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Related to our last post, today we take on the emotion of feeling overwhelmed; more accurately, getting over the feeling.

The emotion of feeling overwhelmed is one that a lot of people come up against as they set off on and work through a wealth education and wealth creation. It’s not surprising, because if you look at it from the standpoint of the beginner there is just so much great information to learn. But the promise of greatness is not always enough in and of itself to overcome that feeling of being completely overwhelmed by the task ahead. Then what is?

Overcoming Overwhelming Feelings

As with so much else talked about here, perspective is an excellent way to overcome the barriers that stand in your way; in this case, the barrier of feeling overwhelmed. And one of the best ways to gain perspective is to understand what lies at the root of your problem. In this case, what is causing you to feel overwhelmed by the tasks of financial learning and investment ahead.

Where Overwhelm Is Born

Overwhelm is born at the start of new tasks and projects. It rears its head just after the initial elation of having found something new, promising, and exciting; just after that feeling subsides. It appears right where you start to understand all that you really will need to do to get from point A to point B, to your goal of wealth and financial freedom.

That tells you where it starts, but why does it start?

In many ways the feeling of being overwhelmed gets its hold in your own ambition. You become overwhelmed because you want to do it all now. You want to be done with this and be rich already! And that’s admirable. But that’s not, unfortunately, reality. It takes time and work to get to where you want to be. Breaking down the task, going step by step, and recognizing your progress—being that much closer—is a good way to overcome those feelings of being overwhelmed.

Perspective is an important life tool. It’s the one that gets you through the tougher times. So get perspective on what being overwhelmed really is, and put that feeling in its place.

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

The experts agree that there are common threads which people share that keep them from being wealthy. If you research what the various financial experts say, you’ll see a lot of similarity between them.

Jamie McIntyre And Friends

Many of you have probably read more than one financial expert. If you have, you’ll see that there is a lot of similarity between them. In fact, you’ll notice that in the 21st Century Academy programs Jamie McIntyre refers to a variety of other experts, from Napoleon Hill to Robert Kiyosaki and Anthony Robbins. And you’ll see that on many points, these men (and some expert women, too—we don’t want to leave out the ladies!) are all in agreement.

The most notable point you’ll make is that all of them agree that mindset is the first determining factor in wealth. The people who are wealthy have a different mindset and play by a different set of rules—the rules that open the opportunity to make money and become wealthy as opposed to the rules set by tradition and financial institutions. So the first order in wealth creation is simple. Change the mindset, change the financial future.

Simple, Not Easy

It may be simple, as in, the concept is simple, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Changing your financial future still takes work and effort. There’s no way around that. But with the guidance of the right financial education and expert leadership, you can get there.

The fact that the experts are all so similar in their advisement should be taken as a vote of confidence—as proof that wealth is attainable, and that the systems do work. There are sure and proven ways to change your life and succeed in creating wealth. If you doubt that, you have only to pick up a few books by these great men and women, and see what they all have to say. You have only to find out what needs to change in your life to make room for money—for wealth!

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

More than likely, you suffer from a poor financial attitude. More than likely, you don’t even realize you do. The great majority of people who come to the 21st Century Academy for help—in fact, the great majority of people in the world—do have a negative attitude towards money, and they don’t even realize they do.

How Financial Negativity Keeps You Down

Financial negativity is one of the number one reasons why people do not become wealthy. Realistically, it could be the top reason why people continue to struggle financially.

A negative attitude towards money causes you to subconsciously resist money, wealth, and success. That means that your subconscious (or even conscious negative) attitude towards money directly causes your lack of freedom in life, in any way that freedom is tied to money and finance (and let’s be honest here—that’s almost everything).

How Did I Get This Way?

You know that having money is imperative to living freely and comfortably. Right now, you might be resisting the idea that you even have a negative attitude towards money. So if you weren’t aware that your financial attitude was poor, how could you have gotten to this point?

First off, as we said, you’re not alone. Almost everyone has a negative attitude towards money—even Jamie McIntyre did. Don’t feel badly about it, just take it for what it’s worth and recognize it.

To address the question at hand, you got this way as a result of your life up until this point. Your every experience with money—or without money—has had a bearing on the attitude you hold towards money and wealth today. It’s a cumulative effect of a lifetime of hearing about the bad that money and wealth do in this world. It’s the cumulative effect of convincing yourself you don’t really need money to be happy and secure. Yes, you and almost everyone around you for your entire life have worked to develop this negativity towards wealth.

Knowing this is half the battle. The other half is overcoming it. In future posts, we’ll start talking about the methods that Jamie McIntyre employs through the 21st Century Academy to help you replace your negativity with an attitude of positivity and abundance. Do be sure to come back here, and see what you can do to change your negative ways.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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