21st Century Academy

By now you are probably getting the point of the last few posts:

If you want to be rich, you have to do things differently. The best way to put this is the way Jamie McIntyre puts it in his book, which is the way his millionaire mentor put it to him:

“…If you want to succeed, you need to figure out what…[most people] are doing and do the exact opposite.”

You’ll notice my edit there—all I did was replace “Australians” with “most people”—because this is a universal message and I wouldn’t want any international readers to think this applied only in Australia. This is as applicable anywhere in the modern world. The statistics and results are really not all that different for any of the wealthy, developed nations.

Doing It Differently

What “most people” do is follow that traditional formula for success; and end up broke, dead broke, or relying on family if they are lucky enough to live beyond a few years past retirement. Does this make any sense?

Certainly not. There’s more to life than this. Life is not just one journey to and from work. It’s an experience worth living!

Stories And Morals

The moral of the story up to here then, is that if you want to live a life outside of the norm, you have to do something different. You have to achieve the real wealth equation:

• Lifestyle = Time + Money

You cannot achieve that through the old formula for success, but you can do it by doing something different—just like what Jamie McIntyre did. Jamie’s formula was a bit more like this:

• Commit to building a better life for you and yours
• Discover what it takes to be different
• Find new paths to wealth that do not rely on time-consuming employment (Get educated!)
• ACT to build wealth and achieve your lifestyle of choice

The key to this is figuring out how to do it differently—precisely what the 21st Century Academy is for. Find out how to do it bigger and better, and live the best possible life that you can live!

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

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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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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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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 will vary 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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Jamie McIntyre offers an exercise in one of his books that he calls the “Meaning of Money” exercise. The purpose of this exercise is to rewire your financial subconscious to determine—precisely—which beliefs are hindering your financial success. It goes a little something like this…

The Meaning Of Money

Although consciously people can link money to pleasure, subconsciously it is linked to pain and harmful negative emotions. With so much negativity undermining your efforts, it is very hard to control your conscious life and take the steps that are necessary to build wealth. But if you can identify those triggers, you can heal and begin to create room in life for financial success. Uninhibited financial success.

The exercise is easy. Recruit a partner and have him or her ask you each of these three questions 20 times (simple one-word answers are fine). Go beyond 20 if you find it’s not enough. Go until you have exhausted your mind and revealed all of that which represents what money means to you.

This is the list of the three questions as provided by Jamie McIntyre and the 21st Century Academy:

1. What is money?

2. What is not having money?

3. What is money really?

It’s a simple list, but very telling. Just to give you an idea, here are some of the responses that Jamie has heard to each of the questions (these are only examples, yours can be the same or entirely different—it’s all about what money represents to you!!).

1. quality, paper, lifestyle, access, freedom, value, commitment

2. feelings of want or scarcity, controlled by outside forces, loss, frustration, pain

3. energy, what we decide it is, choice, opportunity, leverage, power

For now, take this list and let it lie. It is nothing more than a list of your feelings. It means nothing in and of itself. Come back for the next post, and I’ll show you how to put this list to work to see some real results and open your mind for wealth creation!

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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