Acting in The Certain Way

Thought is the cre­ative power or the impelling force which causes the cre­ative power to act. Think­ing in a cer­tain way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely upon thought alone, pay­ing no atten­tion to per­sonal action. That is the rock upon which many oth­er­wise sci­en­tific thinkers meet ship­wreck — the fail­ure to con­nect thought with per­sonal action.

We have not yet reached the stage of devel­op­ment, even sup­pos­ing such a stage to be pos­si­ble, in which a per­son can cre­ate directly from form­less sub­stance with­out nature’s processes or the work of human hands. A per­son must not only think, but his per­sonal action must sup­ple­ment his thought.

By thought you can cause the gold in the hearts of the moun­tains to be impelled toward you, but it will not mine itself, refine itself, coin itself into dou­ble eagles, and come rolling along the roads, seek­ing its way into your pocket.

Under the impelling power of the supreme spirit, people’s affairs will be so ordered that some­one will be led to mine the gold for you. Other people’s busi­ness trans­ac­tions will be so directed that the gold will be brought toward you. And you must so arrange your own busi­ness affairs that you may be able to receive it when it comes to you. Your thought makes all things, ani­mate and inan­i­mate, work to bring you what you want, but your per­sonal activ­ity must be such that you can rightly receive what you want when it reaches you. You are not to take it as char­ity, nor to steal it. You must give every man more in use value than he gives you in cash value.

The sci­en­tific use of thought con­sists in form­ing a clear and dis­tinct men­tal image of what you want, in hold­ing fast to your pur­pose to get what you want, and in real­iz­ing with grate­ful faith that you do get what you want.

Do not try to “project” your thought in any mys­te­ri­ous or occult way, with the idea of hav­ing it go out and do things for you. That is wasted effort and will weaken your power to think with sanity.

The action of thought in get­ting rich is fully explained in the pre­ced­ing chap­ters: Your faith and pur­pose pos­i­tively impress your vision upon form­less sub­stance, which has the same desire for more life that you have, and this vision, received from you, sets all the cre­ative forces at work in and through their reg­u­lar chan­nels of action, but directed toward you.

It is not your part to guide or super­vise the cre­ative process. All you have to do with that is to retain your vision, stick to your pur­pose, and main­tain your faith and gratitude.

But you must act in a cer­tain way, so that you can appro­pri­ate what is yours when it comes to you and so that you can meet the things you have in your pic­ture and put them in their proper places as they arrive.

You can really see the truth of this. When things reach you, they will be in the hands of oth­ers, who will ask an equiv­a­lent for them. And you can only get what is yours by giv­ing the other per­son what is right­fully his.

Your pock­et­book is not going to be trans­formed into a Fortunata’s purse, which shall be always full of money with­out effort on your part.

This is the cru­cial point in the sci­ence of get­ting rich — right here, where thought and per­sonal action must be com­bined. There are very many peo­ple who, con­sciously or uncon­sciously, set the cre­ative forces in action by the strength and per­sis­tence of their desires, but who remain poor because they do not pro­vide for the recep­tion of the thing they want when it comes.

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it.

What­ever your action is to be, it is evi­dent that you must act NOW. You can­not act in the past, and it is essen­tial to the clear­ness of your men­tal vision that you dis­miss the past from your mind. You can­not act in the future, for the future is not here yet. And you can­not tell how you will want to act in any future con­tin­gency until that con­tin­gency has arrived.

Because you are not in the right busi­ness or the right envi­ron­ment now, do not think that you must post­pone action until you get into the right busi­ness or envi­ron­ment. And do not spend time in the present tak­ing thought as to the best course in pos­si­ble future emer­gen­cies; have faith in your abil­ity to meet any emer­gency when it arrives.

If you act in the present with your mind on the future, your present action will be with a divided mind, and will not be effective.

Put your whole mind into present action.

Do not give your cre­ative impulse to orig­i­nal sub­stance, and then sit down and wait for results. If you do, you will never get them. Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now. If you are ever to begin to make ready for the recep­tion of what you want, you must begin NOW.

And your action, what­ever it is, must most likely be in your present busi­ness or employ­ment, and must be upon the per­sons and things in your present environment.

You can­not act where you are not, you can­not act where you have been, and you can­not act where you are going to be. You can act only where you are.

Do not bother as to whether yesterday’s work was well done or ill done; do today’s work well.

Do not try to do tomorrow’s work now; there will be plenty of time to do that when you get to it.

Do not try, by occult or mys­ti­cal means, to act on peo­ple or things that are out of your reach.

Do not wait for a change of envi­ron­ment, before you act; get a change of envi­ron­ment by action.

You can so act upon the envi­ron­ment in which you are now, as to cause your­self to be trans­ferred to a bet­ter environment.

Hold with faith and pur­pose the vision of your­self in the bet­ter envi­ron­ment, but act upon your present envi­ron­ment with all your heart, and with all your strength, and with all your mind.

Do not spend any time in day dream­ing or cas­tle build­ing; hold to the one vision of what you want, and act NOW.

Do not cast about, seek­ing some new thing to do or some strange, unusual, or remark­able action to per­form as a first step toward get­ting rich. It is prob­a­ble that your actions, at least for some time to come, will be the same ones you have been per­form­ing for some time past, but you are to begin now to per­form these actions in the cer­tain way, which will surely make you rich.

If you are engaged in some busi­ness, and feel that it is not the right one for you, do not wait until you get into the right busi­ness before you begin to act.

Do not feel dis­cour­aged or sit down and lament because you are mis­placed. No one is so mis­placed that he can­not find the right place, and no one is so involved in the wrong busi­ness that he can­not get into the right business.

Hold the vision of your­self in the right busi­ness, with the pur­pose to get into it and the faith that you will get into it and are get­ting into it, but ACT in your present busi­ness. Use your present busi­ness as the means of get­ting a bet­ter one, and use your present envi­ron­ment as the means of get­ting into a bet­ter one. Your vision of the right busi­ness, if held with faith and pur­pose, will cause the supreme power to move the right busi­ness toward you. And your action, if per­formed in the cer­tain way, will cause you to move toward the business.

If you are an employee or wage earner and feel that you must change places in order to get what you want, do not “project” your thought into space and rely upon it to get you another job. It will prob­a­bly fail to do so.

Hold the vision of your­self in the job you want while you ACT with faith and pur­pose on the job you have, and you will cer­tainly get the job you want.

Your vision and faith will set the cre­ative force in motion to bring it toward you, and your action will cause the forces in your own envi­ron­ment to move you toward the place you want. In clos­ing this chap­ter, we will add another state­ment to our syllabus:

There is a think­ing stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its orig­i­nal state, per­me­ates, pen­e­trates, and fills the inter­spaces of the universe.

A thought in this sub­stance pro­duces the thing that is imaged by the thought.

A per­son can form things in his thought, and, by impress­ing his thought upon form­less sub­stance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

In order to do this, a per­son must pass from the com­pet­i­tive to the cre­ative mind; he must form a clear men­tal pic­ture of the things he wants, and hold this pic­ture in his thoughts with the fixed PURPOSE to get what he wants, and the unwa­ver­ing FAITH that he does get what he wants, clos­ing his mind to all that may tend to shake his pur­pose, dim his vision, or quench his faith.

So that he may receive what he wants when it comes, a per­son must act NOW upon the peo­ple and things in his present environment.

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