Two Crucial Steps to Attract and Maintain Abundance

Abundance happens when your net worth is positive. In order to create a positive net worth, your assets (tangible possessions) must be greater than your liabilities (obligations to financial institutions, creditors, or individuals). However, in real life, understanding the concept of assets and liabilities is not that simple.

Assets, by Webster's definition, are anything of material value or usefulness. While one's physically fit appearance is not an asset by this definition, a car, a house and a yacht is. But wait! Mr. Kiyosaki defines assets differently, and from the perspective of abundance, his is probably more significant.

An asset, for the author of best-selling book about the Two Dads, Robert Kioyasaki, is something that will generate income. Therefore, a 12-bedroom house for a family of four qualifies to be a liability rather than an asset. Just the same, owning a Boxster and a Z-4 at the same time is practically a liability.

They maybe viewed as "excess assets" because their existence in your balance sheet does not bring income (or address a basic human need) to you.

Furthermore, having "excess assets" will compel you to spend in maintaining them. If they had no income-generating purpose to begin with, then the maintenance spent on them also add to your liabilities.

Therefore, to maintain abundance, you have to ensure that all your "assets" are generating income or supports your existence as a human being. This principle is not really against letting you enjoy the money that you worked for.

It is simply limiting the excesses (liabilities) that will not maintain your abundance and may even contribute to your scarcity.

Day in and day out, you know that your job and monthly income will not maintain your abundance. It can for the first month after your raise; and then new loans or credit card expenses come in and renders your pay short, just like the last time.

So you start to think, how can I maintain my abundance?

You can by getting out of the rat race.

Being tied up from 8 am to 5 pm (or even 8 am the next day!) will not allow you thinking time to grow the wealth that you currently have.

So, use your time wisely, while you are in the race. Learn business and people management from the theoretical and actual training of your job.

Create a network of contacts that will be useful for your future endeavors.

Invest in high-risk funds while you have a job and salary to fall back on, and reap the rewards as soon as you get out of the rat race.

See the investments that you created grow while you sit back, relax, and never need to wake up to the sound of the alarm clock at 7 am, ever again.

Stay employed to create abundance, get out of the rat race to maintain it.

In summary, maintain your abundance by doing two things: grow your assets and get out of the rat race.