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This post relates to several things we’ve talked about here in the recent weeks. It relates to our discussions on fear and failure, and it relates to the blame-game we play when we don’t achieve what we’ve set out to achieve. It also relates to preempting goal failure by going prepared with a course of wealth education that has what it takes to teach you to make money and maintain the wealth mindset. It is also very much in relation to the last post regarding curiosity or commitment and Jamie McIntyre‘s message.

Understanding Elemental Points

If we were to take all of these posts and boil them down to a few single points, one of those points would be this:

A wealth education is an essential path, but it can only take you so far. To reach the ultimate goal of wealth, you yourself have to do the traveling. The best of wealth education courses, materials, seminars…the best motivational speakers, the best of everything the world of wealth creation has to offer can only do so much for you. In reality, all they can do is present you with the tools and opportunity to build wealth and achieve success. Not to belittle the extreme importance of those tools and opportunities, but they are what they are….vehicles you have to drive.

The Best Information And Products Can Only Take You So Far

The rest is up to you. You have to be willing to walk that road to find the rewards along it. That’s important to know, too—wealth is not just a pot of gold at the end, it’s a collection of smaller successes and rewards along the way.

No one can make the journey or put the work into wealth creation on your behalf, and have you come out the winner. We can help, and that’s what we’re here to do, and what programs like the 21st Century Academy are here to do. But you have to commit and understand that effort is a requisite contribution. It’s all effort that you can certainly manage, but elemental to your success nonetheless.

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004 – 2009

When we talk about motivating ourselves and finding ways to be more productive, efficient, less time-constrained and so on, we are almost always talking about looking forward. We talk about setting goals, tracking our goals, planning our time, scheduling, making lists…

That’s all well and good, but sometimes it’s just not inspiration enough. Sometimes despite the best laid plans and efforts our plans for building wealth still fall victim to time and energy. So today I’m going to propose a new motivator, one that doesn’t rely on ethereal promises of good things to come, but one that evaluates where we’ve been and what we’ve done.

Gauging The Worth Of Your Time

Looking back at how you’ve spent your time and your days can help you gain some very valuable perspective on the worth/value/reward/effort ratio. I find this is most effective as a defense against procrastination, but it soon proves worthwhile when you expand it into other things like your work and personal time, etc.

This is very simple to do, too. All it takes is a few minutes evaluating your day at the end of it (broadened into time segments of weeks, months, and so on as you prefer). At the end of your designated time frame, look back at what you have done and what you gained for it. Look at what you gave of yourself and answer one simple question:

Was It Worth It?

Let’s suppose you spent the day idling on emails, or wishing you didn’t have to do a certain thing. When you look back at the end of the day you realize that the amount of actual progress or time spent on the tasks you were putting off was very small. And now suddenly you’ve lost valuable hours of your life, nurturing negative energy, to something you didn’t want to do. The reward ratio was not worth the effort and energy you gave to it because you gave the thing much more weight than it deserved, and prohibited yourself doing the things you really wanted to do –the things that would really allow you to build wealth.

Looking back and placing value on how we’ve spent our lives has a way of helping us come clear on it. Find out the real value of what you’ve been doing to motivate yourself to reap the best rewards for your time.

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