A Happy Pocket Full of Money

CHAPTER 1 Money: An Illusion—A Shadow of Something Else

Money is merely legal tender, a form of exchange. We use it to exchange value. It represents value.

So money is the external physical representation of a particular section of our internal value, within us, within you.

The first step to wealth is to know what money really is or, more accurately, what it represents. Learn not to look at money most of the time. As you will soon see, it is very rare that you should ever look at money as you know it today—the cash, the bank accounts, the costs, etc. This is merely the shadow and not the real thing. As you will soon see, looking at the shadow, the physical money, is mostly very unwise and unhealthy for you and your finances. Look, instead, at the value within you and within people, and the flowing and exchanging of this value between people. Our internal value is what creates money. Money is the shadow of our internal value. Develop this internal value in yourself and in others, and your external money and wealth will rise correspondingly—automatically and without fail.

But you can correctly say that, in matters that relate and pertain to money, a wealthy person has a higher internal value in that aspect of value, or chooses to exercise a higher proportion of this internal value. The section of internal value that reflects on the outside as money, when exercised, is called wealth consciousness.

Wealth consciousness is simply the expansion of your consciousness and awareness into the wealthy parts of your Self. That is why all you need to increase your wealth consciousness is within you already. You are already wealthy, but you have been taught to choose not to experience your wealth.

All you need to do is expand your wealth consciousness and exercise it, act on it, be it, and the situations and opportunities for the equivalent conversion into cash will present themselves automatically to you.

They most probably had a set of goals and a plan, but any one of them will tell you that they met countless “coincidences” and opportunities that “joined the dots” for them in ways they could never have predicted. Their goals were their own doing, but the paths that led them to accomplish and exceed those goals were amazingly intelligent yet unforeseen.

By the way, it is not only paper money that is not real. A lot of the things around you that you hold to be real are not really real at all. You are about to embark on a beautiful, empowering, and liberating journey that will show you exactly what your world is, so you can see it in a way that you have never seen it before. It is a journey that will open your eyes and free your wings. You are about to look “under the hood” of life; you are about to learn how to customize your world to your liking.

Once you do, avoiding success and wealth will become very difficult. Yes, you read that correctly. Once you have wealth consciousness, it will be very difficult for you not to have success and wealth.

You will be free to experience other aspects of life that you may not even have dreamt of before—dimensions of self and life that are truly amazing. The same is true for happiness, for you will see it here in this book as well.

The way to understand this book is to read it once in its entirety. As you read, you will have many questions, and some things may not make sense to you when you read them. Never mind; just keep going.

Language is a linear thing, yet wealth consciousness is wholeness—a nonlinear whole in which step 1 may be connected to step 7 and so on. And wealth consciousness is a state of being, while language is a symbol.

Don’t read this book with your logical mind; feel the lessons in this book. Some of the things in this book are logical, but many pertain to a realm that logic cannot fully grasp. Yet your Self knows it all and perfectly understands. As you read this book, keep yourself open, feel the essence of what you read. Many things will not make sense to your brain, for it is finite and four-dimensional. Some things are infinite and multi-dimensional.

Read this book and take it to heart. Live by it, and wealth, affluence, and abundance will automatically come to you in ways and amounts you never before imagined possible, by laws that never fail. Carry it around with you whenever possible. Leave it by your bedside, and read it for a few minutes every morning when you get up and at night before you go to sleep. When you are done, start again, a few pages every day. Repetition causes internalization, making it your second nature. You will understand this book to the extent that you are willing.

you, you will also understand exactly how your belief and thinking creates matter, how you reap what you sow, how “even before you ask, it has been given unto you.”

how your belief and thinking creates matter, how you reap what you sow, how “even before you ask, it has been given unto you.”

Quantum physics also shows you how we are all connected, how we are all One Being that perpetuates an illusion of separate individual beings. It also gives you a glimpse into how spirit and matter connect, how mind and matter interact, how creation actually

—I am wealth. I am abundance. I am joy.—

As some scientists say, if everyone and everything in the universe stopped looking at the moon or thinking about it, it would not be a physical moon any more—it would be a probability of existence. The act of observation makes the probability become a definite thing and all other probabilities of it being elsewhere in the same world null.

Think about all this carefully. Think about the fact that everything your eye can see is made up of these amazing particles, which are under your control. Think about the scientific facts that now prove that you are a cause, or co-cause, of everything around you, and that nothing you observe can exist without your observation. All you need to do is choose what you wish to observe—choose it with certainty and consistency—and this will cause the energy field to materialize into that thing over “time,” depending on your clarity, focus, and certainty.

The physical world is literally made up of ideas and energy. —I am wealth. I am abundance. I am joy.—

more powerful than you think you are. So stop sweating the small stuff.

An easy way to explain it is that you have the ability to fly a plane or surf a wave or go scuba diving; but you may not have experienced this aspect of your ability. There is nothing you need to do to have this ability; it is already in you. It has already been done for you. All you need to do is experience it.

The quantum field can form an infinite number of shapes and experiences. In fact, it has already done that. The pages of this book are just one of those things; the words you are reading are just one of those things; the next thought you will have is just one of those things. Yet you never predicted you would be experiencing these pages. But your desire to read these words has caused them to appear in your hands. Indeed, they have always existed. You need not predict exactly how things will work out; all you need to do is desire, intend, and know it’s possible—and it will be arranged to come to you.

They have, for example, found out that two particles separated by space and time can be “invisibly linked” to each other and act in synchrony. They have also found out that the world we live in appears to have been constructed in such a way that it knows itself. This appears to have been done by “cutting” the One whole into at least two states—one

designed to see and one designed to be seen. The one designed to see is under the illusion that it is separated from the one that is designed to be seen. It is a necessary illusion, a persistent one. But everything is actually One.

In other words, all possibilities actually manifest into the physical, but in different parallel worlds! There is supporting evidence of this from physicists who are studying signs that the universe is a giant multi-dimensional hologram. How does this work? Well, when a particle has a probability to be in places A, B, C, and D, it will not choose just one place to be in; it will choose all four. But for this to be possible, the universe “splits” into four parallel worlds, each one unaware of the other three. This is called the “many worlds” interpretation of quantum mechanics.

The whole matrix shifts with every decision. Life is a pattern of eternal processes existing all at once with all possible existences—Now—and you only choose the one you will be awake to from instant to instant. Physics is only now beginning to prove this. By the way, dreaming is simply another state of consciousness. When you dream, your consciousness is in another realm, world, or time. Do you see where your dreams may be coming from now? All this will make more sense when you understand what time is and how it works.

Know this: the quantum world is the real world. The world you see with your eyes is simply an imperfect perception of a group of quantum activity. Yet the quantum activity is caused by you—you are First Cause. Never think that what you see with your eyes is First Cause—it is just an effect.

things: Even the smallest tiny piece of matter has a tremendous amount of energy in it (that is how nuclear explosions happen). You and everything else are just energy arranged together by information from the mind.

The subatomic world is not static at all. It is an amazing dance of never-ending creation and destruction, with particles destroying themselves and—in that very destruction—giving rise to new ones. Most subatomic particles have an unimaginably short life (billionths of a second). The whole universe is forever being recreated anew. You can imagine it all being wiped clean and restored, just a little differently, every trillionth of a second or so. Okay, here is another amazing thing: when a particle is created, it is instantly traveling at the speed of light! So we did, quite literally, come from light, as many creation stories tell us. One more thing: particles can move forward and backward in time. And this is the stuff you are made of and that you control!

Anyway, the whole point of this is to know that you are part of one huge ocean of energy and that literally nothing separates you from anything else. The only “separation” you see is an illusion caused by your limited five senses. Quite literally, we are all One.

Communication takes time and requires a message. This is different. They know without having to communicate. They act simultaneously as if they are intimately connected somehow across space and time, in a way that is not affected by the separation in space and time between them.

All along, we have said that all the universe’s thoughts, individually and collectively, cause energy to “form” into the physical reality we experience. This is so, but there is an even stronger cause—Being, the state of Being. There are many states of being, like being happy, fast, wealthy, and so on. This is the strongest cause, the First Cause of all. It is so because it is the declaration of spirit, of Self. From a state follows certain thoughts pertaining to that state.

Anything you do, any thought you have, ripples on forever and changes the composition of the whole universe, however small that change is. Now here is something even more interesting. Because you are part of that universe, that ripple comes back to you and gives you back a dose of similar essence. You cause a change in the energy field around and in you, and it ripples, touching everything. And everything, of course, ripples back in reaction, sending it back to you, all multiplied! It is similar to the way ripples form in expanding circles when you dip your finger in a glass of calm water.

In both cases, the betterment of one individual in the system causes a betterment of the whole system, and betterment in the whole system causes betterment in the individual. The reverse is also true.

All other things held constant, to the extent that an individual or society understands what it and its universe are made of and learns how to control that creation, so will it have wealth and happiness.

The future influences the present just as much as the past. —Friedrich Nietzsche

The first time you do something is always a journey of discovery. You take in the details and learn many new things. At this point, there are no labels and memories to enable you to prejudge the new experience. Learning is at its highest. The hundredth time you do something, it is often a very different experience. For most people, repetition brings about unconsciousness.

But what good does it do to live today based on your memory of yesterday? You miss the gift of the present moment totally! In your business or work, do you take an absolutely fresh look at your work, workmates, and customers each new day? Or do you go by how you “knew” them in their past? Everything changes, and using memory keeps you from seeing that change, seeing things as they truly are. Try to “forget” everything about what you are looking at, and you will discover a whole new world. You will grow a whole lot faster, and grow your wealth and self a whole lot quicker.

Decide right now to face every experience anew by choosing to forget that you have ever faced it before. Decide not to anticipate a specific appearance or behavior based on your memory and emotions. When you practice detachment but are sure of your choices and intention, you will find a world that has been hiding from you all along—right in front of your eyes, all along.

Choose happiness, present-moment living, and joy at all times. Thank the present moment for all it brings you in enjoyable experiences—for the opportunities it gives you to see yourself as you were before and to grow to an even greater self.

Bring into the present moment your awareness, consciousness, thoughts, and “looking.” Life and all your opportunities to move forward are in the present, the ever-present moment of Now, Here.

Do not “throw” yourself forward into where you wish to be all day long. Imagination about the future is great, for it is what you use to create your future. But the present has great value. Only through acting and living in the present can you get to the future. Do not spend all day daydreaming about a future time—saying “if only,” mentally escaping your present and dwelling in an imaginary tomorrow, going about the whole day in a dreamlike state, being only half aware and conscious of the details going on in your day. These behaviors actually slow you down on your trip to a better tomorrow.

Remember, the universe can only use the present moment to send you clues, people, events, and opportunities to advance; it cannot use the imaginary future in your head. Instead of chasing a better life by throwing your consciousness into the future, bring it back to the present and let the future chase it there.

