It's Not Just About the Money True wealth is not about buckets of cash. True wealth is not about designer clothes. It is not about a new Mercedes. It is not about living in a palatial estate. True wealth, asserts David Gikandi, is about discovering value within yourself and value within other people. It is about a kind of conscious living that incorporates gratitude, a belief in abundance, and the experience of joy. Based on the recent discoveries of theoretical physics and a close reading of inspirational classics of the last century, Gikandi creates a new model for the creation of personal wealth; a new model that shows readers how to create abundance by saving, giving, offering charity, and building happy relationships. Learn to use an internal mantra to build wealth consciousness. - Practice conscious and deliberate thoughts and intentions. - Decide, define, and set goals you can believe in. - Practice gratitude, giving, and faith, and experience abundance and joy in your life. Includes a 16-page study guide--for individuals and group use. "If you liked The Secret you will love this book. I highly recommend it." -- Morris E. Goodman , "The Miracle Man," author of The Miracle Man: An Inspiring True Story of Motivation and Courage ― Reviews David Cameron Gikandi is a native of Kenya and currently lives in Mombasa. He holds a BSc. in International Business from Jacksonville University, Florida, USA. He has an MSc. in Information Technology from Griffith University (Queensland, Australia). He is a real estate promoter and investor in Kenya. He also has an active seminar and motivational presence on the Internet. David was also the Creative Consultant on The Secret. Bob Doyle is the author of Follow Your Passion, Find Your Power. A Happy Pocket Full of Money Infinite Wealth and Abundance in the Here and Now By David Cameron Gikandi Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc. Copyright © 2011 David Cameron Gikandi All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-57174-736-5 Contents Foreword by Bob Doyle, 1. Money: An Illusion — A Shadow of Something Else, 2. Quantum Physics: Know What You and the World Are Made Of, 3. The Truth about Time: It Does Not Exist, 4. Images of the Mind: The Blueprints of Life, 5. Thinking and Speaking: The Instructions of and for Life, 6. Goals: The Road Map to and in Wealth, 7. Being: First Cause — The Beginning, 8. Acting: That Which Receives, 9. Certainty: The Most Powerful Force and the Antidote to Failure, 10. Cause and Effect: The Prime Law of the Universe, 11. Conditions: They Are Fantastic Solutions, 12. Success: You Can Never Fail, 13. Want Not: Desire — but Never, Ever Want, 14. Purpose: Why Are You Here?, 15. Giving: What It's All About, 16. Gratitude: Sealing the Deal, 17. Consciousness: You Experience What You Are Awake To, 18. The Self: Architect of the Universe, 19. One: All That Is, 20. Abundance: You Have It All, 21. Happiness: Life Is Joy — Joy Is Life, 22. Money: How to Use the Symbol, Afterword, Study Guide for Individuals and Small Groups, CHAPTER 1 Money: An Illusion — A Shadow of Something Else The first step to having wealth is to know what it is. And few people know what it really is, in and of itself. What is wealth? What causes it? What causes the cause of it? Let us start with money, the world's symbol of wealth, and then move deeper. Money is not real. Money is merely legal tender, a form of exchange. We use it to exchange value. It represents value. Money is the "body" of value. It is the physical representation of value that rises and falls in ourselves, within us. Not within "things" outside of us, but within us. For without us, what is the value of a thing, such as a car? Nothing, at least not to us. In other words, it is we, the observers, that place value in things, but this value is really value in us — we give value to the material things. The material things have no "money" value in themselves — we give that to them. So money is the external physical representation of a particular section of our internal value, within us, within you. That is why a house or a block of shares valued at $1 million today can fall to a valuation of half a million dollars tomorrow when fear is introduced into the hearts of those involved. The fear kills a portion of the internal values of the participants, and that is reflected by the paper money, the "body" of value. Here is something else: physical paper money does not even represent money in full. It cannot reasonably do that. By some estimates (and this varies from nation to nation), only as little as 4 percent of the money in the banks exists in physical form. Imagine how much cotton, linen, pulp, and metal the world would need to make all the money everyone has in his or her bank accounts. Imagine how much space it would take to store all that money as paper or coin. If you were to stack only one million US dollar bills, it would weigh one ton and be 361