What if one of the simplest personal-development systems ever published could be explained in less time than it takes to drink a cup of coffee?
No complicated morning routine.
No expensive course.
No hundreds of pages of theory.
Just a sheet of paper, a list of things you genuinely want, and three deceptively simple rules.
That is essentially the promise behind It Works, the famous little book first published in 1926 under the initials R.H.J.
The book makes an extraordinary claim: if you can clearly decide what you want and consistently direct your attention towards it, you may begin moving towards circumstances, opportunities and achievements that previously seemed beyond your reach.
The transcript that inspired this article presents It Works as an unusually short classic built around a practical exercise. Its central instructions are to write down your desires in order of importance, read the list three times each day, think about those desires frequently and avoid casually discussing the method with other people.
That sounds remarkably similar to ideas we now encounter in manifestation books, goal-setting programmes, visualisation exercises and success seminars.
But there is an important question.
Does it actually work?
Almost a century after the book appeared, we can examine that question from a perspective its original readers did not have. We now have decades of research into goal setting, motivation, implementation intentions, self-efficacy, mental simulation, positive thinking and behavioural change.
Some of Jarrett’s claims go far beyond what modern science can establish.
Yet buried underneath the metaphysical language is a surprisingly practical system.
Perhaps the real value of It Works is not that thoughts mysteriously command the universe to deliver whatever we request.
Perhaps it works because deciding exactly what we want changes what we notice, what we prioritise, what we practise, what opportunities we pursue and how consistently we act.
That possibility makes this tiny book far more interesting.
The Tiny 1926 Book That Promised A Simple Route To What You Want
Who Was R. H. J.?
For many years the mysterious initials on It Works added to the mythology surrounding the book.
R.H.J. was Roy Herbert Jarrett, born in 1874 and died in 1937. Modern publisher biographies describe him as a Chicago sales executive and advertising man who became interested in metaphysical approaches to achievement. He published It Works in 1926 and later followed it with The Meaning of the Mark in 1931.
That professional background is worth remembering.
Jarrett was not writing as a modern neuroscientist or experimental psychologist. He came from the world of selling, advertising, personal achievement and the metaphysical success culture of his era.
His language therefore reflects the period in which he lived.
The book talks about the “subjective mind”, an inner power and what Jarrett describes in spiritual terms as God within us. The original text even acknowledges that some of its statements might be considered incorrect from scientific, psychological or theological perspectives.
That admission is important.
We do not need to accept every explanation in the book in order to investigate whether the behaviour it recommends might still be useful.
Why Such A Short Book Became So Popular
Modern editions describe It Works as a remarkably successful little pamphlet that has sold well over a million copies since its original publication.
Its brevity is probably part of its appeal.
Many success books tell us to:
- discover our purpose;
- visualise our future;
- develop self-belief;
- set SMART goals;
- create affirmations;
- build habits;
- practise gratitude;
- use accountability systems;
- monitor progress;
- create action plans.
Jarrett stripped almost everything away.
His method begins with a question that is much harder than it appears:
What do you actually want?
Not what would be nice.
Not what your friends want.
Not what society says you should want.
Not something you casually wish might happen one day.
What do you genuinely want badly enough to make it a meaningful objective?
Jarrett believed that most people never answer that question with sufficient clarity.
That observation still deserves attention today.
Wishing Is Not The Same As Choosing
There is a major difference between saying:
“I wish I had more money.”
and saying:
“I want to build an additional £1,000 per month of income by developing a specific business or investment strategy.”
One is a wish.
The other begins to resemble an objective.
Similarly:
“I want to get fit”
contains little behavioural guidance.
“I want to be able to walk 10,000 steps every day consistently within three months”
creates something measurable.
Jarrett repeatedly emphasises definiteness. In the original system, if you want money, specify the amount. If you want a house, think about its location and characteristics. If you want a business achievement, establish the target and the date.
Nearly 100 years later, this is one of the areas where modern psychology comes surprisingly close to the little red book.
The Three Rules At The Heart Of It Works
Jarrett’s method is almost absurdly simple.
That simplicity makes it easy to dismiss.
It also makes it easy to test.
Rule One: Write Down What You Want
Jarrett instructs readers to write the things and conditions they want on paper and arrange them according to importance.
He encourages readers to be ambitious rather than immediately censoring their desires.
The list is not supposed to remain fixed forever.
You review it.
You add things.
You remove things.
You rearrange priorities.
Something you desperately wanted six months ago may eventually seem unimportant.
