To set about getting rich in a scientific way, you do not try to apply your will power to anything outside of yourself. You have no right to do so anyway.
It is wrong to apply your will to other men and women, in order to get them to do what you wish done.
To get rich you need only to use your will power upon yourself. Substance is friendly to you, and is more anxious to give you what you want that you are to get it.
When you know what to think and do, then you must use your will to compel yourself to think and do the right things.
Use your will to keep yourself thinking and acting in the Certain Way.
Use your mind to form a mental image of what you want, and to hold that vision with faith and purpose; and use your will to keep your mind working in the Right Way.
The more steady and continuous your faith and purpose, the more rapidly you will get rich, because you will make only POSITIVE impression upon Substance; and you will not neutralize or offset them by negative impressions.
The picture of your desires, held with faith and purpose, is taken up by the Formless, and permeates it to great distances–throughout the universe.
As this impress spreads, all things are set moving towards its realization; every living thing, every inanimate thing, and the things yet uncreated, are stirred toward bringing into being that which you want.
All force begins to be exerted in that direction; all things begin to move toward you.
Republished from "Financial Success Through Creative Thought" by Wallace Wattles, written in 1910 and now in public domain.