Thursday, October 22, 2009

The Art of Making Money
The Story of a Master Counterfeiter

There were two things Art Williams never had enough of growing up poor on Chicago’s South Side: his father, who left the family when he was 11, and money. His quest for both would merge at the age of 16, when his mom’s boyfriend—a master counterfeiter—instructed him in the age-old criminal craft. Art would go on to become one of the most skilled counterfeiters of the last 25 years, creating a near-perfect replica of the most secure US bill ever made: the 1996 New Note. The success brought him a lifestyle he had only dreamed about as a child, but he risked everything in an attempt to reconnect with the father who had left him long ago.
In the tradition of propulsive true-crime narratives like Bruce Porter’s Blow and Frank Abagnale Jr’s Catch Me if You Can, The Art of Making Money takes the reader on a wild, fascinating ride through the rarefied world of a master criminal. At the same time it is an emotionally compelling look at the relationships between crime and family, and the destructiveness of greed. Williams's interior journey—that of a damaged man searching for an idyllic family that never really existed—will be familiar to many.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Wallace Wattles Has Been Dead Over 90 Years ...

Yet Everyday Someone Else Discovers His Secrets and Go On To Be a Millionaire!


From The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles - Chapter One



Your Right to Be Rich


Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich.

No man can rise to his greatest possible height in talent or soul development unless he has plenty of money; for to unfold the soul and to develop talent he must have many things to use, and he cannot have these things unless he has money with which to buy them.

Man develops in mind, soul, and body by making use of things, and society is so organized that man must have money in order to become the possessor of things; therefore, the basis of all advancement for man must be the science of getting rich.

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an alienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining.

Man's right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment; or, in other words, his right to be rich.

In this book (The Science of Getting Rich), I shall not speak of riches in a figurative way; to be really rich does not mean to be satisfied or contented with a little. No man ought to be satisfied with a little if he is capable of using and enjoying more.

The purpose of Nature is the advancement and unfoldment of life; every man should have all that can contribute to the power, elegance, beauty, and richness of life; to be content with less is sinful.

The man who owns all he wants for the living of all the life he is capable of living is rich, and no man who has not plenty of money can have all he wants.

Life has advanced so far, and become so complex, that even the most ordinary man or woman requires a great amount of wealth in order to live in a manner that even approaches completeness.

Every person naturally wants to become all that he is capable of becoming; this desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature; we cannot help wanting to be all that we can be.

Success in life is becoming what you want to be; you can become what you want to be only by making use of things, and you can have the free use of things only as you become rich enough to buy them. To understand the science of getting rich is therefore the most essential of all knowledge.

There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praiseworthy. The man who does not desire to live more abundantly is abnormal, and so the man who does not desire to have money enough to buy all he wants is abnormal.

There are three motives for which we live: we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul. No one of these is better or holier than the others; all are alike desirable, and no one of the three - body, mind or soul - can live fully if either of the others is cut short of full life and expression.

It is not right or noble to live only for the soul and deny mind or body, and it is wrong to live for the intellect and deny body and soul.

We are all acquainted with the loathsome consequences of living for the body and denying both mind and soul; we see that real life means the complete expression of all that man can give forth through body, mind and soul.

Whatever he may say, no man can be really happy or satisfied unless his body is living fully in every function, and unless the same is true of his mind and his soul. Wherever there is unexpressed possibility, or function not performed, there is unsatisfied desire. Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.

Man cannot live fully in body without good food, comfortable clothing and warm shelter, and without freedom from excessive toil. Rest and recreation are also necessary to his physical life.

He cannot live fully in mind without books and time to study them, without opportunity for travel and observation, or without intellectual companionship.

To live fully in mind he must have intellectual recreations, and must surround himself with all the objects of art and beauty he is capable of using and appreciating.

To live fully in soul, man must have love, and love is denied expression by poverty.

Man's highest happiness is found in the bestowal of benefits on those he loves; love finds its most natural and spontaneous expression in giving. The man who has nothing to give cannot fill his place as a husband or father, as a citizen, or as a man. It is in the use of material things that man finds full life for his body, develops his mind, and unfolds his soul. It is therefore of supreme importance to him that he should be rich.

It is perfectly right that you should desire to be rich; if you are a normal man or woman you cannot help doing so. It is perfectly right that you should give your best attention to the Science of Getting Rich, for it is the noblest and most necessary of all studies.

If you neglect this study, you are derelict in your duty to yourself, to God, and to humanity; for you can render God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.

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Presuppositions of Wealth ...
These Thoughts Will Help You Build Your Wealth


These presuppositions may true. They may not be true. It doesn't matter.
Because if you will act as if they are true will change your actions and results.


