Would you be surprised to learn that wealth creation boils down to time management? In order to create wealth, you have to spend time looking for ways to do so.
Think of the following:
- A passive source of income isn’t going to create itself out of the blue;
- You’re not going to wake up one day and discover that you now miraculously have an investment portfolio; and
- It’s highly unlikely that a business opportunity will just land on your lap.
If you want these things, you have to make them happen. That is, you have to devote your time to making them happen. You can begin to create more wealth, right now, simply by setting aside an hour of your day for wealth creation.
I’m going to refer to two different sources in order to back-up this claim:
- “The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy”
- “100 Ways to Create Wealth”
Discover what these two sources have to say about time and wealth creation below.
The Millionaire Next Door
In “The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy” , the authors—Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko–, compile research they did on millionaires. They use the term “millionaire” to denote households in the United States with a net worth of over one million dollars.
In the book, the authors describe the following three types of people:
- Under Accumulators of Wealth (UAW): People who have a low net worth compared to their income.
- Average Accumulators of Wealth (AAW): People who have an average net worth compared to their income.
- Prodigious Accumulators of Wealth (PAW): People who have a high net worth compared to their income.
Then they add the following: “PAWs allocate nearly twice the number of hours per month to planning their financial investments as UAWs.” That is, people who accumulate wealth spend time thinking, planning, studying, and taking action related to making and protecting their money.
100 Ways to Create Wealth
Right now you may telling yourself that you don’t have the time to devote to wealth creation. Here’s a quote from a CNBC article:
“Millionaires only have 24 hours in a day, just like the rest of us. What separates them from us is time management. While the rest of us go home and flop on the couch in front of the TV, the wealthy are reading and doing things that contribute to their success.”
In addition, all you really need to devote to wealth creation is an hour a day.
In his book, “100 Ways to Create Wealth”, Steve Chandler argues that one of the best ways to create wealth is to devote one hour a day to looking for ways to increase your income. Chandler explains that it’s amazing what you’ll find time for, once you’ve decided that something is a top priority for you. Make increasing your wealth a priority.
Chandler makes reference to Thomas J. Watson in “100 Ways to Create Wealth”. He indicates that when Watson joined the Computer-Tabulating Recording Company — the forerunner of today’s IBM — in 1914, he took with him the “Think” motto which he had coined when he worked at the National Cash Register Company. He would say the following:
“Thought has been the father of every advance since time began.”
Soon, the one-word slogan “THINK” appeared in large block-letter signs in offices and plants throughout the company.
Conclusion
Most people don’t take the time to think about their financial possibilities. Try this: set aside an hour a day and sit down with a yellow pad and a pen. Have it be your creative thinking time. Ask yourself how you can generate more income and increase your wealth. Carve an hour out of your day and think!
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Marelisa Fabrega is a lawyer and entrepreneur. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., as well as a Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center. You can learn more about her 
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Good inspiration! I love being reminded that time is the great equalizer. We aren’t all born with the same advantages in life, but we have the same amount of time to make it worth living!
When I was a child, my favorite superhero was Dr. Strange, a sorcerer who learned his craft from a nameless 500 year old Tibetan adept known only as the Ancient One. One of his treasures was the Lesser Book of the Vishanti, a veritable “storehouse of occult wisdom, said to contain every counter-spell known to the mystic arts.” Here are the contents of my book of secrets.
If you spend less than you make over time, you will have money left over to bless yourself, your children, your world.
Before you can walk this path there are three secrets you need to believe in your heart.
1) Debt is a curse, not a blessing
2) It is better to own something that pays you than something you must pay to own (think cell phones Vs AT&T stock)
3) If any of you lacks wisdom (and that includes the ability to manage money), he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault.
I wish I could convince each and every one of you just how well these little basic truths will work in your life. With patient and persistent effort over extended periods of time not only will you escape the slavery of debt, but you will accumulate more than you can believe possible.
I have the Millionaire Next Door book and it’s a fascinating read. It highlights that many of the people who are millionaires you’d never think were so and how one of the other things they do is control their spending so no one really knows what their wealth is.
I think I’ve spent way more than an hour trying to figure out the wealth creation thing. I feel there’s something more, something most of us are missing the connection to, that also helps us on that road to wealth. I’m hoping one day I’ll figure that out.