Book summary “The trick to money is having some!”: summary

Introduction

You likely struggle with financial lack because you view money as a scarce physical commodity governed by outside economic forces. Stuart Wilde demonstrates in The trick to money is having some! that money is actually an impartial thought-form and a symbol of energy. Your financial reality reflects your inner feelings, self-acceptance, and mental programming rather than external conditions.

Money is an impartial thought-form and a symbol of energy, meaning your financial abundance is determined by your inner feelings, self-acceptance, and focused willpower rather than external economic realities.

The book guides you from escaping mass consciousness survival traps to mastering the art of receiving, charging properly, and building defensive strategies.

• How do you break free from the mechanical-man worldview and self-imposed poverty?
• What mental shifts allow you to accept abundance and charge full value for your services?
• How do you harness your willpower to execute a battle plan and protect your wealth during economic contractions?

1. Dispelling Myths About Poverty and Abundance

Money is an impartial thought-form and a symbol of energy. Your abundance is determined by your inner feelings rather than external economic realities. Poverty is a form of restriction and a self-imposed injustice. The difference between a failure and a success is simply a thought-form, as abundance flows naturally in nature just like joy.

Poverty is a self-imposed restriction and a thought-form rather than a virtue, and true abundance flows naturally when you align your consciousness with the belief that wealth is normal.

Spiritual philosophies teaching that poverty is virtuous are coping mechanisms. Mother Teresa operated a multimillion-dollar organization supported by the Catholic Church, which has a net worth greater than General Motors. Viewing her as an example of spiritual poverty ignores the factual reality of her multimillion-dollar organizational backing.

The Illusion of Scarcity

The human mind can be tricked into accepting abundance through deliberate illusion. Closing your eyes and imagining eating a sour lemon causes your mouth to salivate even though nothing is inside it. By talking yourself into the idea that abundance is natural, your mind stops generating survival anxiety and begins attracting joyous circumstances.

Shifting your inner consciousness and aligning actions with an affirmation of wealth can produce rapid financial windfalls through unusual channels. A Maryland woman used a miracle action plan, bought $30 in tickets on the same day, and won $1.7 million in the lottery. Another woman dreamed winning numbers in Arizona but changed her last two digits and lost out on $800,000.

Free Money and Intuition

When you view yourself as an infinite part of all things, you open your intuition to be in the right place at the right time. The author found six purses in his first few months of affirmation and later received an unexplainable bank drop of $10,000 when a check never reached his bank account. This pattern continued over 10 years during which the author received drop-in-the-lap financial gifts.

You can train your mind to accept unearned wealth through specific daily actions:

• Set it up in your mind that you are open to finding money.
• Allow your intuition to place you always in the right place at the right time.
• Pick up all the money that you find to help your mind exercise itself into accepting money.

2. The Trap of Mass Consciousness and Survival

The mechanical-man worldview treats money as the ultimate symbol of survival and ego. Stuart Wilde calls this tick-tock. It locks people into a perpetual state of emotional prison and fear.

The mechanical-man worldview, called tick-tock, treats money as the ultimate symbol of survival and ego, locking people into a perpetual state of emotional prison and fear.

Because the ego focuses on survival, people experience lack despite living in an abundant world. Socialism and government welfare breed perpetual helplessness and a psychology of dependency that ultimately leads to societal decay. In the United States, there are 38 million people who receive government handouts and rely on the system.

The Tick-Tock Mentality

You experience this trap whenever your daily choices serve only basic survival needs. The system encourages you to rely on external supports that gradually erode your self-reliance. True emotional detachment begins when you recognize how mass consciousness operates.

Defining Freedom

Freedom is a feeling rather than an external circumstance. If obligations and lifestyle requirements cause constant anxiety, you are trapped by the system. Some people find that 1,000 dollars a week or 10 grand a month covers their basic needs, while 1 million a year remains a tight squeeze for others.

To achieve true freedom, an individual must simplify their lifestyle and lower their pain-in-the-neck financial line to maintain constant emotional comfort and balance.

To achieve true freedom, an individual must simplify their lifestyle and lower their pain-in-the-neck financial line to maintain constant emotional comfort and balance.

You can restore your equilibrium through deliberate actions:

• Simplify your life to reduce the pain-in-the-neck line so your emotions around money rest in a constant state of comfort and balance.
• Detangle yourself from survival mode so you can click money from a symbol of survival into a symbol of freedom.

3. The Art of Receiving and Charging Properly

People constantly seek approval and conform to social pressures because they were trained by family and education to look outside themselves for validation. The ego seeks approval constantly, sacrificing authentic personal power to keep others happy. Trying to satisfy everyone's expectations leads to living under intense pressure and stress.

