The Success Manual

Getting what you want is success; and success is an effect, coming from the application of a cause.  Success is essentially the same in all cases; the difference is in the things the successful people want, but not in the success.  It is, therefore, mathematically certain that you can succeed if you will find out the cause of success, and develop it to sufficient strength, and apply it properly to your work; for the application of a sufficient cause can not fail to produce a given effect.

____________________________________________________________

Success Key: Success is an Effect

The beauty of having a Success Library is that all of the works previously read remain ready, willing and able to offer their timeless Wisdom on a moment's notice.  I don't know how many times I have read some of the Success Manuals in my Library.  Yes, I have my favorites.  However, even the less-than-favorites (they are all great in their own right) hold great Success secrets, and perhaps because they are read less often, they sometimes seem to reveal deeper meaning after significant time has lapsed since their last reading.

Of course, my mentor, Bob Proctor, would say that we don't read or understand new material in subsequent readings of books; rather, we have grown, and therefore are now capable of understanding what was always there.  He's absolutely right.

Late season snow covers Mt. Washington of the Presidential Range of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Photo by Peter Crane on May 6, 2007.

____________________________________________________________

In any event, because it is one of the most downloaded Success Manual's on this site, I started reading "How to Get What You Want," a short - but highly powerful - manual written by Wallace D. Wattles.  Despite having read it at least a half-dozen times before, it hit me as though I was reading it for the first time.  "How to Get What You Want" is extremely empowering.

To celebrate my new found interest in one of the greatest - in my opinion - Success Manual's, over the next five days we will be posting a chapter each day.  Today is Chapter 1, which I have entitled "Success is an Effect."

Read it (and all of the subsequent chapters to be posted) carefully - its magnificence is in its simplicity!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

____________________________________________________________

Success is an Effect

Getting what you want is success; and success is an effect, coming from the application of a cause.  Success is essentially the same in all cases; the difference is in the things the successful people want, but not in the success.  Success is essentially the same, whether it results in the attainment of health, wealth, development or position; success is attainment, without regard to the things attained.  And it is a law in nature that like causes always produce like effects; therefore, since success is the same in all cases, the cause of success must be the same in all cases.

The cause of success is always in the person who succeeds; you will see that this must be true, because if the cause of success were in nature, outside the person, then all persons similarly situated would succeed.  The cause of success is not in the environment of the individual, because if it were, all persons within a given radius would be successful, and success would be wholly a matter of neighborhood; and we see that people whose environments are practically the same, and who live in the same neighborhood show us all degrees of success and failure; therefore, we know that the cause of success must be in the individual, and nowhere else.

It is, therefore, mathematically certain that you can succeed if you will find out the cause of success, and develop it to sufficient strength, and apply it properly to your work; for the application of a sufficient cause can not fail to produce a given effect.  If there is a failure anywhere, of any kind, it is because the cause was either not sufficient or was not properly applied.  The cause of success is some power within you; you have the power to develop any power to a limitless extent; for there is no end to mental growth; you can increase the strength of this power indefinitely, and so you can make it strong enough to do what you want to do, and to get what you want to get; when it is strong enough you can learn how to apply it to the work, and therefore, you can certainly succeed.  All you have to learn is what is the cause of success, and how it must be applied.

The development of the special faculties to be used in your work is essential.  We do not expect any one to succeed as a musician without developing the musical faculty; and it would be absurd to expect a machinist to succeed without developing the mechanical faculty, a clergyman to succeed without developing spiritual understanding and the use of words, or a banker to succeed without developing the faculty of finance.  And in choosing a business, you should choose the one which will call for the use of your strongest faculties.  If you have good mechanical ability, and are not spiritually minded and have no command of language, do not try to preach; and if you have the taste and talent to combine colors and fabrics into beautiful creation in millinery and dress, do not learn typewriting or stenography; get into a business which will use your strongest faculties, and develop these faculties all you can; and even this is not enough to insure success.

