Unlocking True Wealth: Birthday Reflections on Growth, Gratitude, and Living Without Regret

A Wealth Matters 49th Birthday Weekend Edition

Congratulations! If you are reading this you are also still alive! As I reach my 49th birthday today, I am grateful for the breath I still draw, and like every year that I have been granted thus far, I find myself in a reflective state.

Looking back at the lessons that have shaped my life and my understanding of true wealth over the last 4.9 decades, it’s easy to measure success by bank balances or assets, but true wealth goes far beyond the financial as I aspirationally wrote about 18 years ago in the first edition of Wealth Matters-Abundance is your Birthright.

If I could go back and share what I’ve learned with my 25-year-old self, the words in this post are what I’d say. And, as I look forward, I’m thinking about what I predict my 98-year-old self will have to share with the 49-year-old me about what I got right today and what nuances have unfo…