21st Century Academy

Do you have what it takes to get wealthy – the courage to do what you need to in order to get rich? If you are like successful students of the 21st Century Academy, you may have done your research on making money but initially doubted your own ability to stick to the right path on your way to gaining wealth. This is a losing attitude.

So what is the key to getting wealthy? There are actually five maxims which can help anyone achieve success.

Get Motivated

Without motivation, your desire will never be anything more than that: an ambiguous emotion. True motivation is translated into ambition and ambition results in action. Only action can create wealth.

Manage Your Time Efficiently

Gaining wealth takes time. Take it from Jamie McIntyre, there are no shortcuts to this step. Do only those things which result in the generation of income. Let me repeat that: only spend your time on income generation. This means you will have no extra time for leisure pursuits, at least until you have amassed a sufficient amount of assets.

Frugal Cash Management

If you own your own business, you know that taking all the income earned from it and using it to buy things for yourself is not the way to become successful. You must first make a good profit before even considering spending money on extras.

The Law of Attraction

If you can desire it, you can obtain it. Enough said.

Set Clear Goals

How you can obtain anything if you don’t know what it is you want? Jamie McIntyre knows this rule firsthand. Only by writing down exactly what it was he desired was he able to develop a plan with the steps necessary to obtain it.

Now that you know what it takes to create wealth, do you have the courage to do what needs to be done?

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“…you can make excuses in your life and you can make money, but you can not do both at the same time.”

–What I Didn’t Learn At School But Wish I Had

We are continuing today to move on through Chapter One of Jamie McIntyre’s book, where the discussion is centered on why people fail to be wealthy. We are looking for the answers to why 96 percent of people (the people Jamie calls the “96 percenters”) end up dead, broke, or dead broke by the age of retirement. One reason for this that cannot be ignored is blame and excuses.

There’s Always A “Reason”

It seems almost human nature to create excuses and blame other people and situations for what we have not achieved. Mind you, when we do achieve and succeed, we are much less likely to do this, and much more likely to take the credit, but in the case of continued financial failure there is always a “reason” why things are the way they are (of course, these aren’t really “reasons” but excuses, but we’ll get into that later).

For example, Jamie used to say that the reason he wasn’t wealthy was that he was owed too much money by other people, or that he needed money to make money, or had too much debt, that he wasn’t born into money or handed a leg-up, or simply because he wasn’t interested in money (but we’ve already talked about living in financial denial). Or he would imagine that the solution was evading him, and if someone would just help him out, or if he could find the “right” career, then everything would fall into place.

A Familiar Feeling

I’m willing to bet Jamie’s litany of excuses sounds familiar to you; it seems as humans we are not all that original in finding excuses for why we are not wealthy. But whatever it is you are telling yourself, you need to start realizing that those are not reasons for your lack of wealth.

The only way these sorts of excuses become reasons you are not wealthy is because you give over your power to them. You allow them to become hurdles to success, but only because you choose to. These are hurdles that are easily removed because all you have to do is stop playing the blame game and stop making excuses. It may be a familiar and comfortable place, but it’s not a productive one, and it will never make you wealthy. Take back your power and start putting it to better use.

To Your Continued Success!
Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2009

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It’s important to go further than to achieve a dollar-figure for wealth. We talked last time about the 1% who will be “rich” by age 65. But what we didn’t do is qualify that categorization in terms of achieving real wealth.

More Than Money

Here’s the thing—being wealthy is about more than just reaching a magical number. It’s not about having one million dollars in the bank, or about owning your home, or several homes. It may be in part about those things, but achieving wealth (at least what we are trying to achieve through the 21st Century Academy) is really about achieving lifestyle. So what is lifestyle, then?

What Is Lifestyle?

Jamie McIntyre defines lifestyle with this simple equation:

· Lifestyle = Time + Money

You see, achieving a wealthy lifestyle is not just about getting money into your bank account. It’s not just about owning property and “things.” Achieving the wealthy lifestyle is about having money, but also time. You can, and many people do, have money without the time—these are the people, probably most of the world’s population, who work and have money, but need to continue working to maintain those properties, life needs, and possessions. If those people stopped working tomorrow, they’d lose their things. So they have not really achieved a wealthy lifestyle. Obviously you could have time on your hands and not have money, but that would leave you without the lifestyle you are dreaming of, unless that lifestyle is to be penniless and homeless.

You do not have freedom in lifestyle until you have the financial flexibility to make your choices and pursue the lifestyle you want. That comes from having an abundance of not only money, but time, too. When you can say truthfully that you have a level of freedom, comfort, and flexibility in both, you can say that you have successfully achieved financial freedom and a wealthy lifestyle.

To Your Continued Success!
Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2009

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When you set off to find answers to the kinds of questions Jamie McIntyre asked—like why some people in wealthy nations are rich but the majority are not, or like the larger question at hand in the first chapter—Why do most people fail?—you start to look for some common ground that might point to a solution. This leads to an interesting thought that Jamie had, which he shares in the book in the opening paragraphs of Chapter 1.

What’s The Difference?

One of the first things to pique Jamie’s curiosity was this—why do some people start with nothing and make it big, and others start with everything but lose it? Does luck have anything to do with this? Education?

None of these things seems to be the answer. Nor does marrying into money or inheriting it. In fact, there seems, at least superficially, to be no rhyme or reason to who becomes wealthy.

• People of all ages become wealthy—in their twenties, thirties, forties, sixties, and at older ages, too.
• People of all education levels become wealthy—and people of all education levels continue to struggle financially; even those with higher degrees who we think might be smarter than us.
• People can gain and lose a fortune in a matter of a year—look at the statistics for lottery winners.

On the surface, it looks like the answers to this question are all over the board. In reality, though, there are common factors here. There are distinct reasons why some people are wealthy and others are not. But the answers are not superficial; they go much deeper than just finding nice categories to fit wealthy people in. This is the purpose of the first chapter of the book—to help you understand why you are not wealthy, but to help you understand the real reasons. That’s the first order of business in wealth creation.

To Your Continued Success!
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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