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Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection — Chapter-100: Lesson 4 The Physical Side of Wealth-Culture
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Lesson 4 The Physical Side of Wealth-Culture Table of Contents The physical side of wealth-culture, like that of health-culture, consists in making perfect use of the physical essentials. To build a strong physical body, you must begin by assimilating food, and to build a strong financial structure you must begin by assimilating the wealth in the environment you can reach now. To gain more wealth you must make constructive use of the wealth you have now, or of the creative and assimilative power you have now. If you use your creative power and not your assimilative power, someone else will get what you produce, and you will be a mere wage-slave, a producing machine. If you use your assimilative power, and not your creative power, you will be a robber; and while you may become rich, you will never be wealthy. What you want to learn, then, is how to use your creative and assimilative power, and also how to make constructive use of all the wealth you may get. First, you must KNOW that there is wealth for you; that if you proceed according to law, you will certainly get all that you are justly entitled to. There is no poverty in nature; the world is full of wealth. The state of Texas, if farmed intensively, would feed the entire present population of the globe; so no one need go hungry because there is lack of food. The United States would produce cotton, wool, flax, silk and other fabrics enough to clothe the people of ten worlds like this in finer raiment than Solomon wore in all his glory; so there is no lack of clothes. There is plenty of clothing for you, and that of the finest. We have ledges of building stone, banks of clay for bricks, material for making cement, etc., enough to build a mansion for every family, and then we would hardly scratch the surface of the enormous resources God has provided for us in this line. There is a mansion - a palace for you. You may have, first, the perfect faith that there is wealth enough for you. You do not need to worry or be uneasy
or doubtful for fear the supply will run short. You may be calm, assured, magnetic. Here is where most people fail; they do not recognize the abundance of the supply. Creation is going on all the time; out of the original substance more wealth is continually being produced, and the supply is inexhaustible. Men are learning how to make sugar, coloring matter, fertilizers, and various other things directly from atmospheric air, without waiting for the slow processes of growth and vegetable organization. When we learn the processes, we shall no doubt be able to create what we want directly from original substance, at first hand; and until we learn that, we may control the creative processes of Nature as we will. You do not gain wealth by assimilating what others produce; you can produce what you need. You do not have to produce for others to assimilate; there is enough for them and you. You do not have to compete, or fight, or quarrel with others. You must get out of the competitive frame of mind, for the competitive mind is electrical; and you must get into the creative, or magnetic frame of mind. And all that is necessary to this end is to KNOW that there is limitless wealth, and that you will surely get yours if you obey the laws. First, in order to get into the magnetic state, you must KNOW that there is all the wealth we can use, and more; and that you will certainly get your share if you do your part and claim your share. Some people do their part, but do not claim their share; these are generally poor in pocket, though often rich in soul. Some people claim their share without doing their part; these are sometimes rich in pocket, but always paupers in soul. It is a law that if you DO YOUR PART and CLAIM YOUR SHARE, you will get what you want. In this lesson we will deal with the physical part of wealth-culture; and in the next with the mental part. The physical part must consist in the use of things. If you are to acquire wealth, it must be by making constructive use of the THINGS with which you deal in your profession or business. Since you often come into association with things through people, we may extend this statement, and make it in this wise: Wealth-culture consists in making constructive use of all the people and things with which you are brought into association in your business or profession. Most people use some things constructively, and others destructively; they gain a little here and lose a little there; and so they get ahead very slowly, if at all. It will be self evident to you that a person who makes constructive use of EVERYTHING and EVERYBODY must certainly move ahead rapidly. Every step will be a forward step with him; all things will work together for his good.
