Wealth Creation Blog

All of us have something that we get hung-up on in life. These hang-ups take many forms and are highly individual. However, they are highly manageable, too.

What Is Your Wealth Creation Hang-Up?

The first step in overcoming personal hang-ups or barriers is to recognize what they are. Recognize their presences, pay them their due attention, and then resolve to overcome them. As with any progressive process identification is key to resolution.

So first take a moment to try to identify some of the barriers that weigh you down. These could be anything, like

• The financial fear factor of working against ingrained financial systems (as we talked about before)

• Subconscious wiring that holds you back from financial success

• Your attitude toward what money is and represents

• The fear of success

• Finding the personal resolve and fortitude and perseverance to see yourself through to wealth and financial freedom

Your hang-ups could be large and glaringly obvious or they could be very much hidden and buried. It could take you quite a long time to identify what is holding you back. But just knowing that there is something there and that you are working towards uncovering and correcting it will be progress and enlightenment in and of itself.

Moving Beyond Personal Barriers To Financial Success

Sometimes it is hard to overcome these barriers. An attitude of positivity helps. The guidance you seek through wealth education and research will help you identify some of the more common hang-ups that impede individual wealth, and will tune you in to your own self so that you can more easily identify and manage them.

Building wealth is, in many ways, a study in self-improvement. The benefits are many even beyond financial gain. This part of the process is just one of the ways that you will become a stronger, healthier person by pursuing financial prosperity. It is one that you will, no doubt, come to value very highly.

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

Not only does the internet provide you with access to an online community of people all committed to achieving financial success just as you are, but it is also an endless resource of information. The internet makes it easier, faster, and more affordable to find and benefit from all the best of financial empowerment and wealth creation information.

Online Resources For Wealth And Success Information

The information available online comes in many shapes and forms. Some that you will find most useful are:

• Financial Success Websites.
Entire websites dedicated to helping you build wealth and succeed financially. These include sites for specific wealth creation programs as well as sites that serve as portals to the endless world of financial information.

• Financial Empowerment Books.
There have been many great authors that have boosted regular people to great wealth all across the world. The web gives you the best access to them all, both old and new. Without the web, it would be much more difficult to find the older and less main-stream authors like Wallace Wattles and Napoleon Hill. Accessing timeless publications like theirs is made much simpler with the web.

• EBooks.
EBooks have brought a whole other facet to publishing and information sharing. It is no longer up to the big publishing houses to decide what is worthy of print or what serves the needs of the wealth empowerment community. Now you can learn from not only experts, but also regular people who have found their way to riches and who are willing to give of themselves to help you along.

• Online Wealth Education.
It used to be that you had to have money in excess to be able to afford to learn from the best wealth and success experts. That is no longer the case with accessible, affordable online homestudy and wealth creation programs.

• Community Sites.
These include blogs, forums, and social media websites. The benefit of them is the support of a like-minded community, and also the ability to learn incrementally in smaller, more digestible portions; and the ability to immediately discuss and ask for clarification and further support is invaluable—it’s a true development of the modern age, and something we’ve never before had access to on this level.

The information and resources available on the web today open more and more possibility for wealth success for the average person. Money and access are no longer barriers to wealth. All the information and resources you need are here now, and they are as much yours as they are anyone else’s. They are here for the taking for your wealth building achievement!

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

The Law of Attraction—of like attracting like—is a strong force in wealth creation. We’ve talked about the many forms and facets of this law, including how the thoughts you think and the company you keep is very much responsible for continued success in building wealth. We know that when we think positive thoughts, and surround ourselves with positive, like-minded people who are also committed to becoming wealthy and achieving financial success that we gravitate towards being more like them.

We also know that when we keep company with negative people who do not believe in wealth success, when we surround ourselves with poverty, that that is where we wind up ourselves. Logically, then, the thing to do is to keep as much company with wealth, prosperity, and positivity as possible.

The trouble with that is that we are not all surrounded by these types of people. It can be very difficult for many of us to find a significant company of like-minded successful individuals. So where do you go when present company is not conducive to your financial empowerment?

