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Consistent thoughts are naturally followed by consistent behaviours that are conducive to generating wealth. This is an important aspect of money management. Consistency is a critical aspect of success, no matter what the endeavour. Managing finances is not a project that has a beginning, middle and end. It is an ongoing way of being.

Developing the right mindset for building wealth requires practice, as well as tenacity. Managing money is a way of being that stems from a well developed set of mental processes. Each time you have a thought neurological pathways are reinforced. New thoughts lead to new neurological pathways. It is necessary to repeat the thought new thought processes consistently in order to strengthen the pathway.

Neurological Pathways to Wealth

Consistency and money management, as all things, begins in the mind. You can create neurological pathways that reinforce the notion that you are deserving of wealth, and that you are capable of managing money well. Practicing this thought process builds the neurological pathway to wealth.

How does the neurology come into play with money management?

All of our beliefs, feelings and behaviours begin in thought. Each thought has the capacity to help us follow through with the appropriate behavioural responses automatically. Practising visualisations, thoughts and focus on building wealth naturally leads to appropriate behavioural follow through.

Learning Mental Money Management

Though this process may appear to be quite easy, it is important to note that some of the thoughts may not be supported by your underlying belief system. Simple exercises like 30 seconds of positive thinking can offer enough support to build neurological pathways for the things you want to achieve.

You are no different from any millionaire on the planet. Wealth can be a matter of perception. When you take a few moments each day to:

• Visualise your goals
• Feel genuine gratitude
• Believe in your ability to succeed
• Practice good money management

Gradually, the process of managing money becomes second nature, allowing you to achieve the goals that you visualise every day. Your thought processes naturally lead to behavioural follow through that is consistent with the ideas in your head. Focus on what you can accomplish rather that what you can’t. This is the fundamental element of consistently improving your finances.

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The secret to building wealth lies in part in the ability to focus on specific goals. Many individuals find that they are easily distracted, developing far too many projects at once. This leads to scattered energies moving in various directions.

Scattered energy is among the most detrimental components to building wealth. When your ideas, aspirations, and goals each move in different directions, they become diluted. Practice focus naturally guides success in your direction, and this focus needs to be purposeful and consistent. It should ideally work with your natural genius.

Finding Your Genius

Everyone has genius on some level. There is no coincidence that the word rings of genetic. The secret to success includes being able to determine your genuine genius. This involves objective self-evaluation that can be difficult, but it is well worth the effort.

The genius does not have to relate to a remarkable talent or intellectual aptitude. Many find their niche in motivating other people while others find genius in calculating figures. Others may work well with their hands. The possibilities are endless.

Recognising your personal genius begins with evaluating your strengths. You may know areas in which you excel, but it may benefit you to do a little brainstorming. You may recognize your genius as something that comes remarkably easily to you, so much so that it seems as if anyone can do it.

Creating a Plan

Building wealth relies a great deal on creating a viable plan of action. Using your niche as a guide, you can begin taking steps toward success. This process is not a struggle, as it flows naturally from your innate ability to work within your genius.

Working yourself ragged is not a viable option. There is good reason that this approach does not accumulate wealth. You become engaged in a tiresome rut and that’s just filled with feelings of anxiety and frustration. This leads to cycle of fatigue and a sense of hopelessness.

Begin with a plan of action that works with your strengths. Diligence at work does not have to be a struggle, and genuine feelings of gratitude naturally arise out of doing what you love. This leads to a positive cycle of energy, motivation and focus.

The primary question is how to take the first step. What I Didn’t Learn in School but Wish I Had by Jamie McIntyre offers insight into a millionaire’s mindset, providing viable approaches to building wealth easily.

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Jamie McIntyre came to learn a very important lesson that we all need to embrace before we can move on to wealth and prosperity. Continuing on from the last discussion, Jamie goes on to say,

“At the time, I did not realize it, buy by letting go, moving on, and forgetting about it I was creating the space for a lot more new money to come into my life. In the same situation, many other people would have been tempted to hang on and be upset, angry, and peeved off about what happened to them. I am not the only person that has been taken advantage of financially in one way or another, probably half the population has. For those who have not, what do you think is likely to happen in the next 10, 20, or 30 years? The question is how will you deal with it?”

