Eight Pillars of Prosperity

About This Book

This book is more about changing your deepest thoughts and habits than about specifically changing your financial status - although it strongly asserts that by following the eight pillars financial status will follow just as surely as day follows night.

James Allen asserts that all real success is based on energetic activity, the intelligent management of one’s time and money, integrity, and systemized living. By following the advice in Eight Pillars, it's hard to imagine how someone could be anything other than incredibly successful.

These Eight Pillars (energy, efficiency, integrity, organization, sympathy, sincerity, impartiality, and self-reliance) are the principles necessary for achieving success and each will clearly show that they have and will stand the test of time. Allen reminds us that building a temple of prosperity doesn’t happen overnight. He clearly explains that laying the groundwork for a lifetime of achievement takes time and effort to construct. The way to incorporate the Eight Pillars into your life is through your thoughts, your conduct, and your life according to these fixed principles, consulting them in every difficulty, making every detail serve them, and above all, never deserting them under any circumstance to gain some personal advantage or to save some personal trouble.

Eight Pillars is a short, inspiring read that will encourage you to develop your mental powers of concentration, a book that can be absorbed and meditated on, piece by piece, all the days of your life.

 

About the Author

James Allen’s inspirational writings have influenced millions and yet he remains relatively unknown.

He believed in the power of thought, although James Allen never gained fame or fortune. That much is true. His was a quiet, unrewarded genius. He seldom made enough money from his writings to cover expenses.

Allen was born in 1864 in Leicester, England. Due to his father’s untimely death, he was forced to leave school at fifteen. He worked as a private secretary for several British manufacturers until 1902, when he decided to devote all his time to writing.

Allen teaches two essential truths: today we are where our thoughts have taken us, and we are the architects – for better or worse – of our futures.

His literary career lasted only nine years, until his death in 1912. During that period he wrote nineteen books that have inspired generations.

 

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