21st Century Academy

I hope the New Year has brought you here out of a resolve to either make this your year to achieve financial success, or to continue your already rising accomplishments. I will venture that to be the case given the nature of our blog and discussions here, and so I will be so bold as to congratulate you on that resolve!

Lights, Camera, Action!

Now that we’ve got the formality of the first behind us, we can move on to one of the most important factors in wealth creation—action!

Action comes in many forms. If you’ve been around a while, you’ll remember our discussions on that in the past. If you’re new to our blog, feel free to muck around in the archives to see more discussions on the topic. For now, we’ll keep it short and sweet, and suffice to say that even your being here is an action with the potential to produce wealth and success.

Recognize Effective Action

Before I digress too far, let me get us back on track by laying out the point of my banter. The point is that many people do not see some of the most important aspects of wealth creation as actions. For example, they do not see that reading and research is a form of action towards wealth. Some can see that participation in a wealth education course or seminar is, but many times people even write the importance of these things off and think of wealth-producing actions as being only those things that directly result in cash in hand—something like a stock market investment, for example. The problem is, the average person is not ready for that direct action. First, they have to act upon the foundation blocks of wealth-building; blocks like wealth education, learning, and mindset changes.

Let this be the year you take action, but let it be the year that you take effective action. Don’t repeat the mistakes of the past, focusing your time and energies in the wrong places. This year, have a plan. Plan for action and take it! We’ll be here to help you with the rest as those times come around.

Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2009

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At least initially, something that all wealth-builders have in common is the desire to be rich now! We don’t want to wait for wealth to come; we don’t want to have to work towards wealth. We’d much rather get rich quick. Certainly there are plenty of scams out there willing to help you do that—or so they’d claim. It doesn’t take long before you are forced to admit to yourself that that just is not going to happen.

Building Wealth Takes Time

As you will soon find out if you go this route, the get rich quick schemes are just that –schemes. The real wealth empowerment programs take time; time to learn, time to practice, and time to realize results. It’s a fact of wealth creation that few people want to recognize, but one that Jamie McIntyre readily admits to. Now, why would he do that? It’s certainly not because he wants to lose your attention. It’s only because he knows that if you are to follow through on his program and actually achieve success with it you need to be committed to doing so. And that means you have to be prepared to be in it for more than just a few days or weeks. It means you have to be in it for a lifetime.

Decades Of Knowledge Compressed

Having said that, there is a flip side to this coin. It does require a time commitment on your part, and it will take some time to build wealth that is lasting and sustaining. But it does not have to take you as long as it takes most people. It does not even need to take you as long as it took Jamie McIntyre himself—not nearly so long. Jamie spent more than a decade compiling the information that made him rich. Yes, he built wealth along the way, too, but he can speed that process for you. This is the information, that he has used to develop the 21st Century Academy courses, and that he presents in his seminars. It’s like having someone compile and compress more than a decade of work into one solid program that will cut your learning curve down by probably something to the tune of 90% or more (actually that’s exactly what it is).

This is the main reason why you are much better off going with a wealth education program than trying to go it alone—which is essentially what Jamie did. Taking advantage of the compressed and proven knowledge and techniques available through this type of money-making course is the best thing we have to a real-life “get rich quick” system. It will take you time, but it will not need to take you decades. Realistically, this time next year you could be in a position to call yourself wealthy. That’s a year that will feel like far less time than if you were to spend it in another year of financial struggle.

I hope you will consider this as you step into the New Year. I hope you look realistically at how you can truly improve your life—what will work and what is destined to fail. I hope the best choices are all yours this year, and that this year brings you even bigger and better success than any other!

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

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I’m going to start with a quote that is making its way around my blogs; it comes from Napoleon Hill’s classic financial empowerment text, and it is a very good example of how simple wealth creation really is fundamentally:

“One sound idea is all it takes for a person to achieve success.”

One Sound Idea

Think about that. One. Sound. Idea. One single idea is all it takes to catapult your actions and efforts toward building wealth. All it ever took anyone to become rich was one sound idea. All it took Jamie McIntyre to be the millionaire and wealth mentor he is today is one sound idea.

