Wealth Creation Blog

One of the great benefits of wealth creation is that it is an endeavour which can be undertaken on your own. You, independently and with just the power of your mindset and attitude, can create wealth. You, all by yourself, have everything that it takes to create wealth. But just having what it takes and having the potential to go it alone does not mean that you have to.

A Time For Everything

As with so many things, creating wealth is one of those things that is so often made easier by the guidance, help, and support of others. When you reach out and accept the help of others you gain valuable information and insight, support and motivation, ideas and examples, or even something as simple as a sounding board to bounce ideas off of for brainstorming and planning.

Obviously there are many ways in which you can benefit from the connection with others throughout your journey to wealth. The beauty part of it, too, is that you can involve or reach out to others as much or as little as you want—you are in control of your life, time, wealth creation path, and all that goes into it.

Multiple Wealth Creation Resources

There are an abundance of wealth creation resources that will educate, help, and inspire you along the way. This blog and my other investment, money-making, and wealth creation blogs are just one such example. There are also books and seminars and courses for developing wealth. My journey started very simply with resources like these, at the very beginning with just a few books (Robert Kiyosaki and Napoleon Hill, Wallace Wattles being among my most recommended wealth creation authors). Another source not to be overlooked, particularly for brainstorming, motivation, and support, are wealth creation forums and membership sites.

While in your local circles you may find yourself quite alone on the path to creating wealth, online you never are. Take advantage of these priceless resources and get the support you need to build wealth and achieve the life of your dreams.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

We’ve established that there is no reason to start at the bottom with wealth creation—that with a little effort, you can hoist yourself years ahead and cut years off your journey to wealth. Let’s talk a little bit more about how that can be done.

Bottoms Up

To start at the bottom of the wealth creation ladder would be silly with all the excellent resources that you have at hand. You see, building wealth has been a goal of man for centuries; this is not a new concept, and many have walked in your shoes before. Not all have walked far enough, in fact most have not, but enough have so that we are able to enjoy these resources today.

These resources are what enables you to jump ahead and achieve personal prosperity and financial freedom faster and easier. Many of those who have walked before, many of the most successful, intelligent, and insightful wealth creators, have developed resources that will speed and guide your process—forget trial and error, forget struggling and guessing.

Early Wealth Resources

I suppose wealth development resources probably reach back for many hundreds of years, but the concept really started taking shape during the 1800′s with timeless classics like Wallace Wattles’ The Science of Getting Rich (which you might know better as The Secret or The Secret Law of Attraction). Napoleon Hill’s wealth and empowerment classic, Think and Grow Rich (available free for download from me in the updated version, Mindset Mastery) was not far behind. Both of these early resources are timeless, capturing the very basics of wealth creation—the mindset, attitude, and more that never changes as a basic need for creating wealth.

After these two came many great modern writers who you will recognize; names like Robert Kiyosaki, Anthony Robbins, [Name Withheld] and others (see a more complete list of my favorites in my life’s story on my SeanRasmussen.com blog). In addition, many of these wealth experts have developed courses and step-by-step strategies for investment and wealth creation, which will propel you decades forward into the future without having to reinvent the wheel.

So you see, creating wealth is not nearly as complex as you think it is. Make some of these guys your evening reading, dedicate your energy to establishing real wealth for yourself, and jump ahead of the pack just by knowing where the good resources are.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

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

I just by chance happened across a few discussions recently that referenced the many myths that people hold around money; these are myths that keep people from saving, investing, and making money because they either misinform, or essentially provide excuses for people not to take firm control of their financial house. I paid it little interest at the time, but then thought more deeply later that this is, in fact, fundamental to real wealth creation.

Out With The Old, In With The New

It’s not as if I didn’t know this; one of the primary missions of programs like Jamie McIntyre’s is in educating people to the real truths of money, saving, investing, money systems, banking and establishments. It’s an important part of any plan to build wealth because having the real information, and the ability to analyze a situation, is freeing and opportunity-producing.

Here’s an example of what I’m referring to. One of the things that were mentioned was real estate—whether it’s better to rent or to buy a home. Of course, this really means mortgage your home because most people don’t have their “bought” homes paid off.

The general consensus is that buying your home is best. Different wealth experts would have different things to say about this. But the articles you read say not necessarily—and that can be true, too. Jamie McIntyre, for example, would buy multiple properties but would keep his home, his personal residence, usually out apart from investment properties; or, he may suggest living in one but still viewing it as an investment and always knowing it as such. He learned a lot of this from Robert Kiyosaki who believes in investing in real estate, but knows that a home is not an investment; it’s a place to live, whereas your money makers are in a different category. More often than not it’s all in how the banks would have you view it.

So what’s the point?

The point that I’m trying to make is that there are many ways to look at things. And, I guess, that you can’t always take what you read at face-value. You have to consider it on your own terms, and peel back the myths and general advice to look strategically at the financial decisions you make. And I have to add, a very good way to nurture those skills is to get educated! Financially educated! Learn the facts and motivations behind all types of transactions, and find the ways that you can capitalize where others fail to learn.

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

If you’ve not yet mastered the art of wealth creation, the probability is that you haven’t the right type of wealth creation education. Get that education, and you will be well on your way to wealth creation success.

What Did School Do For You?

School and college, do play important roles in the lives of successful and wealthy individuals. But if you are relying on the education you received as a child and young adult to guide you through wealth creation, you will be sorely disappointed.

School and university teach lots of things; things that are important in life, things that are necessary to living. We are not anti-education here; however, the thing that we learn from those who have succeeded at creating wealth—people like Jamie McIntyre and Robert Kiyosaki, among others—is that the type of education received at school does little to nothing to prepare us for building wealth.

The reason that school does not prepare students for wealth creation is that the focus of school and university is in career preparation—not in the important things like money management, navigating the world’s financial systems, application of money making strategies, investment and the like.

What school does is give you the skills needed to get a job. School can prepare you for a lifetime of drawing a paycheck, even a very handsome paycheck, but it will not teach you how to make that money work for you.

The Wealth Creation Difference

Herein lies the difference between a traditional education and a wealth creation education. Wealth creation strategies teach you how to use money, not just how to earn it. Wealth creation teaches you how to take what you’ve earned and put it to work for you.

Wealth creation teaches you how to stop working for your money and let your money work for you!

This is the foundation of wealth creation. This is what the rich do. This is how the rich get rich!

This is what you need to learn in addition to your diploma or degree if you ever plan to move forward and live the wealth creation life!

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