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There will always be cynical people and nay-sayers in your life who will very freely tell you how impossible your dreams and goals are to achieve. With that kind of attitude, they certainly always will be. You are likely to realize just who and how many there are in your life when you start selecting whose influence you will absorb. You can easily turn the table on the cynics, though, and put a halt to the negative impact they have on your life.

The Best Revenge

We try not to be vengeful here, because vengeance is just another form of negative energy—a waste. Still, as the saying goes, living well is the best kind of revenge. So stop wasting energy worrying about what your cynical, negative friends and family say and take comfort that in the end, your actions and accomplishments will speak for themselves.

In the meantime, there are actually a few ways that you can turn the tables on their ‘advice’, and possibly even put it to good use for you.

For example, consider this. Often when a cynic speaks out there is some small grain of truth in what they say—they’ve just searched really hard to ferret out the worst-case scenario or some reason you should be as miserable as them. As it helps to always know your situation and options all-around, you can take that basis of truth under advisement; think about their point, consider it, research it if it warrants it, and address the issue if it is a real concern. Just be careful not to give it too much weight and time—this is an exercise in proactive success; we’re not looking just to find reasons that whatever it is you are doing can’t work (we’re just being objective).

The Cynical Challenge

You could also use their cynicism as your motivation. Go ahead and set out to prove them all wrong. Work positively to show them the error of their ways and all the while benefit from it yourself. You may even turn a few away from the ‘dark side’ and help along another who otherwise would resign him- or herself to a life of financial struggle.

We can’t stop negativity and cynicism from buzzing around us, but we can control its impact. Be prepared and decide now what route you will take to turn cynicism on its head—there’ll be no stopping you from achieving financial freedom then!

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

I recently shared my life story at my personal blog, SeanRasmussen.com. I enjoyed many inspiring and supportive comments from friends/readers there. Some of them, quite striking and so true; like this one from Michael:

“If you always do what you have done, then you will always get what you have gotten.”
Michael, Commenter at SeanRasmussen.com

Change Your Consequence

This is not the first time these words, or similar to them, have been spoken (in fact Michael was quoting, too), but I thought he put it quite nicely and succinctly and offered a timely reminder. This is the key to improving your life. If you want things to be better, you have to take different actions than those which you have taken before.

This simple piece of quality advice can be applied to anything in your life. We think of it primarily in terms of wealth creation here, since that’s our topic, but it’s true of anything that is causing you discomfort in life.

Taking this from the perspective of the wealth creator, let’s look at some of the things that may need changing, which of course depend on your personal situation. It might be that you need to change

• Your attitude toward money
• Your financial intelligence
• Your money management practices or skills
• Your job or profession
• Your emotional intelligence, as this impacts on money, wealth, and finance whether or not you are aware of it

Leaving The Past Behind

People often resist change, because we fear the unknown. It’s not hard to understand why that is, but you have to come to terms with that and be able to face change if you want to face wealth. I think it’s fair to say that if you are here, you are probably looking for guidance towards a better financial life, and a better life overall as a result of that. That tells me that you are not happy with where you are right now, at least not entirely, and that you want something to improve and to change. Well, the same actions that got you here will only result in the same consequence. Start thinking positively today about the possibilities of change and the great benefits that change will bring to you.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

We’ve been talking a lot about attitude and emotion and how you “should” feel about all manner of things from the local and world economy to the investment climate to the fitness of the world for wealth creation. We discussed not letting others dictate how you “should” feel about all of this, and instead being in control of your financial emotions. Now, let’s refine that a bit.

Who Cues Your Financial Emotion?

Does watching the news or the daily market report leave you feeling despondent? Do you shake your head through the entire newscast and leave your set feeling worse than when you’d arrived? Do you generally feel good about your financial position or your daily living and feel that with some concerted effort to build wealth you could be quite comfortable….but then lose that feeling as soon as you read the next internet or media report on the state of the country or world?

