Wealth Creation Blog

Time is precious. That’s one statement I tend to get no arguments on. Curiously enough, as much of a premium as people put on time, they continue to waste it and give theirs away for mere pittances.

Too Precious To Waste

The time of your life is too precious to waste. If you think about it, though, that is exactly what you are doing each and every day you go to work at a job. You are trading away the hours and days of your life, locking yourself away with invisible boundaries and keeping yourself from the people that you love. You are limiting your ability to do what you enjoy, what you dream of. You are living your dream life only in your mind, and you are not even on a course to make that dream a reality.

Recapture Your Life & Time

Something needs to change. You need to become the person in control of your life. You need to stop wasting that most precious gift—your life and time—and begin making the most of it. Easier said than done in this modern world, isn’t it? Or is it?

Certainly creating wealth takes some work, time, and effort. But all of those are things that belong to you. There is no reason you cannot make the journey enjoyable and of interest to you. There is no reason your work cannot be your play. There is no reason you cannot build wealth and flexibility into your life so that you can recapture your time and enjoy your effort, and eventually even diminish the amount of time and effort that needs to be focused on making money, turning it towards your leisure and interests instead.

It is nothing short of amazing how almost all of us come to find ourselves in the position where we are just handing away the most precious gift that we have. It’s an easy trap to fall into for sure, especially considering how we are trained in it from our most tender of ages. It is also easy, though much less well known, to build wealth and take control of your time. And your best life depends on it.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

One of the things that sets wealth experts apart—the good wealth creation experts, anyway—is that they don’t just tell you how to make money; they go beyond the math and strategy to develop your whole person so that the knowledge and success you gain are lasting and sustainable. To do that, we often have to deal as much in the past as in the future.

Why Look Back?

But why look back at our pasts? Why relive misfortunes and mistakes? Why drag up the emotional baggage that plagues us and relive it? We’ve said here before that you are not your financial past, so why make that part of your financial future?

The hint is in that third question—emotional baggage.

All those negative factors in your past, all those things that you think are better left forgotten, still effect what you think and do today. You may not know that they do, but until you deal with them they certainly do. They impact your real attitude towards money, they impact your buying and spending and saving—or lack of it—and they hold you back when you know in your right mind that you could easily be moving forward, if not for this ethereal sense that keeps you from it. These are the things that let you start and stop many times over, but still stay an arm’s length away from building wealth. So to break that cycle, you have to reconcile that past to go forward and finally enjoy lasting wealth and financial freedom.

Accepting, Growing, And Moving On

The good news is that reconciling your past does not need to be as scary as what you think it is. Sure, there are no guarantees that you won’t experience some emotional pain, but the chances are that it will be much less serious than before; and once you’ve done it you will never have to do it again.

The thing is that even very negative experiences all have something positive in them. When you unleash that power through the process of reconciliation, you have opened an internal well of positivity that adds to your current state of mind, and releases the negativity that was canceling out so much of it.

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

How often have you been told here that the two keys to wealth and success are [first] mindset, and [second] action? Countless. And few people argue that. To build wealth you have to develop the mindset of the wealthy, and then you have to take actions that are capable of producing wealth. A lot of people get hung up on the action-taking, though. Why? Often the cause is perfection.

Perfection As The Enemy Of Progress

This is a piece of advice I’ve actually given in the past to the readers at my Wealth Creation Affiliate blog. It applies very logically to them—affiliates will wait to long for their website promotions, etc to be perfectly “right” and will miss out on so many opportunities and wind up just wasting time. The same applies to creating wealth—if you wait for the perfect moment to take action and get started, you’ll never get going!

Does this mean that you go ahead without getting educated? Without learning how to direct your efforts? No. Does it mean developing wealth needs no strategy or structure? No.

This simply means that it is okay to start taking actions towards wealth and good living without perfecting that strategy. Start small and grow. Positive action will attract more positive action, and will put you into the habit of prioritizing your wealth, goal-setting, achieving, and snowballing that into more wealth, and on and on. You can always change and develop your plans and strategies later. But you need to at least start somewhere. Remember that one step? This is it.

Perfection is elusive, impossible for humans. Mistakes are okay—they are opportunities. Even failures are opportunities. If you are waiting for everything to be perfect, that time will never come. If you are waiting until you know all there is to know about building wealth, you will find there is always something new to learn. The best course of action is to start learning, apply what you know, and start acting to become wealthy today.

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

Last time we talked about how you are not your financial past. In a related matter, today we talk about the fact that you do have money now—no matter who you are, what your debt load is, or how many bills you have to pay. If you have a dollar in an account or in your pocket, you have money. You have what you need to start building wealth.

The Reality Of Your Money

There are a lot of people out there who don’t believe this to be true for them. A lot of those are people making very nice incomes every year. They do not think they have money because the reality is that their money is gone before it ever clears the banks. Where does it go? To bill collectors, debts, financial obligations, costs of living. Given the many outstretched hands most people just don’t really think they have the money to put towards themselves and their developing wealth.

The truth is nearly everyone has money. But they choose to continue seeing to their debtors’ needs first, and ignore their own.

Taking Power Over Your Money

Once you understand that you have money, you understand that you have the choice of what to do with it. Once you understand that you can begin to make choices that favor you. Once you do that you can start taking actions that lead to personal wealth. You can still find way to satisfy your debts and financial obligations, but you can couple them with wealth-producing actions.

It is a hard thing to do to find ways to do this; it is hard enough just to put yourself in the mindset of control and financial choice. This isn’t something you have to do alone, though, this is something that is addressed and can be learned through homestudy programs like Jamie McIntyre’s. For now, know that your money and your choices are real, and that you do, indeed, have all that is required to be wealthy and be rich!

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

On one of my other blogs we have been working our way through my free eBook, Mindset Mastery (which is an edited and updated, modernized version of Napoleon Hill’s Classic, Think and Grow Rich). I was duly inspired by one of my posts there, and decided to share this thought here, as it is so applicable to wealth creation and very much related to our talks as of late.

One Step, One Idea

We’ve talked here several times about how it only takes going that extra distance—that one step beyond where others just won’t go—in order to succeed and be wealthy. Napoleon Hill offers another take on that, one that for many is more achievable and embraceable. He says,

“One sound idea is all it takes for a person to achieve success.”

When you think of it that way, it seems so simple—and so achievable—to create wealth and be a success.

Out Of Many, One

I want you to think about that. Then think about how many ideas you have in the course of just one day. How many great ideas have you had that inspired you—that you feel have great potential, but that you just don’t pursue. Maybe it’s a time issue, a funding issue, a hesitation, a lack of confidence…there are so many reasons why you might not be following up on your great ideas. But let’s forget those for now.

For now, let’s just think about the possibility of it all. About how possible it is to have one single, solitary good idea. One thought. Think about how easy it is just to think. How quickly good ideas flash through your mind. If you are like others, your problem may be more about landing on “the one” than it is on having a good thought—often people have too many good ones to pick and choose and focus on. But for today, let’s take that abundance as an advantage.

All you need to do to succeed and build wealth is to have one good idea. One solid idea with potential. That much isn’t that hard to do, especially now that you know that’s all it takes.

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