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Unexpected $36,000 — Already!
By
Rebecca Fine
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Just a few short weeks ago, Mike began
to put his big plans for the year into action. Like
so many of us, he and his wife had decided that
now that their daughter was grown, they wanted to
work less and enjoy life more — to travel,
spend time with friends and family, and just generally
enjoy their home on the lovely east coast of New
Zealand.
Now you only have to look around to
see that WANTING that kind of freedom is where many
people begin and END the process! (And — ouch
— sometimes we only have to look in the mirror
for a good example, right?)
But for Mike, this was just the beginning.
He'd recently read a small forgotten classic from
1910 entitled, The Science of Getting Rich, and
something in it just "clicked" for him.
Sure, he'd also read plenty of "self-help"
books before. But, as he put it, "without taking
them onboard."
This time, though, something was different.
This time Mike decided to go for it, to apply the
principles he was learning from that little book
as he set about changing his life.
Back in 1987 Mike had started an electrical
company and it did very well. And he and his wife
also own and operate another full-time business,
too. To start this year, Mike closed down his business
to concentrate on a new interest, property investing,
while his wife retired from running the other business,
opting to handle just a bit of the administrative
work on a part-time basis.
As you might expect, they originally
figured this would mean some belt-tightening while
Mike got his new venture going — a perhaps
substantial temporary loss of income. But rather
than focus on that, Mike decided to follow the instructions
in The Science of Getting Rich and focus on his
clear mental image of the life he wanted and to
begin to take action in that direction. He also
opted to participate in a course called "The
Science of Getting Rich for Practical Geniuses™."
Here's what Mike reported just a little
halfway through the course:
$36,000 in unexpected income has arrived!
You see, over the years Mike has developed several
products and not long ago he came up with one that
seemed very promising — a quality management
logging system for welding pipes, including the
electronic device that runs the system.
But this side of the business somehow
didn't work out quite as he'd expected, so when
his main client went out of business, Mike just
put the product on the shelf in the garage and forgot
about it. And there it sat, abandoned, for more
than a year and a half.
Then, suddenly, a company which had
bought several of his devices in the past showed
up wanting that almost-forgotten product! Seems
they'd been trying to develop a similar one on their
own but had become bogged down in major difficulties.
They offered Mike a good price for his brain-child
and he was all set to agree.
But there was a hitch.
Two deal-killer clauses glared out
of the contract — and the would-be buyer's
lawyer wasn't budging.
"Never allow yourself to be disappointed,"
says Wallace Wattles, author of The Science of Getting
Rich. So here's what Mike did.
"I tried to think of and see
the deal with a positive outcome rather than see
the problems in our way. I also knew the contract
wouldn't work for me with those two clauses in it,
so I let go of any attachment to the outcome and
rang the person I'd been dealing with directly,
instead of talking to the lawyer. I told him what
I wanted, and I really was happy for the deal not
to go ahead otherwise."
Result?
"We got our money last week.
The amount will cover our basic living expenses
while I start our new venture and it'll also take
care of the cut in my wife's income."
And Mike did MORE. Understanding Mr.
Wattles' admonition that "you must give every
man more in use value than he gives you in cash
value," Mike made the point of adding extra
to what the buyer got.
"I spent days creating instruction
manuals and also came across extra product when
I did my final clean-out which I happily passed
on to them at no extra cost. It ended up a good
deal for all."
Good for you, Mike! And thanks for
the excellent example of what Mr. Wattles writes
about:
"It is not your part to guide
or supervise the creative process. All you have
to do with that is to retain your vision, stick
to your purpose, and maintain your faith and gratitude.
"But you must act in a certain
way, so that you can appropriate what is yours when
it comes to you and so that you can meet the things
you have in your picture and put them in their proper
places as they arrive.
"You can really see the truth
of this. When things reach you, they will be in
the hands of others, who will ask an equivalent
for them. And you can only get what is yours by
giving the other person what is rightfully his ...
"Under the impelling power of
the supreme spirit, people’s affairs will be
so ordered that someone will be led to mine the
gold for you. Other people’s business transactions
will be so directed that the gold will be brought
toward you. And you must so arrange your own business
affairs that you may be able to receive it when
it comes to you.
"Your thought makes all things,
animate and inanimate, work to bring you what you
want, but your personal activity must be such that
you can rightly receive what you want when it reaches
you."
Do you see, my friend, how all this
is EXACTLY what Mike is and has been doing?
He is ...
Retaining his vision,
Sticking to his purpose,
Maintaining his faith and gratitude,
Acting in "the certain way"
so that he is "able to receive."
Now lest you think that Mike has some
kind of superhuman powers of concentration and focus,
listen up to what he says here:
"I use the science of getting
rich when I remember. Some days I work on it and
others I get busy and forget. So I think results
can come even when you start and only have 'average
daily attendance.' I have, though, always been grateful
... It is great to have a system that gratitude
is a part of."
None of us is yet perfect in thought
and action, of course, and as Mr. Wattles tells
us, it takes work and commitment to direct our attention
and thinking. In short, like everything else worth
doing, it takes practice to get good at it.
Most of us are just beginning to use
these long-neglected "muscles" and what
matters now is that we just start and continue to
NOTICE our thinking when it goes off-track and to
— without blame, shame, or guilt — direct
our remarkable power of thought in the way we CHOOSE,
rather than just flipping into an automatic, conditioned
response — which is, when you get right down
to it, the exact OPPOSITE of thinking in the certain
way (or thinking at all!).
And I promise you that it does get
easier and completely natural with time and practice!
;-)
So how might YOU follow Mike's lead
with whatever it is you want to create, experience,
or attract to yourself? Take the time to understand
these principles and apply them to your own life.
"Study this book. Make it your constant companion,"
as Mr. Wattles advises. Study it on your own. Study
it with like-minded friends. And "take it onboard,"
as Mike is doing.
You, too, will feel the excitement
as what you want begins to show up in gloriously
expected and UNexpected ways!
Oh, yes — one more thing. You
may have noted that Mike's forgotten product netted
him $35,000 and the title of this story says "$36,000."
Here's the rest (so far!):
"We have five mature avocado
trees on our property that for the first time we
got a commercial picker to pick." Mike had
thought the fruit would be worth about $200 after
picking costs. "A cheque arrived yesterday
for $850."
"Also our Inland Revenue Department
[the tax agency similar to the Internal Revenue
Service here in the US] sent me a $200 refund last
week for an error they made last year."
A few months ago, right before the
course started, Mike said. "With The Science
of Getting Rich, this year is going to be great."
Now he grins and says, "Quite a couple of weeks,
I think you would agree. I wonder what next week
will hold!"
What indeed. You go, guy!
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Rebecca Fine is the founder of The
Science of Getting Rich Network where you can download
your free copy of the amazing 1910 forgotten classic,
The Science of Getting Rich. http://www.scienceofgettingrich.net
©2001 Certain Way Productions.
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