RECIPE for WEALTH

1 RECIPE for WEALTH There some well kept secrets about wealth. I am just like you. I want my new year to make a lot of money for me also. Back in the early 1900s a man named Walter D. Wattles wrote a book called the Science of Getting Rich It was the little green book that Ronda Burns read, before she created the hit DVD named “THE SECRET”. Walter D Wattles didn’t invent these secrets he simply wrote about them. People in power have always know about them and taught them to their heirs. Children of wealthy people have a different understanding of money and wealth than the rest of us. But we can learn as adults. It is never too later. That little green book has a big book’s worth of information about how to make money and have your hearts desires. Walter starts by giving all the reasons that we have the birthright to be rich to have all that we desire. He writes that rich does not mean to be satisfied with a little. You can not do all that you want with out plenty of money. A person can’t live in the body with out clothing shelter good food and freedom from excess labor. Our creator put things here for us to enjoy them. Why are we not enjoying our lives to the fullest? Maybe it is we don’t have the knowledge. I want to share some insights with you in this article. Wattles explains we are also mind. The mind needs books and time to study and opportunity to travel. The mind wants to be with other intellectual persons and wants to be surrounded by beauty. When asked what does your mind look like, most of us think of our brain and the picture we where shown as kids in school. The mind isn’t our brain anymore than it is our toenail. Our mind is in every cell of our body. We are also soul, and to live fully in soul we must have love. Poverty can frustrate the process of love. It takes money to have time to show love to another person. It takes money to have the things you want the person you love to have in the form of gifts. It takes money to have the time to devote to the other person you love. Often mothers, who are forced to work too long, don’t have the time they want and need for the children they are caring for. Men are also forced to work so many hours they don’t have time for their families. The bond between them and their children are often weak. Married couples split up when they can’t have time to just love each other. There are laws of the universe and once understood will aid you in your pursuit. When you understood the law of gravity you started to use it to your advantage. You could put something on a table and expect it to stay there. You could throw a ball in the air and expect it to come back down. Some of these laws are so simple and yet so over looked and so ignored. The rich and wealthy understand these laws and never forget them. I will try to explain them in such a way that you will remember each one and be able to apply them each day. 2 The first is Law of Perpetual Transmutation: Energy moves into physical form. The images you hold in your mind most often will materialize in results in your life. Another man named James Allen wrote a short book titled “AS A MAN THINKETH”. Allen explains that if you can think it you can have it. Put creativity right up there with genius thinking. It makes sense, if no one ever thought about computers we wouldn’t be using one right now. Some one had to have the idea before the thing appears. You have to have some sense about how something is to be before you even recognize it. The law of attraction is a sub law of this law. My daughter is one of the best manifestants I know. One evening at her home, we where recounting all the things she had attracted to her life thought mere thought and spoken word. Then I went on to say but there was one thing she had said she wanted as a young girl that never came to pass. It was the desire to have twins. She looked at me and asked “Don’t you recognize them.” My look of total puzzlement made her say they where playing in the next room. My grand children were only fourteen months apart in birth. There they were, and I hadn’t recognized it until she pointed it out to me. Some folks refer to them as Irish twins. Be care full about what you focus on. It you are always focused on an illness you may be bringing more of that illness to you. If you are afraid of something to the point you think about it a lot. Be careful that you don’t bring it to you. It would be effective to replace the old habit with a new one. Think of good things you want and have them come to you. Putting a picture of what you want where you can see it can help. Remember you are forming a new habit of thinking. You should use every thing available to you. I want to loose weight and I have the number that I want my scale to say posted all over the place. No one but me knows what that number means, but it helps me make the right choice many a time. Here is where your imagination can be your best asset. Since we know that what you think about moves into physical form. I am thinking that as a group we can make changes that will be good for every one. Some one will wake up one morning and imagine how we can use some very abundant source to fuel our economy. The use of fossil fuel will come to an end. Some one else will end hunger for ever. We will know peace on our planet. Some one will have the passion to end cancer, and it will become a forgotten disease. All the answers are inside of us, they just need to come out and become realized. The way to make a cell phone was always here. Yeah, a lot of stuff had to happen so that we all have one. Here in our country every one has one. Some countries will never experience telephone lines because their people will just use cell phones. We have the ability and we know the need. Be the person who says I understand the need. Be the person who says I can help make a difference. 