Browsing Category: "Prosperity Consciousness"
MoneyLove Is About Balance
“Show Me The Money” Is A Very Narrow View
As I stated emphatically in Moneylove over thirty years ago, prosperity is about a lot more than money. And I’ve been thinking a lot about balance in life, and how some people are a lot better at creating it than others. A large part of my new coaching sessions focuses on this aspect of success, and it’s very rewarding to see how it is possible to add a lot more balance to a life that has been teetering and tottering through imbalance.
So it was another one of my continuing serendipitous events that when I received the results of today’s Google Search Alert on my name, it contained a quote of mine and a link to a speech by someone named Bryan Dyson.
Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them – work, family, health, friends and spirit … and you’re keeping all of these in the air.
You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls – family, health, friends and spirit – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for Balance in your life.
How?
Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.
Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you.
Don’t take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would your life, for without them, life is meaningless.
Don’t let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life.
Don’t give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.
Don’t be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that binds us to each together.
Don’t be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be pave.
Don’t shut love out of your life by saying it’s impossible to find time. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings!
Don’t run through life so fast that you forget not only where you’ve been, but also where you are going.
Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
Don’t be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily.
Don’t use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way…
Though there seems to be some confusion about exactly when he gave this speech, one version has it as a commencement address at Georgia Tech in 1996, and I’ve found no reason to dispute this, or any of the good sense he displays in the brief text. I’ve even seen his name spelled both Bryan and Brian.
I like what Mr. Dyson has to say, and it is indicative, in a time when it is popular to slam corporate executives as unthinking, unfeeling, greedy so-and-sos, of a special breed of CEO who is conscious, responsive, and philosophical. Dyson is also indicative of another great American tradition, the successful immigrant tale–he originally comes from Argentina. And I also like this comment he made back in 1984:
There’s an old saying that you can only live for a few days without food or a few hours without water or a few minutes without air, but you can live forever without any new ideas.
Dyson was using this comment to tell his employees that he was always willing to hear their ideas.
I particularly like his admonition to not set one’s goals by what others deem important. Too many times too many of us have done that.
And in this first month of the new year and new decade, how do you feel about how much balance you have in your life? And what are you doing to improve the situation?
Jerry
Ten Moneylove Questions to Provoke the Mind and Heart
Ten Questions To Ask Yourself About Your Prosperity
As 2010 Approaches
One of the gifts that many friends over the years have reported they were most looking forward to is my annual list of questions about the year just finishing and the new one coming up. It started as a process among a small group of friends on one bygone New Year’s Eve, and has grown since then.
You may know, if you are following this blog, or checking in with me on Facebook or Twitter, that I have just prepared for my coaching clients a list of 110 Questions For 2010 and am encouraging people to consider this coming new year a time to restart the New Millennium, since so many plans and aspirations we had back in 1999 got sidetracked by life, 9/11, the economic bubble bursts, and so forth. We humans created time and the calendar, and we should be able to change it to serve us. Anyway, just a decade into this 21st Century, we still have only taken baby steps into our own futures.
So I want to share with you ten questions to ask yourself (alone or with a friend or partner) about your money and manifestation situation, so as to clarify where you have been in 2009 and where you would like to be at this time next year.
1. What Is The Main Thing It Would Take
To Increase Your Income Tenfold?
This is to suggest that none of us have been dreaming big enough. Not to say you need or want this much money in your life, but wouldn’t it be nice to at least have an idea of how to go about creating it?
2. What Is One Unique Skill Or Talent You Have
That Has Never Made You Any Money?
I plan to expound at length in future posts about something I call Your Unique Personal Differential, what it is that may be special about you. Those people who are very successful financially have often figured out how to market what is unique about themselves.
3. If You Are Currently In A Relationship, Which Of You Is More Prosperity Conscious?
To put it more bluntly, is your relationship partner a role model and inspiration for you, or a bit of a drag?
