21st Century Academy

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

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

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