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This post is very much in keeping with the recent post, 30 Seconds to a New Life. When you start your day with 30 seconds of appreciation and positive thinking, you set the tone for the rest of it to be more of the same—in a very good way. Just those 30 seconds takes nothing of your life to speak of and starts you on the right footing each and every day.

You can take this a step further, too, so that you remain focused on it. And you can apply the concept to everything you do as you get your day organized and moving. For example, you might start your day with a bit of journaling—bedside in a diary of sorts, or online, on a blog, whatever works for you. But instead of looking back, make it a journal that looks forward. You might list the things that you are appreciative of today; you might find the positives in even the things you don’t want to do; or you might make it a preview of highlights of the best things that are yet to come.

What Do You Get Out Of It?

What you get out of it is a new perspective, a new way of looking at the same things you do on a daily basis. Instead of a list of ‘to do’s’ and drudgery, you have tasks that need attending, and plentiful opportunities to build more wealth, learn more about being wealthy and living well, and even opportunities to create more financial opportunities. In this light, even a job you don’t like can be satisfying for the step and the financial opportunity that it is.

You don’t always have to change what you do in order to maximize and capture it as a wealth building tool. Sometimes you just need to change the way you look at it. When you can appreciate the opportunities you have every day, that is a whole lot easier. And so much more fulfilling than wishing your days away!

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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Related to our last post, today we take on the emotion of feeling overwhelmed; more accurately, getting over the feeling.

The emotion of feeling overwhelmed is one that a lot of people come up against as they set off on and work through a wealth education and wealth creation. It’s not surprising, because if you look at it from the standpoint of the beginner there is just so much great information to learn. But the promise of greatness is not always enough in and of itself to overcome that feeling of being completely overwhelmed by the task ahead. Then what is?

Overcoming Overwhelming Feelings

As with so much else talked about here, perspective is an excellent way to overcome the barriers that stand in your way; in this case, the barrier of feeling overwhelmed. And one of the best ways to gain perspective is to understand what lies at the root of your problem. In this case, what is causing you to feel overwhelmed by the tasks of financial learning and investment ahead.

Where Overwhelm Is Born

Overwhelm is born at the start of new tasks and projects. It rears its head just after the initial elation of having found something new, promising, and exciting; just after that feeling subsides. It appears right where you start to understand all that you really will need to do to get from point A to point B, to your goal of wealth and financial freedom.

That tells you where it starts, but why does it start?

In many ways the feeling of being overwhelmed gets its hold in your own ambition. You become overwhelmed because you want to do it all now. You want to be done with this and be rich already! And that’s admirable. But that’s not, unfortunately, reality. It takes time and work to get to where you want to be. Breaking down the task, going step by step, and recognizing your progress—being that much closer—is a good way to overcome those feelings of being overwhelmed.

Perspective is an important life tool. It’s the one that gets you through the tougher times. So get perspective on what being overwhelmed really is, and put that feeling in its place.

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

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You have to be wealthy to have wealth; you have to know what that means to be that; when you do, you can start taking wealthy actions to obtain the things and privileges that the wealthy have, that you seek. The only remaining question, then, is this—what do the wealthy do?

Taking Wealthy Action

If we are to change and start acting wealthy, to start taking the wealthy actions that build wealth, we have to have an idea of what wealthy actions are—just as we had to decide what wealth is. And just like defining wealth, there are many, many different things that the wealthy do.

We know what Jamie McIntyre and the 21st Century Academy says, in basic terms, about acting wealthy. He says that the wealthy make money work for them, and they don’t work for money (of course we know he says a lot more, too, but that’s just one example). This is the end-goal that we are working towards, but there are even smaller, more specific actions that the wealthy take, things that they do, in order to do that. Some of those actions may include

• Learning about money

• Investing

• Saving

• Gaining a perspective on what money really is, how it works

• Choosing the way money is managed

The list could go on and on, down to the finest points and actions. And you should feel free to add to it. But what I really want you to understand is that not every action that the wealthy take requires a sum of large money. Many do not. And many can be taken even at much smaller levels. You can invest in something small and let it build; use that wealth as a springboard to more.

Wealthy action can even mean just changing the way you think about money. It could mean beginning a habit of thinking about money (positively). Some of you may be living on financial auto-pilot and not really acting with your money at all. It could mean choosing to save for something better in life rather than spending now. It could mean choosing not to allow money to cause you pressure so that you have the clarity of mind to build wealth.

Whatever it is, define some wealthy actions and take at least one of those actions every day. Act upon your wealth creation now. Let the cycle thrive and grow by being and acting in wealthy ways.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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The point of the exercise in the last post about interviewing yourself to rewire your subconscious was not to make you feel poorly about yourself. That is not the intention of any of this, and not the intention of Jamie McIntyre or the 21st Century Academy. The only intended purpose for any of this is to help you recognize those things that are serving as barriers to wealth and financial success. Only when you understand what has been keeping you from being successful can you take steps to remedy the situation.

Money Can Pressure Anyone

If you recall, the questions I gave you, which came from the 21st Century Academy via an eBook written by Jamie McIntyre, were all focused on the pressure that you feel from money. Many who answer these questions start to feel down about the fact that money is such a controlling factor in their lives. If you have some perspective on that, though, you understand that, as we said, this is not a right or wrong proposition. It’s just an evaluation of the situation.

People from all walks of life have answered that set of four questions. And except for a small group who has found their way to financial freedom, most will realize that they do in fact feel pressured by money. Note that this is people across all income levels! Rich people, poor people, middle-income people, professionals, doctors, lawyers, school teachers, ditch diggers…anyone, almost everyone, can and will experience pressure with money as the root source.

Pressuring Perspective

It’s important to recognize that, but it’s also important to find a way to move beyond it. Money cannot continue to be a source of strife for you if you are to achieve the level of comfort that you seek in your life. Accept that this has been the situation up until now, and accept that the way to change is to start, as we’ve been discussing, rewiring your subconscious and removing the invisible roadblocks to success. I’ll be back next time with more tips from Jamie on how to do just that.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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