The Science

Of Getting
RICH
DECODED

Fabian Lim
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 CONTENTS

About The Author ...........................................................................................vii

About The Science of Getting Rich & Wallace D. Wattles .............................. ix

Introduction ...................................................................................................... xi

Chapter 1: The Right To Be Rich .......................................................................1

“The Right To Be Rich”: Decoded ......................................................... 4

Chapter 2: There Is A Science Of Getting Rich.................................................8

“There Is A Science To Getting Rich”: Decoded ...................................11

Chapter 3: Is Opportunity Monopolized? .....................................................15

“Is Opportunity Monopolized”: Decoded .......................................... 18

Chapter 4: The First Principle ......................................................................... 21

“The First Principle”: Decoded ............................................................ 25

Chapter 5: Increasing Life................................................................................29

“Increasing Life”: Decoded.................................................................. 33

Chapter 6: How Riches Come To You ............................................................37

“How Riches Come To You”: Decoded.................................................41

Chapter 7: Gratitude ........................................................................................45

“Gratitude”: Decoded .......................................................................... 48

Chapter 8: Thinking In The Certain Way .......................................................52

“Thinking In The Certain Way”: Decoded........................................... 56

Chapter 9: How To Use The Will .................................................................... 61

“How To Use The Will”: Decoded ....................................................... 65

Chapter 10: Further Use Of The Will ..............................................................73

“Further Use Of The Will”: Decoded................................................... 77

Chapter 11: Acting In The Certain Way ..........................................................86

“Acting In The Certain Way”: Decoded ............................................... 90

Chapter 12: Efficient Action ............................................................................94

“Efficient Action”: Decoded................................................................. 98
Chapter 13: Getting Into The Right Business............................................... 102
“Getting Into The Right Business”: Decoded .................................... 106

Chapter 14: The Impression Of Increase.......................................................110

“The Impression Of Increase”: Decoded ............................................113

Chapter 15: The Advancing Personality ....................................................... 118

“The Advancing Personality”: Decoded..............................................121

Chapter 16: Some Cautions and Concluding Observations.......................126

“Some Cautions And Concluding Observations”: Decoded ............ 130

Chapter 17: A Summary of The Science of Getting Rich.............................135

“A Summary Of The Science Of Getting Rich”: Decoded ................. 137
 About The Author

Fabian Lim is a serial online entrepreneur with over 18 years of

management consultancy & digital transformation experience. After a
six-year stint with Deloitte Consulting, he ventured into digital marketing.
Today, he is Founder of WorldInternetAcademy.com and one of Asia’s
foremost Omni-Channel Marketing experts, having trained over
10,000 practitioners over the past 10 years worldwide.

He is also founding director of ClickMedia Pte Ltd, a digital

marketing agency established in 2008 that specializes in
Omni-Channel Marketing - specifically E-Commerce Marketing,
Conversion Rate Optimization, Facebook Marketing, Google Search
& Display, Search Engine Optimization, Content Marketing, Web
Analytics, Usability Analysis, E-mail Marketing & Marketing Automation
and Chat Bot Marketing.

His online marketing clients include multi-national companies,

public sector organizations, and top regional and local brands in the
telecommunications, high technology, education, and retail
industries including Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Polytechnic, Estee Lauder, Asia Pacific Breweries, Bausch & Lomb,
Fujitsu, Pet Lovers Centre, FarEastFlora.com, LunchActually, Natures-
Glory.com & IDS Aesthetics

In 2016, he founded FlightSchool.sg - Singapore's first private flying

school for aspirating aviators. From Sept 2017 to Jan 2019, he led
Yellow Pages Singapore on a digital transformation journey as Chief
Executive Officer. In fact in just 8 months, he turned Yellow Pages from a
traditional print publisher into a profitable digitally transformed
organisation.

