Wealth Creation Blog

Just as the company you keep affects your financial success, the thoughts you think directly impact your results in wealth creation, too. Surround yourself with good people and good thoughts and you will be well on your way to living better with more money.

Think Your Way To Wealth

This isn’t a new concept in wealth creation; it was, in fact, the fundamental premise of Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, and integral to Wallace Wattles’ The Science of Getting Rich. It is also a critical element in every wealth creation program from then up to today. Less formally, when we look back at the success of wealthy people all over the world and throughout history, we find that their thoughts are the common thread to their success.

I know that to any of you who have followed along on this or another of my blogs this is nothing new, either. Mindset is the first factor in financial success—or any success in life. But today I want you to think more specifically about the thoughts that you think, and less about your overall attitude.

Attracting Positive Thought

Basically what we’re talking about here is thinking in more positive and successful ways. Thinking that you are successful, not that you are financially stressed and hope to someday be successful. Turn each thought into a positive thought of wealth creation. Stop thinking that you can’t afford, and start thinking positively—that you are developing a plan to afford, or are building the ability to afford freedom. Look at how every thought can be turned into a positive, and disallow negativity from ruling the day.

Once you do this, the law of attraction takes over and your positive thoughts attract more positivity and success. Working as a whole, this conglomeration of positive thinking builds that positive mindset that you need to be the foundation of wealth.

Start attracting more positivity in your life—think success always, starting now!

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

If we were all born knowing how to create wealth, there would be no need for wealth creation programs, and no demand for them. Tens of thousands of hits on wealth creation websites every month tell us that there is in fact a huge demand for information and programs that can help people learn to build wealth.

As a student of wealth creation, you owe it to yourself to seek out those who can give you good, reliable information. Continual education in wealth creation will ensure your success. And one of the best ways to learn about wealth creation is just to read.

Good Reads For Wealth Creation

There are many good sources of wealth creation information. From theory to practice, financial wealth information resources run the gamut. Everyone has their favorites, but since you’ve (very smartly) taken stock in our programs, let us list a handful of our favorites to get you started.

• Robert Kiyosaki—he internationally acclaimed best seller who authored the Rich Dad, Poor Dad books. Robert is a genius at showing how the right attitude can translate into success in creating wealth.

• Jamie McIntyre—Jamie himself is a student of Robert Kiyosaki, and like Robert, Jamie has a lot to teach about achieving the right attitude and mindset for financial success. Jamie is just a regular guy like the rest of us, who can speak from experience. Jamie has built his financial success from the ground up, starting with nothing but determination and perseverance on his side.

• Wallace Wattles and Napoleon Hill—we talked about these forefathers in empowerment and wealth creation a few posts back. These are men with an uncanny vision for financial success, with a timeless message to lend.

4 Must Have Wealth Authors

These are four of the authors that top our list in must-have wealth creation reads. They are a surefire way to set yourself on the right path to wealth creation. But please, feel free to share with us…

Who’s on your list of best financial wealth creation authors?

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

More often than not we are talking about making yourself a raging wealth creation success. It stands to reason, since wealth creation is based on a positive mindset of determination and perseverance. But we would be remiss if we never addressed failure in wealth creation.

There are words I am always hesitant to use, and ‘failure’ is one of them. Rather, I prefer to think of setbacks in wealth creation as ‘temporary defeat’. In the course of wealth creation, facing failure in some form is inevitable. It’s what you do in the face of failure that counts.

Recognize Failure For What It Is

No matter what kind of failure you think your are facing, or how severe it may seem, always keep things in perspective and know failure for what it really is—a temporary state, something that will pass, a setback, a change in plans.

Successful wealth creation does follow a plan, but in the world of finances, nothing is ever entirely predictable. There are things that are beyond your control. And there are things that won’t go the way you had planned. But that doesn’t mean that all is lost, or that you’ve failed at your goal of wealth creation. It just means this small part of the whole hasn’t gone your way, and that you need to either wait it out, or chart a new path to financial success—a detour, if you will.

Turn Failure On Its Head

You know the saying…if at first you don’t succeed, try again!

Napoleon Hill coined the phrase ‘temporary defeat’. It’s a very fitting description of what ‘failure’ really is. Failure is not lasting. That is, not if you remain committed to the cause and look for the solution to your problem.

