21st Century Academy

When Jaime McIntyre set out to become a millionaire, he soon learned that he didn’t have the right kind of education. Even though he had completed both school and University, his education was seriously lacking in matters of wealth creation. It was obvious to Jamie that he needed a new kind of education to supplement the basics he had learned in school. He needed a 21st Century education.

21st Century Academy Is Born

21st Century Academy didn’t just materialize out of thin air. 21st Century Academy is the product of years of research and learning on the part of Jamie McIntyre. It is Jamie’s baby, born out of necessity for a modern education, a better, more applicable education; a wealth creation education.

Jamie McIntyre

To date, Jamie McIntyre has possibly spent hundreds of thousands of dollars getting his education. He had to; because there was no one course for him to take when he started that encompassed the whole of wealth creation. And once he was well into obtaining his wealth creation education for the 21st Century, Jamie saw that he could do a great service to others if he consolidated what he learned over years of study and offered it in a truly effective wealth creation course. Thus, we now have 21st Century Academy.

21st Century Education Vs Traditional Schooling

There is a remarkable difference between the 21st Century education and the traditional education that is the mainstay for the greater population.

• The 21st Century Academy education is based in modern practice and theory

• It teaches how to apply the lessons learned in school to make money, and then make more money with money

• It teaches much more than just how to invest a dollar; the 21st Century Academy teaches how to change your mindset and attitude to one of success and empowerment—how to uncondition yourself to financial stress, struggle, and failure!

• The foundations of traditional educations were laid in the 19th century—more than a hundred years ago!

• It teaches you how to get a job

• It prepares you for a lifetime of working

• Traditional educations do not teach applicable financial knowledge—how to utilize the financial systems of the world, how to create financial freedom

It is easy to sum up the difference between a traditional education and a 21st Century Academy education:

• Traditional education teaches you how to work for money

• A 21st Century Academy education teaches you how to make money work for you!

As for myself, I’d much rather take the latter.

To Your Continued Financial Success

Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2007

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Now I’ve given you the first 2 things you need to start setting your goals for financial freedom. I’ve given you the 5 levels of financial freedom and I’ve given you the exercise to help you learn where you stand in terms of financial independence. Now the next part is where we get to have a little fun.

Financial Reality

If confronting your financial reality was sobering and overwhelming, now is the time to look at the other side of things. Now you get to determine what you want in life – what you’ll have when you’ve reached your financial goals, thanks to Jamie McIntyre’s ingenious (yet simple) 21st Century Academy program!

Defining What You Want To Achieve Financially

This exercise is really fun, but you should keep yourself grounded enough to be realistic. Unless, of course, shameless amounts of money and belongings are your goal; in that case you should be honest and include it!

This exercise for setting financial goals for financial independence is just a brainstorming session. It will help pinpoint your definition of financial success.

Just take about 5 minutes and list the things that you want. The things that you will use the wealth you create to buy, do, and experience. List the things you want to

• Own—like a house, car, fine art, jewelry, a boat or yacht…
• Give—charities you want to support, philanthropic causes, a house or car to your parents or siblings, maybe your kids…
• Experience—a vacation, a trip, a seminar…
• Achieve economically—like reduce your debt, cash money in the bank, a big net worth, a continuous stream of annual investment income, business profitability…

Now, qualify those goals. Use them to set a schedule for your wealth creation by breaking the list into short term (achieved in 6 to 36 months), intermediate (achieved in 3 to 10 years), and long term (in more than 10 years) goals.

Now What Do You Have?

What you have now is the list of financial goals that you want to achieve—and the timeline for achieving them. What you’ve given yourself is a road map that will help you realize whenever you have achieved a small or large financial success. This will be your basis for a finely tuned set of goals. As you go along and start enjoying financial success through Jamie McIntyre’s 21st Century Academy methods, you’ll be able to check off your successes and know that you are either well on your way, or you’ve arrived at financial success! Then you can join me and the scores of others in telling Jamie McIntyre just what a difference he and the 21st Century Academy have made in your life!

To Your Continued Financial Success

Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2007

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I’ve got to back track a bit and give you an exercise from Jamie McIntyre from the 21st Century Academy to go along with the 5 levels of financial freedom.

I know I gave you the 5 levels of Financial Freedom. Those you are to use to rate yourself to give you an idea of what is most important to you in setting your financial goals. But before you do that, take just a minute and do this:

Be Financially Secure, Free, Or Successful

This is a pretty easy exercise I learned from my friend and mentor Jamie McIntyre. Don’t stress over it, just do it, and don’t worry about whether you are right or wrong.

• First, guess how much money it would take you to achieve financial independence (financially free, you might say). As in, how much money, in one lump sum, would you have to have to say you are financially free. To use Jamie McIntyre’s example, if you won the lottery, how much would you have to win to not have to work ever again (I mean work a day job, not work at investing).

