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Think and Grow Rich. Are you a positive thinker? This summary gives a brief outline of each of the 13 principles described in the. This book is not a novel besides it is a kind of research paper because napoleon did half of … Downloads Think and Grow Rich. Skip to content. An edition of Speak and grow rich Written in English — pages. How to be an effective public speaker. Subjects Handbooks, manuals , Oral communication , Public speaking , Public speaking, programmed instruction , Business communication , Business presentations.

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Edition Notes Includes index. In this. How to Succeed as an Independent Consultant. The classic guide to consulting—now updated and more comprehensive than ever! The Power to Speak Naked. And our sense of taste allows us to enjoy lobster the imidor and champagne. All knowledge gained by these senses allows the three parts of the mind to operate in the ways we have discussed.

However, the sixth sense does not operate through these. It requires no previously gathered knowledge, it operates on indirect spiritual and metaphysical perception. One might say that the subconscious mind is a million dollar computer but the sixth sense is your billion dollar computer and life saver combined.

The sixth sense comes to your aid when you are least expecting it and comes into operation without your thinking about it. So magnificent and rapid are the maneuvers it computes for us that it short cuts the whole nervous system and the whole thinking system. Any emergency which arouses the emotions and causes the heart to beat more quickly can bring the sixth sense into operation.

The sixth sense will come to your aid whether you are driving a car, running your business, or whatever you are doing when you happen to get into an emergency situation. The easiest way to explain the sixth sense is to mention the example of a man who was driving his car extremely fast, when suddenly a car pulled out in front of him and smashed a car coming in the opposite direction, leaving cars and debris right in his path.

When he was with his associates later in the day he described his lucky escape: "I didn't have time to think, I just swung the wheel round, braked hard, then accelerated and I missed both the other cars. A sixth sense, I suppose. The sixth sense operates-in "on the spot" circumstances, it acts instantaneously. Within this statement lies the answer to the reason why some people die in automobile accidents and others allow the sixth sense to mysteriously guide them through danger.

It would appear that the sixth sense will not work instantaneously for those who "sit on the fence" and let everyone else do the work, take the blame or shoulder responsibility.

It would appear that it comes to your aid when you risk everything; in fact, put your very life on the line. So how do we cultivate this omnipotence? Obviously, in S. Another thing we can do is to live more dangerously. Now I certainly don't mean racing down Main Street at miles an hour in a Corvette Stingray, but I certainly do mean getting a bit more involved in life and taking a few more risks. It is a well known psychological fact that well-balanced people have danger, fear, excitement, risks and thrills as part of their diet.

Whereas mentally unstable people do nothing, live humdrum existences and mollycoddle themselves. Here lie the sad, bad and the mad. It is strictly up to the individual, but all you need is a bit of imagination. Here are a few of the things I have done personally to help me develop my sixth sense in order to achieve my personal and financial goals.

I bought a motorcycle. There is nothing like having the full blast of fresh air in your face that motorcycle opened up a whole new life, a tingle for adventure. Of course I have always had sports cars and I enjoy driving fast. I went mountaineering, not to the top, but high enough to make my heart beat faster.

I bought a small boat - I didn't use it a lot, but when I did, it was great fun. Now I am not saying I spent a fortune on these gizmos to enhance my life and to enable me to develop my sixth sense, because I didn't, and you need not either. But at any cost you must get a bit of danger and a slice of fear, a portion of excitement into your life.

Cultivate the sixth sense like this and you will think a miracle has happened when it comes to your aid without even split seconds to spare. You never know when the sixth sense may even save your life, never mind get you out of a financial fix or come to your aid when the chips are down; it has done so for me on more than one occasion. Rehearse the future, just as it is desired, in your mind's eye. Clearly see your desires in your mind's eye and believe they have materialized with feeling, belief and emotion.

Use your subconscious mind for solving problems by defining them and then writing down as many possible solutions as you can. Then hand the problem over to the subconscious mind - and forget it. Let the subconscious complete its computerized labor and hand over to you a Eureka I when it is ready. By gradually doing the things you fear, you will overcome fear. Let the subconscious warn you of impending danger.

Although you may be bogged down with all sorts of worries and problems you still must be enthusiastic. Act as though you are enthusiastic and the acting will turn into reality. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Cultivate the sixth sense by meditating in S. Get your- self a motorcycle, take up mountaineering or any- thing else that will excite you and give you a tingle of adventure. All eyes are on the court, the tension mounts. The Harlem Globetrotters hive the ball completely under control. With a magnificent flurry of arms and legs, the ball seems to come alive.