A Community Of Success At Your Fingertips

The internet has made wealth creation vastly easier in many ways. It has given us direct access to the best wealth-building resources and educational experiences; it has brought the knowledge and insight of leaders into the homes of everyone with a connection (or access to one) without the impeding cost of travel. And it has also brought us an entire online community of people with the same positive spirit and success-goals as we have. It has brought that all-important company of financial success to our virtual doorsteps.

You may live amongst some of the most poverty-stricken or negative individuals in the world, but you still have ready access to that all important community of success and wealth builders. You have the support of the entire online wealth creation community. You have the company you need to keep. The World Wide Web has made it easier today to engage with that company, and taken down yet another barrier to true financial wealth.

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

You can think your way to financial success, but along with those thoughts you need to take action. Without action, there is no conduit for success. There is no way to connect the thoughts and thinking with the end result—with becoming rich. And as we know, the best way to maximize the impact of your actions is to give them a degree of focus and planning—to make a plan, set goals, and take actions to achieve those goals. In the beginning it can be difficult to know what your plan for creating wealth should be. So here I’ve worked out a basic plan for achieving financial prosperity. It is basic in nature and is adaptable to your individual wealth creation plans. It is presented in the spirit of progress, and of giving a framework to guide your attempts. It largely covers the steps that are necessary for any successful attempt at building wealth.

The Plan

The plan, as you’ll see, is fairly simple, but if you follow it you will enjoy financial success.

1. Commit. Unless you commit yourself you will never really get things off the ground. This needs to be the first step.

2. Educate. If you knew how to be wealthy you would be already. Find out what you didn’t learn in school and what you need to do differently to build wealth.

3. Set goals. Goals are you targets. They help you get from one point to another and then another until you reach that desired level of wealth.

4. Focus thought. You know by now that thoughts and mindset are elemental in wealth creation.

5. Take action. You also know that to enjoy tangible success you have to take actions to get you there.

6. Continuity. Achieving wealth is an ongoing process. You cannot think once, do once, and then suddenly become rich. You have to continuously live a wealthy lifestyle, continuously improve upon yourself and your thoughts.

Personalizing The Plan

As I said it’s a basic plan. It is a framework to guide you, but you have to personalize it to really succeed and become rich. You need to take this plan to the next level and fill in the details. Decide how you will become educated, decide what your goals are, and decide what actions you will take to see it through. The keys are here, you just need to act upon them to develop your own personalized plan for financial prosperity.

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

This is a topic that I presented first on my personal blog. I wasn’t necessarily planning to broach the subject here, but seeing as how it is so fitting to the discussion of choice and financial empowerment, it is definitely an appropriate and timely topic for this blog, too.

Your Hierarchy Of Values And Your Financial Success

This is a concept taught in different forms and under different names by a variety of financial educators. The basic idea is that we all have our own personal value-hierarchy that dictates where and how we spend our money, or if we spend it. And according to these values we make choices (often subconscious choices) about where the money goes first.

An example of this might be of a parent who values their children’s comfort over anything else. That parent will spend first on the child, to see to their needs, and even to see to “needs” that aren’t really necessary. From there the remaining money is allocated according to the schedule of values—the most important expenses or purchases are made first, and on down the line until either all are covered or the money runs out.

In terms of wealth creation, your hierarchy controls how much money you dedicate to yourself, your savings, and your wealth creation. As the current rate of savings proves, savings is not high in the values of most people in the developed world, from Australia to the U.S.

Learning From Intrinsic Values

The lesson to take away from this is that if you work to realign your value system, you will begin to realign money management. If you value your own financial success over the rest, you will attend to that first. Wealth building will move up the list from last place (and imagine what the possibilities are when it does!).

Like others you are probably not even aware of your current value system. You may even think it is opposite of what it is. Take some time to pay attention to your real value hierarchy; apply the power of choice to the power of change. Learn to truly value your own financial success, and wealth will follow.

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