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Just a river runs its course, cash flows in a certain direction as well. Whilst you may not have the ability to control the current of a river, you do have the ability to control the flow of cash in your life. The process does not have to involve working long, hard hours. In fact, this may work against you.

The secret to success in building wealth is to take the reins in your own hands, and nothing is more empowering than knowledge. Support your efforts with the right financial attitude in order to develop the millionaire mindset. The process is twofold: educate yourself and believe in your vision.

Believe in Your Vision

The first step in the process is to believe in your vision. You have financial dreams, and there is no reason that you should not reach them. Begin by knowing your worth with deep gratitude and focus. Create a picture in your mind of you financial goals without worrying about how you will reach them.

When you visualise, avoid thinking to yourself, “but how am I going to achieve this?” because this is counterproductive. Consider the process as driving in the dark. You cannot see how you are going to get to your final destination all at once, but the headlights in your vehicle offer enough to guide you in the right direction.

Life unfolds in front of you, as you need it to. You simply need to allow the process to happen with control. The essential element is the realisation that you do control the vehicle you drive, even if the road is unveiled little by little.

Educate Yourself

Once you have a strong vision of the wealth that you want to build in your life, it is time to educate yourself. Consider what you can learn though the 21st Century Wealth Vision Course. The program offers everything you need to build wealth from within, allowing cash flow to move in your direction as it should.

Remember that cash flow and thought are closely linked. Learn the skills required to bring wealth to your door effortlessly, while doing the things that you love to do. Stop making money for other people, and start investing in yourself.

“…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

Besides making Jamie McIntyre aware that he was really living in denial of his desire for money, his millionaire mentor gave him another piece of wisdom.

“If you want to become wealthy, you must not make money your god. Instead you have to learn to master money. If you can learn how to master it and have it work for you as opposed to you working for it, then money will no longer be an issue. Those things that are important to you like family, health, career, and relationships will always be your top priority.”

(from What I Didn’t Learn At School But Wish I Had)

The Turning Point

This conversation was a turning point for Jamie. Having decided that what his mentor said made perfect sense (and it does, doesn’t it?), Jamie started to shift his way of thinking about money. In the book he tells us,

“So I went from denying that I was interested in money to admitting that I was very interested in money because I loved my family dearly and valued my time and wanted to control my life. I decided right then that I was prepared to make the effort to master money, because if I did I could have the freedom I wanted. I learned subtle shifts make a big difference to what is going on inside our heads and this became a huge turning point for me.”

Permission To Care

Jamie and his mentor have put this all in much more understandable terms. It is very hard for people to let go of the feeling that they don’t care about money, mostly because we’ve spent decades in that line of thinking. Having a good reason to admit that you do care about money—like being able to take care of friends and family, and having the freedom to enjoy the important things in life—buffers the landing, so to speak.

When you permit yourself to care about money, you permit yourself to make it enough of a priority to make the other priorities of life top on your list. Caring about money is not equal to not caring about people or anything else; in fact, in truth, it is exactly the opposite. But it’s all in how you master it. Master money, master your life, and don’t let making money be your master any longer.

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