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As you learn about the mindset that is necessary to create wealth, and Jamie McIntyre’s program takes you through the exercises that work to overcome your attitudes and subconscious thoughts that repel wealth, it is likely that you will go through emotions relating to the selfishness of wealth. These are common emotions, and it’s understandable how this comes to be the case, but being wealthy and the process of building wealth is not selfish—it is just the opposite; you just need to see that to overcome the problem.

Take Care Of You, Take Care Of Others

You know that to be wealthy you have to make a priority of you and your money. That’s nothing new, we’ve talked about it multiple times before and it’s a central theme in the 21st Century Academy, too. But we’ve been taught all our lives that there is something wrong with that, even though most of us know, at least superficially, that you cannot help others if you do not take care of yourself.

The truth of it is that if you do take care of yourself, develop healthy financial habits, build wealth, and have money to live freely, you maximize your ability to help others. If you are financially healthy, you have the means to invest and build wealth, live a better lifestyle, provide for a better and less stressful lifestyle for those who depend on you, and become an independent individual who helps the larger society rather than become a drain upon it. Indeed, your strengthened financial position makes you a better provider, a more accessible parent and partner, and a stronger contributing member to society.

If you look at it that way being wealthy sounds like the responsible thing to do, not the selfish thing to do. And that is what wealth is—it is the freedom and ability to fulfill your own needs and others without harming, and with the financial means to enhance life all around.

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

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What is it that is really, truly, keeping you from being wealthy? Or, what has it been in the past that has kept you from being wealthy that you have overcome to finally find financial success? Do the traces remain?

Finding The Real Reasons

For everything there is a reason. Whatever it is that has kept you from being wealthy in the past, there was something at the heart of the matter. Now, when asked the questions above, people will often, and often sarcastically, answer that money is keeping them from being wealthy. But that’s not really ever true. Consider two points:

1. There is a reason that you do not/did not have money
2. Many people with huge incomes are not wealthy, either

Money is an easy scape-goat for so much of what we do not have and/or what we struggle with in life. But money is a thing, not a being, so it cannot be to fault for our financial positioning.

What is really at fault is the reason that we don’t have money. Those reasons can be many and varied, and may include things like

• A lacking financial education—are you still relying on what you learned in school?
• A negative financial attitude—conscious or subconscious
• Poor savings and investment habits
• Lack of action
• The missing success mindset

I’m sure that readers here can add to this list, too. Please do below and we’ll discuss it further. But before we wrap this up, I want to go back to one question I posed in the opening paragraph.

Do The Traces Still Remain?

Even people who have gained that financial education, improved their attitude, constructed a mindset of success and positivity, and remedied their poor savings and investment habits, can still remain in a state of financial struggle. Sometimes people make headway, and then end up back where they always find themselves. When that happens, there is a reason, too, and to enjoy lasting wealth and financial prosperity you have to get at the heart of it and weed it out. You may think you have done all of this already, but the results of your efforts are a sure indication of what lies beneath.

So today, in order to help you succeed and build wealth, I urge you to take a step back and figure out if there is improvement, or if there is an underlying reason why you are not where you’d hoped to be. Then use that to get at the real heart of the matter, and enjoy real success.

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

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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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Perhaps you are wondering where this wealth empowerment program is going to take you; what Jamie McIntyre will lead you to. It’s hard to say definitively, but one thing is sure—if you don’t go along for the ride, there is no way you will ever get there to find out.

Fear And Hesitation Do Not Live Here

It seems to be human nature to be hesitant to explore new things. At least it seems to be modern human nature; it must not have always been this way, or our world would be much smaller still. For the average person, though, fear, hesitation, and anxiety creep into the mind any time a new experience is proposed.

Even given the possibilities that a premier wealth education can open up to you, we tend to hesitate. We think about all the things that could go wrong, all the time we might waste, all the things that might not “work,” and we put roadblocks in our own path to success. These roadblocks can be hard to overcome until you come to some realizations.

Unblocking The Road To Wealth

You have to realize something if you are to overcome this type of hesitation—you can’t have something you have never had unless you do something you never did—go somewhere you’ve never gone.

The only thing that is sure is that the status quo will remain for as long as you take no action to change it. Until you learn to build wealth, you will not have money and you will not be rich. You will be precisely where you are right now. That’s fine if you’re happy with your current state, but since you are here I would guess that isn’t the case.

Hesitation is normal. It is also a huge reason why so many people fail to find financial freedom. Recognize hesitation and fear as a roadblock in your path. Then destroy it and know that to have more than what you have now, you have to start doing something you are not yet doing.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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