This article follows the thread of the previous post about improving our financial situation, although this time we will twist things a little to explore whether we can uncover some useful insights into how to “get rich.” After all, that is what many of us are hoping for when we spend a small fortune on lottery tickets around this time of year, isn’t it?
The idea of earning more income, in whatever way, is closely linked to how much we contribute in return. It comes down to what could be called the “Boomerang Law” (cause and effect): whatever you send out eventually comes back to you. If you have ever doubted that this principle exists, try throwing a boomerang and see if you can catch it before it hits you on the way back.
Get Rich in 10 Steps
There are hundreds of articles, programs, methods, and books promising quick ways to get rich. None of them truly work. And yet, we keep buying them and trying them out, especially when things are not going well financially. Personally, I have owned several books about making money in ten steps, doubling income easily, or quitting work forever in just 24 hours.
These methods might produce small results in the very short term—if they produce anything at all—but they are not sustainable without serious effort behind them. In my own early days on the internet, I experimented with many of these approaches: blogging, launching online businesses, affiliate programs, pay-per-click advertising, selling other people’s products, and more.
Get-Rich-Quick Schemes Don’t Work
In reality, these types of products mainly work for the people who create them, as they get thousands of others to buy and promote them. Even then, success is not guaranteed. People can clearly distinguish between something that offers real value and something that is mostly empty marketing talk.
You might fall for it once, but as soon as people realize there is little substance behind the promise, those impressive five-figure income claims quickly disappear. This does not mean such formulas never work, but it is unlikely that you will achieve the results you want simply by selling someone else’s product and earning a small commission.
Moreover, the time and effort required to convince people to buy from you rather than someone else already removes these methods from the category of “quick money.” The same applies to pyramid-style schemes and similar models.
How to Truly Get Rich
There is only one reliable formula to achieve significant, long-term, and sustainable financial success: providing value to society. If you want to succeed with your work, service, or product, it must offer real value to the people who receive it. The greater the value you provide, the greater the return you will receive. This is not just an opinion—it reflects a fundamental principle of cause and effect.
Providing Value
The only way to achieve strong and lasting financial results is to deliver high value through what you create and do. When you generate and deliver value, you set in motion a flow that eventually returns that value back to you, often multiplied.
It is reasonable to say that your current financial situation is, to some extent, proportional to the value you have contributed to the world so far. Imagine, for example, the impact created by Bill Gates through the widespread use of Windows. The scale of value delivered globally helps explain the scale of the return.
If you are currently struggling financially, it may be worth asking whether you are receiving more from others than you are giving. If you want to experience abundance, dedicate yourself fully to creating value and ensuring that what you do benefits as many people as possible.
If you are looking for a simple formula, consider this:
Personal benefits received = value delivered × number of people impacted
What Is Value?
How can you know whether what you are doing actually provides value to the world? At first glance, it is not always obvious. For example, if this article you are reading makes you reflect, or sparks an idea that inspires you to take action, then it has already created value for you—and that alone fulfills its purpose.
The Boomerang Law may bring something back in return: perhaps feedback from others that leads to new insights, connections from people who share your work, or even unexpected opportunities that arise because your contribution reached the right audience.
Whatever you do, aim to make it meaningful, useful, and capable of improving someone’s life in some way. It does not matter whether you are a waiter offering a genuine smile to a customer having a bad day, or someone working in an office ensuring that a project truly makes a difference. The more value you bring into the world, the more value you will receive in return.