Wealth Creation Blog

A consistent life of positivity and success and appreciation is what moves you forward to financial success. But as we discussed, it’s hard to keep the focus and maintain that much needed level of successful consistency into your life. It’s usually not enough to read something positive once, even if you accept it as absolute truth, and stay motivated, maintaining that feeling of accomplishment and financial empowerment.

We all know the feeling that we get when we read or study something motivating and empowering. We all know what it’s like to spend some time with a motivational book or wealth creation course, and come away feeling like we can conquer the world. And we all know how easy it is to lose that feeling when we get back into the groove of daily life. The question is, then, how to maintain that feeling and consistent spirit of financial ability and achievement?

Tips For Staying Positive And Focused

What I’ve compiled here is a quick list of some very simple ways to keep that feeling and positivity so that you move forward and also attract more positivity and accomplishment into your life.

• Write down goals

• Reread goals on a daily basis as a reminder of what you are working towards

• Place pictures in strategic locations that represent what you want to have

• Place motivational quotes and sayings in places where you’ll see them

• Keep a journal of successes and/or abundance—things you can be thankful for, scouting out the wealth you already own

• Appreciate your life, everyday—appreciate that you are alive, that you are capable, that you have what you do have—be positive!

• Make a list of your accomplishments—at the end of every day, write down 3 or 5 things you did that helped you create wealth and achieve financial success

• Exercise—because feeling good physically improves your attitude emotionally and psychologically—your mindset!

As you can see these are not things that take up a lot of your time. They are not things that have to consume your day, or keep you from your responsibilities and wealthy actions. They are small, simple changes that you can make, things that take from just a few seconds to just a few minutes. But they are all motivating just the same.

More than anything what we need to remain consistent and motivated are small reminders throughout our day. That’s what we’ve got here in this list above. I’m sure there are more, so please share in the comments what works for you—what do you do to stay consistent and hold onto that feeling of positivity and financial accomplishment and possibility? What of these do you agree with, or intend to incorporate into your daily life?

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

We’ve talked about adjusting the size of your thoughts for successful wealth creation; now let’s talk about the presence of your thoughts. Thinking in and of itself is easy enough to do. We do it automatically everyday. We do it without even realizing that we do. That type of thought doesn’t do a lot to help us achieve wealth; it is a contributing factor, but the thought and mindset that leads you to financial freedom—to money and wealth—is more honed and focused, even on the subconscious level; it is more trained. Eventually that trained thought becomes automatic, but in the beginning there is more effort required to get it there.

How Present Are Your Thoughts?

When we think about building wealth we often think in terms of the future-of future financial goals, of the way life will be, of the things and money we will have. The problem is that that does little for life now, and you can’t achieve in the future without achieving something, even a small something, now.

The mistake that a lot of people make is that they think only in the future; their thoughts are not present now; a vital piece of the puzzle is missing, and there is no way to step from point A to point B.

Of course you need to develop thoughts that pull you closer to the wealth you want in the future, but you also need to develop thoughts that attract money now. You need to think about the things that you already have and find some level of wealth in your life here in the present. You need to find positivity and success now that will attract more positivity and success. You need to have something good that the law of attraction can work upon and multiply from.

You need big thoughts but you also need present thoughts. That presence must extend throughout life, too—thinking and being rich doesn’t stop as long as you are living wealthy. The wealth creation mindset is ongoing and ever-present, and that is what your thoughts need to be to maintain it.

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

Now that you understand that you are really the person in control of your life and your finances, you can start to make the changes that determine the outcome of your life. You can choose the real actions that will allow you to create wealth!

Daily Choices For Wealth Creation

Every day you have choices to make. You choose the bills that get paid, you choose the money that you spend, and you choose how to go about bringing in more money. You may even choose to let others take over the reins of control and make your choices for you—essentially operating on auto-pilot.

When you really break this down and apply it to wealth creation, or failure to create wealth, you see that the problem is not that people are incapable of making money, but that they are not making the right choices to build wealth; or again, that they are not empowering themselves because they are choosing not to be in control. The way to correct the problem, then, is to understand that you do have choices and make choices that will invite money and prosperity.

