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Success Strategy and Mastery Move: Working with the Law of Cause and Effect

Richard Catalina, Jr. — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:39:17 +0000

Too often, we become so deeply ensconced in the daily busy-ness of our lives that we fail to realize the immense powerful impact that the Law of Cause and Effect plays in the results that we achieve (or fail to achieve). Make no mistake, however – the Law is always at work. Whether we consciously work it to our benefit, or whether we neglect it in its entirety, the Law of Cause and Effect operates to shape the Results of our lives. We can choose, therefore, to work with the Law, or we can choose to ignore it. Either way, the Law’s force and impact on our lives is still the same.

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Success Strategy and Mastery Move: Working with the Law of Cause and Effect

We live in a world of “cause and effect.”

Understand and apply the Law of Cause and Effect in your daily actions, and your life will change – dramatically. Worked correctly, the Law of Cause and Effect can markedly alter the course of your life in the direction that you Desire. This is a Law that CAN be worked tremendously to your advantage.

Too often, we become so deeply ensconced in the daily busy-ness of our lives that we fail to realize the immense powerful impact that the Law of Cause and Effect plays in the results that we achieve (or fail to achieve).

Make no mistake, however – the Law is always at work. Whether we consciously work it to our benefit, or whether we neglect it in its entirety, the Law of Cause and Effect operates to shape the Results of our lives. We can choose, therefore, to work with the Law, or we can choose to ignore it. Either way, the Law’s force and impact on our lives is still the same.

So, it might be a good idea to revisit this important Success Key. And, perhaps, re-discover a few refresher points along the way.

"Boott Spur from Wildcat." A dramatic winter scene in the Presidential Range of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Photo by Al Lambert on January 6, 2010. Copyright Mount Washington Observatory at www.mountwashington.org. Thanks, Crew!

Cause and Effect Refresher

The Law of Cause and Effect simply embodies the principle that every state (circumstance) that exists in the Universe is an effect created by an originating cause. Or, stated conversely, every action is a cause that creates a resulting effect.

Consider the following fact pattern to demonstrate the Law of Cause and Effect (for those well-versed in this Law, please bear with me):

I saw or chop a tree (cause) and it falls down (effect).
I continue to saw the fallen tree (cause) and I create logs (effect).
I split the logs (cause) and I create firewood (effect).
I stack the firewood (cause) and I create a firewood pile (effect).
I leave the firewood pile sitting outside for one year (cause) and it becomes seasoned firewood (effect).
I take a piece of seasoned firewood and throw it into a fire in the fireplace (cause) and it burns (effect).
The firewood burns (cause) and the fire produces byproducts of ash, water, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and other gases (effects), which spew forth from the chimney (further effect).
The combustion byproducts of my burning firewood (cause) increase the level of CO2 in the atmosphere (effect); the increased level of CO2 in the atmosphere (cause) creates an increase in the “green house” effect (effect); the increased “green house” effect (cause) results in warmer surface water temperatures in the Arctic Ocean (effect); warmer surface water temperatures in the Arctic Ocean (cause) result in less ice in the winter months (effect); less ice in the Arctic Ocean during the winter months (cause) means that the resident polar bears are unable to complete their migration, which requires a frozen Arctic Ocean (effect) . . . etc. The cycle goes on and on and on.

The Law of Cause and Effect underlies our human ability to understand and manipulate our environment; the very nature of science and scientific experimentation depends on it. All scientific theory is proven or disproven through application of the Law of Cause and Effect. Under scientific experimentation, a particular theory is tested and results (effects) are obtained. If the theory holds true, under the Law of Cause and Effect, its results (effects) may be reproduced again and again under identical causes (test controls).

The Law of Gravity has been well established under Cause and Effect.

So has Newtown’s Third Law of Motion, which may be stated thusly: for every action (cause), there is an equal and opposite reaction (effect).

The Law of Cause and Effect in Our Lives

Human logic is founded on understanding the Law of Cause and Effect. So are the circumstances that we presently experience.

In fact, where we are – right now – in our lives is the aggregate effect of all past causes. As such, the world that we currently experience – our present circumstances – is merely an amalgamation of effects.

In his book, Awaken the Giant Within, Anthony Robbins explains this phenomena as follows:

. . . the most powerful way to shape our lives is to get ourselves to take action. The difference in the results that people produce comes down to what they’ve done differently from others in the same situations. Different actions produce different results. Why? Because any action is a set cause in motion, and its effect builds on past effects to move us in a definite direction. Every direction leads to an ultimate destination: our destiny.

If we Desire a different world tomorrow (effects), then we must change and reestablish the proper course of causes today. If we Desire to Succeed tomorrow, then all we must do is implement the proper Success Causes today.

Sound simple. It is. On a conceptual basis, the fundamentals of the Law are really quite elementary. On a practical basis, however, the Law takes on much greater sophistication.

Why?

First, it is not always possible to establish a bright line nexus (connection) between all of our causes and all of our effects. As a result, we cannot conclude with certainty today what our Actions will produce as tomorrow’s Results.

Yes, sometimes it is easy – as in the firewood example, above, when I cut the tree with a saw, the tree WILL fall down. However, much of what we do, and what we fail to do – while all causes of future effects – are not easy to predict with precision. In fact, our lives encompass such an intricate web of countless causes and effects – simple and multiple – with intervening variables that most of the time it is virtually impossible to connect a single effect back to a specific single cause. In our fact pattern scenario, for example, it is hard to see how burning firewood may result in migration issues for polar bears. (Okay, perhaps today we see a cause and effect, but surely nobody connected the dots one hundred years ago).

In fact, a cause may have many effects. And, an effect may be the result of multiple causes, each contributing in its own way to the ultimate Result. And, as Anthony Robbins aptly notes, effects can be causes for further effects.

It does get complicated.

Because we cannot conclude with precision how today’s Actions impact and determine tomorrow’s Results, we must work indirectly and in a general sense. For example, if we KNEW exactly what Actions today would result – with 100% precision – in a specific financial Success one year from now, well . . . we would do it . . . right?

So, attempting to establish an Action-Result nexus in a Cause and Effect context is a difficult proposition – assuming that it can be accomplished.

Second, and what most do not realize, is that it is not just our Actions that are the causes of our Results.

Indeed, our Thoughts are also causes, and attempts to establish the connection between a particular line of thinking and the results that we experience in our lives as a direct result thereof (Thought-Result nexus) is even more difficult than attempting to establish an Action-Result nexus. But, as sure as the sun rises tomorrow, our Thoughts shape our lives. As the Success Manual’s web site tagline succinctly states above: “Achieving Success One Thought at a Time!”

In his Success Manual classic, As A Man Thinketh, James Allen states it perfectly. The following quotes from Chapter 2, Effect of Thought on Circumstance, are on point:

Man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.

That circumstances grow out of thought every man knows who has for any length of time practiced self-control and self-purification, for he will have noticed that the alteration in his circumstances has been in exact ratio with his altered mental condition.

The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought, and both pleasant and unpleasant external conditions are factors, which make for the ultimate good of the individual. As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both by suffering and bliss.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results. This is but saying that nothing can come from corn but corn, nothing from nettles but nettles. Men understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world (though its operation there is just as simple and undeviating), and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.

Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.

A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

Re-read that last paragraph again: “A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.” That really sums it up – while we cannot directly chose tomorrow’s circumstances, we can choose our thoughts today, and today’s thoughts shape tomorrow’s circumstances.

This statement accurately summarizes the nature of the Law of Cause and Effect and how best to use it to our advantage.

The Law of Cause and Effect by Another Name

The Law of Attraction is based entirely on the Law of Cause and Effect. And, Emerson has called the Law of Cause and Effect the “Law of Laws.” It has also been called “Heaven’s First Law.”

