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Still in the interest of helping you help yourself more and make the most of all your days, here’s yet another thing to consider.

The Skills And Experience You Have Now

One of the ways that you can most efficiently use your time is to utilize the skills that you already have. In some ways this is similar to getting more out by going with what interests you. Hopefully you have built your skillset upon that which interests you the most. That will make it even easier to capitalize on all that you have readily available to you. If you have skills that aren’t really in your most desired area of interest, but that are readily usable still, it is definitely worth considering taking advantage of them now as you build into what you really want to be doing.

When you can utilize what is already familiar and second-nature you don’t have to spend time learning new skills before you can put them to work. Being that you are pursuing wealth you may be thinking you have no skills that apply, but that is probably not the case.

What have you learned?

Look at what you have done and what you have learned. Now look at the ways that Jamie McIntyre is showing you for making money. Look at how he shows you to create opportunity. What can you marry here?

I’ll give you just a couple of examples and let you take it from there. For instance, maybe you were a housepainter in college; maybe you have learned how to redecorate by revamping every place you’ve ever lived. Those sound like very good skills a real estate investor might want for do-it-yourself fix and flips.

Or maybe your skills have always been more book-oriented. Maybe bookkeeping and numbers are your strength. You’ll find those skills invaluable on the trades markets.

I doubt that there is anyone without a skill that can be captured and capitalized for building wealth and investing. If you look deep enough, if you are creative enough, you will find what you need within yourself. Make the most of what you know to make the most of your financial future!

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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Part of building wealth relies on setting firm, clear goals. In part that relies on knowing what wealth means to you. To do that we usually set at least one large goal, tied to a financial value or monetary figure, that we recognize as meaning we have reached that goal. In other words, a sum of money, and assets that represents wealth achievement to us.

Each of us will have such a figure in mind. We will also have many smaller goals along the way to get us there; goals like getting a wealth creation education, learning to strategize for wealth creation, developing aspects of our mindset and psyche that are conducive to wealth creation. And one day, through perseverance, dedication, discipline, and by meeting each of those smaller goals, we will get to that pinnacle and be able to finally say “I’ve done it! I am a wealthy person!”

But Then What?

What then? What comes next? What do we do once we’ve become rich? Do we sit back, kick our feet up, and wallow in our financial success?

Yes!

But that’s not all we do.

We also prepare to continue on. We take steps to move forward to a new goal. A bigger and better and even more wildly successful goal for financial prosperity. We educate ourselves again as to how to do more and have more and enjoy more.

This time around, though, things will be different. This time around we will already have a solid financial education behind us. We will have already learned the key strategies and developed the right mindset for building wealth and being successful. And this time around we will be even more motivated to keep going. Why? Because of that Law of Attraction that got us here. Because great things keep attracting great things, and our own personal experiences with wealth and success will only do more to further us toward more wealth and achievement.

We will have tasted wealth and possibility, and we will be enthusiastic to taste even more. And so we move forward with new goals and a renewed energy for financial freedom and prosperity.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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Before the internet the availability, exposure, and access to wealth creation information and wealth development education was limited. In many ways it was only accessible to the people who already had money, who were already wealthy. The people who needed the information often didn’t know it existed and the people who had money were the only ones who could afford the expense of travel to exotic locations to attend wealth creation seminars. The best, most useful information and educational resources were just not easily accessed, and so whole generations of willing and able individuals did not have the tools and information they needed to learn to build their own wealth.

Today we are in a much more favorable position for accessing information to be come financially empowered. In today’s world, the internet is a primary resource for information and even education. A simple internet connection is all that a person needs to gather all the information and learning resources needed to become financially empowered.

Online Resources For Financial Learning

Wealth education comes in many forms online. It comes in the form of websites, of social media, of articles, and much more. Some of the most useful forms of online financial information resources include:

• Websites—websites like the 21st Century Academy website that focus on one strategic program, and also general websites that give access to other sources and ideas.