3 The second is The Law of Relativity: Nothing is good or bad nor small and big.. until you relate it to something. Lots of the words that we use are relative and yet we don’t think about it. There has to be something in the opposite for the word to have meaning. The expression “He was bad” means nothing until you understand good. Leonardo Di Vince drew a very lovely lady and on the same page he drew a grotesque man. When questioned Leonardo said you can’t understand how beautiful she is, until you understand how ugly he is. In our lives each day is the opportunity to see the opposite. A thing can only be as good as it is bad. And only as bad, as it is good. You be the one to choose which you will look for. Do remember you can’t see how good it is until you can see how bad it is. If I say a building is tall, you have your own idea of what I mean. Here in Ronan Montana I used to own the tallest building and then I owned the next to the tallest building. The tallest building was an old hotel. Now it as an apartment building. Now you might still be thinking tall. That building is only two floors in the air. The hotel has 12 foot ceilings and a crawl space between the floors. The next to the tallest building was a church with small room in the attic of the second story. Now a tall building in Houston where I am from would be at least 52 floors tall. Much of what we say is all relative. Try saying thirty words and pay attention to how many of your words have no meaning, if not explained by a relative comparison. In the south a lot of words are colored with comparisons. Such as it was as slick as snot on wet glass. Or another one is: It was so hot that you could fry and egg on the sidewalk. Now that puts slick as to how slick and hot as to how hot stuck in your mind. When we say we are looking to get wealthy, do you realize we already are. Most of the people on our planet don’t have enough food. We sleep on beds. Most of us have choices of which bed in our homes. We had a good breakfast, our bedrooms have floors made of wood or covered in carpet. We have running water. Our power is to the house. Most of our world would say that is wealth. We must define what we want. Be specific in what you want. If it is to serve others then try to understand what that means to you. Remember it is all relative. How will you serve? What will be the out come? How will you recognize it when you see it? I used to teach a class about goal achieving to a local group of students. I always asked what was the goal of each student. In very class I would find one student whose goal was to get out of the school he was in. I would point to the door and promptly say, there is that door walk out and you will have accomplished your goal. They would then settle down and realize the goal was much bigger. The school was only a beginning to what they really wanted. You do need to know what the answer to “What do you want and how will you know then you have what you want? Spell it out put some thought into it. This is your life we are thinking about. Keep in mind such things as if a car is good because it 4 can get you some where fast. The car is also bad because it could kill a child fast. Don’t fight the law. Just know it is there. The third is The Law of Vibration; Everything vibrates. Nothing rest. Conscious awareness of vibration is called feeling. Your thoughts control your paradigms and you vibrations. When you are not feeling good, become aware of what you are thinking, and then think of something pleasant. Physicists know that what we think of as matter is only a vibration field that we perceive as matter. In the bible are the words “in the beginning was the word.” A spoken word is a vibration in the air. We are all vibrations and what we think has power over what happens and how we feel. How we feel has influence on our actions and our actions are the cause of our results. If you know a mans results, you can trace it back to his thoughts. When we get an idea that we are excited about or have any emotion attachment to, we go into a different vibration, We often say I was real excited about that. Maybe we got frightened at a thought. The body chemistry starts to change. We now fixate on the thought it becomes more and more fixed in our mind. We start to see things in a new way. That new way may not serve us well. We might not even notice it as a problem. We are just fixed on an emotional experience. If we are afraid of the economy we see everything as see I thought so…..and now it is reality to us. Be careful about the thoughts that enter your conscience mind. There are all sorts of thoughts going through our minds. They are like train cars going by. Let the ones you don’t want to fix on, just go by. It is ok that they came by but now go to the next thought that can serve you and fix on it. Your mind can’t think of two things at a time. While taking a bath, ever see a bruise and think I wonder where that came from. You where so focused on something, that when you should have felt the ouch you didn’t feel it. Your mind can’t be in two places at once. I was in a class once when my instructor told a beautiful story about a time when his daughter was young. He had sent her to her bedroom for the night when she called out to him in a load cry “ Daddy, Daddy, there is a monster under my bed” My instructor said he went straight to her bed. Then