4. What Would You Want To Do In 2010
If You Were Retired And Financially Secure?
For a lot of people, retirement is some pie-in-the-sky future aspiration. And while I personally am devoted to the concept of non-retirement, of loving what you do so much you would never even consider retiring, as artists, orchestra conductors, and even U.S. Senators never do–and therefore have longer-than-average lifespans–it is useful to imagine what you would do with yourself in a lifestyle in which you did not have to work to produce an income.
5. What Is One Way You Are Determined To Ask For
More Of What You Want In 2010?
Let’s face it, none of us have been willing to ask for everything we really want throughout our lives. And perhaps part of the evolution of our consciousness is to consistently be able improve on that limitation.
6. If You Had All The Money You Could Possibly Want,
What Would Your Biggest Worry Then Be?
I have often found that people suddenly having all their financial worries ended just come up with a new set of worries. Sometimes just the worry of losing it all. If worrying or being anxious or concerned about money is a major factor in your life, what would replace it as the next thing?
7. What Is The Main Thing You Can Do To Make 2010
A Lot More Prosperous Than 2009?
Chances are you know the answer to this question, but may have been unwilling to put it into action up to now.
8. What Was The Most Fun You Had Spending Money In 2009?
This goes along with my assertion that your subconscious mind is like a small child, it loves being pleasured and entertained. The more fun experiences you get in exchange for your money, the more it will work for you to produce more money.
9. When Was The Last Unexpected Arrival Of Money In Your Life,
And What Did You Do With It?
If we don’t differentiate between ordinary income and serendipitous abundance showing up, then we tend to diminish the pleasure and potency of such events. I always have at least one special desire to treat myself to if I get a sudden burst of unexpected cash. And it does seem to make more of those moments happen in my life. This may be fantasy on my part, but it works for me.
10. What Was The Most Fun You Had Making Money In 2009?
And if “fun” seems a bit too frivolous for you, then substitute pleasure or satisfaction. And if you had no fun whatsoever producing any money this past year, then you have a strong incentive to focus on doing so in 2010.
And I’ll leave you with one question I just came up with for this blog, one you can ponder for days.
If You Knew Absolutely, Positively, That You Would Be Wealthy Beyond Your Dreams In Exactly One Year, How Would You Change Your Behavior, Your Relationships, Your Plans?
Jerry
Moneylove, Prosperity, and The Energy of Money
Here’s A Provocative Prosperity Conscious Idea:
What if we increase the potency of our prosperous thoughts by increasing the number of different definitions we can come up with for financial success? Just a thought, mind you, but one that popped into my head as I was writing the above headline and had not even planned to mention in this post. And I’m not going to give you a list of those words, part of the process will be for you to think of as many as you can, then go to a thesaurus and find as many news ones as possible. Imagine one of your walls, perhaps in your workspace, with cards covering it, each one featuring a different abundance word.
But What I Really Want To Talk About….
This past weekend, I attended the first prosperity workshop I’ve been to in fifteen years. I have been known to rant a bit about the fact that most prosperity websites, books, CDs, and DVDs today are the same old, same old–just rehashing the stuff I introduced and popularized in Moneylove thirty years ago. With a few exceptions. And I am anxious to discover as many exceptions as possible so as to include them in my revised and annotated and updated new edition of Moneylove, which will be published in the next three months. Imagine then my delight in discovering one such teacher of some new perspectives on money doing a workshop at Unity San Francisco, the nondenominational church I attend, whose motto is: One God, Many Paths. Her name is Dr. Maria Nemeth, and she is a clinical psychologist who started coaching people about their money issues after a scam artist ripped her off in a Ponzi scheme some years ago, sending her into depression and a deep analysis of how the human mind works in relationship to money. She runs an organization called: www.AcademyForCoachingExcellence.com and wrote several books, the best known, The Energy of Money. That was also the title of her workshop, which was really a coaching session for a group of about 35 of us, including the minister, my friend Sonya Milton, and her husband, also a Unity minister, Hal Milton.
