Oral prayer is well enough, and has its effect, especially upon yourself, in clarifying your vision and strengthening your faith; but it is not your oral petitions which get you what you want. In order to get rich you do not need a “sweet hour of prayer”; you need to “pray without ceasing.” And by prayer I mean holding steadily to your vision, with the purpose to cause its creation into solid form, and the faith that you are doing so.

“Believe that ye receive them.”

The whole matter turns on receiving, once you have clearly formed your vision. When you have formed it, it is well to make an oral statement, addressing the Supreme in reverent prayer; and from that moment you must, in mind, receive what you ask for. Live in the new house; wear the fine clothes; ride in the automobile; go on the journey, and confidently plan for greater journeys. Think and speak of all the things you have asked for in terms of actual present ownership. Imagine an environment, and a financial condition exactly as you want them, and live all the time in that imaginary environment and financial condition. Mind, however, that you do not do this as a mere dreamer and castle builder; hold to the FAITH that the imaginary is being realized, and to the PURPOSE to realize it. Remember that it is faith and purpose in the use of the imagination which make the difference between the scientist and the dreamer. And having learned this fact, it is here that you must learn the proper use of the Will.

These are the last 3 paragraphs in the chapter, Thinking in the Certain Way, and what a way to end the chapter.

Think about what is being said above, you must live with your vision completely vivid and alive in your mind. Living with the mindset that you have already realized your vision with PURPOSE and FAITH that it is on its way to you.

In the last couple of post we start to see the word PURPOSE, living with PURPOSE. This is when you start to bring your actions in line with what you want to have happen in your life.

This is where you start to go to the gym and eat properly to lose the weight you are looking to lose.

This is where you start to put away a certain percentage of your pay away into your financial independence account in order to start to accumulate the wealth you are looking for.

And you constantly live with FAITH that the vision you have in your mind is coming to you.

You want to know something… this is already working in your life whether you know it or not.

You are getting exactly what you have set in your mind. If you don’t like what you are presently experiencing, then you need to start creating a new VISION for yourself, followed by PURPOSE (Action towards what you desire) and mixed with the magic of FAITH.

These are the keys of Thinking in the Certain Way!

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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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Spend as much of your leisure time as you can in contemplating your picture, but no one needs to take exercises to concentrate his mind on a thing which he really wants; it is the things you do not really care about which require effort to fix your attention upon them.

And unless you really want to get rich, so that the desire is strong enough to hold your thoughts directed to the purpose as the magnetic pole holds the needle of the compass, it will hardly be worth while for you to try to carry out the instructions given in this book.

The methods herein set forth are for people whose desire for riches is strong enough to overcome mental laziness and the love of ease, and make them work.

The more clear and definite you make your picture then, and the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the stronger your desire will be; and the stronger your desire, the easier it will be to hold your mind fixed upon the picture of what you want.

Read these paragraphs, very carefully. It is my belief that he is talking about creating the desire to become rich so white hot that it will create you to start taking action towards it accomplishment.

And by creating such a white hot desire, you are constantly moving in the direction of the riches you desire.

By continually keeping the picture of you desire in the front of your mind, it should cause you to take action towards it.

Continue to cultivate the picture of you becoming rich…

What will your mansion look like? Make it vivid in every detail!

What type of cars will you have in your garage? Will you have a car for everyday of the week?

Where you will you have your winter home? In Florida or In Arizona?

Will you have a hoe for every season?

These are wonderful questions to work with.

Make sure to bring in crystal clear detail. See yourself driving the cars. See your self shooting pool in your pool room. Or watching a movie in your 32 foot screen viewing room surrounded with your friends and family.

The more real you make it for yourself, the better chance you will have to bring it into your reality.

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.

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

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.

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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.

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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.

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John Clark

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First, you believe that there is one Intelligent Substance, from which all things proceed; second, you believe that this Substance gives you everything you desire; and third, you relate yourself to it by a feeling of deep and profound gratitude.

Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude. Having received one gift from God, they cut the wires which connect them with Him by failing to make acknowledgment.

It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive; and it is easy also to understand that the soul that is always grateful lives in closer touch with God than the one which never looks to Him in thankful acknowledgment.

The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.

If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind into closer harmony with the creative energies of the universe, consider it well, and you will see that it is true. The good things you already have have come to you along the line of obedience to certain laws. Gratitude will lead your mind out along the ways by which things come; and it will keep you in close harmony with creative thought and prevent you from falling into competitive thought.

These paragraphs are very powerful. Here is a thought to consider: You being here right now, breathing and reading this is a miracle. Are you grateful for that?

I can honestly tell you, that I am! I am human though and I do sometimes get into a mode where I don’t feel all that grateful and those are the times where things don’t quite go so well for me.

But when I focus my mind on being grateful for what I have while in pursuit of what I desire, things seem to go little smoother.

Always remember… We need to be grateful for what we currently have before, we get more to be grateful for.

Another way to show gratitude is by using the God given gifts we have been given. When we neglect these gifts, we are not showing gratitude but when we do  use these gifts to provide others with what they desire, we put ourselves in a completely different vibration.

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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THE illustrations given in the last chapter will have conveyed to the reader the fact that the first step toward getting rich is to convey the idea of your wants to the Formless Substance.

This is true, and you will see that in order to do so it becomes necessary to relate yourself to the Formless Intelligence in a harmonious way.

To secure this harmonious relation is a matter of such primary and vital importance that I shall give some space to its discussion here, and give you instructions which, if you will follow them, will be certain to bring you into perfect unity of mind with God.

The whole process of mental adjustment and atonement can be summed up in one word, gratitude.

Being Grateful for what you currently have. This is one of the greatest gifts you can give to our creator. Being Grateful.

If you are putting off your happiness until something in the future happens, you are not being grateful. Your happiness has to be now, right where you are at, with what you have right now.

This is one of the most overlooked areas of personal growth.

Think about it for a second, if you are not happy with what you have, what makes you think that your creator will want to bless you with more.

When you are in harmony with God, you are grateful for the blessing you currently have while trying to expand your efforts to positively effect more in your circle of influence.

This a great chapter and I can’t wait to get into the meet of this subject matter.

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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