Something you had never previously considered may rise to the top.
This process alone can be valuable because it forces you to distinguish between vague desire and deliberate choice.
Imagine writing:
- Build £10,000 per month in online income.
- Create a six-month emergency fund.
- Pay off a particular debt.
- Develop a profitable online business.
- Become physically fitter.
- Spend more quality time with family.
- Learn a valuable new skill.
Now imagine reading that list every day for a year.
Even without invoking any mysterious force, it would be difficult for those priorities not to influence at least some of your decisions.
Rule Two: Read Your List Three Times A Day
Jarrett’s second instruction is to read your list morning, noon and night.
Why three times?
He does not offer a modern experimental explanation.
But repetition makes the goals difficult to forget.
Most of us do not fail because we have literally never heard about goal setting.
We fail partly because daily life consumes our attention.
Work.
Bills.
Social media.
Family responsibilities.
Unexpected problems.
Fatigue.
Emails.
Television.
News.
Appointments.
A goal we passionately created in January can disappear underneath ordinary life by March.
Repeatedly reviewing a goal puts it back into conscious awareness.
The power here does not have to be mystical.
Repeated review can function as a reminder:
This still matters.
Rule Three: Think About What You Want As Often As Possible
This is where It Works begins sounding most like modern manifestation literature.
Jarrett tells the reader to repeatedly think about desired outcomes.
But there are two very different ways of interpreting this.
One interpretation is supernatural:
“I think about a Lamborghini repeatedly, therefore external forces will somehow arrange for a Lamborghini to appear.”
Modern goal research does not establish that.
The second interpretation is behavioural:
“I repeatedly remind myself of an important objective, so I am more likely to recognise relevant information, evaluate opportunities through the lens of that objective and initiate goal-related behaviour.”
That is far more plausible.
The distinction matters enormously.
Why Jarrett Told Readers To Keep The Method Private
Jarrett also advises readers not to discuss the plan casually with other people and warns about surrounding yourself with persistent scepticism.
There is an interesting modern parallel, although we should not exaggerate it.
A 2009 series of four experiments by Peter Gollwitzer and colleagues investigated identity-related intentions. When other people recognised some participants’ intentions, those participants subsequently acted on them less intensely. The researchers suggested that public recognition could sometimes create a premature feeling of already possessing the desired identity.
That does not prove that we should keep every goal secret.
Accountability can also be useful.
The better lesson is more subtle.
Do not confuse talking about becoming successful with doing the work required to become successful.
Applause for announcing a goal is not achievement.
Why Clear Written Goals Can Change What You Actually Do
The strongest scientific support for the practical side of It Works comes from decades of goal-setting research.
Specific Goals Usually Beat Vague Intentions
Edwin Locke and Gary Latham developed one of the best-known research programmes in organisational psychology: goal-setting theory.
The basic finding is highly relevant to Jarrett’s system.
Specific, challenging goals often produce better performance than vague instructions such as “do your best”, provided that appropriate conditions such as ability, commitment, feedback and strategy are present.
Goal setting can affect behaviour through several mechanisms.
According to the American Psychological Association’s summary of Locke’s theory, goals can:
- direct attention and activity;
- influence effort;
- encourage persistence;
- stimulate the development of strategies.
Feedback is also important because people need some way to compare their current position with their desired result.
That gives us a powerful alternative interpretation of Jarrett.
Writing:
“I want financial freedom”
may provide inspiration.
Writing:
“I want to build £3,000 per month of income independent of my salary, and I will track progress monthly”
begins influencing decisions.
You can calculate the gap.
You can research possible vehicles.
You can measure results.
You can abandon strategies that fail.
You can increase effort in strategies that work.
The goal becomes an organising principle.
The Goal Must Eventually Become Behaviour
There is still a problem.
Knowing what you want does not guarantee that you will do anything about it.
Millions of people genuinely want to lose weight, save money, start businesses, write books or learn new skills.
Their intentions may be completely sincere.
Yet intention and behaviour are not identical.
That is why one of the most useful developments in modern motivational psychology is the concept of implementation intentions.
Instead of merely saying:
“I am going to work on my business more often.”
you create a specific behavioural rule:
If it is 8:00 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday or Friday, then I will work on my business for one hour.
Or:
If I receive my salary, then I will automatically transfer £300 into my investment account before discretionary spending.
Implementation intentions link a situation with a predetermined response.
