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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.

“…you can make excuses in your life and you can make money, but you can not do both at the same time.”

–What I Didn’t Learn At School But Wish I Had

We are continuing today to move on through Chapter One of Jamie McIntyre’s book, where the discussion is centered on why people fail to be wealthy. We are looking for the answers to why 96 percent of people (the people Jamie calls the “96 percenters”) end up dead, broke, or dead broke by the age of retirement. One reason for this that cannot be ignored is blame and excuses.

There’s Always A “Reason”

It seems almost human nature to create excuses and blame other people and situations for what we have not achieved. Mind you, when we do achieve and succeed, we are much less likely to do this, and much more likely to take the credit, but in the case of continued financial failure there is always a “reason” why things are the way they are (of course, these aren’t really “reasons” but excuses, but we’ll get into that later).

For example, Jamie used to say that the reason he wasn’t wealthy was that he was owed too much money by other people, or that he needed money to make money, or had too much debt, that he wasn’t born into money or handed a leg-up, or simply because he wasn’t interested in money (but we’ve already talked about living in financial denial). Or he would imagine that the solution was evading him, and if someone would just help him out, or if he could find the “right” career, then everything would fall into place.

A Familiar Feeling

I’m willing to bet Jamie’s litany of excuses sounds familiar to you; it seems as humans we are not all that original in finding excuses for why we are not wealthy. But whatever it is you are telling yourself, you need to start realizing that those are not reasons for your lack of wealth.

The only way these sorts of excuses become reasons you are not wealthy is because you give over your power to them. You allow them to become hurdles to success, but only because you choose to. These are hurdles that are easily removed because all you have to do is stop playing the blame game and stop making excuses. It may be a familiar and comfortable place, but it’s not a productive one, and it will never make you wealthy. Take back your power and start putting it to better use.

To Your Continued Success!
Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 – 2009

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