One day Edwin C. Barnes discovered how true it is that people really do Think and Grow Rich. His discovery did not come about at one sitting. It came little by little, beginning with a burning desire to become a business associate of the great Edison.
One of the chief characteristics of Barnes desire was that it was definite. He wanted to work along with Edison, not for him.
Observe carefully, the description of how he went about translating his desire into reality, and you will have a better understanding of the thirteen principles that lead to riches.
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When this desire, or impulse of thought, first flashed into his mind, he was in no position to act upon it. Two difficulties stood in his way. He did not know Mr. Edison, and he did not have enough money to pay his railroad fare to Orange, New Jersey.
These difficulties were sufficient to have discouraged the majority of men from making any attempt to carry out their desire. But his was no ordinary desire! He was so determined to find a way to carry out his desire that he finally decided to travel by blind baggage, rather than be defeated. To the uninitiated, this means that he went to East Orange on a freight train.
The disheveled, not bathed Barnes presented himself at the Edison laboratory, and announced he had come to go into business with the inventor. Check that one out! A bum throws himself before a multi-millionaire businessman! How seldom does the bum get a word in that works?
What do you find is the difference?
The attitude that Barnes had was the driving force behind his desire to get what it was he wanted from his association with Mr. Edison.
This attitude is what determines the difference between those who see themselves as successful, do become successful and get what they want from life and those who do not.
A Little Cheap Specialized Knowledge Yields Windfall Profits. They sold the machinery to a junk man for a few hundred dollars, and took the train back home. Some junk men are dumb, but not this one! He called in a mining engineer to look at the mine and do a little calculating.
The engineer advised that the project had failed, because the owners were not familiar with fault lines. His calculations showed that the vein would be found just three feet from where the Darbys had stopped drilling! That is exactly where it was found!
The junk man took millions of dollars in ore from the mine, because he knew enough to seek expert counsel before giving up.
Most of the money which went into the machinery was procured through the efforts of R.U. Darby, who was then a very young man. The money came from his relatives and neighbors, because of their faith in him. He paid back every dollar of it, although he was years in doing so.
Long afterward, Mr. Darby recouped his loss many times over, when he made the discovery that desire can be transmuted into gold. The discovery came after he went into the business of selling life insurance.
Remembering that he lost a huge fortune because he stopped three feet from gold, Darby profited by the experience in his chosen work, by the simple method of saying to himself, I stopped three feet from gold, but I will never stop because men say no when I ask them to buy insurance.
Darby is one of a small group of fewer than fifty persons who sell more than a million dollars in life insurance annually. He owes his stickability to the lesson he learned from his quitability in the gold mining business.
Think And Grow Rich By
The power of Desire
The power of Decision
The power of Organized Planning
The power of Specialized Knowledge
The power of Masterminding
The power of Persistence
The power of Faith
1. The Power of Desire
How desperate do you want? What is your desire? "Getting Rich" is not good enough! What is the real reason why you want to "get rich"? For me, I want to see my child grow! I do not want to miss any moment of my child. At least, till now, I witness each and every milestone my child went through: Saying their first word, taking their first step, making their first roll, showing off their first unsupported sitting . . . Now, questions to all readers up there who are reading this, did you miss any moment of your life? Thus, gaining financial freedom is my mean to reach my goal of spending quality time with my family. Hey, the world is changing, I don't mind to be called "House-Husband"! I want to live a life of FREEDOM! In term of, not bounded by 9 to 5 job; or worst, overtime and having bad days and bring it back to home!
So, What is your desire? What do you really really want?
2. The Power of Decision
Have I make up my mind? Do I WISH to be successful or Do I WANT to be successful? There is no such mindset as I wish . . . when you have a mindset of I wish, it really really mean, I wish to success but in case it did not work out, it's ok to fail! Sorry if I sound crook, but allow me to say the truth with compassion! I really feel sorry for people who jump into Internet Marketing (or any business) hoping to be successful (In actual fact, it should be read as hoping to fail)! The mindset is not ready! So, once if you have made up your mind, no turning back (actually its easy to turn back as most of people will take it part time, and since investment is low, it's easy for people to quit and claim Internet Marketing or any business is not real and will not work!)
