Wealth Creation Blog

People today are busy, busy, busy. Too busy. Everybody is running, moving, always doing. People are always engaged in activity of some sort or another. You might think that with all of this activity, we would be really going somewhere! Why, then, are most people getting nowhere? Something a lot of people do not realize is that activity does not equal action and productivity. The fact that you are always moving and doing does not mean you are accomplishing a thing. It does not mean you are making any real strides towards wealth creation and financial freedom.

Creating An RPA

What is RPA? RPA is a term coined by Jamie McIntyre at the 21st Century Academy. It’s an abbreviation that represents a planning process; a process which consists of being

• Results focused

• Purpose driven

• Action oriented

The RPA process helps you come at every decision in a more goal-oriented fashion so that you can achieve whatever it is you have set out to do. RPA gives point and purpose to the activity in your life, and turns motion into action that gets results.

RPA is not a hard process, just a different and more productive one. You can learn the basics of RPA in minutes, and start implementing it just as quickly. You only need to adopt three easy steps, and apply them to everything you do.

Here’s how RPA works:

For every situation, ask yourself,

• “What do I want to get out of this situation? What is the result I am hoping for?” Do this instead of asking yourself what you should do.

• “What is my purpose?” knowing your purpose will give you the reason to go on and persevere, even under difficult circumstances.

• “How will I achieve this?” Determine what steps you need to take in order to achieve the result you want. Take Action!

RPA is really a simple process, and one that many people even know already that they should be engaging in. But many times we become overwhelmed and cannot bring ourselves to the most important step—to taking action.

If you can learn to apply the principles of RPA to your life, to every decision in your life, you will be well on your way to succeeding in wealth creation, to creating wealth and achieving financial independence.

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004 - 2008

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Another thing the wealthy understand that the middle class does not seem to understand thoroughly is the importance of an effective exit strategy. In wealth creation, exit strategy refers to the ability to get out of what you’ve gotten into. It is possible that you will not want or need to get out of everything you do in your efforts to create wealth, but as you cannot predict the future, there is always a need to at least have an exit strategy in place.

Most specifically in terms of wealth creation

An exit strategy for the middle class means getting out of the working world—breaking the cycle of working for a dollar, spending, and working for a dollar more. This exit strategy is what wealth creation is all about. An exit strategy is why people seek wealth creation.

An exit strategy for financial wealth is what most people would think of as retirement. It is creating wealth that continues to create streams of wealth so that you can comfortably leave your job and live life to its fullest.

Unfortunately today, a great majority of middle class people all over the developed world do not have an exit strategy, leastwise not one based on wealth creation. Some people simply cannot see how to create wealth that can finance their exit strategy, and so they default to a life that requires them to work until they die. Death should not be your financial exit strategy (and in truth it is no exit strategy at all, since it only serves to transfer your debt to those you leave behind).

A retirement plan is the very beginning of an exit strategy, and is what is usually sold to the middle class. But in truth a retirement plan (of the common variety) does nothing real to improve life before retirement or guarantee the ability to retire early. All a retirement fund does is build up a fund with which you can live reasonably well until you die. But in many cases these are even far from adequate, and people end up either returning to work at an even more advanced age, or depending on others to live.

A true exit strategy will never stop making you money

The exit strategy that will allow you to leave the working life (at an age early enough to enjoy it) and continue to live well, continue to improve upon your life, is the wealth creation exit strategy. With wealth creation, you can create an exit strategy that is truly sustaining for life, not just for the period before your death.

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004 - 2008

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To the struggling middle-class, wealth is something of a mythical state of mind. The wealthy understand that wealth creation is more than that—it is a balance sheet, a budget, a solid means of financing their end goal of financial freedom and living well. Knowing the difference and living the life are two separate issues that severely impact the end goal of wealth creation.

Before I get too far ahead here, I have to say that wealth creation does rely on achieving the wealthy state of mind. But you have to know what that means. The mindset of the wealthy is one of success and maintaining that success. It’s one of determination and motivation. But it is not one of spending blindly to appear wealthy; the mindset of the wealthy is to really be wealthy!

Looking Rich is different to being rich

The middle class mistakenly think that being rich means looking rich. Having things that will make people think you are rich—the big house, the luxury car, the second home, the designer clothes.

