September 30, 2025 • 36 mins
The Gratitude Secret: How to Connect to the Divine and Guarantee Your Riches (Wallace Wattles' Chapter Dissected)
Discover the hidden force that was key to the creation of The Secret movie and book.
In this powerful episode, we dive deep into the most transformative chapter of Wallace Wattles’ 1910 classic, The Science of Getting Rich. This isn't just about financial wealth; it’s about guaranteed abundance in health, happiness, peace, and money.
You will learn:
- The First Step to Riches: Why you must be absolutely specific in communicating your desires to the "Formless Substance" (God/The Universe).
- The Divine Connection: How Gratitude is the single word that creates a harmonious, direct link between you and the source of all abundance.
- The Law of Reciprocity: Why a lack of gratitude cuts your wire to the Divine, stopping the flow of blessings.
- Creative vs. Competitive Thought: Learn how celebrating others' wins brings instantaneous, continuous movement of the things you want towards you. Stop the cycle of jealousy and blame that keeps you stuck.
- The Birth of Faith: How practicing gratitude will naturally develop unshakeable faith that your desires are on their way.
Stop focusing on lack, complaining about politics, or letting competitive thoughts limit your supply. Listen to this dissecting chapter on Gratitude, and learn the practical steps to shift your mindset, reprogram your subconscious, and guarantee you have more to be grateful for.
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SPEAKER_00 (01:04):
I'm excited for our podcast today because we're
going to be talking about a bookthat's one of my favorite books
that's had a tremendous impacton my life.
And I believe when I share thisone specific chapter with you,
it's going to have anoverwhelming impact in your life
as well.
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The book was written in 1910 byWallace Waddles.
It's called The Science ofGetting Rich.
You may or may not have heard ofit.
It was actually the book thatwas used to create the movie The
Secret.
I'm going to talk about thischapter, Gratitude.
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So let's jump in.
I'm going to dissect it for youbecause when you read it
yourself without context,without explanation, it can be a
bit challenging to read.
Let's jump in.
The first paragraph says theillustrations given in the last
chapter will convey to thereader the fact that the first
step toward getting rich is toconvey the idea of your wants to
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the formless substance.
So let's pause and ask what doesthis mean?
Essentially, what it's saying isin order for us to get rich, now
it doesn't just mean rich inmoney.
It could be wealthy in health,wealthy in happiness, wealthy in
peace, wealthy in all differentareas of our life, including
financial wealth.
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But what it's saying here isthat in order to get what we
want, we need to know what wewant.
So we got to be really clear onwhat we want.
I could say I want a lot ofmoney.
And if I put that out there, hesays, convey the idea of your
wants to the formless substance.
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The formless substance is God,the divine, the universe.
So we have to know what we wantand we have to put it out there
to God, divine, or the universe.
Problem is, if I say I want moremoney, that's not very clear.
It's not giving really goodinstructions.
And more money could be I get acheck for$30.
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That does give me what I'masking for in that scenario,
which is more money.
It wasn't what I wanted, but Iasked for it in a very
nonspecific way.
So what it's saying here is wemust be very specific on what it
is that we want.
So if you want to earn$137,000extra this year, or you want to
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earn$137,000 this year, you haveto say it out loud in present
tense.
I am earning this year$137,000.
You're putting it out there.
It's very clear.
You've now communicated to theformless substance.
Let's go back to the book.
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It says this is true, and youwill see that in order to do it
becomes necessary to relateyourself to the formless
intelligence in a harmoniousway.
So, how do we relate ourselvesto this formless intelligence,
to God, divine, the universe, ina harmonious way?
It's going to get into that inthis next paragraph.
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To secure this harmoniousrelation is a matter of such
primary and vital importancethat I shall give some space to
its discussion here and give youinstructions, which, if you will
follow them, will be certain tobring you into perfect unity of
the mind with God.
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Again, how do we create thisrelationship with God in a
harmonious way?
He's saying that it's soimportant to do this that we're
going to take the time to reallygive specific instructions on
how we're going to do that.
Let's continue with thischapter.
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The whole process of mentaladjustment and atonement can be
summed up in one word gratitude.
We're talking about gettingwealthy in many areas of our
life.
And the way that we connect withGod, the divine, this higher
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power, is through gratitude.
That is a key element.
Would you have thought that theway to connect to God, divine,
the higher power, would havebeen just through gratitude?
Gratitude gets us on thefrequency of divine.
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The more thankful we are for allthe things that we currently
have in our life, the more timewe spend focusing on gratitude,
being thankful for everything.
I walk into the room, I turn onthe light, the light switch goes
on, and the lights come on inthe room.
That's something I could bethankful for.
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I walk and sit down on my deskand I push the button on the
computer, and the computer comeson and it has all of my
applications and all thedocuments and all the files that
I need.
That's something I can beunbelievably grateful for.
Everything I'm sitting, I'mbreathing, I'm able to see the
screen, I'm able to hear.
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All of these things are thingsthat we can be grateful for.
The way that we connect to Godis through gratitude.
Let's go back to the book.
First, you believe that there isone intelligent substance from
which all things proceed.
What does that mean?
There is one God, there is oneuniverse from which everything
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comes.
That's step number one.
Step number two is believe thatthis God gives you everything
you desire.
So we have to have the beliefthat everything that we could
possibly want, God will give tous.
Now, some of you might say, butMike, what about when I get
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sick?
What about when I'm not feelingwell?
Is that something that I reallydesire?
If God or divine knows a lotmore than we do, perhaps during
that time of not feeling well,you'll figure out something that
you wouldn't have figured outhad you not been in that case.
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You'll make a decision aboutsomething in your life, being in
that quiet time of not feelingso great, but sitting there and
being with yourself, you'll havethe opportunity to think through
and see things from a differentperspective.
So when it says here that youhave to believe that this God
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gives you everything you desire,that it's important to
understand that even if we don'tthink that's something that we
would desire to be sick, to notfeel well, maybe there's a
hidden message in it for us.
And maybe there's a reason andpurpose that we're not feeling
well.
