In order to grow financially it is necessary to grow as a person. This may mean learning new skills or simply changing our attitude from one of pessimism to optimism and expectation. The flow of our income is directly proportional to the positive and constructive energy we emanate. The greater our outpouring of energy in the form of constructive activities that have a beneficial influence the greater our receiving. All that we receive into our lives is equated to the forces we release into the world.

The basis of economic life lies in supplying needed goods and in providing beneficial services. By opening up a channel of helplessness we make it possible to receive benefits. Here again we come to the conclusion that the fundamental economic law is the law of the seed. As you sow you shall reap. If you sow radishes you won't reap roses.

Just as you cannot harvest what you have not planted you can only extract from your life what you have put into it. The fruits of our labours are in direct proportion to the seeds invested through our activities. The law is always just as we act the universe responds. What we draw into our lives is inseparably connected to the forces we have triggered in motion by the manner in which we have lived from the dawn of our existence. Regardless of where we are now financially our conditions will improve if we make it a matter of personal life policy to serve constructively.

Give what you have in complete faith that if you contribute to life, then life will return the bounty. You only attain wealth in the long run by enriching the lives of others first. This is the law of enrichment. The universe rewards you when you are a fruitful steward it is a spiritual law that when you serve and enrich others by bringing joy and comfort into their lives an abundance of time money health and prosperity will seek you out.

Prosperity begins in the workshop of our minds where the architect within us draws up the master plan. The blueprint of you personal economic conditions is created in your thinking process. Positive mind images create positive circumstances as many people have small goals and limited expectations. Life provides for them in accordance with what is expected and requested. If we want more out of life we can increase our expectations and be prepared to back up our demands with personal effort. Life will give us what we ask of it provided that we perform useful service to back up our desires.

When we release energy in service we establish a cause that will result in a definite effect and this effect is felt in the lives of those whom our services benefits. But the essential result will be a return of energy as a reciprocal force that impacts us and our living circumstances. In other words when you give of yourself you are making deposits in the "vaults of heaven" your divine bank account and in times of need you will have something on which to draw. The act of giving results in receiving. In the long run your income and the status of your personal economy rests entirely in your own hands and in your mind.

In a sense we all perform alchemy transforming base metal to gold whenever we perform constructive work. When we see a person labouring he is then in turn going to turn his labours into the wealth he would receive in payment for his labours. We all do this in whatever kind of service we perform turning the materials and tools of our trade into the medium of exchange we receive as recompense. When we act constructively we are able to turn straw in gold.