Wealth Creation Blog

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
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004 – 2009

Among the big questions in wealth creation is, how do you elicit a new result? How do you finally achieve wealth when it has been so elusive before? What can tip the scales in your favor, make the big difference, and result, once and for all, in a life of financial freedom?

Changing The Odds

Many people have a hard time achieving wealth because they misunderstand why they have not been successful before. The party line is that to get ahead, you have to work harder. You have to be willing to put in more effort. That is almost true, but not quite.

More of the same misguided effort will not make you rich. You’ve heard it a thousand times…

“If that were true we’d all be rich by now…”

To live a different life, a financially free life, you have to put in effort that is capable of eliciting that change. In many cases, that does not even mean working harder, it means, as they also say, “working smarter.”

More Effort Vs. Different Effort

There are some elemental truths regarding wealth creation efforts:

• You do need to be willing to put in effort.
• You can expand on promising things you are involved in now.
• The same efforts that have resulted in minimal financial success in the past will only return the same results if all you do is keep doing them.

(This is only a partial list, so please do feel free to add to it in the comments below.)

There are many ways to consider this, but the fact remains that the answer is almost always not to just put in the effort, but to evaluate your efforts and put in the right kind of effort; that’s good news, because often times a different, more focused, more productive effort will actually free your time and resources, and make life easier. This is a great time of year to make that evaluation, and to decide if more of the same really has the potential to help you make money and achieve wealth this year.

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004 – 2009

There is a concept going around debt reduction circles referred to as the “Snowball” method of eliminating debt. It’s proven to be a highly effective way to eliminate debt over time, and is just as applicable to wealth creation. It works seamlessly along with the concept of the Law of Attraction as well, making it all the more effective for whatever purpose you are applying it to.

Conceptualizing The Wealth Snowball

The debt snowball is not a difficult concept—it is a method that has you start with your smallest debts, pay them off on a manageable (but still focused) schedule, and then apply that freed money to larger debts. Eventually the effort accumulates to become very large and effective. The added advantage to this—and the reason it works so well for so many—is that there is a relatively quick result because you start with something small. So you see the result of your actions and efforts sooner, and that helps stimulate you psychologically to move on and succeed further.

This same concept is applicable to creating wealth; by starting with small goals (but always with a larger goal in mind) that you can meet fairly quickly, you give yourself that mental boost and see results faster. And the added benefit to it is that the success you find and the positivity you create attract more success and positivity—harnessing the power of the Law of Attraction, too.

Working Your Way From In-Debtedness To Wealth

Whether you are in debt or not, you can easily apply this concept to creating wealth. If you are in debt you can start to eliminate it, and once there apply that money to investing and creating wealth. Better still you can devote a portion of your money to creating your wealth snowball even as you snowball your way out of debt.

Starting small is something that many people need to do as they create wealth. Wealth doesn’t happen overnight, it happens over time as you improve all aspects of your mindset and life. The cumulative effect of building wealth is a force to be reckoned with indeed.

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

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

Lots of people expect something for nothing. They want life to be simple, and they want wealth without doing anything—without putting anything into it. but as we know, building wealth takes effort. It requires that you put something in to get something out.

Investing In You

To get results, to enjoy the effects of positive mindset and the wealthy mindset, you have to feed your mind and spirit. You have to do something that allows that mindset and spirit to grow and develop. This can, and probably will, come in many forms, including, but not limited to

• A wealth empowerment education
• Reading and listening to wealth creation experts
• Focus and thought
• Actions that inspire and build wealth
• Participation in a wealth development community

The key to maximizing the effect is to sow plenty of seeds that will grow the successful mindset and positivity and spirit. This sort of investment is just like any other sort of growing—the more seeds you plant, the more you put into it, the more you will grow and reap in return.

If you limit your input, your seeds, you will limit your potential, money, and growth. If all you do is read a bit here and there all you will know is some intermittent financial success. On the other hand, if you make a daily habit of reading and studying, and focusing on the positive, then you will build wealth proportional to that input.

The more positive thoughts you have the more positive results you will have. This can be simple, just a few seconds focusing on the good, or it can be larger and be even more productive. But it is essential to building the mindset, and the tangibles, of wealth. And the more you are willing to put into it, the more you can plan on getting back!

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