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 About The Author (Cont'd)

Fabian has travelled extensively and been invited to speak on stages

along side other esteemed entrepreneurs like Sir Richard Branson,
Chris Gardner (Author of Pursuit of Happyness), Adam Khoo, Joey
Yap and many others.

Fabian has been extensively featured in top news media and

publications like The Sunday Times, Business Times, Channel News Asia,
NTV7, 8TV, Straits Times Razor TV, The Star, New Straits Times, Sin Chew
Daily, Lian He Zao Bao, Wan Bao, Omy.sg, My Paper, UWeekly, The
Peak Magazine, Exquisite Magazine, Utusan, and Faces Magazine.

He is also the best-selling author of Click! Work Anytime, Live

Anywhere and The Science of Getting Rich DECODED. He holds a
Private Pilot License with Single & Multi-Engine Airplane (Instrument)
ratings awarded by the FAA, USA. He also holds an EA-500S jet rating,
which allows him to fly the Eclipse 500 under single-pilot operations.

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 About The Science of Getting Rich
& Wallace D. Wattles

Wattles was born in Illinois in 1860. Before he became known as a pioneer

success writer and advocate of the New Thought Movement, humble
beginnings marked his childhood. According to an 1880 census, he lived
on a farm in Nunda Township of McHenry County, Illinois with his parents.

His father was reported to be a gardener, his mother a housekeeper, and

Wallace himself a farm labourer. Wattles had no known siblings.

With very little formal education, Wattles travelled to Chicago, where several
leading New Thought leaders of his time were located.

He studied the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and many others and went
beyond scholarship by putting their theories into practice in his own life
and became wealthy.

Through his study and personal practice of the ideas in his own life, Wallace
Wattles declared that he had discovered the keys behind the New Thought
principles.

He tested his principles and shared what he learned in articles and books.

His most famous book is, of course, The Science of Getting Rich; also known
as “The Little Green Book”.

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According to USA Today, the text is “divided into 17 short, straight-to-the-
point chapters that explain how to overcome mental barriers, and how
creation, not competition, is the hidden key to wealth attraction”.

Based on reports from his daughter Florence, Wattles was a pragmatist.

“He lived every page” of his writings. Wattles likewise challenged readers to
apply the instructions he laid out in his books in their lives.

In The Science of Getting Rich, he guaranteed that if they did so, they would
surely get rich.

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 Introduction

Have you ever felt as though you’re not living up to your full potential?

It’s as though you can’t ever pony up enough money to live the lifestyle you
dream of. I mean, whatever happened to all that raw desire to succeed?

If that’s you, then the book you’re holding in your hands right now could
very well be the golden key to unlocking your future prosperity.

Look, I know you want to be rich. And believe me, abundance is your
natural state.

But I also know that like many people, you struggle.

And it’s not your fault, because like it or not, it’s quite possible that you
have been programmed at the subconscious level to never earn more than
$40,000 a year.

But what if … I showed you how to reset that programming and breakthrough
your self-imposed limitations to focus on what you really want?

How would that make a difference to you, your family, and your life?

Well, that’s exactly what you’ll discover within the pages of this book.

You see, there was a certain dark period in my life, where I was unknowingly
self-sabotaging my success and my future big time. I had practically no drive,
no focus, or inspiration.

And I continued this path of “self-destruction” until I was forced to the

point where my back was against the wall.

It was at that very moment that I realized something— that contrary to my

belief, the universe was not plotting against me.

The “secret saboteur” was actually me, or rather, my subconscious mind!

And once I experienced that epiphany, I knew there was an answer waiting
to be found.

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The answer is this very book you’re reading. Treasure it and make it work the
same way it did for me.

Fabian Lim
Author, The Science of Getting Rich DECODED

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Chapter 1
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The Right To Be Rich

W HATEVER may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it

is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is
rich. No man can rise to his greatest possible height in talent or soul
development unless he has plenty of money; for to unfold the soul and to develop
talent he must have many things to use, and he cannot have these things unless he
has money to buy them with.