Research summarised by Peter Gollwitzer and colleagues describes them as “if-then” plans designed to help translate intentions into action. Evidence accumulated across multiple areas suggests they can increase goal attainment by helping people recognise opportunities to act and respond more automatically when relevant situations occur.
This may be one of the biggest improvements we can make to Jarrett’s 1926 system.
Do not simply write what you want.
Write what you will do when a predictable opportunity or obstacle appears.
Turn An Outcome Goal Into A System
Suppose my goal is:
Build £10,000 per month in online income.
That is an outcome.
I cannot directly command the outcome.
But I can control many behaviours that may contribute to it:
- publishing useful articles;
- learning SEO;
- building an email list;
- creating digital products;
- researching profitable problems;
- improving sales pages;
- developing traffic sources;
- tracking conversion rates;
- reinvesting revenue;
- testing different offers.
Suddenly, one dream becomes dozens of controllable actions.
The list tells me where I want to go.
The system determines whether I move.
That is the point where It Works becomes much more than positive thinking.
What Repetition, Visualisation And Self-Belief Can — And Cannot — Do
One reason books like It Works survive for generations is that people genuinely experience something after they begin focusing intensely on a goal.
They notice opportunities.
They have ideas.
They feel motivated.
Coincidences seem to increase.
People suddenly appear who can help.
The danger is immediately assuming that these experiences prove a supernatural mechanism.
There are other explanations worth considering.
Your Goal Changes The Questions You Ask
Imagine you decide seriously that you want to build an online business.
Before making that decision, you might watch a video about ecommerce and forget it within minutes.
After making the goal central to your life, the same information has relevance.
You ask:
Could this work for me?
What is the start-up cost?
Who are the customers?
What skills would I need?
What is the profit margin?
What could go wrong?
You might save the video.
Research the subject.
Contact somebody.
Read a book.
Run a small experiment.
The outside world may not have changed.
Your relationship with the information changed.
That can feel like opportunities suddenly appearing.
In reality, some opportunities may have been present all along.
Visualise The Process, Not Only The Prize
Visualisation is another area where popular self-help advice can become misleading.
People are often told to close their eyes and imagine possessing the money, car, body or lifestyle they desire.
There can be motivational value in emotionally connecting with a future goal.
But research suggests that how we visualise matters.
In a well-known 1999 study, students were assigned to mentally simulate either the process required for academic success or the desired outcome itself. Process simulation—thinking about the behaviours involved in preparing effectively—was associated with more studying and better exam performance, partly through improved planning and lower anxiety.
That suggests a much more useful form of visualisation.
Instead of only imagining yourself celebrating after your business reaches £10,000 per month, imagine yourself:
opening the laptop when you are tired;
researching a difficult topic;
publishing when nobody seems to be reading;
learning from failed advertisements;
answering customer questions;
improving the product;
checking analytics;
staying consistent for another month.
Visualise yourself doing the work.
That connects imagination to behaviour.
Self-Belief Matters, But Competence Matters Too
Success literature frequently tells us to believe in ourselves.
There is some psychological substance behind the idea.
Albert Bandura’s influential concept of self-efficacy concerns people’s beliefs about their ability to execute behaviours needed in particular circumstances. His theory proposed that efficacy expectations can influence whether behaviour is initiated, how much effort is invested and how long people persist when facing difficulty.
But healthy self-efficacy is not the same as blind certainty.
Someone who has never built a website should not pretend to possess the skill of an experienced developer.
A better belief might be:
I do not know how to do this yet, but I believe I can learn enough to make progress.
That belief encourages action without requiring self-deception.
And every genuine accomplishment can become evidence.
Publish your first article.
Make your first £1 online.
Acquire your first customer.
Build your first email list.
Sell your first ebook.
Invest your first £100.
Small victories provide something more powerful than an affirmation.
They provide experience.
The Parts Of It Works That Modern Psychology Would Challenge
It would be easy to take a 1926 metaphysical book, search for modern psychological concepts that resemble parts of it and conclude:
“Science proves It Works.”
That would be wrong.
The research is much more interesting when we allow it to challenge the book as well as support it.
Positive Thinking Can Become Counterproductive
One of the biggest problems with some versions of manifestation is the belief that we should constantly imagine positive outcomes while avoiding thoughts about obstacles or failure.
Research by Gabriele Oettingen and colleagues complicates that idea.
Experiments have found circumstances in which highly positive fantasies about an idealised future were associated with lower mobilisation of energy for demanding goals. The researchers argued that mentally enjoying the desired future can sometimes reduce the energy required to pursue it.
