Wealth Creation Blog

From early in life, we have become financially conditioned to:

• Work hard

• Earn money

• Skimp and save money where we can

• Believe money is the root of all evil

We know that to succeed at wealth creation we have to work to recondition ourselves towards wealth. We have to accept that wealth is not a bad thing, and we have to start living the life we hope to have in order to attract more wealth.

One of the ways we change our wealth conditioning is by living a life of quality. To do that, we have to start with the way we live life everyday; with things as simple as the everyday purchases we make.

The wealthy live a life of quality, and that is exactly the life you are trying to achieve. The wealthy do not settle for the cheaply made and poorly functioning. They buy quality products within their budget, and they feel good about the things they buy and own.

And thus, they surround themselves with an energy and an air of quality

Now how is that different than what you are doing? Are you living a life of quality, surrounding yourself with positive energy and an air of success? Or are you settling for the ‘cheap and cheerful’ as Jamie McIntyre’s mentor calls it, and surrounding yourself with that?

Achieving the wealth creation mindset, the mindset of a millionaire, starts, in part, with living a life of quality—living the life you are working to achieve in its totality.

However, this is not a free-reign to bury yourself further in debt so that you can say you are living a life of quality for wealth creation. This is simply a change in your buying habits that entails buying the best you can afford, within reason and budget, and buying less.

Once you start doing this, it won’t be long before you start feeling its effects. You will begin to appreciate what you have more, value it more, value yourself more, and attract more quality to your life and finances. You will start enjoying the wealth creation lifestyle!

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

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Just as a positive wealth creation attitude will attract money and good things, a negative attitude will repel money, and act as a roadblock to wealth creation.

How Negativity Repels Wealth

Negative energy attracts more negative energy. When you live a life based in the belief that you are poor and limited, you will attract people of the same attitude. You will feed off each other’s misery and misfortune, and you will continue to place blame and find excuses as to why financial success will never be yours. You will create your own financial cycle and fulfill your own prophecy. You will repel wealth.

On the other hand, if you take steps to break that cycle and start living positively, start living a life of abundance and success, you will attract positive-minded people, people who believe themselves to be successful and accomplished. You will continue to feed off that good energy instead and create a circle of good around your financial house.

This concept should not be too difficult to accept. This happens everyday, and it often starts very small and spirals into something large and seemingly unmanageable.

Consider this scenario and see if it is not too far off from similar circumstances in your life.

• You start your day off nicely and in a happy mood.

• You trip over the dog and spill coffee all over yourself, ruining the suit you’d prepared the night before.

• You have to choose and primp an entirely new set of clothes.

• You now are twenty minutes late because of a misplaced step.

• You begin to hate your dog—despite the fact that he’s been a loyal companion for years.

• You finally reach the office, and vent to anyone who will listen,

• Soon, you all begin to commiserate about dogs and coffee, and vow to never own another pet or drink another cup of coffee.

• You realize it was your spouse’s stupid idea to get the dog in the first place, and now you and your co-workers are railing about the idiotic decisions your partners have made, and how they are all ruining your life.

Perhaps you read this with amusement and think it’s a bit far-fetched, but is it really? Think about the trigger of your negativity—it’s often something as silly as tripping over the dog.

The point of this exercise is just to get you thinking about how you react and how your reactions result in life-altering negativity. Start today in a small way to live a life of abundance and positivity, and you will be making steps towards wealth creation.

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

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Living a life of abundance and success, rather than a life of limitation and poverty, is one of the first steps towards creating wealth. But you must use caution not to go about living abundantly with abandon, setting yourself up for financial failure. Living a life of abundance is not about spending every dollar in sight. It is about adjusting your attitude to believe that you do deserve and can achieve. It is about accepting that all lives are already rich, and that if you focus on the good in your life you will create more good, eventually leading to financial wealth.

Patience In Wealth Creation

No one likes to be told to wait for money, but the facts are that most of us have spent a lifetime creating our financial situation and it cannot be undone in a day. Fortunately, it can be undone in far less time than it took to get into it, but everything in wealth creation must be done within reason and with a dose of patience.