In the first lesson, you learned that in order to make constructive use of things, you must know what you want to do. First, choose your business. Choose the one that seems most in line with your tastes, and which will require the use of your strongest faculties. Select for your life work the thing you most WANT to do. Do not become possessed by the idea that you must be fixed by circumstances in some business or profession which you do not like, and barred out from the one which you WOULD like. Even though you are making money, you are not successful so long as you are doing something you do not like to do, and not doing the thing you want to do. The man who feels that he is misplaced is neither wealthy nor successful. Perhaps the most essential part of wealth - culture consists in finding the place where you will be happy in your work. If you are not happy in your work, you are a slave. Perhaps there is something which you would LIKE to do, but you feel that you have not the talent for that particular business or profession; and so you do not dare try it. But remember that if you have not the fully developed talent, you have it in an undeveloped state, and can develop it; a future lesson of this course will tell you how. Nothing is more certain than that you CAN BE WHAT YOU WANT TO BE, in the matter of talent and ability; and if that is true, it is also certain that you CAN DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO. If you are not big enough to do it, you can MAKE yourself big enough to do it. So, make up your mind as to what you want to do; then make up your mind that you WILL do what you want to do, and then begin to move toward the thing you want to do. Perhaps at present you cannot do what you want to do because you have not the necessary capital, and are not in the proper environment; and in that case you must do what you can do in your present environment, with your present capital. Suppose you have only capital enough to operate a peanut-stand, and that you are in an environment where a peanut-stand would be a good investment; and suppose that your great desire is to become the owner of a great department store. Do not imagine that there is some mental-science method by which you can start a department store successfully on a peanut-stand capital, or in a peanut stand environment. But there is a mental-science way in which you can manage a peanut-stand so constructively that it will become a department store, or open the way for you to possess a department store. Start with your peanut-stand, and make it the best managed peanut-stand that ever existed. The essential point to remember is that you must reach what you want by ACTING; by doing things. And today, you can only act where you are, and on the things that are within reach. Do not waste anytime straining after the things
that are out of reach, or longing for the things which belong to the future; ACT, today on the people and things within reach today, but act ALWAYS with your mind set on GETTING WHAT YOU WANT. Act in the full faith - the positive knowledge that you WILL get what you want; make every act a positive act, and an act of faith. Do not sit down and try to ATTRACT the thing you want to you; but begin to move toward the thing you want, and you will find it coming to meet you. Action and reaction are equal; and the person who steadily and purposefully moves forward with one thing in view becomes a center toward which the thing he seeks is drawn with irresistible power; this we will demonstrate in the next lesson. When you move forward with full faith, every act becomes a success in itself, being done in the spirit of success; and the only way to achieve complete success in life is to make every act a success in itself. The only way to build a great success is by combining a multitude of smaller successes; you cannot build a great success out of a multitude of small failures. If, every day, you can make every act a success in itself, and make every act tend toward the thing you want to do, then you must certainly come in time to doing the thing you want to do. When you continually move toward a thing, you know that you must get there sometime; and you will find that the farther you go the more rapid your progress becomes. The rule is: Do, today, everything that you CAN do today; do everything you do in the most perfectly successful manner in which it can be done; and make everything you do tend toward the goal you wish to reach. When you deal with a person, in your present business, make the deal the most pleasant and satisfactory thing of the kind that has ever happened; when you meet a person socially, make the meeting the most delightful thing in his experience; when you do a piece of work, make it the most perfect piece of work that has been done since time began. But in all this, keep your mind fixed on moving toward the thing you want, and be certain that you will get it. If you merely do your work perfectly without reference to getting what you want, you will be an extraordinarily efficient workman, but you will probably remain right where you are; you will get a great deal of praise, but it will come mostly from those who profit from you efficiency. On the other hand, if you do your work perfectly, with you mind set on getting what you want, every person you meet will be impressed with the idea that you are too large for your present place. Remember always that it is your concentrated purpose to reach what you want, your faith that you WILL reach what you want, and your doing perfectly everything you have to do, which keeps you moving towards your goal.
It may be necessary for you to change your business, or remove to another place, before you can get what you want. If you feel that this is so, but do not know what to do, or where to go, do not worry or be uneasy about it. Give your attention to making good where you are, and to making success of the business in which you are engaged; keep your face turned toward what you want, and be ready to take any step which leads toward the thing you want. If your present business and environment are undesirable, and you have not been shown the “way out,” it is probably because you have not thoroughly, completely, and in a superlative degree “made good” where you are. If you are too big for what you are doing now, prove it by doing your work better than a small man could do it; and if you are not too big, you can grow bigger by doing the work superlatively well. But do not do your work well in a spirit of flunkeyism, to curry favor, or to win some one's approval; do it well because you are too big a personality to do it in any other way. Do everything superlatively well because you are a great personality moving on to larger things. This will put you into the right mental attitude, and arouse in the minds around you the right reaction, opening the way for you to advance to larger things. First, study the facts as to the abundance of nature's resources until you know that there is wealth for you, in abundance, without taking from any one else; then meditate upon the Law until you see that it is inherent, in the purpose of things that you should have your share, if you do your part and claim your proportion; and consider that as the supply is limitless, so your share must be limitless also. KNOW that you CAN get what you want, and begin at once to move toward what you want. Know that if you have not the talent or ability necessary to get what you want, you can acquire that talent or ability; know that if you have not the wealth necessary to getting what you want, you can acquire that wealth. KNOW WHAT YOU WANT; and never let your faith waver that you CAN and WILL get it. Regard your present business and environment as means toward getting what you want, and begin at once to use constructively everything and every person within your reach. DO, EACH DAY, EVERYTHING THAT YOU CAN POSSIBLY DO THAT DAY; AND BE SURE THAT EACH THING YOU DO IS DONE IN THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MANNER POSSIBLE. Then, if your mind is fixed with unwavering faith upon reaching the goal you have marked for yourself, new avenues will constantly open before you, and you cannot be defeated.