Think about the implications.
If imagining yourself as a millionaire gives you such a powerful emotional reward that you feel successful before building anything, visualisation may become psychological entertainment.
You receive some of the emotion of achievement without earning the achievement.
That is not manifestation.
That is fantasy.
A Better Method: Desired Future + Present Obstacle
Oettingen’s work contributed to a method known as mental contrasting.
Instead of thinking only about your desired future, you deliberately contrast it with the reality currently preventing you from reaching it.
For example:
Wish: Build a profitable online business.
Outcome: Financial freedom and greater control over my time.
Obstacle: I am exhausted after long work shifts and frequently postpone important tasks.
Plan: If I am too tired to complete a full work session, then I will complete one 20-minute priority task rather than doing nothing.
When mental contrasting is combined with implementation intentions, the technique is often called MCII.
A 2021 meta-analysis covering 21 empirical studies and 15,907 participants found a small-to-medium positive effect on goal attainment, although the researchers also identified possible publication bias and cautioned that the true effect could be smaller.
Research has continued.
A randomized study published in Acta Psychologica in 2026 compared MCII with a positive-thinking strategy among university students. The MCII condition reduced task aversiveness and increased willingness to initiate academic work relative to the positive-thinking comparison, with effects persisting at follow-up.
That is an important modern lesson:
Do not merely picture the dream. Identify what is stopping you from reaching it.
Gratitude Is Useful — But It Is Not A Cosmic Transaction
It Works encourages thankfulness and describes gratitude as part of receiving and recognising accomplishment.
Modern research does find associations between gratitude practices and psychological well-being.
A 2023 systematic review and meta-analysis covering 64 randomized trials reported improvements across several outcomes among people undertaking gratitude interventions, although the authors also noted limitations including substantial risk of bias in much of the literature.
A larger later meta-analysis reported an overall small positive effect of gratitude interventions on well-being, while again finding heterogeneity between studies and populations.
This gives us a reasonable position.
Practising gratitude may improve aspects of well-being.
But gratitude should not become:
“I thanked the universe, therefore the universe owes me money.”
That turns a potentially healthy psychological practice into a transactional superstition.
There Is No Evidence Here That Thought Alone Controls External Reality
Nothing in goal-setting theory, implementation-intention research, self-efficacy research or mental-contrasting studies demonstrates that thinking intensely about £1 million causes £1 million to enter your bank account independently of behaviour and external circumstances.
That distinction is crucial.
Your thoughts can influence your decisions.
Your decisions can influence your actions.
Your actions can influence probabilities.
Your skills can influence the value you create.
Your persistence can increase the number of attempts you make.
Your goals can influence which opportunities you pursue.
Those mechanisms are powerful enough.
We do not need to pretend that psychology has proven something it has not.
A Modern Evidence-Based Version Of The It Works Method
If I were rewriting Jarrett’s system for 2026, I would keep its greatest advantage—simplicity—but add what we have learned about behaviour since 1926.
Here is how I would use it.
Step One: Write Everything You Think You Want
Start with Jarrett’s original idea.
Take a sheet of paper.
Write freely.
Money.
Career.
Business.
Health.
Relationships.
Lifestyle.
Travel.
Education.
Contribution.
Personal growth.
Do not immediately ask whether each goal is achievable.
The first task is discovery.
You cannot intelligently pursue a destination you have never defined.
Step Two: Rank Your Goals
Now force yourself to make decisions.
If everything is equally important, nothing is truly prioritised.
Which goal would create the greatest improvement in your life?
Which goal unlocks other goals?
Which goal has become urgent?
Which goal genuinely matters to you rather than merely looking impressive to somebody else?
Number them.
Your priorities may change later.
That is fine.
Jarrett himself encouraged changing the list as your understanding developed.
Step Three: Make The Top Goals Specific
Turn:
“I want more money”
into:
“I want to generate an additional £1,000 per month.”
Turn:
“I want financial freedom”
into:
“I want investment and business income sufficient to cover my essential monthly living costs.”
Turn:
“I want a successful website”
into:
“I want to reach 100,000 monthly organic page views and £X monthly revenue.”
Specificity creates something you can measure.
Goal-setting research strongly supports the usefulness of specific, challenging goals when combined with commitment, appropriate strategy and feedback.
Step Four: Identify The Real Obstacle
Ask a question manifestation culture sometimes avoids:
Why do I not already have this?
Be careful.
The answer is rarely just “negative energy”.
Maybe you lack capital.
Maybe you lack knowledge.
