Invisible Wealth

Chapter 9The Wealth of Relationships with Self and Others

Human connection makes us happy, so much so that we want to experience the extraordinary and the ordinary with others. In fact, our lives circulate around relationships; relating, not relating, and everything in between. We learn so much about ourselves, and others, through interpersonal relationships. Relationships consistently invite us to revisit, reimagine, and redefine who we are and what we value, by virtue of our interactions with other people, and vice versa. Further, the who and how of interacting in the digital world is progressing connection into new frontiers; relevancy now trumps proximity.

As the saying goes, “What we see in others is a reflection of ourselves.” Carl Jung famously shared that everyone is our mirror. Every single person in our life mirrors back to us parts of ourselves, allowing us to see the qualities within that we admire or dislike (by virtue of the relationships with others). Our inner reality reflects in our outer reality, relationships included. A friendly welcome to the fifth, and final, Principle of Invisible Wealth (P5).

The Relationship Between Our Relationship with Self, Others, and Wealth

The relationship with self and others is inherently interconnected because our relationship with self serves as the foundation from which all other relationships are built. A baseline relationship with self is always intact, although others help us to fortify or restructure our foundations, ...