Archive for the ‘Wealth’ Category

Get More Out Of Your Day: Empowering Trade-Offs

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

EmpowerYou’ll probably find that this one is very similar to getting more out of your day by taking something out, but it is really more than that. This one is about more than just finding time, it’s about getting more out of your life by empowering that which you do everyday.

Habitual Negativity And Neutral Living

Every person on the planet has habits. We may not know where they’ve come from or why we do them, but we all have them. Many of those habits are not so good. They are things we spend energy doing that either do nothing for us in return, or worse, are actually working against us.

These habits can be anything. They can be health-related, work related, or personal habits. They sneak into our lives and sap our energy and positivity. These habits might be

• Smoking

• Drinking excessively

• Oversleeping

• Overeating (munchies?)

• Fidgeting, doodling, tapping…

There’s no end to this list. There are endless things that people do habitually that impact the outcome of their lives and reflect on their ability to create wealth.

The negative impact of many of these is obvious. Smoking and overeating have serious health consequences. Some of them have less obvious impact, but when you think about it these types of habits are either harming at a lesser level, or leastwise doing nothing positive for you at all.

Replace The Negatives With Positives

But what would happen if you replaced these negative and neutral habits with positive habits? You would create more positivity in your life, and attract more positivity and success. You would be a stronger, healthier person living a stronger, healthier, and more fulfilling life.

mindsetInterestingly enough, the habits that you replace and empower do not have to be directly related to money. Again, it’s the law of attraction; it’s setting the stage and building the mindset that makes implementing your wealth education possible. When you are healthier and living better you feel better and succeed more. You attract more of the same and give yourself the power to succeed financially (as in all things).

Anything you do to empower yourself more will find its impact on your wealth-building efforts. Empower yourself, feel and live better and you’ll find that getting more out of your day is much easier than you thought it could be. It’s a simple action with a far-reaching result.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

Knocking Down Barriers To Wealth

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

In a lot of ways building wealth requires you to first knock down the walls that have become an integral part of you. That is, to knock down the walls that have become barriers to you so that there is room for you to build a stronger foundation and overall structure.

Every one of us has something that impedes our financial success. Every one of us has things in our life—both psychological and more real, tangible barriers—that get in our way. These are things that we all have to overcome and move past, replacing the old with the new and the better.

First Step – Self Evaluation

The first step to doing this is to figure out what those barriers are. These could be very elusive things that we do not even know about ourselves—thoughts and attitudes that are ingrained in our psyche; subconscious attitudes (such as what we talked about when we discussed the financial subconscious). As Jamie McIntyre tells us these are very much individual thoughts, attitudes, and barriers, but there are several that are common amongst all people and so we can learn something about ourselves by learning from others like Jamie and other people pursuing financial prosperity.

There is very minimal success without first understanding that these hang-ups do exist and what they are. These barriers have a way of coming back to haunt you so recognizing them and working to overcome them is essential to your financial future.

Persistence Is Progress

The way to overcome these barriers is related to what the barriers are. For a great many of them rewiring your subconscious and your mindset and attitude is necessary. Moving through a wealth development program removes a lot of these barriers because so many are intertwined and inter-related. But regardless of what is holding you back know that you can surpass it and break those barriers down. You can overcome anything—physical, psychological, human, or theoretical—and you can be wealthy. With the recognition that there is work to be done and the persistence to see it through, every last barrier to wealth can and will be broken.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

A Continuing Wealth Education

Friday, August 15th, 2008

One great turn will get you to certain goals; it may even get you to the goal that you have defined as your arrival at being wealthy. But to stay there, it takes more than one good turn. It takes many, and an ongoing, continuing effort to stay on top.

Continuing On In Wealth And Prosperity

So what is the path to follow? How does developing wealth continue?

