Law Of Attraction

The Power of Giving It was a really hot summer’s day many years ago. I was on myway to pick up two items at the grocery store. In those days, I was afrequent visitor to the supermarket because there never seemed to beenough money for a whole week’s food-shopping at once.You see, my young wife, after a tragic battle with cancer, haddied just a few months earlier. There was no insurance -- just manye...
The Greatest Money-Making Secret in History!

The Great Secret To Activating The Law
The lady on the phone had a question.
"I’ve been giving money away for years and I haven't seen my
own prosperity grow at all. What am I doing wrong?''
'Where are you giving money?''
"To my local church.''
"Why are you giving them money?'' I asked.
"They need it.''
"How do you feel when you give it to them?''
"Like I am helping them out of a hole.''
"But how do you really feel when you give them money?''
There was a moment of silence.
"Well, it's a pain,'' she admitted. "I cringe when I write them a
check.''
Not good.
"If you feel lousy when you give money, then you are
associating money with bad feelings,'' I explained. "You probably
don't want to attract more bad feelings, so you probably won't
attract much more money, either.''
"Wow. I never thought of it that way.''
"And if you give because someone asked for it or even pleaded
for it, then you are reinforcing need,'' I explained. "In order for you
to experience increased wealth, you want to give money wherever it
makes you feel good to do so. In other words, giving to someone
who needs it is a noble thing to do. Do it. But that's not the principle
I'm talking about here.''
"I get it!'' she said. I couldn't help but think some other part of
the universe was helping her understand what I couldn't explain.
"What did you get?'' I asked.
"I've been keeping the church in a begging mode,'' she said.
"My heart wants to give money to wherever I feel spiritual
nourishment. Sometimes that's my church. Sometimes it's not.''
"You got it!'' I said.
And there you have it.
You can give money to any causes you like. I've helped The
Red Cross, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, cancer funds, and more.
But I didn't expect my finances to increase from that giving. That
generosity was helping, yes, but not necessarily activating spiritual
law.
The spiritual law of financial income seems to happen when
you give money freely to wherever you get your spiritual
nourishment, with a small expectation that somehow, some way,
some day, your finances will increase as a result.
Giving to worthy causes might activate the law if you feel you
received spiritual nourishment from those causes. But if you didn’t,
and you give anyway, you are probably just helping people in need.
That, of course, is noble. I say do it.
Again, the subject of this book is the greatest money-making
secret in history. And you activate that secret when you give freely,
joyously, to wherever you currently get spiritual nourishment and
nurturing.

"Money is an outer form of spiritual substance.''
-- Georgiana Tree West, Prosperity's Ten Commandments

The Great Back-Door Secret to Wealth
I received a check in the mail today from a long-lost friend.
The check is for only a portion of the money he owes me. But
since he took almost ten years to send this amount, I am glad to see
it.
Ten years ago he hired me to write a detailed marketing strategy
for him. At that time, I charged a few thousand dollars for such a
service. He agreed to it and said he would pay. I did the work and he
didn't pay.
Because he was my friend, I let the invoice slide. Months went
by. Then years. Then he moved to another state. And I moved to
another city. He went on his way in life and basically dropped out of
my awareness. I went on my own way and fairly quickly became
somewhat famous on the Internet for my books and tapes.
One day a few months ago I received an email from someone
who wanted to co-author a book with me. He said he knew some of
my friends, and mentioned the one who owed me money.
As soon as I saw my old friend’s name, my blood pressure rose.
I felt myself get angry. I felt ripped off. Betrayed. Hurt.
I took some deep breaths and calmed myself down. I talked to
myself. I reminded myself that the universe is a big place (some
understatement) and that wealth can come from many avenues, not
just from past invoices. I decided to forgive my friend. And I did,
mentally. I sincerely let him and his debt go. I didn't need the
money. And I didn't need to be right.
After maybe nine years, my friend sent me an email. He said he
knew he owed me money. He explained that he had tough times,
that he had moved, that he was trying to make it as a professional
speaker. He added that he wanted to bring peace to our old
friendship.
I wrote him a brief note saying we already had peace. I also
invited him to pay off his invoice by sending me a check for a tiny
percentage of what he owed me (about twenty percent, as I recall).
He agreed.
Well, he didn't send me a check. Not right away, anyway.
Several more months passed before I heard from him again. This
time it was another email, and this time he was again explaining his
situation to me.
I remained at peace. I knew I would have money. It didn't have
to come from him. The universe---whatever you want to call that
power bigger than you or I---would see that money came to me as
long as I stayed in the flow. And being at peace is a good way to
stay in the flow.
And, as I explained in the beginning of this chapter, the check
arrived today.
I have no idea how my old friend felt as he wrote that check. I
hope he did it with a heart full of joy. If so, he activated the moneyattracting
principle.
I know when I wrote a check for $500 to my brother, who had
helped me out of a bind twenty years before and I finally paid him
off, I felt exhilarated. Writing that check to Ted made me feel like a
king. And it gave me such an inner sense of peace that that alone
was worth a million dollars.
I'm calling this sense of peace---or forgiveness, if you will---a
back-door secret to wealth.
Where in your life are you holding grudges because someone
owes you money? Or maybe because you owe someone money?
Let it go. Talk to yourself. Allow yourself the heavenly
awareness that the universe provides, not your friends. Money
doesn't come to you from them, it comes to you through them.
Once you can let the grudges go, you free yourself to receive.