Maybe you are inconsistent.
Maybe you picked a weak business model.
Maybe there is insufficient demand.
Maybe your website receives no traffic.
Maybe your product solves no meaningful problem.
Maybe you are trying to pursue ten projects simultaneously.
Maybe you are exhausted.
Maybe you are afraid of failure.
Maybe you need professional help or specialist knowledge.
The obstacle is valuable information.
You cannot design an intelligent strategy while refusing to acknowledge reality.
Step Five: Create An If-Then Response
Now convert obstacles into predetermined actions.
If I feel too tired to work for two hours, then I will work for 20 minutes on the highest-priority task.
If a product fails to make sales after a defined testing period, then I will review the traffic, offer, conversion rate and customer feedback before launching another product.
If I receive additional income, then I will allocate a predetermined percentage towards savings or investment.
If I catch myself spending an hour scrolling social media, then I will close the app and complete one task connected to my main goal.
This is where intention becomes behaviour.
Implementation-intention research suggests that linking a clear situational cue with a specific response can help people translate goals into action.
Step Six: Review The List Every Day
Jarrett prescribed morning, noon and night.
You can follow that exactly if it works for you.
I would modify the exercise slightly.
Morning: Read the goals and identify today’s most important action.
During the day: Briefly review the list when changing between major activities.
Evening: Ask what you actually did.
That last question is vital.
Not:
“Did I think positively?”
But:
“What evidence did I create today that I am moving towards this goal?”
Some days the evidence may be tiny.
One page written.
One supplier contacted.
£20 invested.
One sales page improved.
One lesson completed.
One difficult phone call made.
One workout finished.
Small action is still action.
Step Seven: Visualise The Process
Spend a few minutes imagining the desired outcome.
Enjoy it.
Let it motivate you.
Then immediately visualise the process.
See yourself performing the actions.
Imagine encountering the obstacle.
Then imagine responding effectively.
This approach is more consistent with research showing benefits from process-focused mental simulation and mental contrasting than simply fantasising about the final reward.
Step Eight: Measure Reality
At least once each week, update a scoreboard.
Depending on the goal, measure things such as:
- revenue;
- savings;
- investment contributions;
- debt;
- website visitors;
- articles published;
- email subscribers;
- products created;
- leads generated;
- conversion rates;
- applications submitted;
- workouts completed;
- hours spent learning.
Goals without feedback can become fantasies.
Data gives reality a voice.
Sometimes the numbers will confirm that the strategy works.
Sometimes they will tell you to change direction.
Both are useful.
Step Nine: Practise Gratitude Without Losing Ambition
Be grateful for progress.
Be grateful for health, family, opportunities, lessons and accomplishments.
But do not use gratitude as an excuse to become passive.
You can appreciate what you have while building what you do not yet have.
Gratitude and ambition are not enemies.
Step Ten: Repeat For Long Enough To Produce Evidence
This may be the least glamorous part.
Real transformation usually contains repetition.
Learn.
Act.
Measure.
Adjust.
Try again.
The original It Works system is appealing because the daily ritual takes only minutes.
The mistake would be believing the ritual replaces the work.
The ritual should direct the work.
What It Works Means For My Journey From Security Guard To Financial Freedom
This is where It Works becomes personally meaningful to me.
My journey is not really about proving whether a mysterious metaphysical law can deliver everything I write on a piece of paper.
It is about something more practical.
Can becoming radically clear about what I want change the direction of my life?
I believe it can.
Financial Freedom Begins As A Decision
For years it is possible to live mostly reactively.
Work.
Get paid.
Pay bills.
Go back to work.
Repeat.
There is nothing wrong with earning an honest living.
But there is a difference between earning money and deliberately building financial freedom.
Financial freedom requires another question:
What am I building that can eventually reduce my dependence on exchanging hours for money?
For me, that means investigating and building assets and income streams such as blogging, digital products, affiliate marketing, investing and online business.
I do not expect writing those goals down to magically produce the income.
Writing them down serves another purpose.
It keeps me from forgetting what I am trying to build.
My List Must Lead To Work
If my list says:
Build multiple online income streams capable of generating more than $10,000 per month
then the next question cannot simply be:
“How strongly do I believe?”
It must also be:
What did I build today?
Did I publish something valuable?
Did I improve a website?
Did I create a product?
Did I learn a skill?
Did I analyse my traffic?
Did I test an offer?
Did I invest?
Did I solve a problem for somebody?
Did I move one measurable step forward?
