Hey Glen,
I agree with you 100%! I was first introduced to the Law of Attraction through watching "The Secret." and since then I have been doing a lot of research on how to properly apply this to my life.

I believe with controlling your mindset into a positive one, you can obtain anything you want in your life! For law of attraction to work for us, we have to apply ACTION that aligns with our thoughts and energy.

I just recently purchased a "law of attraction planner" that helps to program your mind for success and it has absolutely been a life changer.

On the first page of the planner, It has this quote written in it:
"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive, because your words become your behavior.
Keep your behavior positive, because your behavior becomes your habits.
Keep your habits positive, because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny."
~Gandhi~

Absolute truth. We must take action and that really starts with controlling our thoughts. Never give up!

Glen, thanks for writing this! I am a big proponent of the Law of Attraction too. I think people don't completely understand it and they think they can wish things into being. As you stated perfectly, it doesn't *quite* work like that.

Because we are physical beings, we HAVE to have action. It's part of our makeup and what makes us human. So just wishing things into being wouldn't even be fun for us!

What's great is that when we're really tuned into something that we want and we're really, really clear about it, what happens is that you get inspired action. That's the FUN action. That's something that you can't stop from doing.

I have many stories about this. One of them was about our house. I'll make a really long story short. We had a contract on a house. I kept getting a "feeling" that it wasn't right. I told my husband we had to look one more time. We ended up finding the perfect house that had EVERYTHING we wanted on our list. By some miracle, we were able to get out of the other contract.

That was a case where I couldn't NOT act. I was being guided in some way. (This was before I knew about LOA.)

If you keep the thoughts of what you want in your head and see a really clear picture of it, it HAS to happen. And yes, you have to take action, but that action should be kind of fun and exciting!

Thanks for the discussion. I love this topic, clearly! lol

- Christina

You know how to use visualizations to help you see a better future right? You use details about the things you want, need, and desire so that it's seen in the mind's eye.

When you know how to ask the right questions you can enter a meditation and go through all of those goals you build when you brainstorm about them.

What does it mean to see something vividly in the mind's eye? It is similar to a daydream that you drift toward when you allow your consciousness to be quiet.

Only the catch is you are completely aware so it's a waking sleep and you experience each task. You walk through what you want to be able to do, and you use your senses fully as if it was truly happening.

This all programs your mind because of your imagination and the fact that the subconscious doesn't distinguish between reality and make-believe.

Think about that word, "make-believe" it means forcing yourself to believe in something because it's important to you. Our imaginations are how we learn to develop our superpowers.

Intuition, prediction, forecasting, problem-solving, and being able to concentrate fully on everything that is of value to us.

Now, this all happens using very little energy. Much less than what it would take for us to actually go out and practice each task repeatedly.

What used to plague us like negative thinking, easily becomes optimism and positive forward potential seeking.

In other words, you make a change or transformation as far as your belief system is concerned.

Where you used to find doubt is now hope. What used to be fear is now excitement. What used to be over thinking is now pattern recognition.

You see how simple it is to use your mind to make all things come true. The law of attraction has nothing to do with the power you gain.

That is your role, and you are the only one responsible for what you can achieve. Sometimes people just get lost trying to replicate what has worked for somebody else, that is why all things lead to failure for those people.

They haven't learned to change their beliefs to work for them instead of against them.

But you, on the other hand, have somehow skipped past some of those obstacles. You made promises to yourself that you kept which in turn boosted your confidence and courage to pursue things.

Maybe it was a mistake when you found what worked, but it changed you from doubting yourself to believing in yourself.

Over time you were much better prepared to take on more difficult challenges that continued to be helpful for the life that you could see up ahead.

Well done,

Eric

Glen, I now believe in the LOA also. I had read and read about it and tried over and over again to think positive and be positive about all things and yes it didn't seem to be getting any results. But recently as I was going through some training I had purchased on "Manifesting" one of the activities was to write down things in your life you were thankful for. So I opened up MS Word and started a list of things in my life I was thankful for. When I finished I went back down that list and it hit me "most of those items I was thankful for were things I had dreamed about and thought positive thoughts about wanting them and now here they were. I had actually received them. Many of them were items I had no idea we could afford at the time I began to "think/visualize" them. I had actually been manifesting them in my life and not realized it. I was very pleasantly surprised and happy to know that it really had been working for me. Here are just 3 on that list of over 50 things I'm grateful for because I didn't think we could afford them at the time:

1. My wood floors * I Wanted hard floors in my new house but the house we purchased had new carpet instead. But husband decided to remove all carpet and replace with engineered hardwood so I could use my wheelchair easily. A big deal for me.

2. My Rosie Roomba * I’ve been wanting one for years. One day in Bed Bath and Beyond my dh and I got one with 20% discount.

3. My new notebook computer * I’ve been wanting a new notebook for a couple of years since my last one broke. Recently my husband took me to Bestbuy and asked if I needed a new PC and I told him I wanted a notebook, he told me to pick one out that day. YEAH!

Hi Glen, I personally am very attracted to you. I would like to get together and do a mutual transference of knowledge. You get to know all about cars, I get to know all the goodies you have relating to Internet, WA, Word press, who put the bop she bop in the rama alama dingdong. Thank you.

Yes. I like your version Glen!

Mary Ann

I think you're exactly right, your mind will take you in the direction you tell it to go.

If you tell yourself something is too hard, you'll avoid it or give up. But if you think something is too hard, then tell yourself that it's not too hard if you practice or try harder, the outcome is usually different. Taking action like making a plan to overcome the difficulty or by simply putting more effort into it is a lot easier when you give your mind positive thoughts to work with!

Janelle

Great article Glen!

Thanks!

As Roy T. Bennett said ...

Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

Love it Glen. You are absolutely on the money! Debbie and I were captivated by the Secret all those years back and have worked on our mindset ever since. We have seen a lot of things happen as a result of the mindset and hard work, not just thinking it into existence. After all, that would be magic, right!?

Great post - have a great weekend