Make the Law of Attraction Work for You

How do you know if the law of attraction is working in your life? It’s always working. What’s in your life is a match to what you are vibrating. The trick (or Secret, if you will) is to learn how to vibrate to match what you want.

Everyone has a slightly different take on how you can make the law of attraction work for you. Here are some options.

Joe Vitale’s Five Steps from The Attractor Factor:

  1. Know what you don’t want.

  2. Decide what you do want
  3. Clear all negative or limiting beliefs.
  4. Feel what it would be like to have, do, or be what you want.
  5. Let go of attachment as you act on your intuitive impulses and let the results manifest.

Deanna Davis’ Three Steps from The Law of Attraction in Action:

  1. Choose your state. Consciously decide how you want to feel emotionally and where you want to direct your attention.

  2. Set your intention. Make a decision to think and act in a way that will create the outcomes you want.
  3. Take inspired action.

Denise Coates’ Five Steps from Feel It Real!:

  1. State your desire.

  2. Ask yourself what feelings you might have if you already had that desire.
  3. Get into the feeling place of already having that desire.
  4. Stay in that feeling place as long as possible each day.
  5. Decide that imagining these good feelings is its own reward, knowing that as you enjoy the feeling for their own sake, the Universe will deliver your desires to you by the Law of Attraction.

Principles from The Teachings of Abraham and Money, and the Law of Attraction (Esther and Jerry Hicks):

  • Every subject is really two subjects: having and not having. If you focus on the not having, as in “I don’t have enough money, I want more,” you are pushing money away from you.

  • You are where you are. Always reach for an upstream thought, that is, a thought that helps you feel even slightly better than you feel in the moment.
  • Your feelings attract, regardless of what words you are using. For example, saying “I want more money” while feeling poor, only attracts more poorness.
  • No matter where you go, you take yourself with you. If you leave a situation without cleaning up your vibration, you will only recreate the situation in another place.

Read, read, read to imprint the principles in your subconscious mind and find the specifics that work best for you. In addition to the books mentioned above, some other recommended books are

February 3, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: law of attraction, self improvement  No Comments

Happiness is a Choice

Happiness is a choice, but you can definitely do things to make that choice easier and your life more fulfilling. Here are a few suggestions:

  • Surround yourself with happy people, and their positive energy will affect you in a positive way. Social networks and relationships are important.

  • Be thankful for what you have.
  • Watch less news. The media feeds us mostly negative thoughts.
  • Encourage inner peace by connecting to what you find spiritual.
  • Communicate your feelings, affections, friendship, and passion to people around you. Get and give hugs. Positive physical contact with friends, loved ones, and even pets, is an instant pick-me-up. Laugh everyday.
  • Learn something new each day. Learning is a joyful exercise that expands your horizons.
  • Take care of yourself physically. It’s much easier to be happy when you are eating well, exercising, and getting enough rest. As much as possible, avoid exposure to negative elements such as loud noises, toxins, and hazardous places.
  • Think positively. If you notice yourself having a negative thought, detach from it, witness it, and don’t follow it. Be aware of any negative thoughts you hold about yourself – challenge them, are they really true?
  • Focus on the present moment. Happiness can only happen in the now.

Suggested reading: Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out

January 31, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: self improvement  No Comments

Developing a Millionaire Mind

A millionaire mind is one that is programmed for success (financial success and success in other areas of life). Most of us have limiting beliefs and thoughts that keep us from sharing the abundance that is part of the universe. According to T. Harv Eker, author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, rich people have the following beliefs.

  • I create my own life. (No victims here.)
  • I play the money game to win. (Playing not to lose is a sure-fire way to lose.)
  • I am committed to a rich life.
  • I think big.
  • I focus on opportunities. (If you focus on obstacles, you only see more obstacles.)
  • I admire other rich and successful people. (If you don’t admire rich people, you mind will never let you be one, because don’t you want to admire yourself?)
  • I associate with positive, successful people. (I once read that your net worth is likely the average of the net worth of the ten people closest to you.)
  • I am willing to promote myself and my value.
  • I am bigger than my problems.
  • I am an excellent receiver. (When someone gives you a compliment, the only appropriate response is “thank you.’)
  • I choose to get paid based on my results. (Working for an hourly wage rarely leads to wealth.)
  • I think “both.”
  • I live in a world of abundance.
  • I focus on my net worth (not income).
  • I manage my money well.
  • I have money work hard for me.
  • I act in spite of fear.
  • I constantly learn and grow.

