Wealth Creation Blog

We are all very well aware of the fact that there are outside influences that impact our efforts to create wealth. We know that with awareness and with focused effort, we can weed out the bad and focus on that which will be helpful to us. As you do this, you need to also be aware of the roll that “hero worship” plays in our lives, and be sure that you are not letting your heroes have a negative influence upon you and your prosperity or financial freedom.

Who Are Your Heroes?

We all have “heroes” in our lives—you know, people whom you look up to and admire and emulate. It might be your father or mother, a wealth mentor, a friend or significant other, a teacher or educator, or any or all of these or someone else entirely. It might not even remain the same person; as we grow, we take on new heroes and discard some of the old.

Whoever it is, take some time and think about who your heroes really are. It will be to your distinct benefit to be conscious of the people who you are (either consciously or subconsciously) emulating so that you can maximize the good about them and minimize any negative aspects.

Heroes Are Not Perfect

As you do this, you need to be aware of this point as well—in real life, heroes are not perfect; their lives are never identical to your own, either, and that matters a lot. Every hero has his or her flaws, so you need to be careful to pick and choose and emulate only those characteristics that are positive and beneficial to you.

You also need to be aware of that second point—no two lives are ever the same. So while the choices and actions of your heroes work as a good guide, you always need to make your decisions about making money, finance, investment, and life in general within the context of your life, not his or hers.

Heroes and mentors can be great things, as long as you are choosing worthy examples and considering actions in terms of your own life. Love your heroes, but also be watchful and understand that your life is uniquely your own. Your heroes are there for guidance, but you are the real action-hero of your life.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

Time for attending to wealth creation—it’s one of the most difficult of creatures to come by. You’re definitely going to need it, though, if you are going to improve your financial situation and make any positive change in your life.

More Than Spare Time

The most difficult time in your journey to wealth to find time for researching, learning, planning, and acting is in the beginning. The reason is simple—your days are already booked up between work and home obligations and all the many other things that take up your time. You figure you’ll start off with whatever time you can muster, which is theoretically a good place to start because something is better than nothing, and so you try to squeeze out a few hours of “extra” “spare” time. The only problem being, there isn’t any!

Your Regularly Scheduled Programming

We talked in the past about the importance of making wealth creation activity part of your regularly scheduled day. This may mean sacrificing something to find the time. This is your financial future—your entire life’s future that you are talking about—it’s well worth the effort and a little sacrifice to build a stronger, happier, more comfortable and secure life!

It’s not that the idea of giving up a few spare hours is a bad one; the trouble is that there really is no spare time, and none with enough consistency to allow you to make wealth creation a life priority. Even if this is the starting point of your scheduling, give it some weight and dedicate it to acts of building wealth. Don’t just allow creating wealth to be something you’ll “get to” when you have a few spare minutes sometime this week, because you will not find those few spare minutes; there will always be something (even just your understandably waning energy and motivation) waiting to step in and snap up that time. Plan for that time, seize the opportunity, and build a better life of financial freedom and personal prosperity so that you have plenty of spare time in the future.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

When people are not wealthy, there is a reason why. When people do not know success in finance or in anything they do, there is a reason why. For that matter, when people do succeed there is a reason. Whatever your life circumstance, whatever the result of what you are trying to achieve, there is something at the heart of the matter.

Discovering The Heart Of The Matter

Finding out what is at the real heart of your matter is essential to success. The process involved in doing that centers largely on self-reflection and analysis. There are different ways to do this, for example, some of the exercises wealth creation will lead you through. The key to succeeding here is to know one thing before you start—that what you think is, or should be, at the heart of the matter may be something entirely different from what the actual cause is.

Let’s look at some for instances.

What is the simple answer to not having what you want? Let’s call it money, since that is a very simplistic answer in this case. For example, you want to own your dream property, but that takes money. You don’t have “that kind” of money. But money is not the real root of your problem. It’s not what is really keeping your from achieving your goal or obtaining what you want. The reason you don’t have that money is the real root of the problem. And that reason could be many-fold. It could be the result of

• Your spending habits
• Your lack of financial education
• Lack of money management skills
• Your negative associations and negative financial subconscious
• Limited ability to make sizable income
• Lack of investment
• Your comfort zone
• Personal laziness and complacency

This is a list that could go on and on, and it does. The good news is that it is not one that cannot be overcome. All of these, and all others that you might add to it, can be dealt with. And that’s an essential step in moving forward—finding out what is really at the heart of your financial position.

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

In posts past we’ve talked about how it is important to include kids in your financial plans for wealth creation. We’ve talked about how much better the start in life for our kids could be if we applied what we know about financial empowerment and building wealth from the start. Every now and again I like to dedicate a post or two to these types of topics in the interest of building a better, simpler, wealthier life for the kids.

Giving Kids A Wealthy Vocabulary

It’s a lot easier to raise children with a wealthy mindset than to try to correct it later. I think any of us here who have been through this process, or are going through it now, could easily agree. And one of the ways we can make their lives easier from the start is to give them due credit for understanding the concepts and the language of wealth.

When you talk openly about finance and wealth with your children, you suddenly strip away the many barriers that go up in our paths to adulthood. You prevent children from forming the attitude of negativity around wealth and money, and negate the need for them to have to work to break down those walls later.

Meaningful Language

The other thing that you do when you use real, meaningful language with children is teach them real, meaningful words and concepts. This is important because if a child knows the words and understands their meaning, they can learn from anyone who is speaking it. That educated child will be able to read and learn and recognize what it is they are exposed to. They’ll be ahead of the game because they will have that innate knowledge from the beginning, and so they can continue on to wealth and prosperity instead of just getting started (or worse, having to recover and relearn things they should have known all along—if only our traditional education would catch up to real, meaningful financial management and education!).

It’s a great thing that an adult does when they recognize their ability and right to wealth. But it’s an even greater thing they do when they pass on that knowledge and power to another, and give a child a strong financial start to life. Have real, meaningful financial conversations with the kids that matter to you and help them to a better life-start.

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

A very important aspect of building wealth is to build into all efforts an element of continuity. Continuous efforts and continually meeting and exceeding goals are what make for a lasting future as a financially free, wealthy person.

Continuing On With Wealth Creation

Continuity applies to wealth creation in the beginning and gains in importance as we move along. In the beginning continuity focuses more on just getting yourself to do something everyday to work toward building wealth and meeting your goals. As you proceed and succeed that changes in some ways, and focuses more on the actual practice of making money and forwarding your dreams and goals.

This is, by and large, a case of stamina—the stamina and steadiness to continually improve upon yourself, invite good things in to your life and attract wealth. The Law of Attraction itself works to produce much of this continuity—one good turn, one achievement, attracts another, and another, on to increasing riches and financial prosperity.

Will It Ever End?

Will it ever stop? Hopefully no. As mentioned, we are basing success and financial achievement on the Law of Attraction—a proven Law and path to financial wealth. We don’t want it to stop because that means that the wealth-cycle will stop and that the power of attraction will stop. Good things will no longer come to you and money and value will no longer be attracted to you and your life.

Will it ever get easier? It doesn’t stop, but it certainly gets easier. While creating wealth is ongoing and continuous throughout your life, the work of making money does certainly get easier. Again, it’s a result of that powerful Law. It’s also a result of knowing how to make money and be wealthy. You’ve already put the work into becoming rich, now all you have to do is sustain it. And that, for you, will be easy—even interesting and compelling!

Creating wealth is not about complicating your life. Wealth creation is about simplifying it and giving you the financial tools you need to live better, freer, and in control financially. It is about giving you the means to live well and happily to the end.

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