Families demand endless chores, and male workers rush on freeways for 19 hours a day to bring home buffalo or cash to make others feel secure, ending up dead on the freeway.

Self-acceptance is the absolute foundation of receiving money and attracting the world's support.

Self-Acceptance and Approval

When you accept yourself, including your flaws and mistakes, you project security rather than insecurity. This calmness exudes an unusual power that draws people and opportunities naturally.

Instead of feeling rotten when a rent check bounces, you can smile sweetly and tell the landlord that aerobic checks bounce around a lot.

Universal Law does not measure value, so ignoring a coin or refusing a gift sends a contradictory message to the collective unconscious that undermines abundance consciousness. To train in receiving, you must never turn anything down and must pick up every single piece of money found in the street.

While doing a clumsy bunny-dip in a white satin suit outside the Royal Opera House in London, the author retrieved a shiny penny while his American guests and chauffeur Slick Vic watched.

Charging and Value

Learning to charge properly and demanding full value for services is essential for maintaining positivity and attracting affluent customers. People often hesitate to charge because of approval complexes and fear of negative reactions, but charging a high price actually makes customers feel more important and increases their respect.

In 1964, the author earned £10 per week gross pay for his first job, with £4.25 take-home pay.

Operating out of WAM ensures that you do not give away the high ground before negotiations even begin. In business negotiations, you should always start from a position of demanding one hundred percent of the deal. If you ask how much you want and reply that you want all of it, your opponent can beat you down to a fair compromise where both parties give up a portion.

Affluent markets do not care about mundane costs, as they buy based on energy, originality, and quality. A snotty desk clerk at a Marriott hotel in Washington, D.C., refused to store two trunks, costing the company $20,000 to $30,000 in lost business from the author's seminars.

You must follow specific rules to train your receiving and charging capabilities:

• Never turn anything down; accept everything offered by others even if you have no need for it.
• Pick up each and every penny you find on the sidewalk, even those stuck with chewing gum.
• For the next 30 days, do not do anything for anyone without charging.
• Force yourself to charge for everything, such as asking for $20 for a lift to the station.
• Stand your ground without making excuses or apologizing for your price.
• When asked how much you want in a negotiation, look them in the eye and say all of it.

4. Challenging Market Thought-Forms and Scaling Growth

Abundance consciousness is a natural state divided into three key areas: intellectual abundance, emotional/spiritual abundance, and physical/commercial abundance. Society and older generations often promote scarcity and hard work as inevitable. To break free, you must recognize that struggle is unnatural and adopt abundance thinking by rejecting thoughts of lack and refusing to endorse the financial struggles of others.

Abundance consciousness requires eliminating subliminal insecurities, challenging established pricing bubbles, and balancing rapid financial expansion with solid controls.

Money is a major psychic symbol of security. Any thought of insecurity directly impairs your money-making abilities. Your mind is constantly bombarded by negative inputs that fracture confidence. Money flows toward stability and away from its converse, so people will not part with their money unless they feel safe.

A person standing in a supermarket feeling abundant can be affected subliminally by a stranger several aisles away complaining about the price of a can of beans up to 40 decibels below normal earshot.

You must train your mindset with specific actions:

• Track your thoughts for an hour each day to discover how many insecurity or money-worry thoughts you have.
• Notice how many of those insecurities deal with being ripped off, losing what you have, or questioning if there will be enough.
• Train yourself to feel secure even if there is no evidence to suggest such to be the case.

Market prices are merely psychological thought-forms and established opinions rather than absolute values. Prices are set through unwritten agreements among traders and cartels to protect the status quo. By pushing against these pricing bubbles through bold offers, you train your mind to stand its ground.

You can test market price thought-forms directly in stores:

• Pick a fairly high-priced item in a store, such as an $800 TV set.
• Bid the storekeeper about 20 percent of the sticker price in all cash, doing this every day for a week or two.
• Start counting out the $160 immediately and look down to defend yourself from the psychic power of the storekeeper's reaction.
• Act as if it is a done deal, ask about free delivery, and lift the item off the counter while maintaining poise.

Scaling and Responsibility

Rapid financial expansion without controlled concentration and balance leads to self-destruction, burnout, or business collapse. As you scale your goals from an operating income level of $100,000 to an expanded target level of $1,000,000, you often get ahead of yourself and take on too many ventures.

A pizza shop owner opens three new units on borrowed money, starts a wholesale food trucking company with no prior knowledge, and watches his original business disintegrate while he works 24 hours a day.

You must protect your growth with clear limits:

• Concentrate on what you know or on what works.
• Do not allow the lure of activity to take you beyond where you feel comfortable and in control.
• Take time to evaluate what has been created and develop controls before expanding further.