what he did was magic. He asked her to get out of bed and sit beside him. She did as was asked. He then told her to ask the monster to come out. She said “no daddy I cant he is scary and big.” The dad said “make him small”. The daughter replied “no I can’t he is a monster” Her dad then said “yes but he is your monster so you can make him small.” So she did. Next the dad said “make him come out and stand right here” as he pointed to a place on the floor. She did. Next the dad said “make him stay right there and I’ll be right back.” Next the dad went to the kitchen and got an empty mayo jar. He brought it back to her room and took the lid off and laid the jar on its side. He now asked his daughter to make the monster go inside the jar. After the monster was in the jar the dad put the lid on as he placed the jar on the dresser. Now he told his daughter that if she wanted to have some more fun she could simply let the monster out of the jar. 5 You will have thoughts that you don’t want but don’t worry about them. Don’t give them life. Keep your focus on the thoughts that will give you, what you want. The forth is The Law of Polarity: Everything has an opposite hot cold up down good bad. Constantly look for the good in people and sitations. When you find it tell the people. People love compliments and the positive idea in your mind makes you feel good. Remember good idea, good vibration. When you see something really good you are also looking at something that could be equally bad. When a situation is bad it is equally good. Look for the opportunity in the bad. Find that good. Something can only be as good as it is bad. To the same degree. As a real estate investor my family and I bought a house from a bank that was in really bad shape. We went straight to fixing all the problems with that house. One of the neighbors came over one day and said the people who did all this damage lived right across the street and we should know that bit of information. Soon after the man who lived across the street was in his front yard. I walked over to him and said that we now owned the house that was in such bad shape. He said he used to own it or the thought he owned it. A women had advertised the house for sale. He and his wife wanted to buy it. Now that would have been in the early 1980s, when the housing market was down. This women said that she would let them just take over her loan on the house. She also commented that she was moving to Arizona. The family moved into the house on Beaver Bend in Houston. They made their payment to the lady now in Arizona and she would in turn pay the mortgage company. The family understood that when the last payment was made they would get the deed to the house. Little did they know that after only six payments had been paid, that the gal in Arizona hadn’t made one payment to the bank. Now the sheriff was at the door saying the house had been foreclosed on and they had to move. They tried to assure the officer that they had made the payment even showing money orders to the lady in Arizona. As you guessed this was of no use. They were forced to leave. Lucky for them they were able to move just across the street and rent a house so the children could stay in the same schools. The husband had been so mad at the whole thing and not knowing how to of prevented this from happening to his family went over to the house and through things. Then he started breaking as much stuff as he had strength. Now that was a stupid thing for him to do. However he didn’t get in his car and go kill the woman in Arizona. He did get it out of his system. That turned out to be a good thing for us. We bought the house from the bank at a great price at the time. We were able to pay our helpers who in turn feed their families. We found a great family to buy the house on a new FHA loan. It was really bad and it was really great. You will be able to see things differently once you now where to look. 6 The fifth is The Law of Rhythm: The tide comes in, the tide goes out ... night follows day … good times follow bad times. This law is very misunderstood. When we have very good economic times we are going to have bad economic times. There is a rhythm to the thing. Try to understand that rhythm. Things will improve, but that might take time. Your attitude can make that change happen easier. The rhythm of things is also known as cycles. The Mayans understood cycles and built their calendars around this knowledge. Watch for the cycles and you will be better prepared as to what to do and when. When the sun comes up each day we all expect it to go down. When it snows in Montana, we all know that summer will come and the last of our snow will go away. When things go up quickly they may come down just as quickly. You have all seen that in the plant world. A tree that grows real fast often has a short life span and a tree that is slow to grow will often live a long time. A friend of mine who lives in Chipley Florida says that the worst enemy of any company is uncontrolled growth. I have watched that happen in many companies that I have known about. Growth is good, but it needs to be at a controlled pace. Different cities grow at different rates. While some cities are doing great others are not having it so good. My thought is, you are not a tree. You can move. Beware of what is happening and try to figure out why and where is the cycle. Real estate investors call the local elementary school to find out the enrollment in the last five years. If enrollment is coming up so is the neighborhood. If it is going down, so is the neighborhood. Find out what the unemployment