From Chapter 15, The Advancing Man:
“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.”
Wattles’ keeps popping this little formula up throughout the book – all that you can do, every day, in a successful manner, with the purpose to get rich in everything you do.
Not a bad little affirmation to use as you go throughout your day.
Since I’m still a wage earner, a lot of Chapter 15 applies to me… especially the parts about “more than filling your place.” That’s something that I’ve been asking myself as I go about working my day job – “how can I more than fill my place here?” I can’t say that I’ve seen any direct relationship between that and getting rich just yet, but I do know that it feels right while I’m doing it.
And it’s not to “curry favor with my employer” – it’s to grow as a human being.
Which is one of the reasons that I want to get rich in the first place – to have my capacity to help my fellow human beings grow.
May 25, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Among all the topics, this is actually the one that struck me most. We all want these wealth aspirations – but we don’t really seem to work at it each day. We don’t make the most of each day.
Being reminded of this, I now keep it in mind everyday.
May 27, 2008 at 9:49 am
It’s amazing just how difficult something so simple can be, isn’t it Ely? I just got off of a mastermind call where we touched on this – it’s those things that we do consistently, not every once and a while when we feel like it, that really make the difference.