21st Century Academy

“Have you heard the phrase that success leaves clues? I have found in my experience that failure leaves more clues.”

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

This is a quote taken directly from page four of the first chapter in the book. It comes at a point where Jamie is talking about being completely honest with ourselves in order to figure out what is holding us back from creating wealth—what is keeping us from being wealthy, despite the fact that we all have it within us to succeed.

Identifying The Clues Left Behind

The trick is to be able to identify those clues that failure leaves behind. For Jamie, that led him to the realization that largely, he was living in denial, and that that denial was a crutch that he used to keep himself from facing reality and the more uncomfortable parts of making money and building wealth.

What Denial Looks Like

If you put some thought to it, it’s not hard to recognize this type of denial. Any time you have ever said that you don’t care about money, or that there are more important things in life, you have denied your real desire to have money and build wealth.

Denying our desire for money is entirely counter-productive; and there is not a lot of sense in it. All that denial does is holds us back from achieving financial freedom. And that keeps us from achieving the lifestyle that we want—from enjoying those things that yes, are more important than money, but that we are left with no time or energy to enjoy.

An extremely important first step in creating wealth and achieving a freer lifestyle lies in facing our denial head-on, and acting to counter-act it. Money is not an evil. It is a tool. It is a thing, but it is also the thing that can allow us to find that life balance so that the more important things in life can and will be enjoyable.

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

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I hope the last post didn’t scare you away from your determined goals for achieving wealth. It was certainly not meant to; it was only meant to enlighten you to the fact that information overload is a real problem that people face as they set off on learning about making money, being successful, and becoming wealthy. Even if you only read among the best of resources, you still face the problem of not knowing where to start, and being unable to create a strong, focused plan for achieving financial freedom.

It’s Easy To Fight Information Overload

That’s the good news for today. It’s not difficult to overcome this particular problem. Yes, you need to achieve some focus, and yes, you need to learn in a balanced way all the different aspects of building wealth successfully. But the work has already been done for you.

The best way to combat information overload is to let someone who has already “been there” and “done that” do the work for you. This is where guys like Jamie McIntyre come into the picture. Jamie went the “read all you can read” route, and yes, did find great success. But Jamie also had the advantage of a wealthy mentor to guide him, and his own good discipline. Those are advantages not all of us will have when we start out.

When Jamie went on to create the 21st Century Academy, he took his collective knowledge, hand-selected the best of what you needed to know, and put it all together in his courses, books, eBooks, and seminars. It’s still a lot of information, but now it is focused. Now it is together in one place, in a program that allows you to learn incrementally and at the pace that makes the most sense for you. He threw in a system of mentoring and support, and the end result was what we have today—a premier course for success and wealth education that gives you just enough of what you need, and has the added benefit of saving you years of reading and wondering where to start.

Wealth Creation Kick-Start

To achieve your goals in shorter time, you cannot afford to be overwhelmed or to lose focus. You need to get that strong foundation first. There is plenty of time for expansion of that knowledge later on, but start strong by utilizing the resources that can keep you focused. Make this the year of your success, not just another year when you take in information that never gets acted upon. Be focused and be successful!

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

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At least initially, something that all wealth-builders have in common is the desire to be rich now! We don’t want to wait for wealth to come; we don’t want to have to work towards wealth. We’d much rather get rich quick. Certainly there are plenty of scams out there willing to help you do that—or so they’d claim. It doesn’t take long before you are forced to admit to yourself that that just is not going to happen.

Building Wealth Takes Time

As you will soon find out if you go this route, the get rich quick schemes are just that –schemes. The real wealth empowerment programs take time; time to learn, time to practice, and time to realize results. It’s a fact of wealth creation that few people want to recognize, but one that Jamie McIntyre readily admits to. Now, why would he do that? It’s certainly not because he wants to lose your attention. It’s only because he knows that if you are to follow through on his program and actually achieve success with it you need to be committed to doing so. And that means you have to be prepared to be in it for more than just a few days or weeks. It means you have to be in it for a lifetime.

Decades Of Knowledge Compressed

Having said that, there is a flip side to this coin. It does require a time commitment on your part, and it will take some time to build wealth that is lasting and sustaining. But it does not have to take you as long as it takes most people. It does not even need to take you as long as it took Jamie McIntyre himself—not nearly so long. Jamie spent more than a decade compiling the information that made him rich. Yes, he built wealth along the way, too, but he can speed that process for you. This is the information, that he has used to develop the 21st Century Academy courses, and that he presents in his seminars. It’s like having someone compile and compress more than a decade of work into one solid program that will cut your learning curve down by probably something to the tune of 90% or more (actually that’s exactly what it is).

This is the main reason why you are much better off going with a wealth education program than trying to go it alone—which is essentially what Jamie did. Taking advantage of the compressed and proven knowledge and techniques available through this type of money-making course is the best thing we have to a real-life “get rich quick” system. It will take you time, but it will not need to take you decades. Realistically, this time next year you could be in a position to call yourself wealthy. That’s a year that will feel like far less time than if you were to spend it in another year of financial struggle.

I hope you will consider this as you step into the New Year. I hope you look realistically at how you can truly improve your life—what will work and what is destined to fail. I hope the best choices are all yours this year, and that this year brings you even bigger and better success than any other!

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

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It doesn’t always take a huge effort to motivate you to building wealth; you do not always have to think in things so huge as a whole wealth development program or education to keep yourself on track to financial prosperity. Sometimes all it takes is a small effort repeated over time. In fact, that is probably fundamental to staying the course and not becoming overwhelmed by the wealth program you have embarked on, or are about to embark upon.

A Few Seconds Out Of Your Day

Staying on track and staying motivated to complete a course like Jamie McIntyre’s can be tough when you’re faced with all the other claims on your time and resources. A small, simple practice of reminding yourself and retraining your focus can have a very big impact on how far you go with it and seeing it through to the end.

For example, every day I start my day with just 30 seconds of positivity. I focus my attention on the good, on the potential of the day, and on all that I am lucky to have and to be. It takes next to no effort, and rights my mindset for the rest of the day.

This is not at all hard to do. You can do it while you lie in bed, tucked in warm, and you can even manage it without your morning coffee, or tea, or other caffeinated beverage of choice. All you have to do is, each and every morning, tell yourself what is good about your life; remind yourself that you are a wealthy person (because you have to be that before you can act the part, remember?); remind yourself that your life is good, and that you are improving it even more, even by getting out of bed to start a new day.

While this may sound so simplistic (not unlike the mindset that allows for wealth to build), it is highly effective. Still skeptical? Give it a try for the next week. Then come back and tell me how you feel. I guarantee that you will feel better 7 days from now, wealthier and wiser, than you do today.

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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