Holistic Development

If you want to strongly pursue your wealth, then I also strongly want you to be aware of your personal holistic (wholesome) development. Believe me, it is something that most people are not aware of when they are in pursuit of wealth, but that is their problem because they did not buy my book!

Anyway, your holistic development consists of:

IQ (Intelligence Quotient)

Today, the popular dogma that passes around, without much questioning, is that in order to make more money and be successful in life, is to go to school and collect as many papers as possible to add to your collection of qualifications.

The reason? The better your qualification, the more pay you get in your job! But regardless of whether you have a degree or not, remember the two models of how people make money I have demonstrated to you earlier?

Also, according to informal survey I have taken from some bosses and employers, the top 3 qualities they often look in a potential staff are: (Not arranged in a chronological manner)

1)     Attitude

2)     Years of Experience

3)     Age

Notice that qualifications and school academics did not make it to the list. While getting good schooling is equally important today, so are your other areas of holistic development, which I will describe to you later.

EQ (Emotional Quotient)

While most people today are stressing more on IQ in their pursuit of wealth or making more money, very few take equal importance in their EQ

Have you ever wondered how some of the most logical people you know can do such things even you perceive it to be silly, such as a fresh graduate with a PhD having a miserable love life and complaining about petty issues?

And how about awful stories where someone made a 5 to 6 figure income and later gave in to unnecessary spending? So much for putting logic in front of emotions!

Well, I often wonder that, too, because the papers you and I sit for in the exams hall only recognizes one kind of intelligence – IQ Where managing or exploding your funds to another level is concerned, developing a better control over your emotions is just as important.

FIQ (Financial Intelligence Quotient)

Want to manage your funds? Want to become wealthy? Then you need Financial IQ – and that is what this book is all about!

While more on Financial IQ will be revealed in the coming pages, it takes more than just information to be wealthy and take charge of your finances. It also takes action, and in this case, to take action on improving your financial situation for the better, you need to develop your EQ first! For without proper control over your emotions, you cannot possibly put your financial education into application.

That would be like saying, “I know that smoking is wrong, but I just cannot stop. I know it would hurt my health very badly but I just feel like smoking. Bah, whatever!”

And then, comes the cancer showing up in your financial statement!