Wealth Creation Blog

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

You’re working hard to reach your wealth creation goals. You’re excited about the possibilities, and you’re intently focused on finally reaching those goals and achieving real, lasting wealth. You have eliminated distractions, made your wealth appointments, kept them, and made great progress. Every progressive step that you’ve made has motivated you to take another. Now, it’s time to take a bit of a break and cut yourself some slack.

Intense Intent

If you don’t take care what can happen next is something almost as bad as the limited life freedom you had prior to wealth creation. This is the point where you risk becoming so intently focused on your success that you risk losing sight of why you started in the first place. Sometimes, your focus becomes so intense and your dedication so strong that you forget that the purpose of wealth creation is to build a better, freer, more enjoyable life. But if you’re not careful you can wind up working so hard to build wealth that your freer lifestyle may become all consuming.

If you are essentially working from home or working your wealth and investments from home or on your own hours and schedule, or even outside the home but with you in control, it is easy to fall into a pattern where you spend more and more hours in your work and wealth creation and actually end up with less leisure and life time. And that’s not the point of creating wealth. You are working to build a lifestyle and sustainable income stream that frees your time for you and yours. Sure, your work conditions may have improved dramatically if you are working from home and abroad, but at the end of the day it is still work, and it should not be taking you away from your family and the freer lifestyle you’ve been working to build.

Obviously there are times in your wealth creation journey where you need to spend more time and effort than at other times. But throughout that journey you need to remain focused on your purpose and goals, and take the time to stop and allow yourself tastes of that freedom.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

To large percentages of people, the word ambition is right up there with being rich; it is a word that has many negative connotations, none of which are deserved and few of which make much sense.

What Is Ambition?

What is ambition? By definition ambition is

1. an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment: Too much ambition caused him to be disliked by his colleagues.
2. the object, state, or result desired or sought after: The crown was his ambition.
3. desire for work or activity; energy: I awoke feeling tired and utterly lacking in ambition.
–verb (used with object)
4. to seek after earnestly; aspire to.

By these definitions ambition is a desire to achieve something, such as wealth. But why is that something that is negative? Why should it be viewed as negative for you to want to achieve something better for yourself and for those who depend upon you? When did ambition become something that is disdained rather than treasured? Probably about the time people started thinking that money is “evil”.

I find it amusing that even the example that is provided in the definition shows how prevalent the negative attitudes towards being ambitious are. A man strives for better things in his life and his career and his colleagues dislike him? Sounds like the next definition should be a link for jealousy .

Negativity Prevails

Once again what we have is an example whereby the word and its meaning are not negative, but the attitude that has grown up surrounding it over time has almost made it so, however illogical that is. Ambition is not at all bad; it’s the process of exercising it that has the potential to be. But then, that is your choice, and there are likely as many unscrupulous poor men and women as there are wealthy and ambitious ones!

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009