A man develops in mind, soul, and body by making use of things, and society is so
organized that man must have money in order to become the possessor of things;
therefore, the basis of all advancement for man must be the science of getting rich.

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right
to all the development it is capable of attaining.

Man’s right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things
which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment; or,
in other words, his right to be rich.

In this book, I shall not speak of riches in a figurative way; to be really rich does
not mean to be satisfied or contented with a little. No man ought to be satisfied
with a little if he is capable of using and enjoying more. The purpose of Nature is
the advancement and unfoldment of life; and every man should have all that can
contribute to the power; elegance, beauty, and richness of life; to be content with less
is sinful.

The man who owns all he wants for the living of all the life he is capable of living
is rich; and no man who has not plenty of money can have all he wants. Life has
advanced so far, and become so complex, that even the most ordinary man or woman
requires a great amount of wealth in order to live in a manner that even approaches
completeness. Every person naturally wants to become all that they are capable of
becoming; this desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature; we
cannot help wanting to be all that we can be. Success in life is becoming what you
want to be; you can become what you want to be only by making use of things, and

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you can have the free use of things only as you become rich enough to buy them. To
understand the science of getting rich is therefore the most essential of all knowledge.

There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire
for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life; and that desire is praiseworthy.

The man who does not desire to live more abundantly is abnormal, and so the man
who does not desire to have money enough to buy all he wants is abnormal.

There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind,
we live for the soul. No one of these is better or holier than the other; all are alike
desirable, and no one of the three—body, mind, or soul—can live fully if either of
the others is cut short of full life and expression. It is not right or noble to live only
for the soul and deny mind or body; and it is wrong to live for the intellect and deny
body or soul.

We are all acquainted with the loathsome consequences of living for the body and
denying both mind and soul; and we see that real life means the complete expression
of all that man can give forth through body, mind, and soul.

Whatever he can say, no man can be really happy or satisfied unless his body is living
fully in every function, and unless the same is true of his mind and his soul. Wherever
there is unexpressed possibility, or function not performed, there is unsatisfied desire.

Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.

Man cannot live fully in body without good food, comfortable clothing, and warm
shelter; and without freedom from excessive toil. Rest and recreation are also
necessary to his physical life.

He cannot live fully in mind without books and time to study them, without
opportunity for travel and observation, or without intellectual companionship.

To live fully in mind he must have intellectual recreations, and must surround himself
with all the objects of art and beauty he is capable of using and appreciating.

To live fully in soul, man must have love; and love is denied expression by poverty.

A man’s highest happiness is found in the bestowal of benefits on those he loves;

love finds its most natural and spontaneous expression in giving. The man who has
nothing to give cannot fill his place as a husband or father, as a citizen, or as a man.
It is in the use of material things that a man finds full life for his body, develops
his mind, and unfolds his soul. It is therefore of supreme importance to him that he
should be rich.

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It is perfectly right that you should desire to be rich; if you are a normal man or
woman you cannot help doing so. It is perfectly right that you should give your best
attention to the Science of Getting Rich, for it is the noblest and most necessary of
all studies. If you neglect this study, you are derelict in your duty to yourself, to God
and humanity; for you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to
make the most of yourself.

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“The Right To Be Rich”: Decoded

In this opening chapter, Wallace Wattles puts forth the argument that being
rich is not a sin.

Quite on the contrary, it is absolutely necessary to be rich in order to live a

“complete” and “successful” life.

But he doesn’t just stop there.

He even goes as far as to state that being rich is THE KEY to enriching
yourself physically, mentally, and spiritually with the ultimate purpose of
attaining the highest form of happiness – the position of being able to give
cheerfully, generously and in great abundance to his loved ones and other
noble purposes which serve to make the world a better place.

It is his contention, that there is no subject nobler or of more paramount

importance than the science of getting rich. Any tardiness in this area is
tantamount to a form of disservice to God and humanity.

