Wealth Creation Blog

We started to touch on this subject the other day when we were talking about abundance mentality versus scarcity mindset and where you would be when your wealth arrived. The topic today is living in the present.

The Wealth Present

Because wealth is something we are trying to achieve, something we are trying to better and increase, we tend to think of it as something for the future. Obviously to a very large extent wealth is something in the future, but it is also something in your present, and you cannot deny that, either. Denying it and/or not living in the present only causes an undue amount of stress and longing.

Everyone has wealth in their life—right now, in the present. Acknowledging that prevents that issue of undue longing, along with others, and also helps you to capitalize on your mindset and the Law of Attraction and other wealth-building principles. Remember that wealth can take many forms, so if you try hard enough you will find it in your life right now, giving you a starting point to build on.

Positive In The Present

The greatest thing that acknowledging all wealth now does is it puts you in a positive state of mind. As we know, that positive mindset is integral to wealth and financial success. You do yourself a great deal of good and attract more positivity and success to you just through the acknowledgment of what you have and what you have built as you’ve progressed.

The other thing that you accomplish when you do this is you stop wasting the precious time of your life. Life is a gift to be shared and enjoyed, and you should be living it to the best of your ability each and every day. What sense is it to wallow in despair now and to hope that something better will come of that? That is entirely contrary to what you are working to achieve.

As we work to create wealth we need to look toward the future to set and work towards our larger goals; but we also need to live in the present. Wealth is a lifestyle, not a one-off occurrence that comes and goes. Be wealthy now, be wealthy in the future, and take every gift this life gives you.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

At the end of the last post I said that life is not a dress rehearsal, and indeed it is not. This is it—the big show. The spotlight is on you now, so never take for granted that you can live a life that is contrary to your being and come out smiling in the end. Or even in the present. Now is your time to shine, and there’s no way of knowing if there is a “second chance” until it is too late, so best to make every conscious moment count now.

The Path You Choose

This is why the path that you choose to creating wealth matters so much. This is why you want to be on the path of abundance and positive prosperity. This is why the scarcity mentality is no place for you to be living.

You do not want to waste the precious gift of time and energy that you have been given on stress and strife. No one wants that—that’s why we seek out wealth! We seek to build wealth to relieve the stress and strife that money issues and finances have brought us. Then why add to your stress by living a life that is contrary to your goals? Wouldn’t it be much better to live a life of enjoyment and prosperity that is positive and leaves you with a conscience that is free and clear?

Enjoying The Path Now And Later

Although we tend to focus on the end result, and on being able to live with yourself and your choices when your wealth arrives, we also need to focus on the present—because this is your life, and the only time you can be guaranteed to have. Yes, it helps to look at this from an end-up point of view, because that drives home the consequence of your choices, but you have to live an abundant life throughout the journey, and enjoy each and every day of your life.

Decide who you want to be when your wealth arrives, but also acknowledge two other things:

First, that you indeed have wealth now. Everyone does, they just have to find it. And

Two, that the choices you make today matter both today and tomorrow, and you need to be able to live as best you can as the result of those choices.

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

The term “abundance mentality” is credited to author Stephen Covey, although it appears in many, many other places since it has been popularized in wealth and success circles. It is another way of describing the same type of mindset that success masters like Napoleon Hill and Wallace Wattles, [Name Withheld], and many other modern success communicators illustrated. The good news is, it’s not overly difficult to have, as long as you can keep focused on the fact that you want the abundance mentality.

Plenty To Go Around

Here is a good basic summary of the abundance mentality, courtesy of Wikipedia:

“…a person believes there are enough resources and success to share with others…It is commonly contrasted with the scarcity mindset, which is founded on the idea that, given a finite amount of resources, a person must hoard their belongings and protect them from others. Individuals with an abundance mentality are supposed to be able to celebrate the success of others rather than be threatened by it.”

If you think of this mindset in terms of creating wealth, it’s easy to see how developing an abundance mentality will be more beneficial than maintaining its opposite, the “Scarcity Mindset”. Apply it to the Law of Attraction and think about what you will be drawing to you—abundance, success, mutual respect and goodwill. Consider applying its opposite, and I fear to think how much struggle you’ll be inviting into your life!

Taking Sides

It’s not hard to figure out how people come to live life in the scarcity mindset, but it is a sad state of affairs. Think how much happier we would all be if we all believed in the abundance mindset, and all lived life with a positive and generous spirit. That’s the world I want to be living in—and so it’s the world I work hard to create!

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009