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The last few posts have focused on how you start and end your day, and how you use those practices to carry you through, stay motivated to succeed in your wealth education and development, reflect on the good, look forward and appreciate the positive. While you do that, though, it’s important not to forget about the little things.

The Little Things In Wealth Development

When you think about wealth the default is to think large—wealth is about big things; big opportunities, big freedom, big money, big success, living large! That makes it easy to forget about the little things, and easy to discount them as inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.

But big things are always made of smaller pieces; all great things are sums of the whole—of every small and large thing that went into them. Your wealth development and financial prosperity are not just the result of big moves you made, they are also the result of small things and decisions you did and made. The small, simple, life-changing decision to begin Jamie McIntyre’s wealth education course; the many single, small hours spent reading and learning and absorbing his lessons and the motivations of others; multiple passing moments of positivity and appreciation, all accumulated to change your mindset to one of wealth and positivity.

Now knowing this, apply that to all of the ways that you keep yourself motivating, acting, and achieving wealth. Give yourself credit for the fact that you took two minutes to read this blog and stay inspired; make a space on your to-do list for corresponding with other wealth creators; appreciate that you did all the small things that support and allow for the large to happen.

Cumulative Review

Life is a cumulative effort. No small or large task is without worth, or without impact upon you. So be it small or be it large, know that everything you did today was a brick in your building. Understand that and appreciate that, and you’ll find you are a whole lot more positive and productive than you thought you could be—already!

The little things really do matter!  All the best to you and yours as you appreciate both the big and the little things in life this Christmas!  Merry Christmas and heartfelt wishes for a most prosperous New Year from Sean Rasmussen and Universal Wealth Creation.

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

This post is very much in keeping with the recent post, 30 Seconds to a New Life. When you start your day with 30 seconds of appreciation and positive thinking, you set the tone for the rest of it to be more of the same—in a very good way. Just those 30 seconds takes nothing of your life to speak of and starts you on the right footing each and every day.

You can take this a step further, too, so that you remain focused on it. And you can apply the concept to everything you do as you get your day organized and moving. For example, you might start your day with a bit of journaling—bedside in a diary of sorts, or online, on a blog, whatever works for you. But instead of looking back, make it a journal that looks forward. You might list the things that you are appreciative of today; you might find the positives in even the things you don’t want to do; or you might make it a preview of highlights of the best things that are yet to come.

What Do You Get Out Of It?

What you get out of it is a new perspective, a new way of looking at the same things you do on a daily basis. Instead of a list of ‘to do’s’ and drudgery, you have tasks that need attending, and plentiful opportunities to build more wealth, learn more about being wealthy and living well, and even opportunities to create more financial opportunities. In this light, even a job you don’t like can be satisfying for the step and the financial opportunity that it is.

You don’t always have to change what you do in order to maximize and capture it as a wealth building tool. Sometimes you just need to change the way you look at it. When you can appreciate the opportunities you have every day, that is a whole lot easier. And so much more fulfilling than wishing your days away!

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