Failure, or temporary defeat, is often nothing more than a new opportunity. The fact that your carefully mapped strategy for wealth creation may have hit a road block doesn’t mean that you are doomed to a life of financial struggle. Look at temporary defeat as a time for regrouping. Reevaluate the situation, and look within in it for a missed opportunity. Many times, you’ll find the key to your financial success in your failures.

All in all, a temporary defeat is not a death sentence to wealth creation. It’s nothing more than a part of the process. You’ll do best to realize that from the start, to know that there are days when the market will take a downturn, to know that you’ll have to weather a few storms, and prepare to persevere so that you can continue to move forward to your end goal—financial freedom!

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

Two of the concepts that Napoleon Hill became world-famous for were these:

• “Thoughts are things”, and
• “Mastermind” (a term coined by Hill in Think and Grow Rich)

If you think these are clues to the wealth creation message Napoleon Hill brought us, you are absolutely correct.

Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill took a different tact toward illuminating the keys to wealth creation; unlike Wallace Wattles, he did not explore philosophical or religious theories to arrive at his formula for wealth creation. Hill chose instead to interview hundreds of successful, wealthy people, and extract those traits they had in common that could be credited for their financial successes. His strategy worked beautifully, and what Napoleon Hill left us was a blueprint for living the life of the financially successful.

Hill found that there are, as Andrew Carnegie said there would be, key similarities between the rich and financially successful. These people live in much the same basic manner, and apply their life-theories to their financial endeavors. He was able to identify 13 core principles that the vast majority of wealthy people all exercised in their business and financial dealings.

Mindset Determines Success

Interestingly, although Hill took a different route towards identifying the road to riches, both he and Wattles arrived at the same basic conclusion—mindset determines success in wealth creation.

Hill looked at his 500 subjects, and deduced that the one thing that set them apart from the floundering people of the world is that they set their minds at succeeding in life, committed to their efforts, and remained determined to reach their personal goals for financial success. There are many incidentals that Hill learned along the way, and many, many lessons to be learned in his book, but if there is one thing to take away from Napoleon Hill’s teachings it is that to succeed financially, to enjoy financial freedom and prosperity, you have to develop the mindset to do so. Interesting, isn’t it, that both he and Wattles could come so far around to reach the same conclusion? Maybe there just is something to this concept of developing the wealth creation mindset.

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

Napoleon Hill was another important figure in the world of wealth creation; like Wallace Wattles, Hill was one of our founding fathers who brought us a wealth of information about achieving financial success that we probably otherwise never would have had.

Napoleon Hill, also like Wattles, was born into poverty in American in the late 1800’s. He worked his way into law school by writing as a “mountain reporter” for a local newspaper (a post he held from the tender age of 13). Because he was poor, and struggling to pay for college in the early 1900’s, Hill was unable to stay in law school, and eventually had to leave for financial reasons. Hill returned to his reporting job—a move that ultimately spelled the success of not only Napoleon Hill, but of a number of successful individuals embarking on the path to wealth creation.

Financially Successful People

After Napoleon Hill returned to his post as a newspaper reporter, he was given an assignment to write a series of articles chronicling a number of then contemporary successful men. On his list of interview subjects was the famed steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. Hill met with Carnegie and listened intently to everything Carnegie had to offer. Carnegie was equally impressed with Hill and presented him with a challenge—interview the most famous and financially successful people in the world, and from their successes create a formula for wealth creation that might be applied to any willing individual’s efforts at wealth creation.

Think And Grow Rich

With his curiosity piqued, Hill accepted Carnegie’s challenge. This ultimately was much to the advantage of the rest of us, as Hill fulfilled his mission. He interviewed more than 500 of the richest and most famous people living on earth at his time, and took from them the keys to their financial success. Hill worked for 20 years to study and compile his findings which he published in his now wealth-creation and empowerment classic, “Think and Grow Rich“. This is a book like no other, detailing the essentials to creating wealth that apply to all kinds of financial wealth creation endeavors. The information Hill brought to us in his book is timeless, because it deals with the human element of successful money making rather than specific financial strategies.

Napoleon Hill brought us an important tool for wealth creation, the likes of which we probably will never see again.

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