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The secret to building wealth lies in part in the ability to focus on specific goals. Many individuals find that they are easily distracted, developing far too many projects at once. This leads to scattered energies moving in various directions.

Scattered energy is among the most detrimental components to building wealth. When your ideas, aspirations, and goals each move in different directions, they become diluted. Practice focus naturally guides success in your direction, and this focus needs to be purposeful and consistent. It should ideally work with your natural genius.

Finding Your Genius

Everyone has genius on some level. There is no coincidence that the word rings of genetic. The secret to success includes being able to determine your genuine genius. This involves objective self-evaluation that can be difficult, but it is well worth the effort.

The genius does not have to relate to a remarkable talent or intellectual aptitude. Many find their niche in motivating other people while others find genius in calculating figures. Others may work well with their hands. The possibilities are endless.

Recognising your personal genius begins with evaluating your strengths. You may know areas in which you excel, but it may benefit you to do a little brainstorming. You may recognize your genius as something that comes remarkably easily to you, so much so that it seems as if anyone can do it.

Creating a Plan

Building wealth relies a great deal on creating a viable plan of action. Using your niche as a guide, you can begin taking steps toward success. This process is not a struggle, as it flows naturally from your innate ability to work within your genius.

Working yourself ragged is not a viable option. There is good reason that this approach does not accumulate wealth. You become engaged in a tiresome rut and that’s just filled with feelings of anxiety and frustration. This leads to cycle of fatigue and a sense of hopelessness.

Begin with a plan of action that works with your strengths. Diligence at work does not have to be a struggle, and genuine feelings of gratitude naturally arise out of doing what you love. This leads to a positive cycle of energy, motivation and focus.

The primary question is how to take the first step. What I Didn’t Learn in School but Wish I Had by Jamie McIntyre offers insight into a millionaire’s mindset, providing viable approaches to building wealth easily.

Do you have what it takes to get wealthy – the courage to do what you need to in order to get rich? If you are like successful students of the 21st Century Academy, you may have done your research on making money but initially doubted your own ability to stick to the right path on your way to gaining wealth. This is a losing attitude.

So what is the key to getting wealthy? There are actually five maxims which can help anyone achieve success.

Get Motivated

Without motivation, your desire will never be anything more than that: an ambiguous emotion. True motivation is translated into ambition and ambition results in action. Only action can create wealth.

Manage Your Time Efficiently

Gaining wealth takes time. Take it from Jamie McIntyre, there are no shortcuts to this step. Do only those things which result in the generation of income. Let me repeat that: only spend your time on income generation. This means you will have no extra time for leisure pursuits, at least until you have amassed a sufficient amount of assets.

Frugal Cash Management

If you own your own business, you know that taking all the income earned from it and using it to buy things for yourself is not the way to become successful. You must first make a good profit before even considering spending money on extras.

The Law of Attraction

If you can desire it, you can obtain it. Enough said.

Set Clear Goals

How you can obtain anything if you don’t know what it is you want? Jamie McIntyre knows this rule firsthand. Only by writing down exactly what it was he desired was he able to develop a plan with the steps necessary to obtain it.

Now that you know what it takes to create wealth, do you have the courage to do what needs to be done?

Motivating ourselves to achieve our goals is not an easy thing to do. Somehow, as conscious as we think we are of our plans and goals, we continue to lose sight of them as we go about our lives. Sometimes this is the result of not having set solid goals and not having planned for action on them, but sometimes it is just the result of too many other things getting in our way—of life happening.

We need all the tools we can get to help us stay focused and achieve the end we desire . Since we so often are putting ourselves last, one tactic that works (usually without your even realizing it) is to help others.

Intrinsic Assistants

If you think about, most people are intrinsically motivated to help one another. If you need an example of that, think about how quick you are to drop what you are doing, even though it may derail your plans, and help someone else out. Think how eagerly you will share your knowledge with someone who asks for your help, even though it is often a case of “giving away the goods.” As you think about that, think about how painless that feels for you to do.

Your Reward

Now think about how you could apply this same painless concept to creating wealth, or motivating yourself to create wealth. Even though you might find it difficult to attend to the tasks at hand, think about how much easier that might be just by sharing your knowledge, plans, and resources with someone else.

This is a great reason not to keep your plans and efforts at wealth creation to yourself; going public with your goals so that you can share that knowledge with others can have many return benefits. Not only do you get the satisfaction of helping another, but you also get the benefit of living, being what you want to be. Your selflessness becomes your reward, in more ways than you would ever have thought.

Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy
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