Wealth Creation Blog

If you allow money to run your life, the quality of your life is decreased automatically. All too often, people all around the world in all walks of like let money stress them out to a point from which they feel they cannot recover. Many times, people tend to let the money that they have, or do not have for that matter, control their lives. Once you learn to take control of your money, you will have greater confidence and peace of mind.

Is Money Running Your Life?

Do you procrastinate when it comes to paying the bills, or always pay your bills late? Do you have a regular income, but feel that it is just not enough to survive if you do not make more money somehow? Do lose sleep or argue with your loved ones over money? Do you feel like there is no possible outlet to the financial situation you are in currently? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then there is a fairly good chance that you are letting money take the wheel in your life vehicle.

Once you take control of your money, you will find that you are actually spending less money than you earn. You will be able to pursue your financial goals, save money for the future or emergencies and finally be free from debt. You will be able to make financial decisions without worry or regret.

Take Control

In order to take control of your money and escape your current financial situation you need to be aware of exactly how much money you are earning each month and where it all goes. Examine your credit card debt and set a date when you expect to have it all paid and work consciously toward that goal. Increase the amount you save each month by three percent, even if you are not currently putting any money back for savings.

Taking control of your own financial situation is seldom as difficult as it appears at first glance. If you feel this simply is not a job that you are equipped to tackle on your own, several financial advisors are available online or locally to answer any questions you may have.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 - 2010

As you are planning you trip to financial freedom, you will discover that there is no single road you can take to accomplish your goal of great wealth and prosperity. However, you are able to put the odds in your favor for creating wealth successfully by following a few simple guidelines.

Here are some steps to take to get you headed in the right direction toward true wealth:

1. Spend less money than you make. This scenario is often overlooked, mainly because several people think you must lower your current standard of living, which most people find practically impossible. Look at how you spend your time and money. Instead of spending all of the extra money you that you make, invest it and make even more money.

2. Make your money do all of the work for you. The actual secret to financial freedom is making your money work for you. However, you must accumulate enough money to allow the growth and earnings to free you from the time clock.

3. Save it before you can spend it! If you do not have the option for automatic deductions into your company’s savings plan, then you need to develop your own savings plan. Ask your company to deposit your paycheck directly into your bank account, or commit to doing it yourself every payday.

4. Develop investment and savings goals. Set your own objectives. However, you should never set a goal over which you have no control. Your goals cannot depend on anyone else; you must be able to reach your goals through your own efforts. You may need to invest in additional financial education in order to qualify for a higher paying job that will bring you closer to your ultimate goal. You may also need to learn to take more risks with your investments.

Follow these few simple steps and you will be well on your way to financial freedom.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 - 2009

Did you know you are already independently wealthy? That you already, today, have every single thing that it takes to be wealthy? And as we know from our lessons of be, do, have, from [Name Withheld], once you BE wealthy, all you have to do is take those wealthy actions to HAVE money, success, and wealth.

Your Wealth List

Looking at your bank balance, perhaps you find it tough to believe that you are already wealthy. Let’s look at all the things you have going for you that are creating wealth for you.

• Brains. You have all the brains and intelligence it takes to build wealth. Making money and building wealth is not complex; there are plenty of ways to do it with a little knowledge and the ability to read. I know you’ve got that if you’ve gotten this far.
• Mindset. Building wealth is at least 90% mindset, and probably more. Set your mind to success, and it will be yours.
• Attitude. Very closely related to mindset, and in some people’s mind it is the same. I think of your attitude as your emotional health towards money and wealth and opportunity. See that yours is positive, and success will follow closely on its heals.
• Money. Think you don’t have any? I beg to differ. There is practically always money to start in wealth creation. Building an internet marketing business like mine takes only an internet and computer access—which you obviously have. What you need to do is decide to use at least a portion of your money for your purposes, and stop letting outside creditors have all the control.
• Motivation. You have motivation, you’re here. You are motivated to build wealth and do better. You may need to work a little harder to keep that motivation at first, but stick around and we’ll help you out
• Dedication. Dedicate your actions to your goals and your wealth and success. With a good mindset and dedication to see it through, you are an unstoppable wealth-creating force.

