AN INVISIBLE PRICE TAG - part 3

Articles In This Section:

· HOW RICH IS RICH? - part 1

· HOW RICH IS RICH? - part 2

· AN INVISIBLE PRICE TAG - part 1

· AN INVISIBLE PRICE TAG - part 2

· AN INVISIBLE PRICE TAG - part 3

· AN INVISIBLE PRICE TAG - part 4

· GAINING AN AWARENESS OF RICHES! - part 1

· GAINING AN AWARENESS OF RICHES! - part 2

· ARE YOU A CONTEST FAN? - part 1

· ARE YOU A CONTEST FAN? - part 2

· AVOID LOSING CONTRASTS

· SELF-PITY - part 1

· SELF-PITY - part 2

· SELF-PITY - part 3

The sales manager later reported that there had been a measurable increase in business closed by nearly all of his men.

One salesman, after my talk, made the remark: "Ah, I don't go in for that self-kidding bunk." He happened to be one of the few who did not increase his sales. I wonder just whom he was kidding.

Abraham Lincoln said: "God must have loved poor people, he made so many of them."

Since we are beginning to learn that riches are a matter of consciousness, we must conclude that a vast majority of all people are poor owing to negative minds; and we will not consider them as coming from God because, at birth, minds are neither negative nor positive. As I pointed out in an earlier chapter, the fears, phobias, complexes and inhibitions we carry through life were instilled in our minds while we were children.

Invariably, the man with a low price tag is one who was always confronted with such remarks as: "Money doesn't grow on trees," "Daddy isn't rich, he had to work hard for every dollar he gets," etc. This fellow grows up with a mental picture of himself as being forced to work hard for his living. He actually expects to just barely get by.

Such mental pictures will remain with him throughout his life —unless he takes steps to change them.

"If it is so easy to get rich, why isn't everyone rich?" I am often asked. And, it does seem like a sensible question. The answer to this question is that very few people can realize that it is so easy to be rich. Most people, either consciously or subconsciously, feel that to become rich requires years of grueling labor. To tell such people that literally all one has to do to change his condition is to change his thoughts, invites skepticism.

There is a fable which illustrates the difference between a negative and positive thinker. You'll enjoy it, I am sure.

Henry John was a strong man of excellent health, but one who had never been a success in life. He had always envied the man of means, but could never see himself so blessed.

John Henry was a wealthy man, but he had never had very good health. He had always been doctored for one ailment or another. He had always been envying robust men of the type of Henry John and had often said he would gladly give his wealth for the other man's health.