Wealth Creation Blog

Continuing on in our discussion from yesterday, I’d like to talk more about the importance of awareness in regards to our financial emotional state and attitude—those conscious and subconscious opinions and attitudes we form around money from the tenderest of ages and throughout life until we come to the realisation about what money really is.

An Ounce Of Awareness

They say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and it’s much the same with respect to your emotional financial state. If you are aware that it is your emotional state and attitude that is undercutting your financial success, then you can correct that attitude and keep it from continuing to rule your life. You may be thinking right now that it’s a little too late for prevention—after all, this is a point built upon the fact that we need to forgive ourselves our attitudes about money and wealth so that we can move on; so isn’t it a little too late to prevent that attitude and financial mindset from forming?

A Pound Of Cure

It may (or may not, depending on your experiences, financial education, and upbringing) be too late to prevent any negative attitudes from forming, but it is not too late to prevent further harm. By correcting your situation now, you can literally change your financial future. You can prevent a life of continued financial struggle; you can prevent a life of continued self-sabotage; you can mold your own future by molding a realistic attitude and mindset toward money and wealth; you can shorten your wealth creation journey; you can give yourself the one singular tool you need to succeed and be wealthy!

No, you cannot go back and rewrite the past and prevent what has already occurred; but you can prevent continued struggle. The cure starts with the connection and the awareness and honesty about what you’ve really been feeling. That awareness and correction from this point forward sets the stage for the entire rest of your life.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

We talk a lot about how we as humans end up with default settings for our attitudes and emotions. By the time you reach adulthood, often many of those defaults are on the side of negative. But you can reset your default settings so that you take the most productive actions possible.

Why Defaults Matter

Default attitudes, reactions, and emotions matter because they dictate the actions that we take and the attitudes we cultivate—the mindsets that we live in. Many adults have automatic default settings of skepticism or cynicism, which makes us mistrust our own emotions and instincts, and even our own informed decisions. Too often, we just can’t believe in the simplicity of life and wealth, or the possibilities that are presented before us. We cannot even believe in our own ability to take control of our lives and create our own realities.

In the end, we spend too much time living lives of negativity. It becomes a chore just to think positively. On the other hand, if your default and belief system is one of positivity and productivity, then you cultivate those things in your life—whereas a cynical default setting cultivates more negativity.

Resetting Your Defaults

Resetting your defaults requires you to first evaluate what your “go-to” attitudes and opinions are, and then work to recognize them every time they become an issue. When you feel yourself automatically looking for the negative, remind yourself that there is positivity to be found, and that you should go there first. You need to look within yourself to determine why you act or react in the way that you do, and if there is real basis for it, or if you are simply reacting based on a negative default setting.

What it all comes down to is resetting your attitudes towards money and wealth, and giving yourself the capacity to succeed through a positive mindset of possibility. I assure you, life is a much more enjoyable thing when you believe in the good and possibility of life, rather than always assuming the worst.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009