A Powerful Life: The Lost Writings of Wallace D. Wattles

Have You Read "The Science of Getting Rich" by Wallace D. Wattles But Feel Like You're "Missing" Something?

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What is Success... *Real* Success? (Part 1 of 2)

- by Tony Mase

© Tony Mase - All Rights Reserved
http://www.constructivescience.com
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Many people say they want success. Yet, when asked what
"success" is, they haven't a clue. In other words, they say
they want something when, at the same time, they don't even
know what that "something" is.

What is success... *real* success?

The best definition of success I've ever read comes from the
writings of Wallace D. Wattles, best known for his classic
masterpiece, "The Science of Getting Rich".

In Chapter 1 of "How to Get What You Want", a book he wrote
prior to "The Science of Getting Rich", Wallace D. Wattles
writes:

"Getting what you want is success..."

There are two key words in Wallace D. Wattles' definition of
success, the first one is *you*...

Getting what *YOU* want is success.

Not getting what I want...

Not getting what someone else wants...

Not getting what you think you should want because someone
else has it...

Getting what *YOU* want is success!

Question for you...

What do *YOU* want...

What do you *really* want?

Before I began studying Wallace D. Wattles' writings and
applying their principles to my life, I had all sorts of
"goals" on my "goals list" that, at the time, I thought were
things I wanted.

However...

When I examined those goals carefully, I discovered I didn't
*really* want them at all.

Travel is one example that immediately comes to mind. I had
a number of travel goals on my goals list.

The funny part is...

I don't really like to travel all that much!

Here's another one...

I had a goal to own a closet full of finely tailored, custom
made suits.

The truth is, I'm perfectly comfortable and content running
around in jeans and a t-shirt. As a matter of fact, at the
same time I had this goal on my list, I was desperately
trying to get to a point in my life where I *didn't* have to
wear a suit!

One more...

And this one, looking back on it, was downright ridiculous.

I had a goal to own a white Lincoln Town Car stretch
limousine and have my own personal chauffeur.

What's wrong with that, you ask?

Nothing, except there are very few things I like less than
being a passenger in a car, especially being a passenger in
the back seat of a car.

Hmmm...

No wonder I wasn't making any progress towards my goals...

They weren't *my* goals!

Whose goals were they?

I honestly don't know.

All I know is they weren't mine. :-)

I guess I thought these were things "successful" people did
or had so, since I wanted to be "successful", they were what
I should want.

I know that sounds silly but, judging from some of the
questions I get, there are a whole lot of folks out there
who think they "should" want all sorts of things they don't
really want at all.

Now...

Am I saying there's anything wrong with wanting travel,
custom made clothes or chauffeur driven limousines?

Absolutely not!

Unless...

*You* don't *really* want those things!

So...

How do you determine if *you* really want something?

Simple...

For each of your wants, ask yourself and then answer these
two very important questions:

1. Why *specifically* do I want this?

Be very, *very* specific in your answers and keep asking
yourself "why" to each of your answers until you're not able
to answer the question any more.

If you can't come up with one or more clear, "convincing",
meaningful reasons why *you* want something then you don't
*really* want it, you just "think" you do.

2. How does it *feel* now that I have this?

Close your eyes and imagine yourself as having already
attained that which you want and pay particular attention to
how you "feel" now that you have it.

If it doesn't "feel" good or if all you experience is an
empty, "so what" feeling, again, you don't *really* want it,
you just "think" you do.

In the first chapter of "How to Get What You Want", Wallace
D. Wattles also says this about success:

"Success is essentially the same, whether it results in the
attainment of health, wealth, development or position;
success is attainment, without regard to the things
attained."

In other words...

All success is the same.

The only difference is what *you* want.

Getting what *YOU* want is success!

Once you determine what *you* want, what you *really* want,
what "success" is to you and only *you*, your life will
change, it'll change rather dramatically and it'll change
faster than you ever thought possible.

What's the second key word in Wallace D. Wattles' definition
of success?

Stay tuned for the answer in Part 2 of this series! :-)

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Tony Mase is a serious student of the works of Wallace D.
Wattles and the publisher of the "A Powerful Life: The Lost
Writings of Wallace D. Wattles" ebook by Wallace D.
Wattles...