A fancy dribble here, a pass there, the ball goes from one end of the court to the other, ready for the first shot. A Globetrotter still has the ball; the crowd is wild with anticipation. Half the crowd begins to shout simultaneously "Shoot, shoot. There is no net. How can he shoot? There is no goal to shoot at. The pantomime turns to pandemonium. There is confusion, frustration and resentment.

The referee blows his whistle, the game is ended. You can't play basketball without goals, we all know that. You must have something to shoot at. You must have something to aim for.

When we don't have goals, we may decide to do something, but it proves difficult or we lose interest in it, so we move on to something else. We are like children in a toy shop grabbing one toy, letting it go and snatching another. In retrospect, we can see why we have not achieved success or accumulated money or done the things we should have done.

We can see why we are not the people we ought to be. Our operative phrase has been, "give up, and move on. To achieve success in any direction we must have goals.

Let us look at the ways we can achieve goals. We have to know what to aim for and how long a period of time it will take to achieve our goals. Most people aim too low in life. If I gave you a dollar tomorrow and doubled it every day, how long would it take you to become a millionaire? It would happen like this: on the first day you would receive a dollar, on the second day two dollars, the third day four dollars, and so on, doubling up every day.

Do you realize that in twenty-one days you would be a millionaire? I know you will get out your pocket calculator, check and re-check the figures, but it's correct. I am not digressing; all of this is important. Get your calculators out again and don't forget that the interest compounds.

These calculations do disregard Uncle Sam, and his taxes, but their purpose is merely to show you how money can be generated. The point is people fail to attain their goals because they cannot visualize them. The secret is to aim high.

Then break your goals down into portions that can be visualized. You might find it hard to visualize actually being a millionaire. Too many people. They believe that with a positive mental attitude they can pull off anything or walk through any mountain.

I am not condemning positive thinking, but it is blind faith. Even the highest mountain can be climbed over, I agree, but if you are unskilled or unprepared you can fail. What you must do is break out of normal ways of thinking. Don't put boundaries on yourself and realize what you are, in fact, capable of doing.

But temper that with what you can realistically achieve. Some things are impossible. We have been discussing how the mystics, magis and fakirs of the East do incredible things by training and using their subconscious minds. History has it that a Tibetan mystic really believed that by training his subconscious mind he would become impervious to bullets.

When he asked someone to test him, he was immediately shot dead. Again, recognize that some things are impossible. People tend to give too short a period for the attainment of goals. The main reason for failure in these instances is simply that they are not visualizing properly. They set a time limit on a goal but fail to clearly visualize the goal and the time limit in their mind's eye. All they get is nothing or at best a foggy mess.

You can set time limits if you are already in the habit of visualizing properly. If you are bringing into your possession the smaller things you desire through the practice of visualization then you are ready to set realistic time limits on larger objectives. However, if you're not visualizing small goals clearly and making them happen, you should not move on to bigger things.

Start small and move up! Because of the amount of research and study I have done in this field, I have had the happy experience of analyzing my own successes and failures. It became obvious that the times I succeeded were the times I was visualizing clearly. The times I had failed, I had not been visualizing clearly. All I was getting was a haze. It became apparent that it was not the goals or the time limits I had set myself that caused the failure, but the fact that I had not been visualizing them clearly, concisely and regularly.

The subconscious mind is phenomenally powerful, but nevertheless it still takes time to assimilate and compute its plans. It needs a day gestation period for a start, and it is essential that there be no breaks in it. It's no good to visualize for fifteen days and then miss a day. You would simply have to begin at the starting point again. Even when the day period is complete, it is of the utmost importance that the visualizing is adhered to on the proper twice daily basis.

This day gestation period has a firm basis in psychology. Ask anyone who specializes in behavior modification, they'll tell you it takes three weeks of concerted effort to break a habit or make something a habit.

To visualize well you must break down larger goals into parts you can comprehend. Hence a million dollars now becomes one-thousand envelopes each containing one- thousand dollars. In your imagination, see the money, feel it, believe it is in your possession, super- charge the atmosphere with emotion.

It will be yours. Use this bank statement in, what should be, a twice daily visualizing routine. Use every little trick you can to stimulate your powerful subconscious mind into creativity. Here is something from a Montaigne essay that tells the same story: "Fortis imaginatio generat casum. That really holds our interest from between 9 and 10 o'clock on Monday morning.

