Steps to Become Rich

Think And Grow Rich
Step Three
Auto-Suggestion

Now, in this chapter, he goes further and states that it is very important to affirm one's goals and ideals at some quiet time, such as just before falling asleep.


What we would know as meditation, which Hill may have been reluctant to encourage in a time when such things were seen as a part of eastern mysticism and out-of-sync with his obvious Christian beliefs.

Here is why the quiet time is ideal for auto-suggestion or affirmation.

When you intentionally think about, repeat and affirm your ideals, you are planting the seeds that will grow to bear fruit. When your mind is busy with all kinds of distracting thoughts, or worse, non-contributory or negative thoughts, you are planting your seeds amongst an abundance of weeds.

When your mind is still and focused, you are, in effect, preparing fresh and fertile, weed-free, ground in which to plant your thought seeds.

Steps to become rich involves preparing the ideal mental ground to plant your thought seeds, meditation also stills your mind so that intuition can be accessed, insight can be attained and your connectivity to the absolute can be ascertained.

Since all creativity springs from the potentiality of the infinite and absolute, it only makes practical sense to become as intimate with the infinite as you can manage.

Meditation steps to become rich is the well-worn and proven method of achieving this intimacy.

Repeated affirmation of ideals and goals is highly effective. It is even more effective when done in a meditative state. It is even more effective when you use insight, obtained through meditation and contemplation of self, to come to know and consciously choose which core beliefs you will hold, discard or take on.

You are fortunate beyond measure in comparison to those who lived when Hill originally wrote Think and Grow Rich.

Not only is the ignorance of and prejudice against meditation almost gone from the educated people of today, there are now several advanced techniques enabled by scientific understanding and application of brainwave states and their relationship to mental activity.

We have all been, in a sense, brainwashed by our parents, our teachers and our societal groupthink to hold certain expectations and certain beliefs. Choosing to enact what Hill calls autosuggestion and affirmation is choosing to do your own intentional brainwashing in order to program yourself for success.

Remembering the steps to become rich exercise in chapter two, when you wrote down your dreams and desires, in this chapter, those statements are blended into meditation.

The exercise recommended by Hill, in this chapter of his steps to become rich, is as follows.

First. Go into some quiet spot (preferably in bed at night) where you will not be disturbed or interrupted, close your eyes, and repeat aloud, (so you may hear your own words) the written statement of the amount of money you intend to accumulate, the time limit for its accumulation, and a description of the service or merchandise you intend to give in return for the money. As you carry out these instructions, See Yourself Already in Possession of The Money.

For example: Suppose that you intend to accumulate $150,000 by the first of January, five years hence, that you intend to give personal services in return for the money, in the capacity of a salesman.

Your written statement of your purpose should be similar to the following:

"By the first day of January, 20.., I will have in my possession $150,000, which will come to me in various amounts from time to time during the interim. "In return for this money I will give the most efficient service of which I am capable, rendering the fullest possible quantity, and the best possible quality of service in the capacity of salesman of …(describe the service or merchandise you intend to sell).

"I believe that I will have this money in my possession. My faith is so strong that I can now see this money before my eyes. I can touch it with my hands. It is now awaiting transfer to me at the time, and in the proportion that I deliver the service I intend to render in return for it. I am awaiting a plan by which to accumulate this money, and I will follow that plan, when it is received."

Second. Repeat this program night and morning until you can see, (in your imagination) the money you intend to accumulate.

Third. Place a written copy of your statement where you can see it night and morning, and read it just before retiring, and upon arising until it has been memorized.

Remember, as you carry out these instructions, that you are applying the principle of auto-suggestion, for the purpose of giving orders to your subconscious mind. Remember, also, that your subconscious mind will act Only upon instructions which are emotionalized, and handed over to it with "feeling."

Faith is the strongest, and most productive of the emotions.

Follow the instructions given in the chapter on Faith.

These steps to become rich may, at first, seem abstract. Do not let this disturb you. Follow the instructions, no matter how abstract or impractical they may, at first, appear to be. The time will soon come, if you do as you have been instructed, in spirit as well as in act, when a whole new universe of power will unfold to you.

Step Two Faith

Step Four Specialized Knowledge