The Power of GivingIt was a really hot summer’s day many years ago. I was on myway to pick up two items at the grocery store. In those days, I was afrequent visitor to the supermarket because there never seemed to beenough money for a whole week’s food-shopping at once.You see, my young wife, after a tragic battle with cancer, haddied just a few months earlier. There was no insurance -- just manye...
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If You Want Money - Give It Away
If you want money, you only have to do one thing.
It’s the one thing some of the wealthiest people on the planet
have done and are doing.
It’s the one thing written about in various ancient cultures and
still promoted today.
It’s the one thing that will bring money to anyone who does it
but at the same time most people will fear doing it.
What is that one thing?
John D. Rockefeller did it since he was a child. He became a
billionaire.
Andrew Carnegie did it, too. He became a tycoon.
What is the greatest money-making secret in history?
What is the one thing that works for everyone?
Give money away.
That’s right. Give it away.
Give it to people who help you stay in touch with your inner
world.
Give it to people who inspire you, serve you, heal you, love
you.
Give it to people without expecting them to return it, but give it
knowing it will come back to you multiplied from some source.
In 1924 John D. Rockefeller wrote to his son and explained his
practice of giving away money. He wrote, "...in the beginning of
getting money, away back in my childhood, I began giving it away,
and continued increasing the gifts as the income increased..."
Did you notice what he said?
He gave away more money as he received more income. He
gave away $550 million dollars in his lifetime.
Some people think Rockefeller started giving away dimes as a
publicity stunt to improve his image. That’s not true. The public
relations man who worked for Rockefeller was Ivy Lee. In Courtier
To The Crowd, a great biography of Lee, Ray Eldon Hiebert states
Rockefeller had been giving money away for decades on his own.
All Lee did was let the public know.
P.T. Barnum gave money away, too. As I wrote in my book on
him, There’s A Customer Born Every Minute, Barnum believed in
what he called a "profitable philanthropy." He knew giving would
lead to receiving. He, too, became one of the world’s richest men.
Andrew Carnegie gave enormously, too. Of course, he became
one of the richest men in America’s history.
Bruce Barton, cofounder of the famous BBDO advertising
agency and the key subject of my book The Seven Lost Secrets of
Success also believed in giving. In 1927 he wrote:
“If a man practices doing things for other people until it
becomes so much a habit that he is unconscious of it, all the good
forces of the universe line up behind him and whatever he
undertakes to do.”
Barton became a best-selling author, business celebrity,
contributor to numerous causes, and very, very, wealthy.
While some might argue that these early tycoons had the money
to give, so it was easy for them, I would argue that they got the
money in part because they were willing to freely give. The giving
led to the receiving. The giving led to more wealth.
I’ll repeat that:
The giving led to the receiving.
The giving led to more wealth.
Today it’s fashionable for businesses to give money to worthy
causes. It makes them look good and of course it helps those who
receive it. Anita Roddick’s Body Shop stores, Ben Cohen and Jerry
Greenfield’s ice cream, and Yvon Chouinard’s Patagonia, are living
examples of how giving can be good for business.
But what I’m talking about here is individual giving. I’m talking
about you giving money so you will receive more money.
If there’s one thing I think people do wrong when they practice
giving, is they give too little. They hold on to their money and let it
trickle out when it comes to giving. And that’s why they aren’t
receiving. You have to give, and give a lot, to be in the flow of life
to receive.
I remember when I first heard about the idea of giving. I
thought it was a scheme to get me to give money to the people who
were telling me to do the giving.
If I did give, it was like a miser. Naturally, what I got in return
was equivalent to what I gave. I gave little. I got little.
But then one day I decided to test the theory of giving.
I love inspiring stories. I read them, listen to them, share them,
and tell them. I decided to thank Mike Dooley of www.tut.com for
the inspiring messages he shares with me and others every day by
email.
I decided to give him some money. In the past I would have
given him maybe five dollars. But that’s when I came from scarcity
and feared the giving principle wouldn’t work. This time would be
different. I took out my checkbook and wrote a check for one
thousand dollars.
It was the largest single contribution I had ever made in my life
at that time.
Yes, it made me a tiny bit nervous. But it mostly made me
excited. I wanted to make a difference. I wanted to reward Mike.
And I wanted to see what would happen.
Mike was stunned. He got my check in the mail and nearly
drove off the road as he headed home. He couldn’t believe it. He
even called me and thanked me. I enjoyed his boyish surprise. It
made me feel like a million bucks. (Note that!)
I loved making him so happy. I delighted in giving the money
to him. Whatever he did with it was fine with me. What I got was an
incredible feeling of helping someone continue doing what I
believed in. It was an inner rush to help him. I still rejoice at sending
him the money.
And then something wonderful began to happen.
I suddenly got a call from a person who wanted me to co-author
his book, a job that ended up paying me many times over what I had
given away.
And then a publisher in Japan contacted me, wanting to buy the
translation rights to my best-selling book, Spiritual Marketing.
They, too, offered me many times what I had given Mike as a gift.
A true skeptic can say these events are unrelated. Maybe in the
skeptic’s mind, they aren’t. In mine, they are.
When I gave money to Mike, I sent a message to myself and to
the world that I was prosperous and in the flow. I also set up a
magnetic principle that attracted money to me: As you give, so you
will get.
Give time and you’ll get time.
Give products and you’ll get products.
Give love and you’ll get love.
Give money and you’ll get money.
This one tip alone can transform your finances. Think of the
person or persons who have inspired you over the last week. Who
made you feel good about yourself, your life, your dreams, or your
goals?
Give that person some money. Give them something from your
heart. Don’t be stingy. Come from abundance, not scarcity. Give
without expecting return from that person, but do expect return.
As you do, you will see your own prosperity grow.
That’s the Greatest Money-Making Secret in History!
"If you see it, touch it.
If you touch it, feel it.
If you feel it, love it.
If you love it...Give it."
Because NOTHING speaks to the UNIVERSE louder, of your
BELIEF in self, abundance, and love, than giving.
And when the Universe hears, more will be added unto you. NOT AS
A REWARD, but because you truly believed... in self, abundance,
and love.
-- from www.tut.com