The third step says you relateyourself to God, the divine, by
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feeling a deep and profoundgratitude.
Let's continue.
Many people who order theirlives rightly in all of their
ways are kept in poverty by thelack of gratitude.
Having received one gift fromGod, they cut the wires which
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connect them with God by failingto make the acknowledgement.
I've said this story before, I'mgoing to say it again.
I want you to imagine that youget a really beautiful gift for
your child.
You wrap it up, you put it inbeautiful paper on it, and a
nice bow, and you bring it intoyour child's room and you give
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them the present, and they takethe present and they throw it
across the room, showing nogratitude whatsoever for that
gift.
Here's the question I have foryou.
If they did that to the giftthat you gave them, what would
be the chances that you wouldthen go out and buy another gift
and give it to your child?
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I already know the answer.
It would be slim to none.
And why is it that you wouldn'tdo that?
Why isn't that you wouldn't goand get another gift for your
child?
The answer is because the childdidn't show any gratitude.
So imagine that God is giving usgifts all the time.
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God gives us the gift of beingable to breathe.
God gives us the gift of beingable to see.
God gives us the gift of beingable to stand up and walk.
We have so many gifts in ourlives: our family, our health,
our friends.
All of these things can easilybe taken for granted.
And when we take those thingsfor granted, you know what
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happens?
It's very similar to the childtaking the gift and throwing it
across the room at the wall.
God looks as our parent andsays, If Mike isn't going to
appreciate all that I've alreadygiven him, why in the world
would I give him more?
So when we have gratitude, thinkof it as we are directly
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connected to God.
We have a direct connection intous when we're showing that
gratitude.
And when we don't show thegratitude, it's like taking a
scissors and cutting that wirethat's connecting you, me, and
everyone else to God.
So the way that we can keep itconnected is staying in a place
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of feeling gratitude for all thethings that we already have in
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our life.
All right, let's go back to thebook.
It's easy to understand that thenearer we live to the source, to
God, the source of wealth, whichis God, the more wealth we shall
receive.
And it's easy also to understandthat the soul that is always
grateful lives in closer touchwith God than the one which
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never looks to him in a thankfulacknowledgement.
We pause for a second.
Again, this goes back to thesame thing.
If we don't show gratitude forall the things that we already
have, why would God want to giveus more?
If our child doesn't show usgratitude for all the things
that we give to him or her, dowe have the feeling of wanting
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to give them more?
But the more gratitude the childshows us, the more they say,
Thank you.
I really appreciate you gettingthat from me.
God, that was so nice of you todo.
Thank you so much.
Don't we want to then go out andget more for them and give them
more?
That's the same thing that Godfeels with us.
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That's the same reason why we'renot getting the things that we
want from God because we're notshowing the gratitude for the
things that we already have inour life.
Let's go back to the book.
The more gratefully we fix ourminds on the supreme, on God,
when good things come to us, themore good things we will
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receive.
So let's repeat that again.
The more gratefully we fix ourminds on the supreme, when good
things come to us, the more goodthings we will receive.
And the more rapidly they willcome.
And the reason simply is thatthe mental attitude of gratitude
draws the mind into closer touchwith the source from which all
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blessings come.
So if you want more things tocome into your life, if you want
more abundance, if you more wantmore financial freedom, if you
want a better relationship, begrateful for all the things that
you already do have.
Maybe your relationship isn'tperfect, but instead of focusing
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on all the negative in thatrelationship, she says this, he
does that.
What about focusing on saying,hey, God, thank you so much for
bringing this person into mylife?
I love how they're caring andloving towards me.
And point out things that youcan be grateful for in that
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person.
The more we do that in arelationship, the better the
relationship will get.
The problem is most of the timewhen someone's in a relationship
that they're not thrilled about,their focus is not on gratitude.
It's on the complete opposite.
It's pointing out every singlething that person does wrong,
either to the person directly orin our mind, we're thinking
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thoughts of I can't believe shedoes that.
I can't believe he does this.
And that is cutting that line,that connection that we have to
God, because we're not doingwhat we need to do to hold our
connection to God, which is tohave gratitude for everything.
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Maybe the person that we're in arelationship said something that
hurt our feelings, but maybe Godput that there in our life for a
reason and purpose.
Maybe we need to learn how todraw a boundary.
Maybe we need to learn how tospeak up for ourselves.
Maybe we need to learn how tolook inside internally and see
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why I am being triggered by thatstatement.
God, I'm so thankful that youput that situation into my life
because it allowed me to look atthings in a different
perspective.
It allowed me to look inside ofmyself, grow and learn and see
why I'm dealing with thisstruggle internally, that I
don't feel like I'm worthyenough or I'm not good enough.
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Thank you for blessing me withthat opportunity.
You see the difference?
We're taking a situation whichwe can complain about and be
miserable about.
And instead, we're trying tofind things that we can be
grateful for.
And the more that you do that,the more gratitude you will have
in your life, the more giftsthat will be bestowed upon you.
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In fact, if that relationshipisn't really the best
relationship, the more gratefulyou are for it, either that
relationship will shift, orbecause you're so grateful for
the things, you'll be shiftedout of that relationship and
into something else.
When you pay your bill everysingle month and you get that
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bill, it's your mortgage, andyou're like, oh, you know, I
write that check and it's takingthis money out of my account.
No, that's coming from a placeof lack.
That is not coming from a placeof gratitude.
It's God, thank you so much forgiving me the money that's in my
account so that I can pay thatbill.
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Imagine each time you pay abill, whether it's your phone
bill or an electric bill or yourmortgage, that you write that
check and you say, Thank you,God.
Thank you for giving me themoney so that I'm able to pay
the bills.
I really appreciate that.
When you do that, are youconnecting that line to God or
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are you cutting that line?
And of course, by beinggrateful, we're strengthening
that line, we're making it evenmore strong and we're adding
bandwidth to it so that we caneven receive more blessing.
What do you think about whatthis is saying so far?
