I am rich because I decided that being rich wasn't about money exclusively. The same goes for success.

This life course I follow may be just me and maybe a few others. It isn't for everybody.

First finding out about my personal truth was the most important. It broke my heart, nevertheless it was okay. I have been healing since I uncovered the context of the heartbreak.

Second asking for and making space to receive my destiny became important. I worked for it and it appeared seemingly miraculously without expectation.

Third - Surrendering into the destiny. I was 39 years old. Finding a guide or two to assist in taking talents and helping me transform them into skills.

Fourth - deciding I am successful, based on an aim and many goals. Aims belong to the infinite - you can do an aim repeatedly without ever completing it. Aims are their own reward. My aim is to relieve suffering. Goals have a beginning, middle and end and can / do relate to aims.

Fifth - I decided that I am already rich because the work I do serves others' needs (decided this in my mid 40s). My skills are highly refined along the path of excellence and continue to evolve. Money follows because skill to services is much more important than money.

Sixth - besides my practice in assisting others I have two other income streams. I am working on a new business / avocation.

A Note: many people see money as a means to end. It's more fun the other way around. I have been doing what I love all my life and it has produced richness, learning, adventure, transformation (and money). BTW privilege is involved, without privilege, being a white man from an upper-middle class family of the 1950s and 60s the space to create these feeling of richness may not have occurred.