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The Advancing Personality
WHAT I HAVE SAID IN THE LAST CHAPTER APPLIES as well to the professional person and the wageearner
as to the person who is engaged in selling or any other form of business.
No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to
others and make them sensible of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich. The
physician who holds the vision of himself as a great and successful healer, and who works toward the
complete realization of that vision with faith and purpose, as described in former chapters, will come
into such close touch with the source of life that he will be phenomenally successful; patients will come
to him in throngs.
No one has a greater opportunity to carry into effect the teaching of this book than the practitioner
of medicine. It does not matter to which of the various schools he may belong, for the principle of
healing is common to all of them and may be reached by all alike. The “advancing man” in medicine,
who holds to a clear mental image of himself as successful, and who obeys the laws of faith, purpose, and
gratitude, will cure every curable case he undertakes.
In the field of religion, the world cries out for the clergyman who can teach his hearers the true
science of abundant life. He who masters the details of the science of getting rich, together with the
allied sciences of being well, of being great, and of winning love, and who teaches these details from the
pulpit, will never lack for a congregation. This is a gospel that the world needs; it will give increase of
life, and people will hear it gladly and give liberal support to the person who brings it to them.
What is now needed is a demonstration of the science of life from the pulpit. We want preachers
who can not only tell us how, but who in their own persons will show us how. We need the preacher who
will himself be rich, healthy, great, and beloved, to teach us how to attain to these things, and when he
comes he will find a numerous and loyal following.
The same is true of the teacher who can inspire the children with the faith and purpose of the
advancing life. He will never be “out of a job.” And any teacher who has this faith and purpose can give
it to his pupils. He cannot help giving it to them if it is part of his own life and practice.
What is true of the teacher, preacher, and physician is true of the lawyer, dentist, real estate agent,
insurance agent — of everybody.
The combined mental and personal action I have described is infallible; it cannot fail. Every man
and woman who follows these instructions steadily, perseveringly, and to the letter, will get rich. The
law of the increase of life is as mathematically certain in its operation as the law of gravity. Getting rich
is an exact science.
The wage-earner will find this as true of his case as of any of the others mentioned. Do not feel that
you have no chance to get rich because you are working where there is no visible opportunity for
advancement, where wages are small and the cost of living high. Form your clear mental vision of what
you want, and begin to act with faith and purpose.
Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner.
Put the power of success and the purpose to get rich into everything that you do.
But do not do this merely with the idea of currying favor with your employer, in the hope that he,
or those above you, will see your good work and advance you. It is not likely that they will do so.
The person who is merely a “good” worker, filling his place to the very best of his ability and
satisfied with that, is valuable to his employer, and it is not to the employer’s interest to promote him.
He is worth more where he is.
To secure advancement, something more is necessary than to be too large for your place.
The person who is certain to advance is the one who is too big for his place, who has a clear
concept of what he wants to be, who knows that he can become what he wants to be, and who is
determined to BE what he wants to be.
Do not try to more than fill your present place with a view to pleasing your employer. Do it with
the idea of advancing yourself. Hold the faith and purpose of increase during work hours, after work
hours, and before work hours. Hold it in such a way that every person who comes in contact with you,
whether foreman, fellow worker, or social acquaintance, will feel the power of purpose radiating from
you — so that everyone will get the sense of advancement and increase from you. People will be attracted
to you, and if there is no possibility for advancement in your present job, you will very soon see
an opportunity to take another job.
There is a power which never fails to present opportunity to the advancing personality who is
moving in obedience to law. God cannot help helping you if you act in a certain way. He must do so in
order to help himself.
There is nothing in your circumstances or in the industrial situation that can keep you down. If
you cannot get rich working for the steel trust, you can get rich on a ten-acre farm. And if you begin to
move in the certain way, you will certainly escape from the “clutches” of the steel trust and get on to the
farm or wherever else you wish to be.
If a few thousands of its employees would enter upon the certain way, the steel trust would soon be
in a bad plight. It would have to give its workers more opportunity or go out of business. Nobody has to
work for a trust. The trusts can keep people in so called hopeless conditions only so long as there are
people who are ignorant of the science of getting rich or too intellectually slothful to practice it.
Begin this way of thinking and acting, and your faith and purpose will make you quick to see any
opportunity to better your condition. Such opportunities will speedily come, for the supreme power,
working in all and working for you, will bring them before you.
Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be. When an opportunity to be more
than you are now is presented and you feel impelled toward it, take it. It will be the first step toward a
greater opportunity.
There is no such thing possible in this universe as a lack of opportunities for the person who is
living the advancing life.
It is inherent in the constitution of the cosmos that all things shall be for him and work together
for his good, and he must certainly get rich if he acts and thinks in the certain way. So let wage-earning
men and women study this book with great care and enter with confidence upon the course of action it
prescribes. It will not fail. |
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