By Cynthia Morin

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
- Walt Disney

Editor’s Note: The movie The Secret premiered on the Internet March 23, 2006 and was released to the public as a new extended DVD edition on October 1, 2006. During Christmas week, 2006, The Secret was one of the top five DVDs sold at Amazon.com and by March 2007 became the number one seller. A book version reached number one on The New York Times bestseller list. Currently both the book and DVD versions are #1 or #2 at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Borders.

The Secret is the culmination of many centuries of great thinkers, scientists, artists and philosophers. All of the people involved behind the scenes with The Secret are honored to stand on the shoulders of these great people cherishing the ideas that have come before us. ~ www.thesecret.tv

“I can’t believe all the people who knew this (Secret); they were the greatest people in history,” states The Secret Producer, Rhonda Byrne.

Mentioned in the film are Aristotle, W. Clement Stone, Plato, Isaac Newton, Martin Luther King, Carl Jung, Victor Hugo, Henry Ford, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Robert Collier, Winston Churchill, Andrew Carnegie, Joseph Campbell, Alexander Graham Bell, Ludvig Van Beethoven, Charles Fillmore, and Wallace D. Wattles.

Byrne, an Australian television writer and producer, and creator of The Secret, explains that she was inspired to create The Secret after reading the 1910 classic The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles.

Rebecca Fine also credits Wattles with her major life change.

“In the spring of 1998, a man I’d never met sent me a book I’d never heard of, written long ago by a man who’s now been dead nearly 90 years. That little book changed my entire life. As I put into practice the principles you’ll learn about in this book, the results were astonishing – and they began almost instantly and continue to this day.”

Rebecca adds, “Now right off the bat, author Wallace D. Wattles says that instead of questioning how these (Law of Attraction) principles work, you’ll need simply to accept them and begin to practice them.”

The Secret is a significant step in bringing deeper understanding to the general public and also giving us all some new vocabulary to discuss our understandings of how the universe works.

Yet, the movie itself does not seem to take us very far in knowing how to make true changes in the way we think and act. In order to move from the apathy and victimhood thinking so common in today’s society, it is important to get in motion, to walk our talk.

Anyone who has viewed the film or read the book understands that this Law of Attraction is not merely ‘positive thinking’ but requires a new paradigm of core beliefs, put into action on a daily basis.

If you desire to more fully experience the Law of Attraction, begin to read The Science of Getting Rich by Wattles.

Written in 1910, and now in public domain, the book is available free online. In addition to a lovely free download eBook it is also available from Rebecca Fine’s site as an audio book. (Visit for details on the Science of Getting Rich Network and Practical GeniusTM program.)

Acting in The Certain Way

(excerpt Chapter 11 – The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles)

Thought is the creative power or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act. Thinking in a certain way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is the rock upon which many otherwise scientific thinkers meet shipwreck–the failure to connect thought with personal action.

We have not yet reached the stage of development, even supposing such a stage to be possible, in which a person can create directly from formless substance without nature’s processes or the work of human hands. A person must not only think, but his personal action must supplement his thought.

By thought you can cause the gold in the hearts of the mountains to be impelled toward you, but it will not mine itself, refine itself, coin itself into double eagles, and come rolling along the roads, seeking its way into your pocket.

Under the impelling power of the supreme spirit, people’s affairs will be so ordered that someone will be led to mine the gold for you. Other people’s business transactions will be so directed that the gold will be brought toward you. And you must so arrange your own business affairs that you may be able to receive it when it comes to you. Your thought makes all things, animate and inanimate, work to bring you what you want, but your personal activity must be such that you can rightly receive what you want when it reaches you. You are not to take it as charity, nor to steal it. You must give every person more in use value than he gives you in cash value.

The scientific use of thought consists in forming a clear and distinct mental image of what you want, in holding fast to your purpose to get what you want, and in realizing with grateful faith that you do get what you want.

Do not try to project your thought in any mysterious or occult way, with the idea of having it go out and do things for you. That is wasted effort and will weaken your power to think with sanity. The action of thought in getting rich is fully explained in the preceding chapters: Your faith and purpose positively impress your vision upon formless substance, which has the same desire for more life that you have, and this vision, received from you, sets all the creative forces at work in and through their regular channels of action, but directed toward you.

It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process. All you have to do with that is to retain your vision, stick to your purpose, and maintain your faith and gratitude.

But you must act in a certain way, so that you can appropriate what is yours when it comes to you and so that you can meet the things you have in your picture and put them in their proper places as they arrive.

You can really see the truth of this. When things reach you, they will be in the hands of others, who will ask an equivalent for them. And you can only get what is yours by giving the other person what is rightfully his.

Your pocketbook is not going to be transformed into a Fortunatus’s purse, which shall be always full of money without effort on your part.
This is the crucial point in the science of getting rich, right here, where thought and personal action must be combined. There are very many people who, consciously or unconsciously, set the creative forces in action by the strength and persistence of their desires, but who remain poor because they do not provide for the reception of the thing they want when it comes.

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it.

Whatever your action is to be, it is evident that you must act NOW. You cannot act in the past, and it is essential to the clearness of your mental vision that you dismiss the past from your mind. You cannot act in the future, for the future is not here yet. And you cannot tell how you will want to act in any future contingency until that contingency has arrived.

Because you are not in the right business or the right environment now, do not think that you must postpone action until you get into the right business or environment. And do not spend time in the present taking thought as to the best course in possible future emergencies; have faith in your ability to meet any emergency when it arrives.

If you act in the present with your mind on the future, your present action will be with a divided mind, and will not be effective. Put your whole mind into present action.
Do not give your creative impulse to original substance, and then sit down and wait for results. If you do, you will never get them. Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now. If you are ever to begin to make ready for the reception of what you want, you must begin NOW.

And your action, whatever it is, must most likely be in your present business or employment, and must be upon the persons and things in your present environment.

You cannot act where you are not, you cannot act where you have been, and you cannot act where you are going to be. You can act only where you are.

Do not bother as to whether yesterday’s work was well done or ill done; do today’s work well.

Do not try to do tomorrow’s work now; there will be plenty of time to do that when you get to it.

Do not try, by occult or mystical means, to act on people or things that are out of your reach.

Do not wait for a change of environment before you act; get a change of environment by action.
You can so act upon the environment in which you are now, as to cause yourself to be transferred to a better environment.

Hold with faith and purpose the vision of yourself in the better environment, but act upon your present environment with all your heart, and with all your strength, and with all your mind.

Do not spend any time in day dreaming or castle building; hold to the one vision of what you want, and act NOW.

Do not cast about, seeking some new thing to do or some strange, unusual, or remarkable action to perform as a first step toward getting rich. It is probable that your actions, at least for some time to come, will be the same ones you have been performing for some time past, but you are to begin now to perform these actions in the certain way, which will surely make you rich.

If you are engaged in some business, and feel that it is not the right one for you, do not wait until you get into the right business before you begin to act. Do not feel discouraged or sit down and lament because you are misplaced. No one is so misplaced that he cannot find the right place, and no one is so involved in the wrong business that he cannot get into the right business.

Use your present business as the means of getting a better one, and use your present environment as the means of getting into a better one. If you are an employee or wage earner and feel that you must change places in order to get what you want, do not .project your thought into space and rely upon it to get you another job. It will probably fail to do so.

Your vision and faith will set the creative force in motion to bring it toward you, and your action will cause the forces in your own environment to move you toward the place you want.

Cynthia Morin, a Personal Life Coach, is publisher/editor of Spirit of Eureka Magazine. Contact her at 479-244-6585 or email cynthia@danceofthesoulcoaching.com
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