21st Century Academy

We’ve talked at length about how the 21st Century Academy education is different—how it is a new financial education for a new century, to replace what you just haven’t been taught yet. You might think that that is the focus of my post today, but that’s not really so.

What I want to talk about today isn’t how Jamie McIntyre’s wealth education program is different from what you learned in school, but how it is different than what the average person learns. Not all that unrelated, but you’ll see what I mean by this.

Doing More Than Average

This is not to discount what you would learn through this financial empowerment program in any way. There’s no doubt that school and university and college have not prepared the average person to build wealth. This post is just to show you why this makes a difference in your life—why this type of financial education will make you wealthy.

The answer is quite simple. A financial empowerment program such as this one is something that the average person never does. The average person, though, is not wealthy either. And do you know what you have to do to do better than the average person? To be the less than average wealthy man or woman? You have to do something that the average person does not.

If an average life, an average introduction to finance and wealth, and average money management were a path to wealth then most everyone would be rich by now. But comparatively speaking few people are financially wealthy. If you want to be one of the few you have to start doing something that few people are doing, and you have to start somewhere to learn how to do that. Start by learning more than the average person knows about building wealth and investing, and then continue on to wealth by doing what the average person is just not willing to do.

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

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It is hard to hear that you might have to just steel yourself and face the fact that you’ll have to put more into your day if you want to get more out of it before you ultimately enjoy the wealth you have built. That is understandable, but it’s a fact of life for many nonetheless. It had to be said.

Knowing what a burden adding more to your day might be for you, I thought about how we might alleviate some of that additional pressure. The good news is that for many, many people, there are real ways to get more out of your day, put more in, and maybe even spend less time overall doing it. How is that possible?

Get More Out Of Your Day By Doing Less

Quality not quantity. In the end when you have added in the additional duties of educating yourself about finance and building wealth, and then acting to make it happen, this might be a wash as far as time spent ‘doing’ is concerned. In actuality it is meant to be. If we can reduce your day to the point where you are doing everything essential and taking action to grow financially and seeing results, all the better; I truly hope that does happen for you. Of course, that might mean this is a good time to step up your efforts at building wealth, too.

If you are skeptical about being able to take something out of your day, something that will put time into your day that you can devote to investing and making money, I don’t blame you. But the fact is that a lot of us are not very good time managers. A lot of us could find a lot more time in the day just by incorporating some good time management skills. Let’s take a look at what could go.

• TV—an easy one, something we could easily do without if it meant more financial freedom

• Procrastinating—how much time do you spend wishing you didn’t have to do something? Finding other things to do to put off what really needs your attention? A lot of times it is more time than the task actually takes.

• Distractions—emails, phone calls, IM, aimless web-surfing, unannounced visitors (in and out of the office)

• Limitless schedules—there things that are unavoidable in life, but the problem comes when these things take more of your life than they should. Place limits on meetings, visits, phone calls, and limits on your time. Give each task only the time it deserves.

• Obsessive tasks—there are probably things you do that can live with a little less attention. For example, are you an obsessive cleaner or email checker? Cut back and prioritize.

This is by no means a complete list, but the hope is that it will get you thinking about what can go so you have more time for your real priority. What can you add to this list?

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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Sometimes it takes a lot of convincing to prove to people that the basic concept of the 21st Century Academy and wealth creation—the concept of thought and mindset as the path to building wealth and being wealthy—is a real, proven way to become wealthy. Over and over you’ll hear people say that they think about money, or they think about being wealthy, and yet still nothing has changed in their lives. So does this mean Jamie McIntyre and his colleagues are a crock? Certainly not. There are definitive reasons why thinking your way to wealth works for some and not for others.

How Big Do You Think?

One of the more common reasons is that people just do not think big enough. They think about money, they think about being financially comfortable, but they don’t think about it in terms of true wealth. They don’t think in big enough sums. They think too small.