Before we discuss the presuppositions of wealth, we should define "presupposition." We should also talk about the value of having and using the presuppositions of wealth.

A presupposition is another word for assumption. Like it or not we all have our own presuppositions. We do not normally know what they are because we have unconsciously accepted them. By consciously creating our presuppositions we can beginning to accept the beliefs and assumptions that will be more successful for us.

Take the example where someone operates from the presupposition/assumption that, " You can't make money unless you have money." Anyone holding this assumption, and not having any money, would not allow that person do anything that would take money to get started.

Why not hold presuppositions that actually HELP you create more wealth? Why keep old presuppositions that stop you from reaching your potential?

Consider These Presuppositions of Wealth
The dominate force in your life are the thoughts that you continually entertain. You become what you think about. Thoughts are things.

Wealth is a habit.

Your situation will not change until you change.

The only limits that you have to your potential are the limits that you yourself place upon yourself.

You cannot change anything unless you are aware of it and acknowledge it.

You can make a living with your hands but you can become wealthy by using your mind.

Your money can work harder than you can - put your money to work for you.

The key to wealth is effective money management.

If you do not know who you are or what you want out of life - nothing else really matters.

You life goes where your energy flows.

Your awareness and assessments about life - both conscious and unconscious - determines what actions you will take.

Financial Intelligence is more important than Intelligence Quotient (!.Q.).

Nothing happens until you take action.

If someone else can do what you want to do - you can do it too.

It is thought investment that money is converted to wealth.

When your monthly passive income equals or exceeds you monthly expenses - you are financially free. You no longer have to work.

The best investment you can make is an investment in yourself.

Actions to Take:
Stop and think about some of your assumptions about making money and being prosperous. Write them down leaving space under each assumption.

Under each assumption write down how this assumption holds you back from building wealth.

Which of the above Presuppositions of Wealth would help you achieve your financial goals.

Write down the 5 presuppositions that you will now begin using in your life. Commit to acting on the new presuppositions. Check you progress daily for 21 days.

Write down the another 5 presuppositions. Commit to acting on these new presuppositions. Check you progress daily for 21 days.

Continue to change the presuppositions that hold you back.



Prosperity is a state of Mind.
Once you have it you will never fear lack.


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Thoughts determine actions

Presuppositions of Wealth ...
These Thoughts Will Help You Build Your Wealth


These presuppositions may true. They may not be true. It doesn't matter.
Because if you will act as if they are true will change your actions and results.


Before we discuss the presuppositions of wealth, we should define "presupposition." We should also talk about the value of having and using the presuppositions of wealth.

A presupposition is another word for assumption. Like it or not we all have our own presuppositions. We do not normally know what they are because we have unconsciously accepted them. By consciously creating our presuppositions we can beginning to accept the beliefs and assumptions that will be more successful for us.

Take the example where someone operates from the presupposition/assumption that, " You can't make money unless you have money." Anyone holding this assumption, and not having any money, would not allow that person do anything that would take money to get started.

Why not hold presuppositions that actually HELP you create more wealth? Why keep old presuppositions that stop you from reaching your potential?

Consider These Presuppositions of Wealth
The dominate force in your life are the thoughts that you continually entertain. You become what you think about. Thoughts are things.

Wealth is a habit.

Your situation will not change until you change.

The only limits that you have to your potential are the limits that you yourself place upon yourself.

You cannot change anything unless you are aware of it and acknowledge it.

You can make a living with your hands but you can become wealthy by using your mind.

Your money can work harder than you can - put your money to work for you.

The key to wealth is effective money management.

If you do not know who you are or what you want out of life - nothing else really matters.

You life goes where your energy flows.

Your awareness and assessments about life - both conscious and unconscious - determines what actions you will take.

Financial Intelligence is more important than Intelligence Quotient (!.Q.).

Nothing happens until you take action.

If someone else can do what you want to do - you can do it too.

It is thought investment that money is converted to wealth.

When your monthly passive income equals or exceeds you monthly expenses - you are financially free. You no longer have to work.

The best investment you can make is an investment in yourself.

Actions to Take:
Stop and think about some of your assumptions about making money and being prosperous. Write them down leaving space under each assumption.

Under each assumption write down how this assumption holds you back from building wealth.

Which of the above Presuppositions of Wealth would help you achieve your financial goals.

Write down the 5 presuppositions that you will now begin using in your life. Commit to acting on the new presuppositions. Check you progress daily for 21 days.

Write down the another 5 presuppositions. Commit to acting on these new presuppositions. Check you progress daily for 21 days.

Continue to change the presuppositions that hold you back.



Prosperity is a state of Mind.
Once you have it you will never fear lack.


