One of the desires of all prosperous-minded people is to be self-supporting and financially independent. Poverty is a universal fear of mankind, and many people today are experiencing financial lack, despite the unprecedented prosperity of our times. Once you learn the power which you release through prosperous thinking, it will dawn upon you that the possibility of financial independence isn’t so far-fetched after all; you will realize that it isn’t just meant for the other fellow, but that it is meant for you too!
The term “financial independence” does not necessarily mean the same thing to everyone. Basically, to be financially independent means to be financially free. To one person financial independence might simply suggest a well-paying, dependable job, through which he could consistently meet his financial obligations and feel free from daily financial demands. Another person might be thinking in millionaire terms. As you progress financially, your ideas of your ideas of financial independence expand so that you wish greater and greater financial freedom.
Thus, the desire to be self-supporting and financially independent is a divine desire that has been implanted in the intellectual and emotional nature of man to help him to progress, to achieve, and to build a worthwhile life for himself. The desire for financial independence, whether it be for a decent weekly income or for a millionaire’s status, is a divine desire that should not be suppressed, but expressed constructively through the mind of man. When it is so expressed, man is then able to experience the satisfaction and fulfillment that God wants him to have.
Don’t Accept Things as They Are
Perhaps one of the great secrets of attaining financial independence was shown us by the mayor of a New England town. Several years ago a news story related the remarkable results of this man’s first year as mayor. At the time he took office, everyone was saying, “This is a dying city and nobody can save it”, and they had facts to prove it. Slums infested the downtown area, the city population was not growing, and business was leaving town. Prosperity seemed to be ancient history for this town. However, within a year the new mayor had inspired his co-workers to adopt a bold program of cleaning up the city. A slum clearance project went to work to clean out downtown slums and make way for apartment houses, shopping areas, parking lots, new office buildings and new business areas. How was this one man able to inspire so much progress and new prosperity so fast? He stated that the men on his city council were men who dared to “think big,” which got the ball rolling. The mayor also mentioned that each night he prayed for guidance. His basic attitude was this: “I won’t accept things as they are. Just because they’ve always been that way doesn’t mean they can’t be changed!”
Thus, dissatisfaction with present financial conditions is the first step toward attaining financial independence. If you can’t settle for things as they are–good! You have the power, through prosperous thought and action, to change them into something far better and more satisfying. This is your key to financial independence, if you dare to use it.
I once observed an acquaintance go from an unpleasant job into his own business, which represented financial independence to him, by boldly following through on “divine dissatisfaction.” This man had been employed since the World War in a jewelry store, but always in the back of his mind was the dream of owning his own store. Finally, disharmony and disorder arose where he was employed. After long and faithful service, he suddenly quit his job, although his employers assured him he would not be able to do as well elsewhere. This man silently reminded himself that he had no intention of doing as well elsewhere as an “employee,” but that he intended to become independent of bosses and other people’s ideas, for he would be an employer himself.
At the time this man quit his job, he had only a small amount of money saved. He also had a family and the usual financial responsibilities. Nevertheless, as soon as this man let go of the unsatisfactory financial situation, he began to feel better, more content and freer somehow. Word soon got around. A friend who had a jewelry store in another town offered him a job until he could decide about permanent work. He took the job to assure some income while he quietly made long-range plans.
A little later, still another business friend informed him that he was also dissatisfied with just being a salaried employee. He wanted to go into the jewelry business on a partnership basis. This man had a comfortable savings balance. Together these two men were able to produce the financial assets and credit standing needed to go into their financial venture.
Neither of these men could have managed this financial venture alone, but together they were able to pool their resources, financial assets, talents, and abilities. They formed a partnership and opened their own jewelry store, which has since made them both prosperous. But the first man had to let go, refuse to accept an unsatisfactory business situation first, before the right doors opened.
Emotions Are Your Go-Power
Another secret of financial independence, after we decide we will not settle for less than the best in life, is the law of concentration and conservation. Conservation of thought, energy and emotional drive are all greatly needed for financial independence. You have perhaps observed that some people seem to prosper for a period. Their businesses may even “boom,” but suddenly the bottom drops out, and they experience dire financial failure, from which they seem unable to recover. In almost every instance, if you look closely, you will discover that those people’s emotions, attitudes and way of life became scattered, thus depleting them of their previous fine ability to prosper.
Most men’s business activities prosper as long as their personal lives succeed. But when marital difficulties arise, their businesses go on the rocks, too. I recently talked with a brilliant man who has made several fortunes and lost them each time his home life disrupted, as his emotions became upset and scattered.
