An Unexpected $36,000 — Already!

By Rebecca Fine

Just a few short weeks ago, Mike began to put his big plans for the year into action. Like so many of us, he and his wife had decided that now that their daughter was grown, they wanted to work less and enjoy life more — to travel, spend time with friends and family, and just generally enjoy their home on the lovely east coast of New Zealand.

Now you only have to look around to see that WANTING that kind of freedom is where many people begin and END the process! (And — ouch — sometimes we only have to look in the mirror for a good example, right?)

But for Mike, this was just the beginning. He'd recently read a small forgotten classic from 1910 entitled, The Science of Getting Rich, and something in it just "clicked" for him. Sure, he'd also read plenty of "self-help" books before. But, as he put it, "without taking them onboard."

This time, though, something was different. This time Mike decided to go for it, to apply the principles he was learning from that little book as he set about changing his life.

Back in 1987 Mike had started an electrical company and it did very well. And he and his wife also own and operate another full-time business, too. To start this year, Mike closed down his business to concentrate on a new interest, property investing, while his wife retired from running the other business, opting to handle just a bit of the administrative work on a part-time basis.

As you might expect, they originally figured this would mean some belt-tightening while Mike got his new venture going — a perhaps substantial temporary loss of income. But rather than focus on that, Mike decided to follow the instructions in The Science of Getting Rich and focus on his clear mental image of the life he wanted and to begin to take action in that direction. He also opted to participate in a course called "The Science of Getting Rich for Practical Geniuses™."

Here's what Mike reported just a little halfway through the course:

$36,000 in unexpected income has arrived!
You see, over the years Mike has developed several products and not long ago he came up with one that seemed very promising — a quality management logging system for welding pipes, including the electronic device that runs the system.

But this side of the business somehow didn't work out quite as he'd expected, so when his main client went out of business, Mike just put the product on the shelf in the garage and forgot about it. And there it sat, abandoned, for more than a year and a half.

Then, suddenly, a company which had bought several of his devices in the past showed up wanting that almost-forgotten product! Seems they'd been trying to develop a similar one on their own but had become bogged down in major difficulties. They offered Mike a good price for his brain-child and he was all set to agree.

But there was a hitch.

Two deal-killer clauses glared out of the contract — and the would-be buyer's lawyer wasn't budging.

"Never allow yourself to be disappointed," says Wallace Wattles, author of The Science of Getting Rich. So here's what Mike did.

"I tried to think of and see the deal with a positive outcome rather than see the problems in our way. I also knew the contract wouldn't work for me with those two clauses in it, so I let go of any attachment to the outcome and rang the person I'd been dealing with directly, instead of talking to the lawyer. I told him what I wanted, and I really was happy for the deal not to go ahead otherwise."

Result?

"We got our money last week. The amount will cover our basic living expenses while I start our new venture and it'll also take care of the cut in my wife's income."

And Mike did MORE. Understanding Mr. Wattles' admonition that "you must give every man more in use value than he gives you in cash value," Mike made the point of adding extra to what the buyer got.

"I spent days creating instruction manuals and also came across extra product when I did my final clean-out which I happily passed on to them at no extra cost. It ended up a good deal for all."

Good for you, Mike! And thanks for the excellent example of what Mr. Wattles writes about:

"It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process. All you have to do with that is to retain your vision, stick to your purpose, and maintain your faith and gratitude.

"But you must act in a certain way, so that you can appropriate what is yours when it comes to you and so that you can meet the things you have in your picture and put them in their proper places as they arrive.

"You can really see the truth of this. When things reach you, they will be in the hands of others, who will ask an equivalent for them. And you can only get what is yours by giving the other person what is rightfully his ...

"Under the impelling power of the supreme spirit, people’s affairs will be so ordered that someone will be led to mine the gold for you. Other people’s business transactions will be so directed that the gold will be brought toward you. And you must so arrange your own business affairs that you may be able to receive it when it comes to you.

"Your thought makes all things, animate and inanimate, work to bring you what you want, but your personal activity must be such that you can rightly receive what you want when it reaches you."

