How do you really prosper and live abundantly sooner rather than later?

If you're asking the question above, or one like it, you're probably already doing OK.

Think hierarchy of needs. You're doing well enough to be able to take a step back and see the long-term forest for the trees And now you've got that nagging feeling that your “doing well” might just not be good enough. Maybe you know it isn't. Others in your station of life are looking wealthy and well off to you. Prosperous. Abundant.

And yet, as well off as you may be, you likely don't feel that way, do you?

We at Freedom FastTrack see a lot of people who feel like you: that merely "OK" isn't OK at all. Part of it is a symptom of the times, but at the root, this feeling really stems from faulty thinking. And faulty thinking inevitably produces financial consequences.

Getting to Prosperity

What is real prosperity? Popularly conceived, prosperity is a measure of how much you make and how much you have. In other words, if you're prosperous, you have a high net worth - lots of money stored in the bank, in investments, etc.  We see it differently.

To us, prosperity is financial freedom and wellbeing, which means it's far more about your ability to pursue your Soul Purpose and to live abundantly than it is about how much money you've socked into a hole somewhere. This is important because attempting to hoard money - what we call living by an accumulation mindset - usually leads people to put off pursuing their Soul Purpose and to live less abundantly in order to save more. 

Worse, "saving more," almost always means handing your money over to a so-called expert rather than investing that money in yourself and your own ability to create value.  And this leads to the opposite of prosperity, the opposite to feeling like you have more than enough to live the life you want - even if the person in question has what might be considered a high net worth.

Simply put, hoarding is a faulty strategy for producing propserity and for allowing you live to your full potential, both personally and financially.

New Agey - Or Wisdom of All Value Investors In Every Age?

We've been told that "Soul Purpose" and "living abundantly" can sound a little new-agey.  And maybe it does to some, but that hardly means they aren't true principles. Or that they don't really work, and work better than conventional approaches to financial planning.

In fact, the idea that work, when it's about using your talents and abilities to create value for others, becomes both a material AND spiritual benefit for the laboror and his customers, is about as traditional an idea as you can get.

More to the point, it's also exactly what real investment pros like Warren Buffett espouse when they give the advice to invest in what you know and can exert influence over.  When you invest in what you know, you mitigate risk and gain certainty because of your increased control. And that's when you experience returns not just in percentages, but in multiples.

This idea is only compounded and magnified when you invest in yourself and living your Soul Purpose.  Our clients who follow this strategy are able to maximize the utility of their money, increase their cash flow – and live far more abundantly than they thought possible.

Simply put, real prosperity begins when your decisions and your days stop being financially driven and start being driven by what matters most to you - your Soul Purpose.  When that happens, you feel prosperous and you live abundantly.

And, yes, your net worth will increase too - not as the chief goal of your financial planning, but as an inevitable outcome.