Are you wealthy? What does it mean to be wealthy? If you are wealthy, you have an abundance of material possessions or resources, or an ample quantity. Each person defines wealth in dollar amounts to many different degrees of satisfaction.

Besides money, people are considered wealthy due to assets like good health, strong relationships, time freedom, personal purpose and self-investment in skills and education.

So how do we manifest wealth in one or all of these areas of life? Let's take “Time” for instance. I would say that if I am too busy, running ragged and don’t have time to rest, relax and enjoy life, I am very poor. Rather, the ability to choose how to spend my time is considered priceless (or with great wealth).

How do I go from poor to wealthy with the resources of time? I can tell you because I have done just that. Right now I have an abundance of time to choose how to spend it. However, most of my life I was too busy and running ragged. How did I manifest an abundance of time?

Here are three steps to help you manifest wealth in time:

1. I assessed what I was currently spending time on.

2. If what I was spending time on no longer brought me joy, I resigned from it.

3. I planned what I wanted to do with my time that would bring me joy.

The hardest part was resigning from things that no longer brought me joy because I felt I was losing part of my identity. I had hit such a level of burn out, I resigned from the board of the Salvation Army, the President of the Chamber of Commerce, being the speaker at the Christian Women’s Club, being President of the Council of Catholic Women, Teaching Sunday School, a secondary business called Gallery On The Go and ultimately my full time job.

I don’t recommend this to anyone, unless you are in a position of being debt free and can monetarily afford to. I was fortunate enough to be debt free and my husband was still bringing in an income. That being said, it took a while to get used to this new found time freedom. I had to relearn what it was that I liked to do, what I was good at, what I could get paid to do and what the world needed. I found myself swimming in a time wealth pool, and boy was it medicine to my soul.

As you can imagine, personally I was wealthy in time, and poor in money. So I had to ask myself, how do I manifest wealth in money? I wanted to be true to myself, my talents and to God and I didn’t want to lose the time freedom I had earned. I went in search of an opportunity that could provide all my wants and needs but not put me back in a situation that left me no time.

SinceI had done a deep dive of my inner strengths, wants and desires, I was able to clearly define what I wanted, but discerning the opportunities was tough.

Here are three steps to help you manifest wealth in money:

1: Discern whether an opportunity is right for you or not.

2: Be willing to take a certain amount of calculated risk.

3. Have faith and courage to step outside your comfort zone.

Faith is being sure of what you hope for and certain of what you do not see. And courage is the mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, withstand danger, fear or difficulty. First comes faith, then comes courage, then comes wealth.