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Another effective strategy for wealth creation that I was reminded of the other day at Ange’s Attracting Wealth blog was success affirmations. Affirmations are simple to use, but help to keep you focused, and as a result hugely more productive.

What Is A Success Affirmation?

What is a success affirmation? It is simply a statement of purpose. The most effective are those that you commit to every day. If you read Ange’s post, you’ll see her list of several simple affirmations—promises, commitments she makes to herself that help to keep her focused on the most important and productive tasks, but also allow her the time to live life and minimize stress and pressure.

For instance, you might affirm that you will put your needs above those of others. You might affirm that you commit to doing one thing to better your financial position today. You might also affirm that you will spend half an hour doing something that is healthy for you—exercising, etc., and another half an hour just relaxing and refocusing. Or, as Ange does, maybe you affirm that you will spend one hour on each important task, and only spend time on the others if time permits—that way you attend to the most important tasks at hand.

Success affirmations are used throughout wealth and empowerment courses and strategies. Many use them only as a personal commitment to mindset and spirit, and let the more pragmatic tasks grow from that commitment—for instance, “I am a person who deserves to master my time”. Others use them as Ange has, as a mixture of both. You should do whatever works for you.

Reaffirming Success, Everyday

It is important to sit down, decide what your affirmations will be (and limit how many you have so that they maintain their effectiveness), and then repeat them; reaffirm your success and commitment every day. Start your day out this way, and this will become the background music of your life—which means you will not have to work so hard to remember what you are doing and why.

Success affirmations are your commitment to you, which in turn becomes your commitment to wealth and to all of those who share your life. Make that commitment—you deserve it! See how this simple wealth strategy can easily turn into so much more.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 - 2009

I came across an interesting wealth creation and self empowerment tactic the other day, where a person talked about writing a commitment to himself. This struck me as a simple but empowering way to not just set goals (it’s more than that), but to make a contract with yourself to guide you.

Contractual Commitments

Formalizing goals in some way makes it easier for us to achieve them. Like the personal business plan, it gets the goals and benchmarks down in writing and gives us something to come back to regularly so that we can stay on track and remember what it was that was important and why.

This idea goes a step further. It doesn’t just list goals for a period of time (say a year), it makes promises, commitment—a commitment to yourself to do better for you.

Making You Accountable For You

Making a commitment to yourself adds a measure of personal responsibility and accountability that a list of goals just doesn’t have. A list is just that—a list. A list is neutral. A commitment on the other hand is not. It is charged with the kind of dedication, determination, emotion, and levity that you need so that you can respect it and feel accountable to it, and to you.

This commitment can be in any form—a contract, a letter to you, a blog post to you shared with your readers (going public with your goals is motivating!)…a journal entry…any form that you like. The important part is the commitment, dedication, and meaning behind it.

What is that meaning? It is that you matter to you. With this commitment you are finally, formally prioritizing the most important person in your life, the only person who can make your life better so that you can be more to those who rely on and matter to you.

Today is a good time to sit down with yourself and some quiet and make those promises and commitments that you’ve deserved all along. Make a commitment to a better life for yourself, give yourself the due respect you deserve, and walk away feeling all the better for knowing that finally, the financial freedom you want to achieve is a life’s priority because you’ve made it so.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 - 2009

This post relates to several things we’ve talked about here in the recent weeks. It relates to our discussions on fear and failure, and it relates to the blame-game we play when we don’t achieve what we’ve set out to achieve. It also relates to preempting goal failure by going prepared with a course of wealth education that has what it takes to teach you to make money and maintain the wealth mindset. It is also very much in relation to the last post regarding curiosity or commitment and Jamie McIntyre’s message.

Understanding Elemental Points

If we were to take all of these posts and boil them down to a few single points, one of those points would be this:

A wealth education is an essential path, but it can only take you so far. To reach the ultimate goal of wealth, you yourself have to do the traveling. The best of wealth education courses, materials, seminars…the best motivational speakers, the best of everything the world of wealth creation has to offer can only do so much for you. In reality, all they can do is present you with the tools and opportunity to build wealth and achieve success. Not to belittle the extreme importance of those tools and opportunities, but they are what they are….vehicles you have to drive.

The Best Information And Products Can Only Take You So Far

The rest is up to you. You have to be willing to walk that road to find the rewards along it. That’s important to know, too—wealth is not just a pot of gold at the end, it’s a collection of smaller successes and rewards along the way.

No one can make the journey or put the work into wealth creation on your behalf, and have you come out the winner. We can help, and that’s what we’re here to do, and what programs like the 21st Century Academy are here to do. But you have to commit and understand that effort is a requisite contribution. It’s all effort that you can certainly manage, but elemental to your success nonetheless.

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
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