Wealth Creation Blog

Any wealth creation expert will tell you: if you want to be rich, start again at the beginning. Why? Because what you’ve been taught just isn’t getting you very far.

Life And Financial Education Until Now

That may sound harsh, but if you are honest you’ll agree that it’s true. Why else would you be here if your money or financial education had done its job?

No doubt you’ll agree that you did not learn enough about money and financial control—were not exposed to enough through the education you’ve received in school or in life—to teach you how to really grow wealth. Wealth creation relies on a level of understanding of money systems, investment, mindset, and attitude that just is not approached in school. Few of us have the benefit of a wealthy mentor or parent with such an understanding, and so the majority has been educated very little in wealth creation. We’ve all learned to work for money, but not to create wealth by making that money work again.

Along the way, we’ve also been conditioned to look at money as something negative—as a demon that creates deprivation, instead of as a tool that is there for our own personal use and the use of all others. The things we’ve been conditioned to believe about money continue to impact our every financial decision and reaction.

Life And Financial Control From Here On Out

To live differently, to create wealth and gain financial control, we need to go back to the beginning and get the financial education we should have received the first time around. The resources are certainly there; wealth creation is no longer a well-protected secret. You do have to search out these resources, though, and be a willing participant in your financial future. Use these resources to go back to your beginnings in money and finance, and learn it again in easier, more sensible terms.

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004 – 200830

When Jamie McIntyre first determined to make himself rich, one of the first things he recognized was that he had little useful knowledge in wealth creation. Jamie took an honest look at the education he had received in school and University in the 20th century, and determined that this education (based really on education developed in and for the 19th century) was severely lacking for anyone hoping to succeed financially in the 21st century; his dated education was of little use to him in creating wealth utilizing the financial systems and rules of today’s financial world.

Jamie sums it up this way: “common sense told me that to excel in the 21st Century one needed an education designed for today’s world…” But where are you supposed to get one?

There is no public or private school that you can go to get a 21st century education

Our educational institutions just have not evolved that far. The educational institutions we are learning from are still steeped in a tradition of preparing students for the working world—for teaching them how to get the skills to work and make money—to collect a paycheck.

But as Jamie McIntyre realized, no one will get very far by using only the knowledge he or she gained from school. This put Jamie on a different path, in search of a truly useful education; one that could do more than get him a job, one that could teach him how to take the money he’d earned and put it to use making more money for him. Jamie was looking for an education that would teach him how to do what the wealthy do—create wealth from wealth; let money work for him, instead of him working for money.

Jamie spent years and hundreds of thousands of dollars learning to create wealth

And today, his work is our gain (and his, too—Jamie’s living very well these days!). Fortunately, Jamie also had the foresight to know that what he learned could be dramatically reduced and formulated into the very type of education that is lacking in the world—a 21st Century education.

This is the education that you need to succeed in wealth creation. It is more than an education in finance, it is an innovative program that teaches us how to create wealth and achieve financial freedom. This program, which I offer to you and offer my unending support in obtaining, is the education you didn’t get in school. No doubt that is a very big reason why you are still searching to find the answers to wealth creation and financial freedom.

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

Goal setting is an important part of successful wealth creation. And as we all know, this is the prime time for setting new goals for the year.

Looking Ahead To Wealth Creation

Envisioning your financial success is one of the ways we succeed in wealth creation. Form a vision of where you will be at this time next year, and let if guide you as you set the goals—the path to financial freedom—that will get you there. The practice of setting New Year’s financial goals starts (as we laid out in the last post) with reassessing the year past. With a firm grasp on your current financial picture, make a plan to take you through the next 12 months; make it a plan that ends much better than it starts. No matter where you are in wealth creation, there is always room for more…

Make Wealth Creation Goals Meaningful For You

Everyone’s financial goals for 2008 will be different. Every one of us is starting at a different place, at a different point in wealth creation efforts, and at a different level of understanding of wealth creation.

• For those of you just starting out, and also for many of you who have yet to make a strong showing of investing, the best goal for you might be to find the money that will fund your efforts at creating wealth. Take a look at the list of places we talked about before and figure out where your money will come from.