Achieving wealth requires taking absolute responsibility for yourself and committing energy to financial goals. Wealthy people accept responsibility naturally and commit their focus without letting their emotions get trapped.

You can systematically build your capacity for responsibility:

• Put the book down for a moment and agree with yourself to take responsibility whether comfortable with it or not.
• Accept responsibility for one or two new things at first.
• Complete them satisfactorily, acknowledge that it was a breeze, and open yourself up for a bit more.
• Elect to take responsibility for something huge, as managing many things earns you more than managing one, such as scaling up to 800 hamburger joints.

When dealing with very wealthy people who boast a $50,000,000 bank balance, the key is to come off as an equal. You must genuinely want nothing from them other than their company.

Approach wealthy contacts using specific rules:

• Come off as being equal to wealthy individuals, treating them with respect regardless of your current financial standing.
• Focus on enjoying their company and learning from them rather than focusing on their money.

5. Feelings, Quality, and Marketplace Actions

Your sustained feelings create your external events, and materializing physical abundance requires surrounding yourself with quality and offering skills, knowledge, or products in the marketplace.

The events of your life are created by you and manifest through the sum total of the feelings you sustain and project. Conscious people review their feelings to control reality. Unconscious people negate feelings and project their biases outward, ignoring positive experiences and magnifying negative ones until bizarre or unfortunate events occur to match their inner beliefs.

A person holding negative feelings about black people is eventually rammed into a Laundromat by a black lady in a pickup truck. The driver of the pickup chose her route intuitively to serve humanity and confirm the driver's prejudices.

To eliminate energy drags and accelerate positive resonance, you must evaluate the energy of the people and major financial moves in your life and cut out the negative ones. You can use a structured exercise to clean up your environment:

• Write down the names of all the major players in your life.
• In a meditative state, imagine touching them in the area of their heart to connect.
• Feel within your own heart what energy they give off and decide solely whether it brings you up or down.
• Write your conclusion by their name.
• Write down as titles all the major moves you are currently making in the area of finances, visualize them, and touch them or the people involved.
• Write down up or down for each financial move.
• Give yourself 60 days to get rid of all the downs.
• Invite all the ups to lunch within the next month.

Wealth is simply an opinion held by wealthy people. Once you incorporate it into your thinking and feelings, you can easily separate yourself from the struggling masses. Money gives you instantly quantifiable feedback as to where your energy is.

Quality and the Marketplace

You must surround yourself with quality things and invest in yourself rather than surrounding your life with cheap junk that reinforces a lack of abundance. Every part of your lifestyle must be congruent with what you wish to become. Choosing quality items over tacky ones enhances your self-value and signals to others that you believe in yourself.

At the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, a regular taxi ride downtown costs $30 while a stretch limousine costs $35. Riding in style for an extra $5 provides a superior energetic experience compared to a sleazy cab.

To materialize abundance physically, you must enter the marketplace of life by offering either a skill, knowledge, or a product.

Skills require personal time but excel through high standards and caring. Knowledge is an information-age commodity that can be packaged and sold without continuous personal involvement. Products offer unlimited earning potential through markup when you sell items you truly love.

Thomas Crapper manufactured and distributed water closets in Victorian England, stamping his name on a fledgling industry so successfully that his surname became generic for bowel movements.

To successfully serve people and make loads of money, you must psychologically get underneath them by subjugating your ego and personality to their needs. Most people do not know how to serve because they want to project their own personalities and feel superior to the customer.

A hotel waiter in Washington, D.C., increased his four-hour shift tip record from $42 to $162 by learning to subjugate his ego and cater completely to customer comfort.

6. The Force of Your Will and the Battle Plan

Most people fail to materialize desires because of a cluttered life and a chronic lack of clarity. When your focus spreads in many directions, energy grows too thin for anything to come together quickly. Cultivating eagle-eyed clarity and ferocity of intent allows you to direct all willpower toward a single target.

True intention demands absolute clarity and focused willpower, requiring you to treat counting money as the primary business purpose and execute a written battle plan.

The Mongols succeeded because they were fiercely committed and went to battle with all their possessions, wives, and children, leaving no possibility for retreat. Stuart Wilde notes that 70 percent of seminar participants did not know what they wanted in life, while 20 percent had a fair idea without knowing how to get it. Only 10 percent knew what they wanted and had a good plan.

The only reason for being in business is to collect and count the money, and all other operational activities are secondary. If money is not the primary focus of your consciousness, others reward you with praise instead of cash.

• Write the rule that counting the money is the business in prominent letters in your office.
• Begin every business evaluation and communication with the core question: "How many, how much?"

Projecting Willpower

Translating dreams into physical reality requires committing a structured, written battle plan to paper. Writing down your overriding desire makes the plan sacred, acting as an organizational tool and a spiritual prayer.