This can be a difficult concept for people to understand when they set about improving their financial conditioning and attitude on their path to wealth creation. It’s understandable, because on the one hand you are told to live abundantly and stop dwelling in an attitude of limitation and poverty. So how can this be done? How can you live like the wealthy on the budget of the poor?

For starters, you need to reassess your definition of abundance. Abundance is not a strictly financial term; abundance is more a state of mind than anything, and if you decide that you are rich in your life, you will begin to find the abundance around you. When you do that, you will begin to attract more positivity and abundance.

Jamie McIntyre’s millionaire mentor can explain this better than I can; here’s what he said,

“…allow yourself the patience to go beyond your old conditioning and begin to resonate in your feelings the abundance you are part of…In fact what you have got to do is begin to see abundance in the things you already have.”

He cautions that living abundantly is not about going out and spending money on the things you think the wealthy should have. That will only serve to place you further in debt and pull you back down. Finding wealth and abundance is about starting at a small point and building upwards toward financial success.

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

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Another thing the wealthy understand that the middle class does not seem to understand thoroughly is the importance of an effective exit strategy. In wealth creation, exit strategy refers to the ability to get out of what you’ve gotten into. It is possible that you will not want or need to get out of everything you do in your efforts to create wealth, but as you cannot predict the future, there is always a need to at least have an exit strategy in place.

Most specifically in terms of wealth creation

An exit strategy for the middle class means getting out of the working world—breaking the cycle of working for a dollar, spending, and working for a dollar more. This exit strategy is what wealth creation is all about. An exit strategy is why people seek wealth creation.

An exit strategy for financial wealth is what most people would think of as retirement. It is creating wealth that continues to create streams of wealth so that you can comfortably leave your job and live life to its fullest.

Unfortunately today, a great majority of middle class people all over the developed world do not have an exit strategy, leastwise not one based on wealth creation. Some people simply cannot see how to create wealth that can finance their exit strategy, and so they default to a life that requires them to work until they die. Death should not be your financial exit strategy (and in truth it is no exit strategy at all, since it only serves to transfer your debt to those you leave behind).

A retirement plan is the very beginning of an exit strategy, and is what is usually sold to the middle class. But in truth a retirement plan (of the common variety) does nothing real to improve life before retirement or guarantee the ability to retire early. All a retirement fund does is build up a fund with which you can live reasonably well until you die. But in many cases these are even far from adequate, and people end up either returning to work at an even more advanced age, or depending on others to live.

A true exit strategy will never stop making you money

The exit strategy that will allow you to leave the working life (at an age early enough to enjoy it) and continue to live well, continue to improve upon your life, is the wealth creation exit strategy. With wealth creation, you can create an exit strategy that is truly sustaining for life, not just for the period before your death.

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

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To the struggling middle-class, wealth is something of a mythical state of mind. The wealthy understand that wealth creation is more than that—it is a balance sheet, a budget, a solid means of financing their end goal of financial freedom and living well. Knowing the difference and living the life are two separate issues that severely impact the end goal of wealth creation.

Before I get too far ahead here, I have to say that wealth creation does rely on achieving the wealthy state of mind. But you have to know what that means. The mindset of the wealthy is one of success and maintaining that success. It’s one of determination and motivation. But it is not one of spending blindly to appear wealthy; the mindset of the wealthy is to really be wealthy!

Looking Rich is different to being rich

The middle class mistakenly think that being rich means looking rich. Having things that will make people think you are rich—the big house, the luxury car, the second home, the designer clothes.

In their rush to appear wealthy, the middle class take on fast and easy lines of credit, buy and buy so that they can put on a good show of wealth for the neighbors, and drown in their unmanageable debt. This puts the middle class into a never-ending cycle of working and paying and working more to pay for more. But it does nothing to really save or build wealth.

The wealthy, on the other hand, do things in reverse

They understand that the key to their wealthy existence is cash in hand (used to back reasonable amounts of beneficial and manageable debt). The wealthy wait to make their purchases until they know they have the financial backing to do so. In so doing, they create a stream of wealth first by putting their seed money to work for them to make more money, and spending off the money created by that seed money.

This is an essential difference between the wealthy and middle-class. It is the difference that dictates success in wealth creation. Understanding the difference between appearing wealthy and actually being wealthy is what will determine the success you have with wealth creation.

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

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