The Science Of Getting Rich
By
Wallace D. Wattles
#16 The
Advancing Man
WHAT I have said in the last chapter applies as well to
the professional man and the wage-earner as to the man who is engaged in
mercantile business.
No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a
clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them
sensible of the fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get
rich. The physician who holds the vision of himself as a great and
successful healer, and who works toward the complete realization of that
vision with faith and purpose, as described in former chapters, will
come into such close touch with the Source of Life that he will be
phenomenally successful; patients will come to him in throngs.
No one has a greater opportunity to carry into effect
the teaching of this book than the practitioner of medicine; it does not
matter to which of the various schools he may belong, for the principle
of healing is common to all of them, and may be reached by all alike.
The Advancing Man in medicine, who holds to a clear mental image of
himself as successful, and who obeys the laws of faith, purpose, and
gratitude, will cure every curable case he undertakes, no matter what
remedies he may use.
In the field of religion, the world cries out for the
clergyman who can teach his hearers the true science of abundant life.
He who masters the details of the science of getting rich, together with
the allied sciences of being well, of being great, and of winning love,
and who teaches these details from the pulpit, will never lack for a
congregation. This is the gospel that the world needs; it will give
increase of life, and men will hear it gladly, and will give liberal
support to the man who brings it to them.
What is now needed is a demonstration of the science of
life from the pulpit. We want preachers who can not only tell us how,
but who in their own persons will show us how. We need the preacher who
will himself be rich, healthy, great, and beloved, to teach us how to
attain to these things; and when he comes he will find a numerous and
loyal following.
The same is true of the teacher who can inspire the
children with the faith and purpose of the advancing life. He will never
be "out of a job." And any teacher who has this faith and purpose can
give it to his pupils; he cannot help giving it to them if it is part of
his own life and practice.
What is true of the teacher, preacher, and physician is
true of the lawyer, dentist, real estate man, insurance agent--of
everybody.
The combined mental and personal action I have described
is infallible; it cannot fail. Every man and woman who follows these
instructions steadily, perseveringly, and to the letter, will get rich.
The law of the Increase of Life is as mathematically certain in its
operation as the law of gravitation; getting rich is an exact science.
The wage-earner will find this as true of his case as of
any of the others mentioned. Do not feel that you have no chance to get
rich because you are working where there is no visible opportunity for
advancement, where wages are small and the cost of living high. Form
your clear mental vision of what you want, and begin to act with faith
and purpose.
Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece
of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and
the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do.
But do not do this merely with the idea of currying
favor with your employer, in the hope that he, or those above you, will
see your good work and advance you; it is not likely that they will do
so.
The man who is merely a "good" workman, filling his
place to the very best of his ability, and satisfied with that, is
valuable to his employer; and it is not to the employer's interest to
promote him; he is worth more where he is.
To secure advancement, something more is necessary than
to be too large for your place.
The man who is certain to advance is the one who is too
big for his place, and who has a clear concept of what he wants to be;
who knows that he can become what he wants to be and who is determined
to BE what he wants to be.
Do not try to more than fill your present place with a
view to pleasing your employer; do it with the idea of advancing
yourself. Hold the faith and purpose of increase during work hours,
after work hours, and before work hours. Hold it in such a way that
every person who comes in contact with you, whether foreman, fellow
workman, or social acquaintance, will feel the power of purpose
radiating from you; so that every one will get the sense of advancement
and increase from you. Men will be attracted to you, and if there is no
possibility for advancement in your present job, you will very soon see
an opportunity to take another job.
There is a Power which never fails to present
opportunity to the Advancing Man who is moving in obedience to law.
God cannot help helping you, if you act in a Certain
Way; He must do so in order to help Himself.
There is nothing in your circumstances or in the
industrial situation that can keep you down. If you cannot get rich
working for the steel trust, you can get rich on a ten-acre farm; and if
you begin to move in the Certain Way, you will certainly escape from the
"clutches" of the steel trust and get on to the farm or wherever else
you wish to be.
If a few thousands of its employees would enter upon the
Certain Way, the steel trust would soon be in a bad plight; it would
have to give its workingmen more opportunity, or go out of business.
Nobody has to work for a trust; the trusts can keep men in so called
hopeless conditions only so long as there are men who are too ignorant
to know of the science of getting rich, or too intellectually slothful
to practice it.
Begin this way of thinking and acting, and your faith
and purpose will make you quick to see any opportunity to better your
condition.
Such opportunities will speedily come, for the Supreme,
working in All, and working for you, will bring them before you.
Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want
to be; when an opportunity to be more than you are now is presented and
you feel impelled toward it, take it. It will be the first step toward a
greater opportunity.
There is no such thing possible in this universe as a
lack of opportunities for the man who is living the advancing life.
It is inherent in the constitution of the cosmos that
all things shall be for him and work together for his good; and he must
certainly get rich if he acts and thinks in the Certain Way. So let
wage-earning men and women study this book with great care, and enter
with confidence upon the course of action it prescribes; it will not
fail.
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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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