If this sounds familiar, you are taking too many cues from the outside world and not trusting your own instincts enough. And that will become, if it hasn’t already, a big problem for you as you continue to work toward personal wealth.

When you take your financial/emotional cues from others, you do a couple of things:

• You undercut your own confidence and ability by essentially telling yourself your own instincts and emotions are not trustworthy.
• You back-step and undo everything in wealth creation that you have already accomplished.
• You start living with a scarcity mindset instead of an abundance mentality.
• You attract more negativity and scarcity to you, instead of abundance and positive energy.

All of this makes it very hard to build wealth and achieve the end goal of financial freedom. The case is certainly not hopeless, though. All you have to do is rebuild trust in your own emotions and take your cues from you, not from the outside world.

People actually have a very good sense of the potential of things, we just suppress it. Take life head-on, trust your feelings, and continue to remain positive about any endeavor, and you will surely be an unstoppable force in creating personal wealth.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

Attitude is very similar to emotion; and like emotion, attitude plays a very important role in wealth creation. Either one can make or break your efforts at creating wealth and achieving financial freedom.

Define Attitude

Here is What Wikipedia has to say about attitude:

“An attitude is a hypothetical construct that represents an individual’s degree of like or dislike for an item. Attitudes are generally positive or negative views of a person, place, thing, or event– this is often referred to as the attitude object. People can also be conflicted or ambivalent toward an object, meaning that they simultaneously possess both positive and negative attitudes toward the item in question.

“Attitudes are judgments. They develop on the ABC model (affect, behavior, and cognition). The affective response is an emotional response that expresses an individual’s degree of preference for an entity. The behavioral intention is a verbal indication or typical behavioral tendency of an individual. The cognitive response is a cognitive evaluation of the entity that constitutes an individual’s beliefs about the object. Most attitudes are the result of either direct experience or observational learning from the environment.”

As you can see, attitudes are emotional responses. They are also things that are learned or conditioned over time. That means that attitudes are not set in stone, either—they can be influenced by your concerted effort and by opening your mind through education and exposure (even informal education via books, research, etc.). Your financial attitude does not need to stay the same as it has always been, you can modify your attitude towards money if you will put in the effort.

Changing Attitude And Communication

To illustrate the fact, read further (from Wikipedia):

“Unlike personality, attitudes are expected to change as a function of experience…

“Attitudes can be changed through persuasion. The celebrated work of Carl Hovland, at Yale University in the 1950s and 1960s, helped to advance knowledge of persuasion. In Hovland’s view, we should understand attitude change as a response to communication.”

So not only can attitudes change, they are expected to do so; and the key to that change? Communication in its many forms (written, spoken, etc.). It seems that since you are here communicating via this electronic medium, you are on a great path for positive attitude development and resulting wealth creation. Cheers to that!

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

One of the things I like to do here on this blog is to show people how to bust down the barriers that (they think) stand in their way to financial freedom. No matter who you are, those barriers will be there. It’s just a product of our upbringing and life up to this point. Those barriers could be in the form of blame and excuses, denial, mindset, attitude, or life-pressures like work, family obligations, and all the other “stuff” we have to attend to. Actually, they will probably take all of those forms.

Time For Deconstruction

By the time you are an adult and come to realize that there has got to be a better way, and by the time you take action and start pursuing wealth creation, you will have a great many barriers that stand in your way. Your greatest tool for deconstruction of those barriers is a good wealth education—an education for life that will not only teach you to build wealth, but teach you how to make the fundamental changes in your mindset and lifestyle to be able to build wealth. But with all the many pressures and obligations of life, even finding the time to do what you know you should is hard.

Wealth Is Waiting

Making that time is one of the hardest things for people to do. We are all too busy, too pressured (which is exactly why we need to achieve financial freedom in the first place! Another paradox!). Here’s the thing, though. That wealth you are trying to build is waiting for you. And it will continue to wait until you can get there. Everyone gets there at their own pace, so pace yourself, do something for yourself, and start small if you have to, but do always know that all forward progress is progress, and is putting you that much closer to being rich and financially free!

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
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