From Chapter 11, 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 metaphysical thinkers meet shipwreck–the failure to connect thought with personal action.”
We are not only spiritual and mental beings, but physical beings as well. Without taking action in the physical world, we won’t enjoy any of the benefits of it… like the benefit of getting rich!
Wattles’ again stresses this point later in the same chapter:
“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. “
If he says something is a crucial point, then it’s probably a point we should pay attention to.
Thought and Personal Action Must Be Combined
Thought without action keeps us daydreaming, and never reaping the benefit of anything in the physical world.
Action without thought gets us hit by a bus – probably figuratively, but possibly literally.
Combining the two makes us rich.
