Ask for the moon and get it

Tidying up my bookcase I recently found an old book with loose pages that were turning brown. Obviously a book that I had kept for years although I don’t remember buying it. I decided that if I had kept it that long I would read it again, it had to be worth it!

The book was by Percy Ross, a philanthropist and millionaire who began life in an extremely poor family. In fact, at the age of 6, he had to help family finances by selling eggs to his neighbors. At this young age he built his own round of eggs. His father told him to give him an extra egg every now and then. This unusual gift kept her clients engaged and she used it as a lesson for years to come.

As a child he was desperate for a bicycle that his parents couldn’t afford and envied all the signs of luxury he saw and decided that one day he would be a millionaire and help others.

It is a fascinating book in which you discover how he went from poverty to wealth through hard work and some interesting tactics. Then he put his secrets, his 10 rules for asking, that had achieved so much for him in this book so that you too can achieve what you want.

Fascinated by his stories, I Googled Percy Ross to discover that he died in 2001 at the age of 84, but two years earlier he had closed the columns in his newspaper where people could write for what they wanted, he closed them with a note. What she said, her purse was empty now, but how she had enjoyed helping everyone. He donated 30 million in his lifetime. In the book he wrote at age seventy, he vowed that before he died he would give away every penny.

He must have been a wonderful man to have met him. This is a book worth reading if you can get a copy.

Their advice could help you get a business loan, as it did for him through thick and thin, or help you in any situation. So if you want to improve your life, this is a book that could help you.

At the end of the book, it explains how to decide exactly what you want, how to be specific in your requests, and decide exactly what you want in all areas of your life, how to prioritize and how to ask exactly to achieve your dreams. His thoughts were that if you ask the right way you can accomplish almost anything.

Book Review: “Ask for the Moon and Get It” by Percy Ross with Dick Samson.

Other great books to read:

“Stop Worrying and Start Living” by Dale Carnegie.

“Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway” by Susan Jeffers.

“Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill

“The Inner Giant” by Anthony Robins.

Tony’s “Use Your Head” Buzan.

“Psychocybernetics 2000” by Maxwell Maltz Bobbie Sommer Foundation