Be careful how you set deadlines for yourself. Time does not exist as an absolute.

of becoming a millionaire or a billionaire in a year. Think about this: why did you choose one year? It is a very arbitrary date or deadline. It is a mere grab at a date. It is possible that the Source can create that millionaire or billionaire outcome in an instant.

Making deadlines for yourself also introduces fear and doubt and often actually slows you down. Will you make it by that date? What if you could have done it a lot sooner, but your mind kept looking at the faraway date? It also makes detachment difficult—and detachment is crucial for letting the infinite and unpredictable organizing power of the Source work optimally for you. On the other hand, saying “one day I will be a millionaire or billionaire” is no good at all; in fact, it is even worse.

On the other hand, saying “one day I will be a millionaire or billionaire” is no good at all; in fact, it is even worse. Instead, think of Now as the only time. See it and know it to be the only real time. “I am Now a millionaire.” Now. I Am. That is how you should always think, act, speak, and feel about everything. When people ask you when, say soon. Jesus always said “soon” when asked “when” by anyone. “Soon” fits a whole lot better in the Now-Here scheme of things than setting a specific date. In your mind, it’s all Now, becoming, has always been.

When people ask you when, say soon. Jesus always said “soon” when asked “when” by anyone. “Soon” fits a whole lot better in the Now-Here scheme of things than setting a specific date. In your mind, it’s all Now, becoming, has always been.

When you say “I am a millionaire now” and the physical evidence around you does not show that, this does not mean that you are lying to yourself. Indeed, the moment of Now holds all existence in all possibilities, all at one

time, including you being wealthy. That statement is true; it is your eyes that lie. Einstein once said that no matter how persistent the illusion of time may be—the illusion of past, present, and future—it is still an illusion.

Have patience with the unfolding of things. If you rush or force them, you interfere with them and slow them down. Nature is perfect. If you wish for faster results, the right way to shorten time is to raise your certainty. Increase the clarity of your imagination; be of one mind (do not keep changing your mind); concentrate; and, most important, raise your awareness from the level of your conscious mind only to that of your conscious, subconscious, and super-conscious mind and self. Most people are unaware of their subconscious and super-conscious selves. If you perfect awareness, imagination, faith, certainty, and clarity, you can create results instantly.

But do not be impatient, because that throws you into a state of wanting, and this delays results even further.

“I Am.” Present tense. That is how your goals should be written. But it is useless to write them that way if you do not think about them in the “I Am,” present-tense mode. Be aware of and deliberate in your thoughts and make sure that you always think of your goals and intentions in the “I Am” present-tense fashion all day long. “I Am” is a command to the universe to immediately get into the process of manifesting your wishes into physical reality. It is a declaration of the state of being in the moment of Now, Here.

You must understand and remember this very clearly, always. When you intend to have or experience something, you must know that you have it already. Really, you do have it already. All you will be doing from then on is receiving it, taking possession of it. Actually, you will be awakening to something that has always existed within you. Right now, as you read this sentence, you are already very, very wealthy. From now on, all you will be doing is taking possession of this wealth—receiving it or, more accurately, becoming awake to it. And be grateful now for the things you desire to experience, for you know you already have these things. Gratitude Now speeds up your experiencing what you choose, because it ascertains your faith and state of being.

Time is breath. Try to understand this. —George Gurdjieff

You wake up in the morning, and lo! Your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the magic tissue of the universe of your life. No one can take it from you. No one receives either more or less than you receive. Waste your infinitely precious commodity as much as you will, and the supply will never be withheld from you. Moreover, you cannot draw on the future. Impossible to get into debt. You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste tomorrow. It is kept for you. —Arnold Bennett

Knowing this is power. Using this knowledge for wealth and any other desire you have in your life is joy.

To the universe, these are just events. Time is local to the observer, to you. In reality, there is no time, only all events all at once. It is your motion through these events that makes you feel as if there is time. It is your expansion of consciousness that makes you move faster through more events. An expanded consciousness enables you to take in more events per moment. An increase in wealth consciousness makes you get rich faster, move through more events faster, see more events more quickly.

The most fruitful thing to do is not to remember or wait; it is to observe, experience, and create—Now. Observing, experiencing, and creating Now is timeless; it is the true nature of the universe.

That is why the Buddha, Jesus, and many other masters taught us not to worry about the future. They taught us to be still, to be present, to be aware, to enjoy Now, to live one moment at a time, and to be conscious.

All other things held constant, to the extent that an individual or society is aware of, teaches about, and uses the illusion of time in the right way, so will it have wealth and happiness.

THE NEXT STEP TO GETTING WEALTHY is to know how life works. In other words, how does the force of life take instructions and turn them into things and new moments out of the quantum energy field? What type of instructions does life take so that it may create each new moment in your day? What is the format? What are the specifications?

They are the most basic questions, but they must be answered before we get progressively deeper into the essence of wealth. In fact, you may have heard the principles in this chapter before; they aren’t really new. Yet few people understand them fully and even fewer use them, despite their simplicity.

Imagination is a very basic, but integral, part of becoming wealthy. Every other part of the process uses the imagination at some stage. Your mind’s images are literally the blueprint from which your world is built.

Life is images of the mind expressed. What this means is that life, the Source, uses your thoughts, your mental images, as the instructions by which to create your reality in the material world. Life expresses your mental images into physical reality.

Napoleon Hill said that imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known. Life is imagination, images of the mind, expressed into physical form. Feed your imagination daily and accurately with pictures, movies, and concentration. Spend time doing this in detail every day. Imagination is the most powerful force because life uses it to know what to create next.

Imagine your life as you wish it to be—picture perfect, with color and details, in your mind, every day. Spend an hour a day doing your images. And throughout the rest of the day, keep your thoughts in harmony with your images of your chosen life. This is so important that it cannot be overemphasized. The Source, God, works perfectly, giving you exactly what you envision and think about. Exactly. No more, no less. It is therefore extremely important that you have crystal-clear images and thoughts, consistently.

Life is images of the mind expressed. Do you wish to travel to another country for a dream holiday? Go to the travel agency and get all the details—brochures, flight itinerary, prices, hotels, and car reservations. Build up the whole trip, exactly, in your mind in full color and spectacle.

If you wish to give your visualization a boost, use the eight hours of sleep you have each day. It is easy to learn how to be “awake” in your dreams. In such a state, you can be an author of your own dreams, painting your perfect life and living in it during your dreamtime. Remember that the subconscious mind cannot distinguish between real and imagined experiences. And dreams can be the best form of visualization. This skill is called lucid dreaming, and there are several books that can teach you this skill.

Have many reasons to live and be wealthy. The more reasons you have, the more wealth you will get into. Instead of having paid bills as your only reason to get wealthy, have reasons like travel, collecting art, buying homes, having beautiful clothes, expressing your love to others with gifts, treating your friends and family to some good things, buying a boat, saving the environment, and so on. Visualize these reasons accurately. Reasons convince the subconscious mind, the heart, to internalize the goal. They also give it working substance. The more reasons you have, the more powerful your imagination will be and the faster you will get your results.

Surround yourself with images of things you like. Get brochures and magazines of vehicles, homes, places, things, bodies, sports, and activities that you like. The clearer your images of your visions, the clearer and faster you will achieve them.

Dream big and hold the dream high enough—and consistently enough—and the dream must manifest into form, by law. By universal law, it cannot fail to do so. Do not worry about how. It is all taken care of for you as long as you do your part by thinking, acting, speaking, and being in accordance with that dream. Just dream and visualize, and then start doing something. Do the next thing that you feel you should do in accordance with your dream, and keep on moving. The little that you do will trigger something else you did not foresee—and on and on it goes until your dream is a reality.

Have dedicated imagination time, but also hold those visions high in your mind all day long.

The world is an illusion, as we will see much more clearly as we move on. See it as an illusion; believe it to be an illusion, an illusion designed to help you know and experience your Self.

You literally create the next version of the world by painting your mind’s images with certainty. The world does not have to be as it is; it simply is because we all agree it is.

Visualization creates a new subconscious. Visualize your wildest dreams and fantasies. Live large! Back it up with faith, belief, and certainty.

Energize them with positive emotion. Emotions are energy in motion. Gratitude is one of the most powerful of these emotions. Infuse every cell of your body with your images. Infuse every cell with the gratitude that you have realized your goal already, even if you are not experiencing it now. You have received it automatically by the perfect laws of the universe (even before you ask, it has been given to you). And when you act, remember to infuse this same gratitude into your actions.

You chose the images. The Source, God, does the work effortlessly and perfectly. That is the deal.

The conscious mind creates impressions in the subconscious. It does so by repetition. The subconscious mind then expresses these images, or causes an expression of them, into physical manifestation. The conscious mind does not cause expression. It can only impress on the subconscious mind using repetition and faith, belief, certainty. The reason this is so is that the conscious mind holds all sorts of thoughts—those you believe in and those that you do not.

Instead, change that to something like “I am rich, wealthy, and abundant.”

When visualizing your goals, see yourself already in possession of what you desire. Say and think “I Am,” not “I will be.” This is critical. “I Am” is power. Later, you will see how this is scientifically so. Now is the only existing moment; all others are illusions.

All other things held constant, to the extent that an individual or society has positive and grand images in the right way, so will it have wealth and happiness.

Your external reality is the densest part of your mind, without any separation. The separation between you and your outside world is illusory. As we move on in this book, you will come to see firsthand how this is so—scientifically and spiritually.

To the extent that your thoughts are not conscious, deliberate, and focused in any topic of life, you will be affected by the outcome of the thoughts of other people. And to the extent that your thoughts are clear, focused, and noncontradictory, your results will be sped up. A few people are able to perform what many people call miracles simply by thinking strongly and in a focused way about only one thing. The idea that the outcome of their intention may not happen as they wish it to happen does not even occur to them for a split moment.

Suffering is always the result of an error in thinking. It is an indication of being out of harmony with the laws of the universe. The only purpose behind the existence of suffering is to show you when a thought is in error and alert you to the existence of a higher thought that would serve you better. Suffering stops as soon as that higher way is found, that higher thought. In the presence of suffering, try not to resist. Instead, examine with an open mind, and the answer will always show itself to you without fail.

Concentration gives thoughts more power and speed in achieving goals.

You are never denied answers to your questions. Whatever questions you ask earnestly and with conviction will be answered exactly. No more and no less. If you earnestly and with conviction seek and ask how to earn one million dollars, the universe will conspire to bring you the knowledge, tools, people, and events to give you that answer. If you ask how to earn a billion dollars, you will also get answers worthy of that amount.

