Wealth Creation Blog

Continuing on with our analysis of thought, mindset, and wealth creation, let’s talk about the size of the thoughts you have—particularly, are they big enough?

Success Proportional To Thoughts

It’s been said more times than you’d care to count—”I think about money, so if thinking your way to financial success is all there is to it, why aren’t I rich by now?”

When this is the question the answer that inevitably must be asked is, how big are the thoughts you are thinking?

If you want to be wealthy you have to think wealthy thoughts; and you have to make sure that the thoughts, the “size” of your thoughts, is comparable to your end goal. In other words, if you think about money in terms of a few hundred dollars here and there, if you envision yourself as being only slightly more comfortable than you are now, then that is where your thoughts will take you.

If you want to be wildly wealthy with a bank account numbering in the millions, then you have to think big thoughts. Thousand dollar thoughts will not get you to million dollar goals. Million dollar thoughts do that.

When you really understand the concept behind the wealth creation mindset and behind thinking your way to wealth, you understand that it is about more than a few fanciful or fleeting thoughts and dreams. Financial success through conscious thought (and indeed subconscious, too) is more active and more goal-oriented. Expect that your thoughts will attract the wealth that is proportional to them. If it’s not working for you despite your best thoughts and efforts consider that you probably need to think bigger and more successfully.

Your thoughts can lead you to wealth. But you have to give those thoughts their rightful due. Empower your thoughts by more clearly aligning them with your real financial goals.

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

We’re almost there—to having wealth. We started with being wealthy, and then we talked about what that meant. We know that the reason to be wealthy is so that you can take wealthy actions—because poor people do not take wealthy actions, they take actions that impoverish. Logically, then, our next move is to figure out how to act wealthily.

Define Wealthy Action

Most people are more than willing to take wealthy action. It’s easy to convince them to be wealthy and act wealthy…or at least it would be if they knew how. If you can figure out the actions that wealthy people take, then you could begin to mimic them and develop wealthy habits and actions all your own. Let’s start, then, by taking a look at wealthy actions that are possible for you to undertake now.

Before we do though, I want you to keep in mind one thing—that even a small wealthy action is a good step. That wealthy action is a step towards having financial wealth—money! And also, one step leads to another, which continues the cycle of wealthy action, which continues on to being wealthy, more action, and more wealth. So even if all you can do is find one wealthy act to take today, you are being wealthy and building more wealth.

To start, think about the things that the wealthy do and do not do. If we take a lead from wealth creation, we know that the wealthy

• Make money work for them

• Save and make themselves a financial priority

• Buy quality

• Do not think in terms of want and need—they think in terms of getting and having, of finding ways to get and to have

Any one of these are things that you can do today—you can save money, put it in an account which bears interest (working for you), role it into an investment or share purchase, put off the cheap and easy purchase for a purchase of quality, or simply make a plan to get what you desire. On one level or another you can do each of these things today.

One wealthy action is all it takes. Take an action. Continue the cycle, and let it loose! Act as the wealthy to be wealthy.

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

We talked about how you need to be wealthy in order to have the things that a wealthy person has; in order to build wealth. But how can you be wealthy if you don’t know what that is? There is only one answer, then. To learn what it is to be wealthy.

What Is Wealth?

What is wealth? How do you learn what wealth is? What it is to be wealthy? Can you read it? Maybe. Someone else’s definition might give you some guidance, but more than likely you will have to define the term for yourself.

Wealth means many different things to many different people. Of course here we are mostly talking about financial wealth (although we also recognize that financial wealth contributes to other forms of wealth), but we do recognize that there is more to wealth than money. Wealth might also be

• Abundance
• Absence of need
• Happiness
• Contentment
• Success
• Enjoyment

…or anything else meaningful that you want to add to the list.

If we can accept things such as these as characteristics of the wealthy, then we can be wealthy in many ways even before we have the money that is so often used to define wealth (which is a subjective measure anyway).

The real point is that you can be wealthy, as we talked about, without money. You can be wealthy right now if you really want to be—if you decide to be. When you define what wealth is, you can change your thoughts to be wealthy thoughts. For instance, if wealth means absence of need, change your thoughts from being needy thoughts into being proactive thoughts. Instead of thinking you need something and you cannot have it, think that you are taking measures to obtain it.

You should create your own list of attributes and definitions, as wealth is personal. Develop that list, and then look for the possibilities within it-look for how you are wealthy now, and how you can become wealthier. When you do, you can start taking those wealthy actions, and then you will begin to have those things (money, financial wealth, things that money can buy) that wealthy actions reap.

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

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