No, we are interested in making a fortune, being someone, doing something extraordinary, and possessing fantastic things. The best way to bring all this about is to have a list of goals. You actually require three lists of goals. Let us say here and now that, once again, not thinking plays a large role in the organization of your list. Do not think whether or not you can acquire the goals of your desire - that is totally irrelevant.

That you require and desire them is enough. Let's look at a chart of goals. You of course must decide what is to be on your own list. Until you can fill in all three categories, you are bound to fail. Until you can do this 'you'll be like most other people. You'll go through life rudderless. Normally when people read a book, any book, they tend to disregard charts; perhaps they think that they will come back to them later.

Pay attention to this chart. Study it, fill it in with your own desires, goals and ambitions. Don't read another page until you have done this. Now think about what you want - what you really want - and fill in this chart, your own chart.

Although you must think about what you want, you don't have to think about how you will achieve these goals. I consider it essential to have a scrapbook with pictures of all your desires pasted in it to help you with your visualizing program. Do this in the same manner of the man who desires a new car of a particular make and looks at it in the showroom every day.

He'll get the color brochure on it and study it every night. This man is bound to attain the car. However, the man who just occasionally wishes he had a nicer car but does not believe he possibly can, or doesn't see it in his mind's eye, will surely not attain it. Let us assume that one of the goals from your list is to own an expensive car. On the first page of your scrapbook you must commit that goal to writing.

Do it in the present tense and in detail. It must be an accurate description of what you actually want; just writing down that you want a car is no good. The description should be something like:. I own a brand new Rolls Royce convertible with an eight track stereo and magnesium alloy wheels.

It is Regal Red with beige interior and complete with telephone, cocktail cabinet and television. If it is a Rolls Royce you want, fine. If it is a Pontiac, Datsun or Mercedes you desire, write down its full description.

On the page facing the description paste a picture of the car of your dreams. Do this with each and every one of your goals. Now here is another secret. When you visualize the car, do not visualize the money aspect of it. The sub- conscious mind does not work like that. The business of the subconscious mind is to get you the car. It works like a computer, it analyzes all your experiences, knows your past, present and future, takes inventory of your assets or lack of them, notes your environs, plots, plans, and creates the things you will have to do to achieve your goals.

The plan may or may not include parting with money. The subconscious mind may prompt you to do something or other that will bring this goal about. It may seem to you perhaps the most illogical or even the most miraculous way.

You might find yourself in a situation where you are given your car, meet someone who can help you get it, or you might have to do some small thing that will cause the car to come into your possession with little or no effort on your part.

But before all this, you must visualize clearly, with emotion, feeling and belief every night and every morning. Second, do not think about how you will achieve the objective during the rest of the day. Again, the subconscious mind needs no help from you in the creation of its plans.

Visualize any goal you require, be it material possessions or an intangible achievement. Visualization is the key you must use to engage the powerful subconscious mind in successful creative operation.

Visualization is cleverly encapsulated in this little verse:. If you can see it, you can be it I If you can see it, you can do it I If you can see it, you can have it! When you visualize your Rolls Royce, feel and smell the genuine-leather interior; feel the grain of the walnut instrument panel; touch that smooth exterior; listen to that big V8 engine pull silently as only a Rolls Royce can do; sit in it; drive it; see the car; feel thrilled that you are driving it - you must believe you own it.

The powerful subconscious mind is. To reiterate, it is no good having a list of goals and reading them out like a parrot every night and every morning. That will achieve precisely nothing. The goals must be clearly and accurately written down in the present tense and visualized with emotion, belief and feeling; then you must not think about them until your next visualization session.

Never worry that anyone else might beat you to your goals; this is a particularly common but unfounded fear. There is more than one of everything. Even if someone brings out an idea you have thought of before you do, there is no cause for concern. Competition only generates more business. The subconscious mind must be given time to assimilate the facts and your desires. Genius never hurries and everything takes the time it takes. It's easy to become impatient as we wait for the subconscious mind to hand over its next illuminating plan or idea.

You must be patient. In visualizing your goals you must rely on your own creative subconscious mind to come up with the idea or plan for the attainment of your goals. That is why you do not specify in what capacity you will make your money or attain your goals. It is the job of the subconscious mind to provide these plans. All you should do is follow through with whatever the subconscious mind tells you to do.

