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Prosperity Can Be Yours by Richard Kieninger You have the inherent ability to create a prosperous
and abundant life. Using the Laws of Precipitation and Mental
Attraction, you can have whatever you want. Awareness Prosperity begins with your
attitudes. An all-pervading prosperity consciousness is a valuable attribute
to help assure that your environment provides all your spiritual and mundane
needs. You must develop an awareness that you are meant to share fully in the
abundance of Nature and the Earth and enjoy all the happy blessings of human
existence, for prosperity is your birthright. Prosperity consciousness is
a way of thinking about yourself. Your emotional tone largely determines the
degree of enthusiasm, happiness, and expectation of success you express,
while your personal attitudes and emotional state combine to determine your
self-image and how people respond to you. Developing a prosperity
consciousness depends on inner harmony, generosity, concern for fairness to
others, determination to produce efficiently, consuming less than you
produce, awareness of values, and wise management of time and assets. People have had all kinds
of negative attitudes imbued in them by just about everybody from the time they
were youngsters, and this makes it hard for them to ever expect to be
prosperous. Some parents seem to constantly put down their children. Suppose
your father had said, “Who do you think you are? Think you’re better than
your old man?” His message may really be, “Don’t aspire to something bigger
than I am, because it would show me up for being less than what I could have
been. Stay down where I want you to belong!” These types of messages have to
be totally deprogrammed. Almost everyone is programmed
to feel unworthy. Teachers do it. They put you down in subtle ways, saying,
“You’re doing this wrong; you’re doing that wrong; go sit in the corner; shut
up; spit out your gum.” Everybody comes to expect it. If they said, “You’re
great! We love you! You’re beautiful! You’re doing everything optimally for
your age!” think how much that kind of encouragement would make you feel that
you were okay. Encouragement allows you to be successful. You should say
these good things to yourself to deprogram old negative attitudes. It’s important that you see
yourself with the power that’s inherent in the God-like portions of your
Egoic personality and character. Although we’re entitled to be in a great
civilization and we have the power to make a great civilization, it can only
happen if your unconscious doesn’t believe you’re always going to be beaten.
We’re not supposed to be like our dads—we’re supposed to be what God gave us
the powers to be! People are imbued with a
negative attitude towards prosperity. Approximately 95% of the people in the
world constantly submit to the mediocrity which is part of their environment
by subconsciously picking up negative attitudes like, “The rich can do
anything they want,” or “The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.”
Everybody has heard these sayings. When you hear people whom you respect and
know saying these things frequently, you begin to believe you’ll never be
rich. Rich people would probably just as soon foment that idea too, as it
keeps you from competing with them. Television puts negative
ideas into people’s heads continuously. It’s hard to find an uplifting
experience on it. We see not only people that have bad attitudes all around
us, it’s reflected even in the movies and on television. Some people start at
the bottom and lose ground as they go along simply because of negative
attitudes like, “You can’t do anything with that. If that was such a great
idea, somebody else would have thought of it and made a fortune a long time
ago. There’s got to be something wrong with it.” People who are successful
are constantly beset by other individuals telling them their business, or how
they are doing things wrong. The Wright Brothers didn’t get any pats on the
back for their great idea. They were told they were insane, and man couldn’t
possibly ever be able to fly. With so many people who
have negative attitudes around you all the time, it becomes so prevalent you
don’t even notice it after a while. But your subconscious is working on it.