We are all creatures of emotion and deep feeling, and our deep feelings can “make us or break us” financially. They are your God-power and your go-power. You should guard them as you would a gold mine, because your emotions are in reality the richest gold mine you will ever own. Scattered thinking, scattered emotions, scattered actions lead to a scattering of your mind power. This in turn depletes your physical energy that is essential for prosperity; it depletes your brain energy that is needed for an intelligent course of action or plan for prosperity; it saps your emotional drive that is needed to put your prosperity plans to work.
Dare to Be Different
Conservation of thought, energy and emotional drive are all necessary for financial independence. In other words, in order to become permanently prosperous, you must dare to be different! At least, for a while. It was General Maxwell D. Taylor, the famous leader who parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, who once said that the time for daring is the moment when the stakes are high. He reminded us that we must be willing to risk much in order to win much; that indeed we must be willing to put all to the test.
But understand–this doesn’t lead to a dull life of withdrawal from the world. Instead, it leads to a joyous, satisfying life filled with congenial associations and rich experiences, a life free from non-essential activities. When you decide to become financially independent, you immediately make up your mind to cease caring “what people think” and to dare to concentrate on your goal. As you become more prosperous, you will not care what your previous associates think anyway, because you will doubtless be forming new, more satisfying, and more congenial relationships in keeping with your expanding vision.
Think Big
The most successful people think big, not limiting themselves or their associates to their ideas and opinions. If you desire to be free of a lot of limited thoughts and petty opinions, begin to think big. Concentrate on financial independence and you will “lose” the petty thinkers along the way. You will also cultivate enduring, satisfying friends who will help you up the ladder of success.
I once met a quiet little lady who is now president of a large housing project, an apartment project, and a huge suburban shopping center. Twenty years ago, the site now occupied by these homes, apartments and stores, was just a large pasture, located about a mile from the nearest highway and five miles from the nearest town.
But this little lady had a dream about her property. Twenty years ago this had seemed a rather foolish dream. She kept building the vision in her mind that one day her land would house one of the most beautiful suburban shopping centers in the country. She just quietly and boldly held that vision in mind, impossible though it seemed. Of course, such a fulfilled dream would automatically make her financially independent.
In a few years, a nearby military base was enlarged. As a result of the increased traffic from the military base to the nearest town, a new four-lane highway was built. It happened that this four-lane highway bordered on this lady’s pasture.
Almost immediately, real estate agents by the dozens began making this lady offers for the sale of her land, but she refused to sell. From a practical standpoint, it might have seemed the thing to do because the land was still undeveloped and as such almost worthless. Unlike the realtors who wanted to buy, she had not the money nor the financial assets necessary to develop her land. But still she had her dream, and she courageously held that vision of prosperous financial independence.
The years passed; the nearby town grew and grew. One day this lady noticed a contractor with his equipment and men on the property adjoining hers. Soon she was introduced to this contractor and they became friends. They talked about all her property and of its possibilities for development. She related her dream of owning a beautiful shopping center where the townspeople and the military personnel could shop with ease, without having to get involved in downtown traffic. This contractor was quite impressed by her dream. He explained to her that it was quite possible for her dream to come true, without her having to sell any part of her beloved land, which was still used as a pasture.
He pointed out the possibilities for the formation of a corporation in which she would furnish the land, while he would furnish the services of his contracting company: equipment, personnel for building and supervising the work. He advised that he had a millionaire contractor friend who would be willing to furnish the necessary cash and collateral until the building was completed and could be approved for long-term financing.
In due time they formed a corporation. Upon the advice of her two corporation partners, they first built an apartment project to relieve the critical housing shortage that had occurred in that area. Later, they built homes for rental and sale. Still later, they built a beautiful, colonial-style shopping center that includes everything from a dime store to a drive-in bank. Thus, this woman’s lowly pastureland provided for the needs of hundreds of people occupying apartments and homes. Her huge shopping center is considered one of the most beautiful in the South. All because she quietly and boldly held to a large image of success, prosperity and financial independence until others of like mind came along to help her make it come true.
Dust Off Your Dreams
If you have unfilled dreams and visions of greater prosperity and success tucked in a corner of your mind, don’t keep them there any longer. Dare to bring them out and dust them off. Dare to begin thinking of the possibilities of financial independence even if, at this point, they seem impossible of fulfillment. Should that old defeating element of fear try to whisper that there’s no possible way for your dreams of financial independence to come true, remind yourself of the rich Biblical promises.
