The Advancing Personality

What I have said in the last chap­ter applies as well to the pro­fes­sional per­son and the wage-​​earner as to the per­son who is engaged in sell­ing or any other form of business.

No mat­ter whether you are a physi­cian, a teacher, or a cler­gy­man, if you can give increase of life to oth­ers and make them sen­si­ble of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich. The physi­cian who holds the vision of him­self as a great and suc­cess­ful healer, and who works toward the com­plete real­iza­tion of that vision with faith and pur­pose, as described in for­mer chap­ters, will come into such close touch with the source of life that he will be phe­nom­e­nally suc­cess­ful; patients will come to him in throngs.

No one has a greater oppor­tu­nity to carry into effect the teach­ing of this book than the prac­ti­tioner of med­i­cine. It does not mat­ter to which of the var­i­ous schools he may belong, for the prin­ci­ple of heal­ing is com­mon to all of them and may be reached by all alike. The “advanc­ing man” in med­i­cine, who holds to a clear men­tal image of him­self as suc­cess­ful, and who obeys the laws of faith, pur­pose, and grat­i­tude, will cure every cur­able case he undertakes.

In the field of reli­gion, the world cries out for the cler­gy­man who can teach his hear­ers the true sci­ence of abun­dant life. He who mas­ters the details of the sci­ence of get­ting rich, together with the allied sci­ences of being well, of being great, and of win­ning love, and who teaches these details from the pul­pit, will never lack for a con­gre­ga­tion. This is a gospel that the world needs; it will give increase of life, and peo­ple will hear it gladly and give lib­eral sup­port to the per­son who brings it to them.

What is now needed is a demon­stra­tion of the sci­ence of life from the pul­pit. We want preach­ers who can not only tell us how, but who in their own per­sons will show us how. We need the preacher who will him­self be rich, healthy, great, and beloved, to teach us how to attain to these things, and when he comes he will find a numer­ous and loyal following.

The same is true of the teacher who can inspire the chil­dren with the faith and pur­pose of the advanc­ing life. He will never be “out of a job.” And any teacher who has this faith and pur­pose can give it to his pupils. He can­not help giv­ing it to them if it is part of his own life and practice.

What is true of the teacher, preacher, and physi­cian is true of the lawyer, den­tist, real estate agent, insur­ance agent — of everybody.

The com­bined men­tal and per­sonal action I have described is infal­li­ble; it can­not fail. Every man and woman who fol­lows these instruc­tions steadily, per­se­ver­ingly, and to the let­ter, will get rich. The law of the increase of life is as math­e­mat­i­cally cer­tain in its oper­a­tion as the law of grav­ity. Get­ting rich is an exact science.

The wage-​​earner will find this as true of his case as of any of the oth­ers men­tioned. Do not feel that you have no chance to get rich because you are work­ing where there is no vis­i­ble oppor­tu­nity for advance­ment, where wages are small and the cost of liv­ing high. Form your clear men­tal vision of what you want, and begin to act with faith and purpose.

Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a per­fectly suc­cess­ful man­ner. Put the power of suc­cess and the pur­pose to get rich into every­thing that you do.

But do not do this merely with the idea of cur­ry­ing favor with your employer, in the hope that he, or those above you, will see your good work and advance you. It is not likely that they will do so.

The per­son who is merely a “good” worker, fill­ing his place to the very best of his abil­ity and sat­is­fied with that, is valu­able to his employer, and it is not to the employer’s inter­est to pro­mote him. He is worth more where he is.

To secure advance­ment, some­thing more is nec­es­sary than to be too large for your place.

The per­son who is cer­tain to advance is the one who is too big for his place, who has a clear con­cept of what he wants to be, who knows that he can become what he wants to be, and who is deter­mined to BE what he wants to be.

Do not try to more than fill your present place with a view to pleas­ing your employer. Do it with the idea of advanc­ing your­self. Hold the faith and pur­pose of increase dur­ing work hours, after work hours, and before work hours. Hold it in such a way that every per­son who comes in con­tact with you, whether fore­man, fel­low worker, or social acquain­tance, will feel the power of pur­pose radi­at­ing from you — so that every­one will get the sense of advance­ment and increase from you. Peo­ple will be attracted to you, and if there is no pos­si­bil­ity for advance­ment in your present job, you will very soon see an oppor­tu­nity to take another job.

There is a power which never fails to present oppor­tu­nity to the advanc­ing per­son­al­ity who is mov­ing in obe­di­ence to law. God can­not help help­ing you if you act in a cer­tain way. He must do so in order to help himself.

There is noth­ing in your cir­cum­stances or in the indus­trial sit­u­a­tion that can keep you down. If you can­not get rich work­ing for the steel trust, you can get rich on a ten-​​acre farm. And if you begin to move in the cer­tain way, you will cer­tainly escape from the “clutches” of the steel trust and get on to the farm or wher­ever else you wish to be.

If a few thou­sands of its employ­ees would enter upon the cer­tain way, the steel trust would soon be in a bad plight. It would have to give its work­ers more oppor­tu­nity or go out of busi­ness. Nobody has to work for a trust. The trusts can keep peo­ple in so called hope­less con­di­tions only so long as there are peo­ple who are igno­rant of the sci­ence of get­ting rich or too intel­lec­tu­ally sloth­ful to prac­tice it.

Begin this way of think­ing and act­ing, and your faith and pur­pose will make you quick to see any oppor­tu­nity to bet­ter your con­di­tion. Such oppor­tu­ni­ties will speed­ily come, for the supreme power, work­ing in all and work­ing for you, will bring them before you.

Do not wait for an oppor­tu­nity to be all that you want to be. When an oppor­tu­nity to be more than you are now is pre­sented and you feel impelled toward it, take it. It will be the first step toward a greater opportunity.

There is no such thing pos­si­ble in this uni­verse as a lack of oppor­tu­ni­ties for the per­son who is liv­ing the advanc­ing life.

It is inher­ent in the con­sti­tu­tion of the cos­mos that all things shall be for him and work together for his good, and he must cer­tainly get rich if he acts and thinks in the cer­tain way. So let wage-​​earning men and women study this book with great care and enter with con­fi­dence upon the course of action it pre­scribes. It will not fail.

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