Sean Rasmussen

We have the good fortune of having many great dreamers who have come before us. That has paved the way and made it all the easier to ignore the cynics. And just in case you needed reminding, we have these words of wisdom to do it.

Willing The Dreamer To Be A Doer

The modern world has become accustomed to new discoveries. Hence, today’s world has proven willing to reward a dreamer who gives the world a new great idea.

“The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.”

“The oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of reality.”

Awake, arise, and assert yourself, you dreamers of the world.

The modern world is filled with an abundance of opportunity past dreamers never knew before.

A burning desire to be, and to do is the take-off point where dreams begin to come into reality. Dreams are not born from indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.

Scoff No More

The world no longer scoffs at dreamers, nor does it call them impractical. Too much good for the benefit of modern living has come from lofty dreams. Too many astounding discoveries have been made, resulting in ever changing and improving technologies, technologies we as a race embrace in pursuit of a better, richer way of life. Not so long ago, the idea of the technologies and inventions of today would only have been viewed as lunacy.

But we have all paid a price for the technology and gadgetry of today; a price that has often put us in a position of stressful defeat. This may even be the direct cause of your outreach for wealth creation. If you are one who has been disappointed and undergone defeat, find courage in knowing that these experiences have steeled your spirit and become assets of incomparable value.

Bouncing Back

We only stay in a position of defeat as long as we allow ourselves to—as long as we allow others to dictate our opportunities. What that means is that you are in control of your success, or your failure if you choose not to take that control. Take the control, dream the dreams, and be the doer who succeeds.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com © 2004 - 2008

We are fortunate to live in a time with more accessible opportunity than probably any other period of history. The accessibility of the global market presents great possibilities for those capable of developing the mindset to harness them. This is reflected in our modernized version of Think and Grow Rich.

Expansive Opportunities

“The global marketplace created by the internet has also vastly expanded the opportunities for wealth creation available to the masses at every economical level. The internet makes it possible to build a career or start a business with very little, even no, money. It also puts endless informational resources at hand and opens up a myriad of new jobs. No wealth-building tools the likes of the internet have ever been so widely available to all people before. On the internet, your potential for wealth creation is truly limited only by your imagination and desire.

Those who desire wealth should remember–the real leaders of the world have always been men who harnessed, and put into practical use, the intangible, unseen forces of unborn opportunity, and have converted those forces, [or impulses of thought], into sky-scrapers, cities, factories, airplanes, automobiles, computers, the internet, and every other form of convenience that makes life easier and more enjoyable.

Open Mindedness Creates Opportunity

Tolerance and an open mind are practical necessities of the dreamer of today. Anyone who is afraid of new ideas is doomed before they start. Never has there been a time more favorable to pioneers and entrepreneurs than the present, because never has business been so accessible, with so large a market so easily reached. True, there is no wild and woolly west to be conquered; but there is a vast business, financial, industrial, technical, and investment world to be remolded and redirected along new and better lines.”

A Home For Success

Fear has no place in this new market of opportunity, not for the person who would succeed and be wealthy. A mind that is open to success, though, will always find a home here, and a way to build great wealth and success.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com © 2004 - 2008

History is cyclical; that is one of the first things we learn in our history classes at school. So it is not surprising that we continue to see cycles within economic circles that create cycles of opportunity. We can see many parallels between Hill’s time and our own today.

History Repeats Itself…Again

“At the time this book was written, the Great Depression was still a strong force. However, the Depression also became, in many ways, a prime opportunity for practical dreamers, because the economic collapse reduced all men, substantially, to the same level. This changed the rules of the game; the new changed world favored the masses, people who had little or no opportunity to win under the conditions which existed during the depression, when fear paralyzed growth and development.

The new, changed world demanded new ideas, new ways of doing things, new leaders, new inventions, new methods of teaching, new methods of marketing, new books, new literature, new entertainment venues. Those who won during this time of expanded opportunity possessed one dominating quality–definiteness of purpose, knowing what they wanted, and a burning desire to possess it.

