If you’ve seen or read The Secret, I’m confident you will enjoy reading this source book behind the Law of Attraction concepts. And if you haven’t seen or read The Secret, where have you been??
The Science of Getting Rich was originally published in 1910 when there was a flourish of New Thought activity. What I love about this book is that it’s a really simple, quick read that focuses your attention on how to use the Law of Attraction to create wealth.
Here are some of the key points that particularly struck home:
- Keep your focus on that which you desire with gratitude and purpose to combat any fear or doubt.
- It’s import to increase life for others – provide more usefulness than you receive in cash.
- Do what you want to do because the desire gives you the power to do it, even if you don’t yet have all the skills.
- Grow yourself where you are, rather than leaping into a new business if you still have doubts.
I also squirreled away some favorite quotes from the book:
“To think what you want to think is to think TRUTH, regardless of appearances. Every man has the natural and inherent power to think what he wants to think, but it requires far more effort to do so than it does to think the thoughts which are suggested by appearances. To think according to appearance is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is laborious, and requires the expenditure of more power than any other work man is called upon to perform.”
“To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and to surround yourself with inferior things. … The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends to become the best; it takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.”
“The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith. The reaction of gratitude upon one’s own mind produces faith; and every outgoing wave of grateful thanksgiving increases faith.”
“Your part is to intelligently formulate your desire for the things which make for a larger life, and to get these desires arranged into a coherent whole; and then to impress this Whole Desire upon the Formless Substance [The Universe, God], which has the power and the will to bring you what you want. You do not make this impression by repeating strings of words; you make it by holding the vision with unshakable PURPOSE to attain it, and with steadfast FAITH that you do attain it.”
“By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it.”
“You will get rich most easily in point of effort, if you do that for which you are best fitted; but you will get rich most satisfactorily if you do that which you want to do.”
“Doing what you want to do is life; and there is no real satisfaction in living if we are compelled to be forever doing something which we do not like to do, and can never do what we want to do. And it is certain that you can do what you want to do, the desire to do it is proof that you have within you the power which can do it.”
“If you feel that you are not in the right vocation, do not act too hastily in trying to get into another one. The best way, generally, to change business or environment is by growth.”
“There is never any hurry on the creative plane; and there is no lack of opportunity.”
“When you make a failure, it is because you have not asked for enough; keep on, and a larger thing than you were seeking will certainly come to you.”
You can find ebook downloads of The Science of Getting Rich for dirt cheap, but if you’re like me and prefer a hard copy you can curl up with on the couch, I suggest you get the cheap online version from Amazon.
It’s worth having in your library for the larger perspective whenever you’re having doubts and for inspiration any old time. It’s in my library – and dog-eared too!