We have all heard of “Karma.” As I understand it, Karma, in Indian religions, is the concept of “action” or “deed,” understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect (i.e., the cycle called samsãra) originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh philosophies. (Anybody care to add some comments here?)

So, what does this all mean and what points can we take away from this discussion to assist us on our Path to Success?

Plenty.

Success Is an Effect

Success is an effect. Understand and execute the cause(s), and you, too, will Succeed.

In his Success Manual Classic, How to Get What You Want (or, as I like to call it, How to Succeed in Anything), Wallace D. Wattles states the following:

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 . . .

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.

Because Success is an effect, in order to Succeed tomorrow, we MUST execute the right causes today that produce Successful results tomorrow.

So, where do we begin?

The Causes of Success

What are the primary causes of the effect of Success? Well, that is what this site is all about. That is what each of the books available in our Success Manual Free Download Library is about. It all begins with Thought – the original Cause of the Effect of Success.

What kind of Thought (cause) results in Success (effect)?

We can start with what Wattles calls “Active Power Consciousness” in his book, How to Get What You Want.

Or, as Anthony Robbins explores in Awaken the Giant Within, “the Power of Decision.”

Or, as Napoleon Hill asserts throughout Think and Grow Rich, the proper “State of Mind.”

In each case, it is Thought. Sow the right Thoughts – Thoughts of Success – and you will reap Success. What we Think, we become.

As an excellent starting point, we MUST act as the gatekeeper of our Mind, and bar (and refuse to entertain) thoughts of fear, doubt, worry, failure, negativity, resentment, jealousy, and the like. Our Mind, as James Allen points out, is like a garden and we are the gardener. If we don’t plant – in affirmative fashion – Successful Thoughts, then whatever seeds do happen to fall in (random thoughts) will grab hold and overtake our garden. Regardless of whether, and to what extent, that we tend the Garden of our Mind, it will bring forth, it will produce. It is only a matter of whether it is useful fruit or useless weeds.

Random gardening is no way to cultivate and harvest a bountiful crop. Similarly, random thinking is no way to Succeed. Why leave your Garden to chance? Tend it carefully!

I strongly urge that you read James Allen's A Man Thinketh and Wallace D. Wattles' How to Get What You Want every day for the next thirty (30) days. This is a surefire way to tend your Success Garden well and initiate the proper root causes today in order to achieve the effects of Success tomorrow.

Happy Gardening!

Until next time . . .

Peace Out, and - Namasté!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

Richard

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Success Master: Wallace D. Wattles, Law of Attraction Author, Sage, Teacher and Author

Richard Catalina, Jr. — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:50:47 +0000

“The ownership of money and property comes as a result of doing things in a certain way. Those who do things in this certain way, whether on purpose or accidentally, get rich. Those who do not do things in this certain way, no matter how hard they work or how able they are, remain poor.” - Wallace D. Wattles, "The Science of Getting Rich"

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Success and Prosperity Master: Wallace D. Wattles, Law of Attraction Teacher and Sage

Finally, after what has seemed an eternity and a relentless deluge of challenges and obstacles, we are putting the finishing touches and running the final tests on The Success Manual Prosperity Library web site, featuring The Wattles Prosperity Bible, The Law of Attraction Prosperity Bible and The Wattles Quotable Bible.

If I was not a Student of Success - as was the case in my prior life - I would have called this venture "a nightmare." In fact, most people who are personally aware of the trials that we have gone through to make this become a reality see it as that - "what a nightmare!" I don't. This challenge was an enormous test of the very principles and teachings to which I subscribe.

If I gave up, quite, walked away - now, that would be failure. Not temporary defeat, but failure, and I would have nobody to blame but myself.

Law of Attraction Master, Wallace D. Wattles, author of such classic Success Manuals as "The Science of Getting Rich," "The Science of Being Great," "The Science of Being Well, "How to Get What You Want," and "How to Promote Yourself." Click on the Image to access The Success Manual Prosperity Library, featuring the Five-Volume set, "The Wattles Prosperity Bible" - The Complete Works of Wallace D. Wattles. On Sale Monday, November 22, 2010.

And so, Monday, November 22, 2010, The Success Manual Prosperity Library will be open for business. Yes, the site is up and running right now and I would love to pass you the URL, but we are doing our final tests.

In light of this Success, today's post consists of the Foreword to The Wattles Prosperity Bible and is a tribute to the man who inspirired the project, Wallace D. Wattles, Master of the Law of Attraction, and author of many powerful and popular Success Manuals, some of which we feature for free at this site in The Success Manual Free Download Library.

Thank you everyone for your support and for visiting our site. Be sure to come back Monday, November 22, 2010 for the official launch post on The Success Manual Prosperity Library!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

Richard

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Foreword

The Wattles Prosperity Bible

A Five Volume Compilation of the Works of Wallace D. Wattles

Richard A. Catalina, Jr., Esq.

When Wallace Delois Wattles was growing up in the post-Civil War America, the country was undergoing major changes in the political, economic and social arenas.

While the South was rebuilding its battered infrastructure, the North, where Wattles lived, was prospering, both industrially and agriculturally. This period, known as the Second Industrial Revolution, began in the mid-19^th century, with the growth and expansion of steel, petroleum, as well as chemical and electrical sectors; railways and steam ship industry also thrived in the still- young nation.

In fact, by the time the 19^th century came to a close and the new one dawned, corporate giants such as U.S. Steel and General Electric spawned the legendary tycoons by the names of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew P. Mellon, and J.P. Morgan, among other renowned and often notorious wheelers and dealers of that era.

The extravagant lifestyles of these super-rich industrialists and financiers – which prompted Mark Twain to coin the phrase “Gilded Age” to describe the excesses of the wealthy people in the second half of the 1800s – did not, however, reflect the grim living conditions of the working class. Historical records show that in 1890, when Wattles was 30, 11 million of America’s 12 million families earned less than $1,200 a year, with the average annual income of $380, well below the poverty line.

Wallace Delois Wattles: Law of Attraction Sage, Author and Teacher and Master of Success and Prosperity. Mr. Wattles' teachings were a driving force behind Rhonda Byrne's book, "The Secret." How much so? The first time she read "The Science of Getting Rich," she cried!

Not much is known today about Wattles’ life and family, but from the information that is available to us we can surmise that he was born into that modest – not to say poverty-stricken – milieu like the vast majority of his countrymen.

We cannot say with any certainty that he was inspired by the well-heeled tycoons of the era, but we do know that he turned the art of getting rich into a science.

His philosophy about wealth is succinctly summed up in this quote: “Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich.”

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Putting together Wattles’ biography is a challenging task because very little is known about him. Whether this dearth was a matter of modesty and humility or merely poor record-keeping we cannot guess, but anyone attempting to research Wattles’ life will hit a brick wall riddled with many gaps and holes. For instance, his schooling remains a mystery, as does his family. We know that he had a daughter, Florence, but have no information about his wife. We also know that early on he worked on a farm and later as a lecturer in Indiana, as well as in some capacity at a Methodist Church, but have no clue about any other jobs he might have held. We know he died young – at 51 – of “frail” health, but possess no details of what illness he suffered from. He was a prolific writer, publishing scores of articles, essays and books. Many of the articles and essays were published as compilations; others as single articles. However, specific details as to many of his published works are few.

What little we do know about his childhood and later life can be gleaned from the letters Florence wrote to Wattles’ publisher, Elizabeth Towne. From those letters we can construct a sketchy portrait of a compassionate and caring man of profound convictions, and a prolific writer who believed his ideas would transform people’s lives.

