Wealth Creation Blog

In all of your planning and acting to create wealth, what you’ll find to be the hardest part of it all is the letting go. You’re a creature of habit and those old habits die hard, but there are a number of old habits and hindrances that will just have to go in order for you to be successful.

Like What?

That’s a pretty open-ended question with a lot of potential answers (and do feel free to offer your thoughts), but for starters consider some of the larger culprits that create problems for wealth creation.

• Things learned. Too much of what we have learned is not useful to us, or worse, is detrimental our financial success. Let go of the old learned attitudes that are hindering you, and take on some new, more useful learning for wealth and financial freedom.
• Conditioning. Too much of what we do we do by habit and default, without even thinking. That is in part what perpetuates our poor money attitudes and financial struggle. Let go of all the conditioning that is holding you back, think outside the box to deal with your current financial situation and recreate it to be one of more success and control.
• Fear. Over time you begin to develop a fear of the establishment and their rules, and so you only dare play by them. But that negates creative financial thinking, and keeps you very much limited as to what you can achieve and build in terms of wealth. Think about it—the “big guys,” the rich guys (Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki, and others) do not live in fear and make their own rules. The establishment doesn’t necessarily always like them because they don’t make as much money on savvy creative financial thinkers as on the little guy who bends to their will. And the only tools they have keeping you in place is fear of their threatened repercussions—but how real or worrisome do those “consequences” really need to be?

This should be some illustration for you as to what needs to be let go of. Think smart, let the right attitudes prevail, and wealth will come easily to you. The hardest part is in letting go and stepping out of what you think is your comfort zone, to gain the much more rewarding zone of comfort and personal prosperity that lies ahead.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

This post goes out to all of you who find it difficult to break out of the cycle of life that you are currently in and commit to wealth creation or a different course of life; in short, anyone who can’t quite bring themselves to live their dreams.

Truth In Self

We talked many times about pursuing your passion and living true to yourself, and not worrying about what others think. We’ve even talked about some ways that you can make money with your passions. Today what I’m talking about is the circle that is your life and what happens when you deny those passions and continually squelch that part of yourself that wants to pursue them full-bore.

What happens when you do this is you deny your true self. And the whole point of wealth creation is that you should be working toward the truest and most free life that you can achieve. When you deny your true self you cut off one of the best tools that you could possibly have working for you—your own desires and passions; suddenly every effort you do make is a struggle, and it feels as if you are fighting an uphill battle and trading money for your best living—essentially, prostituting yourself just to make money. And that is not what wealth creation is about. Creating wealth is empowerment, and that is entirely opposite to that.

Denial Of True Self

The other thing that you find if this is the way that you are living is that you are never settled in mind, and that kind of internal anguish again depletes your wealth resources. If you think about it, no matter how many times you have talked yourself out of it, you come back to your passions and the want only continues to grow.

It’s not that you can’t make money if you do not live your passions, because surely people do it in the corporate world and working rat race every single day. But you cannot live your best life this way, and you certainly deserve to. Nor can you maximize your efforts at building wealth until you find a way to satisfy all of your being. The possibilities are there, and you’ll find that building personal prosperity comes much easier and faster when you fit this piece of the puzzle together.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

The very idea of writing a business plan intimidates the most successful of businesspeople. Really, though, business plans are not that difficult to write, and your personal Business Plan for Life will be even easier. Don’t stress over the small details, just hit the major points and construct a plan of action for wealth creation that works for you. Remember, this is simply a tool to keep you on track and help you measure your success, while keeping you motivated. Do something that works for you and you’ll be ahead by leaps and bounds.

What Goes Into A Business Plan For Life?

The same basic things that are included in a business plan should go into your Business Plan for Life. You should have a

• Mission – a clear statement of what you are doing and why. This will work wonders to help you remember what you’ve set out to do and gives you something to come back to to reevaluate later and determine how effectively you are meeting these goals.
• Strategy – you need a plan to illustrate how you will achieve your end—a methodology that gives you something actionable and paves the way for your financial success. A commitment to real action!
• Projections – a good business plan has some sort of financial projections. You should have this, too. Initially that might be a projection of how much money or assets you will have by a given date, how much you will save and the return on that savings, or how much you will invest and the anticipated return there. You’ll benefit in several ways by creating these financial projections—you’ll have something to keep you motivated and look forward to, you’ll know what to expect and when, you’ll have a benchmark to measure your success by, and you’ll be able to see if you are reaching your goals or if you need to readjust.

Characteristics Your BPL Should Have

As I said, this is a plan for you and it doesn’t need to be fancy or complex. This is all about the potential and action to create wealth. Remember, too, that this plan can be changed in the future if it is not panning out as expected—businesses do this all the time and it’s how the strong survive and succeed. Allow yourself an element of flexibility and map your pathway to prosperity and wealth creation.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

Anything that you do big (like developing a millionaire mindset and creating wealth) has to have big plans behind it—big visualizations and a big plan of action…or at least an actionable plan that starts small and grows into big things. Probably one of the hardest parts is keeping that plan firmly in mind and focused. It’s easier than you might think to forget your visualized plans, or to lose enough of the details so as not to have the firm picture in mind of what your success will look like, or to waver to the point of confusion and exclusion. Given all of this, it’s sometimes helpful to use some little tricks and tips to stay focused on creating wealth.

Write Your Own Testimonial

Try this tip out—write your own story. Literally. Put it down on paper or computer and stash it away or keep it close where you can access it, but get it down on paper (or screen). Share wealth creation stories with others if you like, that’s up to you, but do this for you first. The point here is to develop that focused, firm visualization of what your wealthy life will be—what your personal success story will be.

A testimonial form might be even more helpful and inspiring. Think about it; what do all successful people, websites, gurus, and so forth have behind them? The testimonials of people who have found them to be of value, who have helped them on to success. You can be that for yourself now. Why wait? Your success story is in there, it just needs to be written and exercised.

Put yourself in your own shoes, only in the future at some point in time that you hope to be. Imagine you, only happier and more successful. Write your story; pat yourself on the back with your own testimonial; see today what a help you will be to yourself, and rewrite the future. All that’s left then is to follow that clear, focused path right to the doorstep of wealth and success!

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

Something else that Napoleon Hill says (and again, if you join our Mindset Mastery series, or download the book and read for yourself you’ll get it straight from him), is that having knowledge is not always a matter of having been educated or having collected knowledge along the way. Moreover, knowledge is the access to information. If you know how to find the information you seek when you need it, you are every bit as well off as the person who has spent a lifetime studying (maybe more).

You Don’t Have To Know It All

This should be a comforting thought to you, because it means that you do not already have to know everything about being successful and creating wealth. No doubt you will gather more knowledge as you continue to progress and be wealthy, but you do not have to know it all right now. In fact, you will not have to know it “all” ever, because there are many other people and resources that you can utilise for the areas where you are not expertly versed.

Resources At Hand

This is a key to know and to remember. The most successful and wealthy men and women do not try to know everything, they just know how to access the information and services that they need when they need it. They delegate tasks out to those who can more efficiently “do the job”. They consult expert resources when they feel the need. They focus their energies where they are most productive and rewarding, and surround themselves with the resources that can fill in the rest of the blanks.

This is not unlike what you are doing and will do in creating wealth. You don’t know everything about building wealth now, but you are seeking out valuable resources and accessing others as you move along. As long as you are doing that, you are doing all that is necessary to live prosperously. Don’t despair if you’ve more to learn or have things you can’t do, that’s just life—and successful life at that!

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009