Often you may not have succeeded because you felt that somehow you had to succeed alone and the thought overwhelmed you; it seemed easier to settle for failure. But as a very successful engineer said to me recently when I asked him what his success secret was:
I was never successful until I went into “partnership.” God is my partner and the best One I have ever had. His guidance about my financial affairs never leads me anywhere but to greater prosperity. I begin and end my day by asking for, listening for, and expecting specific guidance about all my engineering projects, and that guidance always comes.
Recently, when the president of one of this country’s leading corporations said to me, “How do you do it? How do you manage to do all that you do and never become ruffled or upset in the midst of such great demands and expectations?” he seemed rather amazed at my answer that it’s simple. God is my partner and I leave all the stress, strain and hard decisions to Him. The man answered, “You mean it really works to do such a thing? That it’s practical to trust God in such large financial matters?” My reply was, “Look, if you can’t trust God Who is all intelligence, has all-power and Who runs this rich universe, just whom can you trust?”
Truly, God opens ways where to human sense there seems to be no way. Grasp this truth and hold fast to it. Businesses have been saved, fortunes built, discoveries made, inventions perfected and the dead restored to life, after the sentence of defeat has been passed by humanity. Thank God that His goodness does not stop at the limits of our human vision. Keep steady, keep your faith, keep your courage; remember that God opens ways where to human sense there is no way!
Visualize Financial Independence
In other words, you need not undertake the fulfillment of any desire alone. You have the promise, Ask and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you; for everyone that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Most folks overlook this as a prosperity secret. Often they let riches pass them by, just because they do not ask the help of a Higher Power to learn how to attain their good.
Begin now to visualize yourself, not as just becoming more prosperous, but as becoming financially independent. Emma Curtis Hopkins has written, “Whatever is oftenest viewed with the inner eye reveals its secrets and hands out its gifts.” It is a delightful process and very stimulating to the mind, and it really is not day-dreaming if you dare to get definite in your thinking. Mrs. Hopkins has further pointed out, “Success lies in being one-pointed, and in rejecting all that distracts from one’s victorious objective.” Why be mildly prosperous when, by being mentally “one-pointed,” you can be completely free from financial care, so that you will have time and money to develop other phases of your being that can be a credit to you and to all mankind? A Texas oilman once made a fortune in a way no one expected. He went into oil fields that had already been drilled for oil and by drilling “deeper” he made a fortune in oil that no one believed was there! In the realm of prosperous thinking, you can too!
You are actually equipped to master life in its every phase! You do not have to compromise in life, if you are willing to let go of the idea of compromise. By ceasing needless activities, associations and relationships; by ceasing to be bothered with needless chatter with scatter-minded people, you will find that financial independence is right around the comer, much nearer than you previously assumed.
Conserve Your Time and Energy
Begin to discipline yourself more; conserve your time and energy; associate only with other prosperous-minded people with whom you have compatible interests. As you turn from all that is unproductive or unrelated to your high vision of prosperity; as you cease trying to please others and dare to please the “still, small voice” of progress within your own heart, you are well on the way to financial independence!
Many people want to become financially independent, but they never make the grade because they refuse to discipline themselves and their way of life, even for a time. It may seem an extreme idea to you that you must concentrate, concentrate, and concentrate on prosperity to exclusion of all else; that you should discard negative, failure-minded business associates; that you should begin fearlessly to weed out all undesirable relationships; that you should be careful with whom and how you spend your time, even your leisure time. Once you decide to try this method, you will discover that it is as though you are breaking a hard shell of limited thought, feeling, and activity. When you get past that point, you can begin enjoying a more balanced way of life again. But there is that transition period of having a “one-track mind” that thinks only of success and prosperity, after which you find yourself in a much higher financial bracket. You will discover a new zest in life, and you will be able to relax and really have fun, because you have earned it. But unless you conserve and concentrate prior to that point, you’ll never attain it.
The truth of this was recently brought to my attention by a news story reporting that a young man, who is still less than 30 years of age, has become vice-president of an insurance company. This young man decided several years ago on an objective, and he quietly started working toward it through prosperous thinking. He spent all of his spare time reading books on success, associating only with others of like mind. For a period his wife felt that perhaps he was restricting himself from social affairs which they both had enjoyed in the past. But when he explained to her why he was devoting his time to concentration upon his present and future success, she was willing to forego most social events that were time-consuming. After several years of hard work and study, this young man has reached such heights that he and his wife can again lead a more social life. Now they can truly afford the enjoyable contacts with prosperous-minded people who are their new friends.