The Secret Of Being A Good And Powerful And Influential Workshop Leader/Coach
In this case, it was what Maria Nemeth said, as well as the way she said it. She has a wide range of fascinating gestures and facial expressions that illustrate her words. So much so, I asked her assistant, Michele, if she had ever had acting lessons. No, this is who she is.
And the secret of success as a workshop leader? That what you say and do triggers tne creative imaginations of those attending, that you stimulate their minds, conscious and subconscious, into coming up with their own solutions. During the workshop, I did something I have never done before. I had 5x8 cards for notes, and I kept two sets of notes. One set contains the comments Dr. Nemeth made that I liked most, the other set of cards has my own ideas that popped up as my imagination was stirred, as my deepest core of creative energy was tickled into production mode. I am looking forward to interviewing this impressive woman, and am sure I will be sharing more of her thoughts on this blog as time goes on.
You can read her books or go to her website for more information.
But I’ll share a couple of things I especially liked. She talked a lot about how we spend money, and if you read Moneylove, you might remember I had a whole chapter on Prosperity Spending. We agree on the importance of getting pleasure and satisfaction as a result of one’s spending. I liked her terminology in this area, as she talked about Consciously Spending versus Leaking Money. The latter is spending money just for the sake of spending, not getting the pleasure or positive results we desire and deserve.
Maria Nemeth also said, in a slightly different way, one of the points I really emphasize in my work, and is exemplified by the quote of mine Nightingale-Conant sent around the world a couple of weeks ago, “Wealth Is Not A Material Gain, But A State Of Mind.” What Maria says is, “Being financially successful isn’t about how much money you have, but your relationship to money.” And she adds: “It’s doing what you say you’re going to do with money with Clarity, Focus, Ease and Grace.” A nice turn of phrase that can strike a responding chord in all of us. I like that clarity comes first, echoing my Moneylove admonition that you must start with a “Clear Vision Of What You Want.” But Dr. Nemeth expands on these ideas and offers some elaborate, commonsense-filled concepts that explain some of the inner workings of our consciousness. She focuses a lot of attention on what she calls our “Monkey Minds.” Those negative voices inside our heads telling us why we’ll fail and what we shouldn’t or can’t do. If you ever heard my tapes or attended one of my seminars, you might remember I gave my negative voice a name, Stanley, and talked about never being able to totally get rid of him, but that the best way to move past that negative voice is to lose it in a crowd of positive voices. Maria also talks about the fact that the Monkey Mind never goes away, but just eventually becomes irrelevant. And as she talked about this, I had the thought and wrote it down on my cards, that it’s like a child getting a toy for Christmas or Hanakuh, and it’s defective, it breaks, or won’t work to start with. That’s a terrible thing, and creates a very unhappy, upset child. But if that same child gets a lot of toys, and just one is bad, it’s a whole different story. It’s losing the bad toy in a crowd of good ones, making the bad one irrelevant. And we can consciously choose to inundate our consciousness with lots of good toys.
What She’s Not
There’s lots more, some of it very intriguing and juicy and even contrarian. Maria Nemeth, PhD is definitely not the one thing I most dislike in a prosperity teacher–she is not a copycat. A unique, charismatic, and very wise woman in the ways of the financial world and the prosperous mind. A kindred soul I hope to continue to get to know and learn from and maybe even collaborate with in some as-yet-undiscovered way.
Jerry
Moneylove Minds, Moneylove Mentors
5 Top Moneylove Thinkers
So my newest and youngest mentor, Michael Dunlop, actually came up with the suggestion that I post a list of people who exemplify the Moneylove philosophy. He might be surprised at some of my choices, including himself.
1. Susannah Lippman
I’ve known this amazing woman for a long time and she has always, through thick and thin, exhibited prosperity consciousness to the nth degree. As founder and CEO of Alphasonics International, the most respected producer of subliminal audios, she is in the forefront of those entrepreneurs helping people expand their horizons.