Do you think that's apossibility that if you have
more gratitude in your life,that it may connect you and you
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actually may have more things tobe grateful for because you're
being so grateful?
Look at how maybe you have beendoing things.
Maybe you've been coming from aplace of complaining and not
being grateful for the thingsthat you already have and things
have been stagnant and youhaven't been getting the things
that you want.
Maybe it would make sense togive this a try to have an
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experiment and try to see if Ihave this gratitude for all
these things in my life, and ifI say it out loud, and if I
thank God, let me see whathappens over time if I do that.
Let's go back to the book.
If it is a new thought to youthat gratitude brings your whole
mind into closer harmony withthe creative energies of God,
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the universe, consider it well,and you will see that it is
true.
The good things you already havecome to you along the line of
obedience to certain laws.
Gratitude will lead your mindout along the ways by which
things come, and it will keepyou in close harmony with
creative thought and prevent youfrom falling into competitive
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thought.
Now, this is a great line.
It says it will keep you inclose harmony with creative
thought.
Creative thought is thinkinggood thoughts, thinking kind
thoughts, thinking abundantthoughts, thinking gratitude.
And it will prevent you fromfalling into competitive
thought.
Let's talk about competitivethought for a moment.
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You have a friend, you find outthe friend made an investment
and made$400,000 on thatinvestment.
What's the initial thought thatgoes through your mind when they
tell you?
Are you happy for them?
Or is there a part of you insidethat is feeling a little bit
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jealous, a little bit like, man,I work hard, I do good things.
Why don't things like thishappen to me?
That's competitive thinking.
If we're all connected, which weare all connected to one
another, because when you breakus down into the smallest
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molecules, there's atoms andelectrons and neutrons, these
things are all connected to oneanother.
They've done studies wherethey've shown that you take an
electron in one place and youhave another one in a completely
different place, and they'reboth vibrating and acting the
same way.
So if that's the case, thatwould be an argument for that we
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are all connected.
And if we're all connected andwe're having competitive
thought, meaning we're feelingjealous and we're like, they
don't really deserve that intheir life.
What type of thoughts might comeback in your life from the
higher source?
Do you think you're more likelyto get more things in your life
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or less because you're havingthis competitive thinking?
What if instead, when thatfriend says to us that I just
made$400,000, we say toourselves, that's wonderful.
I am so happy for you.
I'm so grateful that you weregiven that gift.
That is a beautiful thing, and Iam so happy for you.
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What if we did that and wethought like that for all kinds
of things that are outside ofour circumstances and we
celebrate other people's wins asif there are wins?
Do you think potentially thatmight give us the opportunity to
have more wins and have morecelebrations in our own life?
If we're celebrating everyoneelse out there as well, instead
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of being jealous, instead ofblaming, instead of complaining,
instead of talking about them.
Why do they always get this?
Why do they?
No, we're grateful.
We're grateful that they'rewinning.
If someone that we don't reallylike in our life has something
really good happen in theirlife, should we be upset about
that?
Or should we be grateful forthem?
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And the answer is, and it's veryhigh level, but the answer is we
should be grateful for them.
Because if we're all connected,we should be grateful for
everyone winning and everyonedoing well and good things
happening for everyone as ifit's us.
And what will happen is we willhave way more to be grateful for
in our own life when we livethat attitude of gratitude and
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we celebrate other people's winsinstead of allowing jealousy and
any other negative thoughts tocome in and take over.
Let's continue with the book.
Gratitude alone can keep youlooking toward the all and
prevent you from falling intothe error of thinking of the
supply as limited.
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And to do that would be fatal toyour hoax.
Again, the more we look atsomeone else and we say, I can't
believe they got that.
They don't really deserve thatnew car.
They don't deserve that newhouse.
If we celebrate it, then oursupply won't be limited.
It will be coming in abundancebecause we're celebrating
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everyone else doing well, andtherefore we'll have a lot to
celebrate as well.
Give and you shall receive.
Give gratitude, you'll receivegratitude in many ways, and
you'll have a lot to be thankfulfor.
Back to the book.
There is a law of gratitude, andit is absolutely necessary that
you should observe the law ifyou're to get the results you
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see.
The law of gratitude is thenatural principle that action
and reaction are always equaland in opposite directions.
What does that mean for asecond?
That if I'm putting gratitudeout, like we just said, that it
not only will it go out, but itcomes back immediately to us in
all kinds of ways.
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Let's continue back to the book.
The grateful outreaching of yourmind in thankful praise to the
God is a liberation orexpenditure of force, right?
When we're thankful to God,we're putting out energy, it
cannot fail to reach that towhich it is addressed.
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And the reaction is aninstantaneous movement towards
you.
So as I put out that gratitude,instantaneously, there is a
force of gratitude coming backto us.
There is a force that's going tocome back to give us things to
be thankful for because we'rebeing thankful for things out
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there.
Let's go back to the book.
If your gratitude is strong andconstant, the reaction in
formless substance, the reactionin God will be strong and
continuous.
The movement of things that youwant will always move towards
you.
The value of gratitude does notconsist solely in getting you
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more blessings in the future.
Without gratitude, you cannotlong keep from dissatisfied
thought regarding things as theyare.
So again, without living in thisattitude of gratitude and being
thankful for not only the thingswe have, but the things that
other people are receiving, thensuddenly our thoughts will shift
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and we won't be coming from thisplace of gratitude.
The moment you permit your mindto dwell with dissatisfaction
upon things as they are, youbegin to lose ground.
You fix attention upon thecommon, the ordinary, the poor,
and the squalid and mean, andyour mind takes the form of
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these things.
Then you will transmit theseforms or mental images to the
formless to God, and the common,the poor, the squalid, and mean
will come to you.
So it's really simple.
Whatever we put out is what'sgoing to come back.
If we're constantly putting outa lack of gratitude, we're going
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to have many things to not begrateful for in our life.
It's a give and receive.
Give and you will shall receive.
Back to the book.
To permit your mind to dwellupon the inferior is to become
inferior and surround yourselfwith inferior things.
On the other hand, to fix yourattention on the best is to
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surround yourself with the bestand to become the best.
