21st Century Academy

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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Jamie McIntyre is a truly inspirational person, and there is so much his wealth education program has to offer; nevertheless, the time is bound to come when you might feel a bit overwhelmed, and think that maybe wealth is too far beyond you. Often that happens before people even get started, just because that feeling of being overwhelmed has gotten the best of them. But you know there’s really not a lot that separates the wealthy from the not-so wealthy. And for you one step could make all the difference in the world.

One Step Further

When times like those strike, all you need to remember is that it only takes the difference of one step to separate the wealthy and the financially burdened. One single step, one solitary action, is what moved that wealthy person in the right direction and moved him or her that much closer to wealth and success. Logically, then, it can be the same for you. To be wealthy you only have to take one step forward, take one more action, to be wealthy. At any point in your plan to develop wealth, one single action will get you closer, and will be enough to break you from that rut of skepticism.

Why Most People Are Not Wealthy

Most people are not wealthy because they do not take that step. They get down, and they stay down, or start walking back. They take a step, but it’s in the wrong direction. Most people are not wealthy simply because they do not persist in that which they know can succeed. That’s the way of the average person, and that’s what makes an average life.

You now know that, though. So there is no need for you to be average. You have far more knowledge and many more tools available to you, and you have a perspective on success. You know that you can achieve wealth manageably by just going that one step and doing what the average person will not.

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

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The point that I’ve tried to drive home in all the conversations about personal choice is that you do, in fact, have money now. You may even have wealth now, depending on your perspective. Understanding that is to your direct advantage because having money takes away one of the largest impediments to creating wealth.

It’s Your Money

You do have money. Chances are you have a good amount of it—an amount that would do quite well applied to what you learn through your wealth building education. The reason that you may not feel as though you have any wealth, and I know we’ve said this before so please bear with me, is that you also have a great many financial obligations and demands placed upon you and it—too many homes for your money. The smallest home for it is probably your own accounts.

Anyone with money can be wealthy. That is one of the first things Jaime McIntyre speaks to. Actually, he takes a step further back and shows you how you can fund an investment program and personal wealth even with a lack of funding. But to get back to the point, if you have money you have financial opportunity. All that you need to do to capitalize on it is make the right choices-the choices that build wealth and do more than just pay the bills.

Making Wealthy Financial Decisions

Now that I think we are all starting to understand this, let’s talk about bridging that gap between having money, meeting your financial obligations, and building wealth. I wouldn’t blame you right now if you are thinking that that is easier said than done. Because it is. But that does not mean that it’s impossible.

There are many strategies that you can employ that begin right now to start utilizing your money for your financial good and future wealth. Jamie’s program will give you many (all very real, all proven). If in doubt, just remember that Jamie McIntyre himself started hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. But he found a way to put himself first and still satisfy his debtors, and become a true millionaire in just a matter of years. So there are ways for it to be done. And they start with taking control of your money. You’ll see.

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

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There is one refrain Jamie McIntyre hears over and over in response to the 21st Century Academy—that’s so simple! And there’s nothing more true.

Why Wealth Empowerment Is So Simple

In truth wealth empowerment is simple. It’s very simple to change your financial future—redesign your mind, develop a mindset of success and you will be successful. It’s a simple concept. But not one without merit. All of the leading wealth educators in the world list mindset as the number one factor that must be achieved to succeed and be wealthy. All the best success mentors, the best life coaches, will tell you this. In one form or another, by one name or another, the one thing that you need to do is develop a mindset of positivity and success.

About Success And Simplicity

People have a hard time accepting that anything good in life could be so simple. Maybe it’s because life in general has become so hard; or maybe it’s because we’re always leery of things that are “too good to be true.” And while it’s good to have an idea of instinctual caution, it’s not good to let yourself believe that everything in life has to be hard. The most successful paths are not complex and winding—they are clear and relatively straight-forward.

Now to address the idea of “too good to be true.” Let’s think for a minute why people say that—what is too good to be true?

Today the phrase has come to usually be associated with get-rich-quick schemes or getting something of worth for virtually nothing. An easy way to get rich, for instance. But herein is where the difference lies with this wealth education program.

Jamie McIntyre’s program is simple, but it is not necessarily “easy.” Now that is not to say you cannot understand it or accomplish it, because you certainly can. But it is to say that you should expect to put some work into it. There are simple methods and simple wealth strategies, but all of them require action on your part—work. That’s something only you can do. But if you are willing, I promise that you will learn how simply and effectively it can (and will) be done.

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

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We’ve talked at length about how the 21st Century Academy education is different—how it is a new financial education for a new century, to replace what you just haven’t been taught yet. You might think that that is the focus of my post today, but that’s not really so.

What I want to talk about today isn’t how Jamie McIntyre’s wealth education program is different from what you learned in school, but how it is different than what the average person learns. Not all that unrelated, but you’ll see what I mean by this.

Doing More Than Average

This is not to discount what you would learn through this financial empowerment program in any way. There’s no doubt that school and university and college have not prepared the average person to build wealth. This post is just to show you why this makes a difference in your life—why this type of financial education will make you wealthy.

The answer is quite simple. A financial empowerment program such as this one is something that the average person never does. The average person, though, is not wealthy either. And do you know what you have to do to do better than the average person? To be the less than average wealthy man or woman? You have to do something that the average person does not.

If an average life, an average introduction to finance and wealth, and average money management were a path to wealth then most everyone would be rich by now. But comparatively speaking few people are financially wealthy. If you want to be one of the few you have to start doing something that few people are doing, and you have to start somewhere to learn how to do that. Start by learning more than the average person knows about building wealth and investing, and then continue on to wealth by doing what the average person is just not willing to do.

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

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