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“What if…?”

It’s the question that holds so many people back in life. This simple little two-word sentence keeps people from living their truest, fullest lives, from pursuing real viable wealth creation ventures, and from living the life that they want to live.

Do You Let ‘What If’ Hold You Back?

Are you one of those people? Or, were you but you have now overcome this little hurdle?

If you think about it, it is really quite silly to let this little thing hold us back. We hesitate and hold ourselves back all for the sake of the unknown. Now, there is nothing to say that the unknown has to be bad or negative, although somehow we seem to usually think that it will be. But why not think of it as a given positive? What if great things happen? What if you achieve the wealth and lifestyle of your dreams? What if you finally look out for you and yours first and foremost and let the rest take care of itself?

Life = Change

Whatever the outcome, one thing is for sure—you do not know now what it will be. The only predictions you can even begin to make are those based on past experience and results. But even those are not guaranteed. So isn’t it really fruitless to hold yourself back just because you do not know the level of success you’ll have?

Let’s be clear here—you never know the result of your actions until they occur. Nothing in the future is guaranteed. There will always be change. You can plan for it, have backup plans, but you can’t know. You can know that without change little is likely to change, but you should know that there is huge potential for many better things in your life, too. What if you take the plunge and come out winning bigger and better than ever in the end? Worth the chance, isn’t it?

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

Nothing you give up will be without its own reward and replacement value. You may have to give a few things up to open up the resources for wealth creation, but just look at all that you’ll get in return.

You Give, But Oh What You Get!

Yes you are giving up some things, mostly things that were only plaguing you anyway (like negativity and lack of control in your own life), but just a quick glimpse at some of the things that you’ll be getting in return will surely convince you how worthwhile that ‘sacrifice‘ is.

• Control. Without wealth, someone else is always in control of your life. Your boss, your job, your coworkers…by building wealth, you finally get to be the one in the seat of control for your life.
• Freedom from stress. You can’t eliminate all of the stress from your life, but when you consider how much of it is related to money and your job, it’s easy to see just how much of that stress can be lifted by being financially free.
• Financial freedom. Financial freedom is what gives you that control and release from stress—it’s the tool that enables you to do what you want in life.
• Knowledge and the ability to share it. You’ll learn a lot along the way to wealth that you can share with others, which in turn will continue to repay back to you.
• Positivity. How good will it feel to live a more positive life? What a release it will be to let go of negativity and fear and live happily on your own terms!
• Wealth! It’s what it’s all about, and it will come. Those few meager exchanges will set you up for a life of wealth and prosperity.

When you look at it this way, it’s not too hard to see that you’re really not losing at all. Wealth creation is all about the gain for the better, and that’s what you’ll get for what you give!

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

Not everything we give up is really a sacrifice, as we talked about last time. Sometimes in life those ‘sacrifices’ are the best possible things that could happen for us. The benefits to giving up on fruitless efforts are huge, in more ways than you might have considered.

Always On Law Of Attraction

Just like the Internet, the Law of Attraction is an ‘always on’ force. It never stops working for you; it never stops attracting to you that which you put out into the world. Properly utilised, the Secret has the potential to be a hugely beneficial force for you. On the other hand, if you don’t pay attention to what you are attracting to you, it could also easily become one of the most destructive forces in your life.

Just to refresh, we attract to us the same things we put out into the world. If you put out stress, negativity, doubt, and need, you will get all of those things back to you. If you replace those thoughts and feelings with positivity, determination, motivation, wealth, action, and positive effort, those are the things that will come back to you.

Put in this perspective, you now need to consider that any negative or wasteful things that you give up are not sacrifices at all—they are more like culls in the herd of positive things that can work for you and attract wealth. By culling out those negative forces, you make room for the positives and open the space for the Law of Attraction to work positively for you.

As humans we tend not to like change, and so whenever we need to give something up we think of it as a sacrifice. Often, that is not really the case at all. Often we are just making room for positive replacements and improvements, and each time we do that we open up infinitely more possibilities than if we lived with the status quo.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

A lot of people, especially when starting out on a plan for creating wealth, think of the effort as a sort of sacrifice. The idea of sacrificing is what keeps a lot of people from working to build wealth, so let’s talk about that a little.

The Irony Of Wealth Sacrifice

It seems a little ironic that you would have to sacrifice to build wealth, especially considering the Law of Attraction wherein wealth attracts wealth. That’s understandable but it’s also just plain life. Our lives are so jam-packed with things to do, obligations and commitments to others and to paid slavery jobs, that there seems like there is no room for anything else, even if it is something of great benefit to us (like creating wealth) that will allow us to free our time and take control of our lives (like wealth creation).

Part of the reason that it seems so ironic and difficult to commit to is that we think of this in slightly incorrect terms; when you work to build wealth, even if you give up some of your ‘spare’ time or ‘free’ money, you are not really sacrificing it (as in, it is not dead or gone to you), you are simply changing and exchanging it for something else—something that is actually far better and with much better potential for you.

Truth In Perspective

Sacrificing has a very negative connotation, and for good reason. What you are doing as you build wealth is not sacrificing a life that is working for you, you are giving up something that isn’t for something that is better; that something is also the one thing that makes your best, truest life possible. When you think of it that way, that hardly sounds like a sacrifice anymore, now does it? Considered in its real perspective, wealth creation, even at a ‘cost’, is a much more attractive undertaking!

Going back to the [Name Withheld] video from yesterday, stop and think about one point that [Name Withheld] made in regards to life balance and sacrifice.

If you recall [Name Withheld] and I were talking about the importance of balancing the focus of your habits, routines, and efforts. He talked about how often times people would focus on one thing or another, but not the whole balanced picture. For example, as I had done, people will often put their work or career first, and throw all of their effort into that, and then once they have accomplished one thing to a degree they feel is satisfactory, they will then shift some of that focus onto health, exercise, and so on.

The Danger Of Intent Focus

Many people get a sort of tunnel vision with their efforts to create wealth and so on, to the detriment of some other important life factor. We’ll sacrifice good health, or sleep, or something so that we can focus intently on the one goal. The problem when we do that is that we throw off our life balance and, as [Name Withheld] says, we kill a part of ourselves, at least for a time, and possibly permanently.

The True Meaning Of Sacrifice

We tend to think of sacrifice as a noble act. But let’s think about that definition of sacrifice that [Name Withheld] gave us. The word sacrifice has as its root “to kill”. Even modern definitions are riddled with negative words, like “abandon”, “give up”, “loss”, and “giving up something of value”. A key to the definition is the word value; if it is not valued, it is not a sacrifice. It hardly seems sensible to give up something of value when you are trying to create value in your life and build wealth.

Creating wealth does not mean you have to sacrifice value in your life. There is a difference between replacing negative habits and worthless actions with sacrificing ones of value. Wealth creation is a whole-life proposition, and so our aim is to strive for that balance that [Name Withheld] talks about and create a whole life of good living, without the sacrifice we’ve become to accustomed to living with.

Start today to achieve you best life balance, and give yourself the freedom to live well in all regards. Life has been too much about sacrificing, now make it about living!

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
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