Wealth Creation Blog

We talked before about increasing your income by getting what you are worth. No doubt plenty of you left thinking that is easier said than done. If it was that easy to convince your boss to give you that much-deserved raise, you’d have done it already, right? I hear what you are saying, but wealth creation does rely on your ability to access that all-important seed money for investment. And a great number of people have easy access to cash right at their fingertips—if they’d just be confident enough to get what they are worth.

This really goes back to the issue of mindset and determination; if you have the mindset of success, wealth creation will follow. If you know your own worth and believe in it, you will find financial success. If you are determined to improve your life through wealth creation, you will put in the effort to get all that you are worth.

Recognizing, however, that it can seem impossible to tap that worth, Jamie McIntyre has led the way. His method for increasing wealth by tapping self-worth is simple and straightforward.

What Are You Worth?

Many people have a small idea of what they are worth, but no real research to back them. Research, though, is no more difficult than a job hunt.

Take your credentials to other companies and see what they are willing to offer you. Compare that to what you are getting now, and then go to your own boss with the offers. In many cases, a company will sooner step up to the plate and give what they should be giving before they will lose a good employee to the competition (especially now that they know what you can do for that company).

Don’t go in haste, go with a plan. Try to get three offers to back you up. Show that your skills are valuable, that you are willing to move on, and also throw in some bit about the value that you add and can continue to add to your current company.

In the business world, pay increases go to those who ask for them. But yours will be better still if you do more than ask—prove your worth! Prove your worth (even though your company probably already knows), show that you have options, and be prepared to move towards those options if your current employer won’t match your terms.

You’ll know just where you stand in terms of worth and valuation. That’s an important lesson to learn on the path to wealth creation.

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

As you research and work through the various wealth creation programs offered, you will come across many different strategies and types of investments for making money and building wealth. Not all strategies are for everyone, though, and you need to decide which is the most appropriate and most manageable for you.

What’s Your Wealth Creation Style?

As you read and learn about these various wealth creation strategies, you’ll get to know more about them, and you’ll begin to see which will suit your style and your life the best. Consider each investment strategy on its own and choose that which you feel most comfortable with.

Some things to think about when you are deciding on an investment strategy (or strategies) are:

• Previous experience or skill you might have that can be applied to a strategy

• Amount if money you have to invest

• Security of the investment

• Your personal comfort level in regards to risk

• Access to ongoing support and education for a given strategy (which should be no problem with the right wealth creation program leading the way)

• Your interest in a field or strategy—do what you have an interest in and that interest will sustain your efforts indefinitely!

How Much Is Enough?

Although it can be exciting to think about all the strategies for building wealth that are available to you, check yourself and do not try to do it all at once.

Americans like to use the expression, “Jack of all trades, Master of none”; this is not how you want to manage your wealth creation portfolio. You want to become a master of your chosen strategy first, see it through to success, and move on from there.

In the beginning, plan to focus your resources on just one or two strategies (which is not to say that you cannot make more than one investment, just that you invest using the same strategy or investment outlet for each); as you start making money and your experience and skills grows, reevaluate and consider new strategies (or stay with the same if its meeting your goals for wealth creation).

Wealth creation is a process that takes time—short time, relatively speaking, but time nonetheless. To enjoy the most success in wealth creation, start small and manageably and grow as you learn.

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