Sean Rasmussen

I get a lot of emails. Preferably, people comment in the blog and everyone can benefit from the answer. My philosophies that are inspired heavily by Dr Demartini, Napoleon Hill, Kurek Ashley, Wallace Wattles and many more, do challenge a lot of people.

Why Isn’t This Working For Me?

Here is an example of an email I got from a lady last week: (she will remain nameless)

“I wish I could have $1M this week! Funny hey! But it is true! That is what I wish and hope for so much for a specific reason. Now, come on, you know you can’t do that with nothing!!”

This is very true, indeed! Now, I would have loved to get that response in the “Comments Section” below the post. Not in my email. My blogs are here to help lots of people and the best way I can do that is to make them public.

Million Dollar Thoughts

This was my response:

“You are at a place in life that you have traveled to. Your destination is a direct result of your actions. You, and no one else, is to thank for that. Everything you have is a result of the way you think and the way you perceive life. If you want a Million dollars, you need to have Million dollar thoughts. They don’t just come overnight. They are a result of abundant thoughts, actions and later reality. Wealth breeds more wealthy thoughts and poverty breed poverized thoughts.

The fastest way to change anything is to change your thoughts.

So you are right. You can’t “do that with nothing”. You need to have the basis first and that is abundant thoughts followed by abundant action.”

Unfortunately, my email bounced and the lady didn’t receive it…

Confucius Say:

To quote old man Confucius (I’m sure it was him), there is an old Chinese saying that sums up the above paragraphs quite nicely:

If you want to see your past, look at your current results.
If you want to see you future, look at your current actions.

Think abundant thoughts and you will eventually have abundant actions.

Have a most outstanding day

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com © 2004 - 2008

As further proof of the absolute importance of utilizing this secret to build wealth, Napoleon Hill offers this qualification. (Note that the names Hill refers to here are those listed in his original preface, which were discussed in the last blog entry.)

“These names represent but a small fraction of the hundreds of well known Americans whose achievements, financially and otherwise, prove that those who understand and apply the Andrew Carnegie secret, reach high stations in life. I have never known anyone who was inspired to use the secret, who did not achieve noteworthy success in his chosen calling. I have never known any person to distinguish himself, or to accumulate riches of any consequence, without possession of the secret. From these two facts I draw the conclusion that the secret is more important, as a part of the knowledge essential for self-determination, than any which one receives through what is popularly known as ‘education.’”

The Secret Path Of Success

What does this mean for you on your path to successful wealth creation? It means that if you do not have what it takes, which is in this book called ‘the secret‘, then you cannot build wealth. This does not mean you cannot create wealth if you have not yet managed to do so, it means you have to take steps to figure out what that secret missing element is. Hill has provided you with this information, and we present it for your success here.
It also means that wealth creation is dependent only on this one basic necessity, and that regardless of education or life-station, you can become rich if you educate yourself and learn that one essential factor.

I will see you back here Monday and Thursday every week for the continuation of the Mindset Mastery series.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com © 2004 - 2008

This is the finishing post that I wrote in the Mindset Mastery eBook. I find it quite relevant for the book from a motivational point of view. Sometimes, when you write during an inspired moment, words come out that seem to come from “elsewhere”. This was such an inspired moment for me.

Live Your Passion – by Sean Rasmussen

You have just completed reading a very powerful book, originally written by Napoleon Hill: Think And Grow Rich. I strongly encourage you to locate the original book and read it. This current version was edited by me to modernize it and bring more “current” relevance to the story. The principles remain the same.

I know some very successful people that read this book once every year. It is their Bible. Consider that! Ideally read it at least 7 times. Over 7 years is fine. Just do it.

Take onboard the principles of this book. Internalize them. Make them part of your “mental algorithm”. Napoleon Hill has supplied you with the recipe for Success. Use it and prosper. Ignore it at your own peril. There are no excuses for non-achievers. I thought I had the excuses and reasons. I didn’t. The day I accepted that, my life turned for the better. I am in charge of my own destiny.

So are you!

One of the saddest things I have ever heard was the reply from an elderly person in her twilight years, when asked: “What would you have done different in your life, if you had another chance?”

The reply was a determined yet solemn: “I would have taken more risks”!

I don’t know about you, but that sends a chill down my spine. Don’t allow that to happen! I believe we all have the responsibility to stand on our own two feet and have an excess of success, health, wealth, happiness, abundance and anything else that goes with it. To have enough wealth that it overflows into the pockets of those who are not as fortunate as us; people who have had a rough start to life or have suffered bad setbacks.

Have faith in yourself and the power of your mind when encountering skepticism from friends and “loved ones”. Beware the authority of their opinions. Just how qualified are they really to pass judgment on success? Are they successful themselves? Are they healthy, happy and wealthy? If so, why have they got an “expert”opinion when happy, wealthy, successful and satisfied people generally DO NOT pass judgment?