This is where I believe the real power of a book like It Works can be found.
Repetition Protects The Dream From Daily Life
Long-term goals have an enemy that receives too little attention.
It is not necessarily failure.
It is forgetfulness.
Not literally forgetting that you wanted financial freedom.
Something more subtle happens.
Urgent things replace important things.
Another shift.
Another bill.
Another problem.
Another week.
Another month.
Another year.
Before long, the dream survives only as an occasional thought:
“One day I would like to…”
A daily written list fights that process.
Three times every day, it says:
Remember what you decided.
That may be the most valuable idea in Jarrett’s entire book.
I Can Change The List As I Change
Another insight from It Works that I appreciate is the permission to revise the list.
Personal development does not mean becoming permanently attached to every goal you have ever created.
We learn.
Circumstances change.
We discover what matters.
We achieve things and create bigger objectives.
We sometimes realise that a goal was based on ego rather than purpose.
Removing something from the list is not necessarily failure.
It may represent greater clarity.
The objective is not to become a prisoner of yesterday’s ambitions.
The objective is to become increasingly deliberate about tomorrow.
The Greatest Upgrade Is Adding Action
If I were to reduce everything I learned from researching It Works to one formula, it would be this:
Clarity + Repetition + Realistic Thinking + Planning + Action + Feedback + Persistence
That formula is less mysterious than manifestation.
But it is also more useful.
Know what you want.
Write it down.
Read it regularly.
Imagine the future.
Identify the obstacle.
Plan your response.
Do the work.
Measure what happens.
Learn from the result.
Continue.
Modern psychology gives us credible reasons why several parts of that process may help. Specific goals can direct attention and effort. If-then plans can assist with translating intentions into behaviour. Process visualisation can strengthen planning. Mental contrasting can connect desired futures with present obstacles. Gratitude practices may provide modest psychological benefits.
None of this proves that thinking about something makes the universe obligated to deliver it.
And perhaps that is good news.
Because it means we do not have to wait for the universe.
My Modern Version Of The Three Rules
Jarrett gave readers three rules.
Here is the version I want to remember.
1. Know exactly what I want.
Not vaguely.
Not someday.
Define it.
2. Keep it in front of me.
Read it.
Think about it.
Review it.
Measure it.
Do not allow everyday life to erase it.
3. Take action every day that makes the outcome more likely.
Even when the action is small.
Even when progress is invisible.
Even when motivation disappears.
Even when the first strategy fails.
That third rule is where I would place the greatest emphasis.
Because a goal written on paper is potential.
A goal combined with sustained action becomes a process.
And a process repeated for long enough can change a life.
Final Thoughts
It Works is almost 100 years old, yet its core challenge remains surprisingly relevant:
Do you actually know what you want?
Many of us spend enormous amounts of time thinking about what we dislike.
The job we hate.
The money we lack.
The opportunities we missed.
The mistakes we made.
The people who disappointed us.
The circumstances we wish were different.
Jarrett asks us to reverse the question.
What do you want instead?
Write it down.
Make it specific.
Look at it every day.
Then, using what modern research has taught us, go further.
Identify the obstacle.
Create the plan.
Visualise the process.
Measure the behaviour.
Develop the necessary skills.
Stay grateful.
Keep learning.
And keep acting.
Maybe that is why a book that can be read in minutes has survived for nearly a century.
Its real message is not complicated.
A better future begins when a vague wish becomes a clear decision—and a clear decision becomes repeated action.
For my journey from Security Guard To Financial Freedom, that is an idea worth putting to the test.
The best time to start was yesterday.
The second best time is today.
Disclaimer
This article is provided for educational and informational purposes only. It discusses historical personal-development ideas, goal-setting methods, psychological research and the author’s personal interpretation of It Works by R. H. Jarrett. Nothing in this article should be considered financial, investment, legal, medical or professional advice.
References to manifestation, visualisation, mindset, goal setting or personal achievement should not be interpreted as guarantees of income, wealth, success, improved health or any specific result. Individual outcomes vary and depend on many factors, including personal circumstances, knowledge, effort, decisions, skills, resources and external conditions.
Any financial figures, business goals or income examples mentioned are illustrative only and should not be considered promises or representations of future earnings. Readers should conduct their own research and, where appropriate, seek advice from a suitably qualified professional before making financial, investment, business or other important decisions.
The author makes no guarantee that following any method, strategy or exercise discussed in this article will produce a particular result. Readers remain responsible for their own decisions, actions and outcomes.