21st Century Academy

How are you feeling about the wealth education that you have decided to pursue? Excited? Enthused? Energized? Pumped? Psyched? Overwhelmed? Disheartened?

I hope the latter is not the case, but I’d understand if it were. It’s not uncommon to feel like this is a great opportunity, but at the same time it is one whose promise is just too far off in the future. Whose time to come is just too late. Whose answers can’t help you now.

Let’s put those feelings in their place.

One Step Closer

If you are at the beginning of your wealth creation program it may feel like achieving that wealth is very far off in the future. You have a lot of ground to cover and a long way to go. Maybe it’s not even worth reaching for. Nothing could be farther—from the truth, that is.

When things are far off, when they seem far off, the only way to get closer to them is to take one step closer. One step at a time, make forward motion towards what you want. One step isn’t too hard to do. You can manage that now. Right now. You can enjoy that result right now. And you can get that much closer to your goal, all the while being successful to that relative degree.

The Difference Between Average And Wealthy

Keep in mind as you keep this in mind that the difference between success and failure—between being average and being wealthy—is one step—that step beyond what the average person does. It’s that single step that puts you closer to financial success than those around you who are standing still.

A million dollars might be very far away from you right at this moment, but it will never get any closer if you do not move towards it. Funny enough, it will remain just where it is right now—too far off, too elusive. Unless you take that step. Take a step closer to your future. Reduce the distance between you and wealth, and arrive at your destination.

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

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Remember back to your science and physics classes when you learned the basic principles? Do you recall one called inertia? Humor me as I refresh your memory; inertia is

• The resistance to change
• The property that states that a body or object will remain at its state of rest or continued forward [straight] movement unless acted upon by an outside force

It’s that principle that tells us, “a body in motion will stay in motion” or “a body at rest will stay at rest.” It’s that same principle that can be captured and applied to your wealth education.

An Education At Rest Stays At Rest; A Sleeping Financial Giant Stays Asleep…

…unless acted upon by an outside force.

For you this means that you will remain in your current state of financial limbo unless something changes to propel you toward a different path; to propel you into motion. Unless you do something differently—get a financial education, empower yourself financially—you will continue on at your current state.

The good news is that the principle applies after the application of that outside force, too. So once you take that action, apply that force, that one life-altering event [a decision to act], inertia states that you will continue on in that state of succeeding unless an outside force causes you to stop. The effect of your successful act snowballs into more success and more wealth. And you know how snowballs are—the bigger they get, the harder they are to stop. By compelling yourself through inertia (combined with a little attraction) you create a force that wants nothing more than to continue to move forward, and a force that is so large it will take a whole lot more than a down day or a moment of negativity to stop.

Be your own catalyst. Create your own force of inertia.

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

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We’ve talked at length about how the 21st Century Academy education is different—how it is a new financial education for a new century, to replace what you just haven’t been taught yet. You might think that that is the focus of my post today, but that’s not really so.

What I want to talk about today isn’t how Jamie McIntyre’s wealth education program is different from what you learned in school, but how it is different than what the average person learns. Not all that unrelated, but you’ll see what I mean by this.

Doing More Than Average

This is not to discount what you would learn through this financial empowerment program in any way. There’s no doubt that school and university and college have not prepared the average person to build wealth. This post is just to show you why this makes a difference in your life—why this type of financial education will make you wealthy.

The answer is quite simple. A financial empowerment program such as this one is something that the average person never does. The average person, though, is not wealthy either. And do you know what you have to do to do better than the average person? To be the less than average wealthy man or woman? You have to do something that the average person does not.

If an average life, an average introduction to finance and wealth, and average money management were a path to wealth then most everyone would be rich by now. But comparatively speaking few people are financially wealthy. If you want to be one of the few you have to start doing something that few people are doing, and you have to start somewhere to learn how to do that. Start by learning more than the average person knows about building wealth and investing, and then continue on to wealth by doing what the average person is just not willing to do.

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

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Perhaps you are wondering where this wealth empowerment program is going to take you; what Jamie McIntyre will lead you to. It’s hard to say definitively, but one thing is sure—if you don’t go along for the ride, there is no way you will ever get there to find out.

Fear And Hesitation Do Not Live Here

It seems to be human nature to be hesitant to explore new things. At least it seems to be modern human nature; it must not have always been this way, or our world would be much smaller still. For the average person, though, fear, hesitation, and anxiety creep into the mind any time a new experience is proposed.

Even given the possibilities that a premier wealth education can open up to you, we tend to hesitate. We think about all the things that could go wrong, all the time we might waste, all the things that might not “work,” and we put roadblocks in our own path to success. These roadblocks can be hard to overcome until you come to some realizations.

Unblocking The Road To Wealth

You have to realize something if you are to overcome this type of hesitation—you can’t have something you have never had unless you do something you never did—go somewhere you’ve never gone.

The only thing that is sure is that the status quo will remain for as long as you take no action to change it. Until you learn to build wealth, you will not have money and you will not be rich. You will be precisely where you are right now. That’s fine if you’re happy with your current state, but since you are here I would guess that isn’t the case.

Hesitation is normal. It is also a huge reason why so many people fail to find financial freedom. Recognize hesitation and fear as a roadblock in your path. Then destroy it and know that to have more than what you have now, you have to start doing something you are not yet doing.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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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 willvary 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

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