21st Century Academy

As you learn about the mindset that is necessary to create wealth, and Jamie McIntyre’s program takes you through the exercises that work to overcome your attitudes and subconscious thoughts that repel wealth, it is likely that you will go through emotions relating to the selfishness of wealth. These are common emotions, and it’s understandable how this comes to be the case, but being wealthy and the process of building wealth is not selfish—it is just the opposite; you just need to see that to overcome the problem.

Take Care Of You, Take Care Of Others

You know that to be wealthy you have to make a priority of you and your money. That’s nothing new, we’ve talked about it multiple times before and it’s a central theme in the 21st Century Academy, too. But we’ve been taught all our lives that there is something wrong with that, even though most of us know, at least superficially, that you cannot help others if you do not take care of yourself.

The truth of it is that if you do take care of yourself, develop healthy financial habits, build wealth, and have money to live freely, you maximize your ability to help others. If you are financially healthy, you have the means to invest and build wealth, live a better lifestyle, provide for a better and less stressful lifestyle for those who depend on you, and become an independent individual who helps the larger society rather than become a drain upon it. Indeed, your strengthened financial position makes you a better provider, a more accessible parent and partner, and a stronger contributing member to society.

If you look at it that way being wealthy sounds like the responsible thing to do, not the selfish thing to do. And that is what wealth is—it is the freedom and ability to fulfill your own needs and others without harming, and with the financial means to enhance life all around.

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

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What is it that is really, truly, keeping you from being wealthy? Or, what has it been in the past that has kept you from being wealthy that you have overcome to finally find financial success? Do the traces remain?

Finding The Real Reasons

For everything there is a reason. Whatever it is that has kept you from being wealthy in the past, there was something at the heart of the matter. Now, when asked the questions above, people will often, and often sarcastically, answer that money is keeping them from being wealthy. But that’s not really ever true. Consider two points:

1. There is a reason that you do not/did not have money
2. Many people with huge incomes are not wealthy, either

Money is an easy scape-goat for so much of what we do not have and/or what we struggle with in life. But money is a thing, not a being, so it cannot be to fault for our financial positioning.

What is really at fault is the reason that we don’t have money. Those reasons can be many and varied, and may include things like

• A lacking financial education—are you still relying on what you learned in school?
• A negative financial attitude—conscious or subconscious
• Poor savings and investment habits
• Lack of action
• The missing success mindset

I’m sure that readers here can add to this list, too. Please do below and we’ll discuss it further. But before we wrap this up, I want to go back to one question I posed in the opening paragraph.

Do The Traces Still Remain?

Even people who have gained that financial education, improved their attitude, constructed a mindset of success and positivity, and remedied their poor savings and investment habits, can still remain in a state of financial struggle. Sometimes people make headway, and then end up back where they always find themselves. When that happens, there is a reason, too, and to enjoy lasting wealth and financial prosperity you have to get at the heart of it and weed it out. You may think you have done all of this already, but the results of your efforts are a sure indication of what lies beneath.

So today, in order to help you succeed and build wealth, I urge you to take a step back and figure out if there is improvement, or if there is an underlying reason why you are not where you’d hoped to be. Then use that to get at the real heart of the matter, and enjoy real success.

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

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I promised that we would talk at least a little about how to work with your past rather than against it. And the 21st Century Academy course will do even more for you in this regard (in fact if you recall applicable portions or exercises, feel free to comment on them on this post). To get started, let’s look at the past for what it really is—a story with two sides.

Two Distinct Personalities

You may not have realized it at the time, and to be sure you may not have come to the realization yet, but for every negative thing that occurred in the past there is an equal and opposite reaction. Every time something “bad” happened, there was a corresponding positive side to it. Not surprisingly, we don’t easily see these positives and it can take a long time before we figure out the good that became of them, because pain is such an overpowering emotion. In most cases we are just too consumed by the negative to see any good that is there.

Reassessing The Past

Understanding this is important. Because if you know that there is positive there, and if you look hard enough, you can find it. Why does that matter? Does that matter?

It does matter because as we talked about before you cannot continue to compete with your past. And you do not always have to like what happened, but you can at least reconcile it to find the positive result that led you to this place (the positive place where you better yourself, create wealth, and attract better things for your life). That, my friends, is what we call growth. When we grow, as we know thanks to our wealth empowerment education, we expand our positive horizons and clear the way for money and positivity to come into our lives. We capture that power of positive attraction; but when we ignore the past and try to compete with it, we really only create more angst and negative subconscious. So here’s to a look back at a better, more positive past, for a better, more abundant future!

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

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Everyone has a past, like it or not. And like we’ve talked about before, that past bears on many things as they apply to building wealth. For instance, your past—conscious or unconscious—is what has formed your perception of money and your attitude towards it. And that attitude is a large piece of the choices you make, your mindset, and the subconscious sabotage that you may inadvertently be attacking your efforts to build wealth with.

Who’s The Boss? Past, Present, Or Future?

Very often what we find ourselves doing when we resolve to create wealth is competing against that past—”showing it who’s boss” so to say. But what we come to know, what your wealth creation course is trying to teach you, is that that kind of competition really isn’t productive. Your past is over and done. You can’t teach it anything. You can’t change it and you can’t just erase the mental baggage that comes along with it. You can only find ways to make your past, even what you perceive to be a negative past, work for you now.

Reconciling The Past, Looking Back To Move Forward

You can’t change the past but you can change your understanding of it. You can analyze it, reconcile your feelings from it, and correct the negative attitudes that have resulted from it so that you make the room for wealth to work in your life (this is very much related to when we talked way back about rewiring your financial subconscious, and the exercise Jamie McIntyre walks you through to do that).

Your past is not your competitor. It is something that occurred, and something that contributed to who you are today. And that can’t be all bad. Once you realize this you can begin to look for ways to reconcile the past and actually make it work for you, instead of being at odds with it. Remember that the past is a part of you, so competing against it is only competing against yourself. Surely you can see how that isn’t beneficial at all. Meet me back here for the next post, and we’ll talk a little more about how you can make the past a better part of your future.

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

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In a separate comment on another blog of mine [seanrasmussen.com], a comment came in during our conversations related to the Economics of State of Mind to the effect that in booming times people are quick to take credit and say that they made it all on their own; but in times of bust, such as what many economies of the world are experiencing now, it’s always someone else’s fault. So which is it? Are you responsible for your own financial outcome or is your current financial state the fault or credit of another? Because it can’t really be both ways, can it?

What Would Jamie McIntyre Say?

While it is much easier to say that a lack of money is the fault of another, that is not really true. And like it or not, Jamie McIntyre’s wealth education course is based in reality; in real, workable, achievable ways to get rich. So that means that he would have you not only take credit for your financial successes, but also your failures. It’s unfortunate and it’s true, but ultimately, even though there are outside forces that come into play, it is your process of decision, mindset, and action that determines your personal financial outcome.

You Control Your Financial Future

But what about forces outside of your control? How can you be left to blame for those?

We all know that these forces exist, and that you will come up against both great successes and temporary defeat. And it is what you do with that that determines sustainable wealth. If you know these factors exist, you know that you can take steps to counter the negative and leverage the positive. You can diversify, prepare, save, and even put yourself in a position to benefit financially from tough times. There are things that you can do, as you will surely learn.

Without responsibility and action, you will not thrive and become wealthy. Knowing how to be wealthy means knowing how to manage money and investment in good times and in bad. That, and wiping blame off the table as the useless emotion and negativity-generator that it is.

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

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