Be specific and do not keep changing your mind. All thoughts count and produce results. Changing your mind all the time “confuses” the universe. Imagine walking into a travel agency and saying, “I wish to travel.” Then you look at the agent blankly. He or she is ready to make your reservation, but cannot until you say where you wish to go. Imagine you now say: “Well, I’d like to go to Moscow and Timbuktu at the same time.” Again, the agent cannot fulfill that request. Now imagine you say: “OK, then book me to Moscow. No, wait, Timbuktu. No, wait, Moscow. No, wait; I am not sure I can afford it. No, I can. No, maybe I don’t wish to go there or travel at all.” This is how many people think all day. And the universe is “confused” by their thoughts, just like the travel agent. This indecision produces “confused” results for them.

Whatever you put your attention to gets energy from you and grows. Remove the attention and it dies. Be conscious and deliberate in this. Intention goes along with attention. What you intend and give attention to begins to become.

If you think about wealth, without any contradictory thoughts, you will become wealthy, without fail.

Always be calm. A calm mind is unaffected by fear-causing and anxiety-causing situations. Never proceed in a confused and anxious state of mind—the thoughts you have in that state are erratic and suicidal. Calm down first and remind yourself of the laws of the universe before you proceed.

Do not let your mind dwell on dissatisfaction even if you are now feeling dissatisfied. That only feeds and supports dissatisfying conditions. Change your attitude; look at these conditions as perfect outcomes of your past thought and as an opportunity to recreate yourself anew. Thank them for this gift.

The combination of intention, belief, and detachment enables you to move through life calmly, knowing that the universe always fulfills your intentions, but does so in the most appropriate fashion using sequencing and intelligence beyond your comprehension. Life starts working out and you start smiling, marveling at how all things seem to just work out for you. When you face a challenge or a problem, you can relax, because you know that it is all part of your intended outcome. It will all be solved for you. Even before a challenge or problem comes up, it is already solved. It is only there to take you one step closer to your desired and intended outcome. With this approach to life, you will find life working out automatically for you, based on the desires and intentions that you back up with belief. As you practice this and get more confident and relaxed with this new way of living, old habits of fear, anxiety, frustration, and “failure” will fall off gradually, and you will start succeeding faster and faster. And as you get better at it and become more aware and conscious of your whole Self, the time between thought and its physical manifestation will shrink. Ultimately, it can disappear altogether. Indeed, there have been and are people who have this ability.

The most amazing thing about life, as many have discovered, is that the act of creation is very much an act of realizing that something was already there. The universe is designed that way. It is all Here, Now—all that could possibly be. We are able to experience what is already there through choice, and that choice is made increasingly possible by increases in our understanding and perception of life.

Have intentions, but not preferences or addictions. Choose future outcomes by your intentions and desires, but accept all present moments. Present moments are the perfect outcome of your past thoughts, states, and actions. They are a gift to you to enable you to experience yourself and grow. Resisting and cursing the present only perpetuates its nature.

Speak to yourself and ask yourself your questions, expecting an answer. You will soon develop a knack of getting answers from within. They come as feelings, not words; but you can get what they mean, you can get the gist or the gestalt of them.

Accept joyfully what is happening in the present, for you have brought it with your previous thoughts, words, actions, and state of being; and it is only here to let you have a look at yourself, like a giant living mirror. What you resist persists. Do not wish your present were different. Live happily in your present. Be of present mind, but make choices about your future and intend your future with one, single mind, clear focus, and precision.

Never stop learning.

Observe and affirm the truth, and the truth will set you free. If you are broke, say so. Look it in the eye. Admit it. Then look to see the errors in your thinking that caused it. Always affirm the truth, for what you resist persists; what you face and bring into the light releases you. But be careful in how you admit your error. Don’t just say: “I am broke.” It is more correct to say: “I previously had thoughts, actions, and states of being that led to this manifestation of being broke that I am now observing.” In fact, never say, think, or feel negative thoughts. “I am” statements are always carried out by the universe.

People have attitudes like: “I hate going to work”; “I hate this job”; “I hate this customer-service task”; “I wish I could just relax and do nothing all day.”

Those who have taken time to study and experience this know experientially that every person causes 100 percent of their world. Now, remember that thought takes time to manifest into the physical, depending on the subject matter. So what are you looking at when you use your eyes to see things? What are your eyes seeing? If you are the cause of all you see and thought takes you time to manifest, you are obviously looking at yourself at various stages of your “past.” Read that through again. It is all an illusion—an illusion designed to allow you to look at yourself so that you can create the next version of yourself. You can design your growth.

Your thoughts right now are extremely close to the real you, dragging behind just a fraction. The real you is that which causes the thought—the wordless you from which thought springs, the observer, the soul.

Insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result. What are you doing? Are you doing the same thing every day and expecting a different result? If so, have a good laugh now, a hearty laugh; then change from this moment forward—from Now.

If you think you need to eat food, that thought has a cause behind it, a sponsoring thought—in this case, the belief that you are hungry. Start becoming aware of these sponsoring thoughts. They come from your subconscious mind, or what some people call the heart. Sponsoring thought reflects what you truly believe in and hold true. It is your subconscious programming.

Judge not, condemn not. These thoughts cause negativity and maintain that which you judge or condemn. They cause retardation and a whole host of nonproductive results.

Expanded perception causes expanding wealth. Forgiveness causes the expansion of your perception. When you forgive others and yourself for what you think has been done wrong, you become open to seeing what you and others truly are. You become open to seeing the beauty and capability that you may have missed. You become more tolerant, and you embrace freedom and love. You start to believe less in conditionality. Many things happen that expand your perception. And expanded perception expands your consciousness, your abilities, your opportunities, your contacts, and a lot more that leads to wealth.

You become what you think about earnestly and with conviction…

By some accounts, you think about 50,000 thoughts a day. Some are thoughts that make you walk and scratch or control your physiology. Others are unconscious daydreams. Many are repetitive. But only a few of them are conscious and deliberate. Start watching your thoughts, being aware of them. Do not let them remain random as they may have been. Make more and more of them conscious and deliberate. By becoming aware of your thoughts, you will wake up and become a…

Turn your mind into a sunny beautiful island that allows in only positive thoughts and influences, and absolutely shuts out every negative thought or influence. Act as if you have an alert positive-mind defense force in your head that is on twenty-four-hour active duty defending you…

Form a mastermind group. This is a group of people of like mind. Get together frequently and exchange ideas, materials, and motivation. Where two or more are gathered, the power multiplies, and the power of the whole is more than the sum of the power of the parts. A mastermind…

When a negative thought comes up, at that instant say “Stop!” Immediately move on to a positive thought. Do not even entertain the negative thought for a second. But remember that this is different from resistance to negative thoughts. What you resist persists. There is a big difference. Negative influences can come up from friends, TV, news, your imagination, things you see, and so on. When you notice these negative influences and thoughts arising, shut them down instantly. There should be no resistance involved. If you find that the negativity is so strong that you feel you have to resist it—that you cannot simply go around it without using resistance—then face the negativity head-on. Do not resist it. Instead, bring it into your light,…

Bad news creates bad images that interfere with your grandest vision. The world appears to you as you choose to see it. Bad news is often a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Now, you know that thoughts create your reality. But if you are trying to link all of your reality today with your thoughts today, you are making a mistake. Today’s thoughts affect some things today, but some of the more “solid” things in your reality today are the result of many days of past thoughts.

What has become physical can be changed by thought, but it is a lot harder to change what is already physical than it is to make physical what is not already in physical form.

Many masters, teachers, and sages from all cultures and times have told us not to worry, to practice detachment, to trust in the mysterious workings of the universe—not only because the universe works with supreme intelligence, but also because you may not be aware of what your soul or higher self is choosing.

You have a desire; you will it to come into being, to manifest. You intend it wholeheartedly, clearly, in a focused way, and with certainty. You pass this intent on to the Source, in whatever way you know how. Simple intention is enough, although meditation—stillness—is more effective when you have the time. So you pass on your intent, and you become detached from it. In other words, you watch it from behind the scenes, without a desire that it should happen in any particular way or “time” or sequence. And because you know this works—because of your certainty and consistency, your detachment and gratitude—your intention will take form in the most unexpected and miraculous way. That is prayer. Praying without ceasing is going through the whole day, every day, with focused intention for all your life’s desires, with certainty, detachment, and gratitude. You don’t do this just once at a special time during the day and then act totally differently and remained confused the rest of the day. Praying ceaselessly has to become a lifestyle. That is, prayer is meant to be active, ever-present, and part of your normal wakefulness. It is co-creative with the Source; it wills to action; it is self-assertive. It is not the periodic, passive, helpless, and emotional appeal that many of us were taught to conduct as children. Ask and it shall be given unto you; seek and you shall find. Yet before you ask, it is given unto you. Be self-assertive, co-creative, ever-present, and grateful. Intend to receive and don’t beg—that is praying without ceasing. Get rid of the idea that prayer is the same as begging God for a favor.

Prayer is actually will, and will is co-creative. Your part of it is to use clear intention, certainty, gratitude, detachment. You must have certainty; you must know you have this power; and you must trust that the Source is friendly to your plans.

When you realize that even the request is unnecessary—that you are one with All That Is, including whatever it is that you wish to have, and that you are the granter and conveyer of that wish—you will truly be praying and receiving without fail.

Play ceaselessly, as well. Have fun with life! Life is joy. The essence of life is joy. Where there is joy, creation is abundant. It is easier to create wealth where there is joy, and joy gives meaning to wealth.

CHAPTER 6 Goals: The Road Map to and in Wealth

THERE IS A CERTAIN WAY in which you should set your goals. What are goals really supposed to do? Goals get you thinking in the right way to wealth. Goals focus your thoughts, format them in the right way for the universe, and keep your images consistent and non-random. Hence, there is a right way to set goals.

You will now see how you should set goals to get to wealth fast. Setting goals is all well and good; but setting goals correctly is tremendously powerful.

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. If you have no specific goals, you will get no specific results. Remember, the Source takes your thoughts, your mind’s images, and manifests them into your reality. You saw exactly how this happens scientifically in the chapter on quantum physics. But your thoughts and images are the blueprint by which your world is designed and created by and for you. Goals are planned thoughts, directed thoughts. Without planned and directed thought, your life will be unplanned and undirected, seemingly haphazard and seemingly unreliable.

Simply know where you are going, and the answers as to how you will get there will come to you in their own time. Do not worry about it. Simply believe that you will get there.

Take goals seriously. A twenty-year study involving students in a certain Ivy League university in the United States traced the lives of one graduating class. Three percent of that class had their own written goals at the start of the study. By the end of the twenty years, that 3 percent was worth more financially than the other 97 percent combined. They also reported more satisfaction and joy in their lives.

Conformity can be your worst enemy. If you do what the crowd does, you will get what the crowd gets. Every day, people get up in the morning, go to work like everyone else, and do things like everyone else. But ask them why they do it, and they’ll tell you that they really don’t know.

