The Intrinsic - The Ur’s Notebook
How does one create a prosperity circle? Simple! Just follow the trail of needs from you until you are back at yourself. Every one of your needs has such a trail. The difference between prosperous people and non-prosperous people is just how closely they fit their own set of prosperity circles; the further one gets from the circle, the less likely one is to succeed in meeting one’s own needs. The outcome is a lack of success in the things that matter in life.

The Mental - Thoughts or Lessons
A few issues ago, we published a formula for Results, describing what we have called The Money Game. As a quick reminder, the Money Game was a simplified approach to an economic theory, which showed how money works in the real world, by circulating through a group of people. In real life, those circles can be millions of people wide, but the effect of this is only to make the whole more difficult to see. Some people have written to us saying that we need to expand on how to get into a circle that makes an individual wealthier, or at least prove that such circles exist. They have a point: what good is a theory if it does not have an immediate application in the real world? The first step is to really put yourself on-Purpose. We have, in many articles, suggested that Purpose is defined as “Meeting your own needs by meeting other peoples’ needs, based on your own standards”. This is the starting point. Look at your own needs. List them as carefully as you can, and as completely as you can. Then pick ONE of those needs. Look very closely at how that need is filled for you. Does it take one person? A business? If someone or something is meeting that need for you, then you have a new point to start examining. Look for a need that person or business has, beyond what you give in return for meeting your need. Again, isolate a single need. Find how it is being met. Follow the trail through everyone (including businesses) involved. The trail may not always have exactly the same need, but there is always a need that leads to someone else. If you follow the trail far enough, you will find that it leads back to YOU, no matter how long the trail is. Which means that you can then make a last connection: from you to the person or business who meets a need for you. Repeat the process with other needs you have. Even the least involved person finds that there is a whole series of trails. This is NOT theory; this is REALITY! Those trails you have found are the paths that money takes, from your pocket (or bank account) back to your pocket (or bank account). The majority of people in the world are employed. For practical purposes, this means that the need they meet are the needs of their employers. They see only ONE customer for their talents. But that employer meets needs for at least one buyer, who meets needs for other buyers, and so on, until the circle comes back to meeting the employee’s needs. It does not matter which direction you search: eventually you find your position in the whole circulation pattern.

The Relational - Dealing With Others
The concept above is simple, but it is extremely hard to accept that it works. The reason for this difficulty is that we normally concentrate on the obvious: this is money. We only see that the employer is paying us for services rendered, or what we use our talents for. The result is that we only see one relationship that gives us the wherewithal to meet our needs: the relationship between our employer and ourselves. We tend to view the meeting of our needs as if we dealt with only one supplier. When we start our own businesses, we try to create the same simple one-to-one relationship by lumping our buyers into one single category - “customers”. We know that we might have one or ten or a thousand buyers, but it is easier to ignore the fact that they are many individuals with the same set of needs that we meet. This allows us to assume that our business is based solely on cash flow in and cash flow out, whether with a cash book approach or a full accounting approach. In terms of the Money Game, we see only the person we “sell” our smile to, and the person whose smile we “buy”. These are the only transactions in which we participate directly. The more complex life gets, the more we focus on making the whole system fit with the simplicity of the single circle. We reduce our relationships only to those that we can directly control or observe. Reverse the process: instead of looking where you get paid from, look at all the places your money goes, and recognise that all of them must, eventually, go back to you, your business or your employer. Stop thinking in one-on-one terms, and realise that you have a relationship with everyone in all the circles that meet at you.

The Physical - Making It Work
Once you start recognising that you are a node through which many circles meet, it becomes a lot easier to decide how you can best meet your needs by meeting others needs. You start to realise that you only ever work for yourself. This is NOT selfishness, but a simple recognition that you are an important part of the process. Look at ways you can meet the needs of more people (increase your buyer base). The more needs you can meet, the greater your control of all the circles to which you belong. The greater your control, the more you can find the ones which contribute most to your prosperity. You can start to apply the Paretto Principle: cut out those that contribute least, so you can add more to the ones that give you most. It is not easy, but, if you want to be independently wealthy, it is absolutely essential. There is no facile way to do it, and no one can do it for you. Make you own choices, and you will find that you get more satisfaction out of your own life.

The Completion - Sign-off
For those of you building web businesses, your circles involve building links with like-minded businesses, your customers and your suppliers. We recommend you purchase the following book, Power Linking and that you visit and learn from Links101.com. Oh and don’t forget to link your site while there. Final word - Don’t forget to ask us to exchange links with YOU! Yours, in the spirit of the Three F’s (Fun, Fitness, Funds) and the life equation: F equals F times F squared In the sequence that fits you best, Peter and Roberta At Formula Three Five Ltd. http://www.formula-for-success.biz/ mailto: peter@formula3-5.biz (use this one if you want to give us negative feedback) mailto: roberta@formula3-5.biz (use this one for positive feedback).