Wide Wealth

               

Appreciate the more than 40 kinds of wealth that you already have!



Summary: In most people’s minds wealth means money and possessions. But after thinking about it, Tim Cimino realized that everyone has over 40 kinds of wealth. A few examples would be: cherished memories, skills, whatever level of health you have, the beauty of nature, relationships, relationships that can lead to resources.

Tim realized that if people got in touch with what they had, they would 1) be less envious of the rich; 2) more able to resist manipulation such as advertising; 3) more able to appreciate all that they do have; 4) more likely to build on what they have, once they’ve appreciated it; 5) more likely to live in balance when they realize they are deficient in a certain kind of wealth; and 6) more resilient, once they understand that many kinds of wealth can be exchanged or traded, in ways similar to the obvious trading your time for money, or borrowing on a relationship to get you through a stressful time.

To begin to create an active relationship with the more than 40 kinds of wealth, we conceived of creating an imaginary mansion, with each room containing one of your forms of wealth. For instance, in one room you would imagine pictures of the most important people in your life. (You would either create the mansion online by cutting and pasting photos of rooms and mansions, or in a binder by cutting out photos of well-decorated rooms that you like and listing your wealth in each room.

 

This is a recent idea that’s still in development. I’m thinking of a half-day workshop in which people begin to build an imaginary mansion for themselves. Or this could turn into a self-help book. Each room in the mansion will contain one of the 40+ forms of wealth that most everyone has.]   For the exercise, they must sketch out or download floor plans. They must either collect pictures of rooms they like, or download them from the Internet. Since 40 rooms is even a lot for a mansion, participants can put some of the rooms on a yacht or private jet (or a tree house, summer home, condo, series of caves, house on the Moon — whatever strikes people’s fancy!) 

The exercise would either result in a kind of scrap book, or a computer file with pictures and notes.

In each room they imagine a) the look of the room  b) a place to sit for themselves  3) the specific form of wide wealth, or some symbol. For instance, in the room for relationships, they could have pictures of people they love.

After building the imaginary home(s), they are encouraged to visit a few rooms of their mansion each day, or at least weekly.

The goals of the exercise are to 1) cultivate an appreciation of what you already have. 2)  Have you take a kind of inventory, that will occasionally inspire to better maintain what you have, or build on it.

   

Status: We own the domain names WideWealth.Com and WideWealth.Org



Plans and Needs: Create a workshop to refine the concept, and then create a video to share the idea.


Potential Impact: Increase happiness and fulfillment in the world by helping people appreciate what they already have.