INTRODUCTION THE SECRET TO MONEY
Before I discovered The Secret, I was climbing the ladder of success in the television industry. I was living in a beautiful apartment, driving a nice car, and running a successful company of my own. After many years of struggle and sacrifice, I thought I’d finally made it—I was set for life. But then suddenly one devastating circumstance after another happened, and within a few short months my entire life had collapsed around me. My company was teetering on the brink of failure, and everything I’d worked so hard for was slipping from my grasp. I fell into despair, but it was in this very moment that I discovered a secret that not only saved my company but changed everything about my life.
I came to learn that this secret had been known by the greatest and most successful individuals throughout history. The knowledge they held allowed them to concentrate the vast majority of the world’s wealth in the hands of very few.
As I began to integrate this knowledge into my own life, I developed a completely different mindset around money that radically changed the circumstances of money in my life. I know that anything I can do, you can do too, and once you understand the principles, you will be able to change your financial circumstances.
Whether you were born in India, the United States, Germany, or Africa, the circumstances of your beginnings do not dictate the kind of life you can have. It’s not the conditions of your community or the outside world that determine whether or not your dreams will be fulfilled. Nor does it matter how much money you were born into, how educated you are, who you know, or how much experience you have. Once you put this knowledge into practice, you’ll be able to fulfill all your dreams, be financially free, and never have to worry about money again. You will begin to feel what it’s like to enjoy the freedom of unlimited wealth—your birthright.
The Secret to Money is your key to the life you have always wanted and the life you deserve. All good things are your birthright, and The Secret to Money will guide you in creating whatever you want. Welcome to the magic of life!
LESSON 1 THE SECRET TO MONEY
What is the secret to money?
That really is the million dollar question, because once you discover the secret to money, you will know the secret to life.
That’s not to suggest that money is the most important thing in life—far from it. But when you know The Secret, you will be aware that you can have anything you want in life, including happiness, health, great relationships, and of course, plenty of money.
Prosperity is your birthright, and in every area of your life you hold the key to more abundance than you can possibly imagine. And in fact, anytime you imagine yourself living in abundance, you are actually determining your life through this most powerful natural law—the law of attraction.
What Is the Law of Attraction?
The Secret is the law of attraction.
It is the law that determines the complete order in the Universe, every moment of your life, and every single thing you experience in your life. It is a universal law, as impartial and impersonal as the law of gravity. And just like gravity, the law of attraction is always in effect—it is always happening. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you are, the law of attraction is forming your entire life experience. And whether you know it or not, you are the one who calls the law of attraction into action, and you do it entirely through the magnetic power of your thoughts.
When you focus your thoughts on something, and you hold that focus, you are in that moment summoning the thing you are thinking about with the mightiest power in the Universe. Through this most powerful law, your thoughts become the things in your life. Your thoughts become things. Say this over to yourself and let it seep into your consciousness and your awareness:
Your thoughts become things!
You are like a magnet, and you attract all of the circumstances and events of your life. When you become a magnet of wealth, you attract wealth. When you become a magnet of health, you attract health. When you become a magnet of love, you attract love. You magnetize and receive the circumstances of wealth, health, love, relationships, your job, and every single event and experience in your life, based on what you are thinking. Think positive thoughts about money, and you magnetize positive circumstances, people, and events that bring more money to you. Think negative thoughts about money, and you magnetize negative circumstances, people, and events that cause you to have a lack of money. The law of attraction is unfailingly giving you every single thing in your life based on what you’re thinking. When you think, “I can’t afford it,” then by law you will continue to experience not being able to afford things. If you think, “I don’t have enough money,” then most surely you will continue to not have enough money.
The Universal Supply
Like all the laws of nature, there is utter perfection in this law. You create your life. Whatever you sow, you reap! Your thoughts are seeds, and the harvest you reap will depend on the seeds you plant.
Think of the law of attraction as the law of supply. It is the law that enables you to draw from the universal supply. The Universe is the universal supplier of everything. Everything comes from the Universe, and is delivered to you through people, circumstances, and events, by the law of attraction. When you think about what you want, the perfect people, circumstances, and events will be delivered for you to receive it. Here’s an example:
A woman in her early thirties wrote to tell me about her dream to give back to the community and to help young people achieve their goals. She had made the decision to change careers and had gone back to school to become a teacher. While studying at night, she picked up work as a substitute teacher by day at a local inner-city high school. The pay was lousy, the class sizes horrendously large, and her students cursed her out and abused her on a daily basis. Meanwhile, she was struggling under the weight of crippling student loans and credit-card debt. She would often cry at night, overwhelmed by it all, yet she never lost sight of her dream. Then, an opportunity arose to teach at an English-language school in Japan. She was promised small class sizes of enthusiastic students, and she would also be provided with an apartment. She leapt at the chance. The only problem now was that she had to clear her debts amounting to almost $40,000 in order to make the move. So she applied the law of attraction, first by writing herself a check for $40,000. Then she withdrew $200 in cash and began counting it over and over until she reached $40,000. She did this every day until large sums of money actually started rolling in. Two weeks before she was due in Japan, she received a check from her grandmother for $12,000, just because she was proud of her. Then, she was informed that $17,000 in student loans were being forgiven because she had spent time teaching in a high-needs district. And finally, she received back pay out of the blue from an ex-employer who owed her $10,000 for work she had completed a decade earlier. In a matter of days, she had raised the money she needed, having attracted the perfect people, circumstances, and events to clear her debts so that she could travel to Japan and live her dream.
