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What is it that is really, truly, keeping you from being wealthy? Or, what has it been in the past that has kept you from being wealthy that you have overcome to finally find financial success? Do the traces remain?

Finding The Real Reasons

For everything there is a reason. Whatever it is that has kept you from being wealthy in the past, there was something at the heart of the matter. Now, when asked the questions above, people will often, and often sarcastically, answer that money is keeping them from being wealthy. But that’s not really ever true. Consider two points:

1. There is a reason that you do not/did not have money
2. Many people with huge incomes are not wealthy, either

Money is an easy scape-goat for so much of what we do not have and/or what we struggle with in life. But money is a thing, not a being, so it cannot be to fault for our financial positioning.

What is really at fault is the reason that we don’t have money. Those reasons can be many and varied, and may include things like

• A lacking financial education—are you still relying on what you learned in school?
• A negative financial attitude—conscious or subconscious
• Poor savings and investment habits
• Lack of action
• The missing success mindset

I’m sure that readers here can add to this list, too. Please do below and we’ll discuss it further. But before we wrap this up, I want to go back to one question I posed in the opening paragraph.

Do The Traces Still Remain?

Even people who have gained that financial education, improved their attitude, constructed a mindset of success and positivity, and remedied their poor savings and investment habits, can still remain in a state of financial struggle. Sometimes people make headway, and then end up back where they always find themselves. When that happens, there is a reason, too, and to enjoy lasting wealth and financial prosperity you have to get at the heart of it and weed it out. You may think you have done all of this already, but the results of your efforts are a sure indication of what lies beneath.

So today, in order to help you succeed and build wealth, I urge you to take a step back and figure out if there is improvement, or if there is an underlying reason why you are not where you’d hoped to be. Then use that to get at the real heart of the matter, and enjoy real success.

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

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Grasping the concept and power of choice is difficult for people, because of all those outside factors and demands that they perceive as un-wielding. One reason that it is hard for people to come to terms with this power is because they do not understand a related and resulting power of the power of choice—the power of wealth.

Wealth Heals All Wounds

We all know that is not 100% true, but we all also know it to be mostly true in the 21st Century. Money and wealth is a tool to living well, and having it does cure a number of ills (the possible exceptions being related to emotions and health, but those are very significantly impacted by success and having wealth, too).

What I really want to talk about, though, is the idea of choosing to spend a portion of your money on you, on your savings, and on your own wealth development so that you can be wealthy. Even if you have very large financial obligations, this is what has to happen in order to be wealthy. But it often doesn’t because we are afraid of the repercussions from the establishment. What you have to remember is that the establishment is all about the money.

Bouncing Back

When you build wealth you can come back from just about anything you think you may have jeopardized in terms of financial recovery. Banks are very forgiving to people who have money. When you are a wealthy person, the establishment will deal with you—at your will, on your terms. Even before that time they will because they will have no choice—they still want their money.

To be clear, I’m not recommending that you just stop paying all your bills and start investing all your money in you. But I am recommending that you stop investing it all in everyone else’s business and see to your own first. There’s no other way to build wealth.

I also wouldn’t recommend going about this without some study and direction. Jamie McIntyre does address this very topic in his book, “What I Didn’t Learn In School But Wish I Had.” It’s a good place to start with this wealth empowerment program, because investing in yourself is elemental to financial success.

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

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How are you feeling about the wealth education that you have decided to pursue? Excited? Enthused? Energized? Pumped? Psyched? Overwhelmed? Disheartened?

I hope the latter is not the case, but I’d understand if it were. It’s not uncommon to feel like this is a great opportunity, but at the same time it is one whose promise is just too far off in the future. Whose time to come is just too late. Whose answers can’t help you now.

Let’s put those feelings in their place.

One Step Closer

If you are at the beginning of your wealth creation program it may feel like achieving that wealth is very far off in the future. You have a lot of ground to cover and a long way to go. Maybe it’s not even worth reaching for. Nothing could be farther—from the truth, that is.

When things are far off, when they seem far off, the only way to get closer to them is to take one step closer. One step at a time, make forward motion towards what you want. One step isn’t too hard to do. You can manage that now. Right now. You can enjoy that result right now. And you can get that much closer to your goal, all the while being successful to that relative degree.

The Difference Between Average And Wealthy

Keep in mind as you keep this in mind that the difference between success and failure—between being average and being wealthy—is one step—that step beyond what the average person does. It’s that single step that puts you closer to financial success than those around you who are standing still.

A million dollars might be very far away from you right at this moment, but it will never get any closer if you do not move towards it. Funny enough, it will remain just where it is right now—too far off, too elusive. Unless you take that step. Take a step closer to your future. Reduce the distance between you and wealth, and arrive at your destination.

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

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In posts past, the topic was thinking the right ’size’ thoughts in order to accomplish what you want in wealth creation. We talked about how some people just don’t see that the reason they are not wealthy is because they are not focusing their thoughts and not tailoring them to the level of financial success they want. They want to accumulate millions of dollars, but they don’t have million-dollar thoughts. They think too small, and so they attract much smaller financial wealth.

Your Idea Of What Wealth Is

Wealth is a funny word, because as much as we all desire it is very hard to define what wealth is. What amount of money would make you wealthy? How do you place value on your assets? Can you be wealthy without a set amount of money in the bank?

Wealth is calculated in many different ways depending on your assets, holdings, cash and savings, and myriad other factors. What is wealth in one corner of the world can be drastically different from what is wealth in another because costs of living and standards of living are drastically different across regions.

No one can define what wealth is to you except you—I cannot do it, Jamie McIntyre cannot do it, and neither can anyone else. Only you can decide how much money will make you feel financially secure and financially free. Only you can say what ‘wealth’ is for you.

Why It Matters What Wealth Means

Does it really matter what wealth means to anyone? It does. It matters to you what wealth means to you. It matters much less what I think it means to be wealthy, and it matters much less what Jamie McIntyre or any other person in the 21st Century Academy thinks it means. But it does matter to you personally.

The reason that it matters is that, as we discussed, you need to be able to focus your thoughts and energy to attract the level of money and financial prosperity that you want. You need to have the same size thoughts as what you seek. To do that, you need to know what you accept as wealthy so that you can tailor everything to your idea of wealth.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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Both here on this blog and through the course of the 21st Century Academy we talk about many keys to financial success. Today the key that we are talking about is consistency—consistency in attitude and in action.

Building The Habit Of Financial Success

How often have you read something, maybe something Jamie McIntyre wrote, or maybe a portion of his book or a course from his wealth education program, and come away so totally motivated and energized that you felt like you could conquer the world? And then how often did you find yourself back into a state of frustration, financial stress, and helplessness just hours later?

What do you think that relapse did for your motivation? What did it do for you over the course of your journey to creating wealth?

At the very least it caused you to stagnate until you achieved that state again. That’s the neutral effect. A worse result would be that it put you back at square one, to where you were before you felt that motivation. And worse still, it may have caused you to lose ground to the point that you are starting below where you were in the beginning. Wherever it took you, no progress was made.

Progress Leads To Success

One thing we know for sure. Without progress, there is no success. If you are constantly losing the ground you’ve made up, or at the very least knowing no forward movement, then you are not progressing towards success and wealth.

To make that progress you have to find a way to overcome the neutral and negative impacts that daily life might take. You have to find ways to consistently move forward, even if it is a little bit at a time. Building wealth, building the wealthy mindset, and building positivity has to be something that is ever-present. Your central task needs to be building that consistent lifestyle so that you are not constantly fighting to get back to where you started from, but are moving on to more.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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