CHAPTER 8

DECISION

THE MASTERY OF PROCRASTINATION

The Seventh Step toward Riches

ACCURATE analysis of over 25,000 men and women who had

experienced failure, disclosed the fact that LACK OF DECISION was near

the

head of the list of the 30 major causes of FAILURE. This is no mere

statement of a

theory— it is a fact.

CHAPTER 7

ORGANIZED PLANNING

THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF DESIRE INTO ACTION

The Sixth Step toward Riches

You have learned that everything man creates or acquires, begins in the

form of DESIRE, that desire is taken on the first lap of its journey, from the

abstract to the concrete, into the workshop of the IMAGINATION, where

PLANS

for its transition are created and organized.

In Chapter two, you were instructed to take six definite, practical steps, as

your first move in translating the desire for money into its monetary

equivalent.

CHAPTER 6

IMAGINATION

THE WORKSHOP OF THE MIND

The Fifth Step toward Riches

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans

created by man. The impulse, the DESIRE, is given shape, form, and

ACTION

through the aid of the imaginative faculty of the mind.

CHAPTER 5

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE

PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OR

OBSERVATIONS

The Fourth Step toward Riches

THERE are two kinds of knowledge. One is general, the other is

specialized. General knowledge, no matter how great in quantity or variety

it

may be, is of but little use in the accumulation of money. The faculties of

the

great universities possess, in the aggregate, practically every form of

general

knowledge known to civilization. Most of the professors have but little or

no money.

CHAPTER 4

AUTO-SUGGESTION

THE MEDIUM FOR INFLUENCING THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

The Third Step toward Riches

AUTO-SUGGESTION is a term which applies to all suggestions and all

self-administered stimuli which reach one's mind through the five senses.

Stated

in another way, auto-suggestion is self-suggestion. It is the agency of

communication between that part of the mind where conscious thought

takes

place, and that which serves as the seat of action for the subconscious

mind.

CHAPTER 3

FAITH

VISUALIZATION OF, AND

BELIEF IN ATTAINMENT OF

DESIRE

The Second Step toward Riches

FAITH is the head chemist of the mind. When FAITH is blended with the

vibration of thought, the subconscious mind instantly picks up the

vibration,

translates it into its spiritual equivalent, and transmits it to Infinite

Intelligence,

as in the case of prayer.

CHAPTER 2

DESIRE

THE STARTING POINT OF ALL ACHIEVEMENT

The First Step toward Riches

WHEN Edwin C. Barnes climbed down from the freight train in Orange,

N. J., more than thirty years ago, he may have resembled a tramp, but his

thoughts were those of a king!

As he made his way from the railroad tracks to Thomas A. Edison's office,

his mind was at work. He saw himself standing in Edison's presence. He

heard

himself asking Mr. Edison for an opportunity to carry out the one

CONSUMING

OBSESSION OF HIS LIFE, a BURNING DESIRE to become the business

associate

of the great inventor.

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

THE MAN WHO "THOUGHT"

HIS WAY INTO PARTNERSHIP

WITH THOMAS A. EDISON

TRULY, "thoughts are things," and powerful things at that, when they are

mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE

for

their translation into riches, or other material objects.