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What is Success... *Real* Success? (Part 2 of 2)

- by Tony Mase

© Tony Mase - All Rights Reserved
http://www.constructivescience.com
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In Part 1 of this two-part series (What is Success... *Real*
Success? - Part 1 of 2), I shared with you the best
definition of success I've ever read.

It comes from a book titled "How to Get What You Want" by
Wallace D. Wattles.

In it he writes:

"Getting what you want is success..."

Notice, if you will, Wallace D. Wattles did *not* write:

"'Having' what you want is success..."

Wallace D. Wattles wrote:

"*Getting* what you want is success..."

The second key word in Wallace D. Wattles' definition of
success (see What is Success... *Real* Success? - Part 1 of
2 for the first) is *getting*...

*GETTING* what you want is success.

"Getting" implies being in the process of, rather than that
of having already arrived. In other words, success is a
process *not* a result.

In his writings, Wallace D. Wattles repeatedly makes the
point that the purpose of life for men and women is growth,
just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth.

However...

Unlike trees and plants, which grow automatically and along
fixed lines, we can grow as we choose.

Trees and plants are limited to developing only certain
possibilities and characteristics whereas, at an absolute
minimum, we can develop any possibility and any
characteristic which is or has ever been demonstrated by any
other person anywhere.

We're formed for growth and under the constant necessity of
growing.

As a matter of fact, as Wallace D. Wattles also points out
in his writings, so strong is this constant necessity for
growth that it's absolutely essential to our happiness that
we continuously advance.

I was recently reminded of this fact after completing a
major project upon which I'd been working for months.

For many long months I'd toiled day and night putting all
the many pieces of the project together and working out
hundreds of little related details with the objective of
completing the project constantly in mind.

When the project was finally finished, instead of feeling
happy about it, as one might expect, I actually felt sort of
sad, even, for lack of a better term, mildly depressed.

Now...

Don't get me wrong...

I was certainly glad the project was finished, especially
knowing that many, many people's lives would be positively
impacted forever by its being finished.

However...

Instead of feeling off the walls excited about it, I felt
more like I'd just lost my best friend.

I've experienced this same strange phenomenon every single
time I've ever gotten anything I really wanted whether it
was a house, a new car, more income or just completing a
major project.

Why?

Because, as I've finally come to realize, the true fun and
joy in life really come from the getting not the having.

A number of years ago, when asked why he was continuously
opening new stores when he already had so many, Ray Kroc,
the founder of McDonald's replied:

"When you're green you're growing. When you ripen you rot!" 

Wallace D. Wattles once put it this way:

"Life without progress becomes unendurable, and the person
who ceases from growth must either become imbecile or
insane. The greater and more harmonious and well-rounded his
growth, the happier man will be."

So...

If you're *getting* what *YOU* want...

Not getting what I want...

Not getting what someone else wants...

Not getting what you think you should want because someone
else has it...

Then...

You're a success.

For example...

If what you really want is to be a teacher and you're in the
process of becoming a teacher, you're a success.

On the other hand...

If what you really want is to be a teacher, but you're a
lawyer because that's what your father wanted you to be or
because that's what you thought you wanted to be because of
the money you'd earn and you're not in the process of
becoming a teacher, you're a failure, regardless of how much
money you earn, how big your home is or what kind of car you
drive!

Remember...

*GETTING* what *YOU* want is success!

If you're absolutely clear about what it is you want, what
it is *you* really want, and you're in the process of
*getting* it...

Then...

You're a success, a *real* success, right now - *TODAY*!

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Tony Mase is a serious student of the works of Wallace D.
Wattles and the publisher of the "A Powerful Life: The Lost
Writings of Wallace D. Wattles" ebook by Wallace D.
Wattles...

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"A Powerful Life: The Lost Writings of Wallace D. Wattles"
"How to Get What You Want" by Wallace D. Wattles together
with twenty-four other rare books and articles written by
Wallace D. Wattles.
Click Here => http://www.wallacedwattles.com
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