is and what it has been in the last five years to see if that area is growing or declining. Sometimes you just need to look at what you are doing to see a cycle. Our lives are a cycle. When we are new, we need help from others. Then we get old enough, we get to help others. At some point in time we are back to needing lots of help just like when we started out. Most of us know what it is like to have love in our life and we also know what it is like to lose love. It too is a cycle. I like the cycle of being hungry and then having a great meal and then getting hungry again only to have another good meal. Most of what we experience is a cycle of one form or another. Once you understand it, come to expect that things will change. Be ready for the change and accept it . I would be so bold as to say embrace it. The movie “The Ground Hog Day” is a good example of why change is better than no change. Change is how we are able to move on into a better situation. 7 The sixth is The Law of Cause and Effect: Whatever you send into the universe comes back. Action and re-action are equal and opposite. Say good things to everyone treat everyone with total respect and it will all come back. Never worry about what you are going to get just concentrate on what you can give. There was a time that I was so focused on doing what I thought to be a good thing and it excited me to no end. I worked each day as thought I were on a one woman mission. I was finding and providing good housing for good people. A woman named Thelma started the whole thing into motion. I had bought a house from H U D that needed some minor work done and along came Thelma. She needed a house and she liked the one I had fixed up. Her husband had always rented and now he was dead. Thelma’s sister lived in the neighborhood and so did one of her brothers. They owned their houses. They had explained to Thelma, the advantage of owning a good home. Thelma had worked hard all her life. She had paid her rent on time. The landlord didn’t fix the roof, so every time it rained it rained on Thelma’s furniture. It rains a lot in Houston. Thelma had saved up money for a down payment. She also could make the mortgage payments. It was less than the rent, she was at that time paying for a leaky roof. She had been at her job for over 12 years. I worked hard with the mortgage company to help get that loan for Thelma. I also worked hard to make sure that house I had for sale would pass all of FHA’s inspections and appraisals. The day of the closing where Thelma would sign papers and get the key and I would sign the deed and get money, I went to the house for the last time and thought about how good Thelma was going to feel living in that house. I left a card and flowers for her to find. At the title company Thelma was over come with joy. I still start to tear up when I think about that day. Thelma started to cry and tell every one that she never ever thought she would ever own a house. I got very emotional about that, knowing I had a big part of the whole thing. She made me want to go out and do it all over again and find another house that needed my help and find another good family that needed that house. It inspired me to keep on helping and helping and helping until the end of the second year when my tax accountant said I had a tax problem. So I had to deal with that. but so what. I now know how to do what I like doing with out fear of too many taxes. Go find that thing that brings you joy the rest will fall into place. 8 The seventh is the Law of Gender: Every seed has a gestation period. Ideas are spiritual seeds and will move into form. Your goals will manifest when the time is right, just know they will. When you plant a corn seed the package tells use how many days until the seed opens and the plant breaks through the ground. When a cow gets pregnant we know when to expect a baby cafe to be born. When a doctor tells a woman she is about to have a child, we don’t expect a baby the next day. There is a time we must wait. Our ideas are spiritual seeds and they don’t come with a time table. They will develop into form, just as the corn seed will develop given proper soil and water and right amount of sun shine. Make sure you are giving your thought that right environment to which to grow. Keep the thought alive each day. Get real attached to your ideas. Give them emotion. Some of us have been programmed not to think a certain way because it will lead to disappointment. That is the same as going out to the place where we planted the corn seed and digging it up and saying “Well I knew you would never grow into a corn stalk anyway”. And you would be right. Why not just admit we don’t know how much time it will take, but it will take time. Here is when just being grateful for the idea, is another good idea. Never throw your ideas away. One man I know writes them all down each day, He looks at them often. He has told me that often they play a big part of solving a problem later on. He uses his ideas to excite him into more ideas. Great men in the past have had an idea and stuck to them. Albert Einstein said he wasn’t that much smarter that any one else he could just stick to a problem longer that anyone else. I think what he said was true. Being able to stick with an idea or problem long enough to let it happen is golden. I met a man in Tampa Florida. My next thought was “if I ever remarry, this man has all the qualities that I would be looking for”. He was smart and very pleasant to be around. He was tall and good looking. The thing I liked most was. he was a problem solver. I couldn’t get this image of him