Although Wattles remains – given the scarcity of information about him – somewhat of an enigma, he wrote some of the most powerful self-help books ever published. As a matter of fact, the young farm boy grew up to be a trailblazer in the area of wealth-building, personal empowerment and success, a field that, while in its infancy during Wattles’ lifetime, blossomed as the “New Thought” era, and which today is a billion-dollar industry. Indeed, the “self improvement” market in the U.S. alone is estimated as worth more than $13.9 billion in 2010.[1]

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In a way, Wallace Delois Wattles’ life is a quintessential rags-to-riches story.

He was born in 1860 in Illinois, and later lived in Indiana. According to the 1880 US Federal Census, young Wallace was probably the only child of a gardener and a housewife. He lived with his parents on a farm in Nunda Township, McHenry County, Illinois. With little formal education, he spent his early years toiling as a farm laborer. In those days, life on a farm was dismal, requiring long hours of backbreaking labor. Even though new farm equipment was invented and introduced during that period, horses, oxen and people still provided the power that fueled the machines.

Eking out a living from a farm, which relied heavily on weather-dependant crops, was a challenge then, as it is, though maybe to a lesser degree, now. We do not know for sure whether this was the only work Wattles did in his youth, but his life at the time is reported to have been one of poverty, hardship, and failure. We will never know for certain, but perhaps this strife had sparked Wattles’ desire to become successful and rich and to understand proper and healthy living.

One of Florence’s messages to Mrs. Towne provides some insight into what drove her father to overcome his humble beginnings and ultimately led him to pen a series of highly successful self-help books: “For years his life was cursed by poverty and the fear of poverty. He was always scheming and planning to get for his family those things, which make the abundant life possible.”

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In 1896, the 36-year-old Midwesterner attended a “convention of reformers” in Chicago, where he met George Davis Herron. Two years Wattles’ junior, Herron was a controversial Congregational Church minister and professor of Applied Christianity at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, where he attracted attention for his radical religious views, namely a new philosophy called Christian Socialism. A movement that originated in the mid-19th-century Europe, it combined the fundamentals of Socialism with the principles of Christianity as a means of helping the poor.

Florence wrote to Mrs. Towne that her father caught Herron’s social vision. “I shall never forget the morning he came home,” she related. “It was Christmas. Mother had put her last dollar into a cuff box and we had placed it beneath an evergreen branch which served for our Christmas tree and which we had illuminated with tallow candles and strung with popcorn. Finally Father came. With that beautiful smile he praised the tree, said the cuff box was just what he had been wanting - and took us all in his arms to tell us of the wonderful social message of Jesus, the message which he later embodied in ‘A New Christ.’ From that day until his death he worked unceasingly to realize the glorious vision of human brotherhood.”

According to Florence, at one time her father had held a position in the Methodist Church, but was fired because of his “heresy,” possibly the Christian Socialism views, which were not quite compatible with the mainstream Christianity. Two of his books, “A New Christ” and “Jesus: The Man and His Work” focused on Christianity from a Socialist perspective. As a matter of fact, Wattles was so involved in the movement, that he twice ran as a Socialist candidate for two public offices: in the Eighth Congressional District in 1908, and two years later, for the office of Prosecuting Attorney for Indiana’s Madison County’s 50th court district. He lost both elections, but Florence became a delegate to the Socialist Party National Committee in 1912 and 1915.

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Another new spiritual movement that Wattles embraced with zeal and conviction, and which had, in large measure, influenced his thinking and writing, was called New Thought. This movement started to emerge in the second half of the 19^th century, at about the same time as Christian Socialism.

This was a turning point for Wattles, the moment that likely re-defined and re-directed his life to some degree.

The movement, which remains active to this day, promotes the idea that all of life’s circumstances and events, whether positive or negative, be they physical or mental in nature, originate in the mind as a consequence of our thinking and beliefs, and, therefore, “right thinking” can change our lives positively.

Like many thinkers and philosophers from a variety of churches and religious denominations, and even some secular groups and individuals as well, Wattles became a proponent of these metaphysical tenets relating to the power of positive thinking, the law of attraction, creative visualization, and other essential life forces that formed the basis of his beliefs and writings. Today the self-improvement and personal growth industry is a thriving, multi-billion-dollar sector, but in Wattles’ time it was still in its nascent stages. The New Thought movement, however, marked an important milestone in the development of the self-help phenomenon.

Because of the unbridled optimism, positive energy, and personal empowerment inherent to the New Thought principles, Wattles, along with his contemporaries like Napoleon Hill, Frank Channing Haddock, Thomas Troward, William Walker Atkinson, and, a bit later, Dale Carnegie, had become one of the earliest self-help pioneers – people who believed in improving themselves and all the aspects of their lives by harvesting their spiritual and inner strengths. Essentially, the mind can achieve whatever it can conceive.

Wattles’ brand of motivational self-improvement philosophy is best expressed in this quote of his: “The scientific use of thought consists in forming a clear and distinct mental image of what you want; in holding fast to the purpose to get what you want; and in realizing with grateful faith that you do get what you want.”

Wattles discovered an outlet for his ideas in Nautilus, a magazine for New Thought writers founded in 1898 by Elizabeth Towne. In it, Wattles found a fitting forum to advance his ideas and foster his writing skills. As Florence explained: “When we came to Elwood (Indiana) three years ago, Father began a Sunday night lectureship in Indianapolis. This was our only source of income. Later he began to write for Nautilus and to word out his own philosophy. He wrote almost constantly. Then it was that he formed his mental picture. He saw himself as a successful writer, a personality of power, an advancing man, and he began to work toward the realization of this vision.”

Wattles applied the New Thought principles to his own life through personal experimentation. For example, he tested some of the health and food fads fashionable at that time, such as the “No Breakfast Plan,” before encouraging his readers to try out his theories on themselves.

How a poor man with little education was able to form such a far-reaching vision and bring it to fruition with numerous books remains a mystery. What is certain is that his works, at least by some assessments, are among the most powerful personal improvement books ever written.

While Wattles authored numerous works, his best-known are likely the trilogy of “The Science of Being Rich” (1910), “The Science of Being Well” (1910) and “The Science of Being Great” (1911). All three are fitting examples of self-improvement and personal success theories he had become known for, as demonstrated in Florence’s letter to Mrs. Towne: “The supreme faith of the man never left him; never for a moment did he lose confidence in the power of the master Intelligence to right every wrong and to give to every man and woman his or her share of the good things of life.”

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“The ownership of money and property comes as a result of doing things in a certain way. Those who do things in this certain way, whether on purpose or accidentally, get rich. Those who do not do things in this certain way, no matter how hard they work or how able they are, remain poor.”

The above quote is a paragraph from Chapter 2 of Wattles’ “The Science of Getting Rich,” a forerunner of every personal finance and self-help book ever written. His statement that this pragmatic text is “intended for the men and women whose most pressing need is for money; who wish to get rich first, and philosophize afterward,” rings as true in the second decade of the 21^st century as it did when it was first published 100 years ago.

Incredibly, there exists today million dollar self-help businesses founded solely on “The Science of Getting Rich.”

While many people believe that amassing wealth is a matter of hard work, luck, or a combination of both, Wattles promoted a more scientific approach. “There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic,” he famously noted. “There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty.”

“The Science of Getting Rich,” still widely read and highly acclaimed today, laid ground for “The Science of Being Great,” in which Wattles stated that “Greatness is equally inherent in all, and may be manifested by all. Every person may become great.”

