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Still in the interest of helping you help yourself more and make the most of all your days, here’s yet another thing to consider.

The Skills And Experience You Have Now

One of the ways that you can most efficiently use your time is to utilize the skills that you already have. In some ways this is similar to getting more out by going with what interests you. Hopefully you have built your skillset upon that which interests you the most. That will make it even easier to capitalize on all that you have readily available to you. If you have skills that aren’t really in your most desired area of interest, but that are readily usable still, it is definitely worth considering taking advantage of them now as you build into what you really want to be doing.

When you can utilize what is already familiar and second-nature you don’t have to spend time learning new skills before you can put them to work. Being that you are pursuing wealth you may be thinking you have no skills that apply, but that is probably not the case.

What have you learned?

Look at what you have done and what you have learned. Now look at the ways that Jamie McIntyre is showing you for making money. Look at how he shows you to create opportunity. What can you marry here?

I’ll give you just a couple of examples and let you take it from there. For instance, maybe you were a housepainter in college; maybe you have learned how to redecorate by revamping every place you’ve ever lived. Those sound like very good skills a real estate investor might want for do-it-yourself fix and flips.

Or maybe your skills have always been more book-oriented. Maybe bookkeeping and numbers are your strength. You’ll find those skills invaluable on the trades markets.

I doubt that there is anyone without a skill that can be captured and capitalized for building wealth and investing. If you look deep enough, if you are creative enough, you will find what you need within yourself. Make the most of what you know to make the most of your financial future!

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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It is hard to hear that you might have to just steel yourself and face the fact that you’ll have to put more into your day if you want to get more out of it before you ultimately enjoy the wealth you have built. That is understandable, but it’s a fact of life for many nonetheless. It had to be said.

Knowing what a burden adding more to your day might be for you, I thought about how we might alleviate some of that additional pressure. The good news is that for many, many people, there are real ways to get more out of your day, put more in, and maybe even spend less time overall doing it. How is that possible?

Get More Out Of Your Day By Doing Less

Quality not quantity. In the end when you have added in the additional duties of educating yourself about finance and building wealth, and then acting to make it happen, this might be a wash as far as time spent ‘doing’ is concerned. In actuality it is meant to be. If we can reduce your day to the point where you are doing everything essential and taking action to grow financially and seeing results, all the better; I truly hope that does happen for you. Of course, that might mean this is a good time to step up your efforts at building wealth, too.

If you are skeptical about being able to take something out of your day, something that will put time into your day that you can devote to investing and making money, I don’t blame you. But the fact is that a lot of us are not very good time managers. A lot of us could find a lot more time in the day just by incorporating some good time management skills. Let’s take a look at what could go.

• TV—an easy one, something we could easily do without if it meant more financial freedom

• Procrastinating—how much time do you spend wishing you didn’t have to do something? Finding other things to do to put off what really needs your attention? A lot of times it is more time than the task actually takes.

• Distractions—emails, phone calls, IM, aimless web-surfing, unannounced visitors (in and out of the office)

• Limitless schedules—there things that are unavoidable in life, but the problem comes when these things take more of your life than they should. Place limits on meetings, visits, phone calls, and limits on your time. Give each task only the time it deserves.

• Obsessive tasks—there are probably things you do that can live with a little less attention. For example, are you an obsessive cleaner or email checker? Cut back and prioritize.

This is by no means a complete list, but the hope is that it will get you thinking about what can go so you have more time for your real priority. What can you add to this list?

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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Before you are wealthy finding the time to commit to a wealth creation education and to doing what it takes become wealthy—to taking action ands steps towards financial prosperity—is hard. This I know. You already have real financial needs and pressures. You already have multiple demands on your time, probably more than you can even attend to. So adding one more thing to the fray is almost out of the question.

Nevertheless, finding time to attend to your own financial future, to your own personal financial freedom and security, is the only way you will ever become rich, enjoy a freer life, and build wealth in a way that will be more sustaining while demanding less from you. You know the only way to riches is to put more into your day. I don’t blame you for hesitating, but facts are facts. Let’s explore some ways that we can do that, then.

