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When visiting certain online forums dealing with the subject of Personal Development, I fairly frequently encounter people asking why the Law of Attraction isn’t working for them. They are doing all the right things, they say; they are visualising – sometimes people prefer to call it programming – and they are working really hard on the mental side of things, but things just are not manifesting. It is a remarkably common comment.
Well, it seems that such folk are concentrating on the first part (the Law) but missing out on the last part (the Action). You notice the word ‘action’ is entirely contained within the word ‘attraction’. And without action, as Wallace D Wattles once said ‘ you are merely a dreamer or castle builder’. It’s not that I am against the idea of the Law of Attraction, in fact, I am fully in favour of it, but we do need to recognise that, in order to achieve anything, we must take action.
There are many, so-called guru’s who seem to misunderstand this aspect of the law. There are those who want to suggest that you can create anything you want mentally without any action required on your part, but this is only half of the story – what Stephen Covey calls the ‘mental creation’; the other half – action - concerns the physical creation.
For me, this fell perfectly into place when I read the Master Key System the first time, because Charles Haanel makes it plain that what is given-out by visualising is thought; and what is received is also thought. What then needs to happen is the received thought needs to be turned into action in order to see the results you desire manifest themselves.
For example, the White Dove Books site – which gets over 1 million visitors per year at present – did not come about by me just thinking about what it should look like; that was an important first step, of course. But once the vision (what it should look like) was clear to me, it required many individual actions to be performed to translate that vision into the site that matches my vision. Along the way, I had to solve many problems; and they were all solved using the same process – firstly imagining what the result looked like, then acting upon the ideas presented to me by whatever power is operating in the universe.
So do understand that if the Law of Attraction is not working for you, it may be because you are not doing the first part right – the visualising – but for many, it may also be because you are not doing the second part right – the acting. Go to it, my friend: create your vision and then have the courage to go for it! Dedicate yourself to taking the steps that lead to the fulfilment of that dream and you are well on the way to ultimate success. |