God within us makes us into theimage of that to which we give
our attention.
The power within us gives uswhat we're focused on.
If I am focused on negativity,if I am focused on lack, if I am
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focused on a lack of abundance,I will see more of that in my
life.
But if I turn it and just focuson gratitude, and I'm thankful
that I have what I have in mybank account, I'm thankful that
I have the health that I have.
I'm thankful that I have thefamily, that I have the
relationship that I have.
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If I'm thankful for thesethings, I will have more to be
thankful for.
More things will come into mylife that I will be thankful
for.
That's how it works.
Back to the book.
Therefore, it tends to becomethe best.
It takes the form or characterof the best and will receive the
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best.
Again, that's saying exactlywhat we've been saying over and
over again.
Back to the book.
Also, faith is born ofgratitude.
You hear people say a lot, howcan I have faith that things
will work out?
Faith is born of gratitude.
The more things that you'regrateful for, the more faithful
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you will be in your life thatthings will work out.
Gratitude is such a beautifulthing.
If we can just start to slowlyshift into being thankful for
the things that we have in ourlife and the things that other
people are having in their lifeand celebrating them, magical
things begin to happen in life.
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Back to the book.
The grateful mind continuallyexpects good things, and
expectation becomes faith.
The reaction of gratitude uponone's own mind produces faith.
And every outgoing wave ofgratitude, thanksgiving
increases faith.
The more grateful I am, the morefaithful I become.
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The more faith I have thatthings are going to work out in
my life.
You want to have faith?
Be grateful.
He who has no feeling ofgratitude cannot long retain
living faith.
And without living faith, youcannot get rich by the creative
method.
But we shall see that in thefollowing chapters.
If you want wealth in your life,I promise you, if you live from
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a place of gratitude and reallylive from a place of gratitude
for everything, you will startto see your life will shift.
Because when you're living ingratitude, what you're not doing
is living in blaming,complaining, making excuses,
talking negatively about others.
You would never do that whenyou're living in a place of
gratitude.
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You'd be thankful for them.
You'd be thankful for the giftthat they've given you in
learning the lesson that theyprovided for you.
Maybe they're being judgmentaland they're talking about other
people.
Perhaps that is coming in frontof you.
So you have the opportunity topotentially not be as judgmental
yourself and be grateful thatyou actually had that come into
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your life.
And instead of talking aboutthat person and judging them,
use that as a gift and begrateful that that gift just
came to you.
Does that make sense?
Every good thing that comes toyou, everything, be grateful for
it and give thanks continuously.
And be and because all thingshave contributed to your
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advancement, you should includeall things in your gratitude.
Again, no matter what comes atus, we are grateful for it.
Because there's some lesson inthere, even if we can't see what
it is that we can be thankfulfor.
Now, what some people do when Iget to something like this will
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be thankful for everything.
Mike, how can I be grateful ifsomeone I know passes away?
What if my son gets sick andgets cancer?
Here's what I have to say.
When you start in martial arts,you start at a white belt for a
reason.
And the reason you start as awhite belt is because you have
to learn the fundamentals.
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You're not at a place, youhaven't had enough experience to
be able to do the things thatblack belts do.
When you start asking thequestion, how can I be grateful
if my son has cancer?
You're operating from a blackbelt perspective when truly you
are a white or yellow belt.
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And we are not talking aboutcoming at gratitude from a black
belt perspective.
Let's start where we're at andwork our way up the ladder.
So be grateful for all thethings that you can be grateful
for, even if there are somethings that you can say, I can't
be grateful for that.
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Fine.
You don't need to be the blackbelt, be the white and yellow
belt right now, and we'll workour way to a place where
eventually down the road, maybeyou could be thankful for a
situation that certainly doesn'tappear at first sight to be
something that we could bethankful for.
All right, let's continue.
We're almost towards the endhere.
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Do not waste time thinking ortalking about the shortcomings
or wrong actions of thegovernment.
Their organization of the worldhas made your opportunity.
All you get really comes to youbecause of them.
This is A great thing.
Republican, Democrat.
If you're a Republican, you maynot like the Democrats.
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If you're a Democrat, you maynot like the Republicans.
Spend your time focusing on thethings that you can be grateful
for.
If you spend your time focusingon politics, are you going to
get more things to be gratefulfor?
Are you going to be coming froma place of lack and not from a
place of gratitude?
There are things like politicsthat if we focus on them, it
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will take us away fromgratitude.
Good news is we don't have tofocus on that, and we can focus
on other things that would makemore sense and bring us more
happiness and well-being in ourlife.
And gratitude is that answer.
Here are the last twoparagraphs.
Do not rage against corruptpoliticians.
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If it were not for politicians,we should fall into anarchy, and
your opportunity would begreatly lessened.
Last paragraph.
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But in the meantime, behold,they are all very good.
Remember that they are allhelping to arrange the lines of
transmission along which yourriches will come to you and be
grateful to them all.
This will bring you into aharmonious relation with the
good in everything.
And the good in everything willmove towards you.
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That last line, this will bringyou into harmonious relations
with the good in everything, andthe good in everything will move
towards you.
The more you can find gratitudein every situation, both good
and what appear to be bad inyour life, the more things in
your life you will have to begrateful for.
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Is the expectation that studyingthis chapter is going to
suddenly make you changecompletely?
No.
You can't go into the gym, sitdown on the bench press, put 300
pounds on each side, and expectthat you're going to be able to
lift it up.
But we start out small, we startout gradually, and we start out
being grateful for some thingsin our life.
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And then we add another thingand another thing.
And before you know it,gratitude is a habit that we're
living on a consistent basis.
That said, here's what mysuggestion is practice slowly.
Practice gratitude slowly.
Start to find things that youcan be grateful for in your
life.
If it was me and I were you, Iwould listen to this podcast 20,
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30, 40, 50 times.
Because what's going to happenwhen you listen to it, you're
going to hear the same messageover and over.
It's going to cause therepetition, it causes habitual
behavior.
