Wealth Creation Blog

In one of our posts last week I quoted that pioneering wealth-creation writer, Napoleon Hill. If you recall the quote referenced the only real limitation to wealth and success, that being our imagination. The limits we place on our own imagination and belief in ourselves are the only things that limit our ability to create wealth.

With that said, today I’d like to bring to light a different type of limitation, and one that can very effectively work in your favor. Everyone has a place in their lives and in their wealth creation plans for these types of limits.

Limit Outside Control

The limits I am referring to are the outside controls, influences, and roadblocks that we allow to be placed in our paths. In other words, the amount of time, life, energy, and focus that we allow other people and entities to take from us, and thus away from our plans and goals to build wealth.

Too often, and I see this a lot in the types of people who create wealth (many of them being generous souls who want to help others—which is commendable, but can get out of hand), we let other factions control our lives. We let them control our time schedules, what we do, how we do it, and we let them control all the energy and time that we have reserved for ourselves, for creating wealth of our own. It does not take long for this to become an all-encompassing power that leaves us with virtually no time left to attend to building wealth and achieving the financial freedom and life freedom that we desire.

An Exercise In Irony

The truly ironic thing about this is that if we were better at taking the time and focusing on what is most important for our well-being, we could build into our lives fairly easily the freedom of time and money that would allow us to give more freely of ourselves, and be able to be of more assistance to those whom we choose to help along.

Most of the time limitations are not something we want to build into our plans to create wealth; but there does certainly come a time when this is warranted, and if you are to be truly successful you will need to build this essential skill. It doesn’t mean you need to grow hard-hearted and never help another, but it does mean you need to set you as a priority to achieve the most fulfilling, truest, most balanced life for you and for all of those who you will choose to help now and in the future.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

We talked about building wealth to gain the freedom to live life to its fullest on your own terms. There are a different ways for you to accomplish that end, and some of them can be achieved sooner rather than later. The path to wealth and freedom does not have to be exceedingly long, if you manage it right.

Options In Free, Wealthy Living

The most obvious option is the one that most people probably dream of—simply building wealth in such a large quantity that you don’t have to work again, or leastwise that there is little you need to do to maintain it. That is the ultimate goal of wealth creation.

To do this requires a good amount of research, education, and strategising, because you need to do more than just stockpile money and assets—you need to strategise and know how to set those assets and that wealth up so that it is almost self-sustaining, so that the money you put to work for you continues to work on itself and grow. You’ll always need to pay some attention and have some hand in it, but primarily it is your money and assets that do the work, not you.

Playing For Money

The other option is to make money doing the things that you love—making your recreation and interests pay by developing them into an income stream. Probably the easiest and fastest way to do that today is internet marketing. The options there are almost boundless (bounded only by the limits of your imagination).

If you make your recreation your income, then making money and building wealth is no longer work because it is now something you enjoy doing. This builds that desired freedom into your life, as you call the shots and get to spend your time in your way.

The best part is that neither of these has to exclude the other. You can easily construct a plan whereby you are building wealth quickly in the short-term doing what you love, and then take that money and invest and manage it in a way that builds that large, self-sustaining stream of wealth.

Creating wealth should be interesting and exciting. It should deliver all that you want from it. With some good planning and effective use of the imagination, it can be all that and much more.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

Today, another post inspired by another quote from Napoleon Hill and Mindset Mastery.

“Man’s only limitation, within reason, lies in his development and use of his imagination.”
–Napoleon Hill

Personal Limits

This is exciting stuff, because it means that all those excuses that we’ve been hosting can be tossed to the wind. When you build the confidence and determination to be successful and create wealth, you will succeed. It takes only the first step and the first idea—and that is an idea that you have unlimited control over.

Once again, this quote is showing us that we are the masters of our own destiny. We do not need to wait for permission or assistance from anyone else—we just need to trust in our own minds and imaginations and put those minds to good use. Some shaping and guidance doesn’t hurt (within reason), but ultimately you have to understand that you do have what it takes right inside your head.