To get something better than the crowd gets, you have to do one thing different. You have to have specific goals, reasons, visions, and wealth consciousness. By

By practicing what you read here daily, you complete the requirements for wealth. Realistically speaking, you can be self-made, wealthy, and financially independent even at eighteen years of age or less. It all depends on how early, strongly, accurately, and certainly you start your goal-setting, your visioning, and your wealth-consciousness building. Hard work alone is not the key to wealth. People have gotten wealthy with and without hard work. Wealth consciousness as a whole is the key. And goal-setting in the right way can provide the map.

Always set your goals higher than your present reality. This does not mean that you are never going to be satisfied with your achievement. It doesn’t mean that you should get greedy. No. On the contrary, it means that you should enjoy every day without worry. You should not worry about losing what you have. You should not worry about maintaining that million you just made. Instead, make the million, and enjoy making it and having it. But when you reach that million, do not switch to worrying about keeping it. Instead, set a new higher goal and keep your eye on that new goal while you enjoy your old successes without worrying about maintaining them. In any case, it is folly to worry, as the worry itself is what will bring you down. Wealth consciousness and all its activities are a lifestyle, not something you do occasionally. Your thoughts, being, and goals should always be on the next grander version of you, not the past version.

“I will never miss paying my bills again.” In fact, only the “miss paying my bills again” may be taken in because that statement brings up fear as soon as you say it. Instead, make the statement: “There is always more than enough money to live the life I choose, to enjoy myself, and to invest.”

Do not live by accident or by default. Live by design. Design your life using goals, visualization, imagination, and plans—all done consistently, daily, clearly, accurately, and with details.

It is not enough to set goals. Goals must be set in a certain way, a right way that is most friendly to the universal laws. Here are the right steps for setting goal:

List what you would like to have, to do, and to be between now and the next thirty years. List everything you can think of, small and large—places to visit, things to have, residences, experiences, partners, skills to acquire, things to do, people to meet, projects, charities, health, habits—everything! This is not a list of what you think you can achieve. It is a list of what would give you the most incredible life whether you think you can achieve it or not, a life that would be unbelievably fantastic for you. Your list should have at least 100 things on it; it is not hard to come up with 100 wishes for thirty years. If you wish to be very wealthy, have about 5,000 things—even small details regarding your desires should be in there. For each goal you list, write the reasons why you wish to have it. If, for example, you wish to have a large home, write down the reasons why. In other words, what will you do with and in this home? Put drama into it. Reasons empower your goal and make it easier to imagine, visualize, and attain. They give life to it and make your subconscious accept it more easily. Get cuttings from magazines, brochures, the Internet, photographs, etc, of the items in your goals and stick them in your journal. Start a Goals and Visualizations Journal on paper or your computer. In it, place pictures of the things you wish to have—cars, stocks, buildings, boats, land, travel, clothes, or anything else. Refer to it often—twice a day is highly recommended. The more real and detailed your visualizations and imaginings, the faster and more accurately you will realize your goals. Pictures are very important to have in your life. Every day, read your list and look at your pictures. Then spend at least twenty minutes twice a day imagining, animating, and visualizing in detail all your goals. If you meditate—and it is highly recommended that you do—do your goals visualization in meditation as well. Meditation puts you closest to the Source, the best place you can be to plant your seed of visions into the field of infinite possibilities and creation. Then, Here, Now, do something that takes you closer to your goal. There is always something to do now, however small, that will open the next step to you—a step that may be unseen until that first step is taken. Every act is an act of self-definition and creation. Act deliberately and with awareness…

Make sure your Goals and Visualization Journal is portable. No point writing a journal that only stays home. You should also record important thoughts in it that you have, as well as experiences and conditions. Record as much as possible in your journal—at the end of each day or whenever it is most convenient for you. A journal greatly helps you discover and create yourself…

In your journal, also write problems you encounter. Suffering is an error in thinking, as you will see later in the chapter on conditions. Writing down your suffering helps you evaluate it clearly and discover your errors. Write down your feelings as well. This is very important because true feelings are communications from the soul, that part of you that is closest to the Source. Do not confuse feelings with emotions and thoughts; be careful about that. Write down good ideas and inspiration as soon as you get them. Perhaps the best time to get inspiration in a waking state is when you first wake up in the morning. Instead of immediately taking on the baggage and planning of your day, stay in bed and ask and think about some big idea that you want to know about, and it will come to you very clearly. When you wake up, before you are fully awake, relax and gently ask yourself the most important questions of your life, gently without arousing yourself. The answers will come to you in amazing ways, in ways that they never do during the rest of the day. Once you start practicing what is in this book, ideas will start coming to you in large numbers from all sorts of sources, seemingly by coincidence. Have your journal handy. Do not wait to write later; write now, before you forget or “lose it.” And do not forget to record the dreams that you have at night; one day you will find them useful—all in good time. Dreams are not just…

To make it easier to refer to your journal later, you can do the following: Have separate parts of your journal for different types of information. Make an index at the back. Use different colored pens. Stick tabs on pages you wish to mark. Or you can invent any other system you like that ensures easy access to your information.

Review and reread your journal at least once a month, preferably more often. Once a year, read all your journals. When you reread, you start seeing your life in a completely new light all at once. You see successes you never thought you achieved; you see things you should change; and you see errors to correct. The whole point of keeping a journal is to review it. It can open up amazing opportunities to understand yourself better, to see more clearly, and to grow faster.

In making entries in your journal, enter the exact date, time, and location. This helps you track down patterns, trends, and rates.

The more events and experiences you capture in your journal every day, the more you will get out of it. —I am wealth.

Get into the habit of carrying your journal with you.

Do not worry how your goals will be fulfilled. There are powerful forces at work in all of nature, with infinite intelligence and coordination. Things, people, books, places, TV shows, movies, etc, will start appearing and helping you achieve your goals. In other words, “coincidences” will happen. Simply visualize your goals with conviction.

Shut out all other thoughts that negate your goals.

The trick is in the details and in consistency. For example, if having a new home is a goal you have, write it down in detail. Write down where the house is located, how many rooms it has, the size of the compound, the size of the home, the furnishings in it, and so on. Then visualize it that way. And do not change your mind—this is very important.

Target dates for goals are best set to the eternal moment of Now. Even if you are setting up a goal that you would like fulfilled ten years from today, state it and think of it in the present tense. Setting an arbitrary date in the future introduces a state of wanting and waiting. Wanting prevents achievement. Arbitrary target dates also interfere with the natural functioning rate of the universe, which you do not usually know. When you say, “By the end of next year I will be a millionaire,” how do you know that you could not have become one by the end of next month? Anyway, the only real time and place there is in the universe is Now, Here.

Be exact. Define your goals and visions exactly.

Thoughts take time to manifest into physical reality. Most people only think a few months ahead. Today, they may think: “I need to buy a house soon.” Then they start stressing over it and struggling to get it. That is the haphazard, short-term approach. Try a long-term approach. Imagine the power of setting goals thirty years in advance. By listing and visualizing daily everything you would ever like to have over the next thirty years, you set in motion the forces and power of thought and the universe well in advance.

How many goals should you have? You can never have too many. The wealthiest people have hundreds. Some have thousands. Some have so many goals that it would take 200 or 300 years to manifest them all. You should aim at having at least 5,000 goals. To understand why, you have to understand the nature of goals. Goals are images of the mind, the stuff that the universe uses to create. So the more you have, the more you give the universe to work with, and nothing is impossible or difficult for the Source. Goals have a tendency to “just come true” at the most unexpected times and in the most surprising sequence. The more goals you have, the richer your life experience will be. When you reach a goal, its power disappears. You no longer have a driving force, and the universe no longer has anything to work with. So the more goals you have, the better.

goals? Easy. Think of details and of everything connected with your desires. List everything, even small things like “have lilies in my garden,” “decorate my grandmother’s house for her, “stay at the Ritz,” “donate to the Wildlife Conservation Fund,” “buy a BMW convertible, a Jeep, a jet, a boat,” “have a salt-water aquarium in my living room,” “get my father a golf set,” “buy books for orphaned children,” “take a trip to the Great Wall of China,” “meet these people,” “date these types,” “work with these groups,” “buy this type of shoes,” “wear clothing from this designer,” “have this type of chairs from this shop,” “wear these ski boots,” “see these places in these countries,” and so on. You can never run out of things that you would love to do, be, and see on this planet! The more you have these wishes in your awareness, the more you will start meeting with “coincidences” in your life that make them come true. Life starts working magic, and you have passion and excitement.

You automatically get exactly the amount of money needed to realize the most precise and certain images of your mind. And although you may think that money is the only way to get a certain thing that you would like, life knows that there are many other ways of getting it, not just through purchase with cash. So if you have very few other goals and images in your mind, if you hardly think of anything else except money, there will not be much “material” for life to work with.

It is okay to wish to be a billionaire, but how exactly do you visualize a billion dollars! You see, the lack of lifestyle visualization is why many people “fail” to achieve their financial goals. It is very hard to visualize and hold fast in your mind a billion dollars. But it is extremely easy to visualize the lifestyle and business of a billionaire! Do not separate your financial life and goals from the rest of your life, for the financial goals are only a means to an end, not an end in themselves. Remember, money is a shadow of value, a medium of exchange. Your goals should be on the value and the exchanges, not on the money, the shadow.

never no. The only question, then, is this: What is it that you are asking for, and do you believe in it? Don’t ask for something; intend

rich. None of these things are “bad,” but it is good to know and keep in mind that, if you ever find yourself “going down,” reexamine your goals and mental images.

Read many magazines on all topics. Magazines give you ideas, images, goals, desires, and much more. The more images you have in your mind, the richer your life will be.

All other things held constant, to the extent that an individual or society has positive and grand goals in the right way, so will it have wealth and happiness. This wraps

wealth. Images, thoughts, and goals need to be created and focused in a certain way. Then they must be fitted into the bigger

this. So what is the first step? It is Being, First Cause. It is that which causes thought. That from which thought springs. That without which thought would not be. Let us dive in deeper

BEING IS A STATE, LIKE BEING HAPPY. You cannot explain a state, nor can you do a state. You can only be a state. You cannot do happiness; you can only be in happiness or be happy.

Being causes thinking. So when you are happy, you will think happy thoughts. Thoughts spring from being. In other words, thoughts are sponsored by being. In fact, nothing happens without being.

Happy conditions do not make you happy. Being happy causes happy conditions.

Once you make this decision to be wealthy, you become wealthy.

Be wealth. Do not try to get wealth. Be wealth. To help you understand this, consider happiness. Do not try to get happiness, be happy. See? You can either try to do things that make you happy; or you can instantly decide to be happy. Just make a decision. You have done this before at other times in your life. Everyone has at one time or another said: “You know what? I am not going to let this bother me. I am going to be happy and stop worrying about this.” Which is easier? Trying to do things to be something, or being that something instantly and letting that state of being allow you to do things consistent with it? Of course it is easier to be happy than trying to get happy. And this is the same with wealth. Be Wealth. And everything else will follow automatically, as long as you are always, at all moments, Being Wealth. Just Be It.