The inspirational and motivational message is also clear in “The Science of Being Well,” where Wattles writes that the work is directed at “those who want health, and who want a practical guide and handbook, not a philosophical treatise. It is an instructor in the use of the universal Principle of Life, and my effort has been to explain the way in so plain and simple a fashion that the reader, though he may have given no previous study to New Thought or metaphysics, may readily follow it to perfect health. While retaining all essentials, I have carefully eliminated all non-essentials; I have used no technical, abstruse, or difficult language, and have kept the one point in view at all times.”

The question that arises is whether Wattles successfully applied his New Thought beliefs and theories on how an average person can become rich, happy and healthy regardless of his or her circumstances to his own life. From Florence’s correspondence to Mrs. Towne it would appear that he did. Before his death in 1911 at 51, Florence reported that “he made lots of money, and had good health, except for his extreme frailty.”

There is no information on how many “regular” people who read Wattles’ works in the past century had been influenced by his message. We do know, however, that the Australian New Thought writer Rhonda Byrne said her inspiration for the hit 2006 movie, “The Secret,” as well as the same-titled book, came from Wattles’ “The Science of Getting Rich.” When she first opened the book in 2004, Byrne relates on her website, “Something inside of me had me turn the pages one by one, and I can still remember my tears hitting the pages as I was reading it. It gave me a glimpse of The Secret and it was like a flame inside of my heart.”

So in the end, the little-known life of Wallace Delois Wattles was, in many ways, a quintessentially American story of pulling oneself up by the bootstraps, succeeding against all odds, and influencing the lives of others. In the words of his daughter Florence, “His life was truly the powerful life.”

[1] The U.S. Market for Self-Improvement Products and Services, (Study from 1996 through 2010), Marketdata Enterprises, Inc. at marketenterprises.com.

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Announcing: The DEFINITIVE Law of Attraction Resource - A Virtual Law of Attraction Library

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Well, we have been talking about it for some time and it is finally complete and ready to roll. NEVER BEFORE have the entire works of the world's Law of Attraction and Prosperity expert, Wallace D. Wattles, been available in ONE COMPLETE PACKAGE. It took us months, but we have done it . . . .

THE WATTLES PROSPERITY BIBLE - A Five Volume Compilation of the Works of Wallace D. Wattles

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THE WATTLES PROSPERITY BIBLE is a downloadble, Five-Volume Ebook Library of ALL of the Works by the Grand Master, Wallace D. Wattles. Here's the breakdown by Volume:

VOLUME ONE: THE SCIENCE OF LIVING SERIES

The Science of Getting Rich
The Science of Being Well
The Science of Being Great

VOLUME TWO: THE POWER OF MIND SERIES

Mind: What is It?
Lessons in Constructive Science
What is Truth?
The Personal Power Course

VOLUME THREE: THE POWER OF LIFE SERIES

The Powerful Life
How to Get What You Want
How to Promote Yourself
Health Through New Thought and Fasting
Scientific Marriage

VOLUME FOUR: THE SPIRITUAL LIFE SERIES

God: The Servant of Man
Jesus: The Man and His Work
What Christ Says
The Law of Opulence

VOLUME FIVE: THE SELECTED WORKS SERIES

A Second Courtship
May He Rest in Peace!
Hell-Fire Harrison
As A Grain of Mustard Seed
A Sequel to 'As A Grain of Mustard Seed'

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As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
The Secret of the Ages by Robert Collier (1926 Original Edition - All Seven Volumes)
In Tune with the Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine

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Thought Vibration by William Walker Atkinson
Your Invisible Power by Genevieve Behrend
The Power of Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin
The Hidden Power and Other Essays by Judge Thomas Troward

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Your Forces and How to Use Them by Christian D. Larson
Thoughts Are Things by Prentice Mulford
The Power of Concentration by Theron Q. Dumont
Attaining Your Desires by Genevieve Behrend

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The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel
Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin

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The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy
The Master Mind by Theron Q. Dumont

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Success Quotes: 50 Notable Quotes from The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles

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Success Quotes: 50 Notable Quotes from The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles

In continued anticipation for the launch of our upcoming product, the 5-Volume Ebook Set titled, The Wattles Prosperity Bible, we thought we would list 50 notable quotes from Mr. Wattles, all directly excerpted from The Science of Getting Rich. I would not go so far to say that these are his 50 best quotes (although some would probably fall in that category, for sure), but this is a good start.Okay, we acknowledge that The Wattles Prosperity Bible was supposed to launch last week and did not. Yes, Houston, we had some technical problems, but they have been corrected and matters are back on track. Our new launch date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010. And, in case you haven't heard, let me - briefly - explain The Wattles Prosperity Bible AND the additional 5-Volume FREE BONUS Ebook Set, The Law of Attraction Prosperity Bible (I promise to be brief):

THE WATTLES PROSPERITY BIBLE - A Five-Volume Compilation of the Works of Wallace D. Wattles! We have compiled ALL of the works of Mr. Wattles and have packaged it into a brilliant, well-appointed, five-volume DIGITAL DOWNLOAD set comprising:

THE WATTLES PROSPERITY BIBLE - 5-VOLUME SET!

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Volume V: The Selected Works Series

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Okay, remember that date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010. And, in addition to The Law of Attraction Propserity Bible, I know for certain that there will be at least one more additional BONUS freebie - of great value. Unfortunately, I cannot say what it is, since it is still in production, but it will be worth it - that much I promise.

Now, for our Wattles' Quotes.

Until next time, Friend, Peace Out and - NAMASTE!

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50 Notable Quotes from Wallace D. Wattles (from The Science of Getting Rich)

Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich.
The purpose of Nature is the advancement and unfoldment of life.
Success in life is becoming what you want to be.
Wherever there is unexpressed possibility, or function not performed, there is unsatisfied desire.
Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.
No man is kept poor because opportunity has been taken away from him.
Nature is an inexhaustible storehouse of riches; the supply will never run short.
Nature is formed for the advancement of life; its impelling motive is the increase of life.
Thought is the only power which can produce tangible riches . . .
A man’s way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks about things.
To think what you want to think is to think TRUTH, regardless of 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.
There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world.
By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it.
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.
Many people who order their lives rightly, in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.
There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world.
Desire is the effort of the unexpressed possibility within, seeking expression without through your actions.
The desire for riches is simply the capacity for larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility to come into action.
It is the desire of God that you should get rich.
The universe desires you to have everything you want to have.
God wants that you should make the most of yourself, for yourself, and for others; and you can help others more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created.
You must never think for a moment that the supply is limited.
The desire you feel for riches is the Infinite seeking to express Himself in you.
The whole process of mental adjustment and atonement 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.
It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive.
The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive.
Gratitude will lead your mind out along the ways by which things come.
There is a Law of Gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that you should observe the law, if you are to get the results you seek.
Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.
To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and to surround yourself with inferior things.
To fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.
The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.
The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends to become the best.
The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.
You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want; you cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.
You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.
All you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.
The more clear and definite you make your picture then, and the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the stronger your desire will be.
The man who can sincerely thank God for the things which as yet he owns only in imagination, has real faith.
It is faith and purpose in the use of the imagination which make the difference between the scientist and the dreamer.
Hold to the FAITH that the imaginary is being realized, and to the PURPOSE to realize it.
Think and speak of all the things you have asked for in terms of actual present ownership.
The science of getting rich does not require you to apply power or force to any other person, in any way whatsoever.
To get rich, you need only to use your will power upon yourself.
It is by your will that you determine upon what things your attention shall be fixed.
Get rich; that is the best way you can help the poor.
People must be taught to become rich by creation, not by competition.