You see the list of necessities for building wealth is not long, and is not at all unattainable. It is also not all about money—you’ll notice money is only one very small factor here. You have everything that it takes to start creating wealth today. What else are you waiting for?

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 - 2009

The last time we talked we talked about how those excuses that deny money and wealth are just justifications for poverty. They’re pretty prolific justifications, too, but if you want to improve your life, find the freedom that wealth brings, and be in true control of your life and time, you need to understand that these justifications are just excuses, and that they’ll always keep you down.

Where’s The Staying Power?

For this discussion, let’s consider that one of the hallmark characteristics of an excuse versus a real reason is that an excuse does not have any staying power. Excuses come and go, and only serve their purpose for a short, fleeting time, just to make us feel better for a little bit. A reason is something more lasting, something steadier, which may need to be overcome (and of course it can be). Now, if saying things like “money doesn’t matter to me,” or “who needs money,” or “money is evil,” of “money changes people,” were a real reason that really represented and truly justified your true feelings about money and wealth, then those ‘reasons’ would work for you a lot longer than they do.

How long does that type of justification last, though? How long after you use such a line to convince yourself that you are happy does the comfort that you’ve created by saying it last? Or was there ever any comfort?

Here Today, Gone Today

When we say things like this and deny the fact that we really do want money and wealth, it never lasts long, does it? Usually these things only last about as long as it takes to get out of the house, or face the next bill, or need to go back to work to a job of paid slavery.

I would argue that if we really didn’t need or want money then these flimsy excuses would last much longer—they’d carry us through our days and we’d live happily in our lives. But we don’t. We live discontentedly and wish for something more, something better. But there is no need to wish for wealth, when all the wealth-building tools you need to achieve it are right inside your head.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 - 2009

Another topic from the past week that I’d like to skip back to and expand on for a bit is the discussion we had about the children in your life and the greatest gift (after love and support) that you can give them to prepare for the future: the gift of positive financial mindset from the start.

The Right Start

As we’ve been talking about, our adult financial management and attitudes toward money and wealth are direct products of our upbringing and all the experiences we’ve had with money up until now. We can give our children immensely successful head starts by helping them develop their mindsets in positive, productive ways. We can help to mold their experiences with money so that they do not end up as adults who think money is evil or who live in denial of money. By hand-picking our contributions to our children’s financial mindsets, and helping them to deal positively with their financial experiences and money decisions, we can start our children off on the right financial footing.

Make Money Part Of Your Life

If you think about it, and again this is no scientific data, but I do think you can relate, most of us grew up with parents and adults who were very closed-mouthed about money; or, if we did hear about it, it was often because we could not afford something or we were denied something, or there wasn’t enough, or someone had to work too hard for it. The list could go on and on, but I think you see my meaning. Little was imparted to us, and that which was, was not very positive; and there were hardly ever enough details given to qualify the statement or issue at hand, so often we thought worse of a topic than what actually was.

Now, as a parent of course I understand not wanting to worry your children about your adult financial needs, or the stress that you might feel over money and finances. However, if you can pick and choose what you bring to light to your children, take some care in how and what you present to them, and present money and finance in a positive light—for example, as choices and options rather than wants and needs, as possibilities for building wealth and so on—all the while teaching them what money really is (a tool for them to mould and to utilise), your children will be so much farther ahead than we were, and will know that life is full of possibility and opportunity, and not just a practice in drudgery.

Don’t be afraid to conscientiously open up to your children. Talk to them about money, teach them about mindset and the possibilities before them, and watch them grow into some of the most successful people you know. If there is a dream more worth aiming for, I’m not sure what that would be!

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 - 2009