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Get Rich - Now
By Nina Baruch
Most of us remain poor because we believe this is our fate,
bad luck, bad genes or the way nature works for us. Wallace Delois Wattles had different ideas
Like most people I know, I grew up in a family where no one for generations, had any money.
My grandparents, who were born and lived their entire lives in eastern Europe, struggled with constant poverty, lost the little
they had in the first world war, almost starved to death during
the Russian revolution, and escaped westward only to loose everything all over again during the second world war. By
the time the wars were over, they were in their early sixties,
and so exhausted from a life of lack and deprivation, that they
got sicker and sicker, and died before I had the chance to know them.
My parents, uncles and aunts had it a lot easier. They managed
to emigrate to the west, found steady jobs, and although they
lead humble lives and worked very hard, they managed to put all their children through college, and never suffered from physical hunger. However, they never had very much, and never changed their belief that people in our family just don't get rich.
They constantly preached us about how important it was to
find jobs, stick to them, and to live modestly, and according to
your means. We did get "good jobs" but sticking to them for years became almost impossible, and none of us enjoyed prosperity, or gained a sense of financial security. In reality, most of us worked extremely hard, for very long hours, never had enough money, and continuously struggled to make ends meet. Over these years of endless struggle, the most common comment my parents offered whenever I was broke was: "Well, that's just the way it is, people like us never have any money".
Nobody ever bothered to question this truth. It was just another of life's axioms. Just like the fact that some people were born with blue eyes and others with brown. I believed that there were two kinds of people: those who were born to make money and have it, and those, like me and my family, who were born to be poor.
People like us were destined to depend on the good will of rich people, who would give us jobs, pay our salaries, and be kind enough not to fire us - Ever.
It took me years of struggle, and many near-financial disasters, to discover that being poor or being rich is a matter of choice. You remain poor all your life because you choose to, and you get rich because you choose not to be poor - it's as simple as that.
"There is a science of getting rich", writes Wallace Delois Wattles in his book, The Science of Getting Rich, a book that changed my life
From Poverty to Wealth
Wattles was born in 1860 in the United States, and wrote The Science of Getting Rich in 1910 - A book where he explains how to get rich. Little is known about Wallace Wattles' life. But one thing is very obvious: most of his life he lived a life of failure, defeat and poverty. Only after studying, practicing and applying the principles that he wrote about in his books, did he truly turn his life around.
Through the tireless study and application of his New Thought Principles, Wallace was able to turn his life from poverty and failure, into a prosperous way of living. Having discovered these secrets, Wallace began to write books, and share his principles and Universal Laws with the world.
He died in 1911, only a year after publishing his most famous book, and his legacy was almost forgotten. Only in recent years, due to the internet and a group of followers who spread his book, more and more people worldwide are learning how they too can become rich, and have the lives they want and deserve - Lives of abundance and prosperity.
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By Nina Baruch
Most of us remain poor because we believe this is our fate,
bad luck, bad genes or the way nature works for us. Wallace Delois Wattles had different ideas
Like most people I know, I grew up in a family where no one for generations, had any money.
My grandparents, who were born and lived their entire lives in eastern Europe, struggled with constant poverty, lost the little
they had in the first world war, almost starved to death during
the Russian revolution, and escaped westward only to loose everything all over again during the second world war. By
the time the wars were over, they were in their early sixties,
and so exhausted from a life of lack and deprivation, that they
got sicker and sicker, and died before I had the chance to know them.
My parents, uncles and aunts had it a lot easier. They managed
to emigrate to the west, found steady jobs, and although they
lead humble lives and worked very hard, they managed to put all their children through college, and never suffered from physical hunger. However, they never had very much, and never changed their belief that people in our family just don't get rich.
They constantly preached us about how important it was to
find jobs, stick to them, and to live modestly, and according to
your means. We did get "good jobs" but sticking to them for years became almost impossible, and none of us enjoyed prosperity, or gained a sense of financial security. In reality, most of us worked extremely hard, for very long hours, never had enough money, and continuously struggled to make ends meet. Over these years of endless struggle, the most common comment my parents offered whenever I was broke was: "Well, that's just the way it is, people like us never have any money".
Nobody ever bothered to question this truth. It was just another of life's axioms. Just like the fact that some people were born with blue eyes and others with brown. I believed that there were two kinds of people: those who were born to make money and have it, and those, like me and my family, who were born to be poor.
People like us were destined to depend on the good will of rich people, who would give us jobs, pay our salaries, and be kind enough not to fire us - Ever.
It took me years of struggle, and many near-financial disasters, to discover that being poor or being rich is a matter of choice. You remain poor all your life because you choose to, and you get rich because you choose not to be poor - it's as simple as that.
"There is a science of getting rich", writes Wallace Delois Wattles in his book, The Science of Getting Rich, a book that changed my life
From Poverty to Wealth
Wattles was born in 1860 in the United States, and wrote The Science of Getting Rich in 1910 - A book where he explains how to get rich. Little is known about Wallace Wattles' life. But one thing is very obvious: most of his life he lived a life of failure, defeat and poverty. Only after studying, practicing and applying the principles that he wrote about in his books, did he truly turn his life around.
Through the tireless study and application of his New Thought Principles, Wallace was able to turn his life from poverty and failure, into a prosperous way of living. Having discovered these secrets, Wallace began to write books, and share his principles and Universal Laws with the world.
He died in 1911, only a year after publishing his most famous book, and his legacy was almost forgotten. Only in recent years, due to the internet and a group of followers who spread his book, more and more people worldwide are learning how they too can become rich, and have the lives they want and deserve - Lives of abundance and prosperity.
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"The only way not
to think about
money is to have
a great deal of it"
Edith Wharton
to think about
money is to have
a great deal of it"
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was born to a wealthy New York family, and combined her insiders view into America's privileged classes with a brilliant natural wit to write novels and short stories notable for their humor and incisiveness, among them The Age of Innocence (1920), perhaps her best known work, and The Buccaneers, that was finished after her death.
"You may be the poorest man on the continent, and deeply in debt; you may have neither friends, nor influence; but if you begin to do things the right way, you begin
to get rich"
to get rich"
