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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. |
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