Think and Grow Rich is probably the most famous, and most read motavational book of all time. Chapter 3 is called ‘Faith: Visualization Of, And Belief In Attainment Of Desire.’ How about that title? Is that your definition of faith? If not where did your definition come from – better be sure?
If we check The Bible will we find another definition? How about this one:
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” –Hebrews 11:1
Doesn’t that say the same thing?
We’ve been talking about “The Science of Getting Rich” on these posts, In the chapter 5 “Increasing Life,” Wattles says:
There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.
A thought, in this substance, produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.
Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thng he thinks about to be created.
And Chapter 12, Efficent Action:
By continuous contemplation you will get the picture of what you want, even to the smallest details, so firmly fixed upon your mind, and so completely transferred to the mind of Formless Substance, that in your working hours you need only to mentally refer to the picture to stimulate your faith and purpose, and cause your best effort to be put forth. Contemplate your picture in your leisure hours until your consciousness is so full of it that you can grasp it instantly. You will become so enthused with its bright promises that the mere thought of it will call forth the strongest energies of your whole being.
In our post on the law of attraction we told the story of Conrad Hilton and the old picture of the great hotel he wanted to own that he looked at the picture and visualized even when he was tramping around Texas.
The message is the same, see the thing, be grateful for it already. How can you be grateful if you don’t keep the thing in mind?
Write your goals down, keep them with you, look at them all the time.
Many of the Masters of Achievement are fond of talking about a study of Harvard graduates who wrote their goals down. Those graduates were the most wildly succuessful of all the ones in the study. That study turns out to be an urgan legend. There is an interesting article about it over at www.SidSavara.com. Sid researched and couldn’t find the study. But! Sid found another study, another researcher who had been frustrated by the search for the Harvard study and unable to find it did do their own goal research and found that written goals work as the mystery study had stated.
Written goals are a way of rekindling your vision when it fades from mind. Whether it is a picture of something you want to own, like Hilton, or a list of things that you have carefully decided on it’s all about holding the vision in the unformed substance. Written goals help you do this. Today the concept of a “Vision Board” is popular, it is another and perhaps more powerful way of writing your goals. Post pictures on the wall of the things you want. Look at them in faith and with gratitude (Hills chapter 3 will help you and so will his chapter 4 on autosuggestion).
Back to “Think And Grow Rich,” Napoleon Hill is saying the same thing as Wallace Wattles. Both men use the same truths to present to you a blueprint for your future. As we have also seen the philosophy is consistant with Biblical scripture. If I were a scholar of the Koran, the Bagvagita, or other sacred texts I have no doubt that we would find support there for the concepts as well. The ideas are universal and the practice belongs in your life.
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