It causes programming in oursubconscious mind.
And the more we hear a messageover and over, the more we start
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to actually act from that place.
So rather than watch the newsand hear these negative messages
over and over and start tobecome cynical of our world,
perhaps instead we spend ourtime listening to this, sharing
this message with others so thatwe can have this programmed into
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our subconscious so that we cancome from a place of gratitude,
so that we can have more love,happiness, peace, better
relationships, more money,happier in our job and career,
better spirituality, family lifeis happy.
All good things in our life comefrom being grateful.
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That's it for today.
I hope you got something reallygood from this, and I wish you
all the best.
I am grateful that I have all ofyou in my life.
Please share this message withothers.
I'm excited for our podcast today because we're
going to be talking about a bookthat's one of my favorite books
that's had a tremendous impacton my life.
And I believe when I share thisone specific chapter with you,
it's going to have anoverwhelming impact in your life
as well.
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The book was written in 1910 byWallace Waddles.
It's called The Science ofGetting Rich.
You may or may not have heard ofit.
It was actually the book thatwas used to create the movie The
Secret.
I'm going to talk about thischapter, Gratitude.
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So let's jump in.
I'm going to dissect it for youbecause when you read it
yourself without context,without explanation, it can be a
bit challenging to read.
Let's jump in.
The first paragraph says theillustrations given in the last
chapter will convey to thereader the fact that the first
step toward getting rich is toconvey the idea of your wants to
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the formless substance.
So let's pause and ask what doesthis mean?
Essentially, what it's saying isin order for us to get rich, now
it doesn't just mean rich inmoney.
It could be wealthy in health,wealthy in happiness, wealthy in
peace, wealthy in all differentareas of our life, including
financial wealth.
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But what it's saying here isthat in order to get what we
want, we need to know what wewant.
So we got to be really clear onwhat we want.
I could say I want a lot ofmoney.
And if I put that out there, hesays, convey the idea of your
wants to the formless substance.
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The formless substance is God,the divine, the universe.
So we have to know what we wantand we have to put it out there
to God, divine, or the universe.
Problem is, if I say I want moremoney, that's not very clear.
It's not giving really goodinstructions.
And more money could be I get acheck for$30.
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That does give me what I'masking for in that scenario,
which is more money.
It wasn't what I wanted, but Iasked for it in a very
nonspecific way.
So what it's saying here is wemust be very specific on what it
is that we want.
So if you want to earn$137,000extra this year, or you want to
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earn$137,000 this year, you haveto say it out loud in present
tense.
I am earning this year$137,000.
You're putting it out there.
It's very clear.
You've now communicated to theformless substance.
Let's go back to the book.
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It says this is true, and youwill see that in order to do it
becomes necessary to relateyourself to the formless
intelligence in a harmoniousway.
So, how do we relate ourselvesto this formless intelligence,
to God, divine, the universe, ina harmonious way?
It's going to get into that inthis next paragraph.
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To secure this harmoniousrelation is a matter of such
primary and vital importancethat I shall give some space to
its discussion here and give youinstructions, which, if you will
follow them, will be certain tobring you into perfect unity of
the mind with God.
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Again, how do we create thisrelationship with God in a
harmonious way?
He's saying that it's soimportant to do this that we're
going to take the time to reallygive specific instructions on
how we're going to do that.
Let's continue with thischapter.
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The whole process of mentaladjustment and atonement can be
summed up in one word gratitude.
We're talking about gettingwealthy in many areas of our
life.
And the way that we connect withGod, the divine, this higher
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power, is through gratitude.
That is a key element.
Would you have thought that theway to connect to God, divine,
the higher power, would havebeen just through gratitude?
Gratitude gets us on thefrequency of divine.
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The more thankful we are for allthe things that we currently
have in our life, the more timewe spend focusing on gratitude,
being thankful for everything.
I walk into the room, I turn onthe light, the light switch goes
on, and the lights come on inthe room.
That's something I could bethankful for.
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I walk and sit down on my deskand I push the button on the
computer, and the computer comeson and it has all of my
applications and all thedocuments and all the files that
I need.
That's something I can beunbelievably grateful for.
Everything I'm sitting, I'mbreathing, I'm able to see the
screen, I'm able to hear.
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All of these things are thingsthat we can be grateful for.
The way that we connect to Godis through gratitude.
Let's go back to the book.
First, you believe that there isone intelligent substance from
which all things proceed.
What does that mean?
There is one God, there is oneuniverse from which everything
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comes.
That's step number one.
Step number two is believe thatthis God gives you everything
you desire.
So we have to have the beliefthat everything that we could
possibly want, God will give tous.
Now, some of you might say, butMike, what about when I get
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sick?
What about when I'm not feelingwell?
Is that something that I reallydesire?
If God or divine knows a lotmore than we do, perhaps during
that time of not feeling well,you'll figure out something that
you wouldn't have figured outhad you not been in that case.
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You'll make a decision aboutsomething in your life, being in
that quiet time of not feelingso great, but sitting there and
being with yourself, you'll havethe opportunity to think through
and see things from a differentperspective.
So when it says here that youhave to believe that this God
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gives you everything you desire,that it's important to
understand that even if we don'tthink that's something that we
would desire to be sick, to notfeel well, maybe there's a
hidden message in it for us.
And maybe there's a reason andpurpose that we're not feeling
well.
The third step says you relateyourself to God, the divine, by
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feeling a deep and profoundgratitude.
Let's continue.
Many people who order theirlives rightly in all of their
ways are kept in poverty by thelack of gratitude.
Having received one gift fromGod, they cut the wires which
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connect them with God by failingto make the acknowledgement.
I've said this story before, I'mgoing to say it again.
I want you to imagine that youget a really beautiful gift for
your child.
You wrap it up, you put it inbeautiful paper on it, and a
nice bow, and you bring it intoyour child's room and you give
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them the present, and they takethe present and they throw it
across the room, showing nogratitude whatsoever for that
gift.
Here's the question I have foryou.
If they did that to the giftthat you gave them, what would
be the chances that you wouldthen go out and buy another gift
and give it to your child?