Within Limits

There really is very little that we can’t do within these limits. The problems come when we don’t believe in ourselves, and we place limitations upon our brains, ideas, and attitudes. The only limits that really exist are those that we choose to subscribe to.

The entire matter comes down to one thing—freedom. The freedom to let our minds think big and work towards big things. The freedom to trust in ourselves and not let the cynics hold us back. The freedom to prioritise ourselves above all other “obligations”. The freedom to understand that unless we do just that, we will never achieve the full, true life that we desire—that we need!

You do not need to submit yourself to limitation. You can dictate the terms and limits of your life. You need to dictate the terms and limits of your life to make it truly yours…and I know you have the imagination to do just that!

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

If you really want to succeed in wealth creation, if you really want to achieve personal prosperity and financial freedom, you have to make sure of one thing. You absolutely must make sure that you are the person in the seat of control of your life. That may seem obvious, but if you think about it few people are actually in real control of their lives.

Life As We Know It

If you really evaluate the way most people live life today, you’ll soon find that far too many people are letting others take the pilot’s seat. We relinquish control to established entities and persons who obviously will not have our best interests as their first and foremost concerns. As long as you continue to let other parties have a controlling interest in your life, you will continue to struggle to build wealth and freedom.

Look at some of the ways we relinquish control on a daily basis—

• We let banks and credit establishments dictate the terms of our lives and finances, our borrowing and spending, savings, and investment capabilities. The truth is that even with banks nothing is set in stone, and if you are willing to put in the effort you can negotiate better terms on your own behalf. Also consider this—the more cash you have to back you, the better your ability to dictate those terms will be. Build wealth and also build power over the establishment that may have become your nemesis by now.
• If you rely on a regular paycheck, you are relinquishing control to your job and employer….and probably many other people that are part of that working life. It doesn’t take long for a nine to five job to take over your life and leave you feeling helpless, and/or more likely, grow into more of a seven or eight to six or seven job that’s really stealing your life from you!
• Any time you let the opinions and cynicism of others unfairly dictate your life, you are relinquishing control. You are giving up power to people who amount to little more than talking heads, and very likely do not even know the details of the matter!

These are just a few ways that we relinquish control of our lives every day. Seriously consider the ways that you are giving up power and control of your life, and what you can do to get that back and put yourself back in the pilot’s seat, guiding your life where you want it to go.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

Some of you also follow along on my personal blog at SeanRasmussen.com. If you do, you probably are familiar with the Mindset Mastery series. For those of you who are not familiar with this series, this is a series of posts where we work our way through my updated version of the Napoleon Hill classic, Think and Grow Rich (I’ve edited and revised the book so as to make it more applicable to modern life, and offer it as a freed download with the newly revised named, Mindset Mastery).

While working up some posts for the Mindset Mastery series, I came across a couple of quotes by Napoleon Hill which inspired me for posts here on the Wealth Creation Blog. Not really a surprise, so much of Hill’s book is quote-worthy, but these two especially stood out as excellent stand-alone morsels of advice. I’ll dish up one of them for you today.

Only You Limit Your Mind

“There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.”

Think about this. As humans we are constantly thinking about what limitations are set upon us; about what factors may make or break something as a possibility or opportunity. It is our perceived limitations that cause us the greatest anguish in wealth creation. What we’ve learned through our studies and discussion here, from all the greats of wealth creation, is that those limitations are almost always just perception, and are hardly ever really reality.

With this quote Napoleon Hill takes this a step further—with our minds freed, we can do and accomplish anything we set out to do. Limitation is not an excuse because the limits of our minds are only set by our own acknowledgment—what we decide are or are not limits for us. We can just as easily choose not to limit our minds—to develop a confidence in our own abilities, and to shun those who would tell us that our hopes, dreams, plans, and wealth are not possible.

If you can learn to drown out the negativity and noise, you can look inward and put your energy into your own mind and opportunities. In all of life, you choose what your beliefs will be. Choose you! Choose to not limit your mind, and you can think your way to prosperity and financial freedom.

Join me again tomorrow and I’ll bring you another pearl from Mr. Napoleon Hill.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
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