It’s really very simple. Your financial success is directly proportional to the size of the thoughts you have. Many people think that they can start small and giant wealth will come. Small thoughts and financial goals seem more achievable, so they think, “I’ll go after a few thousand, and then I’ll be on my way to becoming wealthy.” And that might work except that those thousand dollar thoughts never get replaced with bigger thoughts of financial success.

Think Big To Achieve Big

What would be more effective would be to think in terms of hundreds of thousands or millions—whatever your wealth goals are. Then think of smaller sums as stepping stones. But always, your thoughts need to be as large what you really want to achieve.

What you need to remember is that thoughts attract the wealth and positivity that you expend with them. So if you only think in limited amounts of wealth or positivity, you will only achieve limited financial success. If you want to attract the big wealth, big positivity, and big money, you have to think in that way. You have to think big-money to attract big-money.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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Today we’ll be using the list from the last post to complete the exercise designed by Jamie McIntyre, offered through the 21st Century Academy, to rewire the way your subconscious mind views money. We’re going to take a look at the most limiting beliefs you hold towards money and use them to answer some questions and create a plan of action.

Answer Me This

Answer yourself this—what I think doesn’t matter. This is all about how your mind twists money into negativity and prevents you from being a financial success.

The next step is to take that list and just answer a few questions, again provided by Jamie McIntyre. They are:

1. What are my most limiting beliefs about having absolute financial abundance?

2. What specific amount of money represents financial abundance to me?

3. What will I do today toward developing a financial plan?

4. What did I learn today that I can use to make progress?

5. What financial terms and aspects of personal finance do I not currently understand?

6. Why am I committed to follow through?

7. Give one or two situations from the past when you pulled through despite difficulty.

Start Moving Forward

I like this exercise because is gives you valuable insight into your subconscious mind, making you aware of how you are hindering your own wealth creation without even knowing it. I also like it because it gives you small steps you can take today even without the complete benefit of the 21st Century Academy to start moving forward. Additionally, those actions are small enough to be implemented without interfering with anything else in your life.

I hope this exercise provides the insight and enough action that you need to start enjoying success with money today. I wish you all the best and hope to see you back here soon so that I can help you learn to go further and do even more!

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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More than likely, you suffer from a poor financial attitude. More than likely, you don’t even realize you do. The great majority of people who come to the 21st Century Academy for help—in fact, the great majority of people in the world—do have a negative attitude towards money, and they don’t even realize they do.

How Financial Negativity Keeps You Down

Financial negativity is one of the number one reasons why people do not become wealthy. Realistically, it could be the top reason why people continue to struggle financially.

A negative attitude towards money causes you to subconsciously resist money, wealth, and success. That means that your subconscious (or even conscious negative) attitude towards money directly causes your lack of freedom in life, in any way that freedom is tied to money and finance (and let’s be honest here—that’s almost everything).

How Did I Get This Way?

You know that having money is imperative to living freely and comfortably. Right now, you might be resisting the idea that you even have a negative attitude towards money. So if you weren’t aware that your financial attitude was poor, how could you have gotten to this point?

First off, as we said, you’re not alone. Almost everyone has a negative attitude towards money—even Jamie McIntyre did. Don’t feel badly about it, just take it for what it’s worth and recognize it.

To address the question at hand, you got this way as a result of your life up until this point. Your every experience with money—or without money—has had a bearing on the attitude you hold towards money and wealth today. It’s a cumulative effect of a lifetime of hearing about the bad that money and wealth do in this world. It’s the cumulative effect of convincing yourself you don’t really need money to be happy and secure. Yes, you and almost everyone around you for your entire life have worked to develop this negativity towards wealth.

Knowing this is half the battle. The other half is overcoming it. In future posts, we’ll start talking about the methods that Jamie McIntyre employs through the 21st Century Academy to help you replace your negativity with an attitude of positivity and abundance. Do be sure to come back here, and see what you can do to change your negative ways.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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