Wealth Creation Blog

How many years in a row has this happened to you:

• The New Year comes, you set a resolution to improve your financial future

• You start off well, but quickly get sidetracked by life

• By February, you start promising to get back to that resolution as soon as life settles down

• By the end of the year, you are no better off than you were the year before, and you start to regret the time you have lost, and the time that you see yourself spending working and struggling in the coming year

Don’t feel bad, this is probably the case for the majority—year, after year, after year. The only way to break that cycle of regret for next year is to do something now.

This Is Your Year For Wealth Creation

Whatever your starting action is, take it now. Set time aside today to do something—anything- that will lend towards your wealth creation goals. This can be a simple start—read about opportunities in wealth creation, sign up for a wealth creation newsletter, subscribe to a blog, order a wealth-building program. Whatever it is, take a small step today, and commit to growth from there. Don’t stop with today, though; plan to make this your action on a regular basis for a long time to come.

• Set aside time during your week for researching and working on wealth-building programs (daily is excellent—every few days or even once a week will work, too, and will at least get you somewhere!)

• Take that time! Don’t excuse it away or let other commitments get in the way when the time comes. Treat your time for pursuing financial freedom as any other commitment, and act as though your life depends upon it (after all, it does, really, doesn’t it? Your secure, comfortable, financially free life does).

• Draft a plan and a set of goals, and track them as you go.

• Join a wealth creation program that will guide you and your efforts at making more money this year.

• Build upon your forward movement, and enjoy the motivation of routine and achievement.

Do you see a theme here?

You haven’t been given a list of absolutes (because wealth creation is individual); you’ve basically been given a call to action. To stop the cycle of wealth creation regret, you have to start on your way. Do something today so that lost wealth-building opportunities are not a regret next year. Do something that sets the standard of forward movement in wealth creation. Do something today that makes your life better tomorrow!Oh—and feel good about yourself, too, because you just did! You just read this blog on wealth creation. Now go do something else for you!

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004 - 2008

These days, it seems everyone is a cynic.  It seems cynicism is wide-spread across the board in all matters, including wealth creation.  

One Too Many

No matter what your pursuit is, there is a very good chance that either right off the start or somewhere down the line you will come up against feelings of doubt and cynicism.  On the internet, it’s everywhere. It’s likely this comes from people always hearing one too many stories of failure or deceit.  These stories—which seem far more prolific than the success stories, for some reason—are everywhere, and they’ve led us to become deeply cynical. 

It has been my experience online that no matter what help you offer to people online, there will always be naysayers, ‘Devil’s Advocates’ and the like arguing against it.  There will always be someone who distrusts what you are saying.  They will doubt your honesty and doubt the validity of whatever wealth creation program you are offering. I can understand how this happens.  There are just too many dishonest people in the world who prefer to make their money by scamming others rather than make it by providing an honest, worthwhile service or program that will actually help people make money and build wealth. 

Accepting Cynicism, Moving On

There comes a point in your wealth creation education where you will have to do as I have done as a promoter of wealth building programs—accept it and move on.  If you let the cynics get the best of you, you will never succeed in wealth creation because you will doubt everything that is put before you.   There is a way to battle the cynics and prove them all wrong (well, know in your head they are wrong—it’s pointless to waste time actually arguing against a cynic, there’s no end to it!). 

Use the criteria we’ve gone over in the past.  Research.  Do your homework and choose a good program with support and backing.  Have faith in yourself and know that you are an intelligent person capable of making informed decisions.   Then let it go.  Let go of all the negativity and move forward to create wealth of your own.  Know that those cynics will always be there—in wealth creation and all things—and that their negativity is the reason for both their poor attitude and their financial stagnation! 

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004 - 2008

Around here we become so intently focused on helping adults make a better financial life for themselves that we often neglect to talk about the people who stand to gain even bigger and better things from a wealth creation education—our children!  Just imagine, though…if learning to create wealth now can do this much for you at a more advanced age, how much better off could you be if you’d learned to make money work for you from an early age? 

Your Kids Need Your Education

Whether you are a parent now or not, heed this message.  If you have children, hear what I’m saying and start helping them learn about money now.  If you plan to have kids, better still—you haven’t lost any time!  If you will never have kids, but care about youth and the future of the economic planet, read on and think where you might apply this knowledge in your life to help others. The financial institutions that ‘taught’ us how to make money have not changed much in the years since you’ve left school (regardless of whether that was six years ago or sixty).  Public and private schools and universities are as inept now as they were then.

