June 1, 2009 11:42 AM
What Being Rich, Poor, Wealthy And Prosperous Really Means ...
Topics: business and spirituality, creativity entrepreneurship, entrepreneur innovation, J. Paul Getty, leadership and spirituality, small business advice, small business marketing success, small business solutions, small business success, small business successful, spiritual businesses, spiritual entrepreneurship, successful entrepreneurship, time management, wealth and poverty
J. Paul Getty, who, at the time was the world's richest man, wrote this about his friend Hal Seymour:Hal considered himself to be very wealthy in personal freedom. He was always able to do things he wanted to, and always had time in which to do them. He seldom missed a chance to remind me that, in these regards, I was much poorer than he.
Before his death a few years ago, he frequently wrote me letters which opened with the wryly humorous but meaningful salutation: "To the Richest Man in the world from the Wealthiest. ......"
I'll have to admit that I envied Hal his abundance of time--which is one of the forms of wealth that people tend to disregard these days. Rich as I may be from a material standpoint, I've long felt that I'm very poor, indeed, in time.
For decades, my business affairs have made extremely heavy inroads on my time, leaving me little I could use as I pleased. There are books that I have wanted to read--and books I have wanted to write. I've always yearned to travel to remote parts of the globe which I've never seen.
(J. Paul Getty, How To Be Rich, New York: Jove Books, 1965, preface, p. vii)
Why would the world's richest man (and so many others who play The "Old" Business Game in Phase 1) create "poverty" like that? Because in Phase 1, with the "convince yourself you're the opposite of who you really are" dynamics in place, it has to be that way.
Who you really are has total control over Your time and can do as please in every moment. So, in Phase 1, you must experience the opposite of that most or all of the time. In Phase 1, there are so many things outside your control that create endless items on your to-do list, including so many urgent ones, that living in your natural state simply isn't possible.
In Phase 2, however, after you knock out enough cloud cover, the game is about having more and more of a direct experience of who you really are, including total control over your time and absolute freedom to say, be, and do anything.
In Phase 2, therefore, once you expand enough and knock out enough cloud cover, you begin to experience new "stories" that reduce the number of items on your to-do list, reduce or eliminate the need for you to be involved if those items stay on the to-do list for your business, or whatever else you choose to free up your time and energy to focus only on what you really love.
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How true, how true, Robert. I am currently playing the Phase 2 game. I find I'm recognizing my wealth of time and the fact that I had it in Phase 1, but failed to recognize it, so started chasing after money -- with varying degrees of success.
Now, I'm dropping things, bit by bit, that have created both money and time poverty for me.
Great game, Phase 2. Wouldn't have the Human Game any other way.
these Comments Robert are so helpfull and inspireing for me as I see this freeing up taking place and now appreciating it much much more,