Wealth Creation Blog

As we’ve got kids on the brain today, it occurred to me that we could learn a thing or two about wealth creation by being a little more childlike ourselves. Kids don’t come with all the baggage that adults do. They have stronger belief-systems and better confidence. Those are all things that could go very far for us as we work to empower ourselves financially.

Be A Kid Again And Be Wealthy

Let’s take a look at some of the characteristics that children retain, but we so often lose as adults, that could return dividends for us as we work to build wealth.

• Curiosity. Kids are curious. With a little more curiosity and interest you might enjoy exploring money, wealth, and finance more. You might find a whole world of interest you never knew existed within you.

• Energy. It takes a lot of energy to do what we have to do in life, and added energy to pursue wealth creation while you also try to survive financially in the meantime. And as we know, energy attracts energy, then action, prosperity, and wealth. Find ways to be more energetic and be more wealthy.

• Motivation. Kids are motivated easily by what they want. You know you want money, wealth, and financial freedom and prosperity. You just have to learn to trust your own intrinsic motivation—stop working so hard at it and listen to your inner voice!

• Enjoyment. Kids enjoy life. Do you? Do you enjoy what you do? Find enjoyment and you attract enjoyment, and positive energy, and wealth…

• Fearless. Kids do not know fear. They do not let fear keep them from doing things that excite them and motivate them. Few adults can say the same. Think of all you would have done by now if you never listened to that nagging voice that stops you from pursuing wealthy ideas.

It often seems that, as much as we try to teach kids how to be, they have the right of life at heart. Children enjoy life and they know how to make the most of it if not meddled with overly much. If as adults we can capture just a bit of youth, we, too, can do great things—without fear, and with a positive energy that attracts great things.

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

A lot of what we learn in wealth creation programs, including the 21st Century Academy programs and courses, is something that we come across again and again. At least, if you run in circles of financial empowerment you will. The more you read, the more you research, the more you watch or listen to, the more wealth building information that you access, the more you will see similarities and repetition. What can we take from this?

Great Minds Think Alike

Great minds think alike. There’s probably no more succinct way to say it. The reason that you will find much of what you see taught again and again as you pursue the various avenues of wealth creation again and again is that the people who have succeeded in creating wealth and gaining financial freedom have done so based on solid foundations of money, investment, money management, and mindset. Basically, they get it. And not surprisingly, what’s worked for one works for another. It’s the very reason that one person can teach another how to become rich—because it’s the same for all. You just need to learn how to do it.

Proof, Not Mindless Repetition

What we can take from this is that the recurrence of certain concepts of wealth and financial control are proof that these methods, strategies, and fundamentals work. This is not a case where uncreative minds come together and repeat what someone else has said. This is a case where groups of successful individuals have made money, built wealth, and passed on what it is they learned for the success of others.

If you’re doubt it, you have only to look at the track record of the one who is telling it to you—the expert behind the strategy or theory. Look for his or her individual success. It should tell you all you need to know to know who is really a leader in wealth education, and who is just following the masses.

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

Any wealth creation expert will tell you: if you want to be rich, start again at the beginning. Why? Because what you’ve been taught just isn’t getting you very far.

Life And Financial Education Until Now

That may sound harsh, but if you are honest you’ll agree that it’s true. Why else would you be here if your money or financial education had done its job?

No doubt you’ll agree that you did not learn enough about money and financial control—were not exposed to enough through the education you’ve received in school or in life—to teach you how to really grow wealth. Wealth creation relies on a level of understanding of money systems, investment, mindset, and attitude that just is not approached in school. Few of us have the benefit of a wealthy mentor or parent with such an understanding, and so the majority has been educated very little in wealth creation. We’ve all learned to work for money, but not to create wealth by making that money work again.

Along the way, we’ve also been conditioned to look at money as something negative—as a demon that creates deprivation, instead of as a tool that is there for our own personal use and the use of all others. The things we’ve been conditioned to believe about money continue to impact our every financial decision and reaction.

Life And Financial Control From Here On Out

To live differently, to create wealth and gain financial control, we need to go back to the beginning and get the financial education we should have received the first time around. The resources are certainly there; wealth creation is no longer a well-protected secret. You do have to search out these resources, though, and be a willing participant in your financial future. Use these resources to go back to your beginnings in money and finance, and learn it again in easier, more sensible terms.

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004 – 200830

The rich get rich because they do things differently than everyone else. The rich focus on saving, creating wealth, and maintaining the right financial attitude. Beyond mindset, we can identify four key skills that the wealthy develop to build wealth.

Again, we look to Jamie McIntyre from 21st Century Academy. Jamie has identified four skills that are key to succeeding in wealth creation and presents them to us so that we can begin to work as individuals to improve our own wealth creation skill set.

Key Skills For Creating Wealth

Here are the four most important skills that you need to develop to create wealth and gain financial freedom.

1. Thinking Creatively. We are conditioned to let someone else do the thinking, and simply regurgitate what we’ve been told by another. The thing that the wealthy do differently is develop themselves as independent thinkers and creative problem solvers. A creative thinker can find a way to meet challenges and overcome. A creative thinker gives the answers, rather than wait for the answers to be given to them.

2. Negotiation. How do the rich get what they want? They negotiate. And that is just what you need to learn to do to get what you want in life. We know how to negotiate as kids, but lose this ability as we age and start to accept ‘no’ for an answer. The wealthy do not accept ‘no’ for an answer when they truly need something!

3. Communication. As Jamie says, it’s not enough for you to know that something is beneficial. You have to be able to convince others of the benefits of a thing as well. When you can sell the benefit of something, you can achieve your desired end result. You have to be able to communicate in an effective manner to do that.

4. Marketing. Focusing your efforts on an end result, and finding a way to market to the business or outside world to achieve that result. This is for anything, including an exchange of ideas or an exchange of goods and money. The wealthy succeed because they find creative, innovative, effective ways to market themselves and their ideas. Developing your brand of marketing skills is essential to wealth creation success.

Enjoy Wealth Creation Success

Fortunately, these are all skills that can be developed in a short amount of time. Start working today to develop the skills of the wealthy so that you, too can enjoy success in wealth creation!

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