Life is full of many contradictions. It seems like one great paradox. You can’t quite understand why things happen they way they do. Often, you seem to have done all the right things, but your results show otherwise. Can you relate to that?

However, it is said that if you live long enough and search (or observe) hard enough, you will find a miraculous order to all the chaos and confusion we experience.

Perhaps you don’t realise that you can tap into your unlimited potential and be justly enriched when you combine a greater understanding of yourself with specific efforts towards excellence.

My Greatest Discovery:

My greatest revelation was that there are just two fundamental truths that determine one’s ‘Prosperity’ in life and that is, Prosperity is the direct result of ‘Growing’ and ‘Contributing’. So, let’s take a closer look at these two fundamental truths that govern the extent of our prosperity.

1. Growing: Simply, this means that your life gets better as you get better. In other words, your life will improve only to the extent that you improve as a person, especially as you evolve and grow in your level of consciousness. You have what you have today because of who you are. You can have more because you can become more - more knowledgeable, more informed, more skilled, more service-oriented, more humble, more compassionate, more loving, etc. Effectively, you need to become a different person.
   
2. Contributing: True prosperity (i.e. wealth, success and happiness) comes from creating value for others. In other words, your prosperity it is directly related to your contribution to society as a whole. In simple monetary terms, this means that what you earn today is directly in proportion to the value of your services to others. However, this does not mean that you are not a capable or competent person who should be paid more for what you do for a living. Perhaps the reason why you are not being paid what you believe you are worth is that you are constrained by your current environment. However, what is does mean is that if you want more money, you would have to find ways for creating more value, for more people, in more places.

Having benefited greatly from understanding these two truths about life and success, I developed a complete package of components to help people develop into the best they can be so that they can enjoy a more enriched and fulfilling life. The following diagram (Figure 1) illustrates these two truths and how they affect one’s prosperity.

Figure 1

This is a simple line graph showing ‘Growth and Contribution’ on the X-axis and ‘Prosperity’ on the Y-axis. The curved line is the learning curve, which I choose to call ‘Success Continuum’ because there is literally no end to how much one can learn. It is widely accepted that ‘the more you learn, the more you earn’, hence the monetary amounts shown on the Y-axis e.g. 100K reflects $100,000. However, it is important to understand that Prosperity is not limited to money alone. There are many factors that contribute to one’s ultimate Prosperity. I use money in the above diagram because it is what most people associate with as being prosperous.

Let’s examine the diagram more closely. Let's assume that you are currently maximised at a certain level of Prosperity, say 100K. You cannot improve your life without improving yourself i.e. you need to move up the 'success continuum'. In simple monetary terms, the above diagram shows that your income will grow only to the extent that you evolve as a person in terms of developing new skills and abilities, new attitudes, new beliefs and new behaviours. In a nutshell Prosperity is the direct result of one’s personal Growth plus one's Contribution to society.

In the above example, there is a gap between where you are (let’s say 100K) and where you want to be (i.e. 300K). You need to examine this gap very consciously and then decide what you need to do to bridge the gap. If you do proper due diligence, you will find that the most effective way to bridge that gap is to develop further as a person and provide valuable service to others. This means that you would probably need to learn and practice something new and different; you would need to develop new skills and behaviours; you would need to apply new ideas and strategies.

As a Business Analyst / Project Manager I earned an above average income, but my lifestyle did not leave me with much extra cash to save for a comfortably retirement. I have learnt that even a good pay cheque is generally not the way to financial freedom, and my goal was to be financially free by age 65, if not sooner. However, for me to earn significantly more, like doubling or trebling my income, I needed to make some drastic changes in my life. Also, I became aware that I was working in a shrinking industry with many functions being ‘eaten-up’ by technology, or being ‘outsourced’, or sent offshore. All indications were that I would eventually be made redundant. I realised that if I wanted a different future, I would have to do something different. I had a choice: change direction, or face financial hardship because there was going to be no improvement without change. Change meant giving up my status and the position which took more than 20 years of hard work and study to achieve, and then to embrace something new and unfamiliar with no guarantee of success.

I did some research and identified where the major economic growth was taking place. Over a three year period I made the transition to the fledgling new industry of “Intellect Marketing” and, as a result, significantly enhanced my income. Not only did I enhance my income, but that income is residual – it continues to flow even when I am not working!. I made a conscious decision to change and today I own my life - I have complete autonomy.

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" I have come to realise that money alone does not make one happy. 
One is only truly happy when serving others.

Through first-hand experience, I have, by default, become a skilled success-coach and it gives me the greatest pleasure to teach others what I know."

Virend Singh