One quote from her I like:
If you follow your passion, remain true to your higher self and meet the real needs of the people you serve, your own abundance will bloom.
2. Kevin Delaney
As one of Hollywood’s most successful voiceover artists, Kevin has recently branched out and started sharing some of his right-on prosperity ideas. He was very much influenced by Moneylove, and I could say he is one of my most successful mentees–he is creating his own original concepts about wealth and abundance on podcasts, video webinars, and in his private coaching sessions and workshops. A favorite quote from Kevin:
The only way anyone has ever discovered to experience freedom and get maximum enjoyment out of life: Tapping into (and selling) what you and you alone have to offer.
3. Timothy Ferris
Author of the bestselling 4-Hour Work Week, Tim is an original in the best sense of the word. I like his quote:
‘Not-to-do’ lists are often more effective than ‘to-do’ lists for upgrading performance.
4. Louise L. Hay
I’ve also known Louise a long time, and she has come a long way, establishing the very successful Hay House publishing empire, selling over 40 million copies of her own books worldwide, including the iconic You Can Heal Your Life. Just a brief but strong recommendation of Moneylove in that book sold many, many copies of my book. One of these days, I will write a post on examples of the many ways in which she exudes prosperity consciousness, for now this quote will suffice:
Do what you love and the money will come. Love what you do and the money will come. You have a right to enjoy earning money.
5. Michael Dunlop
A headline he created for himself says it all:
Young, dyslexic, college dropout conquers the Internet
The son of my friend and colleague, Barry Dunlop, this fascinating 20 year-old man already has several successful websites, and has given me some of the best advice I’ve ever received about mastering the Internet. And he gives just about all his priceless knowledge away free! A quote of his I really like:
The easiest way I know to earn additional income from the Internet is to get online and start blogging (writing) about something you know about and are passionate about.
One of my main criteria in naming this first list of what I am planning to make a continuing feature of this blog is
that these are five very different and unique individuals–but they have something major in common. When you think of Susannah, Kevin, Tim, Louise, or Michael, you don’t immediately think of someone with lots of money. Their financial success is secondary to the fact that they each are living their passion, making valuable contributions, and leaving what my old friend and mentor, Dr. Sidney Simon called, “A thumbprint on the world.” And I’d love to hear your recommendations for future such lists.
Jerry
Moneylove Quote Goes Around The World
A Friday Morning Surprise
So imagine my surprise, having been absent without leave from the world at large for twelve years, to wake up this morning and be greeted by The Motivational Quote Of The Day on my email from Nightingale-Conant, a quote that reaches tens of thousands of people, including many movers and shakers. It was one of my old Moneylove quotes, uttered more than a generation before the popularity of The Law Of Attraction. Here it is:
“Wealth Is Not A Material Gain, But A
State Of Mind.”
In some ways this is no big deal. After all, NC puts one of these quotes out every day. On the other hand, with all the top people in the field of human growth, motivation, and spiritual development–people like Wayne Dyer, Brian Tracy, Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, even the late Napoleon Hill and Earl Nightingale and Dale Carnegie–they picked me, describing me as an author and speaker and radio personality (It’s been over 30 years since I’ve been on radio regularly.) I don’t know what archive they searched to find that quote, but as a good friend pointed out to me, they probably don’t even know I recently paroled from 12 years in prison.
So I am not going to let my head get too inflated with this, but I will allow it to re-inspire me, to remind me that a lot of my ideas have a degree of permanence unusual in this “here today, gone tomorrow” soundbite world we live in. And also, it will motivate me to come up with newer and more powerful quotes, as I think this one is a bit archaic, especially considering that it was once a cutting edge thought.
My prison experience taught me some valuable lessons that eventually will be featured in a book, but one thought I will share now, a quote I like even more than my old one:
“Freedom Is Not Wide Open Spaces, But A
Wide Open Mind.”
