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Nearly a century ago, a brilliant man, Napoleon Hill, decided to study how America’s most successful people, such as Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carnegie, came up with their great ideas and became successful entrepreneurs and businessmen. What he discovered has amazed people ever since and has inspired thousands to believe in the power of thought. Over the years, Napoleon Hill’s classic Think and Grow Rich has inspired the likes of Norman Vincent Peale and Jerry Hicks. One of the most inspired is Ray Higdon, and now Higdon has written a modern version of Think and Grow Rich with his new book Vibrational Money Immersion: Think and Grow Rich for Network Marketers.
Higdon quotes Napoleon Hill extensively, but what makes this new book stand out from Hill’s classic is that it takes Hill’s ideas and applies them to the 21st century and specifically to the field of network marketing as a means of attracting the kind of success and money people want. Higdon also shares many of his personal stories about how believing in and applying positive thinking has helped him achieve success.
This is a headless-in-the-clouds guy’s book about imagining riches. Rather, Higdon, who has been broke twice in his life and has been extremely successful financially, is extremely honest in saying that we must take action and envision the lifestyle and riches we want. As he says, “What are we talking about in this entire book? We’re talking about raising your vibrational level toward money. Persistence is an essential factor in raising that vibrational quotient, of transmuting desire into its monetary equivalent.” While Higdon clearly believes in the Law of Attraction, he also knows that you can’t get something for nothing. Not only do you have to tell the Universe what you want, but you have to decide what you’re willing to do to get it, and you have to plan ahead for when you get it. As he wisely points out, most people who win the lottery end up worse off than before because you can’t get something for nothing and those people haven’t planned ahead what to do with their money once they get it.
For Higdon, the solution of what to do in exchange for the money it will attract is network marketing, and especially real estate; He has been very successful in real estate. Of course, many people reject network marketing, believing that it doesn’t work or not understanding why some people succeed when they have tried and failed. Higdon responds to this concern by saying that these results have to do “with people’s relationship with money, how they view money, how they view rich people, and how they view successful people.” Higdon explains that too many people focus on their lack of money instead of imagining having it; Also, they have a poverty mindset that he believes they can’t get money, so they give up before they give themselves a chance. But Higdon’s book can help people break that cycle by offering the tools needed to shift our thought process to a prosperity mindset. As Higdon’s friend Mark Hoverson once said, and this is one of the most powerful lines in the entire book, “Your poverty is serving no one.”
Some of the tools Higdon offers readers include learning how to stop using the past as an excuse to avoid a successful future and how to use the power of affirmations to shift your poverty mindset into a success mindset that will attract money and money. all the other things you want in life.
For me, one of the most insightful statements Higdon makes is that “Knowledge is not power.” Many people pursue education, read many books, and attend many seminars, thinking that they will find the secrets to success there, and it is possible that they will, but many of them just delude themselves into thinking that being busy equals being busy. productive. He cites Napoleon Hill to support this point: “Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when and if it is organized into definite action plans and directed towards a definite end. This ‘missing link’ in all systems of education known to current civilization, can be found in the failure of educational institutions to teach their students HOW TO ORGANIZE AND USE KNOWLEDGE AFTER ACQUIRING IT”.
Perhaps my favorite part of this book is Higdon’s focus on the power of the imagination. He tells us that we have to separate what we want from our current reality: “Too many people only observe what is in their lives. They say, ‘Ray, I’m just telling it like it is. Well, saying things the way they are keeps them the way they are. Justifying where you are keeps you where you are. No imagination is needed to see your current bank account. It’s all about developing that imagination, believing that you’re serving up more of bigger, better and more stuff. That development of the synthetic will allow you to tap into the creative.”
Higdon goes on to discuss many other tools that help people develop the imagination and use it to attract money, but the one that stood out to me the most, and which he borrows from Hill, is the idea of invisible advisors to help us. He asks us to imagine who we would like to receive advice from, anyone whom we admire for his success and, more specifically, whom we admire for the characteristics that helped him achieve that success, characteristics that we would like to have. For example, if we want to be more persistent, we can choose a famous athlete as a counselor. If we want to be kinder, we can choose Jesus. We can imagine these counselors meeting with us, conversing with us. To me, this idea seems to take the “What would Jesus do?” she asks and putting her on steroids to be “What would Gandhi do in this situation?” “What would Andrew Carnegie do in this situation?” “What would Abraham Lincoln do?” I loved this idea and started using it in my own life as an author thinking about what other authors could do, not just authors that I admire as great writers, but authors who were successful businessmen, like Charles Dickens, as well as people in other professions that I greatly admire for their personal beliefs and courage.
Higdon concludes the discussion of invisible advisors by explaining, “Too often, people look at successful people and say, ‘Well, if only I had their money,’ or ‘If only I had this or that.'” Do you understand that all you need is their way of thinking, their attitude and a little bit of their knowledge? That’s what you really need, so that’s what you should be asking for.” That’s what I’ll ask for and then ask for, confident that the money will follow.
Vibrational Money Immersion is packed with tons of additional information on developing that prosperity mindset so you can take inspired action to get money flowing to you. Read this book and develop a prosperity mindset, and the sky will be the limit for you.