Wealth Creation Blog

The absolute first step in accumulating wealth is empowering yourself. Self-empowerment is necessary before you can begin to control the money that flows through your life and maximise the potential of it.

Living The Unempowered Life

Think of the unempowered life as the one that you have been living up until now, or up until the point where you took definite steps towards change and the focused pursuit of wealth. If you’ve been on this course for a while it is possible that you have already gained a level of financial empowerment in your life; if you are just starting out consider this read an essential first step and illumination.

In either case no doubt you can understand the importance of empowering yourself to live a better, freer, wealthier life. Either you are not yet empowered and you can feel the need, or you have gained a level of empowerment and glimpsed the possibilities that gaining control over money presents to you.

Financial Empowerment’s Double-Edged Sword

There are many small factors that contribute to personal financial empowerment, but there are two big ones that prevail:

1. Wealth Education
2. Personal control

Ultimately it will be your personal control (for lack of a better term—this isn’t just about discipline) that dictates your success in building wealth. For almost everyone, though, a quality wealth education is elemental in gaining that control. Whether formally through a course or informally through reading and study, the people who succeed and go on to build wealth all get educated before they succeed.

Empowering yourself is one of the greatest gifts you can give to yourself. Having power and knowing it is enlightening in and of itself. Give yourself that gift, and take time to enjoy your accomplishment—your power!

Are you empowered? How has that knowledge changed you? How would you describe the feeling of empowerment? I’m eager to hear…

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

Most everyone “gets it” when we talk about being more positive and living everyday in abundance to attract more of the same; at least, they understand the concept. But getting started can be a bit more of a challenge, so let’s talk about that some more.

Starting The Cycle Of Living Well

Once you have money it’s easy to live like you do. It’s easy to live well so that you capture that powerful law of attraction and attract more of the same. But most people do not start out wealthy. They start with a motivation, a hope, and a wish, but not with an overflow of money.

Here’s the thing—you don’t really need money to attract money. You need success and positive thinking to attract more success, and the money then comes. You need to focus on the attitude and the concept, not so much on the physical presence of money. Money is a byproduct—the byproduct to positive thinking and living well—to living wealthy. By that I do not mean just financial wealth, but life wealth.

As we all have heard so many times, there is more to life than money. But try living life today without money….that’s not so easy. Money is a very handy tool in the modern world, isn’t it? The point here is that you can live wealthy without having money. You find wealth in all that you have, by focusing your positivity and abundant thought on what you have and what you are achieving and working towards.

A Word Of Caution

Whenever this subject comes up I feel I need to give a word of caution. As Jamie McIntyre says, you need to start living a life of quality and abundance in order to attract more of the same in your life. You need to start living wealthy. But you also need to understand what that really means. It does not mean going further into debt to live like the wealthy. That is really opposite to your goal, because that is not living in abundance that is attracting more debt.

Living wealthy and stockpiling wealth and abundance means finding the abundance you already have in your life and starting from there. It’s there if you look for it. It may mean changing the way you view your life, but you can find, through positive thinking, that you already have a level of wealth in your life upon which you can build to attract more.

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

The power of attraction is what we’ve basically been talking about in the last couple of posts; in those, we applied the power of attraction more specifically as a reminder to attract success through the company we keep and the thoughts we think. Today let’s broaden the application a bit.

Attraction As A Wealth Creation Tool

The Power of Attraction, which has been described in a variety of ways throughout wealth empowerment programs, books, and writings, is a driving force in financial success and empowerment. Essentially it is the financial law of like attracting like, and it applies to anything that affects your success in making money and building wealth.

Very basically, this law boils down to a very simple formula for either success or failure with finance.

• Negativity + Need = Financial Stress

• Positivity + Abundance = Wealth and Success

You can apply these formulas to anything—to the company you keep, the thoughts you think, the decisions you make, your attitude, choices, reactions, way of life, daily purchases…

All that you really need to remember is that whatever you put into the world is what you will get back. Call it Karma, attraction, or whatever you like, but if you look at a cross-section of successful and wealthy people, this is what you’ll see. Their mindset and attitudes are focused on success, and success is therefore what they’ve attracted to them.

Ever hear the saying that “money goes to money”? There’s something to that. Most people say it with a sneer and some amount of sarcasm or negativity, but the underlying rule is true. Money does go to money; and it goes to positivity, wealth, and abundance, too. Start attracting those things to you by applying this simple tool for creating wealth to every aspect of your life. Start a list today of the many ways that you can attract more of the same so that you can become financially free, too.

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

Just as the company you keep affects your financial success, the thoughts you think directly impact your results in wealth creation, too. Surround yourself with good people and good thoughts and you will be well on your way to living better with more money.

Think Your Way To Wealth

This isn’t a new concept in wealth creation; it was, in fact, the fundamental premise of Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, and integral to Wallace Wattles’ The Science of Getting Rich. It is also a critical element in every wealth creation program from then up to today. Less formally, when we look back at the success of wealthy people all over the world and throughout history, we find that their thoughts are the common thread to their success.

I know that to any of you who have followed along on this or another of my blogs this is nothing new, either. Mindset is the first factor in financial success—or any success in life. But today I want you to think more specifically about the thoughts that you think, and less about your overall attitude.

Attracting Positive Thought

Basically what we’re talking about here is thinking in more positive and successful ways. Thinking that you are successful, not that you are financially stressed and hope to someday be successful. Turn each thought into a positive thought of wealth creation. Stop thinking that you can’t afford, and start thinking positively—that you are developing a plan to afford, or are building the ability to afford freedom. Look at how every thought can be turned into a positive, and disallow negativity from ruling the day.

Once you do this, the law of attraction takes over and your positive thoughts attract more positivity and success. Working as a whole, this conglomeration of positive thinking builds that positive mindset that you need to be the foundation of wealth.

Start attracting more positivity in your life—think success always, starting now!

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

You may or may not realize it, but the company you keep strongly influences your financial success. In wealth creation it’s a matter of attraction, and to maximise that attraction you need to know the rules.

The People Around You

“Opposites attract” does not apply to wealth building. In this case, the law of attraction is like attracting like. In the case of the company you keep—the people you associate and surround yourself with on a daily basis—you need to be keeping company with like-minded people who are dedicated to their personal success.

The more successful and positive-minded people you associate with, the more positivity and success you will draw into your life. Understandably you will run into people of varying levels of positivity and success. It’s okay to build your keep of company with a variety of individuals. The focus is on surrounding yourself with the right attitudes, not necessarily with people with the exact same experiences or strategies as yours (you’d have a hard time finding that lot of identical individuals, now wouldn’t you?)

If you want some proof of this, just think about the people around you or the people whom you know to be either successful or unsuccessful. Who do they associate most with? Who do they rely on for support or commiseration? How does each feed off each other? For positive moral support or for support of victimization and misery? Pay attention when you are with these different types of people and see where you find yourself being pulled—on to success and prosperity or down into negativity and self-pity?

If you take a look at different groups you’ll see that like-minds groups tend to gather and perpetuate the status quo. Through your online and offline relationships, perpetuate the status quo of success and forward movement. Surround yourself with the kinds of successful thinkers and doers that will promote the same in you!

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