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One of the leading barriers to wealth is the inability to get started. A lack of funding or seed money is one of the biggest problems people face. If you have read any of Jamie McIntyre’s materials, his free eBook for example, you probably know what I’m talking about. This goes back to one of the primary reasons people in wealthy nations are not wealthy themselves—people put everyone else first above their own financial wealth. The majority of people are not saving and do not make themselves a financial priority because there are too many other pressing obligations.

Part and parcel to this is the role that banks and established lending protocols play. As consumers we learn (from a very early age) that these are the entities that control the money. And without their help we are financially helpless. We become fearful of doing anything outside the financial norm because we need these institutions to survive.

That’s Precisely What They Want You To Think

They need you to think this way. Because if you do not then you will not need them. If you know how to create wealth of your own, if you take control of your financial future and make yourself a priority, you significantly limit the power and profit of these institutions. Because banks and lenders make money off the middle-class, not off the wealthy.

What winds up happening is that the middle-class live in fear of the established financial systems. They do not take effective steps to prioritize their financial lives because that might mean ignoring the financial powers that be. The trade-off, however, is that you will continue to be a slave to them and continue to be very low on your own list of priorities.

To clarify, lending institutions and banks and systems are not all bad. There is good they can do and good ways that you can utilize them to your own advantage. You do need to learn the difference, though, or you will forever live in fear and not live prosperously with yourself and your family and loved-ones as the pinnacle of your financial life.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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One great turn will get you to certain goals; it may even get you to the goal that you have defined as your arrival at being wealthy. But to stay there, it takes more than one good turn. It takes many, and an ongoing, continuing effort to stay on top.

Continuing On In Wealth And Prosperity

So what is the path to follow? How does developing wealth continue?

The continuous path to financial freedom is variable, as all of success and achievement is. It will vary depending on your strategy for building wealth, your interests, your needs, your successes, and even your failures. Moving forward, there are some general things you should consider that will help you stay the course to financial freedom. For instance

• Continuing on in wealth education for increased success and more ways to become wealthy

• Developing new strategies for investment and wealth creation

• Reevaluating strategies and goals

• Scrapping the under-performers for the real money makers

• Diversifying for greater return and security

Staying The Course

This endless work sounds tiring, doesn’t it? And if you’ve met your goals, and achieved that level of wealth success that you were shooting for, why should you have to keep going? Why is important to continue to work to develop financial freedom when you have already achieved that goal?

It’s all about sustainability. A windfall sum of money will make you feel wealthy for a time, but to truly be wealthy—to be financially independent and in control—you must develop lasting wealth. Lasting wealth depends on your continuing to build upon your success for greater success. Lasting wealth is the key to true financial freedom.

The continuing road does not have to be an extraneous effort. Being that you have already come this far, and that you have already learned so much to get here and changed in so many positive ways, you’ll find that continuing on is much, much easier than getting started and making your first money. All you need to do now is to sustain that wealth through continued commitment to your new mindset and lifestyle. But with the world of possibilities and a healthy taste of financial success, no doubt you’ll be energized and raring to go anyway.

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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The idea that you can basically think yourself to wealth, that you can become rich by developing the right mindset, seems too simple for some to accept as a viable path to financial security. Many will argue that they’ve had wealthy thoughts, so why aren’t they rich yet? Sometimes the answer is that you’re not really thinking about being wealthy, you’re dreaming about it.

The Difference Between Thoughts And Dreams

A thought is defined as “an idea produced by mental activity.”

A dream is defined as “a sequence of mental images” or (in the case of daydreams) “a series of images, usually pleasant…that pass through the mind…” Other definitions of the word dream include “something hoped for” or “idle hope.”

When you read these definitions you can see one stark contrast between the two—one is active and one is not. Thoughts are the result of activity, whereas dreams are mental pictures or hopes that happen in the idle mind.

Jamie McIntyre’s Concept

Many people who cannot accept Jamie McIntyre’s concept that the key to wealth is in mindset fail to see the difference between their thoughts and dreams; they think they are thinking wealthy thoughts, when they are really just idly dreaming about images of wealth.

A dream can become a thought, or can be moved to the conscious thought process where it can become an active thought. Dreams are not bad things but you do need to understand the difference so that you do not convince yourself you are thinking rich when you are only dreaming. Put your effort behind thinking wealthy thoughts and understand the role of your dreams. Then you will be on the real path to financial freedom and making the most of your wealth creation education.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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The power of attraction is a simple principle, but it can be hard for people to find real ways to put it into action. This can be especially hard if you come to exploring wealth creation and programs like the 21st Century Academy out of need. It’s easier to start stockpiling abundance and attracting more positivity and success if you start small, though. Let’s take a look at the ways that other people, including myself, Jamie McIntyre, and scores of others, have managed to find good things to think about and live even when living with need and financial stress.

Abundance Starts With The Little Things

One of the reasons that people fail to attract more good and abundance in life is that they fail to see that every life is already abundant. Your life may not be financially abundant, and you may still have a very real and strong need for more money in your life, but I promise that upon further evaluation you can find something to be positive about. And since we know one positive thought or act will attract another, we can deduce that one positive thought or movement is all it will take to draw another.

Take a look at your life today—right now. Find one thing that is valuable in your life. It can be something as simple as your ability to access this blog, and so the information that leads to wealth and building a life of financial freedom. Grasp that firmly and focus on it. And then look around for more. Find two things, then three—as many as you can. If you want to, make a list that you can refer back to when you need a shot of abundance in your life.

Start looking at your life as being blessed with wealth. Stockpile that abundance and build upon it. Know that you already have what it takes to start on a road to riches—you have the power of attraction, and something good in your life with which you can attract more good and more wealth. You don’t need anything else to start living and attracting wealth. It’s all here now, and all the tools that you need to take it the next step further are here now, too. That’s something worth thinking positively about!

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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