This is an interesting time to experiment using “The Science of Getting Rich” method, beginning with the mortgage meltdown leading to today's global financial crisis. The next chapter in the book is most difficult to do when we need to do it most. It’s called “The Impression of Increase”.
Wallace Wattles talks about “feeling” rich. I read a forum entry describing this process. Phil, a master contributor at the Science of Getting Rich Forum shares his story. “I’m in an industry that has been hard hit by the mortgage meltdown. A few months ago, many of us were up for our annual raise, something that has occurred for years without a hitch. But due to the times, our manager had a special meeting with us. It came from the 'higher ups.' He announced that all raises were off. No one was going to get a raise. It simply was out of the question, due to conditions being what they were.
My reaction? I didn’t feel bothered in the slightest. Why? Because everything I’d been learning has been teaching me that circumstances or conditions have absolutely NO POWER in determining the quality of my life; only ** I ** do. I just silently told myself, I will always be fine, no matter what. I checked in with myself to see how I was feeling, and I felt fine.
So, guess what happened? It was about a month or so later, my boss quietly takes me aside. He tells me he’s gotten me the largest raise an hourly person can get. But it wasn’t really a raise. (All raises were off. Remember?) He tells me he couldn’t give me a ‘raise’ per se, so what he did was, he got me a Job Title change, with a higher base pay, because he really felt I deserved it. He was so delighted, like a kid who figured out how to break into a candy jar”.
Admittedly, it seems easier to think in A Certain Way when we have a home, food and means to maintain those necessities. Have you ever wondered why “the rich get richer”? They have a head start. In Science News, a phenomena called "preferential attachment" is analyzed. “Real-world data -- whether distributions of wealth, size of earthquakes or number of connections on a computer network -- often follow power-law distributions rather than the familiar bell-shaped curve. In a power-law distribution, large events are reasonably common compared to smaller events”.
But there is another approach called “fake it till you make it” that can be used to move into a life of increase. At ShoeMoney – skills to pay the bills, rkelly writes “I learned pretty quickly that if you’re confident and make it seem like you’re a somebody, people will think you are a somebody. Then, you “fake it” while you acquire those mad skills and knowledge necessary to actually be that somebody. Ta-da, self-fulfilling prophecy.
I’m not saying you should lie to people or pretend to be something you absolutely aren’t. … My point is that if you’re starting out and are new, just be confident. People pick up on that and will respect you much more than if you’re a Nervous Nelly all the time. Believing in yourself means that people will believe in you, and soon you’ll become that expert you were half-pretending to be in the first place”.
Wallace Wattles cautions us not to twist this philosophy toward power over others. The economic disaster is directly a result of selfish gratification. Greed is a competitive mode of acquiring that can be lost in a day, like the stock market. The attitude of increase is a cooperative mode of operation that increases life for all. Anything lost can be recovered multi-fold, by using creativity for the good of all.
Especially during this time, when many of us are thrown into survival mode by circumstances far out of our control, creativity and cooperation are the keys to long term success. It’s easy to feel wealthy when we have a stable source of income, our investments are increasing and our home is worth more than we owe. But the way we behave during the hardest of times is what defines us each as individuals.
How will you be defined?
Wallace Wattles talks about “feeling” rich. I read a forum entry describing this process. Phil, a master contributor at the Science of Getting Rich Forum shares his story. “I’m in an industry that has been hard hit by the mortgage meltdown. A few months ago, many of us were up for our annual raise, something that has occurred for years without a hitch. But due to the times, our manager had a special meeting with us. It came from the 'higher ups.' He announced that all raises were off. No one was going to get a raise. It simply was out of the question, due to conditions being what they were.
My reaction? I didn’t feel bothered in the slightest. Why? Because everything I’d been learning has been teaching me that circumstances or conditions have absolutely NO POWER in determining the quality of my life; only ** I ** do. I just silently told myself, I will always be fine, no matter what. I checked in with myself to see how I was feeling, and I felt fine.
So, guess what happened? It was about a month or so later, my boss quietly takes me aside. He tells me he’s gotten me the largest raise an hourly person can get. But it wasn’t really a raise. (All raises were off. Remember?) He tells me he couldn’t give me a ‘raise’ per se, so what he did was, he got me a Job Title change, with a higher base pay, because he really felt I deserved it. He was so delighted, like a kid who figured out how to break into a candy jar”.
Admittedly, it seems easier to think in A Certain Way when we have a home, food and means to maintain those necessities. Have you ever wondered why “the rich get richer”? They have a head start. In Science News, a phenomena called "preferential attachment" is analyzed. “Real-world data -- whether distributions of wealth, size of earthquakes or number of connections on a computer network -- often follow power-law distributions rather than the familiar bell-shaped curve. In a power-law distribution, large events are reasonably common compared to smaller events”.
But there is another approach called “fake it till you make it” that can be used to move into a life of increase. At ShoeMoney – skills to pay the bills, rkelly writes “I learned pretty quickly that if you’re confident and make it seem like you’re a somebody, people will think you are a somebody. Then, you “fake it” while you acquire those mad skills and knowledge necessary to actually be that somebody. Ta-da, self-fulfilling prophecy.
I’m not saying you should lie to people or pretend to be something you absolutely aren’t. … My point is that if you’re starting out and are new, just be confident. People pick up on that and will respect you much more than if you’re a Nervous Nelly all the time. Believing in yourself means that people will believe in you, and soon you’ll become that expert you were half-pretending to be in the first place”.
Wallace Wattles cautions us not to twist this philosophy toward power over others. The economic disaster is directly a result of selfish gratification. Greed is a competitive mode of acquiring that can be lost in a day, like the stock market. The attitude of increase is a cooperative mode of operation that increases life for all. Anything lost can be recovered multi-fold, by using creativity for the good of all.
Especially during this time, when many of us are thrown into survival mode by circumstances far out of our control, creativity and cooperation are the keys to long term success. It’s easy to feel wealthy when we have a stable source of income, our investments are increasing and our home is worth more than we owe. But the way we behave during the hardest of times is what defines us each as individuals.
How will you be defined?