Wealth Creation Blog

What if may be holding far too many of us back, but it can actually be quite easily overcome. Primarily, it’s that good old mindset thing that you need.

How You Can Stop What If In Its Tracks

There are a few steps that you can take, and probably more you can add and share, to get over the fear-based notion of ‘what if’ that may be holding you back from wealth creation. Let’s look at a few.

• Stay one step ahead. If you just stay one step ahead of the “unknown” then you will have something to ‘catch’ you on the other side. You may not be able to know the outcome of the whole, but if you just prepare for the next step and then the next, and have in place what you need for each step, you will make steady progress with the confidence not to worry overly much over events far off in the future.

• Build your own empire. The least control you have is in events you place in the control of others—for instance, your job, your financial control. Maximise your outcome by being in the seat of control for your life.

• Accept it. Accept that there is ALWAYS a ‘what if’ factor in life. Know that it is there, but do not let it control your life. Know that you can preempt it with a good plan, attitude, and mindset. Know that you are a smart, confident, capable person who can overcome obstacles that do arrive (because they will) and just know that that is life—life worth living and enjoying! Rise to the challenge!

You can’t always know the unknown, but you can prevent it from controlling your life. Start with these three suggestions and do share your own ideas, either here or at the wealth creation forum. Everything is better when we learn from each other!

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 - 2009

Did you know you are already independently wealthy? That you already, today, have every single thing that it takes to be wealthy? And as we know from our lessons of be, do, have, from [Name Withheld], once you BE wealthy, all you have to do is take those wealthy actions to HAVE money, success, and wealth.

Your Wealth List

Looking at your bank balance, perhaps you find it tough to believe that you are already wealthy. Let’s look at all the things you have going for you that are creating wealth for you.

• Brains. You have all the brains and intelligence it takes to build wealth. Making money and building wealth is not complex; there are plenty of ways to do it with a little knowledge and the ability to read. I know you’ve got that if you’ve gotten this far.
• Mindset. Building wealth is at least 90% mindset, and probably more. Set your mind to success, and it will be yours.
• Attitude. Very closely related to mindset, and in some people’s mind it is the same. I think of your attitude as your emotional health towards money and wealth and opportunity. See that yours is positive, and success will follow closely on its heals.
• Money. Think you don’t have any? I beg to differ. There is practically always money to start in wealth creation. Building an internet marketing business like mine takes only an internet and computer access—which you obviously have. What you need to do is decide to use at least a portion of your money for your purposes, and stop letting outside creditors have all the control.
• Motivation. You have motivation, you’re here. You are motivated to build wealth and do better. You may need to work a little harder to keep that motivation at first, but stick around and we’ll help you out
• Dedication. Dedicate your actions to your goals and your wealth and success. With a good mindset and dedication to see it through, you are an unstoppable wealth-creating force.

You see the list of necessities for building wealth is not long, and is not at all unattainable. It is also not all about money—you’ll notice money is only one very small factor here. You have everything that it takes to start creating wealth today. What else are you waiting for?

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 - 2009

The top wealth and finance experts will tell you that in order to build wealth you need to have the right mindset. No surprise there, it’s what we do and talk about here all the time. Just lately we’ve been tackling the issue by discussing our emotional attitudes towards money. This is something else the top experts will tell you—in order to build wealth, you have to come to terms with your true feelings towards money.

Be One With Your Emotions

We’ve been talking a lot lately about dealing with those emotions that we hold towards money and wealth—the feelings that grow from our upbringings, experiences, exposure, and the attitudes of others around us from a very early age.

It is absolutely essential to deal with these emotions because if you do not they will quietly undercut everything you do to create wealth. However, it is not enough to just say or think that you are dealing with them; to effectively deal with your attitudes and emotions about money, you need to deal in absolute honesty with yourself.

Digging Up The Past

Many of us do not want to do that, primarily for one of two reasons:

• We do not want to admit our own denial of money or past ignorance;
• Dealing with our emotions may require us to dig up past feelings and experiences, and that can sometimes be painful.

It’s understandable that you might want to just move forward and not have to look back and relive less than enjoyable experiences. But doing that is the only way to really understand why you do what you do and what is really blocking your path to wealth. When you have the courage to be honest about your emotions and your denial of money, you clear all the space in your mind and your life for much bigger, better, more productive plans and actions.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 - 2009

If you survey a cross section of the population and ask them if becoming wealthy is possible for the average man or woman, you will probably get a very negative response by and large. As an entirely non-scientific estimation, I would venture that your response will be somewhere between 90 and 95 (+) percent of respondents who will say that no, the average person will never be wealthy, and that wealth is unattainable for the regular man or woman. In many ways their predictions will be right, but not for the reasons that they will give you.

Wealth Is Improbable

Wealth is improbable for the average person; the statistics prove it. The average man or woman, by the age of retirement, will be either dead, broke, or relying on someone else (family, government, or both) for their financial and living support. This is what working hard all your life gets for more than 96% of the world’s developed population. That makes becoming wealthy a highly improbable occurrence, at least if you look only at the statistic numbers.

Wealth Is Not Impossible

However, if you look at the reasons why this is true, then you can begin to see that while wealth may be statistically improbable, it is not at all impossible—so that 95% would still be incorrect.

Wealth is not statistically improbable because those 96% do not have the ability to build wealth; it is improbable only because they do not believe that they can. They believe more in the impossibility of becoming wealthy, and so they become convinced that there is some reason why they and all the people like them cannot be. What they ignore is the fact that the wealthy are just like them, too—there’s nothing different about them except for the fact that they have at some point become privy to a different kind of financial education (formal or informal) and they have a different mindset and attitude towards money and wealth. They do not, however, enjoy significant differences in intelligence, and not necessarily in opportunity (some will, some won’t, but even those who do have more opportunity to begin with will lose it and wind up without wealth without the right management, strategy, and attitude).

The numbers may prove that wealth as it stands today is an improbable thing, but they say nothing about the possibility of becoming wealthy—they only reflect history, not future wealth. The future is yours to create and change.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 - 2009

We talk a lot about how we as humans end up with default settings for our attitudes and emotions. By the time you reach adulthood, often many of those defaults are on the side of negative. But you can reset your default settings so that you take the most productive actions possible.

Why Defaults Matter

Default attitudes, reactions, and emotions matter because they dictate the actions that we take and the attitudes we cultivate—the mindsets that we live in. Many adults have automatic default settings of skepticism or cynicism, which makes us mistrust our own emotions and instincts, and even our own informed decisions. Too often, we just can’t believe in the simplicity of life and wealth, or the possibilities that are presented before us. We cannot even believe in our own ability to take control of our lives and create our own realities.

In the end, we spend too much time living lives of negativity. It becomes a chore just to think positively. On the other hand, if your default and belief system is one of positivity and productivity, then you cultivate those things in your life—whereas a cynical default setting cultivates more negativity.

Resetting Your Defaults

Resetting your defaults requires you to first evaluate what your “go-to” attitudes and opinions are, and then work to recognize them every time they become an issue. When you feel yourself automatically looking for the negative, remind yourself that there is positivity to be found, and that you should go there first. You need to look within yourself to determine why you act or react in the way that you do, and if there is real basis for it, or if you are simply reacting based on a negative default setting.

What it all comes down to is resetting your attitudes towards money and wealth, and giving yourself the capacity to succeed through a positive mindset of possibility. I assure you, life is a much more enjoyable thing when you believe in the good and possibility of life, rather than always assuming the worst.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 - 2009