Your seven key relationships seventh, things.
Here we are at video number seven of seven in our series about your seven key relationships. This one
surprises people because we don't often think about having a relationship with things but we do.
One of the words for this is called stewardship, that word carries a lot of meaning for me because
I think we have a responsibility or a stewardship related to how we relate to the things in our life,
things like property including money. Let's establish the reasons why this is important
and then I'll give you three powerful tips for managing your relationship with things, sound
fair? You'll notice that every key relationship we've talked about so far is about people, people
before property but still property. This is one of the concepts that I've shared with a number of
high wealth families where they are very concerned about how are we going to manage all of the assets
or the inheritance or the estate. Well, the people are more important than the property but you still
have to deal with the property. This also ties into one of our three family rules. If you've been here
on the channel very long you've probably noticed me talking about three family rules. We don't need
to have a big long exhaustive list of everything that could possibly come up three is plenty and
here they are, respect yourself and others, respect property, respect authority. So, you'll notice rule
number two is all about respecting property. Does that sound like a relationship with property? How
many kids come home from school and they throw their backpack on the floor and they kick their
shoes off or they leave their things all over the living room? That has to do with their relationship
with property and that's why we made it one of the family rules and it's not just in the family
rules. In the country where I live the United States of America there is a document that a
lot of people hold in very high esteem, it's called the Declaration of Independence. This document was
written in the early days of the settlement of the United States of America as a declaration
of independence from the British crown. You might remember some of the words from the Declaration of
Independence that we have certain unalienable rights. Now, the word unalienable means that it
can't be granted and it can't be revoked, it's God-given if you will. Unalienable rights of
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That third one is really interesting because when you
study the founding fathers and what they meant by that the pursuit of happiness is the right to
own and control property. So, it's built into the very foundations of our country. How we handle
property matters. It's not as important as how we handle people but it's something that we can't
ignore because it is essential to our pursuit of happiness. So, here are those three powerful
tips but before I share those with you will you take a moment to think of who you know who needs
to know what we've talked about in these seven videos our seven key relationships and share the
playlist with them. You get to decide how you're going to do that. We've got links down below that
will make it easy. Share this playlist with someone who came to your mind when I mentioned it and you
know who that is. Alright, now here's those three powerful tips, number one, stop worshiping money. Now
people get a little tipped over when I go there because they're like, "I don't worship money", well
sometimes we do. How often do we think that money will somehow magically solve all of my problems? If
you think that, that's a form of worshiping money. Do you see how we kind of deify money thinking
that it will solve our problems? Money isn't the real value. It would be more accurate to say that
money follows value and I can illustrate that really quickly with an example. When you pay your
bills that's an expense right, money leaves you. Why would money ever leave you? Because you received
something of value, whatever it is that you're paying for it's usually a product or a service.
So you receive the value and the money leaves as a receipt for the value that you received. What
about when you receive money through income or a payment of some kind, what happened just before you
received the money? Value went from you to someone else, you provided a product or a service and then
the money comes in as a receipt. I think the easiest way for us to stop worshiping money
is to see it as a receipt, it's not the value and that will help in our relationship with
things because we can get focused on creating and producing value for other people. When we
get this we get that because the money flows in as a receipt and to acknowledge and be grateful
for the value that you've received as you pay for something the money that's leaving you is
a receipt for whatever you received. Kind of cool, huh? Here's your second powerful tip be
humble and generous. Now, humility is giving up our need to be right in exchange for being open. Let's
not dig in our heels and insist that we're right about whatever it is that we already know we're
right about. Being humble puts us in position to be more open to the needs that we could address.
Now generosity, I have found consistently through my life and experience that the more generous I am
the more abundance I enjoy, test this and if you ever have to air, air on the side of generosity
it will bless your life and the lives of those that you're being generous toward. If you need
to practice this find a charity, a non-profit, a church organization, some way for you to make
a philanthropic contribution or donation and be generous about it. There's something that one of
my coaches called business karma and that is that you open yourself up to receive more by giving
more. It's kind of a neat thing I want you to just try it, play with it, see what you experience there
and here's the third powerful tip, this is probably the most important, produce more than you consume.
As human beings we have to consume, we have to eat, we have to sleep, we have to receive a lot of
things just to maintain our mortal existence and that's okay there's nothing wrong with consuming.
In fact, our consumption gives other people a chance to produce. But in terms of our own happiness I'm
convinced that we have to produce more than we consume. So, take a look at your life and how often
you are serving others and creating value and producing. That is defined as human life value
income and just like in your property value you want to have more income than expense that creates
a positive flow. In our human life value serving more than we're being served, producing more than
we consume, creating more than we destroy, creates a positive flow. It actually contributes to our
own happiness and our ability to create value for others which is all about this seventh key
relationship, our relationship with things. I hope you've gained a lot from this particular series.
We can take this up a notch. I have put together a free web class for you on positivity and how it
supports all seven of our key relationships. You can get there through drpauljenkins.com/positivity.
Come join us. Let's take this to the next level for all seven of your key relationships.