Do you see, my friend, how all this is EXACTLY what Mike is and has been doing?

He is ...

Retaining his vision,

Sticking to his purpose,

Maintaining his faith and gratitude,

Acting in "the certain way" so that he is "able to receive."

Now lest you think that Mike has some kind of superhuman powers of concentration and focus, listen up to what he says here:

"I use the science of getting rich when I remember. Some days I work on it and others I get busy and forget. So I think results can come even when you start and only have 'average daily attendance.' I have, though, always been grateful ... It is great to have a system that gratitude is a part of."

None of us is yet perfect in thought and action, of course, and as Mr. Wattles tells us, it takes work and commitment to direct our attention and thinking. In short, like everything else worth doing, it takes practice to get good at it.

Most of us are just beginning to use these long-neglected "muscles" and what matters now is that we just start and continue to NOTICE our thinking when it goes off-track and to — without blame, shame, or guilt — direct our remarkable power of thought in the way we CHOOSE, rather than just flipping into an automatic, conditioned response — which is, when you get right down to it, the exact OPPOSITE of thinking in the certain way (or thinking at all!).

And I promise you that it does get easier and completely natural with time and practice! ;-)

So how might YOU follow Mike's lead with whatever it is you want to create, experience, or attract to yourself? Take the time to understand these principles and apply them to your own life. "Study this book. Make it your constant companion," as Mr. Wattles advises. Study it on your own. Study it with like-minded friends. And "take it onboard," as Mike is doing.

You, too, will feel the excitement as what you want begins to show up in gloriously expected and UNexpected ways!

Oh, yes — one more thing. You may have noted that Mike's forgotten product netted him $35,000 and the title of this story says "$36,000." Here's the rest (so far!):

"We have five mature avocado trees on our property that for the first time we got a commercial picker to pick." Mike had thought the fruit would be worth about $200 after picking costs. "A cheque arrived yesterday for $850."

"Also our Inland Revenue Department [the tax agency similar to the Internal Revenue Service here in the US] sent me a $200 refund last week for an error they made last year."

A few months ago, right before the course started, Mike said. "With The Science of Getting Rich, this year is going to be great." Now he grins and says, "Quite a couple of weeks, I think you would agree. I wonder what next week will hold!"

What indeed. You go, guy!


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Rebecca Fine is the founder of The Science of Getting Rich Network where you can download your free copy of the amazing 1910 forgotten classic,The Science of Getting Rich. ©2001 Certain Way Productions.

One of the BIGGEST Reasons People Fail to be Successful:

I was sitting on the floor in my living room next to my three year old son. He was playing with his toys and humming a tune to himself. My wife was sitting near us on the love seat watching an episode of the Office. I just watched them: my beautiful son and my perfect wife. The two people who I love more than anything else in the whole world and who love me just as much. In this moment I was overcome with a profound sense of gratitude. I was (and still am) grateful to The All (God, the One, Allah, YHVH, Dryghten, the Universe ect...) for being blessed with my most important gift - my family. I also remembered all the other things I am grateful for: my health, my freedom, my success with investing, and my home.


I think it is very easy for us to by happy with our gifts - whatever those may be. However, many do not feel or express gratitude towards the source of those gifts. And it is for this reason - this lack of gratitude - that most people fail to manifest those things in their lives that they genuinely desire. This is very unfortunate for being grateful is a very easy task once one takes a moment to reflect upon all their blessings.

If you aren't taking the time out of your day to be grateful and express that gratitude then I highly recommend you take up the practice. Perhaps the easiest method for feeling and expressing gratitude is to pause for a moment (maybe find a quiet place to be alone) and think about all the gifts that have currently manifested in your life, gifts that are in a state of manifesting (waiting on you to receive them), and all the gifts you have received in the past. These need not be physical objects and understand that everyone will have different gifts they will be grateful for - simply find yours. Feel how wonderful it was to receive those gifts that have manifested and be happy for those gifts that are in the process of manifesting (treat them as though you are receiving them right this moment). When you do this correctly the sense of gratitude will swell inside you and you will begin to sense a profound connection with the All.