The fastest way to create is simply to be, right now, whatever you wish to create. Then do not negate it by thought. Do not think about it. Just be. All your thoughts, words, and actions after that should be of the new state you chose to be. If you are not wealthy and you wish to become wealthy, just decide right now to be wealthy from this moment on—from Now. Do not think about it; just choose to be it. From then on, all your thoughts, words, and actions should be of yourself as a wealthy person. In Ultimate Reality, this is not a lie to you.

Reality, you really are actually very wealthy indeed. And you will very quickly begin to experience this wealth, very quickly indeed. Not many can pull this off, because they doubt it is true; but we all have the capability to do this. Simply declare, knowingly and certainly, “I Am…” And then don’t think about it again; that will only introduce delay and doubt.

The sequence of creation is as follows: The unified field of consciousness that is non-physical (God, the Source) individuates itself into non-physical units (individuated spirits or souls of various beings and objects). These units take on individuated physical forms—the objects, people, and beings that we see.

Whatever you see physically is created in this sequence from, of, and by the Source of All That Is, God. You are a co-creator in this creation sequence; you create together with the Source, in the same sequence.

The key is never to look at the ground, never look at the physical and let that dictate to you that this is who you are. You are not your conditions; you simply cause them. The correct thing to do if you are broke is simply to choose your greatest vision of yourself—a vision of wealth—and keep that state of being—those thoughts of wealth—steady and ever-present.

This will turn around the physical to match your thoughts and state of being. Always remember, the physical follows the spiritual and the mental. It is the design of the universe.

When you are confident, that is a state. You are be-ing. You need nothing outside of yourself to be in a certain state.

Expect to experience massive success! Always maintain that state of knowing that you have and experience abundance. Expectations like these, knowing at this level, cause attraction and remove repulsion. This is extremely important. Expect massive success. Know yourself to be powerful.

They are awake but very unaware of their full surroundings Here, Now. Wake up! Smell the coffee! This simple waking up will produce an amazing change in your life. Try it, commit to waking up, one day at a time. This, combined with “I Am” present-tense thought and visualization, is an amazing speed boost for achieving your desires.

What you are so is your world. Everything in the universe is resolved into your own inward experience. It matters little what is without, for it is all a reflection of your own state of consciousness. It matters everything what you are within, for everything without will be mirrored and colored accordingly. —James Allen

To get wealthy outside, get wealthy inside using the information in books like this one. To become a billionaire, raise your images and certainty to equivalent levels and act with certainty, with your purpose infusing your actions. The world is inside you. Nothing and no one slows you down or speeds you up except yourself. To the extent that you recognize this, you will change your world. Wealth is a whole lot easier to acquire than you may believe. It is simple. The hardest part of wealth acquisition is the taming of your own mind, a thing that is totally within your own control.

It is correctly said that success is something you attract by the person you become.

being. Being is Is-ness; it just is. Being is consciousness. Being is of no mind. In fact, sometimes mind can destroy being what you wish to be.

it, you destroy it. Once you are, you are. Any thought after that should not be about whether or not you are; it should only be to fulfill that state of being, to experience it rather than determine it. It is often a good idea to be of no mind. Be still.

Your mind should only be used when necessary. And it is only necessary about 10 percent of the time. Research has shown that about 90 percent of our thoughts are repetitive. Most of them are worries about the future or memories of the past. This is clearly unnecessary. The only real moment is Now. Trying to escape Now is the cause of much tension and “failure” and trouble in our world. Your normal state throughout the day should be one of no mind. You should be a watcher, not a thinker. You should watch your mind. Just as you observe the things outside of you, start observing your thoughts as well.

You will start to notice that, in the moment of Now, you never have any problems—you have events, but not problems. Problems exist in your mind, in your thoughts. As events, they are just things that happen and change as soon as they happen.

Even death, the ultimate fear for many people, is not a problem. Those who know what death really is also know that it is not a problem; hence, they do not fear it. Nothing in Now is a problem.

Nothing Now is a problem; you are designed to execute Now perfectly. But the minute you start worrying about the future, identifying with your mind instead of using it, you start having problems.

Be the observer of your thoughts. You are not your mind. Your mind is a powerful and beautiful tool, but never identify with it. Use it to think in the right way, and turn it off when you are not using it. In truth, you do not need to use it most of the time. Think about this. Have you ever been in a life-threatening situation that just popped right up in your face unexpectedly? What happened then? Your mind may have done some things, but it mostly shut off. Your Self, Being, took over and, in a most intelligent way, handled the situation in the best way possible. In any true emergency, when the mind has no time to think about things, you usually become present in Now and it is never a problem when you do become present. In fact, you become extremely calm. Now here is the good news. You do not need an emergency to access this calm, super-intelligence. You can learn to be there all the time, to be present all the time. That is true Being. Being is no mind. Being is Is-ness, presence, awareness, consciousness, Now.

Your thoughts, words, and deeds reflect your awareness, your consciousness, your being. Change your being, and you change your world. You can change your being in two ways. One way is simply to choose, Now, to be what you wish to be, and hold that intention. Another way is to act as if you were what you choose to be. Act as that state. Then speak as if you are that state. Then think as if you are that state. Sooner or later, your being will follow suit.

To the extent that you are willing to be like a child, to simplify and do things just because, you will be able to understand and internalize this chapter.

Being is the first step, First Cause. Then follows thinking, then speaking and writing (words), then acting. Speak as you think. We will not have a chapter here on speaking because words are simply thoughts expressed.

Words are very important; they are thoughts expressed, and they have a tremendous impact on creation.

Acting: That Which Receives I ONCE HAD A DREAM that I was sitting on a small stool about six inches high, and this old and very friendly but vigorous man was sitting on a bigger stool, teaching me some lessons. And he said: “You cannot run this world by actions. You can only run it by the Word.”

The dream actually has two meanings. Here is the first. Actions are the last component of the creation processes. It is a little like swimming competitively. You cannot win the Olympics if you only know how to thrash in the water vigorously and barely make it from one end of the pool to the other. You are acting, and very strongly. No one will fault you on your effort in the pool. You get full marks for effort, for sure. But the people who win gold medals are the ones who prepare their spirits. Their being is prepared. They are confident, motivated, focused. Their minds are also prepared. Their technique is also prepared. They are rested and alert. And so on. Action in the pool is the most noticeable bit of their total winning package, but it is the final part of their creating that gold-medal-winning dash.

Most people do not focus, nurture, and tend to the first three steps of being, thinking, and speaking; all they do is work like crazy all day and wonder why they are not “successful.” They do not use the Word. The Word refers to the laws of the universe—the way the universe works, on all levels, not just the visible and physical. These laws are not some commandments from God. They are simply the laws that regulate and enable the universe. These are not just spiritual laws; they can be proven scientifically using quantum physics.

them. Action is for receiving and experiencing. You create a business in your Self, your being, then in your thoughts and words, and then you act to set up a system to receive this business in a manifested physical way so that you can experience it. See? Action does not create. It only receives and experiences.

The first step in the creation of anything is your vibration.

You are like one huge radio with a tuning knob, and you can tune into any experience simply by matching your feeling to it. Action is a necessary step, but the last step nevertheless. It cannot be used effectively to initiate, as initiation is the function of being, followed by thought. Know all this, and you will stop thrashing about in the pool. Always do an excellent job. Always focus on the task and produce excellent value from it. Do this no matter how small the action seems. Even the smallest action has the potential to be the cause of the greatest next opportunity for you. In this universe, absolutely everything is a cause for another thing and is caused by something else. Even your smallest action may cause a previously unrevealed big thing that you need. Even an action as small as a smile or good service can cause the establishment of a relationship and the opening of doors that you never thought possible.

Ideas are worthless without action.

Action makes it possible to receive what is coming your way from your intentions. Intention initiates the creation of wealth; action enables the reception of it. Take action.

Even the smallest action may be what is needed to move you on to great wealth. Everything counts; every act counts and every act defines your next world. The universe is one huge chain reaction.

Do not try to do anything. Just do it. Or do not. But do not ever just try. Either you set out to do something, or you do not do it; but never set out to try to do it. If you try to do something, the universe will try to give you a result. But if you just do something with a resolve that it will be done (not “it may work out,” but “it will work out”), the universe will honor that resolve and give you back its own resolve.

get you started on a path that will get you to that higher income level. In other words, you cannot possibly say truthfully: “I do not know what the first thing is that I should do to increase my income.” It is not possible. At the very least, you have a clue about the first step, however small it may be; and that is all you need to start. The rest will reveal itself to you as you move on. But if you are not acting on that first clue or step, you’ll never get to the next step. Bridge the gap now, by doing what you know, now. Start now. Just do it. The next step will become clear and available after you take the first.

If you are not in a perfect business, do not wait until you are. Start now in the one you are in and move gradually to the one you wish to have. This is the same with location, knowledge, and everything else. Start now; do not wait until things are “perfect” before you act.

Stop reacting and start creating.

As if. Act as if you are already the person you want to be. Act as if it is impossible not to get where you wish to go.

Opportunities increase as they are taken. —Sun Tzu

Take advantage of the opportunity most available to you now, and it will open up previously hidden paths to more opportunities.

Certainty: The Most Powerful Force and the Antidote to Failure

CERTAINTY, FAITH, BELIEF, is a necessary part of creating wealth—or anything else for that matter. It is that which gives the universe a go-ahead to do as you wish it to do.

You cannot be happy if you are unsure that you are happy. You also cannot create goals without being certain, not only of their accuracy, but also of their coming to reality for you. Even speaking and acting without certainty is powerless. Many teachers in many religions in many ages have taught us to have faith, to be certain. This isn’t new. But now you will see why they have always taught this, and see how to create and expand your faith—something that has, so far, been elusive to many people.

You can only be faithful, be certain. And the way to do that is simply to decide to be certain—just like that—and let no other contradictory thought come to you. As we proceed, this will get easier and clearer.

works, you will believe. Everything is possible to the extent that you are certain. To the extent that you have faith and clarity of thought, things are possible or impossible. But in reality, nothing is impossible.

Persistence breeds faith. You can use persistence to increase your faith. And through faith, you have persistence. By persisting, even when it looks as if you should give up, you can increase your faith in an outcome and bring it about. This is a conscious decision you make, because faith enables persistence. It is a tight circle. You cannot achieve much if you are persistent but keep telling yourself that things are not going to work out.

Whenever you catch yourself doubting or fearing, stop those thoughts in their tracks; do not let them progress. Do not encourage them, but do not resist them. Instead, watch them mindfully and in a detached way, like an uninvolved watcher. See what they are, where they come from, why they come to you, and how long they last. By observing them in this way, you will be able to get behind them, get to their cause, their dark origins. You will bring light to them, and eventually eliminate them.

