13. Getting rich – getting into the right business
[Taken from the book The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles]
SUCCESS, in any particular business, depends for one thing upon your possessing in a well-developed state the faculties required in that business.
Without good musical faculty no one can succeed as a teacher of music; without well-developed mechanical faculties no one can achieve great success in any of the mechanical trades; without tact and the commercial faculties no one can succeed in mercantile pursuits. But to possess in a well-developed state the faculties required in your particular vocation does not insure getting rich. There are musicians who have remarkable talent, and who yet remain poor; there are blacksmiths, carpenters, and so on who have excellent mechanical ability, but who do not get rich; and there are merchants with good faculties for dealing with men who nevertheless fail.
12. Getting rich – efficient action
[Taken from the book The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles]
YOU must use your thought as directed in previous chapters, and begin to do what you can do where you are; and you must do ALL that you can do where you are.
You can advance only by being larger than your present place; and no man is larger than his present place who leaves undone any of the work pertaining to that place.
The world is advanced only by those who more than fill their present places.
11. Getting rich – acting in the Certain Way
[Taken from the book The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles]
THOUGHT is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is the rock upon which many otherwise scientific metaphysical thinkers meet shipwreck–the failure to connect thought with personal action.
We have not yet reached the stage of development, even supposing such a stage to be possible, in which man can create directly from Formless Substance without nature’s processes or the work of human hands; man must not only think, but his personal action must supplement his thought.
By thought you can cause the gold in the hearts of the mountains to be impelled toward you; but it will not mine itself, refine itself, coin itself into double eagles, and come rolling along the roads seeking its way into your pocket.
Why building wealth is important to me
One of the common questions I’m asked by my friends is, ‘Why are you so focused on money?’ I came up with an analogy yesterday that describes why money, or building wealth in my life, is really important to me right now.
Basically, it revolves around the fact that I’ve lived in poverty most of my life, and I’m sick of it. I’m 43 years old this year, and I simply do not want to live in poverty any more. My quest to build wealth and enjoy the results of that results from a life of poverty, but deciding to move beyond it and never look back.
For people who have not lived a lifetime of poverty, they would not understand. I understand and accept that. They’ve enjoyed being born into a middle-class or even wealthy family, and have grown up enjoying the things that having money can give them. As a result, they’ve taken it for granted.
10. Getting rich – further use of the Will
[Taken from the book The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles]
YOU cannot retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary.
Do not tell of your past troubles of a financial nature, if you have had them, do not think of them at all. Do not tell of the poverty of your parents, or the hardships of your early life; to do any of these things is to mentally class yourself with the poor for the time being, and it will certainly check the movement of things in your direction.
“Let the dead bury their dead,” as Jesus said.
Put poverty and all things that pertain to poverty completely behind you.