Jerry
Moneylove, Manifestation, and Money Expectations
YESPECTATIONS!
I love creating new words and phrases when I can’t find exactly the right one to convey what I mean. And “yespectations” fits perfectly for the point I want to make.
In Moneylove, I talk about the first step in achieving wealth is to want it, and to acknowledge that you want it, first of all to yourself. But there’s an important next step I have sometimes left out in my life–in fact, I would have to say it is the greatest single stumbling block to my achieving even greater prosperity. In addition to wanting it, you have to ask for it.
Ask And Ye Shall Receive
So Jesus had it right, and this is one of the greatest prosperity conscious statements of all time. But there’s still a third step–you have to have positive expectations that you will get it, what I often term as “robust expectations” of success. In other words, you have to expect a resounding “Yes!” to your request. And I call this
Yespectations!
My first lesson in this came at an early age, I was perhaps eight or nine, but I remember it vividly. My father had a friend named Art, who was a born salesman. The two of them had tried but not succeeded in a small business, and Art went on to take various jobs, mostly as sales manager of small companies. My father went into manufacturing as a foreman, then supervisor.
One day at my father’s company, there suddenly was an opening for the position of sales manager, so he called Art and told him about it. Art came in for an interview, marched in to see the president of the company and said he wouldn’t take the job for a penny less than $30,000. Now this was the 1950s, and it was more than three times what my father was getting. More to the point, it was twice what Art had ever earned. And he got the job and the $30,000. As you can imagine, that story was dinner table conversation at my home for several weeks. (Interestingly enough, some years later, I found myself working at the same radio station as Art’s son, who had some of the same positive expectancy energy as his dad. At a very young age, he became general manager of a major radio station in New York City and even hired me.)
Ask For The Money And Expect A Yes!
It’s not always easy. As I’ve said, I’ve struggled with this one for years. But I have a big advantage–I know it works and have seen it in action on numerous occasions.
My old friend, Mike Blate, author of the first book on fingertip acupressure, took his self-published book into ten publishing houses in New York–cold calling. He asked to see an editor, and got to see about eight of them, usually freshman editors assigned to walk-ins or over-the-transom manuscripts, as unsolicited ones were called. He asked the editors if they had any pain or discomfort. Most overworked young editors often had headaches, some had colds, and he demonstrated the quick healing methods he was teaching in the book. Three editors took his manuscript to consider it, and he soon got a firm offer from Holt, Rinehart, then owned by CBS. Chutzpah? Of course, but Mike is a gregarious guy and genuinely likes talking to people. And he was convinced he was doing the editors a favor by allowing them to take his book, and he was also convinced he would get a “Yes!” from at least one of them.
It takes nerve, a sense of self, a passion for what you are doing, a clear vision of what you will do when you get that “Yes!”, but most of all, the ability to see the results of your success. It takes Yespectations.
Jerry
The Moneylove Abundance Challenge
Moneylove Revisited–A Daunting, Provocative, Exciting Project!
If you’ve been following this blog, you know that my major project over the next year is to revise, update, and annotate my original bestselling book, Moneylove. The comments I get on a regular and frequent basis indicate that it would be a mistake to try to replace the book with an all-new version. So I am attempting a more challenging route–leaving the basic book as it is and has been (after all, with paperback copies selling for as much as $169.95 online, there seems to be a demand for a new edition at the very least). But the new effort, tentatively titled Moneylove Now! will probably be at least twice as long, and probably be published as several volumes, at least online.
My Challenge
So here’s my challenge: To make the book even simpler in concept, while expanding its content dramatically, to expand on those things worth expanding on. As I look through the book, I see countless statements that would provoke me to go on and on with my take on them if they were said or written by someone else. So this is what I will do, look at everything I wrote in Moneylove and make my comments to bring it into line with the Internet age and the new economy.
