For many generations, we have been taught by our parents that the only way to succeed in life financially is to become savers. The financial timeline of life to wealth building has been to go to school to get good grades, get a job, buy a home, save money, be debt free and if possible with what is left invest in the share market or buy real estate. It is not our parent’s fault that we have not yet succeeded as they were taught by their parents.

Wealth building starts with financial planning and financial planning begins with goal setting. Without a solid focus and a list of goals, you will never be able to accomplish what you’d like. The first step to wealth building is to come up with a list of goals and set priorities for each goal. You’ll still be able to reach your most important goals if something unexpected happens. Goals should be very specific and quantified in numbers if possible..

Most people are of the opinion that wealth = money and without both there lives will be of a less importance. But wealth is actually more than money. There are three important components to wealth with each component been the fundamentals that are required to achieve success. Wealth, Health and Wisdom are the three categories required to start the road to building wealth.

A clear knowledge of true assets and true liabilities are needed. Programs like Self-Made Wealth help you a lot in all these aspects. There are lots of obstacles to building wealth and we may not be aware of them specifically. Knowledge to deal with these obstacles is needed so that you can get through these obstacles and start building your wealth. Eben Pagan’s Self-Made Wealth starts from what money is and goes on to reveal the dirty secrets of money.

Health is the main ingredient for living and a healthy mind can allow us to invest wisely. I am not saying that if you go on a diet to loose weight you will become wealthy but you need to be healthy to allow the mind to make rational decisions on investing but more importantly it is better to be healthy to live longer and spend the wealth that you have accumulated. Before you can begin to build wealth you must understand the purpose or reasons as why you want to be wealthy. For some people building wealth can be a short term to buy a better home or car, for others it will be long term to set them up for retirement.

Once you have a goal, created a plan, and disciplined to execute the plan, the strategies and the techniques you learned from wealth building seminars or real estate investment seminars would take the course of your wealth building further. You can learn what to avoid and what to try out. You’ll exchange the ideas with the people who are on the same journey, and share the frustration and your joy with those who’ve achieved their goals.

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