An Age Of Rebirth

The Great Depression marked the death of one age, and the birth of another. This changed world required practical dreamers who could, and did put their dreams into action. The practical dreamers have always been, and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.

Our modern world is primed for practical dreamers and personal wealth creation again. Our convenient and easy-living societies are ever on the lookout for the next great tools that will make us money and ease our lives; and as work lives are relieved and wealth is created, we are ever on the lookout for more interesting and fun ways to spend our earned leisure time. All of this translates into a marketplace with something for everyone, and a need for people who can provide it. It also translates into huge sums of money being created and traded on the open market, setting the stage for investment potential the likes of which have never been seen before; investment potentials that are well within the reach of even the most menial earners.”

Changing Opportunities

Changing times create changing opportunities, and today’s world is ripe with opportunities to build wealth. Those who can learn to cultivate that mindset and definite desire will certainly find that being financially prosperous is an equal reality for them. In our next post we’ll explore how our changing times have created opportunities for every type of wealth creator.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com © 2004 - 2008

If Napoleon Hill has taught you one thing from the experiences of Mr. Darby, learn that you do not need to go far to find the answers to the questions of your own personal wealth creation.

The Secret Leading to Success

“Life is strange, and often imponderable! Both success and failure find their roots in simple experiences. Darby’s experiences were commonplace and simple enough, yet they held the answer to his destiny in life; therefore they were as important (to him) as life itself. He profited from these two dramatic experiences, because he analyzed them, and found the lesson taught in each respectively. But what does that mean for a person who has neither the time nor inclination to study his/her failure to find the secret leading to success? Where and how will that person learn to turn defeat into a stepping stone to opportunity?

These are the questions this book was written to answer.

The Thirteen Principles

The answer to these questions consists of thirteen principles, all working in conjunction with each other; but as you read, remember–the answer(s) you may be searching for, the answers to the questions that have brought you to contemplate the irony and complexity of life, may be found in your own mind, through some idea, plan, or purpose which may spring into your mind as you read.”

So you already have all the answers you need; but like nearly everyone, you may be in need of some help unlocking and deciphering them. That’s what this book was written for to help those with the inclination and motivation figure out what they need to do differently to create wealth for themselves, and their loved ones.

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

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com © 2004 - 2008

The Darby’s had reached it—the turning point in their financial success. Do you think they made the right decision? We know that if they followed the secret to wealth creation, had a definite purpose based in definite thought, they did. Alas…

“Finally, they decided to quit.

“They sold the machinery to a junk man for a few hundred dollars and took a train back home. Now, some “junk” men are ignorant, but not this one! He called in a mining engineer to look at the mine and do a little calculating. The engineer advised that the project had failed because the owners were not familiar with “fault lines.” His calculations showed that the vein would be found just three feet from where the Darbys had stopped drilling! And that is exactly where it was found!

“The “Junk” man took millions of dollars in ore from the mine, all because he knew enough to seek expert advice before giving up.

“Most of the money used to buy the machinery was raised through the efforts of R.U. Darby, who was then a very young man. The money came from his relatives and neighbors, because they had faith in him. He paid back every dollar of it, even though it took him years to do so.”

Admirable of Mr. Darby to do so, but what would have been more admirable would have been not throwing up his hands in the face of temporary defeat. If he had followed the principles outlined by Napoleon Hill and in this book, he wouldn’t have. If he’d known the secret to wealth creation, he wouldn’t have.

What About You?

Does any part of this story mirror any cross-roads in your own life? I hope for your sake it does not, but odds are that it does; it seems all of us have been ‘there’ at one point or another. But don’t despair; past failure does not predetermine future failure. You have the opportunity to learn from your mistakes and take your new found knowledge from this book, and turn your poorly decided past into great future success and wealth, just as Mr. Darby did.

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