Wealth Creation Blog

I’m playing on words a bit here today, because I don’t actually mean to live your life speaking aloud, I mean to live a life where the words that matter are verbs. To live a life of action and movement, as opposed to one of stagnation.

What’s In A Verb?

Humour me and let’s review a little English 101, and talk about what a verb is.

A verb is an ‘action’ word. As Wikipedia explains it, a verb is a “doing” word; this opposed to a noun that simply represents something—a person, place or thing.

Dictionary.com has an even better definition: a verb “expresses existence, action, or occurrence”.

The moral of the story is that verbs mean action. Verbs are about what you DO in life, not about what label is placed upon you.

Verbiage In Wealth Action

So what is the advantage to verbiage? It’s all in the action.

As we know, creating wealth requires action—doing—verbs! It requires more than just talking and reading, it requires us to be willing to take actions to improve our lives.

Just changing the way you think about wealth, wealth creation strategy, and all the rest will help you to change your mindset to one of action. For instance, instead of thinking about prosperity (which is just an elusive ‘thing’ with little focused meaning), think about prospering. Believe that you are prospering. Know that when you are prospering, you are taking prosperous actions, and working toward greater prosperity, and the heart of it all is in that wealthy action, that doing word, prospering.

The Power Of Words

There is great power in words, to be sure. A few simple words can guide your life to greater wealth and increased happiness and financial freedom. Make those words count by choosing words of action—words that are not stationary, not stagnant, and not in the past, but words that are in the present moving toward the future. Words that are actually changing your life, and progressing you to wealth.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

Attitude is very similar to emotion; and like emotion, attitude plays a very important role in wealth creation. Either one can make or break your efforts at creating wealth and achieving financial freedom.

Define Attitude

Here is What Wikipedia has to say about attitude:

“An attitude is a hypothetical construct that represents an individual’s degree of like or dislike for an item. Attitudes are generally positive or negative views of a person, place, thing, or event– this is often referred to as the attitude object. People can also be conflicted or ambivalent toward an object, meaning that they simultaneously possess both positive and negative attitudes toward the item in question.

“Attitudes are judgments. They develop on the ABC model (affect, behavior, and cognition). The affective response is an emotional response that expresses an individual’s degree of preference for an entity. The behavioral intention is a verbal indication or typical behavioral tendency of an individual. The cognitive response is a cognitive evaluation of the entity that constitutes an individual’s beliefs about the object. Most attitudes are the result of either direct experience or observational learning from the environment.”

As you can see, attitudes are emotional responses. They are also things that are learned or conditioned over time. That means that attitudes are not set in stone, either—they can be influenced by your concerted effort and by opening your mind through education and exposure (even informal education via books, research, etc.). Your financial attitude does not need to stay the same as it has always been, you can modify your attitude towards money if you will put in the effort.

Changing Attitude And Communication

To illustrate the fact, read further (from Wikipedia):

“Unlike personality, attitudes are expected to change as a function of experience…

“Attitudes can be changed through persuasion. The celebrated work of Carl Hovland, at Yale University in the 1950s and 1960s, helped to advance knowledge of persuasion. In Hovland’s view, we should understand attitude change as a response to communication.”

So not only can attitudes change, they are expected to do so; and the key to that change? Communication in its many forms (written, spoken, etc.). It seems that since you are here communicating via this electronic medium, you are on a great path for positive attitude development and resulting wealth creation. Cheers to that!

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009

We talk about emotion a lot here on this blog, as do many wealth creation experts. There’s good reason for it, too; emotion rules many of the decisions and outcomes of your life, including matters of money and finance. After all, as it’s been said, if wealth were just about the numbers we’d all be rich—but we’re not, so there must be more. At any rate, considering so much time is spent discussing emotion’s effects, it makes sense to talk a bit about what emotion is.

And Wikipedia Says…

Wikipedia explains emotion in this way (it also goes on to explain more about its history and theories):

“An emotion is a mental and physiological state associated with a wide variety of feelings, thoughts, and behavior. Emotions are subjective experiences, or experienced from an individual point of view. Emotion is often associated with mood, temperament, personality, and disposition.”

So what we have is an individual, subjective reaction to life’s experiences. We all agree there is a bit more to it than that, and that there is some biological/physical component, but I think we can also agree that to a great extent emotion is controllable in most situations.

Here’s another interesting bit of trivia regarding the word’s root from Wikipedia:

“The English word ‘emotion’ is derived from the French word émouvoir. This is based on the Latin emovere, where e- (variant of ex-) means ‘out’ and movere means ‘move’.[1] The related term “motivation” is also derived from movere.”

Hmmm…..that’s food for thought. So we now have a subjective, individual response (sounds a lot like attitude) that we can control that is closely related to motivation. In other words, our emotions can be motivating, either negatively or positively. There’s a lot that this can imply, but I think this supports our discussions about gaining control of our emotions and choosing our own views of life. Yes, we are emotional creatures, but we can just as easily make that play in our favor for developing wealth and building a better life for ourselves.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009