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“You are the company you keep.”It’s sort of like “you are what you eat.” Today we’re talking about the people that surround you and their impact on your financial life.

Who Are The Company You Keep?

Take a look at your life and think about the company you keep. Think about all the company you keep, including

• Online friends

• Blog communities (like this one)

• Offline relationships

• Personal relationships

• Business associations

• Work relationships

Think about all the people you talk, read, or listen to, and the overall types of company you keep. You may not even have directly communicated with any of these people (such as when you read a blog or forum…), but if you follow what they say, you are keeping company with them. And the kinds of company you keep will have a very strong impact on your financial success; more than you might realise.

Keep The Company You Want To Be

Those of us following men and women like Jamie McIntyre, or programs like the 21st Century Academy, have been introduced to the power of attraction. In this case that power is the power of like attracting like. Applied to your personal associations and building wealth, that translates thusly: keep company with positive and successful people and that is what you will become. You will attract positivity and success to you and into your life. But keep company with negative and unsuccessful people and that is what you will draw to you.

This does not mean that negative people are bad people, just that they are bad for you in terms of success and wealth creation. You need to limit those influences in your life and focus on building an influence of wealth.

We can not entirely avoid negative people, but we can decide what affect we will let those people have on our lives by deciding the role we let them play in ours. Focus on building relationships with people who are strong, motivated, supportive, and focused on the good, and that is the type of person you will become. Choose your company carefully, as when you look back at yourself, you will see that you certainly do become the company you keep.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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Being a parent, I am constantly thinking about how to help my children gain a firmer understanding of the financial world, so that I can help them succeed even before they get started. If you are a parent, no doubt you want this for your kids as well. And if you are not, I’d venture that there’s a very strong chance you have children in your life, or will have in the future. So whether you have kids or not, this is a post for you.

Open Up About Money

Finance and wealth creation is not something that should be hidden from children. Admittedly, finance is not something parents used to talk about with kids. More likely, it is something parents work to hide from their kids. For some reason, money and finance seem to be right up there with big ‘S’ word in conversations we’d love to avoid with our kids. And that is why most of us grow up with limited financial intelligence. But if you start your kids young, you can change the financial future for them, and you can prevent the kind of financial pain, associations, and struggle that we’ve been discussing.

It really makes so very little sense for us to be closed-lipped about money, wealth, and finances with our kids. In fact, that reluctance to address the issue is one of the things that leads to the impression that money is somehow bad, evil, or painful. And we all know where that leads now, don’t we!

An Ounce Of Prevention Is Worth A Pound Of Cure

You’ll find that by being open and honest and including your children in your financial education with the 21st Century Academy, and even just with everyday finance, that you will open the minds of your children and in fact take down barriers to financial success before they are ever built up. Children are, as any parent knows, extraordinarily resilient. They are capable of grasping so much more than we ever thought possible. We do them a great disservice by assuming that they cannot benefit from a financial education from an early age.

Jamie McIntyre and the 21st Century Academy understand this. The programs offered even include provisions for kids and teens. Take advantage of that, but also make financial education a part of your child’s everyday life. Talk to them, be open and honest, include them, and ask their opinions. Empower your children towards financial success from the beginning, and save them the lifetime of struggle and frustration that you’ve endured. Be a child’s financial hero!

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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If you read the last post you probably realize by now that the 21st Century Academy is not the only place where you can learn about wealth creation and how to change your financial future. But there are definite, undeniable advantages to using a program like Jamie McIntyre’s, as anyone who has ever tried to go it alone will readily tell you.

The Benefits Of Organized Financial Education

The information is out there, albeit widespread. So why is it better that you spend the money on a program like this instead of trying to discover the path to sustainable wealth on your own? There are many reasons, actually.

• Organized financial education. The strongest reason is this—organization. What would take you years to study and organize in your spare time is already brought together and laid out for you in understandable, navigable courses.

