Being able to answer this question is key to defining not only our financial security but our happiness as human beings. The many misunderstandings regarding wealth creation have always led sooner or later to the destruction of wealth throughout history. The biggest misconception is that we measure wealth, creating wealth and ultimately maintaining wealth by external indicators first and foremost.

Market analysts define the meaning of wealth in terms of indicators and trends of asset classes and traders tend to define wealth in terms of liquidity, risk and speed of wealth accumulation.

These models assume absolutes and yet:

Wealth is not absolute.

Buying property in the long run yields good returns. This is an absolute assumption derived from historic events.

The steady increase on house prices depends on demographics to a large extent.Europe and America are cyclically declining both from a demographic view point as well as from an economic point of view. Growth in terms of population and money is moving to other parts of the world.

Economic, and social challenges are part of a transition cycle which is redefining the larger paradigm of our existence. It is forcing a total re-examination of what hold true to us from an existentialist viewpoint and a spiritual perspective.

Our beliefs alone define wealth, its creation and maintaining it

Major shifts in perception are never linked to one or two asset classes. They permeate the entire structure of wealth perception and creation which ultimately has always an evaluation of our core values at its roots. Yet most of us believe that it is external factors like the weather, wars etc. that dictate what drives wealth. Not so:

Our reality flows from our belief structure and not from external factors. External manifestations of wealth like money, gold, property and other assets are simply the result of our internal belief systems. In other words: We create the results with our thinking. It is as plain simple as that.

Beliefs and core values stay in place until they stop working. In major transition times people wake up to the fact that what was viewed as valid is of little or no consequence. In spiritual terms this is also referred to as awakening.

Presently money, as the measure of wealth, is being exposed for the illusion it has been for a long time.

If you study the history of the value of money and how it has been manipulated over the centuries you begin to understand that wealth in the present cycle cannot be measured as a valid wealth allocation that will ensure your future. Presently greed and fraud regarding the manipulation of money are exposed almost every day.

External wealth is always a measure of your internal wealth.

The decoupling of ourselves from the source of our existence, creation, God, the cosmos, call it what you like has skewed our values and the meaning of wealth and overstretched the cyclical rubber band to breaking point.

This is a good thing as it is forcing an evolutionary shift of magnitude upon us which has been building for centuries.

Understand that the old paradigm of external wealth creation is first and foremost a measure of how much you value yourself, your happiness and what it takes to create this for you. The answer is different for everyone.

It makes me happy to coach on investment and trading psychology and educate as many people as possible on the importance of creating true inner peace and happiness as the pre-requisite for creating lasting wealth.

Trading, coaching and making beautiful gardens and environments are a way of life and source of happiness to me. They all contribute to creating wealth in my personal universe.

Wealth is ultimately about what you value and enjoy most. This is the big paradigm shift upon us, as more people are beginning to see the truth of this statement. This major shift in perception of how we see ourselves and value ourselves must change our definition of external wealth. It cannot be any other way.