Failure Leaves Clues
“Have you heard the phrase that success leaves clues? I have found in my experience that failure leaves more clues.”
–Jamie McIntyre, What I Didn’t Learn At School But Wish I Had
This is a quote taken directly from page four of the first chapter in the book. It comes at a point where Jamie is talking about being completely honest with ourselves in order to figure out what is holding us back from creating wealth—what is keeping us from being wealthy, despite the fact that we all have it within us to succeed.
Identifying The Clues Left Behind
The trick is to be able to identify those clues that failure leaves behind. For Jamie, that led him to the realization that largely, he was living in denial, and that that denial was a crutch that he used to keep himself from facing reality and the more uncomfortable parts of making money and building wealth.
What Denial Looks Like
If you put some thought to it, it’s not hard to recognize this type of denial. Any time you have ever said that you don’t care about money, or that there are more important things in life, you have denied your real desire to have money and build wealth.
Denying our desire for money is entirely counter-productive; and there is not a lot of sense in it. All that denial does is holds us back from achieving financial freedom. And that keeps us from achieving the lifestyle that we want—from enjoying those things that yes, are more important than money, but that we are left with no time or energy to enjoy.
An extremely important first step in creating wealth and achieving a freer lifestyle lies in facing our denial head-on, and acting to counter-act it. Money is not an evil. It is a tool. It is a thing, but it is also the thing that can allow us to find that life balance so that the more important things in life can and will be enjoyable.
To Your Continued Success!
Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 – 2009
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