21st Century Academy

We’ve talked at length about how the 21st Century Academy education is different—how it is a new financial education for a new century, to replace what you just haven’t been taught yet. You might think that that is the focus of my post today, but that’s not really so.

What I want to talk about today isn’t how Jamie McIntyre’s wealth education program is different from what you learned in school, but how it is different than what the average person learns. Not all that unrelated, but you’ll see what I mean by this.

Doing More Than Average

This is not to discount what you would learn through this financial empowerment program in any way. There’s no doubt that school and university and college have not prepared the average person to build wealth. This post is just to show you why this makes a difference in your life—why this type of financial education will make you wealthy.

The answer is quite simple. A financial empowerment program such as this one is something that the average person never does. The average person, though, is not wealthy either. And do you know what you have to do to do better than the average person? To be the less than average wealthy man or woman? You have to do something that the average person does not.

If an average life, an average introduction to finance and wealth, and average money management were a path to wealth then most everyone would be rich by now. But comparatively speaking few people are financially wealthy. If you want to be one of the few you have to start doing something that few people are doing, and you have to start somewhere to learn how to do that. Start by learning more than the average person knows about building wealth and investing, and then continue on to wealth by doing what the average person is just not willing to do.

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

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Perhaps you are wondering where this wealth empowerment program is going to take you; what Jamie McIntyre will lead you to. It’s hard to say definitively, but one thing is sure—if you don’t go along for the ride, there is no way you will ever get there to find out.

Fear And Hesitation Do Not Live Here

It seems to be human nature to be hesitant to explore new things. At least it seems to be modern human nature; it must not have always been this way, or our world would be much smaller still. For the average person, though, fear, hesitation, and anxiety creep into the mind any time a new experience is proposed.

Even given the possibilities that a premier wealth education can open up to you, we tend to hesitate. We think about all the things that could go wrong, all the time we might waste, all the things that might not “work,” and we put roadblocks in our own path to success. These roadblocks can be hard to overcome until you come to some realizations.

Unblocking The Road To Wealth

You have to realize something if you are to overcome this type of hesitation—you can’t have something you have never had unless you do something you never did—go somewhere you’ve never gone.

The only thing that is sure is that the status quo will remain for as long as you take no action to change it. Until you learn to build wealth, you will not have money and you will not be rich. You will be precisely where you are right now. That’s fine if you’re happy with your current state, but since you are here I would guess that isn’t the case.

Hesitation is normal. It is also a huge reason why so many people fail to find financial freedom. Recognize hesitation and fear as a roadblock in your path. Then destroy it and know that to have more than what you have now, you have to start doing something you are not yet doing.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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One great turn will get you to certain goals; it may even get you to the goal that you have defined as your arrival at being wealthy. But to stay there, it takes more than one good turn. It takes many, and an ongoing, continuing effort to stay on top.

Continuing On In Wealth And Prosperity

So what is the path to follow? How does developing wealth continue?

The continuous path to financial freedom is variable, as all of success and achievement is. It willvary depending on your strategy for building wealth, your interests, your needs, your successes, and even your failures. Moving forward, there are some general things you should consider that will help you stay the course to financial freedom. For instance

• Continuing on in wealth education for increased success and more ways to become wealthy

• Developing new strategies for investment and wealth creation

• Reevaluating strategies and goals

• Scrapping the under-performers for the real money makers

• Diversifying for greater return and security

Staying The Course

This endless work sounds tiring, doesn’t it? And if you’ve met your goals, and achieved that level of wealth success that you were shooting for, why should you have to keep going? Why is important to continue to work to develop financial freedom when you have already achieved that goal?

It’s all about sustainability. A windfall sum of money will make you feel wealthy for a time, but to truly be wealthy—to be financially independent and in control—you must develop lasting wealth. Lasting wealth depends on your continuing to build upon your success for greater success. Lasting wealth is the key to true financial freedom.

The continuing road does not have to be an extraneous effort. Being that you have already come this far, and that you have already learned so much to get here and changed in so many positive ways, you’ll find that continuing on is much, much easier than getting started and making your first money. All you need to do now is to sustain that wealth through continued commitment to your new mindset and lifestyle. But with the world of possibilities and a healthy taste of financial success, no doubt you’ll be energized and raring to go anyway.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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In posts past, the topic was thinking the right ’size’ thoughts in order to accomplish what you want in wealth creation. We talked about how some people just don’t see that the reason they are not wealthy is because they are not focusing their thoughts and not tailoring them to the level of financial success they want. They want to accumulate millions of dollars, but they don’t have million-dollar thoughts. They think too small, and so they attract much smaller financial wealth.

Your Idea Of What Wealth Is

Wealth is a funny word, because as much as we all desire it is very hard to define what wealth is. What amount of money would make you wealthy? How do you place value on your assets? Can you be wealthy without a set amount of money in the bank?

Wealth is calculated in many different ways depending on your assets, holdings, cash and savings, and myriad other factors. What is wealth in one corner of the world can be drastically different from what is wealth in another because costs of living and standards of living are drastically different across regions.

No one can define what wealth is to you except you—I cannot do it, Jamie McIntyre cannot do it, and neither can anyone else. Only you can decide how much money will make you feel financially secure and financially free. Only you can say what ‘wealth’ is for you.

Why It Matters What Wealth Means

Does it really matter what wealth means to anyone? It does. It matters to you what wealth means to you. It matters much less what I think it means to be wealthy, and it matters much less what Jamie McIntyre or any other person in the 21st Century Academy thinks it means. But it does matter to you personally.

The reason that it matters is that, as we discussed, you need to be able to focus your thoughts and energy to attract the level of money and financial prosperity that you want. You need to have the same size thoughts as what you seek. To do that, you need to know what you accept as wealthy so that you can tailor everything to your idea of wealth.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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Both here on this blog and through the course of the 21st Century Academy we talk about many keys to financial success. Today the key that we are talking about is consistency—consistency in attitude and in action.

Building The Habit Of Financial Success

How often have you read something, maybe something Jamie McIntyre wrote, or maybe a portion of his book or a course from his wealth education program, and come away so totally motivated and energized that you felt like you could conquer the world? And then how often did you find yourself back into a state of frustration, financial stress, and helplessness just hours later?

What do you think that relapse did for your motivation? What did it do for you over the course of your journey to creating wealth?

At the very least it caused you to stagnate until you achieved that state again. That’s the neutral effect. A worse result would be that it put you back at square one, to where you were before you felt that motivation. And worse still, it may have caused you to lose ground to the point that you are starting below where you were in the beginning. Wherever it took you, no progress was made.

Progress Leads To Success

One thing we know for sure. Without progress, there is no success. If you are constantly losing the ground you’ve made up, or at the very least knowing no forward movement, then you are not progressing towards success and wealth.

To make that progress you have to find a way to overcome the neutral and negative impacts that daily life might take. You have to find ways to consistently move forward, even if it is a little bit at a time. Building wealth, building the wealthy mindset, and building positivity has to be something that is ever-present. Your central task needs to be building that consistent lifestyle so that you are not constantly fighting to get back to where you started from, but are moving on to more.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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