Begin with the end in mind.
–Stephen Covey
If you begin with the end in mind it means you must see the outcome, you must visualize it. Wattles says:
The thought of a house of a certain construction, if it were impressed upon Formless Substance, might not cause the instant formation, of the house; but it would cause the turning of creative energies already working in trade and commerce into such channels as to result in the speedy building of the house.
Visualization is in every chapter of The Science of Getting Rich. If you visualize across as many of your senses as you can and with emotion then you are doing it right. It maybe you have only a foggy picture when you begin and it might be a little difficult to keep forefront. This is a good beginning accept it, be patient and over a short time it will crystallize and be real for you.
This is a place where many fall by the wayside they give up their vision during this gestation time.
Wattles talks over and over about holding a thought in the formless substance – visualizing, and the substance produces the thing.
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 thing he thinks about to be created.
Follow that with another of Wattle’s tenants and you are home:
By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it.
Thought and personal action combined will bring you the things you visualize. It is not important when you begin that you know what action to take, the visualization will get you wired into that part.
An element that is important to work into your visualizations at the beginning is the feeling of gratitude. There is an entire chapter in The Science of Getting Rich about gratitude. I’ll embed it here and you can listen to it when you are ready.
Gratitude is important in connecting you to the force of faith a main driving energy which will bring your vision into your life. Can you see the thing and be thankful for it? Can you be grateful regardless of appearances? Perhaps the poet says it best:
If you can dream, but not make dreams your master,
If you can think, but not make thoughts your aim
If you can meet with triumph and disaster,
And treat those two impostors just the same
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken,
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build them up with worn out tools.
If you can fill the unforgiving minute,
With sixty seconds worth of distance run,
Then yours is the world, and all that’s in it,
And, which is more, you’ll be a man my son.
–Rudyard Kipling
Fill up the place you are in, keep the dream (your vision), but the dream is not your master you are the master of your dream, and the world will be yours.
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1 Notes On As A Man Thinketh Chapter2: Effect of Thought on Circumstances | The Real Mike Griffin // Jan 8, 2009 at 2:02 pm
[...] The Science of Getting Rich, Think and Grow Rich, and now As A Man Thinketh share the common idea that what you think has a profound affect on your external world. There are several levels on which you can think of this, several levels on which you may or may not choose to accept and agree with the idea. [...]
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