Chapter Eight: Getting Started
Often just the process of thinking of what I want, and how I could
give that to someone else, breaks free a torrent of bounty. Whenever I feel
that people aren’t smiling at me, I simply begin smiling and saying hello.
Like magic, the next thing I know I’m surrounded by smiling people. It is
true that your world is only a mirror of you.
So that’s why I say, “Teach, and you shall receive.” I have found that
the more I teach those who want to learn, the more I learn. If you want
to learn about money, teach it to someone else. A torrent of new ideas
and finer distinctions will come in.
There are times when I have given and nothing has come back, or
what I have received is not what I wanted. But upon closer inspection
and soul searching, I was often giving to receive in those instances,
instead of giving for the joy that giving itself brings.
My dad taught teachers, and he became a master teacher. My
rich dad always taught young people his way of doing business. In
retrospect, it was their generosity with what they knew that made
them smarter. There are powers in this world that are much smarter
than we are. You can get there on your own, but it’s easier with the
help of the powers that be. You only need to be generous with what
you have.