Wealth Creation Blog

Some of you also follow along on my personal blog at SeanRasmussen.com. If you do, you probably are familiar with the Mindset Mastery series. For those of you who are not familiar with this series, this is a series of posts where we work our way through my updated version of the Napoleon Hill classic, Think and Grow Rich (I’ve edited and revised the book so as to make it more applicable to modern life, and offer it as a freed download with the newly revised named, Mindset Mastery).

While working up some posts for the Mindset Mastery series, I came across a couple of quotes by Napoleon Hill which inspired me for posts here on the Wealth Creation Blog. Not really a surprise, so much of Hill’s book is quote-worthy, but these two especially stood out as excellent stand-alone morsels of advice. I’ll dish up one of them for you today.

Only You Limit Your Mind

“There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.”

Think about this. As humans we are constantly thinking about what limitations are set upon us; about what factors may make or break something as a possibility or opportunity. It is our perceived limitations that cause us the greatest anguish in wealth creation. What we’ve learned through our studies and discussion here, from all the greats of wealth creation, is that those limitations are almost always just perception, and are hardly ever really reality.

With this quote Napoleon Hill takes this a step further—with our minds freed, we can do and accomplish anything we set out to do. Limitation is not an excuse because the limits of our minds are only set by our own acknowledgment—what we decide are or are not limits for us. We can just as easily choose not to limit our minds—to develop a confidence in our own abilities, and to shun those who would tell us that our hopes, dreams, plans, and wealth are not possible.

If you can learn to drown out the negativity and noise, you can look inward and put your energy into your own mind and opportunities. In all of life, you choose what your beliefs will be. Choose you! Choose to not limit your mind, and you can think your way to prosperity and financial freedom.

Join me again tomorrow and I’ll bring you another pearl from Mr. Napoleon Hill.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com © 2004 – 2009

How often have you been told here that the two keys to wealth and success are [first] mindset, and [second] action? Countless. And few people argue that. To build wealth you have to develop the mindset of the wealthy, and then you have to take actions that are capable of producing wealth. A lot of people get hung up on the action-taking, though. Why? Often the cause is perfection.

Perfection As The Enemy Of Progress

This is a piece of advice I’ve actually given in the past to the readers at my Wealth Creation Affiliate blog. It applies very logically to them—affiliates will wait to long for their website promotions, etc to be perfectly “right” and will miss out on so many opportunities and wind up just wasting time. The same applies to creating wealth—if you wait for the perfect moment to take action and get started, you’ll never get going!

Does this mean that you go ahead without getting educated? Without learning how to direct your efforts? No. Does it mean developing wealth needs no strategy or structure? No.

This simply means that it is okay to start taking actions towards wealth and good living without perfecting that strategy. Start small and grow. Positive action will attract more positive action, and will put you into the habit of prioritizing your wealth, goal-setting, achieving, and snowballing that into more wealth, and on and on. You can always change and develop your plans and strategies later. But you need to at least start somewhere. Remember that one step? This is it.

Perfection is elusive, impossible for humans. Mistakes are okay—they are opportunities. Even failures are opportunities. If you are waiting for everything to be perfect, that time will never come. If you are waiting until you know all there is to know about building wealth, you will find there is always something new to learn. The best course of action is to start learning, apply what you know, and start acting to become wealthy today.

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

There isn’t a lot I can claim to know about the Laws of Physics, but I can recognize a basic principal of success when I see one. Interestingly enough, there are certain of these basic principles that can be applied to wealth creation, motivation, and personal success.

The Laws Of Inertia

Remember the Law of Inertia? The law that says, “a body in motion stays in motion” and “a body at rest stays at rest”? That until an outside force is applied to said body or object, that state will not change? Let’s think about that for a minute, and see what this law of physics can tell us about building wealth.

Financial Implications of Inertia

Whatever your money is doing now it will continue to do—nothing if that is the case. Your money will stay the same course until you apply a force to move it in a different direction—a wealthier direction. Unless you change the path or state of your money, nothing with it will change and it cannot grow. Your money needs your help!

Personal Implications Of Inertia

On a personal level, inertia relates directly to your level of motivation, action, and hence success. Unless something changes to change the current state and redirect the motion (or lack thereof) you personally will not change. You will not achieve anything different in life.

• If you continue to do nothing you will not build wealth.

• If you continue to procrastinate or stay unmotivated you will not change and take action.

• If you do not change the path you are traveling you will continue on it (because inertia also states that movement remains straight until affected to change).

This also means that once you do apply that ‘external’ force you will remain on the new path unless something else affects its path. So once you are pointed in the right direction, you will continue on that course. All you have to do is deflect those negative catalysts that would turn you wrong.

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