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Now, as you’re reading this, you’re probably protesting in silence…

“Money isn’t everything!”

“Money can’t buy happiness.”

“Money is the root of all evil.”

I totally understand.

I was right there in your shoes when I first read this very book.

Needless to say, I wasn’t a happy camper.

After all, I was raised and brought up by good parents who have inculcated
in me the “right” values, and all these “right” values have stuck to me pretty
much my entire life, especially in the area of money.

I was taught the ‘virtues’ of not being greedy, to be content with what I have,
that money doesn’t grow on trees, and to use any hard-earned dollars wisely,
because money is hard to earn. And of course, the need to ‘save’ for rainy
days!

Maybe you can relate to these virtues.

Whatever your answer, I’d like you to examine why are you reading this
book in the first place?

Here lies the rub: Whether you know it or not, everything you ‘think’ you
know about money has already been deeply embedded in your subconscious
since you were a kid and is fully responsible for whatever financial situation
you’re in right now.

You see, when it comes to getting rich, the first thing you have to understand
is that your attitude determines your altitude.

Unless you have a million-dollar attitude, you will never make a million
dollars.

Money is not dirty, unless we make it that way.

Realize that if you want to achieve new levels of financial success, you will
have to start doing things differently, and in order to do that, you’d have to
first think differently.

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The reason people don’t advance, is because they refuse to change.

Just ask yourself, “Where do you stand on the topic of you personally
becoming rich?”

Are your current beliefs about money helping you further your cause of
becoming rich or are they pulling you back and inhibiting your potential
for wealth?

Because the very antithesis of wealth attraction, is wealth inhibition.

Nothing stays the same. It’s a must that we grow.

So unless you’re willing to let go of your current deep-rooted false beliefs

about money, you shouldn’t even think about getting rich.

Think about this:

Would you take advice from a dying doctor on how to get healthy?

Would you take advice from a morbidly obese “health expert” on how to
lose weight?

Would you take advice from a bald scientist who says he has the cure for
hair loss?

If your answer is “hell no”, then why would you take advice from people
who have never known what it’s like to be rich all their lives?

God knows I love my parents, and bless their souls, they are good people.

However, in spite of all their goodness and well-meaning advice, they were
never in a place where I wanted to be financially, which is why I personally
opted to take the road less travelled.

To me, the people blazing the trail are more important, and our collective
thoughts probably echo that of Sophie Tucker’s…

“I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Rich is better.”

In short: You can think in such a way, that you repel wealth, or you can
choose to think in a specific manner that makes you magnetic to opportunity,

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money, and wealth because when it comes to the subject of getting rich, you
can’t afford to have any queasiness, inhibitions, or reluctance.

Which will it be?

As you’ll discover for yourself in the upcoming lessons, there truly is no

nobler undertaking than you actually getting rich and making the most of
yourself and the beautiful life that God has given you.

The reason that most people don’t make big money is because they don’t
have a big enough “want to” and “need to”.

When you have money, you have in your possession the fastest way to
demonstrate who you are and what you are about.

So why not aim for having more prosperity than you need?

Money is not everything - but it can make your life happier. And make other
people’s lives happier too!

Make more money; so you can help more people…

When you have cash it makes you more confident and enthusiastic.

Sure, we’re not supposed to worship money - but just realize what it can do
for you, your family, your community and your country.

Are you ready to exercise your right to be rich and unlock the vast wealth of
potential buried inside of you?

SSS

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 Chapter 2
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There Is A Science Of Getting Rich

T HERE IS A SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH, and it is an exact science,

like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of
acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that
person will get rich with mathematical certainty.

The ownership of money and property comes as a result of doing the things in a
certain way, and those who do things in a certain way – whether on purpose or
accidentally – get rich, while those who do not do things in a certain way – no matter
how hard they work or how able they are – remain poor.

It is a natural law that like causes always produces like effect, and therefore, any
man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way will infallibly get rich.