Do What You Love

It’s an undisputed fact. When you enjoy what you do, you succeed more. This applies to building wealth, too. Jamie McIntyre is the first to tell you that there are more ways to make money than one. So the trick for you is to find the strategies that are of most interest to you. Figure out what type of investment and wealth creation interests you the most—is it real estate? The share markets? Insurances?

Whatever it is that piques your interest, there is a way to apply it to your wealth strategy. The fist thing to do, then, is learn about a number of strategies (and through the 21st Century Academy you’ll learn at least 8 to be used alone or in combination), and then do a little self-evaluation. Determine

• What your personal interests are—hobbies, career, recreations…

• What aspects of a strategy or strategy might capture that interest—in other words, can you find something within a wealth-building strategy that will allow you to capitalize on your interests?

• What interests or skills you have been wanting to learn more about or pursue—this is your chance to marry multiple opportunities and interests

Money-making does not have to be a sport of little-interest. It shouldn’t be. This journey should be exciting to you. You should be energized by the possibilities and the freedom to finally do something you like. Figure out how you can achieve financial prosperity while you learn to get rich (not quick, necessarily, but sustainably), and when you do, you’ll see that it’s easier than you think to find the time to develop your financial profile.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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One of the leading barriers to wealth is the inability to get started. A lack of funding or seed money is one of the biggest problems people face. If you have read any of Jamie McIntyre’s materials, his free eBook for example, you probably know what I’m talking about. This goes back to one of the primary reasons people in wealthy nations are not wealthy themselves—people put everyone else first above their own financial wealth. The majority of people are not saving and do not make themselves a financial priority because there are too many other pressing obligations.

Part and parcel to this is the role that banks and established lending protocols play. As consumers we learn (from a very early age) that these are the entities that control the money. And without their help we are financially helpless. We become fearful of doing anything outside the financial norm because we need these institutions to survive.

That’s Precisely What They Want You To Think

They need you to think this way. Because if you do not then you will not need them. If you know how to create wealth of your own, if you take control of your financial future and make yourself a priority, you significantly limit the power and profit of these institutions. Because banks and lenders make money off the middle-class, not off the wealthy.

What winds up happening is that the middle-class live in fear of the established financial systems. They do not take effective steps to prioritize their financial lives because that might mean ignoring the financial powers that be. The trade-off, however, is that you will continue to be a slave to them and continue to be very low on your own list of priorities.

To clarify, lending institutions and banks and systems are not all bad. There is good they can do and good ways that you can utilize them to your own advantage. You do need to learn the difference, though, or you will forever live in fear and not live prosperously with yourself and your family and loved-ones as the pinnacle of your financial life.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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Part of building wealth relies on setting firm, clear goals. In part that relies on knowing what wealth means to you. To do that we usually set at least one large goal, tied to a financial value or monetary figure, that we recognize as meaning we have reached that goal. In other words, a sum of money, and assets that represents wealth achievement to us.

Each of us will have such a figure in mind. We will also have many smaller goals along the way to get us there; goals like getting a wealth creation education, learning to strategize for wealth creation, developing aspects of our mindset and psyche that are conducive to wealth creation. And one day, through perseverance, dedication, discipline, and by meeting each of those smaller goals, we will get to that pinnacle and be able to finally say “I’ve done it! I am a wealthy person!”

But Then What?

What then? What comes next? What do we do once we’ve become rich? Do we sit back, kick our feet up, and wallow in our financial success?

Yes!

But that’s not all we do.

We also prepare to continue on. We take steps to move forward to a new goal. A bigger and better and even more wildly successful goal for financial prosperity. We educate ourselves again as to how to do more and have more and enjoy more.

This time around, though, things will be different. This time around we will already have a solid financial education behind us. We will have already learned the key strategies and developed the right mindset for building wealth and being successful. And this time around we will be even more motivated to keep going. Why? Because of that Law of Attraction that got us here. Because great things keep attracting great things, and our own personal experiences with wealth and success will only do more to further us toward more wealth and achievement.

We will have tasted wealth and possibility, and we will be enthusiastic to taste even more. And so we move forward with new goals and a renewed energy for financial freedom and prosperity.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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