You do not need to apply your will to things, in order to compel them to come to you.

That would simply be trying to coerce God, and would be foolish and useless, as well as irreverent.

You do not have to compel God to give you good things, any more than you have to use your will power to make the sun rise.

You do not have to use your will power to conquer an unfriendly deity, or to make stubborn and rebellious forces do your bidding.

Substance is friendly to you, and is more anxious to give you what you want than you are to get it.

To get rich, you need only to use your will power upon yourself.

When you work with the Will, the only requirement is that you use your will to control YOUR thoughts and YOUR actions.

Control your thoughts to…

1. Keep your mind focused on what you want.

2. Keep your mind from wandering to thoughts of lack and limitation.

3. Keep your mind focused on the desires that will make you more complete.

4. Keep your mind focused on how you can serve others profitably.

Control your Actions to…

1. To do what you should do when you should do it.

2. To make the most of your time doing the things that are the most important at that moment.

3. To do the things that bring you closer to your desires.

Your use of the will, will only bring you to your desire when you use them to control your thoughts and your actions. To use your will to try and control the actions and thoughts of others is not of any real value to you.

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

TO set about getting rich in a scientific way, you do not try to apply your will power to anything outside of yourself.

You have no right to do so, anyway.

It is wrong to apply your will to other men and women, in order to get them to do what you wish done.

It is as flagrantly wrong to coerce people by mental power as it is to coerce them by physical power. If compelling people by physical force to do things for you reduces them to slavery, compelling them by mental means accomplishes exactly the same thing; the only difference is in methods. If taking things from people by physical force is robbery, them taking things by mental force is robbery also; there is no difference in principle.

You have no right to use your will power upon another person, even “for his own good”; for you do not know what is for his good. The science of getting rich does not require you to apply power or force to any other person, in any way whatsoever. There is not the slightest necessity for doing so; indeed, any attempt to use your will upon others will only tend to defeat your purpose.

In Stephen Covey’s great book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, he spends a whole chapter on what he calls “The Circle of Concern and The Circle of Influence”.

“The Circle of Concern” is everything outside of your control. This is the way people react to you, politics, global warming, and if Iran is going to have a nuclear bomb. These are all things that may be of concern to you but things that you do not have immediate control. Things that you can not currently control.

“The Circle of Influence” is everything that you do have personal control over, which is basically what you do with your time and what you think about. These are the things that you use you will on.

Your press you will on the things and thinking that you should be doing.

In the first couple of paragraphs in the Chapter “How to Use the Will”, Wallace Wattles spends a lot of time exploring the fact that it is not your place to exercise your will on others in order to get what you want. This is a competitive practice not a creative practice.

And he further explores the idea that to exercise your will on others in order to get what you want is no different then enslaving them or stealing from them.

Even if it for their own good.

A word of caution here: In matters of life and death, I may disagree with not imposing my will on some who be in danger or endangering others.

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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Your part is to intelligently formulate your desire for the things which make for a larger life, and to get these desire arranged into a coherent whole; and then to impress this Whole Desire upon the Formless Substance, which has the power and the will to bring you what you want.

You do not make this impression by repeating strings of words; you make it by holding the vision with unshakable PURPOSE to attain it, and with steadfast FAITH that you do attain it.

The answer to prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.

You cannot impress the mind of God by having a special Sabbath day set apart to tell Him what you want, and the forgetting Him during the rest of the week. You cannot impress Him by having special hours to go into your closet and pray, if you then dismiss the matter from your mind until the hour of prayer comes again.

YOUR PART is to be crystal clear with regards to your desire.

And bring your PURPOSE in line with that desire.

Again you do not need to continually repeat your desire over and over again in vain repetition.

VISION – Desire

PURPOSE – The price you are willing to pay for what you desire

FAITH – The confident knowing that when you fulfill your PURPOSE, your vision will become reality for you.

This sentence has a lot of meaning “The answer to prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.”

You need to keep your vision fresh in your mind at all times, while you are focusing on your vision as well as when you are exercising your PURPOSE.

The other thing with regards to the last paragraph here is that you need to be constantly faithful to your vision during good times as well as bad. Being faithful to your creator while you are on the path to what you desire. All while paying the price with confidence that what you desire is making it’s way towards you.

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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See the things you want as if they were actually around you all the time; see yourself as owning and using them. Make use of them in imagination just as you will use them when they are your tangible possessions. Dwell upon your mental picture until it is clear and distinct, and then take the Mental Attitude of Ownership toward everything in that picture. Take possession of it, in mind, in the full faith that it is actually yours. Hold to this mental ownership; do not waiver for an instant in the faith that it is real.

