Some more thought provoking replies to my “Wealth Creation Is Simple, But Not Easy - Discuss!” posting on our private Google Group……

“There’s also the need for energy - lots of it and alertness and the belief that you can”

“The need for certainty is a killer for action”

“Learning new skills – challenging my worst phobias:  numbers, money, technology, spreadsheets!  Talk about getting out of one’s comfort zones!”

“Perseverance as opposed to a “get rich quick” concept”

“Challenging fundamental inherited beliefs about money - the only way you
make money is to go to school, work hard, go to uni, work hard, get a
good job, work hard …..”

And Sarah Rourke, the “Audio Pod Artist” contributed a brilliant posting on the topic:

“Ace topic, Nicola - here’s my tuppence worth:
 
I think not only challenging beliefs but managing to exist as a wealth creationist in a sea of doubters - other people’s resistance can be hard to overcome.

One of the things I’m learning to do about this is not tell people things i.e. not tell my parents what I invest in (it terrifies them) not tell others close to me when I sneakily start a new side project (all within my core business of course!). And most importantly, I’ve learnt to keep my trap firmly shut when people talk about property and crashes etc - better to say nothing than wind myself up.
 
Then there’s a big stumbling block for lots of people and that’s the ….

….time issue. We are bombarded with information about ways to make money that only take an hour a week or whatever when the reality is, that getting to that golden hour a week, we have to put in a fair amount of preparatory work, including learning, sourcing help etc. The solution is to be realistic with our time and not to expect extra hours in the day to suddenly appear just because we’ve decided we’re going to make money outside of the traditional ways.
 
Overwhelm would be another barrier to getting on with it - especially given that wealth creationists are often the types of people who are looking for an alternative way to create money - 27 different offers a week about how to do that from all sides doesn’t help the flicker-headed entrepreneur (I’m talking about myself here!). Solution - unsubscribe from all the things you save in little sub-inboxes. That company won’t go away (nor will their offers dry up either) and you can always go back a re-subscribe once you’ve got one thing working…
 
Impatience is a huge barrier for those already on the journey - I think I read somewhere that lots of business fail (are given up on) just before the point at which things could have started coming together, had the founders had been a little more patient.

So what am I, the most impatient person I know (any challengers?) doing about this? Trying very hard to keep on trucking, no matter what. If someone were to bottle patience and sell it, I’d buy a tonne. We need to remind ourselves that this all takes time. Once we discover wealth creation there’s a tendency to want it all now. We have to recognise that now is the time to start pushing the little snowballs down the mountain…
 
My other (non-internet turnkey business) wasn’t the quickest off the blocks by normal standards and this became very frustrating for me at one point. I tried very hard to stay patient and at the moment,  I patiently make sure that every single one of those cards go through those doors by hand delivering them myself. (This is really paying off and I’ll shortly be able to hand this task to someone else (as per the original plan).

So I’ll add the importance of perseverence and preparedness to change the plan to make something work.
Another payoff to this - I’ve dropped around 10lbs in weight since March, trudging the streets in the quest to make my business work, so the buns have benefited from this too!
 
Sarah Rourke
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