The Science Of Getting Rich
By
Wallace D. Wattles
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Getting Into The Right Business
SUCCESS, in any particular business, depends for one
thing upon your possessing in a well-developed state the faculties
required in that business.
Without good musical faculty no one can succeed as a
teacher of music; without well-developed mechanical faculties no one can
achieve great success in any of the mechanical trades; without tact and
the commercial faculties no one can succeed in mercantile pursuits. But
to possess in a well-developed state the faculties required in your
particular vocation does not insure getting rich. There are musicians
who have remarkable talent, and who yet remain poor; there are
blacksmiths, carpenters, and so on who have excellent mechanical
ability, but who do not get rich; and there are merchants with good
faculties for dealing with men who nevertheless fail.
The different faculties are tools; it is essential to
have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used
in the Right Way. One man can take a sharp saw, a square, a good plane,
and so on, and build a handsome article of furniture; another man can
take the same tools and set to work to duplicate the article, but his
production will be a botch. He does not know how to use good tools in a
successful way.
The various faculties of your mind are the tools with
which you must do the work which is to make you rich; it will be easier
for you to succeed if you get into a business for which you are well
equipped with mental tools.
Generally speaking, you will do best in that business
which will use your strongest faculties; the one for which you are
naturally "best fitted." But there are limitations to this statement,
also. No man should regard his vocation as being irrevocably fixed by
the tendencies with which he was born.
You can get rich in ANY business, for if you have not
the right talent for you can develop that talent; it merely means that
you will have to make your tools as you go along, instead of confining
yourself to the use of those with which you were born. It will be EASIER
for you to succeed in a vocation for which you already have the talents
in a well-developed state; but you CAN succeed in any vocation, for you
can develop any rudimentary talent, and there is no talent of which you
have not at least the rudiment.
You will get rich most easily in point of effort, if you
do that for which you are best fitted; but you will get rich most
satisfactorily if you do that which you WANT to do.
Doing what you want to do is life; and there is no real
satisfaction in living if we are compelled to be forever doing something
which we do not like to do, and can never do what we want to do. And it
is certain that you can do what you want to do; the desire to do it is
proof that you have within you the power which can do it.
Desire is a manifestation of power.
The desire to play music is the power which can play
music seeking expression and development; the desire to invent
mechanical devices is the mechanical talent seeking expression and
development.
Where there is no power, either developed or
undeveloped, to do a thing, there is never any desire to do that thing;
and where there is strong desire to do a thing, it is certain proof that
the power to do it is strong, and only requires to be developed and
applied in the Right Way.
All things else being equal, it is best to select the
business for which you have the best developed talent; but if you have a
strong desire to engage in any particular line of work, you should
select that work as the ultimate end at which you aim.
You can do what you want to do, and it is your right and
privilege to follow the business or vocation which will be most
congenial and pleasant.
You are not obliged to do what you do not like to do,
and should not do it except as a means to bring you to the doing of the
thing you want to do.
If there are past mistakes whose consequences have
placed you in an undesirable business or environment, you may be obliged
for some time to do what you do not like to do; but you can make the
doing of it pleasant by knowing that it is making it possible for you to
come to the doing of what you want to do.
If you feel that you are not in the right vocation, do
not act too hastily in trying to get into another one. The best way,
generally, to change business or environment is by growth.
Do not be afraid to make a sudden and radical change if
the opportunity is presented, and you feel after careful consideration
that it is the right opportunity; but never take sudden or radical
action when you are in doubt as to the wisdom of doing so.
There is never any hurry on the creative plane; and
there is no lack of opportunity.
When you get out of the competitive mind you will
understand that you never need to act hastily. No one else is going to
beat you to the thing you want to do; there is enough for all. If one
space is taken, another and a better one will be opened for you a little
farther on; there is plenty of time. When you are in doubt, wait. Fall
back on the contemplation of your vision, and increase your faith and
purpose; and by all means, in times of doubt and indecision, cultivate
gratitude.
A day or two spent in contemplating the vision of what
you want, and in earnest thanksgiving that you are getting it, will
bring your mind into such close relationship with the Supreme that you
will make no mistake when you do act.
There is a mind which knows all there is to know; and
you can come into close unity with this mind by faith and the purpose to
advance in life, if you have deep gratitude.
Mistakes come from acting hastily, or from acting in
fear or doubt, or in forgetfulness of the Right Motive, which is more
life to all, and less to none.
As you go on in the Certain Way, opportunities will come
to you in increasing number; and you will need to be very steady in your
faith and purpose, and to keep in close touch with the All Mind by
reverent gratitude.
Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day,
but do it without haste, worry, or fear. Go as fast as you can, but
never hurry.
Remember that in the moment you begin to hurry you cease
to be a creator and become a competitor; you drop back upon the old
plane again.
Whenever you find yourself hurrying, call a halt; fix
your attention on the mental image of the thing you want, and begin to
give thanks that you are getting it. The exercise of GRATITUDE will
never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.
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1 - Preface
2 - The Right To Be Rich
3 - There Is A Science Of Getting Rich
4 - Is Opportunity Monopolized?
5 -The First Principle In The Science Of Getting
Rich
6 - Increasing Life
7 - How Riches Come To You
8 - Gratitude
9 - Thinking In The Certain Way
10 - How To Use The Will
11 - Further Use Of The Will
12 - Acting In The Certain Way
13 - Efficient Action
14 - Getting Into The Right Business
15 - The Impression Of Increase
16 - The Advancing Man
17- Some Cautions And Concluding Observations
18 - Summary Of The Science Of Getting Rich
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