Wealth Creation Blog

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

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

As we’ve got kids on the brain today, it occurred to me that we could learn a thing or two about wealth creation by being a little more childlike ourselves. Kids don’t come with all the baggage that adults do. They have stronger belief-systems and better confidence. Those are all things that could go very far for us as we work to empower ourselves financially.

Be A Kid Again And Be Wealthy

Let’s take a look at some of the characteristics that children retain, but we so often lose as adults, that could return dividends for us as we work to build wealth.

• Curiosity. Kids are curious. With a little more curiosity and interest you might enjoy exploring money, wealth, and finance more. You might find a whole world of interest you never knew existed within you.

• Energy. It takes a lot of energy to do what we have to do in life, and added energy to pursue wealth creation while you also try to survive financially in the meantime. And as we know, energy attracts energy, then action, prosperity, and wealth. Find ways to be more energetic and be more wealthy.

• Motivation. Kids are motivated easily by what they want. You know you want money, wealth, and financial freedom and prosperity. You just have to learn to trust your own intrinsic motivation—stop working so hard at it and listen to your inner voice!

• Enjoyment. Kids enjoy life. Do you? Do you enjoy what you do? Find enjoyment and you attract enjoyment, and positive energy, and wealth…

• Fearless. Kids do not know fear. They do not let fear keep them from doing things that excite them and motivate them. Few adults can say the same. Think of all you would have done by now if you never listened to that nagging voice that stops you from pursuing wealthy ideas.

It often seems that, as much as we try to teach kids how to be, they have the right of life at heart. Children enjoy life and they know how to make the most of it if not meddled with overly much. If as adults we can capture just a bit of youth, we, too, can do great things—without fear, and with a positive energy that attracts great things.

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

More than anything, wealth creation centers around mindset and the thought process. All but the newest of readers here know that if there is one thing we focus on it is mindset and building a mindset of success, for success. Anything that we discuss here in terms of building wealth and making money and becoming rich starts with thoughts. It’s a simple, yet proven, effective method of creating wealth.

The concept is so simplistic that many people find it hard to accept as the way to financial freedom. It’s not unusual for someone to say that they have tried to think their way to wealth, and just had no results, so the concept must be flawed. The answer to that is that the concept is not flawed—but you do have to take care with its implementation. There is more to the wealth creation mindset than having intermittent, fleeting thoughts of wealth.

Thoughts Vs. Dreams

One thing to be cognizant of is the fact that there is a difference between what thoughts and dreams are. It’s a very fine line, and certainly dreaming rich can’t hurt, but your thoughts are more solid and actionable than what dreams are. Dreams are elusive and not given the same weight in reality that real thoughts are. Dreams are intermittent and ever-changing. They are less controlled and less controllable.

You can start with a dream of wealth, but to make that a reality you have to move on and develop those dreams into thoughts. You have to make those thoughts the foundation of your life, plans, and goals so that they have the ability to grow into financial wealth. When your thoughts are not producing results it is time to reevaluate them and find out—are you really thinking wealthy thoughts or just daydreaming about being rich?

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

Do you work to live or live to work? This is a question that came up on a blog the other day. Granted, it’s not the first time the question has been asked and unfortunately it won’t be the last, either. Until you learn how to take control of you financial future, this will always be a quandary you live with.

Cultural Implications Of the Work Ethic

The proportion of our lives that is devoted to work is in part cultural. In other words, some cultures dedicate more of their lives to work than others. Americans are famous for it, but increasingly Australians, British, and people from all countries are losing that focus and becoming entirely consumed by their work. It seems as though with globalization and the now global nature of always-on ecommerce that the cultures that used to have a pulse on what was really important in life are losing that perspective and falling slave to the paycheque. It seems that the harder we try to simplify our financial control and build wealth for a better life, the worse we do at it.

Can We Change The Way We Work?

So the question is, with more and more people living to work instead of working to live, can the cycle be broken? Or are we at risk of perpetuating a life focused on work for pay?

When we speak in terms of the majority, it would appear that we are at risk of doing just that. And it’s really such a shame, because with the opportunities available to us for creating wealth and becoming financially free without missing out on life, we should be trending more and more towards that life of freedom. We can do it. We all can do it. But we do have to first take stock of our lives, and reset our financial programming. First, we need to commit ourselves to working only to support life, so that in time we can minimize the work, and maximize the living.

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