At first, these thoughts may seem unnatural, but as with everything, you get better with practice. Find ways to get support in your new ways of thinking. Also, consider Eker’s Millionaire Mind Intensive.

January 29, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: abundance and prosperity  No Comments

Tips for a Fulfilling Life

Only you can define what a fulfilling life is for you. It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks. We have a limited time in physical form, it makes sense to enjoy it.

  • Find a purpose for your life. Some people have an obvious purpose in life, but if you don’t, pick one and go with it. And remember that your purpose can change as you change.
  • Know your values. Make a list your values and prioritize them. Check your purpose and goals against your values. If they don’t align, you know you are on the wrong track. Live with integrity.
  • Take care of yourself. Eat well, exercise, get plenty of sleep, and laugh everyday. Have a healthy perspective of yourself and know what you need. If you don’t take care of yourself first, you are in no position to help anyone else.
  • Listen to your heart. Know your passions. If you can clear away the clutter and noise from outside of yourself, you know who you are and what you need to have a fulfilling life. Express yourself authentically.
  • Serve others in a way that nourishes you. When you are true to who you are and living your purpose, giving back acknowledges the fact that we are all interconnected.
  • Continue to learn and grow. Replace old beliefs that are no longer useful to you. Create new possibilities for your life.

January 28, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: self improvement  No Comments

Accelerate Your Abilities

by Chris Widener

In today’s fast-paced life, the wins usually go to those with exceptional skills and abilities. The old quote is true, “The race is not always won by the swift and the strong, but that is the way to bet.”

With this in mind, and with your desire to become increasingly successful, here are some ways to accelerate your abilities, thus enabling you to achieve greater and greater things.

Visualize the benefits of increased abilities. Put them at the forefront of your mind. This will saturate your mind with the motivation that it will take for you to do what it takes to increase your abilities. What good will come out of my increased ability? How will I be better off as well as the others around me? The answers to these questions act as the carrot before the horse, moving you forward.

Understand your weaknesses. If you want to improve, one of the best ways is to start with some area that you aren’t particularly good at. This is the “shoring up method.” Sometimes it is easier to improve something you aren’t good at that something you are. And the gains will still look great for your overall situation! Take some time to consider what areas you are weakest in and focus in on them for a while. The results will obviously be much more pronounced than getting better at something you have already somewhat mastered.

Attempt greater levels of what you are already good at. Another tact to take would be to stretch yourself in an area that you already have some skill and ability in. What areas do you excel in? Now understand that when you leave the weaker areas weak and make extraordinary gains in one area, then you will be moving more toward “specialist” rather than “generalist.” That is okay, but needs to fit in with your overall goals.

Commit time each day to improvement. Steady improvement is the way to go. In fact, you may not see improvement for days or weeks. You may feel like you are failing each time. But alas, eventually you will get it and your skill will increase to the next level. The key is day in, day out, spending time working on improving. Even five minutes a day equals a half hour a week, 2 hours a month. That adds up! Remember, Practice, practice, practice.

Seek out and spend time with someone who has greater ability than you. One of the best things to do to increase your ability is hang out with people who are already more skilled than you. Watching, them, studying them, interacting with them, even competing with them will make you better. As in sports, to improve, you play with people better than you, not worse. They will raise you to a new level. Who around you can you get involved with who will help you with your ability?

Take a class or hire a coach. Go to school my friend. Take a course at a local college or vocational institute. Take a class online. Hire one of the many coaches available today. Pick a specific skill you would like to improve upon and find someone who is a specialist in that area. At the very least, pick up some audio or videotapes to help you grow.

Be the tortoise, not the hare. Slow but sure. Take your time, do it right. Keep going in the right direction. Learn your craft correctly. Don’t give up quality for speed. The whole idea of acceleration is this way: Slow start, work up to high speeds, go the distance. Luckily life isn’t a sprint but a marathon!