Assume Your Financial Independence Now!
A good way to begin cultivating the expectation of financial independence, and the happy experiences it can bring, is by beginning to be financially independent for the day, week or month now before you. It is always easier for the mind to produce results that are expected in the present or immediate future. For instance, begin your day the prosperity way by affirming lavish abundance for that day, even before arising. Put prosperous thinking first, as well as last, in your day. As you awaken each morning and emotionally prepare to meet the new day, either before arising or with your morning coffee, prepare yourself by writing out, verbally affirming, or silently declaring a number of times: I expect lavish abundance every day in every way in my life and affairs. I specifically expect and give thanks for lavish abundance today! In this way you are sending prosperous thinking before you to prepare a delightful, satisfying, and worthwhile day that will run to meet you, hour by hour, with its delightful surprises and satisfactions.
As you daily develop a state of mind that believes in, expects, and experiences financial independence one day at a time, your state of mind then automatically expands, so that financial independence becomes a weekly, monthly, yearly habit. But you must start sometime in your thinking, and the daily basis is the easiest, most immediate and most satisfying, because it gives you proof positive that your prosperity is at hand, awaiting your recognition and acceptance of it.
A businessman recently told me that his business doubled after he began to concentrate his attention on the thought and expectancy of financial independence, rather than on the thought of how hard he had to work and how useless it all seemed. A young insurance executive, he discovered that thinking of and expecting lavish abundance for one day at a time was a great secret toward financial independence. Several years ago he began spending an hour each morning mentally planning his day as he wished it to be. He held in mind figures of sales he wished to obtain. Later when he was named supervisor of a group of insurance salesmen, he spent time each morning thinking of them and the amount of sales he wished them to make for the day. It was by this daily process of thinking of lavish abundance for himself and his salesmen that he worked his way up to an executive capacity in his company.
You Can Overcome Serious Obstacles
In order to become financially independent, to the extent of having a constant financial income, it is necessary to discard a number of negative attitudes. Most people can tell you in a hurry all the reasons why they cannot succeed. Yet as we look about us, we are surprised at how often the people who succeed seem to have obstacles to overcome.
There is a lady who is a polio victim who goes to her work as a private secretary in a wheel chair every day. To all appearances, she should have given up years ago when she was stricken with paralysis. But she was rehabilitated and now drives her own car. She has an interesting, worthwhile job. Through her attitude of refusing to give in to disease, she has become independent of the sickbed and makes her own way financially as well. The last time I heard from her she was also thinking of getting married!
One Spring day several years ago a young store clerk talked with me about how discouraged and uncertain he was about his future. I asked him what he really wanted to do, and he shyly replied, as though he had never dared to talk about it, “I would like to attend college so that I may teach.” I suggested to him that, through the power of prosperous thinking, all things are possible. I further suggested that he consider becoming independent, that he should positively work toward getting further education, that he should not settle for a clerk’s job, if he really wished to become a teacher.
He agreed to begin visualizing himself as attending college in the Fall, and to constantly think of lavish abundance becoming visible to meet his every need. At the suggestion that he make plans as though he would attend college in the Fall, he immediately registered at the college which he wished to attend. He studied carefully the college catalog, selecting the subjects he wished to take, and memorizing everything in that catalog about the college, its history, curriculum, faculty and other features.
As he continued to envision himself as free from what he did not want to do, and as being active in what he wished to do, an interesting thing happened. In mid-summer a relative came to him and explained that for some time he had observed him, and felt that his potential was much greater than his present work allowed. This relative then offered to make financial arrangements for this young man to attend college that Fall. With great joy this young man then confided all of his hopes and dreams to the relative, who was happy to learn of his foresight.
Recently that young man informed me that he will receive his degree within a few months. All this came about because he dared to become independent in his thinking, and to vision great good as possible for him.
Techniques for Becoming Financially Independent
Begin now to mentally accept the vision of financial independence for yourself and those you hold dear by filling your mind with pictures of the life you would like to lead, rather than being hypnotized by the life you seem to be leading at the moment. But keep your high visions of financial independence to yourself. Start doing whatever little or big thing you can to help your high vision to come true.
Let me share with you a simple, practical technique for helping you to begin today to become more prosperous. If you keep up the practice of this one simple technique, it will lead to greater prosperity, and it can surely lead to financial independence as well! It is this: The ancients believed the number “ten” had a magic power of increase. Thus, beginning right now, whenever you think about money, whether it be income, outgo, the amount in your checking account, the amount in your wallet, the amount in your savings or investments–begin mentally increasing your supply by thinking of ten times that amount coming to you. This is a delightful and fascinating technique for increasing your money.
