21st Century Academy

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

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In posts past, the topic was thinking the right ’size’ thoughts in order to accomplish what you want in wealth creation. We talked about how some people just don’t see that the reason they are not wealthy is because they are not focusing their thoughts and not tailoring them to the level of financial success they want. They want to accumulate millions of dollars, but they don’t have million-dollar thoughts. They think too small, and so they attract much smaller financial wealth.

Your Idea Of What Wealth Is

Wealth is a funny word, because as much as we all desire it is very hard to define what wealth is. What amount of money would make you wealthy? How do you place value on your assets? Can you be wealthy without a set amount of money in the bank?

Wealth is calculated in many different ways depending on your assets, holdings, cash and savings, and myriad other factors. What is wealth in one corner of the world can be drastically different from what is wealth in another because costs of living and standards of living are drastically different across regions.

No one can define what wealth is to you except you—I cannot do it, Jamie McIntyre cannot do it, and neither can anyone else. Only you can decide how much money will make you feel financially secure and financially free. Only you can say what ‘wealth’ is for you.

Why It Matters What Wealth Means

Does it really matter what wealth means to anyone? It does. It matters to you what wealth means to you. It matters much less what I think it means to be wealthy, and it matters much less what Jamie McIntyre or any other person in the 21st Century Academy thinks it means. But it does matter to you personally.

The reason that it matters is that, as we discussed, you need to be able to focus your thoughts and energy to attract the level of money and financial prosperity that you want. You need to have the same size thoughts as what you seek. To do that, you need to know what you accept as wealthy so that you can tailor everything to your idea of wealth.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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The first thing you will learn from the 21st Century Academy is that thoughts and mindset are the key to creating wealth. Although this sounds easy and simple, Jamie McIntyre doesn’t make this the foundation of his wealth education program because he wants to let you off easy; he does it because it is the true way to succeed and become wealthy. And if you think you can just sit back and become wealthy by dreaming about money, you will be sadly disappointed.

The Easy Way To Build Wealth

Many people will quickly welcome this concept of thinking your way to wealth for no other reason than they think it is easy—and why not give it a try? You’ve got nothing to lose but taxing a few brain-cells, right? It’s true that you’ve got nothing to lose—and everything to gain—by developing the wealth creation mindset. But just having thoughts isn’t enough.

As we talked about in the dreams vs. thoughts post, thoughts are not things unless they are active. Without mental activity thoughts are nothing more than dreams. Dreams are fun, but they do not achieve anything—dreams do not make you wealthy, thoughts do. Active thoughts do.

Make Money And Build Wealth

The active part of the thought process is the conduit for success—it is how you translate thought into reality, how you make money and build wealth. It would be nice to get rich quick without having to expend any real effort, but that is not reality. Building wealth requires action and effort—work—too.

As you develop your thoughts—make mental effort to have thoughts and not only dreams, ensure that your thoughts have a present and goal-oriented aspect to them, and make your thoughts proportional to the wealth you seek—you must also give them life by giving them an active component. Without that action you have no means to your end, no path to wealth. Put action into your thoughts, and every day, with every thought, you will be doing something that is creating wealth.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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Thoughts need to be big in order to bring big things—to attract large volumes of wealth. The thoughts you think must be in proportion to the amount of wealth and financial success you aim to achieve, right? We understand this now, but what else do thoughts need to be?

Wealthy Thoughts Must Be Present

So much time is spent thinking and focusing on the future and future financial success, on building the wealth creation mindset, that often we tend to disregard the here and now. We think about what we are trying to achieve, what we want to have, but we forget that we have to get through today to get to tomorrow.

A big part of developing the 21st Century mindset of financial success is focusing on the future and training our thoughts and actions for future wealth. But all of what we do cannot be something left to the future—otherwise, tomorrow will never come, and we will never arrive at that wealth.

While Jamie McIntyre does want you focusing on your goals and future financial success, he also wants you focusing on the level of success you have achieved today. If you are here, you have had financial success on some level. Something has brought you here, to a place where the focus is on your financial empowerment and wealth education, so you must have succeeded in thought somewhere.

Mindset And Thought Process

In order to make the wealthy mindset and thought process work, you have to think in both the present and the future. You need to be positive and proactive about the future and your future wealth, but you also have to think about the present—about the thoughts you will have today to attract more success and wealth, about the things you will do today to achieve that, the actions you will take, and about the positive things in your life that are worthy of attracting more positivity and more success. This process is ongoing, too. You are always living in the present, so you always need to have thoughts in the present that will work toward bringing you closer to the future.

Future thoughts and goals are great things, but they are powerless without the means to get there. Develop presence in your thoughts so that wealth and success is something that you are accomplishing today and tomorrow, and always.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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Sometimes 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

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