They are still teaching your kids what they taught you—how to go to work, work hard, and chase the elusive big paycheck.   Still today there is no education that teaches our kids how to put their money to work for them.  Today’s kids are still only getting half of the equation—the same half we got that did little to nothing to help us live a free financial life. Being that you’ve found wealth creation, you have a unique opportunity to do something now to set your children (or the children important to you) up for a great, financially free, life.  Share you wealth creation education with your kids.  Do not hide your former ignorance from them—show them that there is more to learn and that you’ve had the foresight to learn it! 

Let your kids learn to save and invest to build wealth along with you. You’ll be giving them an invaluable start, with a seasoned coach to fall back on.  You know you can’t rely on the educational system to do it, or you’d have been living your dream life years ago.  You know your kids need more. A solid financial education; a lifetime of financial nurturing and support; the foundation to build enough wealth to live the way really want to be living.  What more could a child ask for? 

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004 - 2008

Living life in the middle-class is a practice in forcing money into your life. It is a constant effort to work hard and harder to shove money into your personal financial system. This is in stark contrast to the life of the wealthy who welcome money and recognize money as their life-partner, rather than their necessary evil.

The Problem With Forcing Money

So what’s the problem with forcing money into your life if the end justifies the means?

Well, first off, the end does not justify the means; in fact, the end—having money and living well—is almost never realized this way. If you live your financial life just throwing and forcing more money at a problem, you will never see an end to that cycle.

But forcing money is destructive on another level, too. It destroys your energy, your vitality; and it destroys the energy and vitality of others. Jamie McIntyre described the problem with this sort of wealth creation best:

“Where you scratch and bite to get money it is almost like your wealth means someone else’s poverty.”

But there is no reason why life has to be this way. If you can accept what the masters of wealth creation can teach you, and accept money as your partner—as something beneficial to you—then you can allow money to find its own fluid path into your life. This will enable you to create flowing streams of money that are sustainable, that build upon each other without sapping your strength and energy.

You can create this flow of wealth into your life by embracing the concepts of wealth creation. You no longer have to fight your way through every day. Your financial success no longer has to mean another’s financial demise. You can live well, live financially free, and create streams of near effortless income and help others instead of impeding their path to wealth creation.

This is an elemental concept of wealth creation, and it depends on you changing your financial ideals and the wealth conditioning you were raised on. If you can manage to do that, the guarantee is that you will live a more free financial life without stepping on the back of others. And that is a financial life truly worth living.

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004 - 2008

We’ve talked a lot in the past weeks about gearing up for great wealth in the New Year.  We’ve talked about setting definite wealth creation goals and making time to accomplish them.  Now let’s take a look at the big picture. 

The Best Laid Master Plans

Short and long-term goals for the year are great.  But to get where you need to be, you need a big plan that takes into account the big picture.  Wealth creation will be your goal, but you have to remember to incorporate that into your whole life—because as we know, creating wealth does not happen in a vacuum.  All parts of your life work together to create the whole. 

Timing Isn’t Always Everything

I stand by the fact that you need to make the time for wealth creation, not find it.  I stand by the fact that you should have a clearly defined set of goals for the week, the month, and the year.  Those goals should all come straight out of your wealth creation Master Plan—whether that is accomplishable in a year or whether you think it will take longer.  Focus on getting the tasks and the plan down on paper, then worry about the timing later. 

A Plan To Rule All Others

When you write your Master Plan, really brainstorm all the parts of your life and being that need your attention.  Include time for- and goals focused on-  

• Nurturing your mind and spirit (to allow you to make room in your life for money and create a positive environment that will lead to financial wealth)
  
• Educating yourself—filling in the gaps in your financial education—what you didn’t learn in school but wish you had!
  
• Applying the financial concepts you learn as you learn them; both your education and investment plan are continuous and ongoing, moving you forward towards financial freedom!
  
• Creating the lifestyle you hope to achieve—because ultimately, this is what building wealth is all about

Any aspect of your life that you see is lacking should be attended to in your Master Plan for wealth creation and life success.  Be open and honest with yourself, and write yourself the Master Plan that will take you from here to financial prosperity and freedom! 

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004 - 2008