You must visualize exactly what you require - near enough is not good enough. Don't be like the man who halfheartedly wanted an exotic fishpond in his garden. He didn't see it clearly enough. One day to his surprise his neighbor knocked on the door and handed him a fishbowl with two scraggly goldfish in it. The neighbor was leaving the area but did not want to take the fish with him. You see, in the past the neighbor had probably picked up on the fact that the guy next door had said something about fish!

If our subject had clearly visualized a pond in the garden with exotic fish in it, the very same psychological laws would have made it happen. Another one of the goals from your list may be a dream house. In your scrapbook write down its full description as though you already own it.

On the facing page paste a picture of the exact house you want. If your dream house has four bathrooms, two pools, and a sauna and tennis courts, make sure they all get written down in the description and appear in the picture. Another goal of yours may be to own a diamond ring or a certain piece of jewelry or a kitchen fitted with every conceivable modern appliance.

Write down full descriptions and paste the appropriate pictures on the facing pages. For the pictures cut up mail-order catalogues, manufacturer's brochures, travel agency pro- motional material, photographs from magazines, any- thing that clearly depicts what you want will do. It is important to have a complete written statement in the present tense and a corresponding picture in your scrapbook for you to visualize with.

Here's another secret. Buy a little something for the goal you want to come about. For example, say you are visualizing a dream house, buy a little of the curtain material you intend to use, or some kitchen utensils for your new kitchen.

For the car of your dreams buy some wrenches or a can of turtle wax or a steering-wheel cover. These positive affirmations sink deep into the sub- conscious mind and speed up the Eureka! Let's imagine that one of your goals is to see relatives abroad.

Well, buy some new suitcases to -confirm to your subconscious that you intend to go. Perhaps a If some stereo equipment is your desire, buy a tape or your favorite album. Use every psychological tool at your disposal to get the subconscious mind into operation.

Now that we have the basics of visualization down, I want to expand my example of how the subconscious mind works. I left school at the age of fourteen and started work in the construction industry. The work was hard, really hard and the pay was low, really low. Although I didn't realize it at the time, I was visualizing. I held a picture in my mind's eye of being loaded with money. In a very short time I had my first Eureka I It came to me in a flash. On the various building sites there were always scraps of metal lying around.

My brilliant idea was to regularly collect the scrap, which consisted of copper and lead pipes and brass water pump fittings. I began to sell the scrap and in no time at all my revenue generated from the scrap business exceeded that of my weekly wage from the building trade.

My hobby was racing motorcycles and every evening I spent hours tuning and building racing engines in the silence and solitude of my workshop, which was in the depths of the countryside. You must understand that at that time I did not appreciate the significance of S. The construction work was literally killing me. Some of the prefabricated panels weighed over pounds and working with those every day was no joke. I still kept a picture in my mind's eye of being a successful and wealthy man.

I had another Eureka! I decided to quit working for the construction company that was employing me, go it alone and collect all the profits for myself.

I did this with great success, although the work was still as hard and heavy as ever, but at least the financial reward was my own. Perhaps I am a bit slow, but the significance of the circumstances in which I had had my flashes of inspiration, which occurred while I was getting periods of silence, stillness and solitude and because I was visualizing, still hadn't dawned on me.

I enthusiastically carried on in the evenings in my quiet workshop when suddenly I had another Eureka! This time it was a brilliant idea, and the course of my life altered dramatically as I followed it through.

The idea was to quit the construction industry altogether and set up shop selling motorcycles. Although at the time I didn't understand the power of the subconscious mind I did have an overwhelming gut feeling that I must go out and look for suitable premises.

I knew intuitively that I would find just what I was looking for. At the time, I put down what subsequently happened to luck, fate and my good for- tune. My subconscious guided me to a shop that had previously been used as a motorcycle showroom. Within two weeks I had rented the shop from the land- lord, who had retired from selling motorcycles. The next problem was how to Ml the showroom with stock without any capital expenditure. I didn't really consider it a problem, because I knew somehow or other I could That's exactly what I saw in my mind's eye: a showroom full of motorcycles.

Lo and behold, while quietly sweeping out my workshop I had the Eureka! All I had to do was telephone the hundreds of individuals who were trying to sell their bikes privately through classified ads.

I would put them in the showroom and offer them to the public with financing and insurance available. For my efforts, I would take a. This is known as selling on consignment. Invariably I got more than the asking price so I kept the over and above profit as well.

The scheme worked so well that in a short period of time I had seven extremely profitable shops all operating without capital investment. Obviously this story is a condensed version of what happened over a number of years. What I do want to impress upon you is that if you visualize your desires and get periods of S.