The continuous path to financial freedom is variable, as all of success and achievement is. It will vary depending on your strategy for building wealth, your interests, your needs, your successes, and even your failures. Moving forward, there are some general things you should consider that will help you stay the course to financial freedom. For instance

• Continuing on in wealth education for increased success and more ways to become wealthy

• Developing new strategies for investment and wealth creation

• Reevaluating strategies and goals

• Scrapping the under-performers for the real money makers

• Diversifying for greater return and security

Staying The Course

This endless work sounds tiring, doesn’t it? And if you’ve met your goals, and achieved that level of wealth success that you were shooting for, why should you have to keep going? Why is important to continue to work to develop financial freedom when you have already achieved that goal?

It’s all about sustainability. A windfall sum of money will make you feel wealthy for a time, but to truly be wealthy—to be financially independent and in control—you must develop lasting wealth. Lasting wealth depends on your continuing to build upon your success for greater success. Lasting wealth is the key to true financial freedom.

The continuing road does not have to be an extraneous effort. Being that you have already come this far, and that you have already learned so much to get here and changed in so many positive ways, you’ll find that continuing on is much, much easier than getting started and making your first money. All you need to do now is to sustain that wealth through continued commitment to your new mindset and lifestyle. But with the world of possibilities and a healthy taste of financial success, no doubt you’ll be energized and raring to go anyway.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

Size Matters In Wealth Creation Thinking

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

moneySometimes it takes a lot of convincing to prove to people that the basic concept of the 21st Century Academy and wealth creation—the concept of thought and mindset as the path to building wealth and being wealthy—is a real, proven way to become wealthy. Over and over you’ll hear people say that they think about money, or they think about being wealthy, and yet still nothing has changed in their lives. So does this mean Jamie McIntyre and his colleagues are a crock? Certainly not. There are definitive reasons why thinking your way to wealth works for some and not for others.

How Big Do You Think?

One of the more common reasons is that people just do not think big enough. They think about money, they think about being financially comfortable, but they don’t think about it in terms of true wealth. They don’t think in big enough sums. They think too small.

It’s really very simple. Your financial success is directly proportional to the size of the thoughts you have. Many people think that they can start small and giant wealth will come. Small thoughts and financial goals seem more achievable, so they think, “I’ll go after a few thousand, and then I’ll be on my way to becoming wealthy.” And that might work except that those thousand dollar thoughts never get replaced with bigger thoughts of financial success.

Think Big To Achieve Big

What would be more effective would be to think in terms of hundreds of thousands or millions—whatever your wealth goals are. Then think of smaller sums as stepping stones. But always, your thoughts need to be as large what you really want to achieve.

What you need to remember is that thoughts attract the wealth and positivity that you expend with them. So if you only think in limited amounts of wealth or positivity, you will only achieve limited financial success. If you want to attract the big wealth, big positivity, and big money, you have to think in that way. You have to think big-money to attract big-money.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

The Experts Agree

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Take control and have choices in your financial futureThe experts agree that there are common threads which people share that keep them from being wealthy. If you research what the various financial experts say, you’ll see a lot of similarity between them.

Jamie McIntyre And Friends

Many of you have probably read more than one financial expert. If you have, you’ll see that there is a lot of similarity between them. In fact, you’ll notice that in the 21st Century Academy programs Jamie McIntyre refers to a variety of other experts, from Napoleon Hill to Robert Kiyosaki and Anthony Robbins. And you’ll see that on many points, these men (and some expert women, too—we don’t want to leave out the ladies!) are all in agreement.

The most notable point you’ll make is that all of them agree that mindset is the first determining factor in wealth. The people who are wealthy have a different mindset and play by a different set of rules—the rules that open the opportunity to make money and become wealthy as opposed to the rules set by tradition and financial institutions. So the first order in wealth creation is simple. Change the mindset, change the financial future.

Simple, Not Easy

It may be simple, as in, the concept is simple, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Changing your financial future still takes work and effort. There’s no way around that. But with the guidance of the right financial education and expert leadership, you can get there.

The fact that the experts are all so similar in their advisement should be taken as a vote of confidence—as proof that wealth is attainable, and that the systems do work. There are sure and proven ways to change your life and succeed in creating wealth. If you doubt that, you have only to pick up a few books by these great men and women, and see what they all have to say. You have only to find out what needs to change in your life to make room for money—for wealth!

To Your Continued Financial Success

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