–Jamie McIntyre, What I Didn’t Learn At School But Wish I Had

The Potential Is There For Everyone

The potential to find a reason in the past for our current lacking or limited success is there for all of us. As Jamie says, at some point in your life there is a great chance that something unfortunate will happen. The risk of these unfortunate events is not in the event itself, but in how you deal with it.

If you continue to dwell on the past or focus your energy on unfortunate occurrences, you do two things:

1) You use up all your time and energy wishing for something you can never get back, and
2) You fill up your life with that failure, leaving no room for anything better.

It is easy to feel sorry for ourselves and dwell in the past, and let someone else be to blame for the way we are today. It is far too easy. But it is painful, too. As I like to say,

“Life is not short. It’s the longest thing you’ll ever do!”

You deserve to do it well, and to enjoy the time spent doing it!

To Your Continued Success!
Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2009

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I’m going to start with a quote that is making its way around my blogs; it comes from Napoleon Hill’s classic financial empowerment text, and it is a very good example of how simple wealth creation really is fundamentally:

“One sound idea is all it takes for a person to achieve success.”

One Sound Idea

Think about that. One. Sound. Idea. One single idea is all it takes to catapult your actions and efforts toward building wealth. All it ever took anyone to become rich was one sound idea. All it took Jamie McIntyre to be the millionaire and wealth mentor he is today is one sound idea.

This is very much related to our talks about how it only takes one step beyond the norm to be rich and successful. Taking a step indicates action. Before that you have to have the idea. One is no good without the other, but together they are a powerful team.

An Ocean Of Success Awaiting

When you put it like that, when you come down to the very basic fact that it only takes a single, solitary, sound idea to build wealth, it doesn’t sound that hard, does it? Anyone is capable of having an idea. More often than not people are absolutely bursting with great ideas; they just don’t act upon them.

Think about how many ideas cross your mind in the course of a day. Just one day. Expand that to a week, and a month. Now do you see the ocean of potential that’s waiting inside your head? Take just one of those ideas and couple it with the power of positive mindset and action that you learn from the 21st Century Academy—the guidance to guide your great ideas. What a winning formula for success!

Consider this one a post for anyone who ever doubted that they could succeed and be wealthy. Consider it a post for the overwhelmed, the financially struggling, the financially undereducated (which is everyone relying on an old-school education). Consider it proof that anyone can succeed and be rich. And now enjoy some time basking in a sea of great ideas, knowing that all you have to do to be rich is pick just one!

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

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In a separate comment on another blog of mine [seanrasmussen.com], a comment came in during our conversations related to the Economics of State of Mind to the effect that in booming times people are quick to take credit and say that they made it all on their own; but in times of bust, such as what many economies of the world are experiencing now, it’s always someone else’s fault. So which is it? Are you responsible for your own financial outcome or is your current financial state the fault or credit of another? Because it can’t really be both ways, can it?

What Would Jamie McIntyre Say?

While it is much easier to say that a lack of money is the fault of another, that is not really true. And like it or not, Jamie McIntyre’s wealth education course is based in reality; in real, workable, achievable ways to get rich. So that means that he would have you not only take credit for your financial successes, but also your failures. It’s unfortunate and it’s true, but ultimately, even though there are outside forces that come into play, it is your process of decision, mindset, and action that determines your personal financial outcome.

You Control Your Financial Future

But what about forces outside of your control? How can you be left to blame for those?

We all know that these forces exist, and that you will come up against both great successes and temporary defeat. And it is what you do with that that determines sustainable wealth. If you know these factors exist, you know that you can take steps to counter the negative and leverage the positive. You can diversify, prepare, save, and even put yourself in a position to benefit financially from tough times. There are things that you can do, as you will surely learn.

Without responsibility and action, you will not thrive and become wealthy. Knowing how to be wealthy means knowing how to manage money and investment in good times and in bad. That, and wiping blame off the table as the useless emotion and negativity-generator that it is.

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

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