Don’t let their decisions hold you back. You have no-one but yourself to thank or blame when asked the “Twilight-Years” question:

“What would you have done different in your life, if you had another chance?”

Personally, I have had a few rough breaks. However, none of which I can blame anyone for. I tried to place blame and that temporarily justified my setbacks and non-achievements. This also cemented my place in running for the “non-achiever awards”. Certainly not a trophy anyone would like to win? I have now changed my attitude and outlook on life. A whole new world has opened up for me and guess what? It was there all along!

Live your life with passion. Follow the path of your desires. Make your life one you are proud of when the time comes to leave it all behind. Live your life on your own terms and leave with a sense of achievement; one of satisfaction.

And remember: “Life is not short. It is the longest thing anyone ever does”.

So get into it and make a difference. Good luck! I wish you well.

Live Your Passion

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com © 2004 - 2008

You can read about downloading the book here: Mindset Mastery eBook

This is the intro to the Mindset Mastery eBook. I wrote it as a tribute to one of the foremost inspirations for thousands of self improvement and motivational coaches across the globe.

A tribute to Napoleon Hill - by Sean Rasmussen

The year 2000 was a big year for me. My second son was born, I was constantly working away from home to “make a living” and I was asking a lot of questions about life. “Is this as good as it gets?” I asked myself. My family finances were going backwards and the harder I worked, it seemed, the bigger the financial hole seemed to get.

I would be away from home, at work, for 6 weeks at a time and have 1 week off. I missed my son’s first words, his first steps and didn’t give him the opportunity to call me “Dad” when he was ready for it. On my one week off from work, I’d lap it all up and my heart was torn to bits every time I had to leave again for work. I called work a “Paid Prison Sentence” and vowed to make some drastic changes. Something had to change for me to experience change. I gave myself no option.

When my workmates went to the pub or a concert or anything social after work, I was in my little caravan reading books; Self-help books. 2000 was the catalyst year for my Mindset Mastery to start kicking in. I discovered Robert Kiyosaki, Donald Trump, Anthony Robbins and many more inspiring authors but foremost I found Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

My mind went into overdrive. I had moments of “truth” come to me. It’s something I cannot describe. You will have to experience it yourself. I genuinely hope you discover it and reading this book will help you. The strategies suggested by Mr. Hill have been applied. With a blind faith in my own ability along with further “Financial Education”, I have experienced results I previously only dared to dream about.

I am now an active supporter of many charities, many of which would not benefit from me hadn’t I read Napoleon Hill’s book, Think and Grow Rich. The applied “mindset changes” and “calls to action” that I initiated have made an incredible impact on my personal life, family life, business associates and various charities.

I have a personal short term goal of donating $10,000 per month to charity. When I set this target, I had no idea of “how”, I just knew “what” the desired result was.

If you in any way find empowerment in this book and genuinely believe your lifestyle can and will improve from the ideas herein, please consider supporting a charity of your own choice with a portion of the increased financial rewards that you enjoy from these ideas. Napoleon Hill devoted years of his life to benefit mankind in such a way, even he possibly didn’t imagine the magnitude of it. His desired outcome was known to him. He had the passion and a burning desire to achieve an outcome that will be an asset for mankind over many years to come.

Napoleon Hill, I salute you!

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com © 2004 - 2008

You can read about downloading the book here: Mindset Mastery eBook

Knowing the background of an accomplished empowerment and wealth creation teacher like Napoleon Hill lends his teachings a high dose of credibility. It appears to be a notable fact that many, if not most, inspiring self improvement authors started life with some sort of hardship. Rarely do we see someone born with abundance of worldly possessions and material wealth become a highly inspiring and well known motivational author.

Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill was born in the late 1800’s (1883-1970) and lived a long and successful life during which he proved that mastering your mind does certainly lead to success and wealth. Mr. Hill is another prime example of a man born into a modest family, who came to be famous beyond his own lifetime, and ultimately a contemporary of great wealthy and powerful men like Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, and President Franklin Roosevelt.

Napoleon Hill started life poor. He was born in a two-room cabin in rural Virginia. His mother died when he was a boy. Hill began writing at the tender age of 13 for a mountain newspaper and worked his way to success, fame, and prosperity from there. His early career as a newspaper reporter put him in contact with the famed steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, who prompted Hill to study the lives of successful and wealthy men to find the secret to their success, so that he could share it with others.

Think and Grow Rich

This was the impetus behind Think and Grow Rich. The book is based on research gathered from interviews with more than 500 wealthy men; from those interviews, Hill gleaned 13 principles shared by all rich men and women, principles he outlines in order to teach readers the secret to wealth creation. The book went on to become Hill’s best known work, and is valued here at Universal Wealth Creation as one of the most useful resources for people seeking to master the keys to wealth creation, and live better by doing so.

I will see you back here Monday and Thursday every week for the continuation of the Mindset Mastery series.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com © 2004 - 2008