Always reframe and view rejection as a learning, a honing experience. It is said that Colonel Sanders was turned down (rejected) over 1000 times before he got his first franchisee for Kentucky Fried Chicken. All the while he was traveling around, sometimes sleeping in his car all on the strength of a recipie he belived in.

Rejection doesn’t mean the rejector is right in rejecting you. Look at all those 999 who didn’t take the opportunity that made the Colonel and the Colonel’s number 1000th call rich men. So it’s right don’t take it personally – it may be bad judgement on the rejector’s part.

Thomas Edison failed 10,000 times at making a viable light bulb. At last the bulb lit and lasted and Edison gave a great gift to the world. Rejection and failure are actually two sides to the same coin.

Both of these men had belief that got them past the hard places. You must develop a vision that lets you continue to take action in the face of rejection.

Sales trainers always talk about statistics for sales calls. After a little time you might learn that you make 10 calls and make one sale. In this case each turn down should be viewed not as a rejection but as another step toward the sale.

These kinds of ideas apply to everything in your life. Sometimes you just have to get out there and keep going. Many give up after one or two tries at something new, but that is not how life works, stick to it.

by Michael Griffin

Feburary 2, 2009 Podcast

Visualize The Life You Want

There is an article on this site about Life Mapping. It’s about your goals in life and creating a vision of those things and of the person you want to be. What you bring to the process now and how you can grow those good things in your life by having objectives. And this is an important process to go through – have a look at the article.

The law of attraction suggests the life mapping process will help you move forward because your focus moves to the places you want to go to rather than something that may be sitting in your path in this moment, or something you see in your path a little way down the road. Life mapping is a tool that can help with the law of attraction because it focuses on where you want to be and sets aside limits.

Keep The Vision Fresh

Can you keep this vision fresh everyday when you look to it? Life mapping helps you formulate the outcomes that you use in your visualization and meditation.

From Vision To Inspiration

Allow your life map inspired vision to take on a life of it’s own. This is inspiration as the vision moves from your thoughts to changing on it’s own. Inspiration happens when there is stimulation of the mind or emotions to a high level of feeling or activity. Inspiration is divine guidance or influence exerted directly on the mind and soul of humankind.

Life mapping is an essential part of stimulating the mind in the direction you’d like to go. As you are formulating your mind map you need to let go of limits. Recall at one time no one believed that the four minute mile could be broken and now it’s done not just at the college level but also high school. The false belief has been removed and along with it artificial limitations. Clear yourself of such false limitations in order to allow your vision to take form and be truly inspired.

States of Joy

As you unleash visions based on your life mapping just know it’s a perfect day as you begin. You don’t need to know why, only that it is. If you know why – that’s fine – but that it is a perfect day is all you need.

Joy comes from gratitude and appreciation. Can you maintain a state of gratitude, can you appreciate where you are in life or do you just notice the things that aren’t quite right. Often when people make goals they stop there. If you’ve stopped there you have probably just spent a lot of time reviewing everything you don’t like about your life and want to change. I weigh too much, I don’t make enough money, and any number of other items where you don’t feel you measure up to the person you want to be. The danger is two-fold. You are focusing on your problems, you are making a lot of work for yourself. It is important to change this around a bit.

Instead of setting goals by looking at your short comings look out to that perfect day in the future where everything is right in your life. Look out and be grateful that you are that person – can you appreciate that this accomplished person is you? And that accomplished person is grateful for the good things, that person looks back at you and smiles and you see love and feel a connectedness unlike you have known. Make life mapping work for you – go into the vision and reach back to yourself now and share the joy and gratitude. Pass back the good things that you feel and enjoy them now.

Connecting To The Future

In your heart you get the message coming to you. This great accomplished person is connected with you now and loves you in a profound way and appreciates all that you are doing now because your actions have created this perfect day. And as you look to yourself and you look back you experience that moment now, you share the joy with yourself. It is the gratitude and appreciation flowing both ways on the time line that is your life.

