Wealth Creation Blog

Letting go of harmful habits and attitudes towards money and wealth may be one of the hardest parts of building wealth, but it’s not enough to just overcome and dismiss them. As you let go of the old hard habits, you have to gradually replace them with something more worthwhile.

Creating A Void

If you simply take away a bad habit or poor attitude, but do not put something in its place, you create a void. That void is like a big empty space in your life, and it needs filling. If you do not fill it what happens is there is too much room for the old habits and attitudes to come back. You begin to feel yourself slipping and lose sight of why it was you worked so hard to break that old habit and attitude to begin with. It feels like something is missing, and, not being able to recall what was so bad about that old hindering habit, you slip easily back to old ways and old mindsets. You end up right where you started.

Better Things To Do

People will always work to fill a nagging void, but not always in a proactive or productive way. You may think you feel better in the interim, but sooner or later it will all come back to you and you will start to feel badly about what you’ve “accomplished”. The trick to overcoming your bad habits and attitudes is not to simply wipe them away, but to replace them with good, meaningful, productive and healthy habits as you do. AS you do—not after, but during the process. So, for instance, if your bad habit is overspending on needless things, when you stop yourself from doing that replace it with a habit of saving or investing in something that will actually create wealth. Or, if you are building good wealth creation habits by building the action part of it into your life, instead of just cutting out time wasters, replace them as you do with something that will work towards building wealth—a homestudy course, reading, or an hour spent choosing investment strategies.

It is hard enough to break your bad habits once, so why put yourself through that again? Replace old habits with better ones to prevent the void completely, and grow as a prosperous person as you do.

I couldn’t say it better myself, but [Name Withheld] can!  See his video on empowering habits here.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

I’d like to go back to [Name Withheld] again, and talk about how we can apply more of his excellent wisdom to our own wealth creation projects and goals.

[Name Withheld] Peak Performance Video Part 3

In the third part of the [Name Withheld] Peak Performance videos, [Name Withheld] talks about the importance of achieving a life of balance and of developing habits that empower you.

We all have habits. You cannot get away from them. As [Name Withheld] explains, it’s important that we do have habits because habits are our brain’s way of simplifying life for us so that we can do and accomplish more. Habits are not bad things, unless you let them be.

Three Types Of Habits

What is key to a successful, balanced life is making the most of your habits. To do that it helps to understand the types of habits that we all have; there are three of them:

• Empowering habits—these are habits that are for our own good—good habits that are of benefit to us.

• Disempowering habits—these are the “bad” habits, the habits that take away from our best life. They could be anything from smoking (the example we use in the video) to overeating, overspending, or so many more.

• Neutral habits—these habits are as they sound, neither good nor bad. They don’t really hurt, but they don’t really get us farther ahead, either.

Maximising Habits

If you think about the habits you have, you think of them as things that come easily to you—whether you want them to or not. They are things that you have become accustomed to doing that come naturally to you, without your even thinking about them. Habits are powerful things, even if they are small habits, because we do them almost constantly and just accept that they need doing.

If you can transform your habits into those that are primarily helpful, you will be doing many good things for yourself every day without even having to think about doing them. All it takes is to start empowering yourself by turning those disempowering habits into empowering ones, and giving strength to your neutral habits by also replacing or modifying some of those into empowering, beneficial habits.

Think about how powerful a tool that could be for building wealth—you consistently perform small, meaningful, powerful tasks without having to think about it, without feeling as though you are doing a chore. You build a network of positive empowerment throughout your day, and do away with the negative detractors. The possibilities are endless!

Of course I’m summarizing the words of a great man here; come hear it straight in this [Name Withheld] video, and get an even better understanding of how you can empower yourself through simple every day habits.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
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