Now that I have your attention, let me tell you a story…
Just a few short weeks ago, Mike began to put his big plans for the year into action. Like so many of us, he and his wife had decided that now that their daughter was grown, they wanted to work less and enjoy life more — to travel, spend time with friends and family, and just generally enjoy their home on the lovely east coast of New Zealand.
Now you only have to look around to see that WANTING that kind of freedom is where many people begin and END the process! (And — ouch — sometimes we only have to look in the mirror for a good example, right?)
But for Mike, this was just the beginning. He’d recently read a small forgotten classic from 1910 entitled, The Science of Getting Rich, and something in it just “clicked” for him. Sure, he’d also read plenty of “self-help” books before. But, as he put it, “without taking them onboard.”
This time, though, something was different. This time Mike decided to go for it, to apply the principles he was learning from that little book as he set about changing his life.
Back in 1987 Mike had started an electrical company and it did very well. And he and his wife also own and operate another full-time business, too. To start this year, Mike closed down his business to concentrate on a new interest, property investing, while his wife retired from running the other business, opting to handle just a bit of the administrative work on a part-time basis.
As you might expect, they originally figured this would mean some belt-tightening while Mike got his new venture going — a perhaps substantial temporary loss of income. But rather than focus on that, Mike decided to follow the instructions in The Science of Getting Rich and focus on his clear mental image of the life he wanted and to begin to take action in that direction.
You see, over the years Mike has developed several products and not long ago he came up with one that seemed very promising — a quality management logging system for welding pipes, including the electronic device that runs the system.
But this side of the business somehow didn’t work out quite as he’d expected, so when his main client went out of business, Mike just put the product on the shelf in the garage and forgot about it. And there it sat, abandoned, for more than a year and a half.
Then, suddenly, a company which had bought several of his devices in the past showed up wanting that almost-forgotten product! Seems they’d been trying to develop a similar one on their own but had become bogged down in major difficulties. They offered Mike a good price for his brain-child and he was all set to agree.
But there was a hitch.
Two deal-killer clauses glared out of the contract — and the would-be buyer’s lawyer wasn’t budging.
“Never allow yourself to be disappointed,” says Wallace Wattles, author of The Science of Getting Rich. So here’s what Mike did.
“I tried to think of and see the deal with a positive outcome rather than see the problems in our way. I also knew the contract wouldn’t work for me with those two clauses in it, so I let go of any attachment to the outcome and rang the person I’d been dealing with directly, instead of talking to the lawyer. I told him what I wanted, and I really was happy for the deal not to go ahead otherwise.”
Result?
“We got our money last week. The amount will cover our basic living expenses while I start our new venture and it’ll also take care of the cut in my wife’s income.”
And Mike did MORE. Understanding Mr. Wattles’ admonition that “you must give every man more in use value than he gives you in cash value,” Mike made the point of adding extra to what the buyer got.
“I spent days creating instruction manuals and also came across extra product when I did my final clean-out which I happily passed on to them at no extra cost. It ended up a good deal for all.”
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Rebecca Fine is the founder of The Science of Getting Rich Network where you can download your free copy of the amazing 1910 forgotten classic, The Science of Getting Rich. http://www.scienceofgettingrich.net ©2001 Certain Way Productions.
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