Principles That Can Change Your Destiny

Maintain a spirit of open-mindedness, and remember these principles have worked for many individuals. You can put them to work for your own enduring benefit.

You will find it easy, not hard, to do.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, the first step towards riches.

Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

Five Ways to Turn Desire into Gold

The method by which desire for riches can be transmuted into its financial equivalent, consists of five definite practical steps, viz:

First: Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire. It is not sufficient merely to say "I want of money." Be definite as to the amount. (there is a psychological reason for definiteness which will be described in subsequent pages.)

Second: Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire. (There is no such reality as "something for nothing.")

Third: Establish a definite date when you intend to possess the money you desire.

Fourth: Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Fifth: Read your written statement aloud, twice daily, once just before retiring at night, and once after arising in the morning. As you read, see and feel and believe yourself already in possession of the money.

It is important that you follow the instructions described in these five steps. It is especially important that you observe, and follow the instructions of the fifth point. You may complain that it is impossible for you to "see yourself in possession of money" before you actually have it. Here is where a burning desire will come to your aid. If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want to become so determined to have it that you convince yourself you will have it.

To the uninitiated, who has not been schooled in the working principles of the human mind, these instructions may appear impractical. It may be helpful, to all who fail to recognize the soundness of the five steps, to know that the information they convey was received from Andrew Carnegie, who began as an ordinary laborer in the steel mills, but managed, despite his humble beginning, to make these principles yield him a fortune of considerably more than one hundred million dollars.

It may be of further help to know that the five steps here recommended were carefully scrutinized by the late Thomas A. Edison, who placed his stamp of approval upon them as being, not only the steps essential for the accumulation of money, but for the attainment of any goal.

The steps call for no "hard labor". They call for no sacrifice. They do not require one to become ridiculous, or credulous. To apply them calls for no great amount of education. But the successful application of these five steps does call for sufficient imagination to enable one to see, and to understand, that accumulation of money cannot be left to chance, good fortune, and luck. One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.

You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities unless you can work yourself into a white heat of desire for money, and actually believe you possess it.

Remember, every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage. Those who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their "other selves."

In planning to acquire your share of the riches, let no one influence you to scorn the dreamer. If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it! Put your dream across, and never mind what "they" say if you meet temporary defeat, for "they", perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of equivalent success. Practical dreamers do not quit!

No more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.

The world is filled with an abundance of opportunity which the dreamers of the past never knew.