• Of course, you’ll also need to decide where you will put that money to grow it and make money, but first give yourself a level of protection and spread the wealth around in your life. Take a look at what Jamie McIntyre calls the ‘bucket’ concept; having buckets of wealth will help minimize your investment risks.

• Make it your goal to continue your wealth creation education. No matter where you are in wealth creation, you can always learn more and find new ways to put your money to work for you.

• To this list, add anything that will help you improve your financial future in the year ahead.

One goal worth a mention by itself is savings. If you’ve read Jamie’s book, you know that building a base of savings is imperative to wealth creation and financial success. But almost none of us do it (the wealthy are excepted). This year, set a dollar-figure for straight savings, and work to build a habit of savings—no excuses!!

Wishing you loads of financial success in the New Year…

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

Since this week we are so focused on the future, I want to take a minute to remind you about how you can use even small efforts to improve your financial outcome in a very big way. We talk a lot about attitude and mindset. We do this because we know that mindset and attitude are the two things that have the biggest impact on wealth creation. And we talk a lot about how important it is that the wealth creation mindset is positive—an attitude of success, determination, and perseverance. A positive wealth creation attitude will improve your financial situation all by itself—even if you never do anything more to advance yourself towards building wealth (knowing, though, that without further action there is a limit to the wealth you’ll create). How can that be so?

Setting Up Dominoes Of Wealth Creation

Think of your financial future like a game of dominoes. Each result is the consequence of the action that precedes it. Just like in dominoes. One move causes the next, and the next, down the line until the end.

If your efforts at creating wealth are based in negativity, they will be counterproductive. Your results will continue to be negative, and they will continue to cause negative consequences on down the line.

If your efforts at building wealth are based in positivity, they will be productive. Positive outcomes will cause more positive outcomes.

Dominoes are a good visual example, but really the consequences of your attitude and mindset are about the attraction. Positivity attracts positivity; a positive attitude clears the way for more good things to come—it opens the door to attracting wealth.

Negativity repels wealth and shuts it out. The spaces in your life are crowded by negativity and old debts, old ideals, old frustrations. Your bad attitude makes you look for and expect more of the same. And you find exactly what you are looking for.

This year, make a point of looking for the positive. Make that the reality that you find. Set yourself up for the greatest and most wealth-producing game that you have ever played. Set yourself up for natural wealth creation!

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

In just 21 days you can be well on your way to success in wealth creation. Yes, just three short weeks from now you can have all the building blocks in place to lay the foundation for a lifetime of financial success. I realize that probably sounds as gimmicky to you as it does to me, but there is truth in what I say here.Studies have shown that it takes the average person about 21 days to create a new habit. That means that if you do something each day for a period of three weeks, it will then become part of your daily routine. And for most of us, what is routine is far more painless.

When you create a new habit or routine, you invite an activity into your life. You know, almost automatically, that you will do that thing everyday. You’ve made a time and a space for the activity in your life, and so it is not a chore to ‘find the time’ to see to a matter. And no matter how busy life gets, you can rest assured that that routine will be attended to—because you’ve made it an important part of your life.

Wealth Creation In 21 Days

So how can you apply this to wealth creation? There are many ways, actually.

For starters, make wealth creation a part of your lifestyle, every day. Each day, do something that is geared toward creating wealth. Make it your express purpose every day to attend to a matter of wealth creation or financial success.

What you do does not need to be exactly the same every day. What is important here is that you are creating that time and space in your life for wealth creation. You can start small and build upon your efforts. And every day, it will get easier and easier to do so.

Start off with a small, achievable goal—one that you can feel good about, one that gives you the feeling of positive, forward motion; one that feels that you have taken action and impels you toward more action! This can be reading, researching, filling out a wealth creation worksheet, completing one activity on your wealth creation checklist…

No doubt that your life is as harried as everyone else’s, so make your initial goals something that won’t take up your entire day. If you can commit even a small amount of time every day to building wealth, you can meet that goal and move ahead.

As your efforts come to naturally incorporate into your life, the efforts will get easier—until they are barely an effort at all; because after all, what stops us so much of the time is not finding the time.

Start today to build your routine of wealth creation, and then watch as you begin to replace much less meaningful things in life with this new found habit of success.

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