I have the unique opportunity of being able to get some video coaching from amazing people, authors speakers, great business leaders etc.  One of those people is Lee Brower. He’s the guy from the secret that talked about the gratitude rocks.

Anyway, he taught me something extremely interesting today.  He talks a lot about generational wealth and what the wealthiest families have in common, what are some of the things they do, and the fact that most people’s wealth they accumulate in a life time doesn’t pass beyond 3 generations.  Well, the key to keeping it going is in this idea of Phases of Wealth.
Phase One: Strivers, these are the people that want it bad and are in that “I’ll do whatever it takes to make it” mode.

Phase Two: Drivers, people who have found their unique ability, they’ve found their passion.

The curse is when they go from driving to arriving.  They stop growing and start protecting.  If you start to arrive, you begin to decline.

Phase Three: Thriving – continuous growth and development.

As soon as you stop being willing to share and contribute and give you will stop growing and you start dying?

Thoughts:

It’s interesting that almost all my goals are basically arrival goals.  It doesn’t matter which arena I am talking about, be it physical, social, financial.

Anyway, I took some notes on the topic and in the spirit of sharing and wanting to preserve it I thought I’d make a blog post.  I’d love to continue the conversation with you.

If you’re interested in applying these ideas, Lee recommends a great book, The Brower Quadrant