How to Achieve Financial Wellness

Kayode Omotoye
Jul 24, 2017 · 4 min read
Source: enrich.org

Financial wellness cannot be attained in isolation. To succeed in life, you need people. You need true friends. Without people, vision perishes. Jesus, with the full wisdom, power and authority of the Godhead still needed friends to achieve his goal. Friendship is a product of friendliness, a person who wants to make and keep friends must himself be friendly. If you don’t have friends, it means there are some personality and character traits that drive people away from you.

The saying “show me your friends and I will tell you who you are” holds true in the area of finances also. The company you keep portrays who you are and determines who you will become. Many people don’t know that success in their journey to financial wellness can be made or marred by virtue of the company they keep. It is a fallacy to think that you can be in the wrong company and succeed financially. There is great power in association. The company you keep has the power to make you succeed or fail in life. Your association can aid or hinder your elevation financially. Your association can lift you up or pull you down financially. Just one friend can be the harbinger of your failure.

What are the financial interests and habits of the company you keep? Are they investment-oriented or spending-oriented? Are they people of financial wisdom or people of common sense? Are they present-focused only or future-oriented people?

If you want to know what your financial future will look like, take an audit of your close associates. You can’t keep company daily with those who are given to frivolities and bad financial habits and expect to be shielded from such. If you want to succeed financially, keep close company with those who are on the way to financial wellness or those who are already there. You need the right associates not only to achieve financial wellness but to also maintain that wellness you have attained.

A potential for success is nothing compared to the real success. Real success can only be achieved when you are rightly associated. While you may be one who set great goals for himself and strives to achieve them, the company you keep plays a big role to help drive that goal to success or kill that great goal of yours.

A foolish companion will pull you down. His foolishness is contagious, it will affect and corrupt your own wisdom. The foolish man here is known by their thoughts, words, desires, affection and habits when it comes to finances. A fool’s lifestyle does not glorify God. The beginning of foolishness is the absence of the fear of God and disobedience to the word of God. Run away from the company of fools and seek wise men if you want to achieve financial wellness. The wise man is not only the one who has money but with his riches also exhibit good attitude, character and conduct. Nabal was a very rich man but he was also very foolish. The real measure of wisdom in a man is the fear of God, love for Jesus and the pursuit of truth, wisdom and righteousness.

A man attracts to himself who he is. Your association is a reflection of who you are. Are you a faithful man yourself? Do you keep your appointments and commitments? Do you fulfil your duties no matter how difficult they seem? Is your word your bond? Do you pay your bills on time? Do you keep the promises you make? To change your association, you must first change yourself. You need to first work on yourself before you can attract the right people into your life.

Do not be easily intimidated by those who are already ahead of you, rather be quick to learn from them. The greatest gift a successful man can give to you is not money but their experience.

If you are the sharpest iron in your clique of friends, your iron will soon become very dull.

The best friend you can ever have and can forever trust is Jesus Christ. He is the friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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