Full name: Wealth 101: Getting What You Want-Enjoying What You'Ve Got

Author: Peter McWilliams Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780931580505 0931580501

It's not what you think.It's not some cheesy 'get rich quick' book. It's a book about life. About living a winning life—not just making money.In fact, it's almost the anti-get-rich-quick book. A quote early on from George Bernard Shaw:"To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it." Pretty apparent the book's about a different kind of wealth, huh?Helen Keller:"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."In a section called "What Is Enjoyment?":"'May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have,'" cautioned Richard Evans."John-Roger (the author) has this fab section called: "Create a Container to Receive" where he asks the receiver to imagine himself at a "small but abundant" waterfall. He asks: "What would limit your ability to take from that waterfall your wealth of water?"He answers his own question: "The size of your container, right?"The moral of the story: the gifts this life has to offer are infinite. Your only limitation to receive them is the size of your container (your life). It's simple. If you want more out of life, enlarge your container.The insights and life hacks in this book are endless. I'll close with two."If we have something—a relationship, a car, a career, life itself—we are worthy of it. If we don't have it, we're not worthy. If we want it, we must work on our worthiness."And from a section called: "What Do You Want?":"It's a sad but true fact—if we aren't actively pursuing what we want, we don't really want it."The book is counter-intuitively brilliant from start to finish.