The common thoughts amongst today’s youth is that in order to be rich and wealthy you must work hard and have specialized knowledge. Those who really buy into this belief attend universities and colleges and study towards a specific subject living with the hope that their new found knowledge will support them for life by providing jobs for them.

In my opinion, this is the worst way to make money. Nothing could be more boring, uninteresting and flawed than this way of thinking.

• Thomas A. Edison had only three months of formal education
• Henry Ford had less than a sixth grade schooling
• Gary Evans left college after his first year and went on to setup successful online businesses

The truth is, you do not require specialized knowledge in order to attain riches. There will always be others who have the passion and drive to learn as much as they can about certain subjects. You can call upon these individuals to answer any questions you may need answering.

Knowledge is power

Knowledge is only potential power, consider your school teachers and professors for a moment. They often consider themselves underpaid and overworked and yet they hold specialized knowledge. This is true for most people who hold specialized knowledge in any given field. They feel overworked and underpaid.

Do not miss-understand me here, specialized knowledge is essential for any accumulation of riches. Napoleon Hill recommends that if you don’t have the interest and desire to learn such specialized knowledge that will be required to create riches then you should consult your master mind group to help assist you with this process. We’ll speak more on master mind groups in a subsequent chapter.

Before you can be sure of your ability to transmute DESIRE into its monetary equivalent, you will require SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE of the service, merchandise, or profession which you intend to offer in return for fortune. Perhaps you may need much more specialized knowledge than you have the ability or the inclination to acquire, and if this should be true, you may bridge your weakness through the aid of your Master Mind Group.

The accumulation of great fortunes calls for POWER, and power is acquired through highly organized and intelligently directed specialized knowledge, but that knowledge does not, necessarily, have to be in the possession of the man who accumulates the fortune.

Napoleon lays out 5 clear definite ways of acquiring specialized knowledge and throughout this chapter he tells of many stories where specialized knowledge was essential in the acquiring of great fortunes.

Read the quote above once more and really understand the message. Regardless of your background and education you can put together a team who has all of the knowledge you would ever need to acquire riches. Personally, I feel the major factor that stops people from moving forward with their ideas is a lack of self confidence and belief that they can do it.

It is very easy to find excuses as to why you cannot do something, and yet, it is also just as easy to start working towards the goal in hand.

Here’s a quote out of Think and Grow Rich which discusses the 5 ways of acquiring specialized knowledge:

It Pays to Know How to Purchase Knowledge

First of all, decide the sort of specialized knowledge you require, and the purpose for which it is needed. To a large extent your major purpose in life, the goal toward which you are working, will help determine what knowledge you need.

With this question settled, your next move requires that you have accurate information concerning dependable sources of knowledge. The more important of these are:

(a) One’s own experience and education
(b) Experience and education available through cooperation of others (Master Mind Alliance)
(c) Colleges and Universities
(d) Public Libraries (Through books and periodicals in which may be found all the knowledge organized by civilization)
(e) Special Training Courses (Through night schools and home study schools in particular.)

As knowledge is acquired it must be organized and put into use, for a definite purpose, through practical plans. Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end. This is one reason why college degrees are not valued more highly. They represent nothing but miscellaneous knowledge.

The list above is perfect if you intend on developing your own knowledge on the subject, however what should you do if you have no interest in acquiring the knowledge needed? In my last post I spoke about consulting your master mind group to help assist you with acquiring the specialized knowledge. Hopefully you’ve got someone in your master mind group who already has the knowledge you need.

I believe that if you are positively focussing on your goal at hand then the Law of Attraction will bring to you the people needed to help you in working towards your desires. However, to show the universe you are serious about acquiring a master mind group here are some social networking suggestions to help get you started:

Online forums (If you go to Google.com and type in: “keyword +forum” without the quotations and change “keyword” with a keyword that represents your niche you will be presented with a list of online forums available to participate in and join)

Ecademy is a social network for business people that now have over 150,000 member profiles worldwide. It enables business people to connect both online on the web site and offline at networking events and at 1-2-1 meetings. Ecademy can help you get more business, more relationships & more knowledge. If you’d like a free 1 month trial as a Power Networker, please send me a message and I will send you a free 1 month invitation.