It is the All that is the source of all your gifts - past, present, and future. The All has a limitless capacity to give you what you want and what you need. All you need to do is to focus your will on those things and be thankful towards the All for them regardless of whether or not they have currently manifested in your life.

Give it a try and let me know how it works for you.

LVX. Veritas. Prosperitas.
J. James Skinner

The Importance (and Power) of Desire

"To be content with less is sinful."

Everyone wants something. Some want to lose weight, others want to be wealthy. There are those out there who want fame and recognition while other simply want a better relationship with their family. This desire to move beyond and improve our current state is life is good - it is also a very powerful tool.

"You know that I want you, You know that I need you. I want it bad."

In his book, The Science Of Getting Rich, Wallace D. Wattles says of desire, “[i]t is power seeking to manifest…it is Life seeking fuller expression”. It is the nature of Life (being the expression of God) to “increase Life”. It is normal, natural, and supremely good for each of us to want more - more in terms of wealth, health, love, and spiritual connection. Wattles also reminds us that it isn’t enough to simply “want” something. We must truly desire our goal if we are to actually manifest it in our lives. Because if we merely want a thing to manifest in our lives (like wealth or love) but we don’t desire it to the point that it occupies our thoughts for the majority of the day or that we have difficulty focusing upon it, then it will be very difficult to cause that thing to come into being. This is also an indication that, deep down, we really don’t want it.


"Just give me a reason."

In a similar vein Brian Tracy, in his book The Psychology of Selling, gives us a technique that is intended to fortify our desire to manifest our goal. Basically, once you have decided to manifest something in your life you will sit down and create a list of at least 100 reasons why you want to bring into your life. The idea is if one can come with at least 100 reasons they want something they will be virtually unstoppable when it come to obtaining their goal. It is easy to give up on a goal or forget to focus on manifesting something if you only have one or two reasons you want it. However, if you have 100 individual reasons you want to become rich, lose weight, or find the love of your life it will be very difficult for you, psychologically, to give up or forget. Tracy mentions that he has one student that keeps a list of all the reasons he wants to be rich. Every time he sees something he wants he adds it to his list. This individual literally has a few thousand items on his list. Needless to say this individual achieved his goal of getting rich rather quickly and has stayed that way.
I have personally used this exercise to increase my sales of Life Insurance (I’m one of the highest selling individuals in the Southeast) and to improve my real estate investing (which has very quickly become my primary form of residual income). So, I know this technique works.
I’d like to know how it works for you. Please take some time to create your own Desire List and use the comments section to let me know how it worked for you.

LVX. Veritas. Prosperitas.
J. James Skinner

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Afloat in a Sea of Abundance...

(Enjoy this article from our guest author)

By Rebecca Fine

In the days of the mighty sailing ships, when brave souls voyaged into the unknown, dependent on the winds and their as-yet incomplete knowledge of geography and navigation, one of the greatest and most dangerous challenges was to traverse the area known as "the doldrums."

Extending about 30 degrees on either side of the equator, the doldrums are subject to days, weeks, even months of no wind at all. After a long and difficult crossing from Europe to South America, lying becalmed in the doldrums — with no land in sight and with the ship's supply of fresh water dwindling — was a terrible and life-threatening situation.

But history and legend offer us some fascinating insights into the power of our own thinking and belief. Back then no one had yet figured out how to determine longitude, although latitude was easily calculated. So if you could not see recognizable land, you could only know in what band of latitude you currently were. Exactly where you were in that ring around the earth was, at that time, unknowable.

And so it happened that at times a ship would fetch up off the coast of South America, out of sight of shore, fresh water supplies exhausted and death knocking at the door. Then, with what must have been the sweetest sound those sailors could ever have hoped for, the lookout would suddenly call out that a ship was approaching in the distance.

Once the ship was within hailing distance, the cry went up: "Water! Give us water!"

