How wealthy are you, really? 

Take the test . . . .

In many cultures we tend to measure wealth financially, by pounds, dollars or euros in the bank, or lack of them! 

Personal wealth is however much more than money or material possession, as Tony Robbins describes. 

Robbins describes the 7 measures of personal wealth and here’s my interpretation of them. 

1. Emotional: the ability, willingness, opportunity, vocabulary, and freedom to feel, interpret, understand and express your emotions. How wealthy are you emotionally?

2. Physical: to be accepting of, understanding, marking best use of, and maintaining your physical health through diet, exercise and body image acceptance. How wealthy are you physically?

3. Relationships. The quality, depth, mutuality, equality and openness with: Parents, kids, colleagues, partner, spouse, work, friends and acquaintances. How wealthy are you when it comes to relationships?

4. Time: being mindful of time at the minutes and second level and aware of time from a length of life perspective. Do you allocate the appropriate amount of time to the important as much as the urgent. To work, rest and play. Do you fully make use of your time on this planet?

5. Work/Career: Are you engaged, stimulated, sufficiently skilled and passionate and fulfilled about what you do, why you do to and who you do it for? Do you work to live, or live to work and have the balance right?

6. Financial: are you satisfied that you have the financial wisdom and resources to fulfil your needs for today, tomorrow and in future. Are you embracing and accepting of your true financial wherewithal?

7. Contribution: are you aware of your own sense of a wider purpose and sensitive to how you might help provide support to others in society now or in future.

Attached is a simple tool to help you to determine your true personal wealth.

Rate each of the personal wealth’s on a scale of 1 to 7, add up the total to gains a perspective on your true wealth.  

Don’t be surprised if you learn that you are wealthier than you think, or be surprised to see how your bank balance hides deeper imbalances.

Then take a moment to consider how you need to adapt in order to recalibrate any of your personal ratings to inspire your wealth or the balance of it. 

Diarise this annually to see how things have changed and to refocus. 

Paul Roebuck
Behavioural Psychotherapist
PGCEE, FETC (A.Dip).
paulsroebuck@gmail.com
+44 7838 371155