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At least initially, something that all wealth-builders have in common is the desire to be rich now! We don’t want to wait for wealth to come; we don’t want to have to work towards wealth. We’d much rather get rich quick. Certainly there are plenty of scams out there willing to help you do that—or so they’d claim. It doesn’t take long before you are forced to admit to yourself that that just is not going to happen.

Building Wealth Takes Time

As you will soon find out if you go this route, the get rich quick schemes are just that –schemes. The real wealth empowerment programs take time; time to learn, time to practice, and time to realize results. It’s a fact of wealth creation that few people want to recognize, but one that Jamie McIntyre readily admits to. Now, why would he do that? It’s certainly not because he wants to lose your attention. It’s only because he knows that if you are to follow through on his program and actually achieve success with it you need to be committed to doing so. And that means you have to be prepared to be in it for more than just a few days or weeks. It means you have to be in it for a lifetime.

Decades Of Knowledge Compressed

Having said that, there is a flip side to this coin. It does require a time commitment on your part, and it will take some time to build wealth that is lasting and sustaining. But it does not have to take you as long as it takes most people. It does not even need to take you as long as it took Jamie McIntyre himself—not nearly so long. Jamie spent more than a decade compiling the information that made him rich. Yes, he built wealth along the way, too, but he can speed that process for you. This is the information, that he has used to develop the 21st Century Academy courses, and that he presents in his seminars. It’s like having someone compile and compress more than a decade of work into one solid program that will cut your learning curve down by probably something to the tune of 90% or more (actually that’s exactly what it is).

This is the main reason why you are much better off going with a wealth education program than trying to go it alone—which is essentially what Jamie did. Taking advantage of the compressed and proven knowledge and techniques available through this type of money-making course is the best thing we have to a real-life “get rich quick” system. It will take you time, but it will not need to take you decades. Realistically, this time next year you could be in a position to call yourself wealthy. That’s a year that will feel like far less time than if you were to spend it in another year of financial struggle.

I hope you will consider this as you step into the New Year. I hope you look realistically at how you can truly improve your life—what will work and what is destined to fail. I hope the best choices are all yours this year, and that this year brings you even bigger and better success than any other!

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

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There are many theories regarding how best to set goals, plan for the day, and organize your time. This post isn’t about to delve into all of those, but in the spirit of taking you throughout the day in a spirit of positivity, wealth, and productivity, let’s talk about how you might help yourself along at the end of the day. And don’t worry; I know you’re tired then, hopefully contentedly so, so I won’t make it difficult.

Finding The Good At Day’s End

Remember the feeling of satisfaction you get from a job well done? From meeting a challenge and rising to it? I’m sure you can relate, but how about capturing that feeling at the end of every day? Wouldn’t that do a lot to carry you though to your morning of appreciation, and on through the next day? And the next? And the one after that? I’m sure you get the point.

While it’s good to start your day looking forward, it’s also good to save time for reflection on the good, progress, value, and positivity that has passed. Why? Primarily to feed from it and recognise it—to know that it’s there so that you know you’ve made progress toward your financial prosperity and toward a better life all around (because in reality there is no separating the two, is there?)

This can be as simple as how you start your day—with 30 seconds of positive reflection, picking out all the good that came of your day, or with a few minutes spent journaling. You can forget about beating yourself up for what you didn’t accomplish, regret does you no good. See how you did progress and let that snowball, attract, and build more productivity.

Staying motivated and on track in wealth development programs requires that you stay focused on what you are doing in the here and now, and on where you are going—what you are achieving in both the short and long term. Look forward to every new day, and appreciate those you’ve lived.

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

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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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I’m going to start with a quote that is making its way around my blogs; it comes from Napoleon Hill’s classic financial empowerment text, and it is a very good example of how simple wealth creation really is fundamentally:

“One sound idea is all it takes for a person to achieve success.”

One Sound Idea

Think about that. One. Sound. Idea. One single idea is all it takes to catapult your actions and efforts toward building wealth. All it ever took anyone to become rich was one sound idea. All it took Jamie McIntyre to be the millionaire and wealth mentor he is today is one sound idea.

This is very much related to our talks about how it only takes one step beyond the norm to be rich and successful. Taking a step indicates action. Before that you have to have the idea. One is no good without the other, but together they are a powerful team.

An Ocean Of Success Awaiting

When you put it like that, when you come down to the very basic fact that it only takes a single, solitary, sound idea to build wealth, it doesn’t sound that hard, does it? Anyone is capable of having an idea. More often than not people are absolutely bursting with great ideas; they just don’t act upon them.

Think about how many ideas cross your mind in the course of a day. Just one day. Expand that to a week, and a month. Now do you see the ocean of potential that’s waiting inside your head? Take just one of those ideas and couple it with the power of positive mindset and action that you learn from the 21st Century Academy—the guidance to guide your great ideas. What a winning formula for success!

Consider this one a post for anyone who ever doubted that they could succeed and be wealthy. Consider it a post for the overwhelmed, the financially struggling, the financially undereducated (which is everyone relying on an old-school education). Consider it proof that anyone can succeed and be rich. And now enjoy some time basking in a sea of great ideas, knowing that all you have to do to be rich is pick just one!

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

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It doesn’t always take a huge effort to motivate you to building wealth; you do not always have to think in things so huge as a whole wealth development program or education to keep yourself on track to financial prosperity. Sometimes all it takes is a small effort repeated over time. In fact, that is probably fundamental to staying the course and not becoming overwhelmed by the wealth program you have embarked on, or are about to embark upon.

A Few Seconds Out Of Your Day

Staying on track and staying motivated to complete a course like Jamie McIntyre’s can be tough when you’re faced with all the other claims on your time and resources. A small, simple practice of reminding yourself and retraining your focus can have a very big impact on how far you go with it and seeing it through to the end.

For example, every day I start my day with just 30 seconds of positivity. I focus my attention on the good, on the potential of the day, and on all that I am lucky to have and to be. It takes next to no effort, and rights my mindset for the rest of the day.

This is not at all hard to do. You can do it while you lie in bed, tucked in warm, and you can even manage it without your morning coffee, or tea, or other caffeinated beverage of choice. All you have to do is, each and every morning, tell yourself what is good about your life; remind yourself that you are a wealthy person (because you have to be that before you can act the part, remember?); remind yourself that your life is good, and that you are improving it even more, even by getting out of bed to start a new day.

While this may sound so simplistic (not unlike the mindset that allows for wealth to build), it is highly effective. Still skeptical? Give it a try for the next week. Then come back and tell me how you feel. I guarantee that you will feel better 7 days from now, wealthier and wiser, than you do today.

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

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