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Realizing your worth is an important facet in building wealth and achieving great success. Some may fall short of their goals because they have an underlying belief that they are not deserving of it. A primary step in developing the millionaire mindset is to realize that you deserve success.

The nagging voice telling you that you may fail, that there is too much at stake for you to take any risks is a troublesome anchor that needs to be lifted. Before moving forward, envision your past failures and achievements. Gradually allow the failures to drift away from your thoughts allowing your achievements to surface in your focused thoughts.

Feeling Wealth

Building wealth is as much about feeling as it is about thinking. If you progress with feelings of anxiousness and self-doubt, you will undoubtedly fail, or fall short of your goals. Breaking this cycle can be difficult, but with the right guidance, you can begin to feel like a millionaire as you enter the millionaire mindset.

The connection between emotion and wealth is not readily apparent, but it is quite powerful. Simply visualising and thinking about wealth is not as effective as feeling wealthy, beginning with feeling worthy of the rewards.

Gratitude

The worthiness stems from focus that is planted in gratitude. Begin each day with a mantra of gratitude that helps you focus on the positive aspects of your life. Feel the swell of pride that is associated with the things that make you feel grateful.

The feeling of gratitude is the underlying emotion behind worthiness and wealth. When you connect the positive grateful forces in your life to the hopeful visualization of financial success, you are more apt to create energy in your focus.

Millionaire Mindset

Developing the millionaire mindset is an integral aspect of your future success, but simply practicing thought processes and visualization skills without genuinely feeling gratitude and worthiness is not enough. The driving force behind the mindset is the deep seeded belief that you are deserving of success and good fortune.

You can learn about creating feelings of gratitude and developing the millionaire mindset by reading What I Didn’t Learn in School but Wish I Had by Jamie McIntyre. The free ebook is a valuable guide for your future endeavors.

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Jamie McIntyre is a truly inspirational person, and there is so much his wealth education program has to offer; nevertheless, the time is bound to come when you might feel a bit overwhelmed, and think that maybe wealth is too far beyond you. Often that happens before people even get started, just because that feeling of being overwhelmed has gotten the best of them. But you know there’s really not a lot that separates the wealthy from the not-so wealthy. And for you one step could make all the difference in the world.

One Step Further

When times like those strike, all you need to remember is that it only takes the difference of one step to separate the wealthy and the financially burdened. One single step, one solitary action, is what moved that wealthy person in the right direction and moved him or her that much closer to wealth and success. Logically, then, it can be the same for you. To be wealthy you only have to take one step forward, take one more action, to be wealthy. At any point in your plan to develop wealth, one single action will get you closer, and will be enough to break you from that rut of skepticism.

Why Most People Are Not Wealthy

Most people are not wealthy because they do not take that step. They get down, and they stay down, or start walking back. They take a step, but it’s in the wrong direction. Most people are not wealthy simply because they do not persist in that which they know can succeed. That’s the way of the average person, and that’s what makes an average life.

You now know that, though. So there is no need for you to be average. You have far more knowledge and many more tools available to you, and you have a perspective on success. You know that you can achieve wealth manageably by just going that one step and doing what the average person will not.

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

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Remember back to your science and physics classes when you learned the basic principles? Do you recall one called inertia? Humor me as I refresh your memory; inertia is

• The resistance to change
• The property that states that a body or object will remain at its state of rest or continued forward [straight] movement unless acted upon by an outside force

It’s that principle that tells us, “a body in motion will stay in motion” or “a body at rest will stay at rest.” It’s that same principle that can be captured and applied to your wealth education.

An Education At Rest Stays At Rest; A Sleeping Financial Giant Stays Asleep…

…unless acted upon by an outside force.

For you this means that you will remain in your current state of financial limbo unless something changes to propel you toward a different path; to propel you into motion. Unless you do something differently—get a financial education, empower yourself financially—you will continue on at your current state.

The good news is that the principle applies after the application of that outside force, too. So once you take that action, apply that force, that one life-altering event [a decision to act], inertia states that you will continue on in that state of succeeding unless an outside force causes you to stop. The effect of your successful act snowballs into more success and more wealth. And you know how snowballs are—the bigger they get, the harder they are to stop. By compelling yourself through inertia (combined with a little attraction) you create a force that wants nothing more than to continue to move forward, and a force that is so large it will take a whole lot more than a down day or a moment of negativity to stop.

Be your own catalyst. Create your own force of inertia.

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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