Discovering The Laws of Prosperity and Wealth part 3

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Discovering The Laws of Prosperity and Wealth is just the beginning of the journey. One day the richest man in babylon whose name was Arcad came into town. Bansir thougt to himself, each year his wealth increases more rapidly then he can spend it.

Friends that grew up with Arcad, come to him and wonder why it is they scrape by for a living while he enjoys such prosperity and abundance, their thoughts are simply it must be fate.

Arcad says, if you have not acquired more then a bare existence… it is because you have either failed to learn the laws that govern and build, prosperity and build wealth, or else you do not observe them.

Arcad explains to Bansir, I decided when I was young to Discover The Laws of Prosperity and Wealth. I only needed 2 things to acquire my goal, time and study. So I set out to discover what it is that creates prosperity, abundance, and wealth.

Arcad begins the story of his journey to proserity and wealth. I got a job carving tablets and labored long hours each day, week, month…

One day a money lender came in to have some work carved. Arcad asked him the secret of building prosperity and wealth. He said, I found the road to wealth when I decided that, a part of all I earn was mine to keep. Arcad was like, is that all. The money lender said it was enough to change the heart of a sheep herder into a money lender.

Arcad said, but all I keep is mine, is it not?

Do you not pay the garment maker, the food supplier, rent…can you live without spending? What do you have to show from your labors last month, last year… You pay everyone but yourself.

The money lender told me, if you kept one tenth for yourself what would you have in ten years. Arcad said, as much as I make in one year, and the lights began to burn bright in Arcads young mind.

That is but a half truth. Each gold piece you save is a slave to work for you, every copper is it’s child, that also earns for you. To become wealthy, what you save, must earn, and it’s children must earn too. Money creating money, is true prosperity and wealth.

Then the money lender said to young Arcad, I am paying you a thousand times more if you grasp what I say. It must be no less then one tenth no matter how little you earn, and it can be more as you can afford. Pay Yourself First, and you will still have enough to pay for other things.

As the money lender revealed one of the secrets of prosperity and wealth, Arcad thought on this and made a decision that day. He began to hold one copper for every ten he earned. Often he was tempted to buy some of the goods the merchants displayed. But strangely enough he never missed the tenth he paid himself. For one year he was faithful to pay himself first.

Twelve months later the money lender returns and says, Well Arcad did you pay yourself? Yes! Well done, you are Discovering The Laws of Prosperity and Wealth, and you have begun well Now I have a question….

What is the take away from this story! One of them is certainly to seek wisdom from those that have learned the secrets of creating wealth and prosperity. People like Bob Proctor that have not only discovered the laws of prosperity and wealth, but mastered them.

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