For instance, look in your wallet. Suppose there is $5 there. Look at it and declare: I give thanks that this $5 is but a symbol of the inexhaustible substance of the universe. I give thanks that ten times this much or $50 is now on its way to me and quickly manifests in perfect ways. Multiply every figure that presents itself to you by ten, and begin expecting the multiplied amount to come to you. In that way, you begin to think of how much you have and how much is coming, rather than the usual deadly thought that you haven’t enough. By multiplying everything by ten, your thinking automatically shifts from lack to prosperity. Since the mind quickly responds to definite figures, it will seem as though heaven and earth are working to propel money in your direction.
Look at the balance in your checkbook. Perhaps $50 is there. Instead of thinking, “This isn’t enough to pay the bills,” change the thought to: This is but a symbol of the rich substance of the universe that is available to me. I give thanks that ten times this much, or $500, is now on its way to me and quickly manifests to meet every demand. In like manner, when the bills begin flowing in around the first of the month, do not think, “This bill of $20 is much too high this month. We simply must cut down on expenses.” Change the thought to: $20 is but a symbol of the rich substance of the universe that is now available to me. I give thanks that ten times this much, or $200, is now on its way to me and it quickly appears, so that every financial obligation is immediately and completely met with the rich substance of the universe.
After multiplying your money by ten mentally, if there is a financial need, it is good to go ahead sending forth whatever substance is on hand to meet it. That opens the way for the multiplied amounts to begin flowing in. The outflow makes way for the inflow.
With every financial transaction that presents itself to you, multiply it by ten, giving thanks that ten times that much is coming to you for your private use. It is the quickest, surest, most delightful way to get your Ph.D. in prosperous thinking!
A saleswoman who heard about this prosperous principle decided to immediately put it to work. The night she heard it explained, she had a dollar in her pocket. She took it out, looked at it, and thought, “Ten times this much is immediately coming to me. Ten dollars now manifests.” She then gave the dollar as an offering at the close of the lecture. The next day she continued multiplying the total figure of every sale she made by ten. The result was that she sold more during that one day than did all the employees on two other floors of the same store. That night when she arrived home, there were two $5 checks which had arrived in the mail. They were gifts that were totally unexpected. Thus, her dollar had produced ten dollars for her, and her selling power had mushroomed that day through her use of the magic number ten.
You can take this same idea even further, once you get it fully established in your mind and working for you. A doctor who heard this principle explained, thought quietly, “Why should I settle for the multiplying power of ten? Why wouldn’t the number one hundred, which is ten times ten, be even more powerful in multiplying power?” And so he decided to test it out. He, too, gave a dollar love offering at the conclusion of a lecture he heard on this subject, thinking, “I am giving; thereby invoking the law of receiving. I expect to receive one hundred times this amount, or $100. I give thanks that it appears in perfect ways.” The next afternoon, a woman walked into his office, handed him a check and said, “I do not owe you any money because I have not needed treatment from you recently. However, I am greatly impressed with the help you have been able to give several members of my family recently. They have been completely restored to health through your treatment. In appreciation I would like to share a portion of some money that recently came to me unexpectedly!” The check she gave him was for $100!
A housewife, upon hearing of the multiplying power of ten, thought as did the doctor, and decided to multiply the dollar in her pocketbook by one hundred, instead of by ten. Within two days, she received a check for $100 from a business associate who had long been owing her the money!
What freedom this one simple technique gives you from the thought of lack, poverty and “not enough”! It completely changes your attitude to: “This is a rich universe, and there’s plenty for you and for me.”
Further Aids in Establishing Financial Independence
Along with multiplying every financial figure by ten, or by ten times ten, I suggest that you do a number of other things to aid in establishing your vision of financial independence. Begin now filling your mind with pictures of the life you would like to lead when you are financially able. Study newspapers and magazines carrying luxurious advertisements of the clothes, the homes, the hobbies, and other things in life which you wish to have and experience. Build, build, build your inner mental pictures of your life free from financial worry, free for travel, hobbies, worthwhile accomplishments and congenial associations. As for the talents and abilities you would like to develop, begin studying books and filling your mind with the pictures of fulfillment along that line. Think of the organizations you would like to help, and the good you would like your riches to accomplish.