and what he stood for out of my mind. I could see his face as I drove down Hwy 93 in Montana. I thought about meeting a man just like the one I met in Tampa. I also knew to find such a man would take all the patience I could muster. I would also take a lot of my time. I did have other things to do and time went on. I did still think of the man who I wanted to share my life with. Because I kept thinking about him as opportunities opened up and they did. I acted on them. It was over fours years after I met that guy that we got married. I married that same guy. Not one like him but him. I should have thought that no one could ever be just like him. You will find that you have something you want but are afraid to go after it. Don’t fear time is your friend. Things will happen when time is right. You only need to be aware of 9 any opportunity that puts you closer to the thing you want. When you look it will show up. We just don’t know when or how long to wait. Be grateful for the idea and the thought. Find something that you are willing to give the days of your life doing. The thing you desire is desiring you and looking for you. All these laws are uniform and are an orderly method of the omnipotent God. Once you understand how these laws work you will start to make them work for you. You already know that if you jump off a roof you will go down not up. We use this to our advantage each day. We are never kept poor by shortness of supply. Our thoughts are the only power that can produce tangible riches, from formless substance. We live in a thought world and this word is a part of a thought universe. When we have a thought form, we make an image of the form which is in the mind. Just think some day someone will be able to imagine how we can make more food in a different way. Already we are looking at hydroponics’.I have lettuce growing in my kitchen in Montana winter. What else is there that will one day make feeding the worlds population easier? We all get rich by doing things a certain way … and the way you do things is a direct result of what you think. If you read the biographies of people you admire, notice that they had things in common. Napoleon Hill studied wealthy men for over fifteen years, before he wrote the classic THINK and GROW RICH. Hill noticed they all had certain things in common. Those things that they had in common, you can have in common too. They were not born into wealth nor did they marry into wealth. They did develop habits that worked for them. They also thought about things in a certain way. People like Oprah Winfrey use these principals. There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which in its original state permeates, penetrates and fills the interspaces of the universe. Someone had to think about the meal you last ate. Maybe you were the cook. Someone had a recipe that they tried and it worked. You now use it often. We would still live in caves, sitting on rocks or fallen trees, but some one had a better idea. The thing we want is here. We just have not gotten the idea or we haven’t gotten the idea into form. It can happen and it will happen. A friend and I were talking last night about all the medical advances that will come in time, as we open up to the possibilities. A thought in the substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. The science of getting rich depends on your understanding of this principal. Be careful of your thoughts. They will attract the thing you think about. If you give thought and emotion to your worse fear. You are attracting that thing to you. Right now many people are worried about will they have enough money to pay the bills. They might be worried about their loosing a job. The emotion of worry, could cause it to come to you. Be sure you replace those thoughts into positive thoughts. If that seems hard then think of the opposite and think of that. So now you think about being able to pay the bills on time or how wonderful a job you have and think of how wonderful it is to go to that job each day. 10 Oh and here is where being grateful comes in handy. When you are paying bills be grateful for the money you do have and the bill you can pay. Be grateful that you have a job each day. Most of all be grateful you live in a country where we are free to get another job or start in new company. Look around you and find all the things that make you happy and be very very grateful for them. The intelligent substance which is everything and lives in everything lives in you. In order for us to do more and be more we must have more. It isn’t wrong to have more. Think how you might feel if you had a pet and you went to Petco and bought the best food for that pet. After getting home you offered the new food to your pet and your pet walked away hungry. How would you feel? Our creator has offered us abundance and some times we walk away. It is essential that your purpose should harmonize with the purpose that is in everything. What you want is here. It is yours for the very want of it. Learning to have, what we want is part of our purpose. What God wants, is for you to make the most of yourself. You can best serve others by making the most of yourself, than any other way. Just think of all the good wealthy men and women do for others in this country. Many have set up funds for students to go to college free. Some have put up money for parks in cities. If you are just taking care of yourself, you might not have money for others. Think how great it must feel to be able to give large amounts of money way. Feel how good it would feel to donate money to your favorite cause. Stay with