Isles of Diamonds

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.