Build the mental picture of financial independence also for your loved ones, in your own thinking. Mentally behold the whole world financially independent. Free yourself, and begin to free mass thought all that is less than rich, financial independence. Millions of people all over the world are slaves to war, crime, delinquency, ill health, and the godlessness of Communism because they ignorantly believe that their wealth lies outside themselves, leaving them wholly dependent upon others.
Dissolve this ignorant, destructive, hypnotic belief for others, as well as for yourself, by daring to accept the glorious truth that financial independence is one of the God-given rights of all mankind, which you can help to bring forth by your own attitudes, actions, and reactions.
You should also begin building your expectancy and faith in financial independence by studying the subject of finance, economics, and investments. You should also literally pray for financial independence. Realize in your thinking that you are not bound to the wheel of work, day in and day out. You are not a servant to riches, but a radiant son of the God of universal abundance!
Your Ten Lucky Steps
To help you gain financial independence on a steady basis, I wish to share with you the following formula, which I like to call the “ten lucky steps” to prosperous thinking and financial independence:
1. Get quiet, meditate, and ask your loving Father if there I is any reason why you should not become financially independent. (This act will remove all uncertainty from your mind, for it is uncertainty that delays your success.)
2. Having decided to achieve financial independence and having gotten a sense of peace about the Tightness of it for you, make a mental picture of the highest degree of it that you wish to experience. Mentally image the amount of income you wish and how you will live when you are independent. Build as detailed a mental picture of financial independence as possible. The more you think about it, the more detailed your mental picture will become. Think of the kind of home you wish, the type of clothes you wish to wear, the activities you wish to experience, the places you wish to visit.
3. Build the mental picture of what you really want, not what someone else wants you to have, or what you think it is your duty to have–but what you really want. Many people lead miserable lives of failure because they try to please others. Your life is a divine gift for you to live, not for someone else to live for you. Only what you sincerely want can make you happy. Build mental pictures upon that and nothing less.
4. Say little to anyone about your inner plans, because others can always tell you how they think you should live your life, but they can’t live it for you successfully. Keep your success plans to yourself. Do not dissipate them, or subject them to a crosscurrent, by giving others a chance to tear them apart.
5. Proceed as you feel led to take the first steps toward your mental pictures of financial independence. Do whatever little or big things you can to gain the feeling that you are already on the way toward it. Set a time limit and plan to achieve certain things within six months, others within a year, and others within two years. Set a date when you plan to achieve complete financial independence.
6. Do not become anxious, excited, or emotionally upset if affairs do not immediately begin producing the results you desire. Do not try to force or hurry your mental image into fulfillment. Anxious, excited, emotional, hurried, forced states of mind produce violent results that are seldom satisfactory, and they can be most discouraging and destructive.
7. Instead of caring what people say or think, quietly continue to persevere in making your mental image of financial independence come forth, in whatever ways are revealed to you. Remind yourself often that you are working with the rich substance of the universe through prosperous thinking, and that you cannot fail, because the laws of the universe are immutable and cannot fail. Thus, nothing can prevent your success from manifesting, as you keep thinking and working toward it.
8. Realize that your dreams of financial independence have already become true on the mental plane, by the time you desire them or become aware of them. Thus, your great good is as much yours before it becomes visible as it is afterwards, but it is up to you to bring it into visibility. You can do so by declaring: Divine Substance, give me this now in Thine Own Perfect Way, or Divine Substance, now meet this demand in Thine Own Perfect Way. It is mine now and quickly manifests in satisfying ways. Never say, “It can never happen,” but, “This, or something better, now manifests.”
9. Remind yourself often that if others have attained financial independence, so can you. What one has done, many can do. What can be done in small degree can, with persistence, frequency, and earnestness be done in an unlimited degree. It’s up to you.
10. Remind yourself often that every good thing already exists in the realm of substance. Through your high expectancy, mental images, and prosperous thought and action, you become master of the realm of substance, and can bring forth whatever you wish from it. The history of the world shows that every mental demand of man has been met. Make yours now, stick to it, and you shall succeed!
It may not happen overnight, yet it can. It will happen if you dare to persist in expecting, envisioning, and mentally accepting the idea of financial independence for yourself and all people. At first, it may take some effort on your part to begin believing success is prosperous thought held, every vision entertained, every rich mental possible for you, but the fruits of that effort will make it worth every prosperous thought held, every vision entertained, every rich mental picture you have built. Declare often: Every day in every way I am becoming financially independent, with the help of God. It will surely come!