that feeling it is a good one. Riches will come to you, when you start giving more value than cash you take in. You must stop working on the completive plane. Work on the creative plane. In your job try to think of away you can be of more service. If you want a company, think about how better you can serve your costumer. Don’t think competition with another company or coworker. Look at how companies do well. They come up with a new idea. There are lots of ideas still left. We haven’t run out of them yet. I thought the last kitchen appliance was invented when someone had a quick freezer on TV. This thing freezes so fast, that I want one. Now that’s just in the kitchen. I wonder what will be next. I am sure it will be wonderful and we will all want one. How could things be different where you work? What would make a big difference? May be you can think of a way for your company to do something to save money that could be passed to your customer. Maybe you can think of a way to have a new product. Maybe it is just a way to serve your customer better. This stuff is not rocket science, Use your thoughts. It is our creator’s pleasure to give to you. The original substance, wants to live as much as possible in you. Nowhere do I ever remember Jesus saying you should be poor. In fact you can’t do much good if you are poor. If you get rewarded for being of serve to others, then if you are poor you are not of much service. In fact it could be a sin to be poor. If you are poor you can’t give to the hungry children, nor can you do much good for those who can’t do for themselves. The fact is that the desire you feel for possession of riches is in tune with the desire of the Supreme Power for more complete expression. Try is one, and see if you like it. 11 The whole process of mental adjustment and attunement can be summed up in one word gratitude. Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude. Be of a grateful mind and be fixed upon the best. Faith is born out of gratitude. Look around you for all that is beauty. We have food each day. Water to drink is often taken for granted. Our country is not being bombed each day. Be grateful for all these things and you will be able to see other things to be grateful for. We have always been told to give thanks. There is a reason for this. When we give thanks it brings more of what we are grateful for to us. So be thankful for all the wonderful people who care for you. You must know what you want and be definite. See the thing you want and then act as if you already have it. Your answer to your desires is not according to your faith while you are asking, but according to your faith while you are working. Once this is in action do the work that is necessary to get the thing. Sometimes that is simply don’t let go of the idea. Do things that bring you closer to what you want. I wanted to find houses that needed my help. I didn’t sit at home waiting for them to ring my door bell. I got in my car to go where I thought they might be. I took note of houses that had that certain look. I then made an effort to find the owners. I couldn’t quit there. I now needed to actually talk to the owners. I had to know what to say. Many steps had to happen. You will need to be ready to take the steps. Then do the work needed. You only need to do only one step at a time. Don’t get too worried about the step you will have to take down the road. Only be concerned about the one you take next. Make it a habit to only take small steps. The thing you want will make small steps toward you each time. Since we have not yet reached the stage of development in which a person can create directly from the formless substance without the process or work of human hands. A person must act as well as think, Since belief is all important it would be good to protect your thoughts. So do not think of things you don’t want. Only the good you want. If this is hard for you just say what the opposite of the bad would be. There you have what to focus on. Try not to think of past failures, only the success you want. Only look at the positive news. Only read the most optimistic comments on the world’s news. In the area that I live just going outside into the view of our mountains is very inspiring. Maybe it is the ocean that that inspires you. What ever it is, surround yourself with it as often as you can. We all have mental faculties. They are our mental tools. They are: our ability to reason, our will, our memory, our intuition, our imagination and our perspective. These are more important than our five senses. The five senses are the ones we learned in school. They are sight, touch, taste, hearing, and smell. Most of the time, these senses get in our way. Today with neon lights and bright colors of the wide screen TV, it is easy to get distracted. There is music almost everywhere we go, making it hard to have a thought. The food channel with all its wonderful food ideas makes us want to go eat or cook. Good, if you are in the food business, but maybe distracting if you are not. 12 We do have a problem with using our God given mental faculties. Out ability to reason makes us different from all other animals on this planet. We know that we know. A dog doesn’t know that he knows something. It is our God like quality. We can focus our will. You may have played with a magnifying glass to focus sun light. Maybe you even started a fire or saw someone start a fire with the glass. We too can focus and do big things. Have you ever thought you have a poor memory? We all have prefect memory. We just don’t know how to access it from our subconscious mind. With practice