The Science of Success: Includes Three Prosperity Classics ( The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, and The Science of Being Great

Old Secrets - New Perspectives By Bruce Ervin Wood, PCC, SPHR As a leadership coach, the first time The Science of Success - The Secret to Getting What You Want by Wallace D. Wattles came into my hands, I quickly zipped it back in the shelf...seemed just another of `success-in-eleven-easy-steps' book offering techniques and little substance. The second time, I listened to the impulse to give the author a chance, and found you really can't tell a book by its cover. In three sections of the book, Wattles addresses being successful, being healthy, and being great. Written around 1900, the book provides contemporary insights in eminently accessible language. The Science of Success According to the author, Life has the inherent drive to increase of life. We, as human beings are thinking centers, connected with infinite abundance, and capable of creation by thought. Every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility to come into action. By envisioning a persistent and clear picture/thought of what we want, accepting and having gratitude (which requires "a mental attitude of ownership" and faith), and taking action, life has already set the creation and delivery of our wants in motion. Influencing others through manipulation or power, sacrificial altruism and extreme selfishness are mistakes. Likewise, competition assumes limited resources, drains energy and resources from others. Conversely, creation springs from unlimited resources and energy and gets us what we want in a way that all benefit and advance. By fixing our attention on a thought, we create. So, by obsessing about the plight of the ordinary, the poor, and the squalid and mean, your mind sustains the form of these things in your life. Far from relieving those conditions for others, your thoughts make their tendency toward poverty persist and grow even worse. Being a model of how to get rich is the best way to help the poor. Think and speak of the poor as those who are becoming rich - to be congratulated rather than pitied. Hold unshakable faith and quiet assurance that you are becoming rich and this conveys the impression of advancement with everything you do. With honest pride, impress others so that they feel that, by partnering with you, they will get increase for themselves. Have faith that every difficulty carries with it the wherewithal for its overcoming. You will find that even a tremendous obstruction will disappear as you approach it, or that a way over, through, or around it will appear. Do not fear you will fail for lack of ability, it will be furnished when you need it. The Science of Being Well Becoming well does not depend on some drug, adopting a system, living in a certain climate, or holding a certain job. People with similar health concerns are healed or not using each of the above modalities. Wattles posits that, except for some conditions, two classes of functions determine wellness: voluntary (eating, drinking, breathing, and sleeping); and involuntary

This book as absolutely essential if you are unemployed, confused about your future, facing dramatic change, or just plain ol' bored to death with your current state. Wallace D. Wattles organizes the teaching of the Certain Way, and there is every evidence in the world to support his writings as absolute truth. Successful people are not born into success, but they become successful not by their family name (we all know losers in every great family), not by their location, and not by their religion, but by a very different method which he explains fully in the book. If you have ever read Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill, you know a little about the premise of this book. I like the way he organizes the fundamentals and builds on these to show you a great opportunity for personal growth. This book is worth every penny you pay, and then some!

I learned about this book from David Neagle, the million dollar acceleration coach. He's done an entire CD program that he privately markets around this book. This is the perfect compliment to Think & Grow Rich. It is the foundational philosophy behind the "Law of Attraction". And even though it was written many years ago, it is still just as relevant today. For those seeking a more solid base from which to build their wealth, business, and happiness, I strongly recommend this no-frills book.

This book is a very insightful philosophy for life. Although it includes divinity in the writings it is non denominational and will offend no one. Attempting to adopt the principles can only enhance one's life.

This book is all you need to succeed in all areas of your life, I strongly recommend it to everyone