PROSPERITY SECRETS
Articles

What to Do To Make Yourself Wealthy - the
Outer Game of Wealth
What is the Outer Game of Wealth?

Six Levels of Money Mastery

Money or Finance?

H. L. Hunt's Advice - How to be a billionaire.



More articles are being added regularly.







Thoughts determine actions

Presuppositions of Wealth ...
These Thoughts Will Help You Build Your Wealth


These presuppositions may true. They may not be true. It doesn't matter.
Because if you will act as if they are true will change your actions and results.


Before we discuss the presuppositions of wealth, we should define "presupposition." We should also talk about the value of having and using the presuppositions of wealth.

A presupposition is another word for assumption. Like it or not we all have our own presuppositions. We do not normally know what they are because we have unconsciously accepted them. By consciously creating our presuppositions we can beginning to accept the beliefs and assumptions that will be more successful for us.

Take the example where someone operates from the presupposition/assumption that, " You can't make money unless you have money." Anyone holding this assumption, and not having any money, would not allow that person do anything that would take money to get started.

Why not hold presuppositions that actually HELP you create more wealth? Why keep old presuppositions that stop you from reaching your potential?

Consider These Presuppositions of Wealth
The dominate force in your life are the thoughts that you continually entertain. You become what you think about. Thoughts are things.

Wealth is a habit.

Your situation will not change until you change.

The only limits that you have to your potential are the limits that you yourself place upon yourself.

You cannot change anything unless you are aware of it and acknowledge it.

You can make a living with your hands but you can become wealthy by using your mind.

Your money can work harder than you can - put your money to work for you.

The key to wealth is effective money management.

If you do not know who you are or what you want out of life - nothing else really matters.

You life goes where your energy flows.

Your awareness and assessments about life - both conscious and unconscious - determines what actions you will take.

Financial Intelligence is more important than Intelligence Quotient (!.Q.).

Nothing happens until you take action.

If someone else can do what you want to do - you can do it too.

It is thought investment that money is converted to wealth.

When your monthly passive income equals or exceeds you monthly expenses - you are financially free. You no longer have to work.

The best investment you can make is an investment in yourself.

Actions to Take:
Stop and think about some of your assumptions about making money and being prosperous. Write them down leaving space under each assumption.

Under each assumption write down how this assumption holds you back from building wealth.

Which of the above Presuppositions of Wealth would help you achieve your financial goals.

Write down the 5 presuppositions that you will now begin using in your life. Commit to acting on the new presuppositions. Check you progress daily for 21 days.

Write down the another 5 presuppositions. Commit to acting on these new presuppositions. Check you progress daily for 21 days.

Continue to change the presuppositions that hold you back.



Prosperity is a state of Mind.
Once you have it you will never fear lack.


PROSPERITY SECRETS
Articles

What to Do To Make Yourself Wealthy - the
Outer Game of Wealth
What is the Outer Game of Wealth?

Six Levels of Money Mastery

Money or Finance?

H. L. Hunt's Advice - How to be a billionaire.



More articles are being added regularly.
The Power of Thoughts

That you can change yourself, improve yourself, recreate yourself, control you environment and master your own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought in constructive action.

In fact, it is the conviction of all such minds that you can do practically anything within the possibilities of the human domain when you know how to think, and that you can secure almost any result desired when you learn how to think for results.

You are as your think, and what you do is the result of the sum total of your thought.

You become what you think about. - Earl Nightingale

Life consists of what a man is thinking about all day. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The actions of men are the best interpretations of their thoughts. - John Locke

You are today where your thoughts have brought you. You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. - James Allen (As a Man Thinketh)

Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; Nothing expands possibilities like unleashed thinking. - William Ward.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. - Proverbs 23:7

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. - Buddha

Our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius

Belief (confident thought) creates the actual fact. - William James

Thought means life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. - Amos Alcott

Thoughts rule the world. - Emerson

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought. Henrich Heine.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to covert itself into power. - Emerson

The ideas and images in men's mind (thoughts) are the invisible powers that constantly govern them. - Jonathon Edwards

Think success, visualize success, and you will set in motion the power force of the realized wish. When the mental picture or attitude is strongly held, it actually seems to control conditions and circumstances. - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

Success or failure in business is cause more by mental attitudes (thoughts) than by mental capacities. - Dr. Walter Scott

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. - Disraeli

It is the habitual thought which frames itself into life. Our confidential friends have not so much to do in shaping our lives as thoughts have which we harbor. - John William Teal

Man, by thinking only becomes man. Take away thought from man's life and what remains. - Johann Pestalozzi