There are people with fine musical talent who fail as musicians; with good mechanical ability who fail as carpenters, blacksmiths and machinists; with deep spirituality and fluent use of language who fail as clergymen; with keen and logical minds who fail as lawyers, and so on; the special faculties used in your work are the tools you use, but success does not depend alone on having good tools; it depends more on the power which uses and applies the tools.  Be sure that your tools are the best and kept in the best condition; you can cultivate any faculty to any desired extent.

The application of the musical faculty causes success in music; that of the mechanical faculty causes success in mechanical pursuits; that of the financial faculty causes success in banking, and so on; and the something which applies these faculties, or causes them to be applied is the cause of success.  The faculties are tools; the user of the tools is you, yourself; that in you which can cause you to use the tools in the right way, at the right time and in the right place is the cause of success.  What is this something in the person which causes him to use his faculties successfully?

What it is and how to develop it will be fully explained in the next section; but before taking that up you should read this section over several times, so as to fix upon your mind the impregnable logic of the statement that you can succeed.  You can; and if you study the foregoing argument well, you will be convinced that you can; and to become convinced that you can succeed is the first requisite to success.

____________________________________________________________

Mount Washington image with permission from the Mount Washington Observatory.  Thanks, Crew! 

____________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________

• Book Review: Big Box Swindle - The True Cost Of Mega-Retailers. If you have been looking for an uplifting, positive good news summer read, look no further! Sorry, couldn't resist...this book, "Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses" by Stacy Mitchell is not exactly an easy summer read but rather an infuriating look at......
• 7 Causes of Procrastination The causes of procrastination are many. Unless you are superman you probably procrastinate to some degree. It may or may not be a chronic problem for you. Your reasons to procrastinate may or may not be listed here, but these are some of the more common reasons we put things......
• The Importance of Extreme and Specific Focus Months ago a joined a challenge called the Yakezie challenge, started by Financial Samurai. The requirements of the challenge were simple and attainable though the goal was lofty, yet I don't think any of us that joined, nor Sam himself could have imagined the effect this challenge had on......
• How to Format your Computer? [/caption]Formatting a computer involves the process of cleaning the hard disc of all files and loading new files as we do on a brand new computer or as we write on a blank new CD. The hard drive of computer is made of several metallic salvers. This is where data......
• Dos and Donts to Succeed as an Erotic Romance Author (Or In Any Other Genre, For That Matter.) by Jamaica Layne, guest blogger I've been a working (meaning: published and earning royalties) erotic romance author for a while, but I recently added erotic romance editor to my resume when my publisher Ravenous Romance hired me to edit two erotic short story anthologies for them: Power Plays: An......

Related posts:

1. Free Success Ebook: How to Get What You Want by Wallace D. Wattles – FREE Download Getting what you want is success, and success is an effect, coming from the application of a cause. The cause...
2. Success Key No. 19: The Impression of Increase Wealth-Culture consists in making constructive use of the people and things in your environment. First, get a clear mental picture...
3. Success Key No. 15: Active Power Consciousness Power-Consciousness is what you feel when you know that you CAN do a thing and you know HOW to do...
4. Success Key No. 18: Put Life into Every Action You can obtain what you want only by applying your faculties to your work and your environment; you become able...
5. Success Key No. 20: The Power of Desire by Wallace D. Wattles (NEW!) Success is becoming what you want to be, and is obtained by applying your energies to your work; and you...
6. FREE Success Ebook: The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles (1910) – FREE Download The scientific use of thought to achieve Success consists in forming a clear and distinct mental image of what you...
7. Success Key No. 16: The Law of Constructive Action You must do - perfectly - all that you can do now; and it is the law that by doing...
8. The Wattles Prosperity Bible and The Law of Attraction Prosperity Bible The Success Manual is pleased and proud to announce the DEFINITIVE Law of Attraction Resource and Virtual Law of Attraction...
9. Free Success Ebook: “The Science of Being Great” by Wallace D. Wattles – FREE Download WISDOM IS dependent upon knowledge. Where there is complete ignorance there can be no wisdom, no knowledge of the right...
10. Success Quotes: 50 Notable Quotes from The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles ____________________________________________________________ Success Quotes: 50 Notable Quotes from The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles In continued anticipation...