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Everyone has a past, like it or not. And like we’ve talked about before, that past bears on many things as they apply to building wealth. For instance, your past—conscious or unconscious—is what has formed your perception of money and your attitude towards it. And that attitude is a large piece of the choices you make, your mindset, and the subconscious sabotage that you may inadvertently be attacking your efforts to build wealth with.

Who’s The Boss? Past, Present, Or Future?

Very often what we find ourselves doing when we resolve to create wealth is competing against that past—”showing it who’s boss” so to say. But what we come to know, what your wealth creation course is trying to teach you, is that that kind of competition really isn’t productive. Your past is over and done. You can’t teach it anything. You can’t change it and you can’t just erase the mental baggage that comes along with it. You can only find ways to make your past, even what you perceive to be a negative past, work for you now.

Reconciling The Past, Looking Back To Move Forward

You can’t change the past but you can change your understanding of it. You can analyze it, reconcile your feelings from it, and correct the negative attitudes that have resulted from it so that you make the room for wealth to work in your life (this is very much related to when we talked way back about rewiring your financial subconscious, and the exercise Jamie McIntyre walks you through to do that).

Your past is not your competitor. It is something that occurred, and something that contributed to who you are today. And that can’t be all bad. Once you realize this you can begin to look for ways to reconcile the past and actually make it work for you, instead of being at odds with it. Remember that the past is a part of you, so competing against it is only competing against yourself. Surely you can see how that isn’t beneficial at all. Meet me back here for the next post, and we’ll talk a little more about how you can make the past a better part of your future.

Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 – 2008

Past experience with finance and money has a big impact on current and future wealth success. And those who have struggled (which is a large cross-section of the people who come looking for the better life through the 21st Century Academy) have a hard time believing that anything could ever be different for them in terms of personal finance. The reason they find it hard to believe is that they cannot get over their financial past.

The Past Is Behind You

Your financial past is firmly behind you. Everything that is done is done. It doesn’t matter what decisions you’ve made in the past that might have left you in a precarious financial position. It only matters what you do from here forward. It only matters that you take action now, learn how to be wealthy, and continue on that path.

The only way your financial past can continue to bear on your life is if you allow it to. If you choose to remain in the same rut, then wealth will not be yours. You can live a very predictable life this way because a simple look into your past and current financial state will reveal the kind of life you are destined for.

But no one has to continue to live their financial past! The beauty of the future is that it hasn’t come yet; so you have every opportunity of doing it differently—of learning new ways to make money, of learning new strategies for investing, and of applying wealth education (formal and informal) to your life to build wealth and live well.

Let Go Of Past Financial Stress

Today, then, let go of the past. Let go of the financial hardship and stress you’ve felt and replace it with positive thoughts and opportunity. Make a change today to live better for the rest of your life, and realize for sure that a lifetime’s opportunity is still wide-open before you.

Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 – 2008