Every Friday I'll be adding a little inspirational article, Feel free to print them out, or even copy any excerpts that you find motivational. This week it's about oppertunities and what we do with them.
No man is kept poor because opportunity has been taken away
from him; 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. Probably it would be hard for you to
get control of any of the great railroad systems; that field
is pretty well monopolized. But the electric railway
business is still in its infancy, and offers plenty of scope
for enterprise; and it will be but a very few years until
traffic and transportation through the air will become a
great industry, and in all its branches will give employment
to hundreds of thousands, and perhaps to millions, of
people. Why not turn your attention to the development of
aerial transportation, instead of competing with J.J. Hill
and others for a chance in the steam railway world?
It is quite true that if you are a workman in the employ of
the steel trust you have very little chance of becoming the
owner of the plant in which you work; but it is also true
that if you will commence to act in a Certain Way, you can
soon leave the employ of the steel trust; you can buy a farm
of from ten to forty acres, and engage in business as a
producer of foodstuffs. There is great opportunity at this
time for men who will live upon small tracts of land and
cultivate the same intensively; such men will certainly get
rich. You may say that it is impossible for you to get the
land, but I am going to prove to you that it is not
impossible, and that you can certainly get a farm if you
will go to work in a Certain Way.
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. At present, in America, it is setting toward
agriculture and the allied industries and professions. To-
day, opportunity is open before the farmer in his line more
than before the factory worker in his line. It is open
before the business man who supplies the farmer more than
before the one who supplies the factory worker; and before
the professional man who waits upon the farmer more than
before the one who serves the working class.
There is abundance of opportunity for the man who will go
with the tide, instead of trying to swim against it.
So the factory 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 combinations of capital. As a class, they are
where they are because they do not do things in a Certain
Way. If the workers of America chose to do so, they could
follow the example of their brothers in Belgium and other
countries, and establish great department stores and co-
operative industries; they could elect men of their own
class to office, and pass laws favoring the development of
such co-operative industries; and in a few years they could
take peaceable possession of the industrial field.
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 the ignorance or the mental slothfulness
of his class; 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 the supply of
riches; there is more than enough for all. A palace as large
as the capitol at Washington might be built for every family
on earth from the building material 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.
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 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 material 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 man, 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 foodstuffs
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 man is still in
such a stage of social development that he needs gold and
silver, more will produced from the Formless. The Formless
Stuff responds to the needs of man; it will not let him 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 man rich.
The Formless Stuff is intelligent; it is stuff which thinks.
It is alive, and is always impelled toward 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 toward more life and fuller functioning.
Nature is formed for the advancement of life; its impelling
motive is the increase of life. For this cause, everything
which can possibly minister to life is bountifully 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 will act and think in a Certain Way.
This is an article by Wallace D. Wattles This is so true in life or business. It's about your mindset. Keep positive thoughts, mix with positive people, never think you know it all. Listen more than you tal .. and you will grow. Your business will grow.
Till next time .. The business coach
