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Understanding that you have choices is truly empowering. Just the knowledge that you are the one who really decides where your money goes, that you are the one who chooses every month to pay your bills, is empowering. And if you can make changes to the choices that you make, then you can start immediately to illicit a change in your financial future, and in your accumulation of wealth.

What Can You Change?

To harness the power of choice you first have to take a look at the way you currently spend and allocate your money, and then begin to change that practice in your favor.

On your list you surely have many bills to pay; many perceived necessities, and hopefully a column for you as well. Often the way that money is managed the bills and necessities get paid first, and you are paid as an afterthought, funds permitting. The problem with this is that by organizing your finances this way you hardly ever—if ever—get around to the “you” column. You are last on the priority list, and last to be paid. And when something has to give, it is you that goes without. And without paying you, you will never build wealth. As Jamie McIntyre says, saving is elemental to building wealth.

So what on this list can you change? You have a few choices. You can

• Change the order to make you a priority

• Change who you decide to pay (wipe some things off the list entirely)

• Change how much you pay (decide on an amount that you are willing to budget to each)

You do have bills and financial obligations, but you do have the ability to choose how that is done, and the ability to do it in a way that makes space for wealth and prosperity in your life—in a way that makes you a top financial priority. To learn this more specifically, I encourage you to check out the free eBook that Jamie offers over at the 21st Century Academy; he gives some very specific ways to deal with bills and debts and allocate money to you. If you find yourself struggling to find the money to be the foundation of your wealth, this is something you’ll want to read.

Just remember the choices are all yours. And those choices are power—the power to create wealth and live prosperously. Get yourself on a power trip to financial success!

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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Tell me if this sounds familiar to you:

• You’ve struggled through life to get ahead financially

• You resolve time and time again to find a pathway to financial success

• You have the best of intentions, and even take solid actions that should point you in the direction of success

• You enjoy intermittent success with finance and money

• Inevitably something steps in and puts you right back where you started (or possibly even further behind)

• You begin again, and experience the same scenario again

• And again

• And again

…And you just can’t figure out why.

You Are Not Alone

If this seems like the story of your life, don’t dismay—you are not alone! This has been the story for so many working with the 21st Century Academy. This was Jamie McIntyre’s story, and mine, too. I dare say that unless you are one of the few who were raised and educated differently from the rest of the modern world; this is the story of your financial life. But do you know why?

As I’ve Been Saying

This is an illustration of exactly what we’ve been talking about as we dissect the financial subconscious and the effect it has on life. This is exactly what happens when your negative financial subconscious works against you, undermining the best conscious efforts. This is what happens when you link money to pain in your subconscious and your subconscious works to protect you from that pain.

This is the treadmill-effect that financial pain and negativity have on your life. This is why you can enjoy some financial success and think you’ve finally figured it out this time, but then fall right back and have to start again all over.

You Can Win The Battle And Get Off the Treadmill

This is a battle you can win. You can win it once you understand what is happening, and understand the need to start with the fundamentals of psychology. This is what programs like the 21st Century Academy do. With Jamie McIntyre, you can get off that treadmill and stop starting over and over again. And finally, with the right direction, you can move beyond it and never have to start over financially again!

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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Today we’ll be using the list from the last post to complete the exercise designed by Jamie McIntyre, offered through the 21st Century Academy, to rewire the way your subconscious mind views money. We’re going to take a look at the most limiting beliefs you hold towards money and use them to answer some questions and create a plan of action.

Answer Me This

Answer yourself this—what I think doesn’t matter. This is all about how your mind twists money into negativity and prevents you from being a financial success.