That the above statement is true is shown by the following facts:

Getting rich is not a matter of environment, for if it were, all the people in certain
neighborhoods would become wealthy. The people of one city would all be rich, while
those of other towns would all be poor, or all the inhabitants of one state would roll
in wealth, while those of an adjoining state would be in poverty.

But everywhere we see rich and poor living side-by-side, in the same environment,
and often engaging in the same vocations. When two people are in the same locality
and in the same business, and one gets rich while the other remains poor, it shows
that getting rich is not primarily a matter of environment. Some environments may be
more favorable than others, but when two people in the same business are in the same
neighborhood and one gets rich while the other fails, it indicates that getting rich is
the result of doing things in a certain way.

And further, the ability to do things in this certain way is not due solely to the
possession of talent, for many people who have great talent remain poor, while others
who have very little talent get rich.

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Studying the people who have gotten rich, we find that they are an average lot in all
respects, having no greater talents and abilities than other people have. It is evident
that they do not get rich because they possess talents and abilities that others do not
have, but because they happen to do things in a certain way.

Getting rich is not the result of saving or thrift. Many very penurious people are poor,
while free spenders often get rich.

Nor is getting rich due to doing things which others fail to do, for two people in the
same business often do almost exactly the same things, and one gets rich while the
other remains poor or becomes bankrupt.

From all these things, we must come to the conclusion that getting rich is the result
of doing things in a certain way.

If getting rich is the result of doing things in a certain way, and if like causes always
produce like effects, then any man or woman who can do things in that way can
become rich, and the whole matter is brought within the domain of exact science.

The question arises here as to whether this certain way may not be so difficult that
only a few may follow it. As we have seen, this cannot be true (as far as natural
ability is concerned). Talented people get rich, and blockheads get rich; intellectually
brilliant people get rich and very stupid people get rich; physically strong people get
rich, and weak and sickly people get rich.

Some degree of ability to think and understand is, of course, essential, but insofar as
natural ability is concerned, any man or woman who has sense enough to read and
understand these words can certainly get rich.

Also, we have seen that it is not a matter of environment. Yes, location counts for
something. One would not go to the heart of the Sahara and expect to do successful
business.

Getting rich involves the necessity of dealing with people and of being where there
are people to deal with, and if these people are inclined to deal in the way you want
to deal, so much the better. But that is about as far as environment goes. If anybody
else in your town can get rich, so can you, and if anybody else in your state can get
rich, so can you.

Again, it is not a matter of choosing some particular business or profession. People get
rich in every business and in every profession, while their next door neighbors in the
very same vocation remains in poverty.

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It is true that you will do best in a business which you like and which is congenial to
you. And if you have certain talents which are well developed, you will do best in a
business which calls for the exercise of those talents.

Also, you will do best in a business, which is suited to your locality. An ice cream
parlor would do better in a warm climate than in Greenland and a salmon fishery will
succeed better in the northwest than in Florida, where there are no salmon.

But, aside from these general limitations, getting rich is not dependent upon your
engaging in some particular business, but upon your learning to do things in a certain
way. If you are now in business and anybody else in your locality is getting rich in the
same business, while you are not getting rich, it is simply because you are not doing
things in the same way that the other person is doing them.

No one is prevented from getting rich by lack of capital. True as you get capital the
increase becomes more easy and rapid, but one who has capital is already rich and does
not need to consider how to become so. No matter how poor you may be, if you begin
to do things in the certain way you will begin to get rich and you will begin to have
capital. The getting of capital is a part of the process of getting rich and is a part of
the result which invariably follows the doing of things in the certain way.

You may be the poorest person on the continent and be deeply in debt. You may have
neither friends, influence, nor resources, but if you begin to do things in this way, you
must infallibly begin to get rich, for like causes must produce like effects. If you have
no capital, you can get capital. If you are in the wrong business, you can get into
the right business. If you are in the wrong location, you can go to the right location.

