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Breaking down the concept of financial self empowerment even further, one of the most powerful tools you can give yourself is the power of choice. When you truly understand that it is you who controls your financial destiny, you can begin to make changes to your financial management plan and begin to make a real difference in how much money you keep to build wealth and how much you pay away.

Who Controls Your Money Now?

Who do you honestly feel is in control of your money now? If we are being honest, the average person probably would not say that he or she is the person in control of their money. Likely the answer will be creditors—the people they owe money to—the bills they pay.

Most people feel that, although they work hard to make their money, they have no real control over it. The many people that they owe money to, either as debt or repayment of services, is who they feel are really in control, as in their mind’s eye those people already have their money before they are even paid.

The piece of the puzzle that is missing here—and it is missing for so many before they come to be financially empowered through wealth creation—is that those debt collectors are not really in control. You are! You control who you pay and when you pay them. Every month, you make the choice to pay your debts and bills. It is you who signs the check, authorizes the electronic payment, and sends the money to them. So who is really in control? Again I say it is you.

Pay Attention To Who Controls The Cash

In the interest of realizing the power that you already hold over your finances and wealth accumulation, start paying attention to who really controls your money. When you do you will see that yes, indeed, you are making a choice, and that choice is yours to make. And once you realize that you are in the seat of control, you can start to make the choices that create change.

Take control and enjoy the power of choice. Choose today what the financial outcome of your future will be.

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

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

Going back to the post regarding meeting the basic human needs, you’ll remember that we talked about how all people meet these needs. Although all people meet basic human needs in some way, we do not all do so constructively. Moreover, some of us will meet some needs positively and others negatively, and sometimes the one cancels out the other. Evaluating how you meet the most basic needs of life can take you onto a higher plane of living, allowing you to make the most of wealth creation and the most of life. This is one of the important and primary lessons Jamie McIntyre will teach you in the 21st Century Academy courses. I’ll overview this here, but to really maximize the advantages of this understanding, you’ve got to read Jamie McIntyre’s in-depth discussion.

Levels Of Fulfillment And Means Of Meeting Needs

People meet their needs in both positive and negative ways. Some use destructive vehicles to do so, and some use very positive means to their ends. Most often, the level of fulfillment you enjoy and your vehicle for need fulfillment relate directly to each other.

You may be meeting individual needs on low, moderate, or high levels. Specific needs may be met on different levels and in different ways; coordinately, the way you meet one need may be detrimental to how you meet another.

For example, you may meet your need for connection and love by entering into relationships; if your relationships are frequent, you may also meet your need for diversity in this way, but in so doing you are bringing down the level of fulfillment you feel from relationships as a builder of connectivity. In the end, neither need is fulfilled to any meaningful degree.

Some other ways needs are met, in either constructive or destructive ways could be:

• Substance/drug/alcohol use

• Food

• Sex

• Learning

• Reading

• Seminars/workshops

• Criticizing

• Spirituality

• Spending money

• Saving money

• Investing money

• Teaching leading

• Sympathy or self-pity

This list goes on and on and only gets more varied. Jamie McIntyre’s list in his writings and 21st Century Academy programs is far more comprehensive, and much better at illustrating the delicate balance between needs and fulfillment.

The key for you is to evaluate the ways you meet your basic needs, and strike a balance that works positively and constructively towards meeting all needs and growing as a successful, happy, financially stable person. Meeting basic needs is very much related to success in wealth creation, because the things you do that you think make you feel better may just be thwarting your best intentions and efforts.

Learn about balancing needs and fulfillment, and learn to meet needs constructively, enjoying the natural success that follows. This is the sort of education the 21st Century Academy gives you, the sort of really life-changing education that breeds financial success.

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

One of the ways that you can fund your wealth creation program is by increasing your income. That’s a lot easier said than done, but if you are really getting what you are worth, it’s a heck of a lot easier than if you are working for short pay.

Are You Worth Your While?

Many people are not getting what they are worth. They know it, and their work shows it. It shows to the client, the customer, and to the boss. And it creates a never-ending cycle of negativity and suffering income. Let’s think about this. You take a job for whatever reason, at pay that you may or may not believe to be fair. For some, the money was never there and they knew it; for others, what seemed like a good deal in the beginning is going south, or stagnating to the point that the job is not worth the effort you’re putting in.

After a time, you feel devalued and so you devalue your work—why give away the goods? Why not just put in the effort that you are being compensated for?

Unfortunately, you create a situation for yourself that does you no good. You are not showing your boss your best effort, and your boss is not at all inclined to increase the earnings of someone just barely meeting their job requirements.

This may not exactly be the situation you are currently in, but you get the general idea. Maybe the problem is more like you not valuing yourself highly, and so you allow yourself to be taken advantage of financially.

Value-Added Services

Whatever is at the root of your problem, the situation can be remedied. This year, make a point of increasing your own value and worth, so that you can be bringing in the money you deserve, and subsequently funding your plan for creating wealth.

In future posts, we’ll talk more about the specific strategies for increasing your worth—either in your current position or in a new one. We’ll talk about some specific strategies for increasing your worth and reaping the financial rewards of your proven worth; and all of this with an eye toward creating the mindset of a successful creator of wealth so that you can enjoy that elusive financial freedom you’ve been striving for.

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