Tackling the Law Of Attraction In 5 Steps

Well, my Thursday night discussion group has finally finished reading the Law of Attraction by Jerry and Esther Hicks. Here is what I think of the whole thing. Once you know what you want and have shown the universe that is what you want without doubt you must be prepared to take inspired action. What? I don't get to sit down. I have to actually do something.

I call this the Law of Purposeful Action.
I personally found the Law of Attraction a contradiction of confusing statements. The book is an interview with (wait for it) an imaginary friend. Oh, wrong. It is a group of imaginary friends made to look like only one.

There are already several books written about this law. Is it possible that rather than speaking to some unknown entity through channeling that the Hicks were remembering what they had already read?

Imagination is a wonderful thing. They write about abundance as if that is all you need to know. Those other books at least suggest that I do not just stand in some dark closet somewhere and expect it to fill with abundance.

If you are hungry you certainly don't expect your stomach to fill without lifting the food with a fork from the plate to your mouth. Nor do you expect it to go to your stomach without chewing. At the very least you need to do that little bit of work to get what you want.

Is it also possible that they are not telling you everything you need to do? And, what is all this about focusing on positives and avoiding negatives? If you are constantly thinking in terms of positive and negative aren't you missing the point? You want to reach a goal.

And speaking of negatives, the authors advise us not to focus on the negative because that is what we will get more of. In that case then, if I say to myself that I will not be successful will I therefore get more success?

Stop thinking in terms of positive or negative. Instead, think in terms of pros and cons, for and against the goal you want to reach. Stop focusing on I need to fix this or repair that before I can move on. That will not get you toward your goal.

Deliberately focusing on positive and avoiding negatives will get you no where. That does not tell you what you actually need to do. You already know that the positives are in your favor. It is the negatives that you need to overcome. They are the work you need to do. They are the things that require inspired action.

Let me say that to get to where you want you at least need to take a bus or a train or even drive yourself. So with that in mind, forget about positive and negative and start thinking with a purpose. There are no obstacles, no blocks. These are the normal things you have to work on to get where you want to get. Overcoming your fears is just a normal step in the process. Overcoming your initial fears is a job that is done the instant you take the first purposeful action.

Instead, tackle the Law with Purposeful Action using these five steps.
1. Visualize what you want. This is thinking with a purpose. Visualization is seeing your purpose and your goal in as much detail as possible. Your purpose is what value you will bring to the world. Your goal is where you will get to. Is it happiness? Is it wealth? Is it fame. Is it relationships? Is it children?

If that is the purpose of my thinking and my actions then how will I get there? Then decide on a goal. A goal is like a budget. How will you know you have reached the goal? How long will it take?

Ok, so I want to be a millionaire. No...scratch that. I want to be a billionaire. That's a very large stack of money. Do the billionaires of the world really have that much in stacks of bills? Not really. Their wealth is in lots of assets that are working to provide jobs and building factories and office towers. Is this what you really want? Ummmm. Maybe a million dollars is good enough after all. At least I can carry that much around with me in a suitcase.

2. What will I do today that will get me closer to my goal? Where I am right now is a result of whatever I did yesterday and all the yesterdays before that. If I want to get to my goal I need to start my journey today. Well, that is all I can do.

But first of all I need to know where I am going and how to get there. Either that or go back to standing in my dark closet and hoping for a windfall or maybe just pass a little wind.

3. At the end of the day, ask yourself what you did to get closer to your goal. Are you happy with what you did? Accept yourself for what you have accomplished. Accept whatever you did. Do you have any other choice?

4. Plan what you will do tomorrow. Visualize how you will feel when you have completed those tasks and how much closer they will take you to your goal. Remember you are on a mission. You think with a purpose and you act with a purpose. If you love what you are doing then it will be easy because none of it will seem to require any effort. You will be taking inspired action. I'm inspired to go back to bed.

5. Once you have reached your goal, now what? Go lounge on the beach? Go for a trip around the world? Enjoy yourself with the fun crowd?

Nope. Go back to step one and do it all over again. That is the real fun.

Think I am crazy? Try sitting at the beach for any longer than two weeks just soaking up the sun. The fun is over after the first few days. Then it just becomes boring.

The author has many years experience, writing and reading for self development.
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