up with. My total research has been geared up to one
thing. One thing only. How we can best use our minds
to accomplish success, make money, achieve
happiness and reach our goals in the shortest space of
time. These things I wanted to know! I spent over
twenty years going into every aspect of the mind that
would help me understand its innermost secrets. I
made some remarkable discoveries.
The common denominator of all who achieve
success intuitively is that they relax and visualize the
future as they desire it. If you want to attain success
consciously I suggest the sooner you practice relaxing
and visualizing the future as you desire it, the sooner
you too will attain success.
Michelangelo thought three dimensionally before
he started to chip away at a piece of marble that he
would produce a beautiful sculpture out of. Edward
G. Robinson bought postcards of old masters and
visualized exactly where he would hang them, before
he actually owned them. Charlene Tilton, who played
Lucy in Dallas, visualized getting the part for the job.
Conrad Hilton used to play at hotels as a young boy,
years before he became a hotelier. All my heroes, who
I love talking about, Getty, Howard Hughes, Onassis,
Edison and Winston Churchill all used to take time
out to relax and visualize the future as they desired it.
I can't stress this point too heavily. This is the golden
thread that runs delicately through this whole work-
book.
J. Paul Getty wrote a number of books and articles
on making money. Those books were down to earth
guides to help executives in business. Getty always
maintained that there were no secrets to success or
magical incantations to be uttered. Getty puts his
philosophy down to hard work and good executive
decisions. What I say is many people become