What you have no doubt already gathered if you are a regular on this blog, is that this blog is not about making more money or people who have great financial richness. It’s about being RICH ( I will write about the difference in being rich and being RICH in a future blog). Know this for now: my definition of RICH is not how the world defines it. It’s not about investments, or how to retire early or anything like you see in on the cover of Money, Fortune, or Forbes magazine. The realty is, as you no doubt have already heard, he (or she) who dies with the most money, still dies. When I die, I hope to be darn near broke. I hope to give away a lot of money and have a lot of fun while doing it. I hope to have visited every continent on the globe, to have had RICH conversations in remote areas of the world including some with indigenous people who haven’t experience the “RICH” experiences I haven’t had. I hope to have left a legacy of love, adventure and caring to my five children. I hope that the love I feel for my wife will be ten times stronger than it was the beautiful June day we were married at the oldest church in St. Augustine, FL in 1992. I hope that I will have richer and deeper relationship with God and that at the end, someone will say, “WOW, that guy sure was RICH!”

Of course, I hope the same for you. But I know none of that will happen for you the reader or me the writer without being intentional about it. Without creating the picture of the kind of RICHness that you want and then working at it tirelessly, Living RICH won’t happen. I am convinced that you have to create it in your mind first. So what does it mean to really be RICH vs. rich, to be wealthy beyond measure, to live like there’s no tomorrow?

Care to chime in on the conversation? I’d love to hear what you think. I’ll tell you what I think (if you don’t already know!)

Tim Richardson is an inspirational speaker who speaks about how giving increases employee morale, lowers employee turnover, increases customer loyalty and creates higher profits for Fortune 500 companies, associations, and national conventions. He is the founder of the The Worlds Biggest Blog Party an event which will connect bloggers from all over the world to raise money for charity. He is also founder and president of the Bill Walter Melanoma Research Fund and co-founder of the Jeffrey Roth Cycling Foundation. Click here for more information on professional speaker Tim Richardson.