Out of this gratitude faith comes and with faith and belief all things are possible. Don’t make yourself do anything, see the vision, see that person who is you on one of what will be many perfect days and this thing that you are considering doing, how does it connect you to this perfect day, does it have a connection, is it something that will help take you there? The joy of this perfect day and the activity you are considering, aren’t they really one? Can you do the activity with the gratitude of the person you are on that perfect day looking back and giving thanks that you did the things that are necessary to get there? It is you today who has built that life – can you enjoy that now?

And when you need some encouragement can you look out to that person, smile, and reconnect to that bond – that energy between the two of you?

Connecting To Your Past

Your life is a wheel and you sit in the hub, look down any spoke and see yourself past, present, and future. Look back the other direction from that perfect day and see the kid back there. Was he struggling or was it good. Smile back at that little person and communicate the good to him. Let him know that he is valuable and important and thank him for all he is doing – it is important and even if he has made some mistakes you’ve learned from them and he has set the foundation of your success. Go back to him often and help him see those things that he may not be aware of that will move him in the direction he needs to go.

Life mapping can help you connect with your visions in a way that will inspire you. As it does reach back and connect with that part of you in the past that also wanted to achieve and succeed. Pass some of that joy back to him and can you see that he will pass it back forward to you now and increase the joy, and resolution, and drive that is within you? Your bad memories will clear and the joyful memories will take their place, new heights of possibility and achievement will overtake you. Life mapping with the visualization that empowers the law of attraction will take you to new levels of joy, empowerment, gratitude, action and success.

Guy Kawasaki is one of the huge success stories from the ranks of Apple Computer. In this presentation you will learn some great ideas for marketing. This has everything to do with The Science of Getting Rich, you have to be able to share your vision in order to make it happen. This is part of the ‘Action’ that Wallace Wattles insists on.

A big part of successfully putting a software product in the market is generating a big buzz – in other words evangelism. It’s also called: USP – Unique Selling Proposition – a necessary part of doing business because usually if you ‘build a better mousetrap’ they won’t beat the path to your door. The won’t unless you do what Guy is talking about — evangelize it.

I’d love to be able to sit home and ‘Ohmmmmm’ (replace that with your mantra of choice) my way to success. Make no mistake it’s an important component – getting your head in the game. The visualization – holding the thought in the ‘thinking substance’ it all works together to bring your success. But you need the action part too. Napoleon Hill deals more with it in Think and Grow Rich. Charles Schwab evangelized a group of Eastern bankers and brought US Steel into being (chapter 3). You can listen to the story here:

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The idea was born to Schwab but if he hadn’t evangelized it there may have been no U.S. Steel, perhaps the Carnegie foundation wouldn’t be so well endowed, perhaps there wouldn’t have been so many Carnegie libraries around. This idea not only made Schwab, J.P. Morgan, and the investors a lot of money. It also increased Carnegie’s wealth. Without the libraries and the good works of the foundation, what might not have happened? Would we be missing something that benefited us. Who can measure the far reaching impact of that speech – that evangelization?

Evangelism is not a religious word but rather a word from the Greek meaning bring the good news. This is a video about marketing, about selling a product and providing value in the marketplace.

There is more abundance in the universe than most of us can fathom. If we cannot understand abundance does it make sense that we see lack? Most people grow up hearing about lack from those around them, focusing on lack, how can they help but see lack, how can they help but focus on lack?

In The Science of Getting Rich, Wattles tells us:

1. an unseen substance permeates the universe.
2. there is more of this substance than we can imagine.
3. desire is God seeking expression in your life – set a goal.
4. holding a picture of your objective in this substance will bring it into your life.

