The Science of Getting Rich – Can Anyone Get Rich? Part 1
Wallace D. Wattles, in his 1910 book The Science of Getting Rich, details how you can get rich but his reasons for doing so are much more than the simple attainment of money and wealth. Prosperity – however you define it – is a timeless desire. According to Wattles, getting rich has a very important premise: He asserts that the desire for wealth is not specifically or solely centered on money but rather it is a measurable way of expressing our desire for a fuller, better, more meaningful life.
The Right to Be Rich
According to Wattles each of us has the right to be rich. He asserts that it simply isn’t possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich. To develop talent and unfold the soul requires the use of many things which require money to purchase.
Of course, there is a science of getting rich and it is an exact science and has nothing to do with your environment or the possession of talent. Getting rich is the result of doing things in a Certain Way that causes success.
There is abundance of opportunity everywhere for the man who will go with the tide; instead of trying to swim against it. Wattles rightly points out that everyone has the potential for success by searching for and embracing the opportunities available to them.
Man has the power of thought to cause the formation of things and cause tangible results. To do things in a Certain Way, you have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think. In other words, having the right mindset is the first step toward getting rich.
Increasing Life
You are neither destined to be poor nor rich. Life’s purpose is increasing life so we must get rich, so that we can live more. We must become creators rather than competing for what is already created. Supply is unlimited according to Wattles. So never allow yourself think for an instant that all the best building spots will be taken before you’re ready to build your house, unless you hurry!
How riches come to you is if your business transactions operate on the basis of fair exchange i.e. you give the buyer something of greater use value than the cash value you take. In addition, we must ask largely for what we want, have a clear picture in our mind and claim it as if it were already ours. In other words, we must dream big, see it clearly and behave as if we have already achieved the thing we desire in order for it to be. This is possibly the most powerful concept in the book and is explored in other books such as The Secret by Rhonda Byrne and Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
A mental attitude of gratitude can be the one thing missing from people who live their lives rightly in all other. This lack of gratitude keeps them in poverty. Gratitude will ensure your thinking is that of supply as unlimited. Faith is born of gratitude. The grateful mind expects good things, and expectation becomes faith. It’s good to cultivate the habit of gratefulness and give thanks continuously. It can be a good idea to keep a gratitude diary on your bedside table and writing 3 things daily that you are grateful for. This will bring you into harmonious relations with the good in everything, and the good in everything will move toward you.
The Science of Getting Rich may be a hundred years old but Wattles’ ideas are as relevant today as they ever were. The science of getting rich is not about following a pre-defined formula for success – first step one, then step two, then step three, then retire on a beach with a margarita in your hand – but rather it is all about THE WAY YOU THINK AND ACT.
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