The opportunities and abilities that you have right now, right here, are enormous and incalculable. In other words, you cannot run out. Your belief is your only real limit.

Fear is false evidence appearing real. In reality, there is absolutely nothing to be afraid of, for your Self has it all and is indestructible. Your Self is designed never to lack anything, for it has it all already. It is also indestructible. But its manifestation here on earth comes with many illusions, and one of your purposes here is to overcome these illusions.

If you ever catch yourself fearing something, know that it is an illusion, and seek to find out what that illusion is. For in reality, there is nothing to fear at all.

Fear of going broke is a terrible disease. It takes away opportunities for growth; it prevents people from trying new things; and it keeps them worried. Fear also attracts that which is feared, and the fear of poverty creates poverty. Yet, there is nothing to be afraid of except the fear itself. —I am

Have faith. Believe. Know with certainty. When you pick up a glass of water to drink from it, you know without a shred of doubt that you will pick it up and drink it. The thought does not even occur to you that you may not be able to drink the water. You do it with certainty. That is the level of faith, belief, and certainty you should have in yourself, in the laws of the universe, and in the capabilities of the Source to work perfectly all the time.

How much faith, belief, and certainty should you have? You should have that which is at the level of knowing. You just know it to be true, just as you know that you woke up today or that you drank that glass of water earlier. At that level, you are so clear that something is true and will happen that you continue to be certain of it even if something contrary appears to you in the physical world.

This is the triad of knowing how to have whatever you like: Ask and it shall always be given to you; Seek and you shall always find it; Knock and it shall be opened unto you.

But there is one catalyst that must be there for this triad to work—belief, for belief makes all things possible. These are not empty promises. They are not rewards given to nice people only.

When in doubt, act your way into belief. If you are not confident, act as if you were, and that will make you confident eventually. Do this with everything about which you are not confident and your circle of confidence will begin to grow and encompass more and more aspects of life.

Persistence pays, literally. It also strengthens you and reinforces your belief. Persist. Persist. But in your persistence, let things happen. Let life work out. Do not worry. Be detached.

Not clearly knowing what you wish to have is a major cause of doubt and disbelief.

Faith is the external elixir which gives life, power and action to the impulse thought! Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches! Faith is the basis of all miracles and all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science! Faith is the only known antidote for failure! —Napoleon Hill

You can think and talk yourself into faith. Right now, people who continuously worry about things are thinking and talking themselves into doubt. To create faith, repeat, repeat, and repeat positive affirmations to yourself—every day, all day—and your subconscious will eventually believe.

Fear is false evidence appearing real. It always is. It is not your natural state. The state of the Source and of your Self is fearlessness, for there is nothing that can threaten the Self and nothing that the Self lacks. Whenever you fear, look it in the eye and find the false evidence—there is always some.

Never worry. Worry is fear, false evidence appearing real, putting images in your mind. Life is images in your mind expressed. Worry and fear put negative images in your mind and create that which you worry about and fear—an illusion that becomes real to you and becomes physical eventually if perpetuated.

The best way to heal fear and worry is to face it and analyze it fully; break it down into its components and see where the false evidence lies. Become aware and keep raising your awareness in finer detail. This raises your confidence as you uncover truth and that wipes out fear.

Observe truly what works and what does not, and live the truth by doing what observably works. Observe the truth; know the truth; think the truth; speak the truth; live the truth. This speeds up results and keeps fear away.

I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, “Go, throw yourself into the sea,” and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. —Jesus Christ, Mark 11:23

and happiness. Now you have the tools of creation and the energizing force that gives them life. Always be in a state of certainty and refuse to be in any other state contrary to certainty or think any thoughts that are contrary to faith. It is now time to move on to larger workings of the universe—the “fields” and laws within which you will use your tools and certainty.

THE LAW OF CAUSE AND EFFECT is the most important law of the universe. It is a prime key to wealth consciousness. If you live by this law, you cannot fail to get wealth.

Wealth is created when you correctly plug your tools of creation, powered by faith, into the law of cause and effect.

Here is what we are now discovering: it is multiplicative! In other words, you will not only one day experience what you cause others to experience or its equivalent; you will do so multiplicatively! If you cause others to experience wealth and happiness, it will come back to you and you will experience it as well. But as a bonus, you will experience much more than you caused others to experience. Life is about growth.

At some point in the complex of the space-time continuum, at some point in your life, by law, you experience a multiple of what you cause others to experience. Nothing escapes this law. Even if you cannot see where this is happening with your limited five physical senses right now, know that it happens and use it to create massive wealth.

Scientific evidence, especially in quantum physics, shows that you are the cause for all that you see in your world.

Any business that deals with increasing people’s productivity and connectivity always becomes a very big self-sustaining business. It may not be a perfect business, but it will be big and self-sustaining. Software, networks, transport, electronics, and similar businesses improve people’s productivity and standard of living, and in return, they grow. But that is only a scratch on the surface. Even more magnificence will come our way when we start building businesses that are deliberately designed to give rather than receive—businesses designed to make other people wealthy. Future businesses will be designed to cause growth that is true growth and not growth with serious side effects somewhere else. These businesses will elevate populations from a lower standard of living to a higher one, and will elevate their consciousness and well-being as well. The more you cause others to have wealth, the more you will have wealth, effortlessly.

Whatever you wish to get, give it away first. This is the fastest path. Whatever you wish to have, cause another to have it first.

cause something that comes after it. When you wake up to this fact and ask yourself, “What caused that thought I just had?” or “What will be the effect of this thought I am having?” you can fine-tune your Self and align yourself with the universe. This is the path to experiencing wealth and abundance.

Things get better when you get better. They get worse when you get worse. The world is all within you. You are the cause of everything that happens in your life, whether you are conscious of it or not.

You will get the fastest results if the people you work with and associate with are people of wealth consciousness. Which means that you should offer to help all those around you to improve their wealth consciousness. Remember also that one very powerful way of getting something is to cause another to get it.

Whether you are a person, a corporation, or a nation, if you are making super-profits at the expense of others, you will eventually, somehow, someday, end up harming yourself just as you harmed them.

Nothing in your world is real. Nothing you see is real. It is an illusion created for your benefit so that you may experience your thoughts and state of being firsthand and purify them and make them better (that is why suffering is said to be an indicator of wrong thought). Being-ness, thoughts, words, and actions create your world. Change your mind and you change your world. Change your Self and you change your world.

Here is a shortcut to solving problems, including financial ones. Whenever you are faced with a confusing, unclear, or problematic situation, look at it and say, “I am that.” And truly accept it, for you caused it and separation is an illusion. Then ask yourself, “Why am I that?” All confusion and fear will disappear, and solutions will automatically start to appear in the face of your “I am that” awareness. This applies to any situation, actually, not just to a problem.

Have you noticed how life works like a large complicated mirror? What you do to others, you do to yourself. If you wish to be happy, make others happy. If you wish to be free, make others free. Use this principle in your business, and you will be able to choose what you get back.

Do not feel guilty. Forgive yourself for past “failures” and choose to act correctly next time. But avoid guilt, as it is one of the biggest destroyers of focus and confidence. Do not dwell on the past. Forgive others also. You are not doing them a favor when you forgive them; you are doing yourself the favor.

That is how supply and demand works behind the scenes. If a million more people suddenly desire and believe they can have a certain type of fashion accessory, for example, an appropriate person with the appropriate level of desire and belief to go into the fashion business will be inspired to create this fashion accessory and sell it to these people. Hence, all desires and beliefs will be fulfilled. The reason you have an idea is partly that others have caused it. When you visualize something you wish to have, someone is visualizing the same thing as something that they wish to give or sell.

In other words, somewhere around the world, people are praying very hard for just the thing you are inspired to do; you are the answer to their prayers. And they are the answer to yours. Everybody is an answer to a prayer—we are all gifts and miracles to each other, even though we may not immediately see how that is so. There is nothing to worry about except worry itself. You succeed—that is all you ever do.

Once you understand that Hitler acted as a mirror of the world, a focused collection of the little bits of indifference, small beliefs in superiority and separation in each person, you will understand how you can be the focused collection of wealth for the world.

big, to dream of grand wealth, and to believe you can have grand wealth. The world will make it happen, and it is in fact making you have those grand dreams to the extent that you are willing to have them.

You are about to enter into one of the most beautiful, forgiving, and encouraging journeys you have ever taken.

Conditions: They Are Fantastic Illusions

It is now time for you to put on your thinking cap. Question: If everything exists all at once, right now, how can conditions exist as real properties of the universe? Answer: They can’t.

Look, just a moment ago, you read the last sentence. You have already read it. How then can there be a condition that you have not read it when you have already read it? It is not possible. So because everything possible, everything conceivable, already exists, it is not possible for there to be a condition of its not existing. Your being wealthy already exists—scientifically and spiritually. All you need to do is shift your awareness, your consciousness, to that part of your Self that is wealthy. There are no conditions to that part’s existence—nothing can stop it from existing because it already exists. But you can create other outcomes that look like conditions. For example, another thing that exists, but that you may not be experiencing, is your not being wealthy, your procrastination or feeling out of time, your going to the casino and getting a gambling habit, your being in a poor country and having no education, and so on. All these are independent existences that are the opposite of wealthy existence. But just because they exist does not mean that the wealthy existence does not exist or exists depending on these other existences.

You do not need to fulfill these conditions to get wealthy. But when you believe in conditions, they will be there. There are countless paths to wealth, and conditions are just one of those paths; it is your choice whether or not you wish to go through conditions. Even time, which looks like a condition, is not. People think you need a lot of time and age to get wealthy, so it happens that way for them, but it does not have to be that way.

The outer environment and conditions of a person are always related to the person’s inner states and thought. It is through the environment and conditions that we experience and discover our thoughts and states.

Think outside the box—the box that has been created by your past conditioning, experiences, teachers, news, environment, and so on. It is not a real box; it only exists in your mind and the minds of those around you. This is all that keeps the box there. It is not real on its own; it needs you and everyone else to survive.

You do it by dropping all constructions you have in your mind as to how to do things. For example, some people who have never had a university education believe that, to be wealthy, you have to have a university degree.

Drop it all and have a clean slate without any “shoulds” and “should nots.” Then drop the slate! Let it all come to you. Inspiration unrestricted by “should” or “should not” is key. It is a very deliberate, yet unbound, thing to do. And very fruitful. Ask Einstein.

Make all conditions serve you, for that is what they are here to do. They are an experiential field created wholly for your enjoyment, self-discovery, and learning. This is because they are fashioned out of your previous thoughts, words, actions, and states of being.

Face all financial and other difficulties calmly and without worry. Even before they occurred, they had been solved. Even before you ask, it has been given to you. Simply receive.