As I peruse the book, I can see where I could easily produce a volume of several thousand pages.
Just on the first page, for instance, at the beginning of the introduction, I have a list of eleven of the basic philosophical ideas behind my take on prosperity consciousness. I could write a whole chapter on just the first one:
Spending money is better for your prosperity consciousness than banking it.
This has a great deal of new relevance in today’s beleagured economy, and it is more true today than ever before in our economic history. We hear a lot of references to this now being a “consumer-driven economy,” but we rarely focus on what that actually means. And how we can prosper from that knowledge as entrepreneurs and innovators.
And I’ll confess to something you rarely hear from an author. As I go through the book, there are some things that surprise me, things I actually had forgotten I knew. This is great, as it affords me the opportunity to look at the text with new eyes and a fresh set of perceptions. And the biggest challenge of all? Making a new and expanded work that is as pioneering and profound as the original was. What will make that possible is the support, feedback, and suggestions from you. Go back to Moneylove if you haven’t recently done so, or download my new Moneylove Manifesto, and come up with those ideas and concepts you would like to know more about, those questions you would like to ask, those principles that you can use to transform your own life, but perhaps need some more specific methods to apply them to your personal situation.
In addition to seeking this support from readers and fans, I will be talking to some of the great prosperity teachers, and including some of their ideas in the new edition. In case I might miss a few, let me know who influenced your ideas about money and prosperity in a profound way.
And my primary commitment to creating an exciting new work, building on the base of the original, is to make it even more so. More so of what? More ideas and strategies readers can immediately start applying, more explanation of some of the basic premises, more provocative suggestions, and a lot more fun!
Jerry
Prosperity Thinking Books That Inspire
Books I’d Like To See Updated
So I’m starting to work on revising my thirty-year-old bestseller, Moneylove. I will add at least as much new material as is contained in the original text, which I intend to keep mostly intact, since it has been so impactful for so many of the two million people who bought it over the years.
This, and the fact that a friend suggested a blog post that might be interesting is to have a list of my favorite books, led me to come up with a more unique list. This is a list of books whose authors are no longer with us, but whom I would like to see come back and update their most iconic books, taking into account this new world we live in, with the Internet and the new economic realities, and all the other challenges of a modern society. This is my intention with the new edition of Moneylove, and I would love to see what their efforts would produce. In no particular order of importance, here is my list:
1. Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
He was first inspired by billionaire Andrew Carnegie of U.S. Steel in 1908, and then went on to, at Carnegie’s urging, interview hundreds of successful people to eventually come up with his 30 million copy bestseller in 1937. Perhaps his most famous statement: “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” I don’t think he interviewed any women, there just weren’t any female millionaires in those days, so that would certainly influence his results today. But it would be fascinating to see what his take would be on the 21st Century.
2. Love by Leo Buscaglia
I met Leo shortly after publication of his first book in 1972. He was mostly famous for his Love 1A course at USC, and on other college campuses where he spoke. He became world famous with his PBS appearances in the 1980s, but was always accessible, and perhaps my all-time favorite speaker. He was a friend and mentor and though he spoke mostly about love and human relationships, he created an energy that could only be described as prosperity consciousness. I would love to know his take on the Social Media of today.
3. The Handbook To Higher Consciousness by Ken Keyes, Jr.
Ken was also a friend and teacher for me, and his most famous book also came out in 1972, about the time I first met him. He was the first to talk extensively about “unconditional love” and had some of the greatest knowledge and understanding of how the human mind works. A paraplegic confined to a wheelchair, he was one of the happiest people I’ve ever known. And his concept of all our problems being caused by “addictions” that could be upgraded to “preferences” is a great way to look at poverty consciousness.