Have you make up your mind? Do you want to be successful or wish to be successful? The choice is yours! Remember: The decision is like a pregnant issue! No such as I am almost pregnant or I am part-time pregnant or I am half pregnant! Either you are or you are not! Thus, either you want or you want not!
3. The Power of Organized Planning
Do you have a plan? Every decisions couple with a business plan! OK, you are not MBA graduates, but, you like it or not, you still need a plan!
You do not need a 20 pages plan, but a simple one will do:
When do you want to develop product? What product? How many products? Who is the target market segment? When do you want to do the survey? How do you want to do the survey? How much budget do you have? How much is your product cost? What is the target price of your product? Do you need affiliates? Do you need JV? Do you need outsource? Which auto-responder will you subscribe to? How do you organize your auto-responder? What domain name? Which hosting? When do you want to build your site? From your survey, how many are keen to give testimony? When is your pre-launch? How to do your pre-launch? When is the actual launch date? Have you build up the hype or momentum? Followup relaunch? Product series 2 . . . Well, above are some pointers but not in sequence and organized.
So in a nutshell, do you have 3 - 9 months plan ahead?
Remember: No plan = plan to fail!
4. The Power of Specialized Knowledge
If you have the knowledge, it's fine! If not, just outsource! Go to eLance and there will be many people can help you in every aspect from programming to copywriting to ebook! It's worst challenge for one who is IT savvy! We tend to do everything ourselves. We need to be focus on the execution of steps outlined in step 3 and not running amok to do everything under the sun!
Face it! We only have 24hour/day; only way for us to have 100hour/day is by leveraging! If you can co-partner with someone, then work out a profit sharing plan! Else, engage someone, beg someone, bride someone, pay someone, outsource to someone, do whatever you need, just let someone do the job for you!
This is a very important concept of OPT (Other People Time), OTR (Other People Resource), OTK (Other People Knowledge), OTM (Other People Money), OTX (Other People xxxxxx). Hey, have you ever see Bill Gate write his own MS Window/Office coding now? Have you ever see our PM Lee summon fine to parking idiots?
So, specialized knowledge = leverage on others = more time!
5. The Power of Masterminding
You cannot cross the Pacific alone! You need a team or soul mate! Get together with someone who is with same mindset. This sound crook, but you really need to do this: GET AWAY FROM SOMEONE WHO ARE AGAINST YOU! They will draw away your energy and demoralized you!
You need a masterminding team to help each others, share with each other, they are your support team, in term of technology as well as spiritually! If you are alone, QUICK! FIND ONE! If you want to join me, drop me a mail.
6. The Power of Persistence
If you believe in it, you must persistence even if the world is against you! Thomas Edison will not found Bulb if he failed and given up in his 999 time; Sly will not shoot Rocky if he given up submitting his script and insist on himself playing the lead role on 100th attempts; and many many more! This is the power of persistence. If you know it is going to work and going to change your life . . . just hang on and do it Of course, do review your course in step 3 if is heading nowhere!
Just remember your step 1 (desire), and you have already prepare step 2 (decision) and work out step 3 (planning), and figure out step 4 (leveraging), and have someone endorsed and support you in step 5 (masterminding group), then now you have to go thro your step 6 yourselves!
Each day is a day closer to your victory!
7. The Power of Faith
Lastly, to empowered all about, the most important fundamental! DO YOU HAVE FAITH in what you are doing? BELIEVE BELIEVE BELIEVE!
Conclusion Are you ready? Have you ask yourselves the right question? Wrong question will lead to stupid answer, which will lead you to failure!
Albert Tay has sinced written about articles on various topics from Audio Books, E Books and Interview Questions. After working in MNC for over 10 years, Albert have decided to quit and jumped into a total new area 2 years ago. The new era which he dived in is called INTERNET. He has invested many resources and time in many Internet Courses. For more information ple. Albert Tay's top article generates over 22200 views. to your Favourites.