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You can get more out of your day by doing what you love and pursuing an interest that works collaboratively towards wealth creation. You can also get more out of your day by leveraging the skills that you already have and putting those to work within your wealth building plan. Now let’s look at a way to combine the two to get even more out of your day once again.

What Would You Love To Do?

Once upon a time people chose their careers in their teens, trained, and stayed in that career or line of work—often the very same job—for the entirety of their working lives. But that kind of life becomes very monotonous and draining. Not to mention the fact that what we are focusing on is getting out of the work for pay mentality and into the wealth creation mentality of letting your money work for you.

As we’ve discussed, though, you still have many, many options for investment and acquiring wealth. And so you have many options to explore that which interests you and use it as your basis for making money.

Two of the ways, which I alluded to in the intro for this post, of getting more out of your day are

• Working with the skills you have for a quick start, and

• Following your interests for a more enjoyable and sustainable journey to wealth

Now let’s take that a step further. Let’s think about the things you’ve always dreamed of doing—the skills and interests you want to have, but haven’t yet achieved.

The skills that you want to be pursuing are another excellent way to get more out of your day and to build wealth at the same time. When you pursue that long-held passion and build a new set of skills you harness the power of doing what you love, while you also build a whole new set of skills that you can capitalize for acquiring wealth. These can then either replace the old skills for something more interesting, or they can be combined with them. Building your future skillset and capitalizing on it creates an effective combination of interest, desire, time management, and wealth education that could very well be your personal key to sustainable success.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

It is hard to hear that you might have to just steel yourself and face the fact that you’ll have to put more into your day if you want to get more out of it before you ultimately enjoy the wealth you have built. That is understandable, but it’s a fact of life for many nonetheless. It had to be said.

Knowing what a burden adding more to your day might be for you, I thought about how we might alleviate some of that additional pressure. The good news is that for many, many people, there are real ways to get more out of your day, put more in, and maybe even spend less time overall doing it. How is that possible?

Get More Out Of Your Day By Doing Less

Quality not quantity. In the end when you have added in the additional duties of educating yourself about finance and building wealth, and then acting to make it happen, this might be a wash as far as time spent ‘doing’ is concerned. In actuality it is meant to be. If we can reduce your day to the point where you are doing everything essential and taking action to grow financially and seeing results, all the better; I truly hope that does happen for you. Of course, that might mean this is a good time to step up your efforts at building wealth, too.

If you are skeptical about being able to take something out of your day, something that will put time into your day that you can devote to investing and making money, I don’t blame you. But the fact is that a lot of us are not very good time managers. A lot of us could find a lot more time in the day just by incorporating some good time management skills. Let’s take a look at what could go.

• TV—an easy one, something we could easily do without if it meant more financial freedom

• Procrastinating—how much time do you spend wishing you didn’t have to do something? Finding other things to do to put off what really needs your attention? A lot of times it is more time than the task actually takes.

• Distractions—emails, phone calls, IM, aimless web-surfing, unannounced visitors (in and out of the office)

• Limitless schedules—there things that are unavoidable in life, but the problem comes when these things take more of your life than they should. Place limits on meetings, visits, phone calls, and limits on your time. Give each task only the time it deserves.

• Obsessive tasks—there are probably things you do that can live with a little less attention. For example, are you an obsessive cleaner or email checker? Cut back and prioritize.

This is by no means a complete list, but the hope is that it will get you thinking about what can go so you have more time for your real priority. What can you add to this list?

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

In a lot of ways building wealth requires you to first knock down the walls that have become an integral part of you. That is, to knock down the walls that have become barriers to you so that there is room for you to build a stronger foundation and overall structure.

Every one of us has something that impedes our financial success. Every one of us has things in our life—both psychological and more real, tangible barriers—that get in our way. These are things that we all have to overcome and move past, replacing the old with the new and the better.

First Step – Self Evaluation

The first step to doing this is to figure out what those barriers are. These could be very elusive things that we do not even know about ourselves—thoughts and attitudes that are ingrained in our psyche; subconscious attitudes (such as what we talked about when we discussed the financial subconscious). As Jamie McIntyre tells us these are very much individual thoughts, attitudes, and barriers, but there are several that are common amongst all people and so we can learn something about ourselves by learning from others like Jamie and other people pursuing financial prosperity.

There is very minimal success without first understanding that these hang-ups do exist and what they are. These barriers have a way of coming back to haunt you so recognizing them and working to overcome them is essential to your financial future.

Persistence Is Progress

The way to overcome these barriers is related to what the barriers are. For a great many of them rewiring your subconscious and your mindset and attitude is necessary. Moving through a wealth development program removes a lot of these barriers because so many are intertwined and inter-related. But regardless of what is holding you back know that you can surpass it and break those barriers down. You can overcome anything—physical, psychological, human, or theoretical—and you can be wealthy. With the recognition that there is work to be done and the persistence to see it through, every last barrier to wealth can and will be broken.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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