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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

Much of wealth creation—the very foundation of achievable wealth-building—relies on principles of attraction; on like attracting like. We know that we attract more of the same with our wealthy thoughts, accumulation of money, accumulation of success, and also with the people and company we surround ourselves with. We know that when the people we associate with wallow in skepticism and negativity that we will do the same; but when the people we associate with share the same air of success and possibility and prosperity that we share we will attract all of those things in our own lives.

Unfortunately, given the present company that surrounds you, you may find it difficult to keep the kind of company that will propel you towards wealth. Very fortunately, however, you have the gift of the internet and access to an entire online community dedicated to wealth, financial empowerment, and personal success.

Accessing A Success-Oriented Online Community

There are many places where you can connect with like-minded individuals who will help you build that air of attraction necessary for building wealth. A few examples that come to mind include

• Wealth creation blogs. Many wealth builders maintain blogs online in an effort to further wealth creation among the interested community.

• Forums. There are also dedicated forums, both highly focused (such as the 21st Century Academy forum) and more general, dealing with general issues related to financial empowerment.

• Websites. This includes Jamie McIntyre’s 21st Century Academy website and also others of varying sorts maintained both by financial experts and individuals pursuing wealth creation.

• Social media sites. Social media websites are where all of this comes together—where like-minded people go to connect and find more of the same.

No doubt you could add to this list. More than anything, though, know that the company you need to be keeping is out there and can be easily accessed any time of the day from anywhere with an internet connection. When you feel the community around you bringing you down, log in and find the people with the potential to bring you back up. Make it a regular habit of hanging with a company of wealth developers and putting the laws of attraction to work in your favor.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

The 21st Century Academy and Jamie McIntyre’s work is just one part of a larger plan for creating wealth. It fits seamlessly into this plan and provides an important part of it that is needed for success—the part of educating for financial success. To really harness the power of what you learn though, you need a larger plan, and you need to know how and where everything fits together so that you know how to utilize your new tools.

Developing A Plan To Build Wealth

When you have a plan, you have something to fall back on. You have a framework for success that serves as a roadmap to financial empowerment and success.

The framework itself is very basic. Given here is an example of one that includes the major elements of a successful wealth creation plan. It begins very simply with your decision to commit to wealth creation. Without a commitment to yourself, there will be no sustainability to the plan. Once you have committed to your own financial program, the next step is to take the action that results in building wealth and becoming rich. Those include:

• Financial/Wealth Education; such as that you get from the 21st Century Academy, but also through other forms of reading and researching. This is necessary to learn what is missing and what you need to learn in order to enjoy and thrive while building wealth.

• Setting goals; goals are benchmarks that tell you how you are progressing and give you something to aim for. They are an important test of your financial success, and also an important motivator.

• Thinking wealthy; This we covered a lot as of late. Mindset is, as Jamie McIntyre will tell you, at least 80% responsible for your financial future.

• Taking action; thoughts rely on your taking actions to build wealth.

• Continuous commitment to creating wealth; to be sustainably wealthy you have to commit to following through. Plan to build wealth in a way that is continuous and continually commit to your ongoing prosperity and life success.

This framework gives you the basic means of how to get there. Your job is to personalize it and internalize it. You decide how you will achieve each of these steps. You decide how you want to go about achieving financial empowerment, financial freedom, and wealth. You decide how large you should aim and live. You get to call the shots and take the actions, and enjoy your own flavor of success with money.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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