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Consider the many people you may already know who have worked very hard yet acquired little wealth.

Why does this happen? The mind has much to do with the outcome. In order to achieve success in building wealth, you must believe that you can accomplish your goals without working yourself into an early grave. This begins with educating yourself about the wealth building endeavour.

Skill Sets: Do What You Love

The strategy you create depends greatly on your deepest passions and desires. It is critical to determine the things in life you love to do the most in order to evaluate your skill sets. Your future skill set is a fundamental element in your successful wealth strategy.

Let Go of Hard Work

Those who enjoy hard work can reap the benefits of working long, hard hours. However, this process is not necessary in order to accumulate wealth. The secret to success is realising your natural talents and use them to their maximum potential.

Types of Wealth Intelligence

Different types of wealth intelligence come into play in this wealth building strategy. It is necessary to have emotional intelligence that offers objective balance in your endeavour.

Financial intelligence is an obvious asset but it involves more than knowing the ins and outs of money. It requires you to learn how to focus on the specific objectives that naturally lead to the ultimate goal of financial success.

Intelligent visualisation is a part of the process as well. It is necessary to create a clear vision in your mind of the particular outcome you desire. Practising this vision on a daily basis naturally leads you to your ultimate goal.

Bringing it all together takes practice and it takes the right educational support. However, once you have practised this way of thinking and this way of managing money, you begin to follow through automatically, allowing yourself to build wealth with little effort. It simply becomes a way of being.

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Let’s start off by laying it all on the line. Everything we hope to gain from the 21st Century Academy Course, from the wealth-vision videos, and from our time here in general at the 21st Century Academy blog.

What You Didn’t Learn At School…

Here it is—what we didn’t learn at school but wish we had, so that maybe we’d have graduated with a real, functional knowledge of money, finance, and wealth creation! This is the list of objectives for the book, and for the larger course overall (because really, the book, great as it is, is only the beginning).

• The most important lesson of all—how to develop the millionaire mindset
• Why people fail—among the very first discussions we’ll have
• History of money
• Money systems and who really controls the wealth
• Why you need to understand the above
• How Jamie McIntyre succeeded—the education he developed from personal experience
• The difficulty with your subconscious and how to correct the problem
• How to start generating instant cash flow, regardless of what is (or isn’t) in the bank
• How to earn tax-free money from investment property
• The four key skills for mastering the 21st Century Education
• The five keys to financial understanding that we should be teaching and learning in school
• Unique renting investment strategies
• Eight ways to raise the money you need to start investing and building wealth—again, regardless of your current financial position

…But Wish You Had

I do realize that in your daily internet travels and in life in general you are constantly bombarded with lists and empty promises. This is not one of those lists. This list is a summary of what you can learn just from Jamie’s free book, and where his subsequent courses and seminars can take you. We’re going to spend a lot of time here in the days ahead breaking this book down bit by bit and talking over each piece. I can see now this project will take us quite a lot longer than originally anticipated, but that’s okay, better we take it a step at a time and really benefit from it than to rush through and miss the point entirely!

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

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I’m going to start with a quote that is making its way around my blogs; it comes from Napoleon Hill’s classic financial empowerment text, and it is a very good example of how simple wealth creation really is fundamentally:

“One sound idea is all it takes for a person to achieve success.”

One Sound Idea

Think about that. One. Sound. Idea. One single idea is all it takes to catapult your actions and efforts toward building wealth. All it ever took anyone to become rich was one sound idea. All it took Jamie McIntyre to be the millionaire and wealth mentor he is today is one sound idea.

This is very much related to our talks about how it only takes one step beyond the norm to be rich and successful. Taking a step indicates action. Before that you have to have the idea. One is no good without the other, but together they are a powerful team.

An Ocean Of Success Awaiting

When you put it like that, when you come down to the very basic fact that it only takes a single, solitary, sound idea to build wealth, it doesn’t sound that hard, does it? Anyone is capable of having an idea. More often than not people are absolutely bursting with great ideas; they just don’t act upon them.

Think about how many ideas cross your mind in the course of a day. Just one day. Expand that to a week, and a month. Now do you see the ocean of potential that’s waiting inside your head? Take just one of those ideas and couple it with the power of positive mindset and action that you learn from the 21st Century Academy—the guidance to guide your great ideas. What a winning formula for success!

Consider this one a post for anyone who ever doubted that they could succeed and be wealthy. Consider it a post for the overwhelmed, the financially struggling, the financially undereducated (which is everyone relying on an old-school education). Consider it proof that anyone can succeed and be rich. And now enjoy some time basking in a sea of great ideas, knowing that all you have to do to be rich is pick just one!

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

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Unlike college or university, the prerequisites required to undertake the type of financial education provided by the 21st Century Academy are not many. And neither Jamie McIntyre nor anyone else there will ask you for your educational transcripts to prove that you have them. In fact, if you are here, if you find the Academy, that is proof enough that you have them already.

What A 21st Century Education Requires

There are really only two things that are required of people to succeed in a financial education and empowerment program such as this—motivation and intelligence.

• You need to be motivated to continue through the program and succeed financially
• You need to have enough intelligence to realize your need

Let me point something out here; I did not say you needed enough intelligence to understand these complex money-making and investment strategies. You don’t. The strategies for creating wealth are actually very simple. If you can read, you can understand them. You can be rich.

• Read = Rich

That makes this a very easy prerequisite to meet.

So that leaves us with the other—motivation. The only other thing you need is the motivation to see yourself through. Call it persistence, call it tenacity, determination, whatever you like. But see it for what it is—the motivation, the determination to take continuous action and make continuous change for the betterment of yourself and your financial future.

Of these two, then, what do you think is more important? Which of these prerequisites will make or break you as you pursue wealth? Which do you need to focus on more to be wealthy? One you can take for granted, because you are already here and that proves you’ve got those goods down. Focus on the more difficult and elusive of the two and you will have the winning formula for success!

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

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I promised that we would talk at least a little about how to work with your past rather than against it. And the 21st Century Academy course will do even more for you in this regard (in fact if you recall applicable portions or exercises, feel free to comment on them on this post). To get started, let’s look at the past for what it really is—a story with two sides.

Two Distinct Personalities

You may not have realized it at the time, and to be sure you may not have come to the realization yet, but for every negative thing that occurred in the past there is an equal and opposite reaction. Every time something “bad” happened, there was a corresponding positive side to it. Not surprisingly, we don’t easily see these positives and it can take a long time before we figure out the good that became of them, because pain is such an overpowering emotion. In most cases we are just too consumed by the negative to see any good that is there.

Reassessing The Past

Understanding this is important. Because if you know that there is positive there, and if you look hard enough, you can find it. Why does that matter? Does that matter?

It does matter because as we talked about before you cannot continue to compete with your past. And you do not always have to like what happened, but you can at least reconcile it to find the positive result that led you to this place (the positive place where you better yourself, create wealth, and attract better things for your life). That, my friends, is what we call growth. When we grow, as we know thanks to our wealth empowerment education, we expand our positive horizons and clear the way for money and positivity to come into our lives. We capture that power of positive attraction; but when we ignore the past and try to compete with it, we really only create more angst and negative subconscious. So here’s to a look back at a better, more positive past, for a better, more abundant future!

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

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