21st Century Academy

As you learn about the mindset that is necessary to create wealth, and Jamie McIntyre’s program takes you through the exercises that work to overcome your attitudes and subconscious thoughts that repel wealth, it is likely that you will go through emotions relating to the selfishness of wealth. These are common emotions, and it’s understandable how this comes to be the case, but being wealthy and the process of building wealth is not selfish—it is just the opposite; you just need to see that to overcome the problem.

Take Care Of You, Take Care Of Others

You know that to be wealthy you have to make a priority of you and your money. That’s nothing new, we’ve talked about it multiple times before and it’s a central theme in the 21st Century Academy, too. But we’ve been taught all our lives that there is something wrong with that, even though most of us know, at least superficially, that you cannot help others if you do not take care of yourself.

The truth of it is that if you do take care of yourself, develop healthy financial habits, build wealth, and have money to live freely, you maximize your ability to help others. If you are financially healthy, you have the means to invest and build wealth, live a better lifestyle, provide for a better and less stressful lifestyle for those who depend on you, and become an independent individual who helps the larger society rather than become a drain upon it. Indeed, your strengthened financial position makes you a better provider, a more accessible parent and partner, and a stronger contributing member to society.

If you look at it that way being wealthy sounds like the responsible thing to do, not the selfish thing to do. And that is what wealth is—it is the freedom and ability to fulfill your own needs and others without harming, and with the financial means to enhance life all around.

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

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What is it that is really, truly, keeping you from being wealthy? Or, what has it been in the past that has kept you from being wealthy that you have overcome to finally find financial success? Do the traces remain?

Finding The Real Reasons

For everything there is a reason. Whatever it is that has kept you from being wealthy in the past, there was something at the heart of the matter. Now, when asked the questions above, people will often, and often sarcastically, answer that money is keeping them from being wealthy. But that’s not really ever true. Consider two points:

1. There is a reason that you do not/did not have money
2. Many people with huge incomes are not wealthy, either

Money is an easy scape-goat for so much of what we do not have and/or what we struggle with in life. But money is a thing, not a being, so it cannot be to fault for our financial positioning.

What is really at fault is the reason that we don’t have money. Those reasons can be many and varied, and may include things like

• A lacking financial education—are you still relying on what you learned in school?
• A negative financial attitude—conscious or subconscious
• Poor savings and investment habits
• Lack of action
• The missing success mindset

I’m sure that readers here can add to this list, too. Please do below and we’ll discuss it further. But before we wrap this up, I want to go back to one question I posed in the opening paragraph.

Do The Traces Still Remain?

Even people who have gained that financial education, improved their attitude, constructed a mindset of success and positivity, and remedied their poor savings and investment habits, can still remain in a state of financial struggle. Sometimes people make headway, and then end up back where they always find themselves. When that happens, there is a reason, too, and to enjoy lasting wealth and financial prosperity you have to get at the heart of it and weed it out. You may think you have done all of this already, but the results of your efforts are a sure indication of what lies beneath.

So today, in order to help you succeed and build wealth, I urge you to take a step back and figure out if there is improvement, or if there is an underlying reason why you are not where you’d hoped to be. Then use that to get at the real heart of the matter, and enjoy real success.

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

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In a separate comment on another blog of mine [seanrasmussen.com], a comment came in during our conversations related to the Economics of State of Mind to the effect that in booming times people are quick to take credit and say that they made it all on their own; but in times of bust, such as what many economies of the world are experiencing now, it’s always someone else’s fault. So which is it? Are you responsible for your own financial outcome or is your current financial state the fault or credit of another? Because it can’t really be both ways, can it?

What Would Jamie McIntyre Say?

While it is much easier to say that a lack of money is the fault of another, that is not really true. And like it or not, Jamie McIntyre’s wealth education course is based in reality; in real, workable, achievable ways to get rich. So that means that he would have you not only take credit for your financial successes, but also your failures. It’s unfortunate and it’s true, but ultimately, even though there are outside forces that come into play, it is your process of decision, mindset, and action that determines your personal financial outcome.

You Control Your Financial Future

But what about forces outside of your control? How can you be left to blame for those?

We all know that these forces exist, and that you will come up against both great successes and temporary defeat. And it is what you do with that that determines sustainable wealth. If you know these factors exist, you know that you can take steps to counter the negative and leverage the positive. You can diversify, prepare, save, and even put yourself in a position to benefit financially from tough times. There are things that you can do, as you will surely learn.

Without responsibility and action, you will not thrive and become wealthy. Knowing how to be wealthy means knowing how to manage money and investment in good times and in bad. That, and wiping blame off the table as the useless emotion and negativity-generator that it is.

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

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We’ve talked about it, and I’m sure you could relate to the necessity of staying empowered and making your life one of consistent positivity and success. If it were that easy, you’d be there by now, though, right? So let’s talk about some ways to be more consistent in your wealthy mindset, attitude, and approach to life.

The Habit Of Success

What is most effective is to first build a habit of success. By the time we are adults many people have become so ingrained in negative thought, so used to immediately defaulting to stress, pressure, and negativity, that we have lost the ability to think and feel positive. It should be an automatic, but probably more often than not the automatic response is negativity, not positivity and abundance.

A habit of success is built by retraining ourselves. It’s something like the subconscious rewiring that Jamie McIntyre teaches, which we talked about before. The way to start building more consistent positivity is to first build constant reminders into your day to do just that.

It’s sad but true that by the time we are adults we have to work to be more positive. This should be something that is second nature, but it’s not. The simplest way to kick-start this process is to build reminders into your life to appreciate more and remember that you are a wealthy person, working to acquire more wealth all the time.

You probably get my meaning by now, so I’ll just leave off with a few tips for becoming consistently positive and successful.

• Schedule time everyday for your wealth education (because the program and the process itself is motivating)
• Write your goals and read them daily as a reminder and motivator
• Surround yourself with motivating quotations, or even pictures that represent what you want
• Take time to appreciate your life and progress everyday. Take just a few moments to tell yourself that you are wealthy, you are achieving, and you do have cause to be thankful.
• Keep a blog or journal to motivate yourself to remember what you have and what you overachieving
• Visit motivational blogs and websites for a daily dose of motivation

What can you add to this list? What are some small ways you can become consistently positive and stay on the path to progress and financial success?

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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