Nature works with effortless ease and precision, with infinite organizing power, in incalculable ways, without resistance. You do not have to understand how your wealth will be created. Simply hold your vision high—think, speak, and do by your vision—and automatically, “coincidentally,” it will all work out. Do not resist whatever happens along the way, for it is only nature’s incalculable way working to bring you what you envisioned. Just hold your end of the bargain by keeping your vision high and steadfast, and think, speak, and act according to your vision. Be detached. This allows nature’s creativity to work for you. Detachment means not preferring anything other than what is happening right now, but having the freedom to choose a different future. What is happening right now is the perfect manifestation of your previous intentions, thoughts, words, and actions. Preferring an alternative Now leads to delaying the achievement of your goals. Such preference is wanting, and wanting perpetuates a state of wanting.

Let it work its magical way by not resisting the moment of Now that it brings you. Just do your part, and let it do its part. It is the fastest, most effective, most enjoyable way. And you can be happy and restful always, for you know what is coming eventually.

Calmness is power. Calmness puts you in harmony with yourself and nature. It puts you in control of your thoughts and enables you to have right thought. It is a testament to the fact that you are not your circumstances and that you are not inferior to your circumstances. Calmness is confidence. Calmness is your true nature, perfect balance, perfect stillness, and perfect peace. Always say, “I am calm.”

Calmness is not suppression. True calmness is clear and open; it does not hide or suppress anything internally in order to show calmness. It is pure and natural. Calmness represents, and can be developed by knowing, internalizing, practicing, and living the laws of the universe, the laws of life—laws like the ones in this book.

Suffering indicates an error in thinking. It is a cue for you to find and change that error. Often, in the deepest moments of suffering, you find the biggest opportunity to find new truth. But suffering is not necessary. In fact, the most enlightened of people have been able to eliminate suffering completely. Suffering is just a means for your Self to communicate with your personality and mind—and vice versa—and is only used when there are no other options. The people who are most resistant to more subtle clues from their Selves find themselves suffering the most. Those who are most aware and tuned to their Selves through things like active intuition are able to work out life deliberately instead of having life work them out.

Conditions convert thought from symbols in the mind to actual experiences. The reality is that the universe contains all that there can possibly be, all held in the eternal moment of Now, Here.

If you act from a “broke” perspective (cutting costs, being mean and stingy, being bitter, scared, and jealous) in an attempt to prevent yourself from becoming even more broke, what are you really doing? Can you start to see how you are perpetuating and energizing the “broke” conditions? By consistently believing and thinking about being broke, you are creating the conditions of being broke, through the power of belief and thought. Remember, the universe always gives you what you think about most often, earnestly and with conviction. It is at your command. The way to fix being broke is to take on a state of wealth internally and think, speak, and act from that perspective.

Abundance is not created because of certain conditions. Certain conditions are created because of abundance. Conditionality does not exist.

Why do things repeat themselves? Some people keep “failing” in whatever business they try, for example. Here is the reason: You keep bringing yourself the same circumstances and situations over and over again, until you decide to recreate yourself anew, change your thought pattern, and change yourself into a new, “improved” being.

Avoid judging things as right or wrong. Things are just things. Their classification lies in the choice of the observer of these things to classify them as good or bad, right or wrong, fun or not. The minute you judge things, you judge yourself. You also block the hidden gift that an event brings to you.

“I am sorry that such a bad thing happened to you.” The farmer replied: “Don’t be, for who knows what is good or bad.” Well, the next day, the horse that ran away came back to the farmer, this time bringing with it a herd of wild horses that it had befriended. The neighbor said to the farmer: “I congratulate you for your good fortune!” The farmer replied: “Don’t, for who knows what is good or bad.” Well, the next day the farmer’s son tried to mount one of the wild horses and fell, breaking his leg. Again, the neighbor said to the farmer: “I am sorry that such a bad thing happened to you.” The farmer replied: “Don’t be, for who knows what is good or bad.” The next day soldiers came by to forcefully recruit for the army, but the farmer’s son was exempted because of his broken leg. Now this is just a simple story, but it demonstrates the miracles that the Source works in the most unpredictable and seemingly unconnected ways so that all things work out to perfection. For those who know and work with the laws of the universe, those who apply the law of cause and effect, those who have certain goals and purpose and vision, this magic works beautifully, bringing with it synchronous events, “coincidences,” and many other twists and turns that lead to the desired end. So avoid judging things and people. It only slows you down and harms you. For you do not know the chain of events planned. Also, you become what you judge, and what you condemn returns to affect you.

The answer lies in the way we use suffering. We are not designed for suffering. If we were to listen to our spirits a lot more, if we were to recapture that ability and be much more intuitive and listen to that intuition, our suffering would reduce dramatically. But when we refuse to listen to the higher wisdom of our souls, we suffer in the physical world so that we can correct errors in thinking.

At the bottom, at rock bottom, a person is stripped of everything. The false psychological defenses that keep that person from accepting his or her highest truth are taken away. When the person un-identifies with and disengages from these falsehoods and accepts the truth, he or she becomes wealthy.

the Source communicates in infinite ways. It is we who do not pay attention and listen. It is we who choose to ignore what we feel to be true.

The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when an individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner contradictions, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposite halves. —Carl Jung

NO CONDITION CONCERNING WEALTH has been more misrepresented than success and failure. Many people think you can either succeed or fail. Well, failure is yet another illusion, and success is all that there is. This is such a profound truth that you should make every effort to understand it. All of life is a success full of successive moments.

“Failure,” when used without fear as a learning process, is what eliminates weakness and builds strength in thought and character. This new strength in thought and character is essential and critical to the future success that you seek. “Failure” is truly a successive moment, a moment of success in its own right. Through “failure,” you learn how to succeed and what eventual triumph tastes like, for how would you know how to relish the sweet taste of triumph if you did not know how “failure” tasted? And how would you know how to arrive at your intended triumph without the tools designed to get you there?

The most common cause of “failure” is the lack of clear and focused goals and visualizations. The universe, life, literally lacks something to work with, so it does nothing. Life is images of the mind expressed. And without images, there is no expression.

Often, the greatest opportunity to be all that you can be lies in your darkest hour. Your worst moments are often your biggest liberators, your highest teachers. Do not fight and resist them when they come. Instead, look into them for the lessons they hold—the liberation they bring. Suffering is always an indication of an error in thinking. You are not designed to suffer. You were designed to enjoy life.

In the end, you will see that loss was not really loss. At the point when you recognize the gains you got from the loss, you will see that the loss was really a blessing, and that loss does not exist. Every loss has a gain, if only you accept and look into it and have patience. Loss is usually the result of an error in your thinking, in which case you have the opportunity to correct your thoughts and make massive gains; or it is a new opportunity selected by your higher self designed to take you higher, a chance to discover a new, higher truth.

Use all conditions to enjoy and build yourself—that is what they are there for. Even the “negative” ones are useful. If, for example, you are faced with a situation in which you are under oppressive people, first make sure you choose to be in a liberated, self-loving, and loving state of being internally (the opposite of oppression). Think, speak, and act liberty, self-love, and love. Show your oppressors kindness and forgiveness, rather than being oppressive to them when you get the chance. That is how you get out of your negative circumstances, and by visualizing in detail, with belief, the way you wish to next create your world.

When you look within to find the error in thought causing your suffering, always look with humility so that your ego does not interfere. Look with sincerity to find truthfully.

Most people have been programmed to fear failure. They give up to avoid failure, or they do not even attempt just so that they will not fail. Failure, however, is an illusion.

just like hot and cold are different ends of the spectrum of temperature on a thermometer. Failure and success are both different vibrations of the same thing.

Failure is an illusion. Stop fearing it; love it for the gifts it brings you.

Every try is a success that leads to the eventual desired outcome, the big success. View it that way.

Your survival is guaranteed. You do not have to qualify for your dignity and life.

Want Not: Desire—but Never, Ever Want

In regard to wealth, the most important word to watch out for is want and all its equivalents. Wanting communicates to you and to the universe that you do not have something (first mistake) and that you are in a state of not having it but wishing you did (second mistake). The problem is compounded by the fact that wanting is a perpetual state. In itself, it has no finality. Think about it. You can never get what you want. Never. It only looks as if people get what they want, but they never really do. What actually happens is that, very gradually, they shift from the state of wanting to other states and then they get what they wanted in the first place.

In your thoughts, words, states, and feelings, replace “want” with “desire” or “wish.” Unlike wanting, desiring does not necessarily have to mean that you do not have something. It is a very subtle difference, and some people may say they are the same thing, but there is, in fact, a world of difference.

Wanting is carried out with precision, and wanting represents a perpetual state of not having. Desire is not a perpetual state of not having; in fact, it does not necessarily have to mean you do not have what you desire. It is sad and funny to think that billions of people are kept away from what they want by such a simple little difference. It all lies in the precise execution of the universe.

It helps nothing to avoid the word “want” but be in a state of wanting—that is useless. Language is a symbol used to represent things like states. The word “want” is a symbol that represents the state of wanting. It is therefore the state that you should avoid first.

None of these negative definitions are included for the word “desire,” however. Here’s how the dictionary defines “desire”: to express a wish for; request. The natural longing that is excited by the enjoyment or the thought of any good and impels to action or effort its continuance or possession; an eager wish to obtain or enjoy.

Not needing a particular result in the moment of Now frees your subconscious mind from all thoughts about why you cannot have a particular result. This, in turn, opens the path to the particular result that was consciously intended. This is one of the benefits of intending with detachment. You intend a future outcome.

Learn to enable the co-existence of intention, certainty, and detachment in your life and life will quickly become happy and wealthy for you. Resistance and frustration will slowly fall away, and certainty and confidence will grow. You see, you cannot fail to get wealthy if your goals are clear and focused and you are certain and faithful, and you believe. It is impossible to fail.

Lack of detachment equates to resistance, and what you resist persists.

The fastest way to create a great future is simply to intend, release, and get back to enjoying Here, Now.

Have passion, have desire, have intentions, but want not.

Wanting is a belief in not having. You have it all. Why then would you wish to believe that you do not have it?

CHAPTER 14 Purpose: Why Are You Here?

WHAT IS YOUR PURPOSE? Your purpose is separate from your goals. What is your purpose; why are you here? Only by knowing and declaring your purpose and holding it high every day can you move forward quickly in the right direction for you, and have a great time doing so.

Purpose or destiny is what you, your Self or soul, choose to come do here on earth—a choice based on your soul’s attributes and wishes. And the circumstances and location you are born in are perfect for you to collect the necessary “tools” to fulfill your chosen purpose were you to go through life with such an awareness. That is why your unique purpose feels so good once you find it. That is why it gives you so much joy doing it—because you chose it a long time ago. It is what you came here to do.

First find your purpose by spending some quiet time thinking what makes you feel good, what you have passion for. Do not think of job descriptions or careers. Drop all those labels society has taught you to believe in. They are the #1 reason why people do not find their purpose. Just ask yourself: “What am I happy doing?” It may be spending time with butterflies or flying around the world making deals or cooking or speaking to people or anything else. Once you find your purpose, envision it, intend it, and make goals that move you toward it—to a point where you will be working, as a career, in your discovered purpose.

