Jamie McIntyre

Jamie McIntyre is an extraordinary young Australian making a big difference to the quality of other people’s lives in this nation. He is a sought after Success Coach (Life Coach) and has travelled the world meeting and learning from some of the very best teachers and leaders on the planet. He became a self made millionaire in his twenties, an entrepreneur, a sought after public speaker, and author. He is founder of 21st Century Group of Companies, including 21st Century Accounting and 21st Century Finance. He is also the founder of 21st Century Academy, an education organisation that has provided a 21st century education to Australians and New Zealanders, and has received a Highly Commended Award from the Australian Achiever Awards.

He was several years ago nominated as a Young Australian of the Year and has been responsible for educating over 250,000 people through his DVD courses and live seminars. He is a leading advocate for real life education including financial literacy to be implemented into high schools nationwide.

Autobiography by Jamie McIntyre

I grew up in a small town called Glen Innes in Northern New South Wales, Australia. Two things that were conditioned into me from a young age was that In order to do well in life and make money, you had to work really hard and you needed to go to school, study hard to get really good grades and with those really good grades, hopefully one day you would get a really good secure job. Then, on the proviso that you worked hard for 40, 50 or 60 years of your life you would get to retire to the "good life".

So this is what he started to do. I pursued a career in accountancy without knowing if that was what I really wanted to do with the rest of his life. I soon discovered that accountancy was not my passion and eventually got to a point where I was disillusioned with what I had learnt at school and university so I decided to leave.

But I did not want to give up my dream of being rich so I decided to try my efforts in starting a business. Using credit cards, I was able to acquire around $16,000 in cash to launch my first business, even though I did not have any idea of what business I should be in. My research involved noticing that more and more people were using mobile phones and came to the conclusion that by the year 2,000 most people would own a mobile phone, therefore the telecommunications industry was definitely the industry of the future.

Surprisingly within nine months of starting my business with no real business experience, just a dream and lots of courage, I was making more money per month than I used to make in a whole year working for someone else. This led me to believe that business was simple, success was easy and there was nothing to it. My business was turning over large amounts of cash so I thought, “Ah ah! Another secret to becoming wealthy must be simply to make lots of money.” Wrong, I soon came to realise that having lots of money wasn’t the only answer to being wealthy. I found myself working ridiculous hours and had no time for family and friends or a lifestyle.

So I decided I couldn’t stand being in business anymore and wanted out. I wanted my life back. I had initially decided to get into the telecommunications business to get a life. In hindsight, I had given my life to the business. (Years later I learned that many others could relate to this as they had started their own business or career to get a life, but they too had found that it consumed their life.) Later still I learned that you need to be careful what you ask for. But at this point in time I did not care how I got my life back, I just wanted to be out of the business and a few months later I was out of the business — in fact, I could have been declared bankrupt!

However not only did I lose my entire income and my business, I owed over $150,000 in personal debt accumulated from commission payments which never came. I was facing bankruptcy, my dreams were shattered and I was feeling sick in my stomach from stress.

I realised that if I was going to live my dreams I needed to change as a person. You or someone you know may have read a personal development book or attended a seminar, the concept being that if we grow as people we are more likely to live our dreams. So I started to do that. I also realised I needed to develop different areas of my education and I started to seek out mentors in these particular areas. No doubt you may also be looking for mentors. What I found was that I needed mentors that had produced phenomenal results in their life. I thought that perhaps I could learn from a multi-millionaire, surely someone like this would know more about money and success than I did.

A lot of people ask me where I got my role models or mentors from and I often jokingly say to them, “Well you can be lucky and your local multi-millionaire could knock on your door one day and say, ‘I hear you want to do well financially and I am your local multi-millionaire here to give you some coaching.’” Or you may need to do as I did and go out and search to find and do whatever it takes to develop relationships with people who have produced the results that you want in your life easier still, read books they have written. My wealthy mentors shared information and strategies with me that proved to be very valuable which I will share with you in the Jamie McIntyre E-book. But it was not the information alone that made the difference. The information age allows people to access information via seminars, books, tapes and the internet. I used to think knowledge was power until I learnt that I actually had to act on that knowledge, nothing ever just happened.

I started to act on these strategies I had been learning and they worked really well for me and over a short period of time, I was able to firstly get an income and then increase my income. In fact, my income went through a massive transformation where it increased fifteen fold in less than twelve months from an above average income in the first place. Jot down what your current income is, multiply it by fifteen and imagine it increasing to that figure over the next year. That is, if you were earning $50,000 per annum x 15 = $750,000. Would you be happy if that was the case? Most people would be happy if their income increased by only 10%.

My millionaire mentor also asked me how many forms of income most Australians have. I thought, probably one, or maybe two if they had a second part time job or part time business. He told me he had dozens of forms of income and most of them were coming in while he slept. I liked the sound of making money while you sleep so I thought I would try that as well. I learned how to build multiple forms of income, while keeping the one focus, which was important. The strategies my millionaire mentor shared with me were so simple that anyone could do them.

Now I pinch myself to think that my dreams are now a reality. If someone had said to me eight years ago that I would have the lifestyle I have right now, be earning the income I do, by impacting on the amount of people I do in a positive way, by driving nice cars, travelling the world, owning a multi-million dollar Noosa waterfront home and a dream winter home overlooking the beautiful lakes and mountains in Queenstown, New Zealand, having a farm with its own personal airstrip, having a successful share and property portfolio, amongst other things, I would have said, “Yeah right — impossible!” But I have found that amazing things can happen if people are willing to be open-minded and committed. The things I treasure and value the most are the great friendships I have developed, the amazing people I have met, but most importantly living my life’s purpose, serving my creator and contributing and adding value to so many people’s lives. I decided to measure my success by what difference I make to the world and how many people I help rather than using material things as a measure.