Prosperity consciousness becomes a matter of turning things around and
deciding that the things that you want in life are within your grasp. Visualization Your subconscious mind
plays a key role in changing your mental attitudes. It is totally incapable
of differentiating between reality and imagination because there is no
mechanism whatsoever that allows it to make that distinction. As a result, by
visualizing successful scenarios over and over again, you can eliminate
self-doubts by seeing yourself accomplishing things. The Dallas Ballet is one of
the best companies in the world. The people hired are the very best from
around the world. They practice constantly in their minds. Whenever (in
actual practice) they do something which is not up to par with their
intention, they don’t just keep on trying if it means reinforcing an
incorrect movement. If their muscles have not yet learned to work together to
do the very unusual thing they are trying to accomplish, they sit down and
visualize themselves successfully doing it, as instructed by their trainer:
“Sit there for half an hour and visualize yourself doing it. Feel yourself
accomplishing this manipulation in your muscles.” Then they’re successful! There was a golfer who,
when the ball would not go where he had visualized it going, would
immediately visualize it doing just exactly as he had intended. He wouldn’t
allow himself to keep a vision in his mind of that ball going in the wrong
direction. He blocked that out. It was not acceptable. As a result, he was
always successful. The ball almost always went where he wanted it to go. His
subconscious worked for him all the time. Use this technique of
always seeing yourself successful in imaginary scenarios, and your
subconscious will not produce doubts. This is very important because
subconscious doubts counteract precipitations on the conscious level. If you
have all the success techniques in the world mastered for making yourself a
millionaire but you don’t believe yourself worthy of a million dollars, your
subconscious will undo your conscious precipitation. Your subconscious is
extremely important. Reprogram yourself by
creating scenarios in which you are a success all the time and where you are
entitled to the best. You can reprogram all the garbage you have picked up
unconsciously from your environment, which is now settled in the unconscious,
by overriding it with the visualizations of success—seeing yourself a
success, seeing yourself entitled to success as a child of God, being heir to
all that’s good in this universe. And you are! There’s no question about it;
for if all the mineral resources which are known and all of the renewable
resources (like all the crops and trees constantly being produced and the
energy that comes from the Sun, etc.) were given a monetary value based on
the current value of such things, then each person’s share would be six
billion dollars. Adventure Lifetimes are supposed to
be fun, but they’re not supposed to be without challenge. It is through
challenges that you expand yourself, test yourself, and see what kind of
powers you really have. If you just stick with something you’re always
comfortable with, how will you ever really start to grow? While keeping one foot
firmly planted in that which you know, you can reach out with another foot
onto a stepping stone which you’re not too sure about. Life generally tends
to be an easing from one avenue to another, rather than suddenly having
everything cut off and being abruptly dropped into an area you know nothing
about. You do grow in different areas, and you never know in what way the
“fates” will work or what opportunities will come your way. Opportunities
continually appear alongside your path to consider, and you are constantly
deciding whether or not to pursue them. There is a potential for
becoming lost in almost every situation, and one can get confused about
life’s many different options. You cannot accomplish anything without having
a definite direction to go in. If you have a scattered bunch of ideas (all of
which may be very valuable and have a very high potential for making money),
you need to decide on just one out of all of them and get started; otherwise,
you could keep going around in circles, looking at all the different
activities you want to be involved in, without moving even one step in the
direction of any of them. That doesn’t mean you have to eliminate all the
other things you might want to do in a lifetime, but you have to decide on
one first, to the exclusion of all the rest. Put all the other alternatives
out of your mind, and say, “I’ve decided with everything rational that I can
bring to bear that this is the direction that I’m going to go, and I’m going
to stick to it until I get there.” It is extremely important to have a
purpose which you want to accomplish to the exclusion of all else. This
purpose is your goal. You can’t just precipitate an idea or goal into
existence; two other things are required. One is that you work to make your
precipitation a reality. You can have almost anything, depending how much
energy you mean to put into it. If you want to become a millionaire, there’s
nothing to keep you from becoming one if you are willing to put the necessary
effort into it. It takes time and effort. The other thing required is
that you develop excess karmic credits so you will be able to hold onto
whatever you manage to bring into your environment through your positive
mental attitude and your work. Courage Positive mental attitude is
very central to accomplishment. After World War II, German cities were
pulverized into piles of bricks lying around. The country’s whole economy was
utterly uprooted. Their currency was totally worthless. Their government
collapsed. They had nothing. Most people survived the cold by digging around
for coal near railroad tracks, which were now curls of steel in the air, and
around docks where big ships might have come in to unload coal at one time or
another. They’d dig for hours to find a bushel of coal and scraps of wood or
anything to keep themselves from freezing during the winter. Things were
tough. On a volunteer basis, the
people of West Germany started organizing the rubble by cleaning off bricks,
stacking them up, putting mortar on them and constructing again. They were in
a building mode for fifteen to twenty years, almost all done by volunteers.
