21st Century Academy

We accept that in order to be wealthy and successful we have to learn how to do things differently. We know that we need new strategies for making money, and also for managing the finances that we do have in a way that makes us the priority. And certainly not least of all, we need to develop the mindset and attitude that is the foundation of wealth and success.

We know all of this is necessary, but looking at that list there is a lot we need to know. There are also many, many resources that can deliver that knowledge. It can be too much of a good thing.

Wading Through Wealth Creation

There have been volumes and volumes written about how to be successful and how to build wealth. So many of those volumes really are excellent resources; others, of course, are just fluff and scams trying to ride on the coattails of an ever-popular subject. But even considering only the best of the best, it can be enough to overwhelm the most dedicated of wealth creators. It’s enough to turn your determination into a case of information overload.

When that happens, you run the risk of repeating old mistakes and failing to achieve your financial goals. You become too wrapped up in the process of learning that you cannot ever move on to the actionable part of it. Or, you become understandably overwhelmed and give up, despite having learned some very useful things about building wealth.

Paradoxical Success

It seems a paradox, but realistically information overload can be as much a factor for failure as seeking no advisement at all. The good news is that this is a situation that is easily combated. It requires focus and attention to your wealth education and your goals. It requires picking and choosing among those resources, and actually ignoring a lot of what’s out there, at least for the time being.

It may seem that reading anything and everything you can regarding wealth and success is the way to go, but this strategy does have its limits. Getting just enough of a good thing is what is necessary, so that you can keep your focus, move toward your goals, and manage and absorb what you learn. Come back for the next post and we’ll talk a little more about how you can manage wealth development resources so that information overload does not become the object of your dream’s demise.

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

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Everyone has a past, like it or not. And like we’ve talked about before, that past bears on many things as they apply to building wealth. For instance, your past—conscious or unconscious—is what has formed your perception of money and your attitude towards it. And that attitude is a large piece of the choices you make, your mindset, and the subconscious sabotage that you may inadvertently be attacking your efforts to build wealth with.

Who’s The Boss? Past, Present, Or Future?

Very often what we find ourselves doing when we resolve to create wealth is competing against that past—”showing it who’s boss” so to say. But what we come to know, what your wealth creation course is trying to teach you, is that that kind of competition really isn’t productive. Your past is over and done. You can’t teach it anything. You can’t change it and you can’t just erase the mental baggage that comes along with it. You can only find ways to make your past, even what you perceive to be a negative past, work for you now.

Reconciling The Past, Looking Back To Move Forward

You can’t change the past but you can change your understanding of it. You can analyze it, reconcile your feelings from it, and correct the negative attitudes that have resulted from it so that you make the room for wealth to work in your life (this is very much related to when we talked way back about rewiring your financial subconscious, and the exercise Jamie McIntyre walks you through to do that).

Your past is not your competitor. It is something that occurred, and something that contributed to who you are today. And that can’t be all bad. Once you realize this you can begin to look for ways to reconcile the past and actually make it work for you, instead of being at odds with it. Remember that the past is a part of you, so competing against it is only competing against yourself. Surely you can see how that isn’t beneficial at all. Meet me back here for the next post, and we’ll talk a little more about how you can make the past a better part of your 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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In a lot of ways building wealth requires you to first knock down the walls that have become an integral part of you. That is, to knock down the walls that have become barriers to you so that there is room for you to build a stronger foundation and overall structure.

Every one of us has something that impedes our financial success. Every one of us has things in our life—both psychological and more real, tangible barriers—that get in our way. These are things that we all have to overcome and move past, replacing the old with the new and the better.

First Step – Self Evaluation

The first step to doing this is to figure out what those barriers are. These could be very elusive things that we do not even know about ourselves—thoughts and attitudes that are ingrained in our psyche; subconscious attitudes (such as what we talked about when we discussed the financial subconscious). As Jamie McIntyre tells us these are very much individual thoughts, attitudes, and barriers, but there are several that are common amongst all people and so we can learn something about ourselves by learning from others like Jamie and other people pursuing financial prosperity.

There is very minimal success without first understanding that these hang-ups do exist and what they are. These barriers have a way of coming back to haunt you so recognizing them and working to overcome them is essential to your financial future.

Persistence Is Progress

The way to overcome these barriers is related to what the barriers are. For a great many of them rewiring your subconscious and your mindset and attitude is necessary. Moving through a wealth development program removes a lot of these barriers because so many are intertwined and inter-related. But regardless of what is holding you back know that you can surpass it and break those barriers down. You can overcome anything—physical, psychological, human, or theoretical—and you can be wealthy. With the recognition that there is work to be done and the persistence to see it through, every last barrier to wealth can and will be broken.

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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