Begin to see abundance all around. Begin to see abundance in your life and be grateful. No need to concern yourself with or compare with others, just look at your own life and be grateful. Read this from chapter 13 of The Science of Getting Rich:

When you get out of the competitive mind you will understand that you never need to act hastily. No one else is going to beat you to the thing you want to do; there is enough for all. If one space is taken, another and a better one will be opened for you a little farther on; there is plenty of time. When you are in doubt, wait. Fall back on the contemplation of your vision, and increase your faith and purpose; and by all means, in times of doubt and indecision, cultivate gratitude.

A day or two spent in contemplating the vision of what you want, and in earnest thanksgiving that you are getting it, will bring your mind into such close relationship with the Supreme that you will make no mistake when you do act.

There is a mind which knows all there is to know; and you can come into close unity with this mind by faith and the purpose to advance in life, if you have deep gratitude.

If you do face a difficulty check out this from chapter 16:

Give no anxious thought to possible disasters, obstacles, panics, or unfavorable combinations of circumstances; it is time enough to meet such things when they present themselves before you in the immediate present, and you will find that every difficulty carries with it the wherewithal for its overcoming.

Faith and gratitude are important keys in The Science of Getting Rich and in putting The Law of Attraction into action. When God gives you a desire – give thanks in that moment. Don’t imagine all the issues involved in attaining it – give thanks – the plan for attainment will follow.

Practice these things and soon you will find yourself overtaken by abundance.

To help cement these principals in your life listen to at least a chapter every day from The Science of Getting Rich. Most are about 5 minutes long, a few are ten. Better yet allow it to play while you do something else. Our tool bar makes it convenient to do this. Pick any chapter and just let it play.

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The Science of Getting Rich

“The Science of Getting Rich” is an interesting book. At one point in my life I would have scoffed past it without paying attention to it’s message. After all the language is somewhat stuffy and the examples are from the turn of the Century but today more powerful examples could be taken than the steel and rail businesses or retail. There are many examples of people from modest means creating companies like Microsoft, Google, and YouTube and making fortunes in practically the wink of an eye. All of that said, you will find no finer discussion of the law of attraction.

Don’t ever wallow in self-pity and think that the last song has been written, that there are no more, or the last industry, or business niche made, or that everything has already been invented. Or likewise that we are running out of oil, copper, gold, or whatever it is. The three software companies mentioned in the last paragraph literally came from sand. There is so much sand. Those industries are based on computer chips which are made from silicon – a principal component in sand. But that’s not quite true either. These companies are software companies. Their products are not physical at all – they are manifestations of the mind – they do not truly exist in the physical world but the fortunes from them do. As you listen to The Science of Getting Rich you will hear Wattles discussing what must have been a stretch to think about in 1910 – an airline industry that people should think about getting into, what insight.

So what are you going to do? See the vision of your life and be thankful that you have it. When the thoughts come act on them. See the vision as big, that way you know it’s from God, or the Universal intelligence, or however you choose to view it. Physics have come up with some good theories about how matter is formed from energy and how thought is energy. Use the model that you feel good about. In reality no one understands exactly what the process is but only that there is a law that attracts those things to us when we hold them in mind and impress them on “The Formless Substance.” Wattles is talking about the law of attraction.

The Science of Getting Rich

There you have it a free audio book of The Science of Getting Rich. Think of it as the law of attraction bringing you the resources you need to use the law of attraction. The Science of Getting Rich has trancended time and will provide you with great insights to life as you meditate on it, as you listen again and again and make it’s ideas a part of you.

We hope you are enjoying the book, here are chapters 6, 7, and 8 of the audio book – Download the free audio here by right clicking and selecting save as:

How Riches Come To You The Science Of Getting Rich Chapter 6

Gratitude The Science Of Getting Rich Chapter 7

Thinking In The Certain Way The Science Of Getting Rich Chapter 8

Pay particular attention to chapter 7. Gratitude is your link to the infinite abundance that is the thinking stuff. The Secret also laid a particular importance on genuine gratitude.

While the remainder of the audio segments are being prepared and posted you can read ahead with the free EBook of “The Science Of Getting Rich.”