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When you desire a thing, and your mind and the Mind of things are one, that thing will desire you, and will move toward you. If you desire dollars, and your mind is one with the Mind that pervades dollars and all things else, dollars will be permeated with the desire to come to you, and they will move toward you, impelled by the Eternal Power which makes for more abundant life. - Wallace D. Wattles, "The Law of Opulence"

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As we continue to countdown to our Launch of THE WATTLES PROSPERITY BIBLE - a Five-Volume Compilation of the Works of Wallace D. Wattles comprising more than 1,400 pages of PURE Wattles Philosophy - and the FREE companion series, THE LAW OF ATTRACTION PROSPERITY BIBLE - another Five-Volume Compilation of the Greatest Law of Attraction works ever published comprising more than 4,000 pages - it is only befitting to provide a preview of what is to come.

And with that, today's FREE Ebook Download is directly from THE WATTLES PROSPERITY BIBLE: "The Law of Opulence" by Wallace D. Wattles, a rare, short Success Manual on how to work in the Infinite Abundance of the Creative Plane, thereby attracting into your life all of the good that you Desire and deserve. "The Law of Opulence" was written by Mr. Wattles in 1905 and is not easy to find. And today, it is yours - absolutely, 100% FREE!

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I personally LOVE this work by Wattles. It makes a great companion to the similarly titled - and also short essay - by Thomas Troward, "The Spirit of Opulence." I suggest that if you do not already have it, grab a copy from our Download Library and read it after reading Wattles' work.

In case you missed our announcement on Tuesday, May 3 (you may access that post by Clicking This Link), here is a brief summary:

We are very, very excited to announce our first PRODUCT LAUNCH: On Tuesday, May 18, 2010, The Success Manual - working with our sister site, ProsperityBible.com, and Princeton Cambridge Publishing Group (publisher of the content on this site, including the downloads) is launching . . .

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Volume II: The Power of Mind Series

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EVERYTHING by the Law of Attraction Master himself!

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"The Law of Opulence" by Wallace D. Wattles is a short Success Manual, comprising only 3 Parts: The Kingdom of God, Leaven and Abundance. Don't let its relative brevity fool you - this is a very powerful lesson manuscript and if you can grasp and implement into your life the Law of Opulence, you will make a fundamental paradigm shift from the Competitive Plane to the Creative Plane.

The Competitive Plane is founded on the concepts of lack and limitation (and, thus, competition) and only generates doubt, worry and fear. During these so-called "economic hardship" times - in particular - you especially do NOT want to be working from the Competitive Plan. This only adds fuel to the fire and will ensure that if you are "stuck" in lack and limitation, you will stay there. You need to GET OUT NOW and Mr. Wattle's can provide some very practical Wisdom that you may begin applying immediately.

Following the Download Section, below, are some great quotes from "The Law of Opulence" to comfort your Soul and lift your Spirit.

As always, to your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

Thank You for supporting the Success Manual site,

Expect a Magnificent Abundance!

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Noteworthy Quotes from"The Law of Opulence"

When you desire a thing, and your mind and the Mind of things are one, that thing will desire you, and will move toward you. If you desire dollars, and your mind is one with the Mind that pervades dollars and all things else, dollars will be permeated with the desire to come to you, and they will move toward you, impelled by the Eternal Power which makes for more abundant life.

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The measure of a man’s life is not the things he possesses, but the number of things he is able to use rightly; and to have fullness of life is to have all the things we are capable of using rightly. The purpose of the Mind of nature being the continuous advancement of man into more life, it must also be the intention of that Mind that every man shall have the unrestricted use of all the things that he is capable of using and enjoying rightly; or that “his own shall come to him.”

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The purpose of nature is the continuous advancement of life; and as man is the embodiment of God and the highest form of life, the purpose of nature must be the continuous advancement of every man into more abundant life.

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The value of a thing to a man is determined by the plane of life on which he stands: what is of no value on one plane, or in one stage of his development, is indispensable on another plane, or in another stage.

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What you seek for yourself you are seeking for all, and the mental principle in everything that you need begins to gravitate toward you. If you need dollars, the Mind of things, in the dollars is conscious of the need; and you can affirm with truth “Dollars want me.” Dollars will begin to move toward you, and they will come, invariably, from those who need what you can give in exchange. The Divine Mind will attend to the transference of that which is needed for the advancement of life to the place where need exists.

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We cannot walk and work with God and distrust Him at the same time. If you feel distrust, you impress the Mind of things with distrust of you, and things will move away from you rather than toward you.

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The requirements for non-competitive success are very simple:

First, desire for everybody what you desire for yourself, and he sure to take nothing from anybody without giving a full equivalent in life; and the more you give the better for you.
Then move out in the absolute faith that all you need for the fullest life you are capable of living will come to you.
Pray with unfaltering faith to the Father that it shall come to you, and thank Him in every prayer, from a heart full of gratitude that it DOES come to you.
Everything that comes to you then will mean more life to someone else.
Each gain you make will add to the wealth of someone else.
What you get for yourself – life – you get for all.
Your success adds to the life, health, wealth and happiness of all.

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Success Key No. 20: The Power of Desire by Wallace D. Wattles (NEW!)

Richard Catalina, Jr. — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:18:38 +0000

SUCCESS IS a progressive evolution of the faculties of the successful man. To understand this, remember that success is becoming what you want to be; becoming what you want to be consists in satisfying your desires, and desire is the effort of a faculty to come into action. The man who can use the most of his faculties is the man who can; and because he is the man who can, he is the successful man. - Wallace D. Wattles from "How to Promote Yourself," previously published as "Making the Man Who Can"

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Success Key: The Power of Desire

The Success Manual Team is soooo excited, we can barely contain ourselves!

Wallace D. Wattles - The Wattles Prosperity Bible: A Five-Volume Compilation of the Works of Wallace D. Wattles

The Success Manual project originated as a vague concept in early 2008 - about 2 years ago. Since that time, we have been searching the world over for the greatest Success Classics, acquiring them (often for a cost), compiling, editing (only when absolutely necessary and certainly so as to not change the spirit and intent of the author's written word) and publishing the works on this site. It has been, and continues to be, a labor of love.

We only started creating this site in November 2009 - in piece-meal fashion, choosing WordPress as our platform for ease of use and flexibility. We never "officially" launched the site and technically are still in "beta"as we work to complete the unfinished sections. It will always be - as it should - a work in progress.

Our model is built around providing many works for free and we have taken great strides towards that objective. However, a further objective of The Success Manual site is to offer products (among other initiatives). And - we are virtually there!

We are very, very excited to announce our first PRODUCT LAUNCH: On Tuesday, May 18, 2010, The Success Manual - working with our sister site ProsperityBible.com - and Princeton Cambridge Publishing Group (publisher of the content on this site, including the downloads) is launching . . .

THE WATTLES PROSPERITY BIBLE - 5-VOLUME SET!

Volume I: The Science of Living Series

Volume II: The Power of Mind Series

Volume III: The Power of Living Series

Volume IV: The Spiritual Life Series

Volume V: The Selected Works Series

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"The Science of Getting Rich" by Wallace D. Wattles, featured in Volume I: The Science of Living Series, of "The Wattles Propserity Bible: A Five Volume Compilation of the Works of Wallace D. Wattles"

You will NEVER find that on The Success Manual - not now, not in the future. THAT IS OUR PLEDGE.

THE WATTLES PROSPERITY BIBLE and THE LAW OF ATTRACTION PROSPERITY BIBLE are products that we are proud enough of to place our name on and sell to You. We wouldn't have it any other way. Both Five-Volume sets represent enormous value and are deserving of being our first Product launch.

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This is the very first mention of the five-volume series of THE WATTLES PROSPERITY BIBLE and the five-volume set of THE LAW OF ATTRACTION PROSPERITY BIBLE. You are the very first to read about it. But, in the coming days, we will continue to promote this great product - designed to assist you on your Success journey - and we trust that you will keep your eyes and ears opened and take advantage of this beautiful work - trust me, it IS nice!

