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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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Many people do not understand a very simple concept that relates directly to success and financial freedom—the concept that their life is all about choice, and that any man or woman has choices. Choice is really what the 21st Century Academy is all about—it’s about giving you information so that you can make choices and achieve financial freedom, so that you can fully enjoy life. Once you understand that choice is yours, you’ll find the ability to do so many things.

Money Choices

Whether you feel it or not, you do have many choices in how you spend your money. Most people don’t think they do because they have many bills and financial obligations. But the fact is that you choose what you pay and how you pay it. So yes, you do have choice over your money. You also choose where you spend the remaindering cash, whether it is invested, spent on quality as Jamie would have you do, or squandered and never to be seen again.

You also have the choice to make changes to any of the above so that you can attend to your personal wealth. And there are ways to do that and still pay the bills, under any circumstances (and yes, this is addressed in the wealth homestudy publications).

Time Choices

We treat how we spend our time similar to how we spend our money—as dictated by others and outside forces. But that is not at all true. Very few people have the power and ability to physically force you into anything. The rest, while demanding, can certainly be managed so that you have the time to create wealth of your own.

Choice Is Power

Choice is power. When you understand that your life is all about the choices you make you gain a great strength of power that you can reshape and repurpose for your own best interests. Understand the power you hold over your own life and put it to its best possible uses.

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

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It probably goes without saying that in order to build wealth you have to invest in your own financial empowerment. That’s true in terms of what you do with your money, but it’s true of other related aspects of building wealth. Investment, however, can mean many, many different things. Let’s explore.

Financial Investment For Creating Wealth

At some point you have to make a financial investment in some form in order to build financial prosperity. That probably sounds very simplistic. The reason that I bring it up is to point out that there are many ways that can be done. Stock market or share market investing may seem like the most obvious, and is often what people think a financial education program will teach, and nothing more. Realistically, though, financial investment can refer to others forms of investment such as real estate and property, insurance investing, businesses and much more. You will need some type of vehicle, but it does not necessarily need to be stocks, or not only stocks.

Personal Investment For Creating Wealth

The other form of investment that is imperative to building wealth (and it is the one the 21st Century Academy is really all about) is personal investment. Investing the time and energy, and yes money, in yourself so that you can learn to be wealthy and take wealthy actions.

Personal investment is the much more important of these two. When you invest in yourself you invest in something with unlimited potential. You invest in an investment vehicle with innumerable opportunities for replication.

Investing means that you put something in to get something out. The more seeds you plant, financially, but more importantly personally, the more you get out of that investment. It’s a must if you will succeed and be wealthy, but investing, especially in you, is the best return you will ever enjoy.

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 willvary 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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You can get more out of your day by doing what you love and pursuing an interest that works collaboratively towards wealth creation. You can also get more out of your day by leveraging the skills that you already have and putting those to work within your wealth building plan. Now let’s look at a way to combine the two to get even more out of your day once again.

What Would You Love To Do?

Once upon a time people chose their careers in their teens, trained, and stayed in that career or line of work—often the very same job—for the entirety of their working lives. But that kind of life becomes very monotonous and draining. Not to mention the fact that what we are focusing on is getting out of the work for pay mentality and into the wealth creation mentality of letting your money work for you.

As we’ve discussed, though, you still have many, many options for investment and acquiring wealth. And so you have many options to explore that which interests you and use it as your basis for making money.

Two of the ways, which I alluded to in the intro for this post, of getting more out of your day are

• Working with the skills you have for a quick start, and

• Following your interests for a more enjoyable and sustainable journey to wealth

Now let’s take that a step further. Let’s think about the things you’ve always dreamed of doing—the skills and interests you want to have, but haven’t yet achieved.

The skills that you want to be pursuing are another excellent way to get more out of your day and to build wealth at the same time. When you pursue that long-held passion and build a new set of skills you harness the power of doing what you love, while you also build a whole new set of skills that you can capitalize for acquiring wealth. These can then either replace the old skills for something more interesting, or they can be combined with them. Building your future skillset and capitalizing on it creates an effective combination of interest, desire, time management, and wealth education that could very well be your personal key to sustainable success.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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