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. - Henry Ford

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. - Marcus Antoninus

You have absolute control over one thing, and that is your thoughts. This is the most significant and inspiring of all the facts known to mankind. - Thomas Troward

Wealth is the product of an individual's capacity to think. - Ayn Rand

All that a man calls his world, is but a picture of his thoughts. - Emma Cutis Hopkins

Thoughts are Things. - Prentice Mulford

To become a master of your mind you must think what you want to think, not matter what your surroundings may suggest. And you must continue to think what you want to think until each particular purpose is carried out and every desire is realized. - Christian Larson

The ancestor of every action is a thought. - Emerson

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. - Albert Einstein

What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds (thought) to be. - Abraham Lincoln

We may not be able to change an outer circumstance, but we do have a choice in how we perceive it and react to it. A positive attitude (the habitual way we think) is a powerful thing. - –Hillary Carlip,

Mind is the Master-power that moulds and makes, And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes; The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills: He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking-glass. - James Allen

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. - George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine (think) what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. - George Bernard Shaw

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined (thought). As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. - Henry David Thoreau

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. - James Allen

A new idea (thought) is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. - Charles Brower

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas (thoughts). I'm frightened of the old ones. - John Cage

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. - George S. Patton, Jr.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. - William James

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor. - Victor Hugo

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The Science of Getting Rich.
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The Ideal Made Real.
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An excerpt from
Thinking For Results - Chapter One
by Christian Daa Larson
That man can change himself, improve himself, recreate himself, control his environment and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought in constructive action.
In fact, it is the conviction of all such minds that man can do practically anything within the possibilities of the human domain when he knows how to think, and that he can secure almost any result desired when he learns how to think for results.

Man is as he thinks he is, and what he does is the result of the sum total of his thought. The average person, however, thinks at random and therefore lives at random and does not know from day to day whether good or evil lies in his path.

What he finds in his path is invariably the result of his own thinking, but as he does not know what results different kinds of thought produce he creates both good and evil daily not knowing that he necessarily does either of these.

When he knows what each mental state will produce, however, and has gained the power to think as he likes under all sorts of circumstances, then he will have fate, destiny, environment, physical conditions, mental conditions, attainments, achievements and in fact everything in his own hands.

It is a well-known fact that we can produce any effect desired when we understand causes, and can master those causes. And as the process of thinking is the one underlying cause in the life of man we naturally become master over all life when we can understand and master the process of thinking.

Each process of thinking produces its own results in mind and body and acts indirectly upon all the actions and efforts of mind and body. Therefore, through adverse thinking almost any undesirable condition may be produced while almost any condition of worth and value can be produced through wholesome thinking.

Certain processes of thought will lead to sickness, others to poverty, while processes of thought that are entirely different from these will lead to health, power and prosperity.

Through chaotic thinking one can bring about years of trouble and misfortune, while through a properly arranged system of thinking one can determine his own future for years and years in advance.

Everything that happens to a man is the result of something that he has done or fails to do. But since both actions and inactions come from corresponding states of mind he can make almost anything happen that he likes when he learns to regulate his thinking. This may seem to be a very strong statement, but the more perfectly we understand the relation of mental action to physical and personal action the more convinced we become that this statement is absolutely true.

Chapter One - Continues ..........

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Presuppositions of Wealth

Your Right To Be Rich



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You Need to Know This!



What is The INNER Game Building Wealth?
(The Secret Psychology of Wealth)
Before you can begin to make changes in your life ... about anything, you must become aware of what your current situation is. It may be self obvious but you cannot change anything you are not aware of.

We say that you must be aware of the inner game of wealth building.

First lets become aware of what the inner game of building wealth includes.



The INNER Game of Building Wealth
Includes:
your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual factors
your prosperity consciousness

where you put your attention

your belief system about money and wealth

your attitudes about money and wealth

your self-talk about money and wealth

your awareness

your choices and decisions about money

your focus


your thoughts
your feelings about wealth

your habits, conditioned actions

your energy level

your automatic assessments

your vision for yourself

your money fears

how you speak to others about money and wealth

your up-bring - how those around you thought about money






Actions to Take:

Using the above lists, check off the items that you feel you have an above average understanding of and the ability to use your mind to get the required results. You might rate each item on a scale from 1 to 10. A rating of 1 being minimal understanding and ability to control this faculty and a rating of 10 being expert understanding and ability to control this faculty. Be honest with yourself.

If you rate yourself as above average in several of these items - does your current money and wealth status reflect this. If YES, good for you! If NO, what stops you from making more headway with your wealth building plans.

How do you plan on improving your understanding and ability of the inner game of money and wealth building. Write it down. Create a plan.



Prosperity Consciousness is a state of Mind.
Once you have it you will never fear lack.