THE
LAW OF ACCUMULATION OF WEALTH
One of the greatest wealth building principles of all is called the
Law of Accumulation. This law says that everything great and
worthwhile in human life is an accumulation of hundreds and
sometimes thousands of tiny efforts and sacrifices that nobody
ever sees or appreciates. It says that everything accumulates
over time. That you have to put in many, many, many tiny
efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve
anything worthwhile. It's like a snowball. A snowball starts
very small, but it grows as it adds millions and millions of
tiny snowflakes and continues to grow as it gathers momentum.
There are three areas where the law of accumulation is
important.
The first is in the area of knowledge. Your body of
knowledge is a result of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of small
pieces of information.
Any person with a large
knowledge base has spent thousands of hours building that
knowledge base one piece at a time. And what you see when you
meet the individual is an expert in his or her field, with
that high level of knowledge that makes him very valuable in
the marketplace.
The second area where the Law of accumulation works is with
regard to money. Every large fortune is an accumulation of
hundreds and thousands of small amounts of money, and the
place to start is to take any amount of money that you can
right now and begin to save it. When you begin to save money,
it sets up a force field of energy and it triggers the law of
attraction. As a result you begin to attract to you even more
bits of money to add to your savings.
Successful people will tell
you the same story. That as soon as you start to put
savings aside, it starts to attract into your life and into
your work all the money that you need to achieve your goals.
The reason why most people retire poor is they never put the
initial savings aside to start with.
The third area where the law of accumulation applies is in the
area of experience. You'll find that successful people in any
field are those who have far more experience in that field
than the average. And there is nothing that replaces
experience. Whether it's in business or entrepreneurship or
management or parenting or selling or anything else. Many
people do not take the risks that are necessary to move out of
their comfort zone because they're afraid it won't work out.
But the fact is that until you move out of the comfort zone
and get the experience from making the mistakes, it's not
possible for you to grow and become capable of earning the
kind of money that you desire. Now here's the key to the law
of accumulation. It says that everything counts. Everything
that you do counts. The biggest mistake that people make is
they think that only what they want to count, counts. That
when you read a book, when you listen to an audio program,
when you go to a course, when you go to bed early and you get
up early and you work, it all counts. And it's all going on
the plus side of your ledger.
But when you watch television, waste time, hang out, fool
around and so on, all of that counts, as well, and it's going
on the negative side. A person who has a great life, by the
law of accumulation, is a person who's accumulated far more
credits on the credit side than debits on the debit side. And
here's an important point. If what you are doing is not moving
you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your
goals. Nothing is neutral. Everything that you're doing is
either moving you toward the things that you want to
accomplish in life, the person you want to be, the wealth you
want to accumulate, or it's moving you away. Everything
counts. The law of accumulation says that everything counts.
First, begin today to build your knowledge base in
the subject that can be most helpful to you in achieving
financial independence. Whether it takes a week, a month or a
year to become thoroughly knowledgeable, it doesn't matter.
Just get started today.
Second, get as much
experience as you can in your chosen field. Start a little
earlier, work a little harder and stay a little later. Take
risks and try every different way you can think of to achieve
your goal. This experience is invaluable and it accumulates
over time.
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