This is probably the first publication in the world ever to release its May issue in June!  Here it is anyway. Better late than never.

The past 17 months of my life have been filled with an abundance of learning, the fulfilment of teaching and the enjoyment of rewards that come with both of the above.

As most of you may know by now, my life took a bit of a turn in January 2004. This was when I got a free DVD from Jamie McIntyre and started learning the common sense way of living life.  Taking charge of my own financial future.  Now I’m renting shares on the stock market, insuring shares, purchasing profitable property in a perceived lull and earning more money from investments than I earn at my day job.

This was instead of struggling along, just making ends meet,  at what some times seems to be the way society wants us to be.  Have you ever had the feeling that the more you earn, the more you spend?  I wish school taught me how to invest wisely and keep my money rather than Boolean algebra, trigonometry, chemistry or how to fit into society as a model citizen. 

As much as these topics help us become civilized citizens, they don’t exactly show you how to become comfortable in life.  Unless of course, if comfortable means coasting through life, going to work 5 ½ days a week (or 13 days a fortnight in remote areas), accumulating life’s creature comforts along the way, staying afloat until retirement at (hopefully) 65 and relying on a pension that the government more or less have told us we won’t get. Let’s not talk about the superannuation!  They’ve appear to have spent it already.  Boy, am I happy I’m in charge of my own Super fund.

Recently, I spent a week in Melbourne with the Australian Property, learning to recognise investment property opportunities in all states of Australia.  It’s amazing to see how opportunities can present themselves so readily when you are equipped to recognise them.

The following week, I went to Sydney for a stockmarket seminar.  I made some great contacts there and will be sharing them in the forum on my website.  You will also find Australian Property there as an investment property opportunity to look at.

So, how much effort does it take to change your life?  To make a difference, worth while!

All it takes is the commitment to sacrifice a few weeks of your time, maybe a couple of months, to learn more about a topic than your average person knows.  Then, suddenly you’ve got an edge. Not to be better than others, but rather to be better than you were before.  Because, if you want more out of life than you have now, you’d better be prepared to change something.  Whatever has got you where you are today is what you are now.  To change this you have got to improve and that doesn’t need to be by much.

Have a look at someone who has done the same job as you, who is 10 years older than you.  Guess where you are likely to be in 10 years!  If nothing changes, that is your mirror image.  Look at the gentleman or lady who is retiring soon after 22 years at the same job.  Sure, they’ve worked hard. They’ve got their 2 properties paid off, $40,000 in the bank and are finally ready to enjoy life properly. And good luck to them. They deserve it more than anyone.  Nations are built on loyal citizens like that who pull their weight for society and may they live happily for years to come.  But this is the model we are supposed to follow.  Society does not want you to retire early, even if it is self funded. 

Don’t expect the government to give out a pamphlet titled “How to fund your own retirement and quit your day job by the age of 30”.  Who is going to build the power stations and man the service stations or mow the rich mans lawns?  Who will chauffeur the limousine for the CEO of the multinational who invests his money in Australian projects, despite the “sky-high” labour costs.  I personally don’t think any Politician, Lawyer or Specialist of any kind would get out of bed for $30 per hour, let alone the minimum wage in this country.

So we need to stay conformed within the system. Go to school, learn to be average, get an average job (this includes a Lawyer or Doctor. They still struggle to keep their money), go through life being average, retiring and hopefully living an average life for longer than the average life span, and hoping that the government has got your Super payout ready and that the pension still exists.

Don’t get me wrong.  Average is fine and acceptable by most standards.  I just want more than average.  I want more for my kids than putting them through a deteriorating workforce with decreasing standards, when I can provide a better life for them than that.  All I did to start this process was do something that was considered different.

I spent $3,000 (on credit) and studied part time, 2 – 3 hours a day for 3 weeks.  That was it.  Suddenly, I knew more about a subject than possibly 95% of the population. Why? Because I took the time! They would know just as much if they took the time.  I just did it, they didn’t.  It doesn’t make me a better person.  Far from it.  95% of the population know more about something that I don’t know.   

The point is this:  With a little effort, I have now learnt enough to turn things around.  My financial future is looking good.  I’m now reading sections of a newspaper I never took interest in before.  What I viewed as a boring profession of a professional investor, has now become a hobby and an inspiration of mine.  Investment properties, stockmarket derivatives, warrants, futures… It’s not that hard.  Definitely not worth writing off just because someone else told you it’s all to hard or someone they know didn’t do well, so you’d better stay away from it.  Yes, someone else failed. Better not go there!

Imagine if babies refused to have a go at walking, even refusing to try, because another baby failed in 8 months of trying.  Wonder what the world would look like? 95% of the population lying around in the streets looking at the 5% who decided to make their own mind up.  They walk around happily constantly reminded of the average people at their feet. 

There would be no one riding a bike because everyone fails at riding a bike. Several times!  China’s main transport vehicle just got canned!

Most of the world wouldn’t have been colonised if no one had tried and failed first.

Everyone fails at smoking!  Most people shorten their lives or even die from it, yet that doesn’t worry the 95 percenter.  Figure that one out!

Imagine if you refused to do anything based on other peoples fears.  Whenever someone fails, someone else will succeed.  I have met more millionaires in the last 12 months than I’ve known the previous 38 years.  They went where others failed.  They had a go where others didn’t even try and found that it was no big deal.  And their secret is well guarded with 95% of the population.

There is enough to go around for all of us.  As soon as you can get used to the concept of Creating wealth instead of Competing for wealth, the wide open road is ready for you to travel down. The Wealth Creation SuperHighway.

I am going to leave you with a quote from a very wise man:

“There are only two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as though everything is a miracle”       

 -- Albert Einstein

Thank you for joining me.

“Have a Go”

Sean Rasmussen

Wealth Creation SuperHighway

Universal Wealth Creation Pty Ltd

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