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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

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

One of the leading barriers to wealth is the inability to get started. A lack of funding or seed money is one of the biggest problems people face. If you have read any of Jamie McIntyre’s materials, his free eBook for example, you probably know what I’m talking about. This goes back to one of the primary reasons people in wealthy nations are not wealthy themselves—people put everyone else first above their own financial wealth. The majority of people are not saving and do not make themselves a financial priority because there are too many other pressing obligations.

Part and parcel to this is the role that banks and established lending protocols play. As consumers we learn (from a very early age) that these are the entities that control the money. And without their help we are financially helpless. We become fearful of doing anything outside the financial norm because we need these institutions to survive.

That’s Precisely What They Want You To Think

They need you to think this way. Because if you do not then you will not need them. If you know how to create wealth of your own, if you take control of your financial future and make yourself a priority, you significantly limit the power and profit of these institutions. Because banks and lenders make money off the middle-class, not off the wealthy.

What winds up happening is that the middle-class live in fear of the established financial systems. They do not take effective steps to prioritize their financial lives because that might mean ignoring the financial powers that be. The trade-off, however, is that you will continue to be a slave to them and continue to be very low on your own list of priorities.

To clarify, lending institutions and banks and systems are not all bad. There is good they can do and good ways that you can utilize them to your own advantage. You do need to learn the difference, though, or you will forever live in fear and not live prosperously with yourself and your family and loved-ones as the pinnacle of your financial life.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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