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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

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

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