Become rich by forgetting about money

June 28, 2009 by Victorino Q. Abrugar  
Filed under Business Virtues

money-at-computerIntriguing title, isn’t it? Yes perhaps, because, as we all know, money is what makes us rich. And if we ignore this thing, it might leave us in vain. But all of these might be just disbeliefs. The truth is… the more we crave for money, the more we become poor. Wondering what’s my point? The point is… focusing on greatness and kindness will make us rich than longing for money.

I have already read a couple of success stories from magazines, to books and to internet publications. These people who have attained success in riches are telling that they have not focused on money to become wealthy. Rather, they have concentrated on becoming great in every thing they do. They have produced great products, sold great goods, rendered great services, and have done great jobs.

Money is not a primary thing in our lives. It is an add-on thing. If you do great things, money will be added to your life. Therefore, why crave more on greatness rather than on money? Consider and reflect on the following stories:

Mr. X and Mr. Y are both internet entrepreneurs. They both have websites namely, WebsiteofMrX.com and WebsiteofMrY.com. Mr. X built his WebsiteofMrX.com primarily to earn money. This is Mr. X’s concentration – to earn as many as he can. But because of his concentrated desire to earn money, he sometimes or often sacrifices many great things just to maximize his earnings. He do things like scams, dirty search engine optimization (SEO) tactics, posting attractive but misleading information in his websites and other unethical techniques to boost his website’s traffic, popularity and income. As planned, Mr. X did earn lots of money from his website. But after a few months from indulging his high earnings, Google ban his website because of his dirty SEO ways. Consequently, his traffic coming from Google searches started to fade. But that’s not all. A group of pro-bloggers started to blog him. They blog and condemn his misleading and unethical online undertakings. At the end, Mr. X’s loss money, his website and his reputation.

Meanwhile, Mr. Y is a man of patience and generosity. He created WebsiteofMrY.com primarily to share his talents, educate people and give them opportunities to earn online. He dreams to become a millionaire, but he doesn’t really mind about that dream. He only wants to help people and make their lives better. Mr. Y always observes greatness in all things he does. He patiently designed his website to look clean and great. He invested hard work to research and innovate the contents, products and services of his website. He compliments his site’s loyal visitors and users. He gives the best thing he can offer to his clients. He follow-up and assure to give the adequate care to his valued clients. Mr. Y becomes happy when he realizes he has served well and helped effectively his visitors, users and clients. After a few months, several bloggers blog about him and his website. This resulted to his website becoming popular and highly ranked.  Visitors of his website keep returning. They have created a word-of-mouse effect that caused his website and business to grow more than he expected. His hardwork and greatness has been recognized by associations by granting him different awards of excellence and distinction. High page-rank website, tons of traffic, great reputation, enthusiastic visitors, loyal clients, and thankful friends, all of these great things made his revenue outstanding.

At the end, Mr. Y earned millions of dollars from his online business and realized a dream that he almost forgot – to become a millionaire.

The stories above maybe fictional but they truly happen in the real world. People who put money first forget the greatest things in life like integrity and excellence. For this reason, they don’t achieve greatness (the primary thing) as well as money (the add-on thing). So to attain long-term money success, attain first greatness.

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  • pspgo
    I have always heard that you should do what you love. We spend so much of our lives working it would be unbearable to spend it doing something you didn't like or that was meaningless for you.
  • Great Post! I absolutely agree with what you wrote. I own several websites, and the ones that I created strictly to help people, not caring about making money, have been the most personally rewarding and have probably been the most profitable over the long run.
  • Thanks Doug,

    Congratulations to the success of that blog. You truly deserves it and still worthy of future success.
  • guscosio
    I agree with the principle completely. Most people who eventually run into a fortune find it by doing what they love to do with a passion. Even with successful fund managers, the reason for their success was their passion to beat the market. So they spend a good portion of their life in deep thought and analysis of stocks, interest rates and markets, rather than thinking of money.
  • It always pays to be good!
  • Thanks for sharing the good info about to make the money..
  • Like what Larry Page said, focus on the user, all else will follow.

    and . . .

    You can make money without doing evil.
  • wow is a story about make a rich man, btw is that's real my friends? because now i'm learn to be a blogger and make money, and my all friends tell me about make money in internet, is true?, and then all offers is free or i must pay that program?
  • Great article, I love it. It really shows the value in helping other people. I think getting rich from helping people is the best way to go because you feel so much more good about yourself from helping so many people.
  • Hi Deneil,

    Thanks for droppin by. And thanks for the appreciation. Yes your right, achieving success beyond our pockets makes us feel great. And it though give us also sweet sleeps every night - with clean conscience.
  • You are so right. We will always sleep better than somebody that did people wrong.
  • Hi Vic,

    Sometimes trying too hard makes us get out of focus and if we do not enjoy making businesses then making money gets real hard. Focusing on the development of our biz and not on the money, drives us a lot better, since with are not preoccupied for anything, cuz we are doing what we really love.

    BTW, I havent visit your blog after this total makeover. Congratulations it looks awesome. When did you change your theme?
  • Hi dear Luis,

    Thanks for the return, I guess I have changed the theme just this month. Actually I have not yet fully customized this design (time scarcity as an employee), lol. This template transformation cost me to upgrade my webhost because my former webhost service cannot handle dynamic pages like the "feature plugin". But thanks for the PR3 (on my homepage) and increased alexa rank... it may worth the cost.

    Doing great and doing happily is actually a magnet to money. I also learned this from other successful entrepreneurs (or just great people who accidentally became great entrepreneurs).
  • Hi Vic,

    Time Scarcity its the main problem when you are an employee or if you have offline businesses. There is nothing better than just have an online biz that provides you with enough income allowing you to be online ONLY, lol.

    Luis
  • notjohnchow
    Focus on what you do and not what you make! Sounds like a great idea to me!
  • Hi John,

    Thanks for visiting. I also like your energy buddy.
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