In January, A.D. 1238, 120,000 Mongol troops rode 6,000 miles and took Moscow in less than a week against 40,000 defenders who had 23 days of stored food. They succeeded through a cohesive plan, superior power, and fierce intent.

• Head up your battle plan by writing down your one overriding life desire at the top.
• List secondary desires or needs underneath in smaller letters.
• Store the written plan in a special box or treasure chest in your home along with items of spiritual value.
• Refer to and review the plan daily as a form of meditation and musical chord offered to liquidity.

The Battle Plan

Resources encompass your total life-force energy, talents, and connections rather than just finances. Capital requires active risk-taking to grow instead of being hoarded out of fear.

• Sit down in a quiet place and take stock of your available energy, knowledge, talents, and connections using different-colored pens.
• Make acquiring new friends and connections a number-one priority if you lack them.
• Commit a percentage of your cash or capital to achieve major wins instead of letting fear paralyze you.

7. Defensive Strategies During Economic Contractions

When systemic over-expansion triggers an economic correction, holding liquid cash, shifting assets into international external accounts, and investing in gold provide the ultimate defensive advantage.

Governments and elite private banking cartels gradually stripped away the gold standard to establish a monopoly on printing paper money. This monopoly enabled unchecked debt and continuous expansion, leading to over three trillion dollars in American debt. Metaphysically, the planet operates as a self-organizing organism that naturally enforces a contraction when expansion crosses a critical tensile threshold.

Macroeconomic History and Cash

The U.S. stock market demonstrated this vulnerability with a 500-point drop in 360 minutes on October 17, 1987. In times of economic contraction, holding liquid cash is the ultimate defensive play. You gain the purchasing power to acquire distressed assets at pennies on the dollar.

After the 1987 market crash, commercial buildings could be picked up at pennies on the dollar. You can protect yourself by applying several specific practices:

• Sell off assets, settle debts, and transition to a cash basis
• Build a fall-back reserve of at least six months of current wages
• Put some cash in a safe deposit box
• Put the rest on short-term deposit at a reputable international bank
• Keep at least some of your cash under the mattress for instant opportunities

Real estate is a finance-driven industry rather than a brick-and-mortar one. Average homes could face a 50 percent or more price fall in a contraction, while commercial real estate can fall by up to 90 percent.

International Accounts and Gold

Governments facing economic downturns frequently enact exchange control laws to trap local currency. A Mexican family holding the peso equivalent of $100,000 U.S. in savings saw their funds erode to just $330 after the peso crashed. You can shield your assets by following these steps:

• Shift a portion of your assets into other stable international currencies
• Open an external bank account as a nonresident outside your home country while it is still legal
• Nominate the specific foreign currency you want your cash held in when opening the account

Precious metals represent universally recognized real value during crises. At the time of writing, gold had a market price of $314 with a mining cost of $250 or more per ounce. You should allocate a substantial part of your portfolio to gold or gold shares, choosing Australian gold mines over American, Canadian, or South African ones due to low relative costs and political stability.

Refuse to let other people's fears throw you off balance during a downturn. The golden years of American cinema took place during the 1930s Great Depression, and many families built lasting multi-million-dollar fortunes during that exact period.

10 Key Ideas

1. Money operates as an impartial thought-form and a symbol of energy, meaning your financial abundance is determined by your inner feelings, self-acceptance, and focused willpower rather than external economic realities.
2. To achieve true emotional freedom from survival-driven mass consciousness, you must simplify your lifestyle and lower your pain-in-the-neck financial line to maintain constant equilibrium.
3. Self-acceptance is the absolute foundation of receiving money because universal law requires you to accept everything offered and pick up every piece of money found in the street without turning anything down.
4. Learning to charge properly and demanding one hundred percent of the deal during negotiations is essential for maintaining positivity, avoiding approval complexes, and attracting affluent customers who respect high value.
5. Abundance consciousness requires eliminating subliminal insecurities and tracking your daily thoughts to eradicate worries about being ripped off or not having enough.
6. To successfully serve people and make loads of money in the marketplace, you must subjugate your ego and personality to completely cater to customer comfort.
7. True intention demands absolute clarity and focused willpower, requiring you to treat counting money as the primary business purpose.
8. Translating dreams into physical reality requires committing your one overriding life desire and secondary needs to a structured, written battle plan that you review daily.
9. Achieving wealth requires taking absolute responsibility for yourself, committing energy to financial goals, and treating wealthy contacts as equals.
10. When systemic over-expansion triggers an economic correction, holding liquid cash, shifting assets into international external accounts, and investing in gold provide the ultimate defensive advantage.