In their rush to appear wealthy, the middle class take on fast and easy lines of credit, buy and buy so that they can put on a good show of wealth for the neighbors, and drown in their unmanageable debt. This puts the middle class into a never-ending cycle of working and paying and working more to pay for more. But it does nothing to really save or build wealth.

The wealthy, on the other hand, do things in reverse

They understand that the key to their wealthy existence is cash in hand (used to back reasonable amounts of beneficial and manageable debt). The wealthy wait to make their purchases until they know they have the financial backing to do so. In so doing, they create a stream of wealth first by putting their seed money to work for them to make more money, and spending off the money created by that seed money.

This is an essential difference between the wealthy and middle-class. It is the difference that dictates success in wealth creation. Understanding the difference between appearing wealthy and actually being wealthy is what will determine the success you have with wealth creation.

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004 - 2008

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A change in your wealth condition has to start with a change in your wealth conditioning.

For the majority of us, we have been raised in a counterproductive wealth conditioning. We have been taught that money is bad, that it causes more problems that it solves.

Jamie McIntyre’s millionaire mentor explained it best

“The way we teach our children disengages them from money. It discourages them from having wealth because we condition them that it is wrong to be wealthy.”

He goes on to talk about the many clichés and “proverbs” that we are raised with. Things like:

• “The meek will inherit the earth”

• “Money is the root of all evil”

• “Money changes everything” (but why does that have to mean for the worse?)

And as he goes on to say, there is no truth behind statements like these. The Universe, as Jamie’s mentor says, is not emotionally invested in your financial outcome. The universe is neutral. The only person interested in your financial success is you, and so the only person that is stopping you from succeeding and creating financial wealth is you.

If we are to find success in wealth creation we have to first recondition ourselves, and relearn that money is not an evil. It is not a devil that is working against you; it is not a universal force that is out of your control; it is not something you can only have at the expense of another.

The supply of money on the earth is endless, and there is more than enough to go around. Building financial wealth for the benefit of you and yours by no means requires you to keep your brother or sister, friend, or neighbor in financial hardship. On the other hand, wealth creation can provide you with the means to help those you choose to help, and to teach others to do the same.

It’s time to stop thinking about money as the base of all our problems, and start recognizing it for the opportunity that it truly is. It’s time to start on the path to wealth creation for a better life for all.

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004 - 2008

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When Jamie McIntyre first determined to make himself rich, one of the first things he recognized was that he had little useful knowledge in wealth creation. Jamie took an honest look at the education he had received in school and University in the 20th century, and determined that this education (based really on education developed in and for the 19th century) was severely lacking for anyone hoping to succeed financially in the 21st century; his dated education was of little use to him in creating wealth utilizing the financial systems and rules of today’s financial world.

Jamie sums it up this way: “common sense told me that to excel in the 21st Century one needed an education designed for today’s world…” But where are you supposed to get one?

There is no public or private school that you can go to get a 21st century education

Our educational institutions just have not evolved that far. The educational institutions we are learning from are still steeped in a tradition of preparing students for the working world—for teaching them how to get the skills to work and make money—to collect a paycheck.

But as Jamie McIntyre realized, no one will get very far by using only the knowledge he or she gained from school. This put Jamie on a different path, in search of a truly useful education; one that could do more than get him a job, one that could teach him how to take the money he’d earned and put it to use making more money for him. Jamie was looking for an education that would teach him how to do what the wealthy do—create wealth from wealth; let money work for him, instead of him working for money.

Jamie spent years and hundreds of thousands of dollars learning to create wealth

And today, his work is our gain (and his, too—Jamie’s living very well these days!). Fortunately, Jamie also had the foresight to know that what he learned could be dramatically reduced and formulated into the very type of education that is lacking in the world—a 21st Century education.

This is the education that you need to succeed in wealth creation. It is more than an education in finance, it is an innovative program that teaches us how to create wealth and achieve financial freedom. This program, which I offer to you and offer my unending support in obtaining, is the education you didn’t get in school. No doubt that is a very big reason why you are still searching to find the answers to wealth creation and financial freedom.

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004 - 2008

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