21st Century Academy

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

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

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