4. Anatomy Of An Illness by Norman Cousins
Another friend and great mentor, Norman was the first to popularize the idea that our minds are so powerful they can actually fight serious disease. He devoted the end of a distinguished life to promoting research into endorphins. He also was the first to suggest that the brain is the largest secreting gland in the human body, and thus had awesome possibilities and potential. In his 1979 book, Norman wrote, “William James said that human beings tend to live too far within self-imposed limits. It is possible that these limits will recede when we respect more fully the natural drive of the human mind and body toward perfectibility and regeneration. Protecting and cherishing that natural drive may well represent the finest exercise of human freedom.”
5. You Are Not The Target by Laura A. Huxley
The widow of Aldous Huxley wrote this pioneering self-help book in 1963. She died at the age of 96 in 2007. One of the lines I resonated with most: “Our creative potential has many aspects, but undoubtedly the most important one is to make good use of ourselves and what we are here and now, at each successive moment.” And whenever someone gets in my face with anger or upset, I remember her admonition to always realize you are not the target, you just happen to be there.
Your Own List
So who can you come up with who is no longer around that you would like to hear from in the context of what is going on in the world today? Make your own list, re-read some of the most impactful authors in your life, reflect on what you think they might have to say now.
Jerry
Prosperity Truths & Prosperity Secrets
Prosperity Truths & Secrets
This is an immensely exciting time for me and I’m almost embarrassed to admit why that is so. It’s because I am re-reading, word-for-word, my book, Moneylove. I will very shortly publish a revised edition of this bestselling book, an annotated edition. I will add all of the new concepts and strategies I have talked about, learned, and created in the decades since the original publication. The challenge will not be in coming up with new things to say on the subject of prosperity consciousness, new truths and secrets to reveal. No, the challenge will be on choosing what to leave out. As I go through the book, there are sentences and paragraphs that I could write pages in response to.
A friend recently asked me if I was upset about the tremendous success of The Secret film, since it repeated so many of the basic Moneylove principles, and featured a few presenters who learned about The Law of Attraction in my workshops or through my book or tapes. Not at all. I’m thrilled that so many of those ideas are getting a much wider audience.
Why Was The Secret So Successful?
I think its success is due in great measure to the fact that it found a beautifully produced format in which to introduce the very simple idea behind all success: that what you think (and say) determines what is attracted to you.
Yes, it’s what such prosperity teachers as Napoleon Hill and Catherine Ponder, and even myself,
have been saying for many years–but this video and all these gifted teachers found a way to put it into very simple terms that struck a responding chord with millions of people. Bravo!
We’ll Keep On Saying It Until You Get It
Obviously, not everyone reading Think And Grow Rich, or Moneylove, or watching The Secret has actually gotten the message, or put it to use in their lives. If they had, there’d be no reason for another book, video, lecture or workshop on prosperity. One of the reasons The Secret was so successful is that it kept repeating over and over again the mantra, “You attract what you think.” Simple but brilliant.
It was the same message I tried to impart in Moneylove, but in many different ways:
Thinking Poor Will Keep You Poor, Thinking Rich Will Make You Rich
If You Focus Attention On The Lack Of Money, That’s What Will Get Reinforced
Your Subconscious Mind Cannot Distinguish Between Facts And Imagined Facts
Wealth Is Not Material Gain But A State Of Mind. It Therefore Can Be Easily Achieved Only By Starting With The Mind And Its Basic Attitudes
And many more assertions in the same vein. But perhaps most important, what I called the first
requirement in achieving success, at the very core of prosperity consciousness, is perhaps my simplest statement of all on what you need:
A Clear Vision Of What You Want
I can only ponder what the impact of the book might have been if I had just repeated that admonition over and over again. Perhaps it got lost in all the other words and ideas. But the great thing about the creative mind and the creative life is I get another chance–there are still a lot of people who haven’t gotten the message, who haven’t been moved to take positive action in their own lives. One final statement from Moneylove:
You Are The Best-Equipped Person In All The World To Program Your Own Brain. Giving Up This Privilege To Others Is One Of The Most Damaging Things You Can Do To Yourself
Jerry
