21st Century Academy

Realizing your worth is an important facet in building wealth and achieving great success. Some may fall short of their goals because they have an underlying belief that they are not deserving of it. A primary step in developing the millionaire mindset is to realize that you deserve success.

The nagging voice telling you that you may fail, that there is too much at stake for you to take any risks is a troublesome anchor that needs to be lifted. Before moving forward, envision your past failures and achievements. Gradually allow the failures to drift away from your thoughts allowing your achievements to surface in your focused thoughts.

Feeling Wealth

Building wealth is as much about feeling as it is about thinking. If you progress with feelings of anxiousness and self-doubt, you will undoubtedly fail, or fall short of your goals. Breaking this cycle can be difficult, but with the right guidance, you can begin to feel like a millionaire as you enter the millionaire mindset.

The connection between emotion and wealth is not readily apparent, but it is quite powerful. Simply visualising and thinking about wealth is not as effective as feeling wealthy, beginning with feeling worthy of the rewards.

Gratitude

The worthiness stems from focus that is planted in gratitude. Begin each day with a mantra of gratitude that helps you focus on the positive aspects of your life. Feel the swell of pride that is associated with the things that make you feel grateful.

The feeling of gratitude is the underlying emotion behind worthiness and wealth. When you connect the positive grateful forces in your life to the hopeful visualization of financial success, you are more apt to create energy in your focus.

Millionaire Mindset

Developing the millionaire mindset is an integral aspect of your future success, but simply practicing thought processes and visualization skills without genuinely feeling gratitude and worthiness is not enough. The driving force behind the mindset is the deep seeded belief that you are deserving of success and good fortune.

You can learn about creating feelings of gratitude and developing the millionaire mindset by reading What I Didn’t Learn in School but Wish I Had by Jamie McIntyre. The free ebook is a valuable guide for your future endeavors.

bookmark this

Do you have what it takes to get wealthy – the courage to do what you need to in order to get rich? If you are like successful students of the 21st Century Academy, you may have done your research on making money but initially doubted your own ability to stick to the right path on your way to gaining wealth. This is a losing attitude.

So what is the key to getting wealthy? There are actually five maxims which can help anyone achieve success.

Get Motivated

Without motivation, your desire will never be anything more than that: an ambiguous emotion. True motivation is translated into ambition and ambition results in action. Only action can create wealth.

Manage Your Time Efficiently

Gaining wealth takes time. Take it from Jamie McIntyre, there are no shortcuts to this step. Do only those things which result in the generation of income. Let me repeat that: only spend your time on income generation. This means you will have no extra time for leisure pursuits, at least until you have amassed a sufficient amount of assets.

Frugal Cash Management

If you own your own business, you know that taking all the income earned from it and using it to buy things for yourself is not the way to become successful. You must first make a good profit before even considering spending money on extras.

The Law of Attraction

If you can desire it, you can obtain it. Enough said.

Set Clear Goals

How you can obtain anything if you don’t know what it is you want? Jamie McIntyre knows this rule firsthand. Only by writing down exactly what it was he desired was he able to develop a plan with the steps necessary to obtain it.

Now that you know what it takes to create wealth, do you have the courage to do what needs to be done?

bookmark this

“…you can make excuses in your life and you can make money, but you can not do both at the same time.”

–What I Didn’t Learn At School But Wish I Had

We are continuing today to move on through Chapter One of Jamie McIntyre’s book, where the discussion is centered on why people fail to be wealthy. We are looking for the answers to why 96 percent of people (the people Jamie calls the “96 percenters”) end up dead, broke, or dead broke by the age of retirement. One reason for this that cannot be ignored is blame and excuses.

There’s Always A “Reason”

It seems almost human nature to create excuses and blame other people and situations for what we have not achieved. Mind you, when we do achieve and succeed, we are much less likely to do this, and much more likely to take the credit, but in the case of continued financial failure there is always a “reason” why things are the way they are (of course, these aren’t really “reasons” but excuses, but we’ll get into that later).

For example, Jamie used to say that the reason he wasn’t wealthy was that he was owed too much money by other people, or that he needed money to make money, or had too much debt, that he wasn’t born into money or handed a leg-up, or simply because he wasn’t interested in money (but we’ve already talked about living in financial denial). Or he would imagine that the solution was evading him, and if someone would just help him out, or if he could find the “right” career, then everything would fall into place.

A Familiar Feeling

I’m willing to bet Jamie’s litany of excuses sounds familiar to you; it seems as humans we are not all that original in finding excuses for why we are not wealthy. But whatever it is you are telling yourself, you need to start realizing that those are not reasons for your lack of wealth.

The only way these sorts of excuses become reasons you are not wealthy is because you give over your power to them. You allow them to become hurdles to success, but only because you choose to. These are hurdles that are easily removed because all you have to do is stop playing the blame game and stop making excuses. It may be a familiar and comfortable place, but it’s not a productive one, and it will never make you wealthy. Take back your power and start putting it to better use.

To Your Continued Success!
Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2009

bookmark this

Motivating ourselves to achieve our goals is not an easy thing to do. Somehow, as conscious as we think we are of our plans and goals, we continue to lose sight of them as we go about our lives. Sometimes this is the result of not having set solid goals and not having planned for action on them, but sometimes it is just the result of too many other things getting in our way—of life happening.

We need all the tools we can get to help us stay focused and achieve the end we desire . Since we so often are putting ourselves last, one tactic that works (usually without your even realizing it) is to help others.

Intrinsic Assistants

If you think about, most people are intrinsically motivated to help one another. If you need an example of that, think about how quick you are to drop what you are doing, even though it may derail your plans, and help someone else out. Think how eagerly you will share your knowledge with someone who asks for your help, even though it is often a case of “giving away the goods.” As you think about that, think about how painless that feels for you to do.

Your Reward

Now think about how you could apply this same painless concept to creating wealth, or motivating yourself to create wealth. Even though you might find it difficult to attend to the tasks at hand, think about how much easier that might be just by sharing your knowledge, plans, and resources with someone else.

This is a great reason not to keep your plans and efforts at wealth creation to yourself; going public with your goals so that you can share that knowledge with others can have many return benefits. Not only do you get the satisfaction of helping another, but you also get the benefit of living, being what you want to be. Your selflessness becomes your reward, in more ways than you would ever have thought.

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

bookmark this