But You Have Bills To Pay

By now there are probably readers out there screaming at their computer screens, arguing that they do not have a real power of choice because they have bills, debts, and obligations. This I understand; I have them too; as does everyone else in the modern world. But I choose to control them and not let them control me. I choose to make my own wealth creation the priority. Until you choose to make yourself the priority, you will never become wealthy.

Does this mean you ignore your financial responsibilities to others? Ignore them would be too strong a word. By no means am I saying don’t pay yours bills. You may, however, choose to realign them and restructure your allocations of money.

It’s probably best if we leave off on this here, lest this turns into a discussion on individual financial management. How you choose to manage your finances and bills is up to you—which is really the point, isn’t it? You are in control of your money, and so you can start to control it in ways that benefit you first.

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

Most everyone “gets it” when we talk about being more positive and living everyday in abundance to attract more of the same; at least, they understand the concept. But getting started can be a bit more of a challenge, so let’s talk about that some more.

Starting The Cycle Of Living Well

Once you have money it’s easy to live like you do. It’s easy to live well so that you capture that powerful law of attraction and attract more of the same. But most people do not start out wealthy. They start with a motivation, a hope, and a wish, but not with an overflow of money.

Here’s the thing—you don’t really need money to attract money. You need success and positive thinking to attract more success, and the money then comes. You need to focus on the attitude and the concept, not so much on the physical presence of money. Money is a byproduct—the byproduct to positive thinking and living well—to living wealthy. By that I do not mean just financial wealth, but life wealth.

As we all have heard so many times, there is more to life than money. But try living life today without money….that’s not so easy. Money is a very handy tool in the modern world, isn’t it? The point here is that you can live wealthy without having money. You find wealth in all that you have, by focusing your positivity and abundant thought on what you have and what you are achieving and working towards.

A Word Of Caution

Whenever this subject comes up I feel I need to give a word of caution. As Jamie McIntyre says, you need to start living a life of quality and abundance in order to attract more of the same in your life. You need to start living wealthy. But you also need to understand what that really means. It does not mean going further into debt to live like the wealthy. That is really opposite to your goal, because that is not living in abundance that is attracting more debt.

Living wealthy and stockpiling wealth and abundance means finding the abundance you already have in your life and starting from there. It’s there if you look for it. It may mean changing the way you view your life, but you can find, through positive thinking, that you already have a level of wealth in your life upon which you can build to attract more.

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

When people are looking to end their cycles of debting, one of the first steps—the only step, in the beginning—that they are told to take is to commit to stop debting, just for today. The path to debt reduction and financial freedom is based on a concept as simple as that. Don’t incur any new debt. Just for today. Just this day, do not charge on that credit card, or open a new line of unsecured debt (secured debts like vehicles and mortgages not being considered debt in this instance).It’s a very simple concept, and after seeing it, it occurred to me that this is a concept that can be applied to wealth creation as well. Build wealth one day at a time.

Any Progress Is Good Progress

Creating wealth is in many ways very similar to eliminating debt. Not really surprising, as all financial matters are relative to each other. But what I mean to say is that for many, creating wealth can be as overwhelming and intimidating as freeing oneself from debt. At the outset, it just seems too large a task. It’s bigger than we are. There is too much to learn, too much to change, and no money to do it with—often because we are stifled with daily debts and bills.

But that’s just a perception. The reality is much different. The reality is that anyone can get out of debt with the right plan, and anyone can become wealthy with the right plan. And in either instance, any forward progression is progress. Any small step is a step in the right direction.

Start Today For Tomorrow’s Wealth

No matter who you are, you can take a small step today to start building wealth. Just to get you started, I’ll list a few baby steps that can be done right now. Steps that will become your first steps to creating wealth and gaining financial freedom.

1. Read an article on wealth creation

2. Sign up for a wealth creation course

3. Research wealth-building programs

4. Put $10 in savings

5. Open an online savings account

6. Learn one thing about investing

7. Buy a financial empowerment book

8. Stop incurring new debt

9. Sell something and put the money towards your financial goals

10. Make a financial goal or savings goal

You see there in the span of about a minute I just gave you ten things that you can do to start building wealth. What else can you add to the list? Leave us your ideas in the comments. Let’s all take small steps to build big wealth!

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