• Publications—both online and hard-copy publications and books. In actuality, the growth of the EBook industry has opened the doors to many wealth creation authors not promoted by big publishing houses.

• Social media—including social networking sites, forums, and blogs

• Online financial education—like the 21st Century Academy homestudy course, which brings the power of personal seminars to people all over the world.

Clearly these resources bring a whole new wealth of information that just was not obtainable before—many that did not even exist. With online access there is no barrier to gaining a powerful, empowering wealth creation education. The opportunity is there for anyone, anywhere, in that always-on fashion that is the internet.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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We kind of stumbled along through the last two posts where I talked about how you need to be wealthy so that you can take wealthy actions and go on to have wealth. It’s something of a difficult concept to explain, but I hope that you followed along with me. I think from here I can start to make this clearer.

Define What Wealth Is To You

We know that the first step to being wealthy is to be that person—to start living today as a wealthy person; to accept and believe that that is who you are. Because you cannot be both wealthy and poor, right?

Now, let’s take some time and try to work out how you can do that, even now, even without six figures in the bank.

Before you can be something you need to know what it means to be that person. To be wealthy, you have to figure out what that means. Now, I can’t give you all the answers here. Being wealthy means different things to different people. And there are different levels of wealth, and more ways than one to be wealthy. To start being wealthy, you have to compile a list of attributes and characteristics that wealthy people have. You have to know what it is that you are striving to be.

The best way to do this is probably to just get in touch with your own thoughts and goals. Figure out what wealth means to you so that you can start incorporating that into your mind process. Brainstorm a list, as long or short as you want, but probably the more the better, of characteristics of the wealthy—a list of what wealthy people are. And this doesn’t have to be a list of numbers. Wealthy people are not numbers, they are people with strengths and weaknesses (but let’s focus on the strengths here). This list could include words like

• Strong

• Smart

• Educated (not necessarily university educated, could be a wealth creation education like the 21st Century Academy, or a real-world education)

• Confident

• Savvy

• Comfortable

• Motivated

Find the words that work for you, even on a general level. Look within yourself, too, and find characteristics of the wealthy. Also look for what you might need to change.

When you know what it is to be wealthy you can start being that person. You know the next step; it is to start taking wealthy actions. And you know where it leads from there. Take the first step now. Know the wealthy person you want to be. And be it!

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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We’ve been talking about empowerment and prioritising how your money is managed. Something that goes hand in hand with that conversation is the system of values that you place on how you spend your money—what some refer to as a hierarchy of values. Get intimate with what you value, and you may just find the key to wealth creation success.

Top Values Get Top Billing

The things that you value most are what will get the lion’s share of your money. This may or may not have anything to do with what you think you value. But if you look at where your money goes, you’ll begin to see what you have valued most highly, and quite probably see how you’ve valued yourself very little.

What you value most is the first place you spend your money. From there there is an order of values that goes down the list of expenditures. At the end is what you have been placing the least value on; if something goes untended, it will be what is at the bottom of the list.

The problem is that most people have themselves at the bottom of the list of values. They are their last financial obligation each month. And so they get the least attention, the least money, and are first to be cut from the list when money limits dictate. With you at the bottom of your list, you will never be the financial priority that you need to be. If you do not value yourself, you will not win your own wealth. You will not choose to attend to your own wealth creation.

Values And Awareness

Up until now there is a good chance that you were not even aware of your own system of values. Largely, this is something that lies in the subconscious or just above it in a place we pay little attention to. But a look at where your money goes will give you clues as to what you have been valuing. If you do not see your own wealth growing, there is a good chance you have not valued yourself enough.

So can this be changed? Definitely yes. In many ways this ties into the concept of rewiring your subconscious that Jamie McIntyre talks about in the 21st Century Academy materials. Once you learn to rewire your subconscious and place a value on you the direct result will become apparent. When wealth creation suffers, more often than not it is time for a change in your value hierarchy.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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