Your special talent is usually your purpose. Or it may be something you always felt, especially as a child, that you could do very well. Children often know their purpose, but as they grow up, society and the educational system confuse them. Or your purpose may be what gives you most joy.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. —Kahlil Gibran

The surest way to enjoy your work is to work within your purpose in life. Work within whatever you determine is your purpose in life, not your job or obligation, but that which you feel called from within to do, that which you dream of doing—and joy at work will be easy to experience. What does that tell you?

When you align your thoughts fearlessly to your life’s purpose, you become a powerful creative force.

When you are working within your purpose, work is no longer a job; it becomes a pleasure, and it becomes life. The boundary between work and fun vanish.

How many purposes do you have? You have as many as you feel that you have. You are not restricted to just one. You are a multidimensional being.

CHAPTER 15 Giving: What It’s All About

Give first, before you receive. Whatever energy you give will come back to you in an amazing way. You may give away your time, for example, and it comes back to you much later from an unexpected source in an unexpected form in a way that benefits you greatly.

Give. Give. Give. And do so cheerfully and freely. It is the energy behind the giving that matters, so do not give grudgingly.

Give graciously and receive gratefully. Grace and gratitude are the energizing factors of giving and receiving.

The universe is all energy. Energy flows. Giving promotes this energy flow, placing you in harmony with the powers of the universe. Whatever you wish to have, cause another being to have it first, and you will begin to have it in abundance. Give and you will receive in multiples. For example, if you wish to have wealth, show others how to have wealth, and in an amazing way, you will soon find yourself wealthy. It is a very complicated system that works perfectly. Give cheerfully!

Share, share, share. It is an investment banked with the universe that returns to you with amazing interest. Share gladly and genuinely.

Get out of the habit of thinking that you should receive something first, before you give. That is not giving. That is an exchange. Giving freely and cheerfully enables you to do business, if you wish to look at it that way, with the universe.

It gives you back in multiples, when it is most appropriate, in the most appropriate form. It is a magical process. Obviously, the more you give, the more magic you create for yourself. Life starts to work for you.

Develop a strong desire and persistence to give cheerfully and freely.

In your goal-setting, remember to include several goals that are about free and cheerful giving. Giving, under the law of cause and effect, is one of the most powerful actions you can take. It returns in multiples, seven-fold.

Work on the habit of giving, until you get to the point where you enjoy giving. Enjoy it thoroughly.

It is okay to think and know that, when you give, you will get back something from the universe. You do not have to pretend you are not interested in receiving a reward for giving.

In fact, demanding a particular reward back is a violation of the universal law. It focuses your mind on “trading” rather than on “cheerful and free giving.” Never ask for or expect “payback” from those you give to. The reward you receive will come from a source and at a time and in a form that the universe finds best suited for you. —I am wealth. I am abundance. I am joy.— You always have something to give—time, compliments, talent, money, knowledge, sharing a book, etc.

Giving has one bonus effect: it shows you what you have but did not know you had. Say you wish to have wealth. You then decide to give wealth first by helping others learn how to have wealth. You read books like this one, help where you can with the knowledge you gain, share books and resources, and so on. In that process, magically, you end up realizing you had a whole lot of wealth and wealth capabilities that you previously thought you lacked.

You are surrounded with abundant opportunities to give, but you only see them when you decide to start seeing them.

Learn to receive graciously and happily as well. Do not feel uncomfortable receiving. You deserve it; and by receiving, you are in harmony with the law of giving and receiving.

The trick to giving is not to force it upon those you give to. Offer your gift freely and cheerfully. Show your hand. Do not shove. Show. If the recipient does not wish to take your gift, respect that cheerfully. Do not be offended if your gift is not accepted.

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding… For in truth it is life that gives unto life—while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness… and you are all receivers. —Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Gratitude: Sealing the Deal

So gratitude is the first step to receiving and experiencing. It is an affirmation that you know you will have it. Imagine being grateful and getting excited about a future event—do you have any idea how much faith that portrays and how much that takes you toward your goals at rapid speed? It is magical! Gratitude creates and grows your faith, in addition to being the right thing to do.

All you now need to recognize is that every moment, person, and thing was brought to you by your own choices, thoughts, actions, and states of being. You did it. The world just creates itself around you so that you may experience your Self and recreate yourself.

THIS BOOK HAS BEEN LARGELY ABOUT wealth consciousness. But what is consciousness? It is being awake to something. Wealth consciousness is being awake to wealth. Wealth has always been there, of course, but you may not have been awake to it.

They have no fear of going broke because they know that, even if it happens, it is temporary, and they are designed to come right back up. You can take away all their money and, within a year, they will be wealthy again, or at least be on their way to wealth. Luck has nothing to do with it.

The greatest creative forces become available when your conscious, subconscious, and super-conscious selves are in harmony in their choices. You make them so by raising your consciousness and awareness to all three levels of your Self. You become aware and conscious of things you used to do subconsciously. You can do this by deciding to be aware. Decide to be mindful and deliberate; watch your thoughts and actions and dreams, instead of walking about daydreaming in a daze and doing things automatically. It is also a good idea to consider Vipassana (mindfulness) meditation. It is one of the best ways to increase your awareness.

you will not know what they are. These choices are super-conscious. You start becoming aware of them by honoring your feelings (not emotions or thoughts masquerading as feelings, but genuine feelings). You also become aware of your super-conscious mind through meditation.

These thoughts went on in your head all the time as you did other things; they were background thoughts. Well, now what you should do is watch your thoughts and do not allow any idle daydreams that keep tossing about an issue like a wild monkey in a cage. The point is that, if for a particular decision these three levels all choose differently, your results will obviously be mixed and confusing to you. The way to fix that is to raise your awareness on all levels.

You must have wealth consciousness that knows no poverty (or, more accurately, the illusion of poverty). Work on it until the idea of poverty is laughable—until to think that you can possibly become poor is a ridiculous idea to you.

You create money by increasing your value inside yourself.

You then experience money by exchanging the value you have built in you. Exchange it with others by providing services, goods, and money to others in exchange for their services, goods, and money. Remember that people have a unique purpose or ability within them.

These are faith or certainty, imagination, inquiry, and focus. Activity, taking action, translates inner value into outer value, material wealth.

The Self: Architect of the Universe

Know thyself—so has it been said throughout the ages. Your Self, your spirit, or your soul, whatever you call it, is the real you. The rest of you is just a set of tools. Your personality and body and ego are just temporary tools of your Self, which always remains even after you drop everything else.

People attract what they are, not what they want. They attract what they love and what they fear. They sustain what they judge and condemn. What they resist persists. What they accept and examine mindfully releases them. What they truly believe is what becomes real in their lives.

Change is the only constant in the universe. Everything changes at every moment. Life is all about change, and with change comes growth. You will one day leave even your own body. You can never truly own anything here on earth.

The minute you start thinking you own something, it owns you. For you to enjoy and use prosperity and wealth wisely and fruitfully, you must replace the idea of ownership with the idea of temporary custodianship—having the use of something, keeping something, of taking care of something. This is what makes you ready to “go with the flow” without loss and suffering when the time comes for change to work its inevitable ways.

What are you holding yourself back for? You have it all. You can experience any part of your Self that you choose, so long as you make the choice earnestly and with conviction. With faith, everything is possible. It is all yours anyway. —I am wealth. I am

Fear of the unknown is paralyzing and totally unnecessary. Only in the unknown can you find growth, freshness, and creation. The known, the past, is already experienced—it is gone.

At every moment and in every situation, with every thought and action, ask yourself two questions: Is this the greatest version of the grandest vision I have ever had of myself? What would love do? Then adjust your thoughts and actions based on the answers to these two questions. This is a very fast way to grow in all areas of your life.

Question everything and rule out nothing. Be willing to suspend everything you know. You cannot discover new things until you stop telling those new things what you think they should be. Let them tell you what they really are!

Exercise your body daily. Your body is an energy system and an extension of your mind. Exercising opens up the energy channels in your mind and body. Remember, thought is energy, and your mind is all over your body, in every cell of your body, not just in your brain. Exercising your body every day makes your mind and thoughts a great deal better.

In fact, the whole design of life is for consciousness to keep expanding. It is in the whole universe’s best interests that you expand your consciousness, including your wealth consciousness. Life seeks to express and experience itself to enable that evolution and growth. Wealth, if you consider it clearly, does a whole lot to enable that growth. Once you have wealth, you have freedom to explore many other aspects of life you would not have had a chance to explore without it. The true nature of all life is to increase life. Anything to the contrary is going against life. Your desire for wealth is very natural and necessary for you to move on to higher levels. Not only is it natural, it is fully supported by nature if only you follow the laws of nature. Ancient texts tell us that it is the desire of God that you get rich, and nature is friendly to your plans, as long as you are in harmony with it.

There is nothing else except the One, so there is nothing the One can use to experience itself unless it individuates itself. The individuation and illusions start at lower levels. It is necessary to create a limited-consciousness physical plane where the illusion of separation exists, where it is possible to “kill” a body, to hurt, to suffer, to lack. And on this physical plane—where it is possible to act in unloving ways and do harm—love rises, and its fruits and the experience of it are then possible. Now you see that the illusion is very necessary. You, your Self, need it and use it. The only problem comes when your ego makes you believe in the illusion. The ego was designed to create the illusion of separation. It is necessary. But when the illusion is taken as the reality, it no longer becomes a tool with which you can experience the greatness of your spirit and all that it has.

This is what Jesus meant when he said: “Be in this world but not of it.”

The most important thing is definitely to have joy in your life. Lighten up; do not take things so seriously; do not be too hard on yourself and others; let joy into the lives of people. Joy is natural; it is the soul expressing itself. It keeps the energy circulating and makes the whole ride worth it! Joy multiplies everything it attracts. And it is fun. Enjoy! Decide at all times not to worry, not to get frustrated, not to wish you were somewhere else doing something else, and not to fear. All these are statements of not having, and they perpetuate the state of not having.

Before you do anything, always ask yourself: “Is this who I Am?” “Is this how I wish to define myself into a higher next?”

One fast track to get to where you are going is to pay attention to your desires and inspirations. Develop your intuition.

By living in this knowledge—by treating mind, body, and spirit with equal importance, care, and attention—you grow most quickly and become wealthy fastest.

viewpoint. “All’s right with the world. Nothing can possibly be wrong but my personal attitude, and I will make that right. I will see the facts of nature and all the events, circumstances, and conditions of society, politics, government, and industry from the highest viewpoint. It is all perfect, though incomplete. It is all the handiwork of God; behold, it is all very good.” —James Allen

How do you start doing all these things? Just start doing them. Now. It is that simple. Just do it. Now.