And you can do so by beginning in your present business and in your present location
to do things in the certain way which always causes success. You must begin to live
in harmony with the laws governing the universe.

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“There Is A Science To Getting Rich”: Decoded

In this chapter, Wallace Wattles puts it to us that “Getting Rich” is a specific
science governed by the universal law of cause and effect.

“It is a natural law that like causes always produces like effects”.

And if you know anything about the immutable laws of nature, you will
understand that these laws are inherently neutral, showing absolutely no
prejudice to anyone regardless of their personal preferences or personal
beliefs.

Take for instance, the Law of Gravity.

The grand Law of Gravity applies regardless of whether you’re Mark

Zuckerberg, Bill Gates or Donald Trump.

They rank among the richest people in the world, but if any of them were
to leap off the Empire State Building, it’s quite certain none of them will be
falling upwards.

Gravity doesn’t play favorites.

This is the same with the law of cause and effect.

The Law of Cause and Effect states:

“For every effect, there is a specific cause.”

Your education, color of skin, age, gender or even your profession or

measured intelligence does not determine whether you become rich.

All wealth, prosperity, business success and happiness are direct/indirect

effects of specific causes/actions.

Whether you like it or not, there are specific cause-and-effect principles of

wealth attraction entirely separated from virtue.

Getting rich is not an accident.

Neither is it a miracle or a matter of pure luck.

In other words, by doing exactly what others have done to successfully

achieve their goals, you are pretty much assured of similar results.

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So if you want to get rich, then all things being equal, you simply have to
study what rich people did to become rich, and by doing the same things
they did, you will, as Wallace says, “infallibly” get rich too.

To quote the Good Book …

“As a man sows, so shall he reap.”

You cannot plant one type of seed and produce a different type of harvest.

And because of the sheer power behind the law of Cause and Effect, one has
simply no excuse not to get rich.

“What effect do I want? The cause that I do will get the effect.”

Shifting the blame to external factors, and making excuses for a person’s
results because of external factors, is not going to lead anybody anywhere.

As the saying goes…

“You can either be good at making money, or good at making excuses.”

The two skills however, cannot co-exist.

Success requires no explanation; failure permits no alibis.

Everything in your life is a reflection of you.

I am personally of the opinion, that wealth is attracted by the sheer act

of taking full responsibility. Every time you give away an “ounce” of
responsibility by saying “It’s not my fault. It’s the …”, you wind up giving
away an ounce of control.

As Earl Nightingale said…

“Are you pleased with your present place in the world? If your answer is yes,
what’s your next port of call? If your answer is no, what are you going to do
about it?”

There’s a rather interesting story by Jack Canfield about his post-graduate

tenure with W. Clement Stone, the publisher of Success Magazine, author
of The Success System That Never Fails, and coauthor with Napoleon Hill of
Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude.

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“When I was completing my first week’s orientation, Mr. Stone asked me if I

took 100% responsibility for my life.

“I think so,” I responded.

“This is a yes or no question, young man. You either do or you don’t.”

“Well, I guess I’m not sure.”

“Have you ever blamed anyone for any circumstance in your life? Have you
ever complained about anything?”

“Uh . . . yeah . . . I guess I have.”

“Don’t guess. Think.”

“Yes, I have.”

“Okay, then. That means you don’t take one hundred percent responsibility
for your life. Taking one hundred percent responsibility means you
acknowledge that you create everything that happens to you. It means you
understand that you are the cause of all of your experience. If you want to be
really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming
and complaining and take total responsibility for your life - that means all
your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite
for creating a life of success. It is only by acknowledging that you have
created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the
future you want.”

“Do you understand that? Are you willing to take 100% responsibility for
your life?”

“Yes, sir I am.” and I did.

- Jack Canfield,
Coauthor, Chicken Soup For the Soul

So if you learn nothing else, learn this:

“You will continue to be un-prosperous as long as you depend on others to

make you prosperous.”