Ryze is similar to Ecademy, however Ryze is a free platform that helps you expand your business network. They help you:

• Get a FREE networking-oriented homepage
• Make quality business contacts
• Re-connect with friends
• Help your company make deals through Ryze members

With the use of the Internet, we can now connect with people in all parts of the world. If you are strapped for time and require the use of someone else’s expertise, you can always hire them from one of the many freelance websites available.

I know of several autopilot business owners who outsource all of the work to freelancers and make money by marketing the service as their own. Here’s a couple of the most popular freelancing websites:

Elance – http://www.elance.com
Rent A Coder - http://www.rentacoder.com

Have a think about the areas where you require specialized knowledge and make a decision about how you will acquire it.

Whether you know someone who has specialized knowledge in your subject or not, you will inevitably attract the right person into your life if you can focus on the enjoyment of your desire for just a little while.

The universe has all sorts of magnificent ways of making your dreams manifest. Often the universe will find ways that you couldn’t even imagine and still yield to you what you’ve been wanting.

About a year ago, I met one of my spiritual mentors in ways which truly astounded and surprised me. Ever since I read Think and Grow Rich I have been interested in the Law of Attraction and acquiring more specialized knowledge in that area of my life.

It didn’t take the universe long to respond to my requests! At that time in my life I was feeling fed up and frustrated due to lack of results and the dominant vibration that I emitted was that I wanted a mentor or coach to guide me through the process.

One day, I received an email from a popular ezine that I receive regularly. I opened it up and skimmed the message. Although I cannot remember what the email was about, I remember that it didn’t interest me an awful lot so I decided to click on one of the links to other articles to see if I could find something more pleasing.

After a few moments of clicking and skimming this website - I had found myself on the “Links” page. I was intrigued by one of the sites listed on that page, so I clicked on one of the links and then I shut down all of my other browser windows that I had open. I was about to leave the computer and go and do something else as I hadn’t found anything to keep my attention except for this one link that I had clicked on.

Before I left, I skimmed the page and the headline said something like: “Do you crave real freedom and desire change?”. Well yes, I did crave “real freedom” and I definitely wanted to change so I signed up. I had signed up for an MP3 audio download that promised real change. The cost was just $1, so it was a no-brainer. At the time I was of the opinion that the best information available on the Internet was free or very cheap. I had been able to read Think and Grow Rich as a free ebook which totally blew my mind! So this $1 audio program sounded very interesting to me.

After listening to the audio, I was immediately intrigued by the knowledge that was presented as it was in harmony with what I had learnt from Napoleon Hill’s book. I decided to investigate further and discovered that the community which this audio belonged to had two mentors running the site. This membership was an interactive membership website where like minded individuals can get together and share their experiences with one another whilst being guided by the two owners (the mentors!).

I was excited as I thought I had found the training I so desperately craved for.

The universe had additional resources lined up for me though ………

After going on my first live meeting with this community, I emailed one of the resident mentors about the “buddy system” which was discussed as part of some of the training. I was later given the contact details of a fellow English man. I had no problem with this and was intrigued to learn more about everyone in this community. Little did I know, but I had just made my first encounter with my soon-to-be spiritual mentor.

After a couple of chats with my new “buddy”, we discovered that we both had unique talents that we could offer one another.

I consider myself to be very technically minded and have always enjoyed using the computer and using technology. My newly met friend had a vast knowledge of the Law of Attraction and had just finished writing his own book on the subject! However, he lacked computer knowledge and needed help getting a website up and running and also getting his book converted into an ebook and MP3 audio book.

We immediately bonded and forged a relationship where I could provide computer support whilst he could help me with the Law of Attraction. A perfect, win-win situation for the both of us.

The Law of Attraction had yielded to me a long string of circumstances that led up to this moment. We both had separate needs (desires) and the universe responded to both of them by putting us together.

Later as our relationship developed I discovered that my spiritual mentor had emailed one of the resident mentors at the same time as I had done and requested my contact details as he had heard me speak on my first live conference and had an instinctive impulse to connect with me!

The point of me telling you this story is to demonstrate that specialized knowledge can come in many forms and in many different ways.

I did want to find a coach, someone with the specialized knowledge that I didn’t have. And within a few weeks of my asking, the universe had already yielded a community of like minded individuals with two resident mentors but also my own personal mentor to guide me.

If you don’t know where to begin when finding your specialized knowledge, take your attention away from the situation and start to focus upon the feelings of your desire as already here. The universe has heard your request and will always bring to you exactly what you desire, you just need to let it in.