Wealth Creation Blog

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

Going back to the conversation we started in the last post, I’d like to elaborate a little bit more on the topic of attracting a whole new life. As we said, this is the real goal of wealth and empowerment programs like Jamie McIntyre’s. And there are a couple of reasons why that is so.

Your Life Is Not A Financial Vacuum

You’ll find that any good financial empowerment program is not just about money. It is also about lifestyle, self awareness, achievement, and success. That success will not only be evaluated or defined in financial terms, either. That is because the best financial success programs understand money to be a tool for living well. Their goal is not to just accumulate large masses of money, but to teach you how to utilize that tool to achieve the best life possible.

The best wealth creation program will explore all the components of your life. Components like

• Happiness
• Love
• Health
• Goals and Achievement

And yes, money and wealth.

Succeeding In The Balanced Life

Success is never about one component. It is about all the components, working in combination and in balance with each other. When one component is out of line, the others, too, will falter.

The Law of Attraction is a very good illustrator of this point, and of why it is so important to do more than just learn how to make money. In the Law, good attracts good, and positive attracts positive. Negative attracts negative. Basing our success on this Law, it stands to reason that an imbalance in any sector of life will attract negativity to those other points, even those where we are putting in the added effort. Extend this out, and you can see how only focusing on the financial, and letting the rest of your life components flounder will work against your greatest efforts to build wealth.

I hope that you will consider this as you look toward the New Year with refreshed goals and determination. I hope that this year brings you all of the financial success and freedom you are working towards, but I also hope that it brings you balance and abundance in all other areas of your life. I hope that this year sees your life completely fulfilled, enjoying all that you deserve to enjoy.

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

When we talked about emotion ruling recession, we mentioned that every economy creates an opportunity. Good, bad, or otherwise, there is always an opportunity to be had; one that you can capitalize on and continue to create and build wealth, or even develop new opportunities.

One Man’s Trash

In many ways what this becomes is a case of one man’s trash being another man’s treasure; properties and investments that are no longer profitable for one person’s wealth creation could be an excellent bargain, and a prime foundation for your own. The fact that someone else has cast off this opportunity does not make it a bad one in and of itself—there are many factors at play that can make something unmanageable for one person, all the while it is exactly the opportunity you have been waiting for.

Profiting Off The Backs Of Others?

This brings to the forefront a question: is building wealth in a down economy a case of profiting from the downfall of others? Is there something “wrong” with your building wealth in this way? Are you somehow becoming a vulture or profiteer while others suffer?

No, no, and no. Unless you underhandedly did something to cause the financial demise of another, that blame cannot be yours. More often than not, your investments will help those people and entities. After all, there can be no upswing in a bad economy unless investors do what investors do best—invest! Unless people free cash and start to use it, the only thing that can occur is market stagnation. The world’s economy, and all the people who rely upon it (which is all of us), need you to capitalize these opportunities and create wealth!

The Tipping Point

We know the opportunities are certainly out there in these slow markets. And we know that there is money to be made by those who position themselves well now. So what will make the difference? What’s the deciding factor? Where is the tipping point?

The tipping point is this: preparation. The people who do more than survive bad markets, who make money and come out ahead, are those who are prepared. They are the people who get educated, who study various opportunities for investment and wealth creation, and who put the effort into making them work. I don’t think you’ll be surprised to hear me say that 80% of that is mindset, and deciding to find the opportunity for wealth within. The other 20%, which I also do not think will surprise you, is having the tools and financial education to empower you to do that.

The full balance of the 100% is all within your reach. You’ve come this far, tipping the scales already. Maintain your positivity and successful mindset, and no doubt you’ll be one of the people proving that economics truly do create opportunity with each and every turn.

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

The last post talked about reconciling the negative things in your past to allow for growth and wealth creation. That’s a tough thing for some people to accept, because it is really hard to commit to going back and digging up past experiences that seem better left untouched. Overcoming those experiences once and for all, and capitalizing on the unleashed positive power that lies within them, is essential to forward movement and growth—to success and financial prosperity. As long as those emotions are left to degrade your success, they will continue to eat away at it and either keep you from wealth altogether or limit your potential success, and consequently, your wealth.

But What Could Possibly Be Good About A Bad Past Experience?

Even given this knowledge, and understanding the basic concept behind it, people are reluctant to take hold of it and relive the past—even at the return of enjoying a hugely prosperous future. They just can’t figure what possible good could come from something that was perhaps painful, trying, and emotionally, and often financially, draining.

There are many good and positive things that can come out of reconciling past experiences. It might be a financial lesson learned, it might be revealing a person or negative force in your life for what it really was, or it might be just knowing that you had the personal strength and fortitude to overcome; it might even be the realization that you needed a change to get the most from life—an awakening as to your current state, and the state of your future if you did nothing about it.

In fact, every single negative thing that ever happened to you had something positive related to it. It is that positivity that you are trying to recapture—not the negativity, that we are letting go. At the time of whatever it was that occurred most people cannot see the positive that came out of it. That is why we have to go back and figure out what it was. Because when you see that you were rewarded for surviving that negative experience, you can value it as a lesson learned, or a character built, and you can know that even the worst things in life contributed to the wonderful, outstanding, successful person that you know you are today!

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

One of the things that sets wealth experts apart—the good wealth creation experts, anyway—is that they don’t just tell you how to make money; they go beyond the math and strategy to develop your whole person so that the knowledge and success you gain are lasting and sustainable. To do that, we often have to deal as much in the past as in the future.

Why Look Back?

But why look back at our pasts? Why relive misfortunes and mistakes? Why drag up the emotional baggage that plagues us and relive it? We’ve said here before that you are not your financial past, so why make that part of your financial future?

The hint is in that third question—emotional baggage.

All those negative factors in your past, all those things that you think are better left forgotten, still effect what you think and do today. You may not know that they do, but until you deal with them they certainly do. They impact your real attitude towards money, they impact your buying and spending and saving—or lack of it—and they hold you back when you know in your right mind that you could easily be moving forward, if not for this ethereal sense that keeps you from it. These are the things that let you start and stop many times over, but still stay an arm’s length away from building wealth. So to break that cycle, you have to reconcile that past to go forward and finally enjoy lasting wealth and financial freedom.

Accepting, Growing, And Moving On

The good news is that reconciling your past does not need to be as scary as what you think it is. Sure, there are no guarantees that you won’t experience some emotional pain, but the chances are that it will be much less serious than before; and once you’ve done it you will never have to do it again.

The thing is that even very negative experiences all have something positive in them. When you unleash that power through the process of reconciliation, you have opened an internal well of positivity that adds to your current state of mind, and releases the negativity that was canceling out so much of it.

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