21st Century Academy

One great turn will get you to certain goals; it may even get you to the goal that you have defined as your arrival at being wealthy. But to stay there, it takes more than one good turn. It takes many, and an ongoing, continuing effort to stay on top.

Continuing On In Wealth And Prosperity

So what is the path to follow? How does developing wealth continue?

The continuous path to financial freedom is variable, as all of success and achievement is. It willvary depending on your strategy for building wealth, your interests, your needs, your successes, and even your failures. Moving forward, there are some general things you should consider that will help you stay the course to financial freedom. For instance

• Continuing on in wealth education for increased success and more ways to become wealthy

• Developing new strategies for investment and wealth creation

• Reevaluating strategies and goals

• Scrapping the under-performers for the real money makers

• Diversifying for greater return and security

Staying The Course

This endless work sounds tiring, doesn’t it? And if you’ve met your goals, and achieved that level of wealth success that you were shooting for, why should you have to keep going? Why is important to continue to work to develop financial freedom when you have already achieved that goal?

It’s all about sustainability. A windfall sum of money will make you feel wealthy for a time, but to truly be wealthy—to be financially independent and in control—you must develop lasting wealth. Lasting wealth depends on your continuing to build upon your success for greater success. Lasting wealth is the key to true financial freedom.

The continuing road does not have to be an extraneous effort. Being that you have already come this far, and that you have already learned so much to get here and changed in so many positive ways, you’ll find that continuing on is much, much easier than getting started and making your first money. All you need to do now is to sustain that wealth through continued commitment to your new mindset and lifestyle. But with the world of possibilities and a healthy taste of financial success, no doubt you’ll be energized and raring to go anyway.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

In posts past, the topic was thinking the right ‘size’ thoughts in order to accomplish what you want in wealth creation. We talked about how some people just don’t see that the reason they are not wealthy is because they are not focusing their thoughts and not tailoring them to the level of financial success they want. They want to accumulate millions of dollars, but they don’t have million-dollar thoughts. They think too small, and so they attract much smaller financial wealth.

Your Idea Of What Wealth Is

Wealth is a funny word, because as much as we all desire it is very hard to define what wealth is. What amount of money would make you wealthy? How do you place value on your assets? Can you be wealthy without a set amount of money in the bank?

Wealth is calculated in many different ways depending on your assets, holdings, cash and savings, and myriad other factors. What is wealth in one corner of the world can be drastically different from what is wealth in another because costs of living and standards of living are drastically different across regions.

No one can define what wealth is to you except you—I cannot do it, Jamie McIntyre cannot do it, and neither can anyone else. Only you can decide how much money will make you feel financially secure and financially free. Only you can say what ‘wealth’ is for you.

Why It Matters What Wealth Means

Does it really matter what wealth means to anyone? It does. It matters to you what wealth means to you. It matters much less what I think it means to be wealthy, and it matters much less what Jamie McIntyre or any other person in the 21st Century Academy thinks it means. But it does matter to you personally.

The reason that it matters is that, as we discussed, you need to be able to focus your thoughts and energy to attract the level of money and financial prosperity that you want. You need to have the same size thoughts as what you seek. To do that, you need to know what you accept as wealthy so that you can tailor everything to your idea of wealth.

To Your Continued Financial Success

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

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