Well I finally got my hands on 'The Instant Millionaire" by Mark Fisher. Recall that this book was personally recommended to me by Mr John Carter during our hallway conversation at the New York Trader's Expo in February. The book tells the story of a young man who seeks the advice and counsel of an old millionaire about how to become a millionaire himself. The story is told so simply and so beautifully, we don't even learn the names of the characters, and indeed their names are not important.
Anyway, the book is full of so many profound yet simple truths, I don't want to take away from the book itself. Its easily worth the $10 you pay for it on Amazon.com. But here are a few important truths I took away from the early chapters:
1) You have to want to be wealthy
2) You have to believe that you can become wealthy, otherwise what chance to you have to actually become wealthy?
3) You can trick your subconscious mind into believing things that may not actually true into order to get what you want. And once you achieve that, favorable circumstances can manifest themselves almost by magic.
Now there's a lot here so just bear with me while I deal with these points one a time.
As for the first point - who would not want to be wealthy?
Well the Christian Bible has a line where Jesus says "Its easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle then for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven". Also statements in the bible prevent charging of interest in the spirit of not making a profit from other people's misfortune. Now certainly many fortunes have been made by exploiting the misfortune of others. But in the modern economy, we don't need to do that. Point is that your attitude toward money influences whether your get it.
Poverty is not a virtue. Wanting to have money is not about arrogance, or power or greed. Its about getting what you want out of life and enjoying all it has to offer. You deserve to be wealthy, and your not going to get there unless you want it and expect it.
As for second point, you have to believe you can become wealthy.
This one pretty much speaks for itself, if you don't believe it can happen it most likely will not happen. Make it So! as captain Jean Luc Picard would say.
As for the final point, the subconscious mind is very powerful and not entirely rational. The subconscious mind reveals itself in dreams and I have had the dream many times that I can fly. Call it an out of body experience or what, I don't know. It even got to the point that my subconscious mind was mocking my conscious mind saying "See, and you thought you could not fly ha ha." Then I woke up and, I was disappointed to find out that I could not fly after all.
Anyway the term Manifest is used to describe a situation where you think about something, and magically appears. There was a scene in a movie called 'Sphere' where an alien presence was causing the worst fears of the human crew members to turn into evil and deadly sea creatures. In this case, the alien presence was giving the humans the super-human ability to manifest objects through the power of their minds alone.
Well as it turns out, you too have the ability to Manifest. And once you decide what you want, turn it into a mantra and repeat it out loud many times a day for several days. Sooner or later, your subconscious mind will get the hint and find a way to get it done. The message is not much different that those taught by motivational speakers such as Dr Wayne Dyer and Tony Robbins and others. You can change your life by changing your mind.
One final point in the book is that I have always thought my interest in getting wealthy and my interest in spiritual advancement were somehow at odds. In other words, to develop spiritually you have to some how take a vow of poverty and renounce all your worldly possession. But now I see now that the millionaire himself is a deeply spiritual man and that the millionaire is me.
Go figure out what you want, and manifest it. And enjoy your weekend.
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