you will be able to bring more into the conscious mind, when you need it. Be patient with your self. Have you ever tried to remember a high school friend’s name in a conversation? A couple of hours later the name comes to you? When you are relaxed, the bridge between to two parts of your mind works better. Just remember to relax never tense up. It has been said that if prayer is when we are talking to God, then intuition is when God is talking to us. Wouldn’t it be good to know the difference between indigestion and intuition? Most of us are too busy to develop our intuitive faculties. The next time your phone rings, try to see if you know who it is before you answer. You may be very surprised at how good you are. Some times you just know that something is a certain way. This is very good. Albert Einstein said that his imagination was his best gift. Someone had to imagine everything we have in our homes, before it could be made. The lights we use, had to be imagined by someone before we could have them. You could be the one who imagines a world using an energy source not used yet. Think of a way to feed all the people of the world. Some one will, some day, That person could be you. We all have perception. It is seeing from where we are. All our past experiences make up our perception. They are not right or wrong just our perception. You maybe seeing things differently than others around you. Your perception might just be the vantage needed to do something differently or simply think differently. Remember this is not good nor bad, just different. We might not ever learn a new way of doing things, if we all had the same perception. When you are in a conflict, remember the other persons perception is the one they are working from. Once you can understand how and why the other person is thinking, you can then start taking care of each others needs. Most people are not out to get you, their perception is just different than yours. In your journey to wealth look for ways to get rich and have wealth by looking for things you are best suited to do. Never get into a business that you don’t like. Look for the things which you get enjoyment from. It should be something you are willing and excited to exchange the days of your life for. Do all the work you can each day. Put the power of success and the purpose of getting rich into everything that you pursue. Put the purpose of getting rich in to everything you do Never get into a hurry. Fix your attention on the mental image of the thing you want. Now, it is time to immediately start giving thanks that you are getting it. This will strengthen your faith and renew your purpose. You must now act as though you already have the thing. 13 The normal desire for increased wealth is not an evil thing. It is simply the desire for a more abundant life. It is the deepest instinct of their nature. We are all attracted to someone who can give us more of the means of life. You must impress on others, that they will feel an increase by associating with you. You should take pride in your ability to help others. In your mind you should always say, “ What I want for myself, I want for others” If you are in the wrong business look for the right one. This might be a good time to check if what you are doing is still a service to others. At one time a man who could shoe a horse was a big service to a community but now only a few people make a living doing that one job. When I was a small girl, some members of my family worked at a textile mill that produced blankets. Most of that work is now done with computers and very few people work at those jobs. You might be in a job that isn’t needed any more, if that is so, recognize it quickly and look for one that is needed. New jobs are opening up that were not there 2 years ago. There is no lack of opportunities for you, if you are living the advancing life. That means look for the thing that you are passionate about. Find a way to get into that field of work. Opportunity is there waiting for you. Be sure that what you are passionate about is of some use to some one else. Look at our athletes Right now we need inspiration and boy do they pump it out. They get paid to do that. They are willing to practice and be in great shape and in good mental control that day they play. Think of your favorite player. Realize that amount of practice over and over. All of that just to do, what that player doses on the day you watched. Are you willing to do the work it takes? Every once in a while something happens that changes things for you. About 11 years ago my daughter and I attended a fire walk in Friendswood Texas. My daughter said she would go, but only to be the photographer for the event. As people started to walk on hot coals, she got carried away and walked across the 12 foot circle of coals several times. As you know this is impossible to do barefooted with out hurting and burning your feet. The next morning at breakfast, she started to complain about something at work. Then with out hesitation she shouted.” What was I saying, I just walked on hot fire and didn’t get burned. I can handle the problem at work”. Knowing she couldn’t do it and then actually doing it, changed the way she thought. You don’t need to do a fire walk (they are fun) to change the way you think. I just wonder how many things you think you can’t do, that are the very thing you could do. When you practice the using the laws set out, you will be certain to get exactly what you want and deserve. Go back over these laws until you understand each one. The good life is there, it is searching for you, as you search of it.