How to Get Anything You Want: Elsie Lincoln Benedict on the Moods That Build Your Life

Most personal-development books tell you to think better. This one tells you something older and stranger: you do not think your life into being — you feel it into being. Elsie Lincoln Benedict wrote How to Get Anything You Want a hundred years ago, before Napoleon Hill, before Dale Carnegie, before the whole shelf you already own. Russell Brunson dug it back up. It is for the builder who keeps doing the right things, keeps getting the wrong results, and cannot work out why. ...

July 3, 2026 · 6 min · Steven A. Rodríguez