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