This is very much related to our talks about how it only takes one step beyond the norm to be rich and successful. Taking a step indicates action. Before that you have to have the idea. One is no good without the other, but together they are a powerful team.

An Ocean Of Success Awaiting

When you put it like that, when you come down to the very basic fact that it only takes a single, solitary, sound idea to build wealth, it doesn’t sound that hard, does it? Anyone is capable of having an idea. More often than not people are absolutely bursting with great ideas; they just don’t act upon them.

Think about how many ideas cross your mind in the course of a day. Just one day. Expand that to a week, and a month. Now do you see the ocean of potential that’s waiting inside your head? Take just one of those ideas and couple it with the power of positive mindset and action that you learn from the 21st Century Academy—the guidance to guide your great ideas. What a winning formula for success!

Consider this one a post for anyone who ever doubted that they could succeed and be wealthy. Consider it a post for the overwhelmed, the financially struggling, the financially undereducated (which is everyone relying on an old-school education). Consider it proof that anyone can succeed and be rich. And now enjoy some time basking in a sea of great ideas, knowing that all you have to do to be rich is pick just one!

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

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Unlike college or university, the prerequisites required to undertake the type of financial education provided by the 21st Century Academy are not many. And neither Jamie McIntyre nor anyone else there will ask you for your educational transcripts to prove that you have them. In fact, if you are here, if you find the Academy, that is proof enough that you have them already.

What A 21st Century Education Requires

There are really only two things that are required of people to succeed in a financial education and empowerment program such as this—motivation and intelligence.

• You need to be motivated to continue through the program and succeed financially
• You need to have enough intelligence to realize your need

Let me point something out here; I did not say you needed enough intelligence to understand these complex money-making and investment strategies. You don’t. The strategies for creating wealth are actually very simple. If you can read, you can understand them. You can be rich.

• Read = Rich

That makes this a very easy prerequisite to meet.

So that leaves us with the other—motivation. The only other thing you need is the motivation to see yourself through. Call it persistence, call it tenacity, determination, whatever you like. But see it for what it is—the motivation, the determination to take continuous action and make continuous change for the betterment of yourself and your financial future.

Of these two, then, what do you think is more important? Which of these prerequisites will make or break you as you pursue wealth? Which do you need to focus on more to be wealthy? One you can take for granted, because you are already here and that proves you’ve got those goods down. Focus on the more difficult and elusive of the two and you will have the winning formula for success!

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

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Every now and again here we turn the conversation to kids. It’s all in the interest of sparing our children the financial struggle that comes from the lack of a real, viable financial education. As you proceed with the 21st Century Academy you’ll see that Jamie McIntyre also makes an effort to do this, because he also believes that we can put our children in a better financial position by giving them an education in money and finance that they can use to be wealthy from the start.

Speaking The Language Of Wealth With Children

What I’d like to talk about today is speaking the language of wealth with kids. Whatever does that mean? To me it means being open with discussions, and using the same financial vocabulary with your kids (or the kids in your life) as you do with yourself—in your financial dealings, investments, banking, reading, wealth empowerment and education…

Let’s explore for a minute why this is advantageous for the kids you care about.

First off, as with all things, children gain a better understanding about wealth if they know the real terminology and meaning of words from the beginning. When you speak the language you can have real, meaningful conversations and you can learn from others, and read to learn more.

Secondly, we need to remember that much of the language of wealth came to be negatively related to us as we grew up. We made subconscious negative associations with money and wealth. The words of the language were taboo, and so we steered clear of their mention—and of their power and the promise and opportunity being wealthy could provide. When you speak the language to your kids, you preempt that negativity and teach children to embrace wealth for the opportunity and life-tool that it really is.

Too often we do not credit children with the intelligence that they deserve. Kids can learn very valuable life skills from a very early age, virtually without working at it. We have an opportunity to help our kids start at a wealthier point than we did. You can start today by teaching them the language of wealth and prosperity.

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

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