Wealth Creation Blog

What’s the date? Is today the day that you begin your wealth creation? Is tomorrow? Is it next week?

Set The Date For Your new Life

Life is cluttered with more than enough things to do. One of the most difficult things for people who are working to build wealth is getting started. This is especially true in the beginning, because you are working that balance of having to maintain your living standard (or an agreed living standard) and see to your regular life needs, (in other words, working that JOB) and making the time to sit down and begin taking the actions that will be the foundation of your wealth creation. So when do you plan to do that?

Your plan may have been today, or yesterday, or maybe it is, as is so common, tomorrow. How many times have you found, though, that that tomorrow never comes? How many times already have you pushed off your plans to get started? How long have you been at precisely this point in your wealth creation plan?

It is easy enough to get bogged down and think that today is just too busy. Tomorrow will be better. That’s the day that you will begin. Except tomorrow ends up being just like today, and you get set off another day.

Make It Real

What I want you to do is this:

Immediately after you read this post, take out your ‘to do’ list or your calendar, and decide when, realistically, you can begin creating wealth. Decide what day you can set aside time and schedule in either a half an hour or an hour and do something for you that will kick-start your future. Then pen it in. Make the appointment and keep it. It may be a week from now, or maybe even two, but plan for a solid time. Once that is done, continue to do that and increase your blocks of time more and more as you go, until you’ve hit upon a good flow and balance. Gradually, this gets easier because you will be building that wealth and have less reliance on the outside world—your time will be yours to control.

Don’t let tomorrow continue to elude you. Make it happen. Make it real. Make it yours. Make it and prosper!

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

In a follow up to yesterday’s post, I’d like to talk a little more about why you should celebrate your success and progress in creating wealth now and along the way, instead of holding it all off until the ‘end’.

There are a number of reasons why you should do your celebrating sooner rather than later. Let’s look at a few.

You Deserve This!

You’ve worked hard all your life, and you’ve dedicated yourself to living an even better life and finally getting what you deserve out of it, instead of allowing all the benefit to be for someone else. That is worthy of celebration, isn’t it!?

Motivational Celebration

This is one of the biggest reasons that you need to take the time out now and throughout your journey to celebrate—to maintain motivation.

You’ve come to wealth creation through some emotion of want or deprivation. So how much sense does it make to continue to deprive yourself? Why shouldn’t you enjoy some of the fruits of your labor now?

Often we end up punishing ourselves with the very rewards that we have set as our goals. We continue to look towards them as something in the future, something for a later date when we ‘deserve’ them, and so we continue to punish ourselves and stress ourselves with want and need. That’s silly.

Yes we should maintain larger goals, but we should also cut ourselves some slack and enjoy life now. By celebrating your success and having some enjoyment throughout the process, you give yourself a sense of accomplishment and appreciation; and that is far more motivating than a promise three years from now.

Is There Really An End?

Our time here in this world is not the most certain thing. What if tomorrow never comes? What if you continue to chastise yourself and never enjoy your reward? Live every day with appreciation and enjoyment, with no regrets.

And here’s one final point to consider—as you enjoy success, you will set larger goals for yourself all the time. So what’s to say there ever will be an ‘end’? What if you put off all your celebrating, but never satisfy yourself with one, solid end goal?

Life is for the living. It is for enjoyment and fulfillment. Look to the future, but also enjoy what you have accomplished now. It’s the best motivation you could have.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

The last post may have sounded to some like we wealth creators live in a dreamland where we think all things are good, and we can just think our way to only good things happening in our lives. While that’s close to the truth, it’s not the case; so before we get too many critics offering up their opinions, let’s try to set the issue straight.

Being Objective AND Positive

Just because you reset your default setting to one of positivity and progress does not mean that you are living in a dream-world and just pretending that bad things and unfortunate strokes or set-backs do not happen. Indeed, these are all part of life. Setbacks will happen, as well as unfortunate circumstances that are beyond your control. It’s what you do in the face of adversity that matters.

You can still be positive and objective—one does not preclude the other. It’s true that smart investors, wealth creators, and businesspeople, or even just smart people, carefully weigh the choices at the crossroads of their lives and take an objective view before making solid decisions. But most people do this from the viewpoint of cynicism, and that’s where they go wrong.

Expect The Best

The point is not to invite trouble by always expecting the worst. You should expect positive things to happen and expect that you can make the best out of them. You need to invite in good things, progress, and success by going after it and choosing how you will view situations in life.

Whatever you go out looking for in life is exactly what you can expect to find. So if your default is to find trouble, no doubt you will; if your default is to find positivity and success, you can count on finding that, too. Be objective, but expect good things in life, and your life will be good as a result to be sure.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

We talk a lot about how we as humans end up with default settings for our attitudes and emotions. By the time you reach adulthood, often many of those defaults are on the side of negative. But you can reset your default settings so that you take the most productive actions possible.

Why Defaults Matter

Default attitudes, reactions, and emotions matter because they dictate the actions that we take and the attitudes we cultivate—the mindsets that we live in. Many adults have automatic default settings of skepticism or cynicism, which makes us mistrust our own emotions and instincts, and even our own informed decisions. Too often, we just can’t believe in the simplicity of life and wealth, or the possibilities that are presented before us. We cannot even believe in our own ability to take control of our lives and create our own realities.

In the end, we spend too much time living lives of negativity. It becomes a chore just to think positively. On the other hand, if your default and belief system is one of positivity and productivity, then you cultivate those things in your life—whereas a cynical default setting cultivates more negativity.

Resetting Your Defaults

Resetting your defaults requires you to first evaluate what your “go-to” attitudes and opinions are, and then work to recognize them every time they become an issue. When you feel yourself automatically looking for the negative, remind yourself that there is positivity to be found, and that you should go there first. You need to look within yourself to determine why you act or react in the way that you do, and if there is real basis for it, or if you are simply reacting based on a negative default setting.

What it all comes down to is resetting your attitudes towards money and wealth, and giving yourself the capacity to succeed through a positive mindset of possibility. I assure you, life is a much more enjoyable thing when you believe in the good and possibility of life, rather than always assuming the worst.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

When we talk about creating wealth, we primarily focus on you, the individual wealth creator. That’s because, as you know, wealth and prosperity starts with the individual. Does that mean, then, that you need to be in this for the one and only you?

Who Do You Create Wealth For?

It does help for you to know who you are creating wealth for. Is it for you and your happiness alone? Is it for you and your family—children, spouse, maybe parents and others whom you dream of helping along? Is it for grown children and grandchildren? Is it for people who have not yet entered your life, but that you expect one day will be (a spouse and family…) Or is it even for a wider population such as charities or local people down on their luck? All of these? None of these?

Your Vision Of Prosperity

A ‘yes’ answer to any one of these questions would be right. There is no right or wrong or one single answer. Creating wealth should be done with a vision of the end-goal and achievements in mind. So if you envision your wealthy life one shared with a family and your wealth providing for them, that is what your wealth vision should be—you and yours in a comfortable home with everything you want and the time and financial freedom to enjoy each other. We’re not all cut out for the family lifestyle, though, so whatever your vision is, and whoever the people are who are in it, are who you are creating wealth for.

This can be kind of a funny subject for people to balance, because on the one hand wealth creation is so individually focused on what you want and aim to achieve; on the other, there are all these people who you hope to achieve it for, and that can seem to go against the grain of what you are learning—to focus on your own efforts, attitudes, wants, and mindset. Keep in mind that if you do not take care of you, you cannot take care of yours; so in the end, yes, wealth creation is very much a personal endeavor, but it can very much be one that includes anyone and everyone you hold dear, too.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009