True wealth is about a lot more than just growing your net worth. Yes, it's true that financial independence is all about money, but living a wealthy life isn't. This distinction is critical. We've all seen rich people who are miserable, and poor people who are happy. Research even shows the relationship between money and happiness is small.

Below are the key ten principles that will help you achieve true wealth — both financially and personally.

Get Deeply Motivated

Money is a shallow motivator — too shallow to drive you deep enough to achieve success.

The problem is financial wealth is an external goal with benefits limited to the world outside of you. Money buys things, but money doesn't buy happiness. It can build you a prettier prison, but it can't get you out of prison.

The inherent limits of external goals (fancy houses, cars, and big bank accounts) similarly limits how motivated you will be when pursuing them.

To succeed in building wealth, you want to be driven by internal goals deeper than just the external trappings of wealth.

You want a cause that will bring transformation to your life and drive you deep enough to overcome all the obstacles that stand between you and financial freedom.

Internally-driven goals that might focus your attention long enough to succeed include the following:

==> Freedom: Break loose from the shackles of daily labor so that you have more time to grow, create, and live to your fullest potential.
==> Charity: The more you have the more you can give. Charitable foundations created by wealthy families often provide the financial muscle to empower great social and environmental causes.
==> Growth: When you have financial freedom, you also have more time to pursue personal freedom. The wealth in your external world becomes a mirror to the wealth in your internal world. The principles that lead to financial wealth can also lead to true wealth by affecting other areas of your life.
==> Leadership: Grow your own wealth ethically and joyfully so that you can lead by example for friends and family to rise above the bonds of financial mediocrity and follow in your footsteps.

The reason deeper causes are essential is because building wealth isn't easy.

You will encounter many problems that must be overcome along your journey to financial freedom. You will pay a price to reach your goal.

To stay the course long enough to succeed, you must be motivated by a commitment that runs deeper than just the lifestyle that money can buy. This step-by-step course to financial freedom can help you find your “why” to propel you toward your goal.


Give More Value Than You Take


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Adding value to the world by giving more than you receive makes everyone better off. That's how you build true wealth. You improve others lives by improving your own.

Sure, history is replete with people who have amassed financial empires by exploiting others or the environment, but taking value can never lead to happiness or fulfillment.

Exploitation may bring riches, but giving value brings happiness and fulfillment as well as riches — and that's true wealth.

By giving more value than you receive, success becomes a measure of how much you've given. The wealthier you become, the more you are giving to others.

It's a rewarding way to live.


Live With 100% Integrity

Never do or say anything that wouldn't make your Mother and Father proud.

Don't cause harm, encroach on others property, violate moral law, or damage the environment. Don't lie, insult, or cheat in pursuit of financial wealth.

Heck, don't even stretch the truth. It just isn't worth it.

The rule is simple: if it doesn't feel right then it probably isn't. If you don't feel comfortable telling your spouse, children, and parents what you are doing, then you probably shouldn't do it.

Never choose expediency over integrity because no amount of financial wealth can replace a good night's sleep, a clear conscience, and a peaceful mind.

Be Courageous

Humans are social animals which makes us cautious to venture independently. Yet, wealth doesn't come from following the crowd. It results from doing what others won't so you can have what others never will.

It takes courage to be a self-starter and be self-responsible. It takes courage to walk new paths and develop new skills. It takes courage to stand out from the crowd. It takes courage to put out the extra effort when others don't.

In short, it takes courage to build wealth.

It may be true that the nail that stands up is the nail that gets hammered down, but it's equally true that the nail that never got driven is the nail that didn't fulfill its purpose.

Live with courage so you can live fully and experience true wealth.


Be Disciplined

Wealth is the cumulative result of many little things added together and compounded over a lifetime. That means your daily habits will make or break your success.

Saving, investing, reinvesting, and growing your financial and business intelligence are all essential wealth building habits that require persistent and consistent effort.

In other words, wealth building requires discipline.

Without discipline, you risk falling prey to the number one wealth killer: procrastination. You must begin the right habits today without delay. It takes discipline to overcome procrastination by starting today and persisting tomorrow.

Another obstacle to disciplined, daily habits is “magical thinking.” This is the false belief that financial security will magically appear out of thin air without a specific plan or action causing it.


Treat Your Wealth Like A Business (Because It Is)

You wouldn't build a business without a business plan. Why should building wealth be any different?

Design your wealth plan based on proven business principles that lead to success. These principles include competitive advantage, leverage, accurate record keeping, and accountability– just to name a few.

Run your money like a business, because that's exactly what it is: a personal financial management business.

Additionally, your personalized wealth building plan should take into account your unique skills, interests, and resources while incorporating the Ten Commandments to Wealth, successful investment principles, and much more.