Wealth Creation Blog

We know now that opportunity is out there, despite the news reports. The question, then, is where is yours? And what will be your plan to go after it?

Capitalise Opportunity

It may seem like all the economic news is bad, but realistically things are not as bad as they seem. The day to day living of most people is much better than what you might make it out to be. For many, adjusting in the new economic climate is a matter of change—of looking for new ways to earn, make money, and indeed, build wealth. You would be much better served reading up on the changing face of the economy and the new world order rather than focusing on the bad news that is headlining (remember—there’s always bad news if you choose to focus on it!). Of course, my intent is not at all to belittle the struggles faced by people caught up in the many global economic crises, but to help you shed some positive, realistic light on the situation—and to help you if you are one of them!

As people adjust, they begin to change their ways and habits. But they still have needs. That opens up a lot of different types of opportunity. There are the more obvious opportunities of investing and stock markets and the opportunity to buy low. Real estate is an area of particular opportunity for those ready to jump, with the possibility of property options investing opening up even more opportunities. And, as people begin to change their lives, they begin to look for ways to do it—which makes online business and the possibilities for info-preneurs even greater.

Times Never Better

This is a just a list of a few rambling opportunities that are out there. The point is, things are changing, and the time might never be better for you take stock and make an action plan for building wealth and achieving financial freedom. If there is one thing to learn from the lessons of others, it is that you can rely far more on yourself than any employer. With the innumerable opportunities that are opening up, it’s time to get your wealth mindset together, and take advantage of a once in a lifetime opportunity.

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

There is a concept going around debt reduction circles referred to as the “Snowball” method of eliminating debt. It’s proven to be a highly effective way to eliminate debt over time, and is just as applicable to wealth creation. It works seamlessly along with the concept of the Law of Attraction as well, making it all the more effective for whatever purpose you are applying it to.

Conceptualizing The Wealth Snowball

The debt snowball is not a difficult concept—it is a method that has you start with your smallest debts, pay them off on a manageable (but still focused) schedule, and then apply that freed money to larger debts. Eventually the effort accumulates to become very large and effective. The added advantage to this—and the reason it works so well for so many—is that there is a relatively quick result because you start with something small. So you see the result of your actions and efforts sooner, and that helps stimulate you psychologically to move on and succeed further.

This same concept is applicable to creating wealth; by starting with small goals (but always with a larger goal in mind) that you can meet fairly quickly, you give yourself that mental boost and see results faster. And the added benefit to it is that the success you find and the positivity you create attract more success and positivity—harnessing the power of the Law of Attraction, too.

Working Your Way From In-Debtedness To Wealth

Whether you are in debt or not, you can easily apply this concept to creating wealth. If you are in debt you can start to eliminate it, and once there apply that money to investing and creating wealth. Better still you can devote a portion of your money to creating your wealth snowball even as you snowball your way out of debt.

Starting small is something that many people need to do as they create wealth. Wealth doesn’t happen overnight, it happens over time as you improve all aspects of your mindset and life. The cumulative effect of building wealth is a force to be reckoned with indeed.

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

If you find that creating wealth overwhelms you, you are not alone. And if you find it difficult to overcome that feeling, you are not alone, either. Why is this the case? And how can you get beyond it? You might start by first analyzing what the emotion of overwhelm really is.

Why We Feel Overwhelmed

The reason that we feel overwhelmed by new tasks is that they feel too large. They are just too big to wrap our minds around them, and so we feel like the job is impossible.

There is another element that contributes to that feeling of being overwhelmed. It is the desire to get through it all now. To want to be done with it, to be at the end, to have reached the pinnacle and disburse with the work of it. There’s nothing wrong with wanting that, with having a high level of motivation to achieve your goals. Unfortunately, that’s just not realistic. You have to put the work in if you want to enjoy the rewards—you have to invest something to reap the benefits and become wealthy.

Get A Grip On Being Overwhelmed

Knowing this is half the battle, as it always is. Gaining a perspective and knowing what you are up against is the way to combat feelings of overwhelm and anxiety. When you understand that feeling overwhelmed is simply a reaction to wanting to be at the end and be wealthy, then you can begin to rationalize the situation and tell yourself what you need to hear to stay motivated towards wealth. You can recognize the tasks as necessary steps to getting rich; you can break those tasks down into smaller, more manageable tasks, and you can set smaller interim goals to help you along the way.

Being overwhelmed is just another emotion. When you learn to control it, you can enjoy great success in creating wealth and being financially prosperous. You can be rich!

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

The only way to build wealth is to find the time and commit to it. It’s a statement that many people don’t like to hear because their days are already too full. Your family, work, and personal commitments need you. You need you, but you don’t have time to attend to you. How in the world will you find the time to commit to wealth creation in a way that will be of any use at all?

What Do You Want To Do?

One way is to ask that question and answer it truthfully.

What do you want to do? What do you like? What is interesting to you?

I’m sure you can relate that if you are doing something of interest it is much easier to commit to it and to find the time to do it. It will not feel like drudgery, but will feel like a reward—finally, the time to do something for you, of interest to you. It could just become that hobby that you have so badly needed to pursue; only with the added benefit of making money and securing your financial future!

Finding Possiblility

Creating wealth isn’t about applying a one-size-fits-all investment approach to everyone. It is about teaching people to find possibility and to utilize several different, yet all very real, investment and money-making tools to make money and gain financial prosperity and freedom. You shouldn’t come into this thinking that you have to muddle through and drag yourself along so that you can someday begin to enjoy life. You should come into this with a spirit of positivity, enjoying what you do and learning to build upon it so that you can find even more enjoyment even as you build wealth.

Creating wealth is a full-life overhaul. It requires work and dedication, which requires a time commitment, but when you love what you do it’s easy to find that time to devote to you, because you’ll have all the best reasons to do it. Your financial gain and security, and your personal interest at heart—your life’s enjoyment!

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

We’re almost there—to having wealth. We started with being wealthy, and then we talked about what that meant. We know that the reason to be wealthy is so that you can take wealthy actions—because poor people do not take wealthy actions, they take actions that impoverish. Logically, then, our next move is to figure out how to act wealthily.

Define Wealthy Action

Most people are more than willing to take wealthy action. It’s easy to convince them to be wealthy and act wealthy…or at least it would be if they knew how. If you can figure out the actions that wealthy people take, then you could begin to mimic them and develop wealthy habits and actions all your own. Let’s start, then, by taking a look at wealthy actions that are possible for you to undertake now.

Before we do though, I want you to keep in mind one thing—that even a small wealthy action is a good step. That wealthy action is a step towards having financial wealth—money! And also, one step leads to another, which continues the cycle of wealthy action, which continues on to being wealthy, more action, and more wealth. So even if all you can do is find one wealthy act to take today, you are being wealthy and building more wealth.

To start, think about the things that the wealthy do and do not do. If we take a lead from wealth creation, we know that the wealthy

• Make money work for them

• Save and make themselves a financial priority

• Buy quality

• Do not think in terms of want and need—they think in terms of getting and having, of finding ways to get and to have

Any one of these are things that you can do today—you can save money, put it in an account which bears interest (working for you), role it into an investment or share purchase, put off the cheap and easy purchase for a purchase of quality, or simply make a plan to get what you desire. On one level or another you can do each of these things today.

One wealthy action is all it takes. Take an action. Continue the cycle, and let it loose! Act as the wealthy to be wealthy.

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