Wealth Creation Blog

The last post talked about reconciling the negative things in your past to allow for growth and wealth creation. That’s a tough thing for some people to accept, because it is really hard to commit to going back and digging up past experiences that seem better left untouched. Overcoming those experiences once and for all, and capitalizing on the unleashed positive power that lies within them, is essential to forward movement and growth—to success and financial prosperity. As long as those emotions are left to degrade your success, they will continue to eat away at it and either keep you from wealth altogether or limit your potential success, and consequently, your wealth.

But What Could Possibly Be Good About A Bad Past Experience?

Even given this knowledge, and understanding the basic concept behind it, people are reluctant to take hold of it and relive the past—even at the return of enjoying a hugely prosperous future. They just can’t figure what possible good could come from something that was perhaps painful, trying, and emotionally, and often financially, draining.

There are many good and positive things that can come out of reconciling past experiences. It might be a financial lesson learned, it might be revealing a person or negative force in your life for what it really was, or it might be just knowing that you had the personal strength and fortitude to overcome; it might even be the realization that you needed a change to get the most from life—an awakening as to your current state, and the state of your future if you did nothing about it.

In fact, every single negative thing that ever happened to you had something positive related to it. It is that positivity that you are trying to recapture—not the negativity, that we are letting go. At the time of whatever it was that occurred most people cannot see the positive that came out of it. That is why we have to go back and figure out what it was. Because when you see that you were rewarded for surviving that negative experience, you can value it as a lesson learned, or a character built, and you can know that even the worst things in life contributed to the wonderful, outstanding, successful person that you know you are today!

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

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
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004 – 2008