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I already know the answer.
It would be slim to none.
And why is it that you wouldn'tdo that?
Why isn't that you wouldn't goand get another gift for your
child?
The answer is because the childdidn't show any gratitude.
So imagine that God is giving usgifts all the time.
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God gives us the gift of beingable to breathe.
God gives us the gift of beingable to see.
God gives us the gift of beingable to stand up and walk.
We have so many gifts in ourlives: our family, our health,
our friends.
All of these things can easilybe taken for granted.
And when we take those thingsfor granted, you know what
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happens?
It's very similar to the childtaking the gift and throwing it
across the room at the wall.
God looks as our parent andsays, If Mike isn't going to
appreciate all that I've alreadygiven him, why in the world
would I give him more?
So when we have gratitude, thinkof it as we are directly
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connected to God.
We have a direct connection intous when we're showing that
gratitude.
And when we don't show thegratitude, it's like taking a
scissors and cutting that wirethat's connecting you, me, and
everyone else to God.
So the way that we can keep itconnected is staying in a place
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of feeling gratitude for all thethings that we already have in
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our life.
All right, let's go back to thebook.
It's easy to understand that thenearer we live to the source, to
God, the source of wealth, whichis God, the more wealth we shall
receive.
And it's easy also to understandthat the soul that is always
grateful lives in closer touchwith God than the one which
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never looks to him in a thankfulacknowledgement.
We pause for a second.
Again, this goes back to thesame thing.
If we don't show gratitude forall the things that we already
have, why would God want to giveus more?
If our child doesn't show usgratitude for all the things
that we give to him or her, dowe have the feeling of wanting
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to give them more?
But the more gratitude the childshows us, the more they say,
Thank you.
I really appreciate you gettingthat from me.
God, that was so nice of you todo.
Thank you so much.
Don't we want to then go out andget more for them and give them
more?
That's the same thing that Godfeels with us.
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That's the same reason why we'renot getting the things that we
want from God because we're notshowing the gratitude for the
things that we already have inour life.
Let's go back to the book.
The more gratefully we fix ourminds on the supreme, on God,
when good things come to us, themore good things we will
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receive.
So let's repeat that again.
The more gratefully we fix ourminds on the supreme, when good
things come to us, the more goodthings we will receive.
And the more rapidly they willcome.
And the reason simply is thatthe mental attitude of gratitude
draws the mind into closer touchwith the source from which all
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blessings come.
So if you want more things tocome into your life, if you want
more abundance, if you more wantmore financial freedom, if you
want a better relationship, begrateful for all the things that
you already do have.
Maybe your relationship isn'tperfect, but instead of focusing
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on all the negative in thatrelationship, she says this, he
does that.
What about focusing on saying,hey, God, thank you so much for
bringing this person into mylife?
I love how they're caring andloving towards me.
And point out things that youcan be grateful for in that
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person.
The more we do that in arelationship, the better the
relationship will get.
The problem is most of the timewhen someone's in a relationship
that they're not thrilled about,their focus is not on gratitude.
It's on the complete opposite.
It's pointing out every singlething that person does wrong,
either to the person directly orin our mind, we're thinking
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thoughts of I can't believe shedoes that.
I can't believe he does this.
And that is cutting that line,that connection that we have to
God, because we're not doingwhat we need to do to hold our
connection to God, which is tohave gratitude for everything.
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Maybe the person that we're in arelationship said something that
hurt our feelings, but maybe Godput that there in our life for a
reason and purpose.
Maybe we need to learn how todraw a boundary.
Maybe we need to learn how tospeak up for ourselves.
Maybe we need to learn how tolook inside internally and see
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why I am being triggered by thatstatement.
God, I'm so thankful that youput that situation into my life
because it allowed me to look atthings in a different
perspective.
It allowed me to look inside ofmyself, grow and learn and see
why I'm dealing with thisstruggle internally, that I
don't feel like I'm worthyenough or I'm not good enough.
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Thank you for blessing me withthat opportunity.
You see the difference?
We're taking a situation whichwe can complain about and be
miserable about.
And instead, we're trying tofind things that we can be
grateful for.
And the more that you do that,the more gratitude you will have
in your life, the more giftsthat will be bestowed upon you.
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In fact, if that relationshipisn't really the best
relationship, the more gratefulyou are for it, either that
relationship will shift, orbecause you're so grateful for
the things, you'll be shiftedout of that relationship and
into something else.
When you pay your bill everysingle month and you get that
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bill, it's your mortgage, andyou're like, oh, you know, I
write that check and it's takingthis money out of my account.
No, that's coming from a placeof lack.
That is not coming from a placeof gratitude.
It's God, thank you so much forgiving me the money that's in my
account so that I can pay thatbill.
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Imagine each time you pay abill, whether it's your phone
bill or an electric bill or yourmortgage, that you write that
check and you say, Thank you,God.
Thank you for giving me themoney so that I'm able to pay
the bills.
I really appreciate that.
When you do that, are youconnecting that line to God or
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are you cutting that line?
And of course, by beinggrateful, we're strengthening
that line, we're making it evenmore strong and we're adding
bandwidth to it so that we caneven receive more blessing.
What do you think about whatthis is saying so far?
Do you think that's apossibility that if you have
more gratitude in your life,that it may connect you and you
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actually may have more things tobe grateful for because you're
being so grateful?
Look at how maybe you have beendoing things.
Maybe you've been coming from aplace of complaining and not
being grateful for the thingsthat you already have and things
have been stagnant and youhaven't been getting the things
that you want.
Maybe it would make sense togive this a try to have an
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experiment and try to see if Ihave this gratitude for all
these things in my life, and ifI say it out loud, and if I
thank God, let me see whathappens over time if I do that.
Let's go back to the book.
If it is a new thought to youthat gratitude brings your whole
mind into closer harmony withthe creative energies of God,
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the universe, consider it well,and you will see that it is
true.
The good things you already havecome to you along the line of
obedience to certain laws.
