Isles of Diamonds

A funny thing happened to me in the second hand bookstore the other day...

I'd gone in for my regular weekly browse and buy.

Saw Victor Schwabb's "How to write a good ad" and added it to my "to get" list. Same with David O's 'Confessions.'

Spotted a Melvin Power's published Think and Grow Rich and considered replacing my Yellow and Green covered 1963 version, which I recently had to "rebind" with sticky tape, but didn't.

But for some reason I picked up a book, the title of which I can't even remember, and flipped the pages. One of the pages didn't seem to be sitting right so I openned the book to it and saw a piece of folded newspaper - at first I thought it was just a small unfolded bit.

SCORE!

I unfolded it to find a single column Donald Trump article titled "Lets Make A Deal." (if you're interested I'll retype it here)

Refolded it. Pocketed it (and have since had it laminated for use as a bookmark). And went to replace the book where I'd found it.

I couldn't find the spot where it had come from so placed it close. I had to move aside a book with a white spine and no writing to do it and then saw the title of the book I'd just moved...

"The Lazy Man's Way To Riches" by Joe Karbo

WOW!

The book I'd heard about and, if you can believe it, had never read. Of course, I bought it as well as the others I bought that day.

Second Hand book stores certainly have "isles of diamonds"... if you only take the time to look.

Ages ago there was a bit of dicussion about WHY people don't seem to achieve too much after reading books like Karbo's or Hill's.

Could the answer be found in my new second hand copy of TLMWTR?

I believe so...

For whoever had it before me had filled in the forms in pencil. And when it came to the "activity" sheet, it revealed something interesting...

Declarations were said morning and night for three days. The fourth day had a single entry for the night. The fifth day had none. The sixth one for the morning. The seventh one. The eighth none. The ninth one. And none after that.

Obvioulsy they just GAVE UP. Half hearted after three days and no effort after nine days.

And doesn't Hill's mention something about people going back to Chapter 2 once they're finished reading and going through the six points, as being an indication of whether they are "ready."

How many people have actually gone through Hill's sixt points and created their Major Definite Aims, wrote them down and repeated them morning and night???

Michael Ross.

I still go to used bookstores, but if i'm looking
for something specific, www.addall.com searches
the major used book databases on the net, including my personal favorite, www.abebooks.com.
amazing stuff...found a copy of jim tolleson's
mothers book on success education training.

> A funny thing happened to me in the second
> hand bookstore the other day...

> I'd gone in for my regular weekly browse and
> buy.

> Saw Victor Schwabb's "How to write a
> good ad" and added it to my "to
> get" list. Same with David O's
> 'Confessions.'

> Spotted a Melvin Power's published Think and
> Grow Rich and considered replacing my Yellow
> and Green covered 1963 version, which I
> recently had to "rebind" with
> sticky tape, but didn't.

> But for some reason I picked up a book, the
> title of which I can't even remember, and
> flipped the pages. One of the pages didn't
> seem to be sitting right so I openned the
> book to it and saw a piece of folded
> newspaper - at first I thought it was just a
> small unfolded bit.

> SCORE!

> I unfolded it to find a single column Donald
> Trump article titled "Lets Make A
> Deal." (if you're interested I'll
> retype it here)

> Refolded it. Pocketed it (and have since had
> it laminated for use as a bookmark). And
> went to replace the book where I'd found it.

> I couldn't find the spot where it had come
> from so placed it close. I had to move aside
> a book with a white spine and no writing to
> do it and then saw the title of the book I'd
> just moved...

> "The Lazy Man's Way To Riches" by
> Joe Karbo

> WOW!

> The book I'd heard about and, if you can
> believe it, had never read. Of course, I
> bought it as well as the others I bought
> that day.

> Second Hand book stores certainly have
> "isles of diamonds"... if you only
> take the time to look.

> Ages ago there was a bit of dicussion about
> WHY people don't seem to achieve too much
> after reading books like Karbo's or Hill's.

> Could the answer be found in my new second
> hand copy of TLMWTR?

> I believe so...

> For whoever had it before me had filled in
> the forms in pencil. And when it came to the
> "activity" sheet, it revealed
> something interesting...

> Declarations were said morning and night for
> three days. The fourth day had a single
> entry for the night. The fifth day had none.
> The sixth one for the morning. The seventh
> one. The eighth none. The ninth one. And
> none after that.

> Obvioulsy they just GAVE UP. Half hearted
> after three days and no effort after nine
> days.

> And doesn't Hill's mention something about
> people going back to Chapter 2 once they're
> finished reading and going through the six
> points, as being an indication of whether
> they are "ready."

> How many people have actually gone through
> Hill's sixt points and created their Major
> Definite Aims, wrote them down and repeated
> them morning and night???

> Michael Ross.

I recall someone mentioning something about Joe Karbo's son continuing on and even releasing a CD ROM... or something like that.

Does anyone recall that... or a link to the new Karbo website... or if it was infact a discussion about Harvy Brody and a CD ROM.

Michael Ross.

Michael - Richard Gillie Nixon published an updated Lazy Man's Guide to Riches in the mid-nineties. I think he had permission of the Karbo heirs. It contains the original text in one format and the updated commentary and additions in another. I bought it, read it and gave it away as it didn't add a lot to the original classic IMHO. I don't know of other Karbo follow-ons.

Harvey Brody mentioned something about releasing a revised course on his processes last fall, but so far nothing more heard. He had a couple of courses out in the early to mid eighties - Gordon has mentioned one and I have another. I know of no tapes or CDs, as mine is booklets and "greenbar" computer paper!

Bob

Michael ~

Great story. I like Karbo's book and the used copy I purchased had several "flyers" in it for other products Joe was promoting. A get out of debt course, racetrack winnings, and SMC if I remember correctly. May be wrong about the racetrack and don't have the book handy.

But a question that maybe Gordon can answer is what was Karbo's connection to SMC? Somehow I ended up with the impression that he started it but that isn't what the infomercials would have you believe.

~ Dan Butler




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