Wealth Creation Blog

Now that you’ve made a commitment to yourself, it may help to break that down into more formal actionable steps that will continue to guide you through your wealth creation plans and strategies. One way to do that is to create a personal vision statement.

Vision For the Future

If you acted on the personal wealth business plan idea, you will already have something quite similar to this in your mission statement. A vision statement is very much similar, and sometimes the same, as the mission of a company or person. The difference usually being that whereas a mission statement is an over-reaching long-term general statement of purpose, a vision statement is a snapshot of what you will be in the future.

Snapshot Of Tomorrow

That is probably the best way for you to think about your wealth vision statement; by envisioning a picture of what your life will look like at a point in time in the future. You can define a timeline for this vision statement, perhaps a matter of months or a year from now. You could go out longer, too, but you will probably be better off starting with a more immediate timeline that gives you a measure for what you are achieving. Better yet, create two or more visions statements (but not so many that you lose concentration and focus); one will be as shorter-term vision statement and the other your longer-term snapshot that brings you closer to your end-goal—the very reason you are pursuing wealth, the lifestyle you want to be living and achieving through wealth creation.

Take that few minutes right now to develop that picture in your mind. Write down just a few lines describing your vision for you. Make this a written or printed statement (on paper) and keep it near you, and refer back to it often. Just as Napoleon Hill would have you do, burn that vision into your memory until you understand that this isn’t just a dream, this is what you are achieving and the wealthy, happy life that you WILL have!

Here’s to your wealth vision!

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

We’ve been talking a lot about attitude and emotion and how you “should” feel about all manner of things from the local and world economy to the investment climate to the fitness of the world for wealth creation. We discussed not letting others dictate how you “should” feel about all of this, and instead being in control of your financial emotions. Now, let’s refine that a bit.

Who Cues Your Financial Emotion?

Does watching the news or the daily market report leave you feeling despondent? Do you shake your head through the entire newscast and leave your set feeling worse than when you’d arrived? Do you generally feel good about your financial position or your daily living and feel that with some concerted effort to build wealth you could be quite comfortable….but then lose that feeling as soon as you read the next internet or media report on the state of the country or world?

If this sounds familiar, you are taking too many cues from the outside world and not trusting your own instincts enough. And that will become, if it hasn’t already, a big problem for you as you continue to work toward personal wealth.

When you take your financial/emotional cues from others, you do a couple of things:

• You undercut your own confidence and ability by essentially telling yourself your own instincts and emotions are not trustworthy.
• You back-step and undo everything in wealth creation that you have already accomplished.
• You start living with a scarcity mindset instead of an abundance mentality.
• You attract more negativity and scarcity to you, instead of abundance and positive energy.

All of this makes it very hard to build wealth and achieve the end goal of financial freedom. The case is certainly not hopeless, though. All you have to do is rebuild trust in your own emotions and take your cues from you, not from the outside world.

People actually have a very good sense of the potential of things, we just suppress it. Take life head-on, trust your feelings, and continue to remain positive about any endeavor, and you will surely be an unstoppable force in creating personal wealth.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009