• Learn from many. This will depend on the course that you choose, but at least in the 21st Century Academy you will get not one expert, but many. The course is actually a collaborative effort, as well as a course that brings the best the field has to offer together in one place

• Support. It is essential to your success that you choose a financial education program that includes an element of support—such as through forums, workshops and seminars, a network of members and participants, access to leaders and educators. You’ll find this invaluable as you go along for those times when you are confused or simply overwhelmed or unmotivated.

• Choices. Financial education programs give you choices. Choices in how to pursue wealth, choices of strategy, choices of investment vehicles. This is important, because as we know, beyond the fundamentals like mindset, wealth creation and investment are not ‘one-size fits all’. Beware, though, as some programs are more limited, offering only one or two investment strategies, not the variety necessary to support various methods.

• Live better faster. Save time learning, save time reaching your financial goals. There is a lot of information out there, but it would take you years probably to go through it all on your own. Do yourself a favor and take a shortcut to success by taking advantage of a quality, reliable wealth empowerment program.

Your Take On The Matter

Tell me now; what’s your take on this? Can you add to the list above? Or can you offer a word or two of advice for those just starting out? What do you see as the advantages of coming together with a group or program as opposed to striking out on your own?

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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This is a subject we took up on another of my blogs for wealth creation. It is the subject of taking wealth creation one day at a time.

One Day At A Time

The inspiration for the post comes from a debt reduction strategy that was recently brought to my attention. The strategy is to start people small in debt reduction by starting with the day at hand. And for that day, just for today, the debtors make a commitment not to debt. The next day he does the same. And the day after that, and the day after that, and so on into the future. Each day, he promises himself to better himself, just for that day.

He doesn’t worry about the day that follows, or the months, or the years, he concerns himself with today. To making progress today. Tomorrow he will deal with tomorrow.

Wealth Creation One Day At A Time

Building wealth can work in much the same way. In fact, if you are deep in debt and you adopt this strategy, you are already doing something to work towards building wealth. You are already making progress!

It is understandable that in the beginning the process of gaining a financial education can be overwhelming. It is not uncommon for people to start and stop many times before really committing to a program like the 21st Century Academy. Even then, it’s not uncommon for a person to realize the possibilities Jamie McIntyre is presenting, and still stagnate. Wealth creation is a very big thing.

But it is a manageable thing, too. Just like you can get yourself out of debt by making one effort today, you can build wealth by taking one action today. Do something today to build your financial future. It can be anything—read a book, read this blog, research wealth creation, sign up for Jamie’s homestudy course, set a goal, save some money, work to rewire your financial subconscious—anything at all.

All great things start with one small, single step. Take a step forward today, follow it up tomorrow, and in time you’ll be able to look back and see how far you’ve come!

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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Think that’s not possible? You’re not alone. And I’m not at all surprised that you would think money cannot make you a better person. In truth, money can’t make you a better person. That’s why there are rich and powerful people in the world who do horrible and unethical things. But Jamie McIntyre’s style of wealth creation can make you a better person. Doubtful? Read on….

Remember The Small Changes And The Sum Of The Whole

Money in and of itself is neither good nor bad. It’s the people that have money that are good or bad, so to speak. As Jamie McIntyre will show you early on in the 21st Century Academy programs, money is just money—a tool for life, but not inherently evil; not even inherently good. It’s just a vehicle that you can use to get you where you want to be—living the life you want to live, without the stress and strain of financial depravity, and without working your life away to get what you need. Creating wealth and having money will change you for the better, so long as the changes you make in your life on your path to wealth creation are good changes.

The kinds of changes the 21st Century Academy teaches you to make are all good. As we talked about before, you’ll make many small changes as you learn to create wealth and get rich that will result in one or a few big changes—primarily, financial prosperity.

Better Attitudes, Better Living

Many people are surprised to find that the 21st Century Academy doesn’t start right off teaching things like investment strategy. It starts with teaching you to correct the negative attitudes that you have towards money; because it is that negativity that keeps you anything less than rich. However, when you start to improve your attitudes, and start to make the changes that allow you to create wealth, you can’t help but become a better person. What you learn from Jamie McIntyre will affect your life in every way until, in the end, you’ll be a better person for having learned to make money and be rich. Could it get any better than that?

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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