May you make one hell of a profit and still get to heaven!

wealth? If you died tomorrow, what’s incomplete in your life? What’s left undone?”
He looked over at his wife and said, “Well, uh . . .” He felt guilty because he knew
his dreams but he wasn’t sure she’d approve. He was denying himself his purpose
for fear of what someone else thought, so I pushed him a little and he finally blurted
out, “What I’d really love to do is fulfill my dream of donating $1 million to my church.
I’ve only given about $20,000 so far.”
“Great, write it down. What else?”
“My wife and I would love to travel around the world first class.”
“Great. What else would you love to do?”
“I’d love to buy each of my children a car when they graduate.”
We kept going, and I had him list 40 things he’d love to do. I helped him structure
and organize them, and out of that came a whole list of other dreams and details that
he’d buried. They’d been waiting inside his heart and mind the whole time, and he
really had a huge drive to do them, but he hadn’t brought them to the surface and
focused on them. Now he had urgency and a reason to grow. He had something
beyond himself to live for, and his business went to levels he couldn’t even imagine
before. If he hadn’t grown his vision, not only would his business have stayed
stagnant, he might have died putting his kids through school, because he had
nothing left to accomplish.
HIT mEn aGaIn
As you follow the principles in this book and your money increases, one day you’ll no
longer “have to” work, but you’ll still love to serve. At that point, you’ll still require a
cause to keep growing and remain inspired by life.
The financiers who opened their hearts to the man they were considering having
killed came to me about six months later with another issue. They said, “That work
we did with you made a huge impact on our lives and made us a lot of money, but
now we want to go to another level in our thinking. Can you do anything that will lift
our operation and give us access to even wealthier people and more finances?”
I said, “You won’t go to a greater level without a greater cause, so what’s your cause?”
“We want to get involved in international real estate.”
“And that’s inspiring to you?”
“Uh, no, not really.”
“You can’t get beyond yourself until you have a cause that’s greater than you,” I
said. “What vision brings tears of inspiration to your eyes?” I helped them look back
over their lives at what had deeply moved them until one of them contacted a very
deep cause. As a child, he’d lived in London in great poverty, but his street was the
dividing line between the rich and the poor in that area. Even though he was
impoverished, he’d gone to school with the wealthy children, and he’d felt utterly
THE POWER
OF PURPOSE