Wealth Creation Blog

Free-time is hard to come by. Finding time to learn new things is hard, too. So why learn everything all over again? Why not stick with what you know for as long as it is useful to you? Why not apply the skills and knowledge you have now to your strategies for building wealth?

Maybe you are saying the answer to these questions is that you have no skills that lend to financial investment and wealth creation. I beg to differ.

Do What You Know Now

Very few people are at a complete lack of skills that can be utilized to create wealth. I dare say that if you are intelligent enough to recognize your need, to recognize the benefit of changing your financial future, and to take the action that has led you here that you most definitely have some skill that is usable for investing and making money. At the very least you have a desire and motivation, and the ability to learn and grow. That’s nothing worth ignoring.

If you look within yourself chances are you have much more. It could be something as practical as having home maintenance skills—even as simple as knowing how to house-paint—a talent to be applied to real estate investing. Or it could be something more academic like a propensity for mathematics and records-keeping—a talent that surely helps in valuing stocks and shares. There is something there, and for sure you will find one or more pathways to investing where it will prove useful.

Prioritize Learning Time

Of course learning new skills is not a bad thing, but it does take time. By using the skills you have readily available now you can devote that time to getting a financial education—to empowering yourself for wealth. Spend that time learning the more important aspects, and then later, with those firmly under your belt, move on to pursue more interests. In the meantime, why waste time? Put your own skills to work today to create wealth tomorrow.

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

Perhaps I was hard on you in the last post, so let’s lighten it up a bit and see if we can’t do something real to alleviate your pressure and open up some time so that adding more to your day can be less taxing. In reality there are few people who get time-management right. Few people are as disciplined as they could or should be, and so the bulk of us are wasting time that could be used instead for something really good—something like getting rich, building wealth. That’s a pretty good reward for a little more discipline, isn’t it?

Don’t Find Time, Make Time

You cannot find time. It already exists. You already have all the time you are going to get. So if you are spending your days looking for more so that you can start to create wealth, you will be disappointed. The time is there, you just need to find a way to make it happen for you.

One way to make time happen is to take away that which steals it from you. You may think this is impossible, but for most people it is not. Let’s take a look, then, at the things that can possibly go.

• Mindless entertainment—relaxation is important, but if you could give up some mindless TV, movies, or trashy novels you can replace them with educational wealth videos and podcasts, financial empowerment books, and motivational CD’s.

• Time wasters—there are so many possibilities here it seems an endless subject. Are other people wasting your time? Don’t let them. Do you talk on the phone too much? Email too much? IM? Spend more time than is necessary in meetings and travel (can you work from home and spend less time commuting)?

• Obsessions—some of us do things too well—things that don’t really matter that much. Maybe you vacuum three times a day or obsessively check your email. Figure out what is necessary and good, do that, but nothing more.

I’m sure you can add to this list. Maybe you can even give me some tips. If you can please do. We all need more time for what is most important, beneficial, and productive. We all need more time to prioritize our financial futures. We all need to make that time.

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

There aren’t always nice ways to find time to see to our own wealth creation. Sometimes the answer lies in taxing ourselves more, pushing ourselves harder, and taking more upon ourselves. I wish I could tell you that this wasn’t something that you might need to do, but it is a plain and simple truth—sometimes the road to wealth means sacrificing and working harder.

Put More In, Get More Out

The more you put into something the more you will get out of it, yes? So the more you put into your day the more you will get out of it, true? If you want to start progressing in your efforts to make money and secure financial freedom, you just might have to take a little less leisure time or even get a little less sleep to get it done. If there is nothing else to give, that may be the only way.

Sometimes the only love is tough love, and the answers aren’t all rosy. But you know as well as I that the sacrifice and the added work will be worth it in the end. And as soon as you start to see the benefits of that additional load you can begin to relax elsewhere (such as at work) and enjoy the fruits of your labor.

The fact of the matter is that nothing comes from stagnation. The only thing a lack of action attracts is more lack of action. To make things happen, to start seeing a return on your time and financial education, you have to act in some way. There has to be time to do that or there will be no progress.

No doubt many of you are thinking that your lives are already too full. That is a primary motivation for wanting to be wealthy. And no doubt it is very true. But the fact remains that only you control your financial destiny, and only you can make it change. And the only way to do that is to start acting now and eliciting that change. So if it means you have to find an extra half an hour or hour that is what will have to happen. Put more in, and you’ll be rewarded for your commitment and dedication to your personal wealth.

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

The only way to build wealth is to find the time and commit to it. It’s a statement that many people don’t like to hear because their days are already too full. Your family, work, and personal commitments need you. You need you, but you don’t have time to attend to you. How in the world will you find the time to commit to wealth creation in a way that will be of any use at all?

What Do You Want To Do?

One way is to ask that question and answer it truthfully.

What do you want to do? What do you like? What is interesting to you?

I’m sure you can relate that if you are doing something of interest it is much easier to commit to it and to find the time to do it. It will not feel like drudgery, but will feel like a reward—finally, the time to do something for you, of interest to you. It could just become that hobby that you have so badly needed to pursue; only with the added benefit of making money and securing your financial future!

Finding Possiblility

Creating wealth isn’t about applying a one-size-fits-all investment approach to everyone. It is about teaching people to find possibility and to utilize several different, yet all very real, investment and money-making tools to make money and gain financial prosperity and freedom. You shouldn’t come into this thinking that you have to muddle through and drag yourself along so that you can someday begin to enjoy life. You should come into this with a spirit of positivity, enjoying what you do and learning to build upon it so that you can find even more enjoyment even as you build wealth.

Creating wealth is a full-life overhaul. It requires work and dedication, which requires a time commitment, but when you love what you do it’s easy to find that time to devote to you, because you’ll have all the best reasons to do it. Your financial gain and security, and your personal interest at heart—your life’s enjoyment!

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

All of us have something that we get hung-up on in life. These hang-ups take many forms and are highly individual. However, they are highly manageable, too.

What Is Your Wealth Creation Hang-Up?

The first step in overcoming personal hang-ups or barriers is to recognize what they are. Recognize their presences, pay them their due attention, and then resolve to overcome them. As with any progressive process identification is key to resolution.

So first take a moment to try to identify some of the barriers that weigh you down. These could be anything, like

• The financial fear factor of working against ingrained financial systems (as we talked about before)

• Subconscious wiring that holds you back from financial success

• Your attitude toward what money is and represents

• The fear of success

• Finding the personal resolve and fortitude and perseverance to see yourself through to wealth and financial freedom

Your hang-ups could be large and glaringly obvious or they could be very much hidden and buried. It could take you quite a long time to identify what is holding you back. But just knowing that there is something there and that you are working towards uncovering and correcting it will be progress and enlightenment in and of itself.

Moving Beyond Personal Barriers To Financial Success

Sometimes it is hard to overcome these barriers. An attitude of positivity helps. The guidance you seek through wealth education and research will help you identify some of the more common hang-ups that impede individual wealth, and will tune you in to your own self so that you can more easily identify and manage them.

Building wealth is, in many ways, a study in self-improvement. The benefits are many even beyond financial gain. This part of the process is just one of the ways that you will become a stronger, healthier person by pursuing financial prosperity. It is one that you will, no doubt, come to value very highly.

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