Wealth is the accumulated display of your values.  It is what you have at the end of the day that you can choose to share, save or squander.  Wealth can be time, health or money.  Offering platitudes, which attempt to down play the central role money plays in being wealthy, are often naive and at worse insincere.  Zig Ziglar has a wealth of sayings, but his take on money is priceless.  Old Zig says, “Money may not be the most important thing in life, but it ranks right up there with oxygen.”  Speakers become wealthy by enriching their listeners lives.  When you learn how to appreciate what you have, while you strive for something more, you will see what you become is more valuable than what you get.   Exemplifying and engaging your audience with this philosophy is a wise way to increase their wealth.

If you practice your presentation skills you will become better.  Perhaps your dreams of wealth include being a professional speaker or at least winning the lottery.   While it is fun to fantasize about a financial windfall, more often than not, all you end up with is a worthless scrap of paper.  The dream of speaking professionally is sold in a wealth of ways.   Seminars, DVD’s and presentations coaches promise to lead you to your very own promised land.  The reason so many dreamers find themselves in a desert of disillusion, choking on the dust of their ill spent effort is simply this:  Speaking well is not paid well.  Experts that speak are far more valuable than someone with speaking expertise.

To cash in on your expertise first requires having valuable experiences.   Whether you seize or squander opportunities, life accumulates.  Finding wealth is a kind of alchemy where you learn to turn what happens into something worth wanting.  Public presentations quickly force you to turn what you have done into something your listeners want to do.   Effective organization transforms experience into expertise.  Wealth starts to flow when you discover that income is simply the display of higher levels of organization.

Consider how your life is organized.  Accept that the pile of clothes strewn across the floor and the stack of mail careening across your desk is in fact organized.   Yep.  It is.   What you do, or neglect to do, is a physical reflection of what you value, or don’t.  The wealth, or lack thereof, you find within yourself comes from looking through your values.  When you are through looking for value outside yourself, take an account of your values within yourself.  On balance, you will find that you are basically as wealthy as you will allow yourself to be.   So what can you say for yourself or to your audience that will enhance their wealth?  If what you got isn’t of importance, it is important that you start investing in what is.

‘Is’ is a little word we take for granted just like oxygen.  Air is essential for life. How you organize your breath gives birth to what you say.  ‘Is’ is essential for living.  How you see what is, reveals your wealth.  Pay attention to what you squander, save or share because what you value is your accumulated wealth.