Not more than once every decade does a book like The Prosperity Code come along. The Prosperity Code will help you solve the mysteries of permanent prosperity and provide techniques and exercises to put you in the path of Abundance. Master prosperity teacher Alan Batten has written an easy-to-read, entertaining and effective book that will set you on the road to wealth, health and happiness. Among the secrets to the Prosperity Code, you will: Discover how to define prosperity for yourself and your loved ones. Learn the Seven Steps to Using the Law of Abundance. Align your desires with your Life Purpose to give them an extra boost. Understand your core values and how they impact your prosperity. Realize why the biggest part of receiving is giving. Find out why a regular spiritual practice can supercharge your quest for Abundance. Hear what great teachers from the Bible to Oprah to Louise Hay have to say about prosperity. All these tips and many more are in this book ready for you to read and act upon. Go ahead! You have nothing to lose but your lack and limitation consciousness.

The Prosperity Code

How to Find It, Decipher It and Use It for Permanent ProsperityBy Alan Batten

BALBOA PRESS

Copyright © 2012 Alan G. Batten
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4525-5267-5

Contents

Dedication...................................................................viiAcknowledgements.............................................................ixIntroduction: Why You Need This Book.........................................xiiiKey Number 1: What is Prosperity?............................................1Key Number 2: Your Order, Please.............................................5Key Number 3: It's Not Just a Good Idea, It's a Law!.........................9Key Number 4: Seven Steps to Using the Law of Attraction.....................15Key Number 5: Faith-You Must Believe.........................................27Key Number 6: Give, Give, Give...............................................37Key Number 7: The Secret Missing Link........................................45Key Number 8: The Dreaded F Word!............................................53Key Number 9: Have a Prosperity State of Mind................................61Key Number 10: Have A Regular Spiritual Practice.............................67Key Number 11: Examine And Modify Your Core Values...........................73Solving the Code: Putting it all Together....................................79Recommended Reading..........................................................85Afterword....................................................................87

Chapter One

Key Number 1: What is Prosperity?

In order to unlock the Prosperity Code, we must first come up with our own definition of prosperity, or abundance. It's probably safe to note that there are as many definitions of prosperity as there are people to define it.

I have been facilitating prosperity classes for more than two decades. Some years ago, I conducted a class where I asked my students to come up with a dollar figure at which they would consider themselves prosperous. After some extensive discussion and elimination of any number that included "a billion," the consensus was a relatively modest $500. The class all set this as their goal. They then did much the same work as you will do in this book to realize that figure.

I was conducting the weekly check-in as members of the class shared their prosperity stories some two weeks after we set the goal. We all applauded when someone had a successful event in his or her life over the previous week. I encouraged the class to report even if they found a penny on the sidewalk. Some reported receiving an unexpected amount of money, having a bill paid for them, or discovering a twenty-dollar bill used as a bookmark and forgotten long ago. It was always fun to hear how people found their abundance.

As the check-in time neared its end, one young woman stood up and announced, "I set my goal at $5,000, even though I thought it was out of reach." We all gasped, but she continued. "Today I was called into my supervisor's office. I was scared and wondered if I had done something wrong." She continued with an excited grin on her face, "I was wrong, all right! I was given a raise!" We congratulated her. But she put up a hand.

"Wait!" she cried. "Wait! The raise was for $5,000 a year!" We all went wild with excitement. She beamed and sat down.

And we never saw her again after that night.

To that young woman, her definition of prosperity was $5,000.

For the longest time, my personal definition of prosperity was to make $100,000 a year. A good friend of mine, when I shared my goal with him, said, "Why so low? God thinks you are entitled to more than a million dollars a year! You're limiting yourself!" So I revised my definition of prosperity drastically upward.

What's your definition?

"Prosperity" is more than having the most money, more than having the most shoes, more than having an unending supply of things, and more than dying with the most toys. You can be the richest person in the world in terms of things, yet you can lack any sort of human contact or meaningful relationships.

You can be apparently rich in things and impoverished in love. It's true that money can't buy real happiness—when we spend it exclusively on ourselves. (You may want to ask Howard Hughes the next time you're at a séance.)

One working definition of prosperity is being able to do what you want, when you want, with whom you want. This could include taking an exotic vacation to the Greek Isles on a chartered yacht; going on an unlimited, week-long shopping spree at Neiman-Marcus; or simply being able to take your clothes to the cleaners whenever you wished.

Another definition of prosperity is being able to give an unlimited amount of time and money to worthy causes. This may involve setting up a foundation whose name would be all over PBS. Or you may think of being like one very large player whose company name is a household word around the world, giving funding only on the condition that the company's name would not be revealed.

There is also prosperity of health and well-being. If you have an abundance of peace and harmony, anything else really doesn't matter. We may hear stories of Hindu mystics high in the Himalayas who contemplate infinity for many years. They could care less about the $500 goal of the prosperity class. They may spend their time caring about the natural world, which, of course, was here long before the $500.

As I have noted, financial prosperity is only one aspect of abundance. Abundance boils down to a sense of well-being. At any given moment, if you have a good sense of well-being, then you are prosperous and are experiencing abundance, joy, harmony, happiness, and fulfillment.

Think of a time when you felt really prosperous. It could be an early childhood memory when you discovered Santa had left you twenty-eight cents in your Christmas stocking, and you thought you were the richest kid in the world.

Or it could have been a time when you received an unexpected check or bonus and you decided to treat yourself and a loved one to a night on the town. It might be right after you moved into a new house, working at a new job, driving a company car, and living large on an expense account.

Abundance is often used interchangeably with prosperity. Abundance is a "gracious plenty" of the good things in life, as people would say in the Southern United States.

John Randolph Price defines abundance as "an all-sufficiency of supply, a full measure of infinite good. In the invisible, it is the creative energy of God In the visible world, it is that energy made manifest as money and every other food thing required for a free and harmonious life."

What's your vision of prosperity?

If you don't have a good working definition of prosperity, how are you going to know it when you get it?

Now, here's your chance to write in a book. Unless it is a library copy or an e-book, you can write your definition of prosperity right here. Take as much time as you need and as much space as you want (on an additional piece of paper) to write your definition. You will come back to it during the course of reading this book when you wish to modify and expand it.

It could be as simple as "I am prosperous when I can go out to eat six nights a week at great restaurants." Or it could be "I am prosperous when I can take my car to the car wash whenever it gets dusty." It can be as complex as "I am prosperous when I can take my family on a...