“To get rich, you need only to use your will power upon yourself.
“When you know what to think and do, then you must use your will to compel yourself to think and do the right things. That is the legitimate use of the will in getting what you want – to use it in holding yourself to the right course. Use your will to keep yourself thinking and acting in the Certain Way.” — Chapter 9, How to Use the Will
This is one point where many people, me included, often go wrong when it comes to getting rich in the creative way.
We do not try to force our will on anyone. If there’s any force, we only use it on ourselves.
Willpower does get a bad rap in many metaphysical circles… but here we learn its proper use.
When your vision moves away from your Clear Mental Image, you use your willpower to bring it back.
When your thoughts move from gratitude to despair, you use your willpower to move them back.
And when you start beating yourself up because you “just can’t seem to use your willpower”, you use your willpower to recognize that even beating on yourself for “doing it wrong” is, I’m guessing, not a part of your Clear Mental Image… so you use your willpower to move your thoughts back to your Clear Mental Image.
It’s not easy, and it takes practice. I’m learning and relearning how to do this every single day of my life.
One of the things that helps me when I start working myself over for not keeping my clear mental image in front of me is to remember that I’d never beat on a 1 year old who is learning to walk.
We don’t teach them to walk by hitting them when they fall down.
They want to walk, so we congratulate them when they do it, and encourage them when they fall.
If you aren’t rich yet, then consider yourself a babe while learning this.
Just keep on honestly doing the best that you can do, and you are on the road to getting rich.
