Wealth Creation Blog

By the title this probably sounds like another talk on how it is up to you to create wealth for yourself, and that there is no other way to do it without a solid mindset and attitude. While that is of course true, it’s not what I’m going for today.

No, today I want to address the notion of money being negative or bad, or evil, or whatever you want to call it. Money is none of those things because money is just a thing. A tool. Something you use to get what you want and need and free yourself from paid slavery. It’s the person behind the money that makes it what it “is”.

Negative Actions Net Negative Income

…Probably in more ways than one, and there’s probably many places we could go with that. But for the purposes of this post, what I mean to say is that if a person makes their wealth off the backs of others through dishonest and unethical means, then that is what lends to the ideal that the money is somehow dirty. It is extremely easy to turn that around, though, and grow money in a positive and productive atmosphere, and in one that actually helps others rather than hurts them. Very simply, act positively, ethically, and helpfully, and there’s no reason for you to feel any negativity towards your wealth—shame, guilt, or anything of the like.

Moral Money

Here’s the point that I’m really trying to get around to.

Feeling any guilt or shame or negative emotions in regard to what you have achieved and built, earned for yourself, is silly. But we know that the negativity we associate with money—a product of our previous conditioning and upbringing—is often a major player in what we achieve (or more accurately, don’t achieve). We let negative attitudes towards money keep us from building wealth. But as I said before, money cannot be evil by itself. Create wealth in positive ways, and there will not be even a trace of a reason to associate negativity, shame, and guilt with it. Be proud of what you have achieved and enjoy your wealth!

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

When Napoleon Hill introduced this next quote, he was speaking in reference to the power of thought—to the fact that a thought, a single thought, is the foundation of all things. His hope was that readers would take this point to heart and apply it to the great things that they want in life—like wealth and prosperity. He knew, though (because he’s seen this at least as often, and probably more often), that a thought could be a foundation for failure just as easily as it could for goodness and well-being.

Thoughts For Better Or Worse

“Both poverty and wealth are the offspring of thought.”

It’s funny that a lot of times people have a hard time accepting that something as simple as a thought could be the father of great wealth; but when you tell someone that thought is the father of poverty, too, people suddenly start to warm to the idea. It’s almost as if we can’t accept any positives without acknowledging our demons and struggles.

Stop and think about this quote, though, and you’ll soon see that it’s true. We think our way to our own personal positions. If they are positive, it’s because we have a positive mind backing them—a belief in our own selves, in our deserving of good things, and in our ability to produce them.

If our position is negative, and you trace the line backwards, you’ll surely uncover a line of negative thoughts and actions, and/or a breakdown in the positive thought model. Basically, you find a lack of confidence in our own thoughts and abilities.

These are important things to know and acknowledge, because when you understand that it is your thought process that is controlling your outcome, you can work to make it one of more confidence and more positive productivity. You can pay conscious attention to correcting your thought patterns, and thus leveraging positive influence on your life. Always be aware that your thoughts do matter—they matter implicitly—and that the path of thought that you choose is deciding your destiny. Choose well, and live well!

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com © 2004 – 2009

One of the things that sets wealth experts apart—the good wealth creation experts, anyway—is that they don’t just tell you how to make money; they go beyond the math and strategy to develop your whole person so that the knowledge and success you gain are lasting and sustainable. To do that, we often have to deal as much in the past as in the future.

Why Look Back?

But why look back at our pasts? Why relive misfortunes and mistakes? Why drag up the emotional baggage that plagues us and relive it? We’ve said here before that you are not your financial past, so why make that part of your financial future?

The hint is in that third question—emotional baggage.

All those negative factors in your past, all those things that you think are better left forgotten, still effect what you think and do today. You may not know that they do, but until you deal with them they certainly do. They impact your real attitude towards money, they impact your buying and spending and saving—or lack of it—and they hold you back when you know in your right mind that you could easily be moving forward, if not for this ethereal sense that keeps you from it. These are the things that let you start and stop many times over, but still stay an arm’s length away from building wealth. So to break that cycle, you have to reconcile that past to go forward and finally enjoy lasting wealth and financial freedom.

Accepting, Growing, And Moving On

The good news is that reconciling your past does not need to be as scary as what you think it is. Sure, there are no guarantees that you won’t experience some emotional pain, but the chances are that it will be much less serious than before; and once you’ve done it you will never have to do it again.

The thing is that even very negative experiences all have something positive in them. When you unleash that power through the process of reconciliation, you have opened an internal well of positivity that adds to your current state of mind, and releases the negativity that was canceling out so much of it.

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
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