And remember what was said in a proceeding chapter about gratitude; be as thankful for it all the time as you expect to be when it has taken form. The man who can sincerely thank God for the things which as yet he owns only in imagination, has real faith. He will get rich; he will cause the creation of whatsoever he wants.

You do not need to pray repeatedly for things you want; it is not necessary to tell God about it every day.

“Use not vain repetitions as the heathen do,” said Jesus said to his pupils, “for your Father knoweth the ye have need of these things before ye ask Him.”

Take possession of your desires as if you already own them, and then make sure to be grateful for them right now. That’s right before it is actually in your possession.

That is faith!

When you can be grateful for what you desire before it is actually in your possession, you are showing faithfulness to your Creator!

Keep the vision of your desire in the forefront of your mind, constantly. NOT DESPERATELY! Being desperate is not showing faithfulness to your creator and this is not the position that you want to be in.

You want to have a quiet confidence that what you desire is on its way to you and act in a congruent manner until it becomes a part of reality.

No need for “vain repetitions”, just a quiet confident vision of what you desire with action that is congruent with what you desire. Action that is moving you towards your desired outcome.

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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Go over your desires just as the man I have described went over his house; see just what you want, and get a clear mental picture of it as you wish it to look when you get it.

That clear mental picture you must have continually in mind, as the sailor has in mind the port toward which he is sailing the ship; you must keep your face toward it all the time. You must no more lose sight of it than the steersman loses sight of the compass.

It is not necessary to take exercises in concentration, nor to set apart special times for prayer and affirmation, nor to “go into the silence,” nor to do occult stunts of any kind. There things are well enough, but all you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.

Your desire must become an obsession with you. You must have it first and foremost in your mind when you wake up in the morning and it should be the last thought you have when you go to sleep.

When you can make your desire a white hot burning desire, your actions will cut through any obstacle like a hot knife through butter.

You will not be denied!

But this takes effort on your part to keep your mind focused on your ideal regardless of your current reality.

You will probably find this work very hard to do, but well worth all the effort you put forward.

This talent can be used to accomplish anything you put your mind to.

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John Clark

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TURN back to chapter 6 and read again the story of the man who formed a mental image of his house, and you will get a fair idea of the initial step toward getting rich. You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want; you cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.

You must have it before you can give it; and many people fail to impress Thinking Substance because they have themselves only a vague and misty concept of the things they want to do, to have, or to become.

It is not enough that you should have a general desire for wealth “to do good with”; everybody has that desire.

It is not enough that you should have a wish to travel, see things, live more, etc. Everybody has those desires also. If you were going to send a wireless message to a friend, you would not send the letters of the alphabet in their order, and let him construct the message for himself; nor would you take words at random from the dictionary. You would send a coherent sentence; one which meant something. When you try to impress your wants upon Substance, remember that it must be done by a coherent statement; you must know what you want, and be definite. You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.

These are great paragraphs to start off the chapter on Thinking in the Certain Way.

Clarity, Clarity, Clarity!

It’s all about being definite with regards to your desire and crystal clear with the definition of what you are looking to be, do or have.

I love the example he uses about sending a wireless message to a friend in garbled letters. It wouldn’t make any sense. Well the same applies when you are trying to impress your desires onto the formless substance.

The difference between the vague desire is that everybody generally has the same type of desire.

The ones who succeed in making their desire come into reality make their desire definite and crystal clear or measurable.

When it comes to weight loss, set the exact body fat % you are looking to achieve or the exact weight you are looking to attain.

When it comes to your finances, set the exact yearly income you are looking to get. Or the exact amount of the savings account you are looking to have.

This is the the beginning of Thinking in the Certain Way!

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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God has worked a long time and very patiently to bring us up to where we are in industry and government, and He is going right on with His work. There is not the least doubt that He will do away with plutocrats, trust magnates, captains of industry, and politicians as soon as they can be spared; but in the meantime, behold they are all very good. Remember that they are all helping to arrange the lines of transmission along which your riches will come to you, and be grateful to them all. This will bring you into harmonious relations with the good in everything, and the good in everything will move toward you.

This is the most powerful statement in this chapter.

Everything we need to succeed is right here, right now. All we have to do is tap into the desire we feel, find a way to serve others that utilizes our strengths and all that we need to make that happen will be there for us.

No matter what government situation may be in place, there are always people who thrive and get rich. Nothing can stop a person who is focused on providing a service that has a demand.