Now that you know that everything comes from the Universe and that the Universe is the supplier of all things through the law of attraction, you will be very careful to watch your thoughts when you are dealing with money. Your thoughts about money are either attracting money to you or keeping money away from you.
Attract Abundance Instead of Lack
People who have drawn wealth into their lives are using The Secret, whether consciously or unconsciously. They think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and they do not allow contradictory thoughts to take root in their minds. Their predominant thoughts are of wealth. They only know wealth, and scarcity doesn’t exist in their minds. Whether they are aware of it or not, their predominant thoughts of wealth are what brought wealth to them. It is the law of attraction in action.
The reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts. Every negative thought is blocking your good from coming to you, and that includes money. It is not that the money is being kept from you by the Universe, because all the money you require exists right now in the invisible. If you do not have enough, it is because you are stopping the flow of money coming to you, and you are doing that with your thoughts. You must tip the balance of your thoughts from lack of money to more than enough money. Think more about abundance than about lack, and you have tipped the balance.
In a nutshell, as you think of yourself living in abundance, you are powerfully and consciously determining your life through the law of attraction. It’s that easy. But then the most obvious question becomes, why isn’t everybody living the life of their dreams? It’s simply because they are thinking more about what they don’t want than what they do want. Listen to your thoughts, and listen to the words you are saying. The law is absolute and there are no mistakes.
The “Don’t Want” Recession
An economic recession worse than any stock market crash the world has ever seen has been raging for centuries. It is the “don’t want” recession. People keep this recession alive when they predominantly think, speak, act, and focus on what they “don’t want.” But this is the generation that will change history, because we are receiving the knowledge that can free us! It begins with you, and you can become a pioneer of this new thought movement by simply thinking and speaking about what you do want.
When you focus your thoughts on something you don’t want, and you hold that focus, you are in that moment summoning it with the mightiest power in the Universe. The law of attraction doesn’t compute “don’t” or “not” or “no,” or any other words of negation. As you speak words of negation, the law of attraction receives a very different request.
For instance, when you say, “I don’t want to lose my clients.”
The law of attraction hears, “I want to lose my clients.”
When you say, “I don’t want to lose my job.”
The law of attraction hears, “I want to lose my job.”
When you say, “I don’t want any more bills right now.”
The law of attraction hears, “I want more bills right now.”
When you say, “I don’t want my business to fail.”
The law of attraction hears, “I want my business to fail.”
When you say, “I don’t want to lose all my money.”
The law of attraction hears, “I want to lose my money.”
When you say, “I don’t want to be audited.”
The law of attraction hears, “I want to be audited.”
The law of attraction is giving you what you are thinking about—period!
You might be surprised to find just how literal the law of attraction can be.
One young couple shared a strong desire for something they wanted more than anything else in the world—a home of their own.
However, the wife was even more adamant about what she didn’t want—a square house. Of course, we all have our preferences and our own sense of style, and this woman had a particularly strong aversion to modernist, glass box-style architecture. Well, the Universe conspired to deliver to this couple the most amazing opportunity to buy their first home—the kind of deal you just can’t refuse. The house was perfect in every single way, except for one—it was a modernist, glass box-style house. The lesson being: when you focus on what you don’t want, the Universe delivers what you don’t want.
Whatever the financial situation you are currently in, it is one that you have brought into reality through your thoughts. If it is not what you want, then you have created it unconsciously, but still you created it. When you can see this, you will understand how powerful you are at creating. And now all you have to do is create what you want, consciously!
To attract money, you must consciously focus on wealth.
Never Say, “I Can’t Afford It!”
As I mentioned earlier, often when people think about things they like, they will then sabotage themselves by thinking, “I can’t afford that!” or “I don’t have enough money for that!”
It is impossible to bring more money into your life when you are noticing you do not have enough, because that means you are thinking thoughts that you do not have enough. Focus on not enough money, and you will create untold more circumstances of not having enough money. To attract more money, you must focus on ...