By: Faizan Haq, Editor-in-Chief & Publisher, Your Bliss

Is there a difference between wealth and money?

The answer is yes.

Money is an object and something you earn. You are paid for your services with money, or you sell products for money; you can also buy goods and services for money.  It comes to you, and you spend it as you see fit; it is consumed like a product, and it increases and decreases accordingly. This is how you track income and expenses.

To me wealth is more than money; money can be a part of wealth, but not all wealth is measured in money. Wealth is all of the resources you have available to you as an individual, group, or as organization.  These resources may include your contacts, relationships, protections, possibilities, and attitude. At an individual level, it is your mind, health, fitness, spirituality, and also your physical and mental endurance. Your desire to become wealthier should include investing time, effort, and energy to make your relation of this wealth; the material of your relationship with wealth depends on your capability to value and guard the wealth that you already have.

Some may argue that wealth can only be measured in material terms and its monetary value.

The answer is, it is correct.

What is the monetary value of your hands being able to hold a glass of water? What is the monetary value of your eyes being able to see and your ears being able to hear? Wealth is what you make of it. Wealth is what you accumulate over a period of time. Wealth is the contacts and favors that you have done for others and now the universe is paying you back one way or the other. You must remember that the favors one does for others do not necessarily come back from the people you have done favors for. They usually come back in other ways.