The survivors were in a state of happiness because every month they would see
more order. Homes and new structures were being created. Their environment
was beginning to improve and they were joyful. Their productivity soared
incredibly as they built their economy into one of the strongest in the
world, purely out of the sheer momentum of their creativity and the
encouragement of seeing they were making progress. The visual evidence of
their advancement was seen as all those cities that had been pounded to
rubble were completely rebuilt in just fifteen years, all with modern
structures and brand new roads. Everything was changed for the better. A people’s spirit has to
soar under circumstances like that. They learned how to really work, how to
make every hour pay off, despite the fact that cleaning up the city was all
volunteer work. There was no one to pay them anything. Out of the need for
order comes the possibility of either despair or of building again to bring
back order. Persistence The payoff for your efforts
to be wealthy usually starts after about five years. There are rare
occurrences when a person has become a millionaire seemingly overnight,
within a year or two years. They just happened to hit on something that
struck the public’s fancy and couldn’t make enough of them. That’s a great
way to go, but it’s not the norm. Deciding to devote five years of supreme
effort toward such a goal involves much the same intention as making the
sacrifice of going to college for four years. Sacrifice refers to the reality
that there’s a lot of other things you’d rather be doing than sitting there
cracking the books for four years, or maybe five years or six if you want to
go for a master’s degree. However, there’s definitely a payoff in higher
income afterward, which is why people are willing to make such a sacrifice. It’s the same sort of thing
when you get started in business. In order to keep yourself going you have to
decide to hold onto a particular goal, because there’s many times you might
just say, “Oh, the heck with it!” I’d just as soon go to a movie. Of course,
you do have to take some time for yourself. But what keeps so many people
from ever really becoming wealthy is that they don’t want to make the
investment that is necessary over and above what it takes to make a living
day by day. You have basic needs, and those needs have to be met. Business,
however, involves an accumulation of credits over and above your daily needs. Now that does not mean you
can’t have some collateral things around which everyone in their lifetime
should have. You can still be married, still have children, still have
friends, still take the time to enjoy different things, but they’re going to
be compressed into a smaller amount of overall time each month. Like very
busy people, you will discover how to get in very high quality time on
whatever it is that you’re seeking to have as collateral with the direction
you’re going. Don’t fritter away your time! Many people manage to have very
high-quality time with their child and high-quality time with their spouse.
You don’t spread it out over the course of the whole day. For whatever
logical amount of time you can be together, you can be in the situation of
truly “being here and now,” not thinking about other things, but being with
your spouse totally. Responsibility If you have the ability or
capacity to earn wealth, there is a dharma involved. If you know how to make
a million dollars, you have an obligation to make it! It’s part of the things
you should do this lifetime! Buy why be a millionaire? What’s the point-just
to have a one with six zeroes after it in the bankbook? No, that’s not a good
enough reason. No one will work hard with the kind of dedication that’s
necessary to become a millionaire unless they have a goal in mind that
requires a million dollars. Just accumulating numbers in a bank won’t provide
the necessary incentive. You must get emotionally involved and feel
enthusiasm for some kind of project you want to carry out with that million
dollars. Remember, wealth is just a
means. Money is a way of keeping score of your success in this life. Don’t
ever imagine money has power in itself, because it has none. What you do with
it and how you use it to extend your beneficial influence in the world is the
only justification for great wealth. if the influence that you’re wielding is
not beneficial, the universe comes down pretty hard on you. There is a prevalent idea
that if we are going to be spiritual, we must be anti-materialistic, but that
is being imbalanced. If you lived the life of a penniless searcher after
spiritual peace and were constantly trying to figure out where your next meal
was coming from, it would be too distracting to allow for any real spiritual
growth. Entrepreneurship is the key
to becoming a really wealthy person. We have all seen plenty of farmers who
work hard from dawn until dusk, day in and day out, year after year, and have
just about as much when they go to the grave as when they inherited the farm
from their father. Laboring by one’s own self does not create great wealth.