Here is another thing to keep in mind with some of the current philosophy going on now a days, there is nothing wrong with being rich as a matter of fact it is your responsibility to do everything in your power to make it happen for YOU! This is where we have growth and more life for everyone. By your example you will inspire others and this is a good thing.

Also with regards to gratitude, remember everything happens in God’s time. The only way for you to effect it is by thinking and acting in a certain way.

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends to become the best; it takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.

Also, faith is born of gratitude. The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith. The reaction of gratitude upon one’s own mind produces faith; and every outgoing wave of grateful thanksgiving increases faith. He who has no feeling of gratitude cannot long retain a living faith; and without a living faith you cannot get rich by the creative method, as we shall see in the following chapters.

It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you; and to give thanks continuously.

And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Do not waste time thinking or talking about the shortcomings or wrong actions of plutocrats or trust magnates. Their organization of the world has made your opportunity; all you get really comes to you because of them.

Do not rage against, corrupt politicians; if it were not for politicians we should fall into anarchy, and your opportunity would be greatly lessened.

Again some more very powerful prosperous ideas. Keeping your mind in a grateful frame of mind will keep the flow of things that you can stay grateful for. As soon as your mind dwells into a non-grateful frame of mind the flow stops.

The only way to get the flow going again is by being grateful.

When you are grateful to the creator for the things that you have this shows faith in the creator. And when you expect good things to happen, your expectations become faith and this faith is what allows you to become rich by the creative method  which means more life for everyone involved.

There are some key things to remember here, when you are grateful for where you are at you have to let go of the things that happened in the past that may not have been pleasant for you. You are a sum total of all your experiences up to this point and that includes everything both good and bad.

The last two sentences really caused some tension in me when I read them. What about you?

I guess this would fall in line with what we put our attention on expands. So if we pay attention to the corruption and the shortcomings, I guess they will keep expanding.

But I also feel that we have a right to hold the people we put into these positions accountable and have an obligation to remove them if they are not living up to their responsibilities.

But in the end it is our focus on our contribution to the world that creates our riches to come to us.

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you more blessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.

The moment you permit your mind to dwell with dissatisfaction upon things as they are, you begin to lose ground. You fix attention upon the common, the ordinary, the poor, and the squalid and mean; and your mind takes the form of these things. Then you will transmit these forms or mental images to the Formless, and the common, the poor, the squalid, and mean will come to you.

To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and to surround yourself with inferior things.

On the other hand, to fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.

The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention. We are Thinking Substance, and thinking substance always takes the form of that which it thinks about.

As I read these sentences before I start to write these blog post, my heart begins to beat with a little more purpose. Read these sentences very carefully.

Whatever you fix attention on will expand in your life. When you focus on your desire with intensity and take focus action towards its achievement to the exclusion everything else you are thinking and acting in the certain way.

As soon as you bring your focus on to the things that you do not want, you bring more of that into your reality.

I love this paragraph:

The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention. We are Thinking Substance, and thinking substance always takes the form of that which it thinks about.

If we are not currently getting the results we seek, we need to:

#1 Start to change the way we think about what we want followed by

#2 Different action

The only way to get a different result is by changing our thinking and action, there is no other way!

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the All, and prevent you from falling into the error of thinking of the supply as limited; and to do that would be fatal to your hopes.

There is a Law of Gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that you should observe the law, if you are to get the results you seek.

The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal, and in opposite directions.

The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to the Supreme is a liberation or expenditure of force; it cannot fail to reach that to which it addressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement towards you.

“Draw nigh unto God, and He will draw nigh unto you.” That is a statement of psychological truth.

And if your gratitude is strong and constant, the reaction in Formless Substance will be strong and continuous; the movement of the things you want will be always toward you. Notice the grateful attitude that Jesus took; how He always seems to be saying, “I thank Thee, Father, that Thou hearest me.” You cannot exercise much power without gratitude; for it is gratitude that keeps you connected with Power.

Continuously being grateful is the key. Being thankful for what we have been given while in pursuit of what we desire. This is the key!

One of the major obstacles that befall most here is the lack of consistency with regards to being grateful. This is why we have the yo-yo effect going on in our lives. For a while things are good and then things seem to go bad. Then we get back to basics which involves being grateful and the flow of good things start to happen again.

When we get into a down situation we can only look at one of two areas:

1. What we think

2. Our Actions

Thinking includes being grateful.

But even in the down times, DO NOT FORGET that the only way to turn it around is by changing the way we think about things and what we do! And it is our responsibility to make the change happen.

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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