And the reply would come back, "Lower your buckets over the side."

You see, although the sailors didn't know it, they were afloat in a virtual river of drinkable and life-sustaining water flowing from the mouth of the powerful Amazon River, which carries nearly 20 percent of all the earth's runoff water into the sea with such force that the fresh (or brackish but safe) water flows as far as 100 miles out into the Atlantic.

The sailors, dying of thirst, only THOUGHT they were experiencing lack. The REALITY was that they were afloat in a literal sea of abundance. Exactly what they needed was within their reach the whole time, but the APPEARANCE of scarcity and their BELIEF in that appearance threatened to overpower them.

They could have died — and many certainly did — believing in lack while surrounded by abundance.

In his amazing 1910 forgotten classic, The Science of Getting Rich, Wallace Wattles writes:

"I have said that people get rich by doing things in a certain way, and in order to do so, people must become able to think in a certain way.

"A person’s way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks about things.

"To do things in the way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think. This is the first step toward getting rich.

"And to think what you want to think is to think TRUTH, regardless of appearances.

A couple of months ago, my friend TERESA ROMAIN of Access Abundance [ www.accessabundance.com ] wrote in my ezine, The Certain Way, about how Galileo changed the world by looking at things from a new perspective. By dropping the prevailing attitude that the sun revolved around the earth, he was able to see that the opposite was, in fact, the truth.

The key to finding the truth, she noted, was choosing to cast off the old notion and look at the situation anew, through a new lens. Teresa wrote:

"The path that lies before you is one of unlimited abundance. And it begins by SEEING the abundance available all around you.

"As you begin to experience life through the new lens of abundance, you'll find that many of the problems you face today will simply disappear. As for the ones that remain, your relationship to them will have changed profoundly, empowering you to take actions that are congruent with and support abundance."

What old beliefs, what old ways of looking, seeing, and perceiving do YOU need to cast off right now, my friend? If you find yourself "in the doldrums," how can you take a fresh look today and begin to see the abundance that surrounds YOU so that you are empowered — not becalmed and hopeless?

The choice is always available. If you have chosen unwisely before, remember that every moment is new and the great power lies in your ability to CHOOSE AGAIN, no matter the appearances and no matter what it seems everyone else thinks or does.

Teresa says that this choice "is the path that leads, ultimately, to the fulfillment of your dreams." Mr. Wattles says this choice is "the first step toward getting rich."

And, bearing in mind those long-ago sailors, I would add that this choice can be the ultimate choice — for death or for life itself.

That choice, every moment, is yours. Which way do you choose — right now?

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Rebecca Fine is the founder of The Science of Getting Rich Network where you can download your free copy of the amazing 1910 forgotten classic,  The Science of Getting Rich. ©2001 Certain Way Productions.

A Call To Action:

Success is about control. It is total control (and responsibility) of your life and its circumstances. You have to be in control of your thoughts, your emotions, and your actions in order to be successful.

So many people allow their thoughts and emotions to be controlled by others; family and friends, the music they listen to, politicians, the talking heads on TV and radio, movie stars...the list goes on. For most people their own thinking is done for them. This also means those same people do not act for themselves either - for our thoughts drive our actions.

This type of existance is not for you. It is time to stop handing over your controls to others and take charge of your life. You're the boss! You CREATE your circumstances and YOUR SUCCESS.

Here's the Ultimatum:

If you truly want to be successful you must eliminate those things in your life that are competing for control over your thoughts, emotions, and actions. Turn off the TV and the radio, put down the news paper, and go get some alone time. Once you are alone decide what you TRULY want out of life and on how you will achieve that goal. Now commit to your action plan and don't let anyone or anything get in your way.

It doesn't matter what the news media tells you, what your friends or family say, what the Hollywood morons think -if you want to achieve your goals then, YOU CAN! And nothing can stop up until you allow it to stop you. Resolve to be unstoppable and you will be UNSTOPPABLE.

Now get out there and go for it!!

LVX. Veritas. Prosperitas.

James Skinner