Money
Unless You’re Having
Fun
Now this may seem silly. There is no wonder if this sounds silly to you. It will seem silly to you until you live with it and think about it. But if you give it a chance it will become one of the most profound and powerful truths you will have learn.
Someone may think that the test of joy should have read "you can’t make money unless you work hard" or something like that.
That’s exactly what it says. Clear your mind and understand his carefully.
Making money requires an exuberance and an intensity that is impossible to generate or sustain unless you are enjoying yourself enormously. If you are not really excited about whatever it is you’re doing, you cannot expect to make big bucks, for yourself or your company. You can find good things, enrichment, even true joy in most any work if you approach it with the right attitude. If you allow yourself to be open to the possibility that your work could be wonderful and then aggressively see the positive, chances are you will find a charmed and enchanted with your work.
Yes, you can learn to love work. You can also decide to have fun. But not after you are making money. The fun has to come first. You can’t make money unless what you’re doing already excites you.
This does not mean that you need to spend every minute laughing and clapping your hands for joy. Sometimes it’s a tough grind. But that’s in the details. Above all, and despite annoyances and real problems, the work has to be fun.
Fun is when Work becomes Play
You can’t really expect to make big bucks until you can’t tell the difference between work and play. Your attitude should be " I don’t want anybody to work for me. I want them to play with me." It means that if you are having a good time, then you shall be glad to put in the hours and put out the effort and energy to be a success.
It’s the effort and the energy that is most important. Long hours do not necessarily translate into big money. It is the intensity of purpose while you are at it - not overtime at the office or at home - which really counts.
Inherently work and play are not different. They both take mental and physical energy. The difference is in your mind-set. Big bucks can be made in most any business, provided you are having fun and you pass the other two tests.
Fun is when work becomes play
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