| Book: Money, and the Law of Attraction |
| 1 | What do you believe attracted you to this book? Why do you suppose you're reading these words? Which part of the title got your attention? Was it Money? Health? Happiness? Learning to Attract? Or was it the Law of Attraction perhaps? Whatever the obvious reason may have been for your attention to this book, the information contained here has come to you in answer to something for which you have been somehow asking. |
| 2 | What is this book about? It teaches that life is supposed to feel good and that our overall Well-Being is what is natural. It teaches that no matter how good your life is now, it can always get better, and that the choice and the power to improve your life experience is within your personal control. And it offers practical philosophical tools that — when put into consistent use — will enable you to allow yourself to experience more of the wealth, health, and happiness that is your natural birthright. |
| 3 | (And I know, because it keeps happening to me. As I move forward from each desire-clarifying experience of contrast to a new desire and then to a new manifestation — my life overall gets better and better.) Life is good! It is New Year's Day of 2008, and I'm beginning this Preface while seated at the dining-room table of our new Del Mar, California, "haven." From the time Esther and I were married (1980), we've been making it a point to visit this "Garden of Eden" area as often as has been practical. |
| 4 | And now, after all those years as appreciative San Diego visitors, we will be actually living here as appreciative part-time residents. And what's not to appreciate? There was our friend who led us to find the property. (We told him we were looking for a piece of property near Del Mar where we could park our 45-foot tour bus.) There were the landscape architects, engineers, designers, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, tile roofers, and copper gutterers. |
| 5 | There were those talented, skilled tradespeople: tile layers; stuccoers; painters; and fence, gate, and ironworks creators. There were floor installers and custom-lift, slide-doors, arched-wooden-windows-and-doors, and stained-glass-window folks. There were the "high end" high-tech people who installed the Lutron master-controlled lighting system, the audiovideocomputer networking system, the new Trane multiple-zone master-controlled (silent) air-conditioning system, and the SnaideroMieleBoschViking kitchen and laundry equipment. |
| 6 | There were those who placed our new furniture, and placed it again, and again — as we discovered what felt best. There were those teams of hardworking diggers, trenchers, haulers, cement pourers, stoneworkers, and transplanters of full-grown trees. ... And then there were the thousands of people who had a hand in — and also earned money from — the invention, creation, and distribution of the thousands of products involved. |
| 7 | ... Well, that's a lot to appreciate. And that was just the tip of the iceberg of what's to appreciate. There was the discovery of a new "favorite" restaurant — and owners and staff — only a couple of minutes away, and then there were those incredibly delightful eclectic, positive neighbors who welcomed us here in a style that we have never previously experienced. There's more, too. There's the breathtaking view to the south into the primitive Torrey Pines State Reserve, across the Carmel Valley Creek and waterbird sanctuary and the lagoon, and down into the crashing, foaming waves of the Pacific Ocean as it untiringly washes up onto Torrey Pines Beach. |
| 8 | Yes. Life is good! (Esther and I just finished a brief walk on the beach, and we're now settling down for the evening to put some finishing touches on Abraham's newest book — Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness.) It was over 40 years ago, while performing a series of concerts in colleges across the nation, that I "accidentally" noticed a book lying on a coffee table in a motel in a small town in Montana. |
| 9 | That book, Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, changed my beliefs about money so dramatically that my use of its principles attracted financial success to me in a way I hadn't previously imagined. Thinking or growing rich hadn't been something I had much interest in. But shortly before discovering that book, I had decided that I wanted to modify the way I earned money — and increase the amount I received. |
| 10 | And so, it turned out that my attraction to Hill's book was a direct answer to what I had been "asking" for. Soon after encountering Think and Grow Rich in that Montana motel, I met a man in a motel in Minnesota who offered me a business opportunity that was so compatible with Hill's teachings that for nine joyous years I focused my attention on building that business. During those nine years, the business grew into a multimillion-dollar international enterprise. |
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