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“A Lobster,
When Left High And Dry Among The Rocks,
Has Not Instinct And Energy Enough
To Work His Way Back To The Sea,
But Waits For The Sea To Come To Him.
If It Does Not Come,
He Remains Where He Is And Dies,
Although The Slightest Effort Would Enable Him To Reach The Waves,
Which Are Perhaps Within A Yard Of Him.
The World Is Full Of Human
Lobsters:
Men Stranded On The Rocks
Of Indecision And
Procrastination,
Who, Instead Of Putting
Forth Their Own Energies,
Are Waiting For Some
Grand Billow Of
Good Fortune To Set Them
Afloat.”

- Dr. Orison Swett Marden

SSS

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Is Opportunity Monopolized?

N O ONE IS KEPT POOR BECAUSE OTHER PEOPLE HAVE

MONOPOLIZED THE WEALTH and have put a fence around it. You
may be shut off from engaging in business in certain lines, but there are
other channels open to you.

At different periods the tide of opportunity sets in different directions, according to

the needs of the whole and the particular stage of social evolution which has been
reached. There is abundance of opportunity for the person who will go with the tide,
instead of trying to swim against it.

So workers, either as individuals or as a class, are not deprived of opportunity. The

workers are not being “kept down” by their masters. They are not being “ground” by
the trusts and big business. As a class, they are where they are because they do not do
things in a certain way.

The working class may become the master class whenever they will begin to do things
in a certain way. The law of wealth is the same for them as it is for all others. This
they must learn, and they will remain where they are as long as they continue to do
as they do. The individual worker, however, is not held down by an entire class’s
ignorance of these laws. He can follow the tide of opportunity to riches, and this
book will tell him how.

No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in supply of riches. There is more than

enough for all. A palace as large as at Washington might be built for every family
on earth from the building materials in the United States alone, and under intensive
cultivation this country would produce wool, cotton, linen, and silk enough to clothe
each person in the world finer than Solomon was arrayed in all his glory, together
with food enough to feed them all luxuriously.

The visible supply is practically inexhaustible, and the invisible supply really is
inexhaustible.

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Everything you see on earth is made from one original substance, out of which all
things proceed. New forms are constantly being made, and older ones are dissolving,
but all are shapes assumed by one thing.

There is no limit to the supply of the formless stuff, or original substance. The
universe is made out of it but it was not all used in making the universe. The spaces
in, through and between the forms of the visible universe are permeated and filled
with the original substance, with the formless stuff – with the raw materials of all
things. Ten thousand times as much as has been made, might still be made, and even
then we should not have exhausted the supply of universal raw material.

No one, therefore, is poor because nature is poor or because there is not enough to go
around.

Nature is an inexhaustible storehouse of riches.

The supply will never run short. Original substance is alive with creative energy
and is constantly producing more forms. When the supply of building material is
exhausted, more will be produced. When the soil is exhausted so that food stuffs and
materials for clothing will no longer grow upon it, it will be renewed or more soil will
be made. When all the gold and silver has been dug from the earth, if humanity is
still in such a stage of social development that it needs gold and silver, more will be
produced from the formless. The formless stuff responds to the needs of mankind; it
will not let the world be without any good thing.

This is true of man collectively. The race as a whole is always abundantly rich, and if
individuals are poor it is because they do not follow the certain way of doing things
which makes the individual rich.

The formless stuff is intelligent. It is stuff which thinks. It is alive and is always
impelled towards more life.

It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more. It is the nature of
intelligence to enlarge itself and of consciousness to seek to extend its boundaries
and find fuller expression. The universe of forms has been made by formless living
substance throwing itself into form in order to express itself more fully.

The universe is a great living presence, always moving inherently towards more life
and fuller functioning.

Nature is formed for the advancement of life and its impelling motive is the increase
of life. Because of this, everything which can possibly minister to life is bountifully

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provided. There can be no lack unless God is to contradict himself and nullify his own
works.