Gratitude will lead your mindout along the ways by which
things come, and it will keepyou in close harmony with
creative thought and prevent youfrom falling into competitive
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thought.
Now, this is a great line.
It says it will keep you inclose harmony with creative
thought.
Creative thought is thinkinggood thoughts, thinking kind
thoughts, thinking abundantthoughts, thinking gratitude.
And it will prevent you fromfalling into competitive
thought.
Let's talk about competitivethought for a moment.
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You have a friend, you find outthe friend made an investment
and made$400,000 on thatinvestment.
What's the initial thought thatgoes through your mind when they
tell you?
Are you happy for them?
Or is there a part of you insidethat is feeling a little bit
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jealous, a little bit like, man,I work hard, I do good things.
Why don't things like thishappen to me?
That's competitive thinking.
If we're all connected, which weare all connected to one
another, because when you breakus down into the smallest
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molecules, there's atoms andelectrons and neutrons, these
things are all connected to oneanother.
They've done studies wherethey've shown that you take an
electron in one place and youhave another one in a completely
different place, and they'reboth vibrating and acting the
same way.
So if that's the case, thatwould be an argument for that we
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are all connected.
And if we're all connected andwe're having competitive
thought, meaning we're feelingjealous and we're like, they
don't really deserve that intheir life.
What type of thoughts might comeback in your life from the
higher source?
Do you think you're more likelyto get more things in your life
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or less because you're havingthis competitive thinking?
What if instead, when thatfriend says to us that I just
made$400,000, we say toourselves, that's wonderful.
I am so happy for you.
I'm so grateful that you weregiven that gift.
That is a beautiful thing, and Iam so happy for you.
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What if we did that and wethought like that for all kinds
of things that are outside ofour circumstances and we
celebrate other people's wins asif there are wins?
Do you think potentially thatmight give us the opportunity to
have more wins and have morecelebrations in our own life?
If we're celebrating everyoneelse out there as well, instead
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of being jealous, instead ofblaming, instead of complaining,
instead of talking about them.
Why do they always get this?
Why do they?
No, we're grateful.
We're grateful that they'rewinning.
If someone that we don't reallylike in our life has something
really good happen in theirlife, should we be upset about
that?
Or should we be grateful forthem?
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And the answer is, and it's veryhigh level, but the answer is we
should be grateful for them.
Because if we're all connected,we should be grateful for
everyone winning and everyonedoing well and good things
happening for everyone as ifit's us.
And what will happen is we willhave way more to be grateful for
in our own life when we livethat attitude of gratitude and
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we celebrate other people's winsinstead of allowing jealousy and
any other negative thoughts tocome in and take over.
Let's continue with the book.
Gratitude alone can keep youlooking toward the all and
prevent you from falling intothe error of thinking of the
supply as limited.
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And to do that would be fatal toyour hoax.
Again, the more we look atsomeone else and we say, I can't
believe they got that.
They don't really deserve thatnew car.
They don't deserve that newhouse.
If we celebrate it, then oursupply won't be limited.
It will be coming in abundancebecause we're celebrating
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everyone else doing well, andtherefore we'll have a lot to
celebrate as well.
Give and you shall receive.
Give gratitude, you'll receivegratitude in many ways, and
you'll have a lot to be thankfulfor.
Back to the book.
There is a law of gratitude, andit is absolutely necessary that
you should observe the law ifyou're to get the results you
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see.
The law of gratitude is thenatural principle that action
and reaction are always equaland in opposite directions.
What does that mean for asecond?
That if I'm putting gratitudeout, like we just said, that it
not only will it go out, but itcomes back immediately to us in
all kinds of ways.
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Let's continue back to the book.
The grateful outreaching of yourmind in thankful praise to the
God is a liberation orexpenditure of force, right?
When we're thankful to God,we're putting out energy, it
cannot fail to reach that towhich it is addressed.
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And the reaction is aninstantaneous movement towards
you.
So as I put out that gratitude,instantaneously, there is a
force of gratitude coming backto us.
There is a force that's going tocome back to give us things to
be thankful for because we'rebeing thankful for things out
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there.
Let's go back to the book.
If your gratitude is strong andconstant, the reaction in
formless substance, the reactionin God will be strong and
continuous.
The movement of things that youwant will always move towards
you.
The value of gratitude does notconsist solely in getting you
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more blessings in the future.
Without gratitude, you cannotlong keep from dissatisfied
thought regarding things as theyare.
So again, without living in thisattitude of gratitude and being
thankful for not only the thingswe have, but the things that
other people are receiving, thensuddenly our thoughts will shift
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and we won't be coming from thisplace of gratitude.
The moment you permit your mindto dwell with dissatisfaction
upon things as they are, youbegin to lose ground.
You fix attention upon thecommon, the ordinary, the poor,
and the squalid and mean, andyour mind takes the form of
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these things.
Then you will transmit theseforms or mental images to the
formless to God, and the common,the poor, the squalid, and mean
will come to you.
So it's really simple.
Whatever we put out is what'sgoing to come back.
If we're constantly putting outa lack of gratitude, we're going
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to have many things to not begrateful for in our life.
It's a give and receive.
Give and you will shall receive.
Back to the book.
To permit your mind to dwellupon the inferior is to become
inferior and surround yourselfwith inferior things.
On the other hand, to fix yourattention on the best is to
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surround yourself with the bestand to become the best.
God within us makes us into theimage of that to which we give
our attention.
The power within us gives uswhat we're focused on.
If I am focused on negativity,if I am focused on lack, if I am
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focused on a lack of abundance,I will see more of that in my
life.
But if I turn it and just focuson gratitude, and I'm thankful
that I have what I have in mybank account, I'm thankful that
I have the health that I have.
I'm thankful that I have thefamily, that I have the
relationship that I have.
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If I'm thankful for thesethings, I will have more to be
thankful for.
More things will come into mylife that I will be thankful
for.
That's how it works.
Back to the book.
Therefore, it tends to becomethe best.
It takes the form or characterof the best and will receive the
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best.
