21st Century Academy

There is probably no one who does not want to find a passive income opportunity or create additional wealth. As the saying goes, “You can’t be too rich, or too thin.” The keys to financial independence are being disciplined enough to find investment funds, then acting on opportunities as they are presented.

There are many ways to build wealth. No two people will find success doing so in exactly the same way. But that is the great thing about investing in your financial future – you can do it in the manner that best suits you and your current situation. Young or old, single or head of a family, there is a perfect way to make money just waiting to make you rich.

Are You Prone to Mistakes?

The only thing holding you back are the mistakes you may make – or have made in the past. These include:

•    Scams and schemes – lots of people will try to get you to believe they can make your rich overnight. Beware outrageous and unsubstantiated claims. Increasing your income takes time and effort. If an opportunity sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
•    Too much research, too little action – how often have you thought to yourself, “If only I had done such and such way back when, today I would be rich.” Stop regretting past inaction and start now. Download Jamie McIntyre’s free e-book here and get on the road to financial independence.
•    The time excuse – yes, we are all busy. We hold a job, have a household to care of, and are committed to a variety of social activities or community involvement. But we seem to always make time for the things we really want to do. Now is the time to make wealth creation a priority.
•    Unplanned investments – if you do not have a road map to financial success, how can you tell if you are on track to reach your goals? Unplanned investing is a recipe for disaster. It is important to lay out your money making goals and define the steps to make them happen. Then act on them!

If you are guilty of one or more of these mistakes, don’t despair. Instead, get started on a new track. Wealth education helps you to: motivate yourself, be open to receiving good investment advice, and helps you to track your progress along the way toward success. You can find out more ways to increase your wealth at The 21st Century Academy.

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We accept that in order to be wealthy and successful we have to learn how to do things differently. We know that we need new strategies for making money, and also for managing the finances that we do have in a way that makes us the priority. And certainly not least of all, we need to develop the mindset and attitude that is the foundation of wealth and success.

We know all of this is necessary, but looking at that list there is a lot we need to know. There are also many, many resources that can deliver that knowledge. It can be too much of a good thing.

Wading Through Wealth Creation

There have been volumes and volumes written about how to be successful and how to build wealth. So many of those volumes really are excellent resources; others, of course, are just fluff and scams trying to ride on the coattails of an ever-popular subject. But even considering only the best of the best, it can be enough to overwhelm the most dedicated of wealth creators. It’s enough to turn your determination into a case of information overload.

When that happens, you run the risk of repeating old mistakes and failing to achieve your financial goals. You become too wrapped up in the process of learning that you cannot ever move on to the actionable part of it. Or, you become understandably overwhelmed and give up, despite having learned some very useful things about building wealth.

Paradoxical Success

It seems a paradox, but realistically information overload can be as much a factor for failure as seeking no advisement at all. The good news is that this is a situation that is easily combated. It requires focus and attention to your wealth education and your goals. It requires picking and choosing among those resources, and actually ignoring a lot of what’s out there, at least for the time being.

It may seem that reading anything and everything you can regarding wealth and success is the way to go, but this strategy does have its limits. Getting just enough of a good thing is what is necessary, so that you can keep your focus, move toward your goals, and manage and absorb what you learn. Come back for the next post and we’ll talk a little more about how you can manage wealth development resources so that information overload does not become the object of your dream’s demise.

Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2009

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I hope the New Year has brought you here out of a resolve to either make this your year to achieve financial success, or to continue your already rising accomplishments. I will venture that to be the case given the nature of our blog and discussions here, and so I will be so bold as to congratulate you on that resolve!

Lights, Camera, Action!

Now that we’ve got the formality of the first behind us, we can move on to one of the most important factors in wealth creation—action!

Action comes in many forms. If you’ve been around a while, you’ll remember our discussions on that in the past. If you’re new to our blog, feel free to muck around in the archives to see more discussions on the topic. For now, we’ll keep it short and sweet, and suffice to say that even your being here is an action with the potential to produce wealth and success.

Recognize Effective Action

Before I digress too far, let me get us back on track by laying out the point of my banter. The point is that many people do not see some of the most important aspects of wealth creation as actions. For example, they do not see that reading and research is a form of action towards wealth. Some can see that participation in a wealth education course or seminar is, but many times people even write the importance of these things off and think of wealth-producing actions as being only those things that directly result in cash in hand—something like a stock market investment, for example. The problem is, the average person is not ready for that direct action. First, they have to act upon the foundation blocks of wealth-building; blocks like wealth education, learning, and mindset changes.

Let this be the year you take action, but let it be the year that you take effective action. Don’t repeat the mistakes of the past, focusing your time and energies in the wrong places. This year, have a plan. Plan for action and take it! We’ll be here to help you with the rest as those times come around.

Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2009

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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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The last few posts have focused on how you start and end your day, and how you use those practices to carry you through, stay motivated to succeed in your wealth education and development, reflect on the good, look forward and appreciate the positive. While you do that, though, it’s important not to forget about the little things.

The Little Things In Wealth Development

When you think about wealth the default is to think large—wealth is about big things; big opportunities, big freedom, big money, big success, living large! That makes it easy to forget about the little things, and easy to discount them as inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.

But big things are always made of smaller pieces; all great things are sums of the whole—of every small and large thing that went into them. Your wealth development and financial prosperity are not just the result of big moves you made, they are also the result of small things and decisions you did and made. The small, simple, life-changing decision to begin Jamie McIntyre’s wealth education course; the many single, small hours spent reading and learning and absorbing his lessons and the motivations of others; multiple passing moments of positivity and appreciation, all accumulated to change your mindset to one of wealth and positivity.

Now knowing this, apply that to all of the ways that you keep yourself motivating, acting, and achieving wealth. Give yourself credit for the fact that you took two minutes to read this blog and stay inspired; make a space on your to-do list for corresponding with other wealth creators; appreciate that you did all the small things that support and allow for the large to happen.

Cumulative Review

Life is a cumulative effort. No small or large task is without worth, or without impact upon you. So be it small or be it large, know that everything you did today was a brick in your building. Understand that and appreciate that, and you’ll find you are a whole lot more positive and productive than you thought you could be—already!

The little things really do matter!  All the best to you and yours as you appreciate both the big and the little things in life this Christmas!  Merry Christmas and heartfelt wishes for a most prosperous New Year from Sean Rasmussen and Universal Wealth Creation.

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

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