By Bob Proctor

Freedom is not free (Korean Memorial wall). If you're going to live your life the way you want to live, understand the price is high and it does not come easy.

No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts. Understanding and application are the keys which will unlock the door to a truly abundant life.

Chapter 1:

• Money is the servant, you are the master. You should always love people and use money rather than the reverse.
• While good fortune is a factor in financial success, it must always be coupled with effort and hard work.
• Money is valuable only as long as it is being used. This does not mean waste it.
• People who are wealthy never feel uncomfortable when the subject of money is brought up. People don’t feel comfortable about money because they have it; they have it because they feel comfortable about it.
• They have developed a state of consciousness (prosperity consciousness). Visualize it. For when you succeed in convincing your subconscious mind that you are wealthy and it feels good to be wealthy, your subconscious mind will automatically seek ways of making your "imaginary" feelings of wealth manifest themselves in material form.
• If you want to have money one thing you should never do is worry about whether or not you will get the money you desire. Bible - "the thing I fear has come to visit upon me"
• "Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth" (Think and Grow Rich)
• Thinking is the highest function of which a human being is capable. Very few people think. They trick themselves to believe that because some mental activity is taking place, they are thinking. But the truth is most people are simply exercising the mental faculty called "memory."
• It is an absolute law of your being, that you must have something mentally before you ever have it physically
• Work from a high to low potential. Most people work from a low to high potential. (They let the result dictate their thoughts).

Thoughts...(Spirit) to Idea...(Intellectual) to Thing...(Physical)

rather than working from -

Thing...(Physical) to Thoughts...(Spirit) to Idea...(Intellectual)

• "To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all; but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing" (Abraham Lincoln).
• Visualize yourself in great wealth and feel the possession of it. Repeat "I am prosperous, I am wealthy, money is good."

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