In the meantime, today's Success Key post is Chapter 2, "What You Desire," from "How to Promote Yourself" by Wallace D. Wattles (previously published as "Making the Man Who Can"). Yes, "How to Promote Yourself" IS included in THE WATTLES PROSPERITY BIBLE and will be featured in Volume III: The Power of Living Series.

As always, we thank you for visiting our site and supporting us to make this all happen!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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What You Desire by Wallace D. Wattles

Success is becoming what you want to be, and is obtained by applying your energies to your work; and you will apply your energies in exact proportion to the intensity of your desire, and to your faith in your ability to become what you want to be.

The intensity of your desire will depend on the clearness with which you picture to yourself what you want to be.

Vague and indefinite longings will never call out your best effort. Form a mental picture of what you want to be, and of all that you want in person, property and environment; dwell upon it until it is clear and definite to you, and hold it until it arouses intense desire.

Think about this picture until you are always conscious of it, no matter what you may be doing, so that it is always in the background of your consciousness.

But even though you have strong desire you will not put forth your best effort without confidence; you will have to think you can before you can.

And you cannot think you can unless you feel that you can; and so you need to have demonstrated to you the fact that you cannot feel that you can unless you have within you the power that can.

In other words, if you strongly desire to do a thing, it is certain proof that you have the power to do it.

Desire is the result of feeling, and the feeling which results in desire is a faculty seeking expression.

The desire to sing or play music is the musical faculty seeking expression, and if there were no faculty, or power, there could be no desire. We cannot desire things which do not harmonize with the forces within, for a thing which does not harmonize with the forces within is repulsive to us. Things only harmonize with those of the same essential nature; therefore, if you desire a thing it is because that thing is essentially and potentially within you.

What is within you essentially must be within you potentially.

When we see a generous and sympathetic man we desire to be like him because the sight arouses generosity and sympathy within us; and the power to be, seeking expression, causes the desire to be.

When we hear a great oration or a beautiful song, we desire to execute a similar performance because the faculties of oratory or music respond to the stimulus and seek expression.

Desire is a power seeking expression. You cannot desire what is not potentially within you; and therefore, you can be what you want to be.

The fact that you want to be is proof that you can be.

First, form a clear conception of what you want to be in person, property and environment; and then understand that in so far as your desires are not contrary to Eternal Justice it is absolutely certain that you can be what you want to be.

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Success Key No. 19: The Impression of Increase

Richard Catalina, Jr. — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:25:29 +0000

Form a clear mental picture of what you want; hold the purpose to get it; do everything perfectly, not in a servile spirit, but because you are a master mind; keep unwavering faith in your ultimate attainment of your goal, and you cannot fail to move forward. - Wallace D. Wattles, "How to Get What You Want"

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Success Key: Using the Impression of Increase to Master the Present to Conquer Your Goal

Today is the fifth and final part of the 5-Part series on the all-time Success Manual, "How to Get What You Want," by Wallace D. Wattles. I have entitled this chapter, "The Impression of Increase" (if you are familiar with Wattle's most popular work, "The Science of Getting Rich," then you already know about the Impression of Increase).

The Impression of Increase is another Universal Law. As we recounted in Part 1 of this series, Success is an effect, a product of working in effective compliance with Universal Laws. If one applies and works the Laws precisely as those who Succeed, then Success will likewise be attained. Like causes produce like effects, every time.

In Part 3 of this series, we learned of the Law of Constructive Action, again another Universal Law. Under the Law of Constructive Action, before we may advance into that more ideal or perfect job or profession (or whatever else it may be that we want to do), we must first perfect our present situation. Only when we do so, do we outgrow our present circumstance and are therefore entitled to advance to a higher level. In essence, we must earn our advancement; we must earn our Success.

Melting snow and advancing spring are evident in Tuckerman Ravine of Mt. Washington of the Presidential Range of the White Mountains of New Hampshire as viewed from Boott Spur Lookout. Photo by Milton Darides on May 12, 2007.

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Like all true Laws, the Law of the Impression of Increase works perfectly every time. As Stephen Hawking noted in The Universe in a Nutshell, "A law is not a law if it only holds sometimes."

The Law of the Impression of Increase is based on the concepts of prosperity, abundance and increase. As Wattles states in "How to Get What You Want: "To make every act and thought constructive, every one must convey the idea of increase. Steadily hold in mind the thought of advancement for yourself; know that you are advancing toward what you want, and act and speak in this faith. Then every word and act will convey the idea of advancement and increase to others, and they will be drawn to you. Always remember that what all people are seeking for is increase."

Simply, we will not experience "increase," an effect, if we first don't think, feel and live "increase," the causes of the effect. Always THINK of the ideas of advancement and increase; fix them as mind habit. Always FEEL the ideas of advancement and increase; fix them in the subconscious mind and emotionalize those concepts - positively! Always LIVE the ideas of advancement and increase; act "As If." Finally, always CONVEY the ideas of advancement and increase to others, the Universe and God. Do all of this, and you are working the Law of the Impression of Increase as effectively as it can be worked. Take ACTION towards your goal, and now you are fully, effectively, and positively working the Law of Attraction to all that you Desire.

This is working the Laws. Follow with precision, and the Laws will answer every time. Perfectly. Remember, "A law is not a law if it only holds sometimes."

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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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 of what you want. If your present business or profession is not the one most suitable to your talents and tastes, decide upon the one which is most suitable; and determine to get into that business or profession, and to achieve the very greatest success in it. Get a clear idea of what you want to do, and get a mental concept of the utmost success in that business or profession; and determine that you will attain to that. Give a great deal of time to forming this concept or mental picture; the more clear and definite it is, the easier will be your work. The man who is not quite sure what he wants to build will put up a wobbling and shaky structure.

Get a clear idea of what you want to do, and get a mental concept of the utmost success in that business or profession; and determine that you will attain to that. Give a great deal of time to forming this concept or mental picture; the more clear and definite it is, the easier will be your work. The man who is not quite sure what he wants to build will put up a wobbling and shaky structure.

Know what you want, and keep the picture of it in the background of your mind night and day; let it be like a picture on the wall of your room, always in your consciousness, night and day. And then begin to move toward it. Remember that if you have not the fully developed talent now, you can develop it as you go along; you can surely do what you want to do.

It is quite likely that at present you cannot do the thing you want to do because you are not in the right environment, and have not the necessary capital; but this does not hinder you from the beginning to move toward the right environment, and from beginning to acquire capital. Remember that you move forward only by doing what you can in your present environment. Suppose that you have only capital enough to operate a newsstand, and your great desire is to own a department store; do not get the idea that there is some magical method by which you can successfully operate a department store on a newsstand capital. There is, however, a mental science method by which you can so operate a newsstand as to certainly cause it to grow into a department store. Consider that your newsstand is one department of the store you are going to have; fix your mind on the department store, and begin to assimilate the rest of it. You will get it, if you make every act and thought constructive.

To make every act and thought constructive, every one must convey the idea of increase. Steadily hold in mind the thought of advancement for yourself; know that you are advancing toward what you want, and act and speak in this faith. Then every word and act will convey the idea of advancement and increase to others, and they will be drawn to you. Always remember that what all people are seeking for is increase.

