21st Century Academy

I promised that we would talk at least a little about how to work with your past rather than against it. And the 21st Century Academy course will do even more for you in this regard (in fact if you recall applicable portions or exercises, feel free to comment on them on this post). To get started, let’s look at the past for what it really is—a story with two sides.

Two Distinct Personalities

You may not have realized it at the time, and to be sure you may not have come to the realization yet, but for every negative thing that occurred in the past there is an equal and opposite reaction. Every time something “bad” happened, there was a corresponding positive side to it. Not surprisingly, we don’t easily see these positives and it can take a long time before we figure out the good that became of them, because pain is such an overpowering emotion. In most cases we are just too consumed by the negative to see any good that is there.

Reassessing The Past

Understanding this is important. Because if you know that there is positive there, and if you look hard enough, you can find it. Why does that matter? Does that matter?

It does matter because as we talked about before you cannot continue to compete with your past. And you do not always have to like what happened, but you can at least reconcile it to find the positive result that led you to this place (the positive place where you better yourself, create wealth, and attract better things for your life). That, my friends, is what we call growth. When we grow, as we know thanks to our wealth empowerment education, we expand our positive horizons and clear the way for money and positivity to come into our lives. We capture that power of positive attraction; but when we ignore the past and try to compete with it, we really only create more angst and negative subconscious. So here’s to a look back at a better, more positive past, for a better, more abundant future!

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

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We’ve talked about it, and I’m sure you could relate to the necessity of staying empowered and making your life one of consistent positivity and success. If it were that easy, you’d be there by now, though, right? So let’s talk about some ways to be more consistent in your wealthy mindset, attitude, and approach to life.

The Habit Of Success

What is most effective is to first build a habit of success. By the time we are adults many people have become so ingrained in negative thought, so used to immediately defaulting to stress, pressure, and negativity, that we have lost the ability to think and feel positive. It should be an automatic, but probably more often than not the automatic response is negativity, not positivity and abundance.

A habit of success is built by retraining ourselves. It’s something like the subconscious rewiring that Jamie McIntyre teaches, which we talked about before. The way to start building more consistent positivity is to first build constant reminders into your day to do just that.

It’s sad but true that by the time we are adults we have to work to be more positive. This should be something that is second nature, but it’s not. The simplest way to kick-start this process is to build reminders into your life to appreciate more and remember that you are a wealthy person, working to acquire more wealth all the time.

You probably get my meaning by now, so I’ll just leave off with a few tips for becoming consistently positive and successful.

• Schedule time everyday for your wealth education (because the program and the process itself is motivating)
• Write your goals and read them daily as a reminder and motivator
• Surround yourself with motivating quotations, or even pictures that represent what you want
• Take time to appreciate your life and progress everyday. Take just a few moments to tell yourself that you are wealthy, you are achieving, and you do have cause to be thankful.
• Keep a blog or journal to motivate yourself to remember what you have and what you overachieving
• Visit motivational blogs and websites for a daily dose of motivation

What can you add to this list? What are some small ways you can become consistently positive and stay on the path to progress and financial success?

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

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The power of attraction is a simple principle, but it can be hard for people to find real ways to put it into action. This can be especially hard if you come to exploring wealth creation and programs like the 21st Century Academy out of need. It’s easier to start stockpiling abundance and attracting more positivity and success if you start small, though. Let’s take a look at the ways that other people, including myself, Jamie McIntyre, and scores of others, have managed to find good things to think about and live even when living with need and financial stress.

Abundance Starts With The Little Things

One of the reasons that people fail to attract more good and abundance in life is that they fail to see that every life is already abundant. Your life may not be financially abundant, and you may still have a very real and strong need for more money in your life, but I promise that upon further evaluation you can find something to be positive about. And since we know one positive thought or act will attract another, we can deduce that one positive thought or movement is all it will take to draw another.

Take a look at your life today—right now. Find one thing that is valuable in your life. It can be something as simple as your ability to access this blog, and so the information that leads to wealth and building a life of financial freedom. Grasp that firmly and focus on it. And then look around for more. Find two things, then three—as many as you can. If you want to, make a list that you can refer back to when you need a shot of abundance in your life.

Start looking at your life as being blessed with wealth. Stockpile that abundance and build upon it. Know that you already have what it takes to start on a road to riches—you have the power of attraction, and something good in your life with which you can attract more good and more wealth. You don’t need anything else to start living and attracting wealth. It’s all here now, and all the tools that you need to take it the next step further are here now, too. That’s something worth thinking positively about!

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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Our recent posts have talked a lot about us being the company and the thoughts that we keep, and about attracting the elements of success to us that we need to succeed and be financially empowered…to build wealth. That power is the Power of Attraction. You’ll find this also by other names, depending on who you are reading and following, as things like the Law of Attraction, or even “The Secret”. It is this law that serves as the basis for the 21st Century Academy in many ways as well.

Attraction And Daily Life

The power of attraction is simple yet effective. To use it, all you really need to understand is that you will attract to you whatever you put out into the world. In other words, if you think positively and abundantly, and live a life of wealth and success, you will draw positive attitudes, thoughts, and people to you; you will draw abundance to you as well.

If you think negative thoughts, focus on the bad in life, on destitution and need, or the inequality in life, you will always draw those things to you; if you live a life of want, you will attract more want—you’ll attract people who also want and need, and you’ll attract more financial stress.

Many people are hesitant to believe that wealth creation can be so simple, but when you look at the lives of various individuals you can see that this is certainly true. If you look at your own life you can see how you attract to you the same things that you think and surround yourself with. Think about the times when you were most down—did it seem you could never get a break and that negativity seemed to follow you in all things? Now think about the times in your life when you felt you were doing well—did it seem more things went your way? That the bad times were limited, and easier to overcome?

You can start building wealth today just by adjusting what you attract to you. Apply the power of attraction to everything in your life—to your thoughts, your fiends and associations, to what you choose to read, learn, and follow. Be more positive and successful and you will be more positive and successful; and you’ll set the stage for easily attracting more of the same as you do.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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You are the company you keep, and you are also the thoughts you think. Just as we talked about the company you keep attracting more of the same to you, the same applies to the thoughts that you think.This is the foundation that Jamie McIntyre built the 21st Century Academy on. It is also the foundation that leading self empowerment and wealth authors built their success upon—leaders as far back as Napoleon Hill with Think and Grow Rich.

Positive Thinking For Financial Success

This is very much in relation to the mindset that is so integral to wealth creation, but what I really want to drive home in this post is the power of each and every thought you think on a daily basis. Collectively they are what make up your mindset in combination with your attitude.

This post is also about attracting positive thought. Remember that when we talk about attraction as it applies to financial success, we talk about the like attracting like. When you think positively and think thoughts of wealth and success, you attract more thoughts of positivity and abundance. If you think thoughts of stress, financial want, deprivation or need, you attract more of the same. That can be a hard cycle to break as you work towards building wealth because most people do come into this with a level of need or want. But even those needs can be turned into something positive—the positivity of working towards your goals, the comfort of knowing this need is temporary and that overall you are living well and building wealth.

Starting today, I encourage you to start paying more attention to the thoughts that you think. You will not be free from negativity unless you make a conscious decision to turn your thoughts around. The good news is that once you begin to make that effort the whole thing gets easier. You’ll think more positively, you’ll expect life to be positive, and you’ll expect to succeed. And with every thought, you will attract more positive thinking.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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