Wealth Creation Blog

Do you know what the difference between the journey of success and the journey of failure is? It’s one small step.

Where Most People Fail To Build Wealth

We talked about how the difference between the wealthy and the successful and the unsuccessful is the willingness to do what the average person will not and does not. And that willingness—the very difference between the wealthy and the financially struggling—comes down to one point in time. That time is the point where most people stop, throw up their hands, and give up in despair and defeat.

Most people fail at building wealth not because they aren’t capable, but because they believe they are not capable. And it would only take one step—one action—to move beyond that point to become a person of wealth and financial means.

Going One Step Further

All journeys begin with one step. That is not a new concept, and I’m sure you’ve heard it before. The longest voyage (which wealth creation is not, by the way) starts with just one forward motion. One step beyond that point where you might feel like giving up is the difference between success and failure; the difference between financial wealth, abundance, freedom, living well, and continued financial struggle and stress.

Knowing this is a powerful thing because there will be times when you feel like giving up. There will be moments when you think wealth is too far away from you; where you think it will just take too long to get there. And you will be tempted to give up—to resign yourself to the life you are living now as one that is comfortable enough and familiar. But then in a few weeks, or maybe just days, when you start to feel financial pressure again you will be back here, looking for more ways to achieve financial wealth. So it is best to know ahead of time that these moments are inevitable, and to know that all it takes to get past them is one more effort—one step further.

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

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Acquiring wealth is the result of an accumulation of actions, attitudes, and efforts that collaboratively draw you towards money and success. The positive effects of what you learn in wealth creation are almost immediate (in that anything positive in your life is of benefit almost instantaneously); but wealth in the numbers that most people consider wealthy takes some time to build. This does not mean that you cannot be wealthy now, because there is wealth in all lives if you commit to finding it, and also because wealth is a state of mind as well as a tangible financial position. But it does mean that reliable, sustainable streams of money are built over time.

While we recognize that wealth is the result of individual thoughts and attitudes, we also have to recognize that it is a cumulative consequence of good attitude and action.

Building Consistency To Build Wealth

How often has this happened to you—you read something positive or motivating, such as a blog post or a wealth empowerment book, and you become enthused and motivated. You feel empowered and know for sure that you are wealthy and you can be a wealthy person. And then you go about your day.

As you go through your day, that motivation and positive empowering spirit begins to diminish. Without knowing it, you begin to lose ground and slip back into what’s normal. You lose track of your plans, thoughts, and goals, and negativity and stress creeps in. You don’t regain that wealthy mindset until you get back to a place of motivation and positivity.

This is something that is very common. It’s easy to be positive “in the moment” so to speak, but much harder to keep that focus throughout the day. So daily we are losing ground that, if captured and held, could greatly expedite our financial success.

To acquire wealth we need to build a habit of consistency into our lives. We have to stop losing ground every day, and have to keep as much of that positive spirit in our lives as possible. We have to make the default mechanism an attitude of achievement and success, not of stress and negativity.

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

For anything you do in life the rallying cry is to set a goal! Set a goal! Decide what it is you want and set clear, defined, detailed goals. Decide

• What you want to achieve

• What you want to have

• When you want to have it

• How you will go about getting it

Certainly this is something we talk an awful lot about in our pursuit of wealth and financial prosperity. In that regard this also includes

• What amount of money in the bank, income coming in, and/or valuable assets will make us rich—will be our goal!

In all of this we are always looking forward, always thinking about the future, always making changes and doing today for tomorrow.

I’m not about to tell you that there is anything wrong with that. To be sure this has been my own rallying cry to you time and time again. And I too place a great deal of importance and focus on my goals. But with all this looking forward we are at risk of not knowing what to do when we get there.

What Is The Next Step?

Hopefully you’ve been setting goals incrementally as you set your larger goals for financial freedom. If you have you will be meeting some of those goals on a regular basis so long as you remain dedicated to them. Nevertheless we all have at least one big goal that we work to achieve—one goal that represents financial freedom to us—that represents wealth!

So what are we to do when we meet that goal?

Keep going! Why stop there? What many find is that the goals that once seemed so large now pale in comparison to the possibilities that lie ahead. With the toil of making it this far behind us, a whole path to future financial prosperity opens before us. It’s a simple path because we’ve done it all before and an exciting path, too, because now we know there is so much we can do when we just set our wealthy mindset to it.

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

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