The next step is to take that list and just answer a few questions, again provided by Jamie McIntyre. They are:

1. What are my most limiting beliefs about having absolute financial abundance?

2. What specific amount of money represents financial abundance to me?

3. What will I do today toward developing a financial plan?

4. What did I learn today that I can use to make progress?

5. What financial terms and aspects of personal finance do I not currently understand?

6. Why am I committed to follow through?

7. Give one or two situations from the past when you pulled through despite difficulty.

Start Moving Forward

I like this exercise because is gives you valuable insight into your subconscious mind, making you aware of how you are hindering your own wealth creation without even knowing it. I also like it because it gives you small steps you can take today even without the complete benefit of the 21st Century Academy to start moving forward. Additionally, those actions are small enough to be implemented without interfering with anything else in your life.

I hope this exercise provides the insight and enough action that you need to start enjoying success with money today. I wish you all the best and hope to see you back here soon so that I can help you learn to go further and do even more!

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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Wouldn’t it be nice to know the “secrets” of the wealthy? To know just where the rich turn to build wealth upon wealth? Stick with Jamie McIntyre and the 21st Century Academy and you’ll find out.

The Rich Do Things Differently, But The Same

Jamie McIntyre’s goal is to show you how to become rich. That is what he developed the 21st Century Academy for, and that is what he does. In order to learn how to make yourself rich, how to create wealth, you have to know what it is that the wealthy do that you do not.

One of the things the wealthy do is create passive streams of income—they put their money into investments that will ultimately work for them so that they do not have to work for money. Teaching you how to do this is the primary focus of Jamie McIntyre’s 21st Century Academy.

There are primarily three places where the wealthy invest in order to do this; Jamie McIntyre calls these the “Three Pillars of the Rich”. The three pillars are:

• Business

• Property (real estate)

• Shares (stocks)

That list may not come as much of a surprise to you. Most of us could guess that these are the three major areas where money is made in the 21st Century. The difference is in how the wealthy use these pillars to create wealth and how they manage their portfolios. The difference also is that the wealthy do not let fear and hesitation stop them from entering scary markets like these (a talk for another day…).

Jamie McIntyre and the 21st Century Academy are prepared to show you those differences. They can teach you how to invest in these pillars to create passive streams of wealth-building money, and they can show you how to make those streams sustainable for life. Better yet, they’ll show you how to use simple, manageable programs that you can understand, regardless of your background or education.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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Another thing that Jamie McIntyre teaches early on in his 21st Century Academy course is the need to move on in life. This is presented as part of the discussion on moving beyond blame and excuses, and it is essential to ending the cycle of blame and excuses and taking action.

The tendency to make excuses for our financial lives is most often based in some element of reality. People owe us money, people cost us money in some way, we lost money to businesses that did not deliver—there are many, many reasons why someone else might be able to be blamed for our current situation.

Time To Let Go?

It is an undeniable fact of life that people take advantage of other people; and while others may surely have cost you money in your life, you need to let go if you have any hope of moving on. Like Jamie McIntyre, the temptation is to hang on to this sort of self-pity and think that all would be right financially if you could just get back all the money that is owed to you.

It is of course highly questionable that that would be true even if that could be done. If you still had that money, would you have done anything differently? Or would you have just found another use for it, so still it would be gone today? (For most of us, until we’ve had the kind of education 21st Century Academy delivers, the latter is true).

The Millionaire Mentors Wisdom

But whether you would really be better off is really of no consequence. Whatever it is that has plagued your financial life, it is done. The fact is that you will probably never see that money back and that it is not worth fighting for. Jamie McIntyre’s millionaire mentor calls this ‘old money’; chasing old money is simply a drain on you, your energy, and your resources. What’s more, when you focus on getting back something that is gone, you force yourself to live in the past, and so you cannot begin to live for your financial future.

Letting go and moving on allows you to realize your financial future. It gives you the intellectual space and energy to focus on productive things (like obtaining a 21st Century Academy education, developing the millionaire mindset, and learning to create wealth). It opens space in your life for new money to come in and grow. Indeed, moving on and letting go of old financial losses is far more conducive to wealth creation than dwelling on the past could ever be.

Time to move on…

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

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