First, study over the facts in regard to the great abundance until you know that there is wealth for you, and that you do not have to take this wealth from any one else. Avoid the competitive spirit. You can readily see that if there is limitless abundance there is enough for you, without robbing any one else. Then, knowing that it is the purpose of nature that you should have what you want, reflect upon the fact that you can get it only by acting. Consider that you can act only upon your present environment; and do not try to act now upon environment of the future. Then remember that in acting upon your present environment, you must make every act a success in itself; and that in doing this you must hold the purpose to get what you want. You can hold this purpose only as you get a clear mental picture of what you want; be sure that you have that. Also, remember that your actions will not have dynamic moving power unless you have an unwavering faith that you get what you want.

Form a clear mental picture of what you want; hold the purpose to get it; do everything perfectly, not in a servile spirit, but because you are a master mind; keep unwavering faith in your ultimate attainment of your goal, and you cannot fail to move forward.

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Success Key No. 18: Put Life into Every Action

Richard Catalina, Jr. — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:26:48 +0000

Put into every relation, business, domestic or social, more than enough life to fill that relation; have faith, which is Power-Consciousness; know what you want in the future, but have today the very best that can be obtained today . . . Follow out these principles of action and you cannot fail to get what you want; for the universe is so constructed that all things must work together for your good. - Wallace D. Wattles, "How to Get What You Want"

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Super Success Key: Put LIFE into Every Action TODAY to Attain Success Tomorrow

Today's Success Key post is Part 4 of a 5-Part Series from "How to Get What You Want" by Success Master, Wallace D. Wattles. In Part 2, Success Key No. 15: Active Power-Consciousness, we were introduced to the concept of "Power Consciousness." Today, we learn that by using it in the present moment - today - we can achieve the results that we seek - tomorrow.

Mt. Washington of the Presidential Range of the White Mountains, New Hampshire, stands strong in the background above rock piles as viewed from the Davis Path. Photo by Milton Darides on May 12, 2007.

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"Power Consciousness" is defined by Wattles as:

Power-Consciousness is what you feel when you know that you can do a thing; and you know HOW to do the thing. If I can cause you to KNOW that you can succeed, and to know that you know HOW to succeed, I have placed success within your grasp; for if you know that you can do a thing and know that you know how to do it, it is impossible that you should fail to do it, if you really try. When you are in full Power-Consciousness, you will approach the task in an absolutely successful frame of mind. Every thought will be a successful thought, every action a successful action; and if every thought and action is successful, the sum-total of all your actions cannot be failure.

So, fellow Success Students - read on and fire-up your Power Consciousness NOW. Taking Control by Thought and Action is Activating your Power-Consciousness. KNOW that anything is possible and that you are capable of achieving anything you strongly Desire.

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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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 to apply your faculties successfully by acquiring Power-Consciousness; and you go forward by a concentration on today’s work, and by doing perfectly everything that can be done at the present time. You can get what you want in the future only by concentrating all your energies upon the constructive use of whatever you are in relation with today. An indifferent or half-hearted use of the elements in today’s environment will be fatal to tomorrow’s attainment.

Do not desire for today what is beyond your ability to get today; but be sure you get today the very best that can be had. Never take less than the very best that can be had at the present time; but do not waste energy by desiring what cannot be had at the present time. If you always have the best that can be had, you will continue to have better and better things, because it is a fundamental principle in the universe that life shall continually advance into more life, and into the use of more and better things; this is the principle which causes evolution. But if you are satisfied with less than the best that can be had, you will cease to move forward.

Ever transaction and relation of today whether it be business, domestic or social, must be made a stepping stone to what you want in the future; and to accomplish this you must put into each more than enough life to fill it. There must be surplus power in everything you do. It is this surplus power which causes advancement and gets you what you want; where there is no surplus power there is no advancement and no attainment. It is the surplus of life above and beyond the functions of present environment which causes evolution; and evolution is advancing into more life, or getting what you want.

Suppose, for instance, you are in trade or a profession, and wish to increase your business; it will not do, when you sell goods or service to make the matter a merely perfunctory transaction, taking the customer’s money, giving him good value, and letting him go away feeling that you had no interest in the matter beyond giving him a fair deal and profiting thereby. Unless he feels that you have a personal interest in him and his needs, and that you are honestly desirous to increase his welfare, you have made a failure and are losing ground. When you can make every customer feel that you are really trying to advance his interests as well as your own, your business will grow. It is not necessary to give premiums, or heavier weights or better values than others give to accomplish this; it is done by putting life and interest into every transaction, however small.

If you desire to change your avocation, make your present business a stepping-stone to the one you want. As long as you are in your present business, fill it with life; the surplus will tend toward what you want. Take a live interest in every man, woman and child you meet in either a business or social way, and sincerely desire the best for them; they will soon begin to feel that your advancement is a matter of interest to them and they will unite their thoughts for your good. This will form a battery of power in your favor and will open ways of advancement for you.

If you are an employee and desire promotion, put life into everything you do; put in more than enough life and interest to fill each piece of work. But do not be servile; never be a flunkey; and above all things avoid the intellectual prostitution which is the vice of our times in many trades and most professions. I mean by this the being a mere hired apologist for and defender of immorality, graft, dishonesty, or vice in any form. The intellectual prostitute may rise in the service, but he is a lost soul. Respect yourself; be absolutely just to all; put LIFE into every act and thought and fix Power-Conscious thought upon the fact that you are entitled to promotion; it will come as soon as you can more than fill your present place in every day. If it does not come from you present employer it will come from another; it is the law that whosoever more than fills his present place must be advanced. But for this law there could be no evolution, and no progress; but mark well what follows.

It is not enough that you should merely put surplus life into your business relations. You will not advance far if you are a good business man or employee, but a bad husband, an unjust father, or, an untrustworthy friend. Your failure in these respects will make you incapable of using your success for the advancement of life, and so you will not come under the operation of the constructive law. Many a man who fulfills the law in business is prevented from progressing because he is unkind to his wife, or deficient in some other relation of life. To come under the operation of the evolutionary force you must more than fill EVERY present relation. A telegraph operator desired to get away from the key, and get onto a small farm; and he began to move in that direction by being “good” to his wife. He “courted” her, without any reference to his desire; and from being half indifferent she became interested and eager to help; soon they had a little piece of ground in the edge of the town, and she raised poultry and superintended a garden while he “pounded the key”; now they have a farm and he has obtained his desire. You can secure the co-operation, not only of your wife but of all the people around you by putting life and interest into all your relations with them.

Put into every relation, business, domestic or social, more than enough life to fill that relation; have faith, which is Power-Consciousness; know what you want in the future, but have today the very best that can be obtained today; never be satisfied at any time with less than the best that can be had at that time, but never waste energy in desiring what is not to be had now; use all things for the advancement of life for yourself and for all with whom you are related in any way. Follow out these principles of action and you cannot fail to get what you want; for the universe is so constructed that all things must work together for your good.

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

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Success Key No. 16: The Law of Constructive Action

Richard Catalina, Jr. — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:36:13 +0000

To get more, you must make constructive use of what you have. You cannot use what you have not; therefore, your problem is how to make the most constructive use of what you already have. Do not waste any time considering how you would use certain things if you had them; consider, simply, how to use what you have. It is also certain that you will progress more rapidly if you make the most perfect use of what you have. In fact, the degree of rapidity with which you attain what you want will depend upon the perfection with which you use what you have. Many people are at a standstill, or find things coming their way very slowly because they are making only partial use of present means, power and opportunities. - Wallace D. Wattles, "How to Get What You Want"

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Success Key No. 16: Take Constructive Action by Doing Perfectly What You Can NOW

Continuing with our 5-part Success Series from "How to Get What You Want" by Wallace D. Wattles, today's post is chapter 3, which we have entitled "Construction Action."