The Power of Giving
It was a really hot summer’s day many years ago. I was on my
way to pick up two items at the grocery store. In those days, I was a
frequent visitor to the supermarket because there never seemed to be
enough money for a whole week’s food-shopping at once.
You see, my young wife, after a tragic battle with cancer, had
died just a few months earlier. There was no insurance -- just many
expenses and a mountain of bills. I held a part-time job, which
barely generated enough money to feed my two young children.
Things were bad -- really bad.
And so it was that day, with a heavy heart and four dollars in
my pocket, I was on my way to the supermarket to purchase a gallon
of milk and a loaf of bread. The children were hungry and I had to
get them something to eat. As I came to a red traffic light, I noticed
on my right a young man, a young woman and a child on the grass
next to the road. The blistering noonday sun beat down on them
without mercy.
The man held up a cardboard sign which read, "Will Work for
Food." The woman stood next to him. She just stared at the cars
stopped at the red light. The child, probably about two years old, sat
on the grass holding a one-armed doll. I noticed all this in the thirty
seconds it took for the traffic light to change to green.
I wanted so desperately to give them a few dollars, but if I did
that, there wouldn’t be enough left to buy the milk and bread. Four
dollars will only go so far. As the light changed, I took one last
glance at the three of them and sped off feeling both guilty (for not
helping them) and sad (because I didn’t have enough money to share
with them).
As I kept driving, I couldn’t get the picture of the three of them
out of my mind. The sad, haunting eyes of the young man and his
family stayed with me for about a mile. I could take it no longer. I
felt their pain and had to do something about it. I turned around and
drove back to where I had last seen them.
I pulled up close to them and handed the man two of my four
dollars. There were tears in his eyes as he thanked me. I smiled and
drove on to the supermarket. Perhaps both milk and bread would be
on sale, I thought. And what if I only got milk alone, or just the
bread? Well, it would have to do.
I pulled into the parking lot, still thinking about the whole
incident, yet feeling good about what I had done. As I stepped out of
the car, my foot slid on something on the pavement. There by my
feet was a twenty-dollar bill. I just couldn’t believe it. I looked all
around, picked it up with awe, went into the store and purchased not
only bread and milk, but several other items I desperately needed.
I never forgot that incident. It reminded me that the universe
was strange and mysterious. It confirmed my belief that you could
never out give the universe. I gave away two dollars and got twenty
in return. On my way back from the supermarket, I drove by the
hungry family and shared five additional dollars with them.
This incident is only one of many that have occurred in my life.
It seems that the more we give, the more we get. It is, perhaps, one
of those universal laws that say, "If you want to receive, you must
first give."
There is a little rhyme that goes like this:
"A man there was, and they called him mad,
The more he gave, the more he had."
Most times, we think that we don’t have anything to give. Yet, if
we look more closely, we’ll see that even the little we have could be
shared with others. Let us not wait for a time when we think we’ll
have lots and then we’ll give. By giving and sharing the little we
have, we open up the storehouse of the universe and permit rivers of
good to come our way.
Don’t take my word for it. Just honestly try to give and you’ll be
surprised at the results. Generally, the returns do not come back
from those we give to. It comes back from sources we could hardly
imagine. So give your way to riches.
Take a chance on this universal principle. Take a chance on
yourself. Universal principles always work.
Sometimes the return from giving happens very quickly as in
the true story above. Other times, it takes much longer. But be
assured of this: Give and you will receive -- and you’ll receive lots
more than you ever gave.
And when you give, don’t do it with a heart of fear, but with a
heart full of gratitude. You will be amazed at how it all works out.
Open the gates of affluence in your life by giving a bit of what you
have to those in need. As the great Teacher said, “Give and it will be
given unto you.”
Try it. You’ll like it.