You are not kept poor by lack in the supply of riches. It is a fact which I shall
demonstrate a little farther on that even the resources of the formless supply are at
the command of the man or woman who will act and think in a certain way.

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“Is Opportunity Monopolized”: Decoded

In this chapter, Wallace Wattles addresses the biggest roadblock and
limitation that most people face when it comes to attracting wealth…

Scarcity thinking.

You see…

If you are hold the mistaken world view that the amount of wealth floating
around is limited, that there’s not plenty to go around, then you probably
believe on a subconscious level that each dollar you gain comes from
someone else’s loss.

And this can be a huge impediment when it comes to attracting wealth as

your inner wealth switch will automatically be in the “off” position because
your emotions about wealth are suppressed and restricted.

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Orison Swett Marden had this to say in his book, How To Get What You Want:

“Fears and doubts repel prosperity. Abundance cannot get to a person who holds
such a mental attitude. Things that are unlike in the mental realm repel one
another. Trying to become prosperous while always talking poverty, thinking poverty,
dreading it, predicting that you will always be poor, is like trying to cure disease by
always thinking about it, picturing it, visualizing it, believing that you are always
going to be sick, that you never can be cured.”

On the other hand, if you’re able to get rid of every and any feelings of
“guilt” when it comes to attracting copious amounts of wealth, then you’ll
be able to unleash the flood gates for automatic wealth and prosperity to
start pouring into your life.

“Out of abundance He took abundance

and still abundance remained.”
- The Upanishads

The Universe is fundamentally abundant, and any scarcity exists only in

your own mind.

Remember this; it is your right to be rich.

Why not focus on your own vault and claim what rightfully belongs to you?

The more aware you become in your own mind – both consciously and
subconsciously about just how much affluence there is, and how much
money is in circulation, the easier you’ll find it to attract wealth.

So bury the words “If”, “Can’t”, “Impossible” and “Unfair”.

As Jim Rohn said, “Don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon.”

“The ocean doesn’t care.”

“At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.”

So don’t settle for any form of lack or limitation in your life.

Most of us are not aware of our possibilities.

When you become more aware - consciously and subconsciously - of just

how much affluence there is, and just how much money is in circulation,
the more easily you will attract wealth.

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Be open to receiving abundance right now.

Know that it is ok for you to become rich.

The biggest mistake you can ever make, is to beat yourself up with the idea
that your current lack of financial success is that you somehow do not
deserve it, so you need to work on yourself to become a more ‘deserving’
person.

Money is amoral.

It does not have a conscience and it doesn’t judge.

It’s just paper, and all it does is move around.

And it finds its way into the hands of a philanthropist as easily as it does a
drug dealer.

Oddly enough, money has a totally different definition of “fairness” because

it gravitates towards the individual who knows how to ‘magnetize’ it, the
way a paper clip is automatically attracted to a huge magnet.

So go ahead and embrace your natural state of abundance.

Give yourself permission to dream a big dream.

“Be not afraid, but assert the desirability of the possession and use of
money: recognize that it is your natural right to possess it, just as it is the
natural right of the plant to sunshine, light and air. And do more than this—
it belongs to you—demand it of the LAW, just as does the plant.”
Edward Beals

SSS

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Thank you for reading The Science of Getting Rich DECODED - First 3 Chapters. I do
hope it gives you a good feel on what to expect in the full edition of The Science of
Getting Rich DECODED.

Remember, Wallace D. Walters made it clear, after eliminating factors often

thought to be responsible for helping one become rich, like environment, talent,
wealth inheritance or even by being thrifty - and reminded us that, "if becoming
rich is the result of doing things in a certain way... then any man or woman who can do
things in that way can become rich".

Friend, this "secret" is what I attribute my modest financial success to - I invest a

great deal of time not only observing the things (activities) that wealthy people
do, but also how they do them. Then I simply model after them!

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