You have to engage the services of many other people working for you. You are
providing a very important service to your employees. You are essentially
putting bread on their table by paying them a wage, and you subsequently gain
some profit from the work they do. The more people you have working for you,
the more money you’ll have coming in. A physician might make two
hundred thousand dollars a year if he puts in long hours. However, his
efforts are limited by the number of hours he can personally devote to his
work. He can hire a couple of nurses to show his patients to examination
rooms and record their blood pressure and weight; then he can move rapidly
from one examination room to another and maybe see four or five, maybe six
patients in an hour. That’s his limit. At that rate he’s not likely to be in
the position of making a million dollars a year, but there are many people
who do make a million dollars a year, and just about all they do is hire
experts to work for them. They bring in profits from the work of maybe a
thousand people. If you want to work alone, it may take ten to fifteen years
to make your million dollars because you don’t have those thousand people working
for you. A good example of this
principle is seen in the founder of Woolworth’s. He had a personal income of
many millions of dollars a year selling nickel and ten-cent items. Some things
he only made a tenth or twentieth of a cent on, but he sold them by the
billions. He had stores all over, and he had many employees working for him.
Each additional store brought in a little more profit. That’s why he had a
couple of thousand stores all around the United States. If you have enough of
anything, you don’t have to make a big profit off of each item. Anybody could
have done what he did; but he thought of it and then pursued it. Many people have brilliant
ideas, but they just don’t put any energy behind those ideas. They think,
“Oh, that would take too much work.” Other people say, “I could manufacture a
product, but I’m going to have to find somebody who can move the stuff.”
Often these people form corporations in order to bring the separate,
specialized talents of many people together to work as a team. One person may
be a top-notch marketer, another is good at engineering design, and another
one can figure out production techniques, another one is great at buying,
another is good at training people on the job, and another is gifted in
personnel work. You rarely find all these technical skills within one
individual. If you do, they’re so diluted from concern with such a myriad of
things that the person can’t really focus as a full-time expert in any area. So, again, if you wish to
become very wealthy, you need to recognize your limits and what things you
like to do. Then do that one particular thing you like, hire other people who
are experts in other areas, and form a corporation that can really do
something for you. You can be the sole proprietor by owning all the stock. Tithing Observe the universal laws
regarding the rule of tithing. Give ten percent of whatever your income is, and
whatever you give will come back to you ten times greater. When a wealthy
person gives a million dollars, he knows he’s got ten million dollars coming
back; so he can give yet another million. However, he keeps nine million of
the new income, for he needs to tithe only one million of the ten. He can’t
lose on that kind of a deal. The wealthy have long understood the way in
which the universe operates. Most of us never get into a position of giving
that kind of largesse, so we really never experience the fantastic returns
that come from God’s Law. If a person gives a million dollars toward truly
uplifting mankind, then he gets back ten million so he can give away another
million next year. That’s the way it works. Everybody who writes about the
principle of tithing has said over and over that the system really works. Many people perceive being
a millionaire as having negative connotations. They simply do not realize
those who got to be millionaires did so because they practiced the Laws of
God. Cassette tapes and reading
materials which extol success philosophy and positive mental attitude can
overlay the subconscious, negative conditioning which may now hold you down
and hold you back. A lot of people do it by themselves by repeating
affirmations such as, “I can accomplish anything! I am limitless!” |
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