Again, that's saying exactlywhat we've been saying over and
over again.
Back to the book.
Also, faith is born ofgratitude.
You hear people say a lot, howcan I have faith that things
will work out?
Faith is born of gratitude.
The more things that you'regrateful for, the more faithful
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you will be in your life thatthings will work out.
Gratitude is such a beautifulthing.
If we can just start to slowlyshift into being thankful for
the things that we have in ourlife and the things that other
people are having in their lifeand celebrating them, magical
things begin to happen in life.
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Back to the book.
The grateful mind continuallyexpects good things, and
expectation becomes faith.
The reaction of gratitude uponone's own mind produces faith.
And every outgoing wave ofgratitude, thanksgiving
increases faith.
The more grateful I am, the morefaithful I become.
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The more faith I have thatthings are going to work out in
my life.
You want to have faith?
Be grateful.
He who has no feeling ofgratitude cannot long retain
living faith.
And without living faith, youcannot get rich by the creative
method.
But we shall see that in thefollowing chapters.
If you want wealth in your life,I promise you, if you live from
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a place of gratitude and reallylive from a place of gratitude
for everything, you will startto see your life will shift.
Because when you're living ingratitude, what you're not doing
is living in blaming,complaining, making excuses,
talking negatively about others.
You would never do that whenyou're living in a place of
gratitude.
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You'd be thankful for them.
You'd be thankful for the giftthat they've given you in
learning the lesson that theyprovided for you.
Maybe they're being judgmentaland they're talking about other
people.
Perhaps that is coming in frontof you.
So you have the opportunity topotentially not be as judgmental
yourself and be grateful thatyou actually had that come into
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your life.
And instead of talking aboutthat person and judging them,
use that as a gift and begrateful that that gift just
came to you.
Does that make sense?
Every good thing that comes toyou, everything, be grateful for
it and give thanks continuously.
And be and because all thingshave contributed to your
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advancement, you should includeall things in your gratitude.
Again, no matter what comes atus, we are grateful for it.
Because there's some lesson inthere, even if we can't see what
it is that we can be thankfulfor.
Now, what some people do when Iget to something like this will
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be thankful for everything.
Mike, how can I be grateful ifsomeone I know passes away?
What if my son gets sick andgets cancer?
Here's what I have to say.
When you start in martial arts,you start at a white belt for a
reason.
And the reason you start as awhite belt is because you have
to learn the fundamentals.
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You're not at a place, youhaven't had enough experience to
be able to do the things thatblack belts do.
When you start asking thequestion, how can I be grateful
if my son has cancer?
You're operating from a blackbelt perspective when truly you
are a white or yellow belt.
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And we are not talking aboutcoming at gratitude from a black
belt perspective.
Let's start where we're at andwork our way up the ladder.
So be grateful for all thethings that you can be grateful
for, even if there are somethings that you can say, I can't
be grateful for that.
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Fine.
You don't need to be the blackbelt, be the white and yellow
belt right now, and we'll workour way to a place where
eventually down the road, maybeyou could be thankful for a
situation that certainly doesn'tappear at first sight to be
something that we could bethankful for.
All right, let's continue.
We're almost towards the endhere.
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Do not waste time thinking ortalking about the shortcomings
or wrong actions of thegovernment.
Their organization of the worldhas made your opportunity.
All you get really comes to youbecause of them.
This is A great thing.
Republican, Democrat.
If you're a Republican, you maynot like the Democrats.
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If you're a Democrat, you maynot like the Republicans.
Spend your time focusing on thethings that you can be grateful
for.
If you spend your time focusingon politics, are you going to
get more things to be gratefulfor?
Are you going to be coming froma place of lack and not from a
place of gratitude?
There are things like politicsthat if we focus on them, it
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will take us away fromgratitude.
Good news is we don't have tofocus on that, and we can focus
on other things that would makemore sense and bring us more
happiness and well-being in ourlife.
And gratitude is that answer.
Here are the last twoparagraphs.
Do not rage against corruptpoliticians.
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If it were not for politicians,we should fall into anarchy, and
your opportunity would begreatly lessened.
Last paragraph.
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But in the meantime, behold,they are all very good.
Remember that they are allhelping to arrange the lines of
transmission along which yourriches will come to you and be
grateful to them all.
This will bring you into aharmonious relation with the
good in everything.
And the good in everything willmove towards you.
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That last line, this will bringyou into harmonious relations
with the good in everything, andthe good in everything will move
towards you.
The more you can find gratitudein every situation, both good
and what appear to be bad inyour life, the more things in
your life you will have to begrateful for.
(33:47):
Is the expectation that studyingthis chapter is going to
suddenly make you changecompletely?
No.
You can't go into the gym, sitdown on the bench press, put 300
pounds on each side, and expectthat you're going to be able to
lift it up.
But we start out small, we startout gradually, and we start out
being grateful for some thingsin our life.
(34:09):
And then we add another thingand another thing.
And before you know it,gratitude is a habit that we're
living on a consistent basis.
That said, here's what mysuggestion is practice slowly.
Practice gratitude slowly.
Start to find things that youcan be grateful for in your
life.
If it was me and I were you, Iwould listen to this podcast 20,
(34:36):
30, 40, 50 times.
Because what's going to happenwhen you listen to it, you're
going to hear the same messageover and over.
It's going to cause therepetition, it causes habitual
behavior.
It causes programming in oursubconscious mind.
And the more we hear a messageover and over, the more we start
(34:59):
to actually act from that place.
So rather than watch the newsand hear these negative messages
over and over and start tobecome cynical of our world,
perhaps instead we spend ourtime listening to this, sharing
this message with others so thatwe can have this programmed into
(35:21):
our subconscious so that we cancome from a place of gratitude,
so that we can have more love,happiness, peace, better
relationships, more money,happier in our job and career,
better spirituality, family lifeis happy.
All good things in our life comefrom being grateful.
(35:43):
That's it for today.
I hope you got something reallygood from this, and I wish you
all the best.
I am grateful that I have all ofyou in my life.
Please share this message withothers.
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