Wealth Creation Blog

Among Christians, this is the Easter season, a time for forgiveness and forbearance. This is a holiday celebrated by many all over the world, even among the less religious. Practicing or no, religious or no, there is something that you can capture of this spirit to apply to your own success and empowerment, and wealth creation.

Forget The “Sins” Of The Past

Forget the financial “sins” and mistakes of the past. You are human. We all make mistakes. Whatever decisions you have made prior to now are done and over with, finished. All that is left is for you to learn from them where it’s appropriate and to move forward to a new and better financial life. Accept that to err is human and is okay. Accept that a few financial missteps (or even many) do not make you a bad person, just a person, and that you deserve to forgive yourself those missteps and to live a full, abundant life.

Put Your Energy In The Future

It is important to stop living in the past, because when we do that we spend a great lot of our energy in the past. That is time and energy we cannot get back, and so is useless, wasted energy.

The only energy that can be of benefit to us is that which we are expending for the here and now and for the future. It is to your absolute benefit to maximize the potential of your energy expenditures and to focus them on productive, not counter-productive actions and activities.

I wish you all a very Happy and Healthy Easter holiday, regardless of your spiritual or religious convictions, and hope that you take to heart the lessons of the season. Forgive and let go of the past, make the most of your future, and live well in a balanced, content life of abundance and prosperity.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com © 2004 – 2009

Going back to the conversation we started in the last post, I’d like to elaborate a little bit more on the topic of attracting a whole new life. As we said, this is the real goal of wealth and empowerment programs like Jamie McIntyre’s. And there are a couple of reasons why that is so.

Your Life Is Not A Financial Vacuum

You’ll find that any good financial empowerment program is not just about money. It is also about lifestyle, self awareness, achievement, and success. That success will not only be evaluated or defined in financial terms, either. That is because the best financial success programs understand money to be a tool for living well. Their goal is not to just accumulate large masses of money, but to teach you how to utilize that tool to achieve the best life possible.

The best wealth creation program will explore all the components of your life. Components like

• Happiness
• Love
• Health
• Goals and Achievement

And yes, money and wealth.

Succeeding In The Balanced Life

Success is never about one component. It is about all the components, working in combination and in balance with each other. When one component is out of line, the others, too, will falter.

The Law of Attraction is a very good illustrator of this point, and of why it is so important to do more than just learn how to make money. In the Law, good attracts good, and positive attracts positive. Negative attracts negative. Basing our success on this Law, it stands to reason that an imbalance in any sector of life will attract negativity to those other points, even those where we are putting in the added effort. Extend this out, and you can see how only focusing on the financial, and letting the rest of your life components flounder will work against your greatest efforts to build wealth.

I hope that you will consider this as you look toward the New Year with refreshed goals and determination. I hope that this year brings you all of the financial success and freedom you are working towards, but I also hope that it brings you balance and abundance in all other areas of your life. I hope that this year sees your life completely fulfilled, enjoying all that you deserve to enjoy.

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004 – 2009

On one of my other blogs we have been working our way through my free eBook, Mindset Mastery (which is an edited and updated, modernized version of Napoleon Hill’s Classic, Think and Grow Rich). I was duly inspired by one of my posts there, and decided to share this thought here, as it is so applicable to wealth creation and very much related to our talks as of late.

One Step, One Idea

We’ve talked here several times about how it only takes going that extra distance—that one step beyond where others just won’t go—in order to succeed and be wealthy. Napoleon Hill offers another take on that, one that for many is more achievable and embraceable. He says,

“One sound idea is all it takes for a person to achieve success.”

When you think of it that way, it seems so simple—and so achievable—to create wealth and be a success.

Out Of Many, One

I want you to think about that. Then think about how many ideas you have in the course of just one day. How many great ideas have you had that inspired you—that you feel have great potential, but that you just don’t pursue. Maybe it’s a time issue, a funding issue, a hesitation, a lack of confidence…there are so many reasons why you might not be following up on your great ideas. But let’s forget those for now.

For now, let’s just think about the possibility of it all. About how possible it is to have one single, solitary good idea. One thought. Think about how easy it is just to think. How quickly good ideas flash through your mind. If you are like others, your problem may be more about landing on “the one” than it is on having a good thought—often people have too many good ones to pick and choose and focus on. But for today, let’s take that abundance as an advantage.

All you need to do to succeed and build wealth is to have one good idea. One solid idea with potential. That much isn’t that hard to do, especially now that you know that’s all it takes.

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

Do you know what the difference between the journey of success and the journey of failure is? It’s one small step.

Where Most People Fail To Build Wealth

We talked about how the difference between the wealthy and the successful and the unsuccessful is the willingness to do what the average person will not and does not. And that willingness—the very difference between the wealthy and the financially struggling—comes down to one point in time. That time is the point where most people stop, throw up their hands, and give up in despair and defeat.

Most people fail at building wealth not because they aren’t capable, but because they believe they are not capable. And it would only take one step—one action—to move beyond that point to become a person of wealth and financial means.

Going One Step Further

All journeys begin with one step. That is not a new concept, and I’m sure you’ve heard it before. The longest voyage (which wealth creation is not, by the way) starts with just one forward motion. One step beyond that point where you might feel like giving up is the difference between success and failure; the difference between financial wealth, abundance, freedom, living well, and continued financial struggle and stress.

Knowing this is a powerful thing because there will be times when you feel like giving up. There will be moments when you think wealth is too far away from you; where you think it will just take too long to get there. And you will be tempted to give up—to resign yourself to the life you are living now as one that is comfortable enough and familiar. But then in a few weeks, or maybe just days, when you start to feel financial pressure again you will be back here, looking for more ways to achieve financial wealth. So it is best to know ahead of time that these moments are inevitable, and to know that all it takes to get past them is one more effort—one step further.

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

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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