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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?

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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
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