We've heard Gordon Gekko say that "Money never sleeps."

We've never heard him say "But it sure does get bored." I have a philosophy that money follows four things: energy, movement, action and activity. So the question becomes what energy, what movement, what action and what activity? Money loves to move. It loves to get attention. It loves circulation. It loves velocity. It loves passion. It loves solutions. It loves being shared.

I want to break down each of the four things that money follows and if you get these right then money will follow you "all the way to the bank." Most wake up, and they "work for money to live." In essence, they "live to work." They trade their time and energy for money. For those people, they usually get paid an hourly rate. An hour in and an hour back in wages. The great philosopher Jim Rohn always taught that "profits were better than wages." After all, there are only so many hours in a day that one can work, and if a dollar number is attached to that hour then how do you make more. You really want money working for you vs. you working for it. When you design a way for you to make money while you sleep or while you vacation then you're using your work and money to serve your life vs. run your life.

Robert Kiyosaki, author of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" taught about a cash-flow quadrant about where people derived their money from that looked like this: E stands for Employee where you work for a wage for somebody else, S stands for Small business owner or Solo-preneur where you own a business and usually work in the business, B stands for Big Business where you own the business, and it has employees, systems and structures and gives you excess cash at the end of every month you can then re-invest in something else, and I stands for Investor where you invest money in something that brings you a return.

His goal was to get you out of the left side of the quadrant where he said you were killed in taxes and work and over to the right side where you had money and systems working for you.

Let's look at the four things money follows:

• Energy — Every person brings a certain type of energy to the equation every single day. Many bring low energy. Just like light overtakes darkness, light is just stronger energy. Energy is your outlook, your perspective, your thrust into the day, your power, your focus, your bounce back and your attack on the market. With little or no energy you can expect little or no return. Your positive energy has got to be stronger than the negative energy you are going to face in a given day.

• Movement — Money follows movement, not stagnation. It follows progress, not digression. It follows attention, and movement gets attention. The opposite of movement is sitting and waiting on something to happen. Movement is a mindset of expansion, growth, and moving into new areas around new people in new places. We created a selling system called "Legacy Selling" that has us coordinate 14-20 different strategies in conjunction with each other to get people to move. We believe through systematic and coordinated movement that something positive is going to happen.

• Action — There is power in taking action —any kind of action. Not taking action is a form of acting. When you stop acting, you are disempowering your own self and allowing others' action to control you. Many times in any market, the person who takes the most action wins. We believe in marrying your best actions with the best strategies you use and doing it daily. Every day we wake up we "chop wood and carry water." Newton's Law teaches that an "object at rest will stay at rest unless acted on by an outside force." You must become the outside force.

• Activity — Activity is important for any business person but what is more important is "the right activity." Handing out business cards, spending time with non-decision makers or economic buyers will get you nowhere. Yes, you have to get attention, but the activity needs to be calculated. It needs to be systematic. We believe in "High Value Activity." This is where you decide the absolute highest use of your time and marry it with the activity you have every single day while remembering that the purpose of any business is to "create a customer." Every day you must be consumed with creating new customers.

If you're interested in money, be sure that you know that it gets bored very easily. It loves ACTION.

The more calculated action you take the more it will follow you to the bank with more customers and more opportunity.

Micheal Burt is a "coach-epreneur" who blends his former championship coaching background with an entrepreneurial mindset. Learn more at

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