Wealth Creation Blog

“To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.”I can’t say who this quote should be attributed to, as it’s just something I came across randomly in an email the other day. But I found it to be no less inspiring, and no less true.

Wealth Creation Is All About Change

To create wealth, you have to do something different than what you are doing right now. You have to be willing to go that extra distance and do something new and different. You have to learn new things, apply yourself in new ways, and probably even push yourself outside your current comfort zone. You have to do something you have ever done before in order to attain the wealth you’ve never had. To get rich, you have to change.

How Do You Know What Will Work?

There are no guarantees in life. I cannot guarantee that everything that you try will make you rich, but I can guarantee that you will be given the opportunity to learn and to grow with each action and each attempt. I can tell you that when you seek out change with perseverance and determination you will move towards financial wealth and success. How do I know? Because when you live life in this way you can’t help but succeed. When you live life this way you

• Build the character and personal fortitude you need to succeed

• Attract more confidence and determination

• Change the path of your life to one of action and movement toward success

• Focus on the wealth—personal and financial wealth—that you have already created

• Attract more wealth—more money and more personal wealth

You can’t always know from the start with 100% certainty that a particular action will “work” per se; but one thing is for sure—you will never know if you don’t try. And if you never do anything different, you will never have what you have never had.

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

Sometimes the things we have to do in order to acquire wealth mean big life changes. But just as often the changes are more subtle. The changes that we learn to make through wealth creation do not always have to be big; they just have to have a big impact. Often we can make several small, almost painless changes to our lives and our habits that we barely feel at all. The impact of these small tweaks is significant, though.

Empower That Which You Do

We all do things that are either negatively impacting our well-being, or that at the very least are having a neutral effect and doing no good for us. By this I’m talking about the habits that we’ve developed—the things we do everyday. We all have habits, even though many have become so second-nature that we don’t even realize them anymore.

The habits that negatively impact our lives can be glaring and obvious, like smoking or overeating out of boredom, or they can be less so. Your bad habit could be something as simple as sitting lazily for a quarter of an hour and thinking about all the things you don’t want to do. The physical impact of that may be much smaller, but the psychological impact is much bigger than you think. This kind of procrastinating habit is really nothing more than a negative attitude contributing to the negativity in your life. It’s either doing nothing for you, or detracting from your life.

Add up the many negative and neutral habits you have and you’ll soon see that there is real opportunity here. If you could turn each of those habits into something positive and empowering, then you would have built into your life two things:

1. The time and opportunity to devote to more acts of building wealth

2. Positivity and strength that attracts positivity and strength (following the Law of Attraction)

What you do to replace these habits does not always have to be huge, either. This could be as easy as spending that 15 minutes thinking positive thoughts, or reading something motivational. It doesn’t have to mean more work, it just as to mean more empowering time spent. The collective impact of replacing bad and neutral habits is large. You’ll find that the simple act of empowering your habits, of filling a negative void with a positive, will have far-reaching influence on not only your efforts to acquire wealth, but also on your life overall.

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

Another way to manage your time better to find the time to build wealth is to start building your future skillset now. Too often we put off what we really want to know and do, and wind up suffering for it. This is another way to find the time to devote to your financial future in an enjoyable way.

Efficiency In Achievement

Too often we go about pursuing wealth with a sort of “horse and cart” philosophy. Either we put the cart before the horse and struggle for an end that has no beginning, or we focus too heavily on the horse and never quite get the cart into position.

The truth is that the horse and cart were designed to work together. One is of minimal good without the other. As human beings we are capable of doing more at the same time, but we too often get caught up in our series of events and don’t establish that air of cooperation.

There’s no reason that your path to wealth cannot be a cooperative effort. There’s no reason that everything must run on a strict “if, then” timeline, when you could combine your efforts and motivations to get more from the process.

Build The Skills

We maintain here that the purpose of acquiring wealth is to live better and live happier. So why not begin pursuing your interests now and developing your future skill set now? Why not capitalize on your interests and start working towards the whole-life picture that you have for yourself?

If you can begin to build the skills that you’ve dreamed of having, then you can capture the power of doing what you love even as you make strong movements towards being wealthy. You create in yourself a more efficient approach, but also one that gets you to where you want to be in less time. You’ll be wealthy and you’ll be pursuing your passions. You’ll be interested and vested in what you do, and that will make it far easier to find the time that you need to dedicate to wealth-building.

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

Free-time is hard to come by. Finding time to learn new things is hard, too. So why learn everything all over again? Why not stick with what you know for as long as it is useful to you? Why not apply the skills and knowledge you have now to your strategies for building wealth?

Maybe you are saying the answer to these questions is that you have no skills that lend to financial investment and wealth creation. I beg to differ.

Do What You Know Now

Very few people are at a complete lack of skills that can be utilized to create wealth. I dare say that if you are intelligent enough to recognize your need, to recognize the benefit of changing your financial future, and to take the action that has led you here that you most definitely have some skill that is usable for investing and making money. At the very least you have a desire and motivation, and the ability to learn and grow. That’s nothing worth ignoring.

If you look within yourself chances are you have much more. It could be something as practical as having home maintenance skills—even as simple as knowing how to house-paint—a talent to be applied to real estate investing. Or it could be something more academic like a propensity for mathematics and records-keeping—a talent that surely helps in valuing stocks and shares. There is something there, and for sure you will find one or more pathways to investing where it will prove useful.

Prioritize Learning Time

Of course learning new skills is not a bad thing, but it does take time. By using the skills you have readily available now you can devote that time to getting a financial education—to empowering yourself for wealth. Spend that time learning the more important aspects, and then later, with those firmly under your belt, move on to pursue more interests. In the meantime, why waste time? Put your own skills to work today to create wealth tomorrow.

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

The only way to build wealth is to find the time and commit to it. It’s a statement that many people don’t like to hear because their days are already too full. Your family, work, and personal commitments need you. You need you, but you don’t have time to attend to you. How in the world will you find the time to commit to wealth creation in a way that will be of any use at all?

What Do You Want To Do?

One way is to ask that question and answer it truthfully.

What do you want to do? What do you like? What is interesting to you?

I’m sure you can relate that if you are doing something of interest it is much easier to commit to it and to find the time to do it. It will not feel like drudgery, but will feel like a reward—finally, the time to do something for you, of interest to you. It could just become that hobby that you have so badly needed to pursue; only with the added benefit of making money and securing your financial future!

Finding Possiblility

Creating wealth isn’t about applying a one-size-fits-all investment approach to everyone. It is about teaching people to find possibility and to utilize several different, yet all very real, investment and money-making tools to make money and gain financial prosperity and freedom. You shouldn’t come into this thinking that you have to muddle through and drag yourself along so that you can someday begin to enjoy life. You should come into this with a spirit of positivity, enjoying what you do and learning to build upon it so that you can find even more enjoyment even as you build wealth.

Creating wealth is a full-life overhaul. It requires work and dedication, which requires a time commitment, but when you love what you do it’s easy to find that time to devote to you, because you’ll have all the best reasons to do it. Your financial gain and security, and your personal interest at heart—your life’s enjoyment!

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