• Now, guess how long it will take for you to achieve financial freedom. Just a guess, maybe at the rate you see yourself going. This will probably change anyway once you’ve learned how to invest successfully – that is, if you learn the ways to successful investment from Jamie McIntyre and 21st Century Academy. (Change in a good way! The 21st Century Academy materials will show you how to make this possible!)

Now, what was the purpose of this exercise? So far, all we’ve got is two guesses, and most people are not very accurate in their guessing.

The purpose is primarily just to get you thinking and taking a real stock of the work you have to do.

Look at these numbers. Pretty scary, aren’t they? Overwhelming, I’m sure. Probably have you thinking this isn’t even possible, and that you’re relegated to a working class life, destined to die before you retire.

Be Financially Motivated

It’s fine that you have that feeling for now, but the real point of this exercise is to get you thinking and financially motivated, not to get you down. The only point is to show you that you need to do something different, or your life will never change. It’s to get you in a positive mindset so that you can steel yourself to succeed. It’s to get you the help to help yourself. That’s help I can get you. This is where we become partners in your financial success. This is where I tell you to let Jamie McIntyre and 21st Century find you a way out of this mess!

Here’s a Christmas card and a special gift from me: Sean’s Present To You

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to all of you!

Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy Blog
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2007

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Jamie McIntyre is really such a wealth of information that’s it’s tough to talk in summary. On the other hand, breaking down the advice, philosophies, and methods Jamie McIntyre presents through his 21st Century Academy on a blog is helpful because it gives us the chance to chew on things a bit and digest the information he’s put before us.

Maybe you remember a few weeks back when I was talking about becoming a full-time investor and the 5 levels of financial freedom that we all experience at some point in our lives (or at least, hope to experience; your chances of actually getting there will be much greater if you take advantage of what Jamie and the 21st Century Academy is offering).

5 Levels of Financial Freedom

The 5 Levels of Financial Freedom are something that is presented by Jamie in as part of an exercise for setting goals. The purpose of knowing them is for you to rate them, so that you can set financial goals reasonably. Why is this important? Because everyone’s perception of financial success is different. I cannot tell you when you will be successful financially speaking. It’s not up to me to say how much money you have to make before you can call yourself a success. That’s entirely personal, and it’s entirely up to you.

I’m going to set some time aside in the next post or two or three to talk about setting financial goals and about defining financial success. For now, I want you to think about how important it is that you do that, and start just brainstorming – dreaming, really – about what would make you feel happy; what level of financial success would make you feel like you’ve arrived and achieved financial freedom.

Financial Freedom Goals

Setting goals for financial freedom and financial success is one of the first steps in making money. You’ll find the guidance of Jamie McIntyre and the 21st Century Academy to be very useful for lending focus to your financial goals. That’s a great place for you to start, but you really need to think about using the 21st Century Academy for more—as your training resource for learning to invest and enjoying financial freedom.

Here’s a Christmas card and a special gift from me: Sean’s Present To You

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to all of you!

Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy Blog
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2007

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Financial intelligence is the other part of the mind’s equation that you need to solve in order to make money and create wealth. Financial Intelligence is emotional intelligence’s other half. Together, they create the whole of the mindset that you need to build wealth successfully.

Financial Intelligence Defined

Here, quoted, is Jamie McIntyre’s definition for financial intelligence—the one he uses in his 21st Century Academy courses. In Jamie’s words, you are financially intelligent if you

“…have money work for you, not just work for money”

Financial intelligence is nothing you would have learned in school or at university. The reason is simple. Schools and universities don’t teach people how to be financially intelligent.

Be Financially Dependent? Yeah, Right!

Schools and universities teach people how to be financially dependent. How to be workers and have a job! Now as a disclaimer, I’ll tell you that there is nothing wrong with hard work, if that’s your thing, but working hard is not the way to create wealth, and it will not lead you to a life of early retirement and financial freedom, leastwise not as wealth creation will.

You should also realize that financial intelligence is not about learning how to play the banks’ games. You won’t get rich following what the bank tells you makes good financial sense, or investing in the banks’ ideas of assets. Overall, what the banks tell you are assets are really liabilities, because they do nothing to put money into your pocket; worse, most only drain your cash flow.

The Mindset To Make Money

Financial intelligence is an all-encompassing term for what Jamie McIntyre has been able to surmise in the sentence quoted above. Whereas emotional intelligence is the mindset you need to make money, financial intelligence can be categorized as your strategy for wealth creation. These are both integral parts of wealth creation, and teaching them to you is what the 21st Century Academy does best.

Until next time…

Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy Blog
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2007

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