Taking Constructive Action is a basic tenet to achieving Success. In essence, the Law of Constructive Action states that we must do NOW all that we can in a perfect and Successful manner in order to advance and Succeed. By doing little things Successfully, we attain Success. It is all in the details.

Moreover, our present circumstances may be such that we are not doing or working our "ideal" job or profession. Under the Law of Constructive Action, before we may advance into that more ideal or perfect job or profession (or whatever else it may be that we want to do), we must first perfect our present situation. Only when we do so, do we outgrow our present circumstance and are therefore entitled to advance to a higher level. In essence, we must earn our advancement by perfecting what we can NOW. This comports with our earlier post on The Law of Attraction and Taking Action.

Mt. Jefferson of the Presidential Range of the White Mountains of New Hampshire as viewed from the Auto Road that transcends Mt. Washington. Photo by Bryce Santoro on May 12, 2007.

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I have experienced application of this Law personally over and over in my life. Like all true Laws, it works perfectly every time. As Stephen Hawking noted in The Universe in a Nutshell, "A law is not a law if it only holds sometimes."

Get going - there are NO excuses as to why you cannot implement the Law of Constructive Action immediately into your life. Make every act you do absolutely perfect. Others may not notice, but YOU will notice, the UNIVERSE will notice and, most importantly, GOD will notice. And, that is all that counts.

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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Constructive Action

Having filled your mentality, conscious and sub-conscious, with the faith that you CAN get what you want, the next question is one of the methods. You know that you can do it if you proceed in the right way; but which is the right way?

This much is certain; to get more, you must make constructive use of what you have. You cannot use what you have not; therefore, your problem is how to make the most constructive use of what you already have. Do not waste any time considering how you would use certain things if you had them; consider, simply, how to use what you have. It is also certain that you will progress more rapidly if you make the most perfect use of what you have. In fact, the degree of rapidity with which you attain what you want will depend upon the perfection with which you use what you have. Many people are at a standstill, or find things coming their way very slowly because they are making only partial use of present means, power and opportunities.

You may see this point more plainly by considering an analogy in nature. In the process of evolution, the squirrels developed their leaping power to its fullest extent; then a continuous effort to advance brought forth the flying squirrel, which has a membrane uniting the legs in such a way as to form a parachute and enable the animal to sail some distance beyond an ordinary leap. A little extension of the parachute jump of the flying squirrel produced the bat, which as membranous wings and can fly; and continuous flight produced the bird with feathered wings. The transition from one plane to another was accomplished simply by perfecting and extending functions. If the squirrels had not kept leaping further and further, there would have been no flying squirrel, and no power of flight. Making constructive use of the leaping power produced flight. If you are only jumping half as far as you can, you will never fly.

In nature, we see that life advances from one plane to another by perfecting function on the lower plane. Whenever an organism contains more life than it can express by functioning perfectly on its own plane, it begins to perform the functions of the next higher, or larger plane. The first squirrel which began to develop the parachute membrane must have been a very perfect leaper. This is the fundamental principle of evolution, and of all attainment.

In accordance with this principle, then, you can advance only by more than filling your present place. You must do, perfectly, all that you can do now; and it is the law that by doing perfectly all that you can do now you will become able to do later things which you cannot do now. The doing to perfection of one thing invariably provides us with the equipment for doing the next larger thing, because it is a principle inherent in nature that life continuously advances. Every person who does one thing perfect is instantly presented with an opportunity to begin doing the next larger thing. This is the universal law of all life, and is unfailing. First, do perfectly all that you can do now; keep on doing it perfectly until the doing of it becomes so easy that you have surplus power left after doing it; then by this surplus power you will get a hold on the work of a higher plane, and begin to extend your correspondence with environment.

Get into a business which will use your strongest faculties, even if you must commence at the bottom; then develop those faculties to the utmost. Cultivate power-consciousness, so that you can apply your faculties successfully, and apply them in doing perfectly everything you can do now, where you are now. Do not wait for a change of environment; it may never come. Your only way of reaching a better environment is by making constructive use of your present environment. Only the most complete use of your present environment will place you in a more desirable one.

If you wish to extend your present business, remember that you can only do it by doing in the most perfect manner the business you already have. When you put life enough into your business to more than fill it, the surplus will get you more business. Do not reach out after more until you have life to spare after doing perfectly all that you have to do now. It is of no advantage to have more work or more business than you have life to do perfectly; if that is the case, increase your vital power first. And remember, it is the perfection with which you do what you have to do now that extends your field and brings you in touch with a larger environment.

Bear in mind that the motive force which gets you what you want is life; and that what you want, in the last analysis, is only an opportunity to live more; and that, therefore, you can get what you want only through the operation of that universal law by which all life advances continuously into fuller expression. That law is that whenever an organism has more life than can find expression by functioning perfectly on a given plane, its surplus life lifts it to the next higher plane. When you put enough of yourself into your present work to do it perfectly, your surplus power will extend your work into a larger field. It is also essential that you should have in mind what you want, so that your surplus power may be turned in the right direction.

Form a clear conception of what you seek to accomplish, but do not let what you seek to accomplish interfere with doing perfectly what you have to do now. Your concept of what you want is a guide to your energies, and an inspiration to cause you to apply them to the utmost to your present work. Live for the future now. Suppose that your desire is to have a department store, and you have only capital enough to start a peanut stand. Do not try to start a department store today, on a peanut stand capital; but start the peanut stand in the full faith and confidence that you will be able to develop it into a department store. Look upon the peanut stand merely as the beginning of the department store, and make it grow; you can.

Get more business by using constructively the business you have now; get more friends by using constructively the friends you already have; get a better position by using constructively the one you now have; get more domestic happiness by the constructive use of the love that already exists in your home.

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"Getting what you want is success, and success is an effect, coming from the application of a cause. 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. All you have to learn is what is the cause of success, and how it must be applied." Wallace D. Wattles, "How to Get What You Want"

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Success Manual How to Get What You Want by Wallace D. Wattles, Success Manual Strategist Edition 2009. As we draw near the end of Year 2009 - the final year in this first decade of "the new millenium" - it only seems fit that we not only look back, but look forward. What better way than to help in planning Success Strategies for the New Year than to bring back in the great Success Manual Master, Wallace D. Wattles. Today's download is the short power manual, How to Get What You Want by Wallace D. Wattles, Success Manual Strategist Edition 2009.

I absolutely love this little book. My first copy came as a free supplement to The Science of Getting Rich and it appeared after that work in the hard copy version that I purchased. When I first bought The Science of Getting Rich, I was not initially aware that How to Get What You Want was included. Interestingly, however, when I began to struggle with The Science of Getting Rich (in terms of being put off by the strange ideas articulated by Wattles), I flipped to the back of the book and began reading How to Get What You Want. As you might guess, I finished that book first and only afterwards, did I continue with (and complete) the more popular book, The Science of Getting Rich.

"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." Wallace D. Wattles, "How to Get What You Want"

While The Science of Getting Rich remains a classic Success Manual in the arsenal of many Success Masters and Students, How to Get What You Want is my favorite of the two, beating out Wattle's more popular work. It is direct, concise and easy to read. It can be devoured quickly for a quick injection of Success inspiration; yet, it can be studied (the more appropriate way of digesting a Success Manual) and assimilated into one's own Life Success Manual. And, importantly, it makes perfect sense - particularly on an initial reading. In fact, I would recommend reading it before attempting The Science of Getting Rich, as it makes a great "table setter."

Apply the principles set forth within How to Get What You Want and you will begin to see immediate results. But, of course, one must be a dedicated and sincere Success Student!

"Getting what you want is success; and success is an effect, coming from the application of a cause . . . The cause of success is always in the person who succeeds." Wallace D. Wattles, "How to Get What You Want"

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