Hope these ideas help you as you commit to accelerating your abilities!

About the Author

Chris Widener is a popular speaker and writer as well as the President of Made for Success, a company helping individuals and organizations turn their potential into performance, succeed in every area of their lives and achieve their dreams.

January 17, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: self improvement  No Comments

Being Prosperous

Dr. Joseph Murphy, author of The Power of Your Subconscious Mind spent his life traveling, speaking, and writing about how to have harmony and success, peace and prosperity, and happiness and abundance in life.

“This is a universe of law and order,” Murphy said, “and there are principles and laws by which all of our experiences, conditions, and events take place. There is a definite law of cause and effect in everything. The science of getting rich is based on the law of belief. ‘If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.’ (Mark 9:23)

“The law of life is the law of belief. To believe is to sincerely accept something as true. Believe in the abundant life, the happy life, the successful life, and live in the joyous expectancy of the best, and invariably the best will come to you. It is the belief of man that makes the difference between wealth and poverty, between success and failure, and between health and sickness.

“It is the cosmic law that like thoughts always produce like effects; therefore, any person who boldly claims the riches of the Infinite will receive them.”

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Forget New Years Resolutions – They Don’t Work

by Vic Johnson

You can forget about making New Year’s Resolutions if you’re hoping for a successful outcome. Most aren’t worth the paper they’re written on.

No less than Mark Twain has written of New Year’s Resolutions, “Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink, and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.”

The biggest majority of New Year’s Resolutions have gone by the wayside before January is over and most won’t even be remembered six months later. And the reason is pretty simple: Most are made in response to something negative: a habit or situation that the person wants to change or end. And therein lies the problem – it’s hard to develop momentum from a negative response. It is always easier to move toward something rather than away from something.

Consider one of the most adopted resolutions, weight loss. No one can get excited about losing weight because it requires deprivation. It’s a negative response to concerns about appearance, health, etc. The results of weight loss resolutions demonstrate their weakness. A 1998 survey sponsored by Gardenburger found that more than three-fourths of all women between the ages of 25 and 54 make diet and weight-loss plans each year. Nearly nine of 10 respondents reported only occasional or no success, while almost half lost little or actually gained weight instead.

The people who succeed at losing weight and maintaining the loss have usually been motivated by a dream much bigger and more positive than just losing weight. They see themselves living a healthy lifestyle. They begin to act and think like people who are in good physical shape. There’s more of a radical change in a person’s thinking and actions than you see with most resolutions. It wouldn’t be possible to effect and sustain such a radical change unless the person is motivated by a big dream that is positive in nature.

Another popular aim is to quit smoking. And I can certainly relate to that; I was a three-pack-a-day smoker until I celebrated a smoke-free New Year’s twelve years ago. For over twenty years I had tried to quit many times using every tool and technique I heard about. But as long as I was trying to quit, I couldn’t break the grip.

Instead, I developed a dream to become a non-smoker. I fell in love with the idea of breathing clean air instead of smoky air, of my body and clothes smelling nice instead of smoky. I thought about how wonderful it would be to taste food again. I decided to start acting and thinking like a non-smoker, and when the thinking took hold I simply quit smoking. In all the years since, I’ve never wanted another cigarette, never even thought about wanting one.

If you’re going to make a New Year’s resolution this year, make one with a high probability for success. Make a resolution to develop a life plan. Most people are in a free-fall through life, careening from one crisis to the next. They wake up one day and 10, 20, 30 or more years have passed and they’re nowhere near where they thought or hoped they’d be. Working with a life plan you’re much more apt to be excited by what the future brings even if you succeed at attaining only a small part of your plan.

A life plan should address all areas of your life, including finances, health, relationships, career, spiritual and recreational. While a lot of our focus tends to be on financial issues like increasing income or decreasing debt, or health issues like losing weight or quitting smoking, the undeniable truth is that a life lived out of balance isn’t a life of quality at all.

If you were going to build a new house and you had this idea for a fabulous master bedroom suite, you wouldn’t rush out and start building the master bedroom. You’d have a complete plan before you started. When you approach resolutions and goals in the same manner, you end up with a much better chance of achieving success.

About the Author

Vic Johnson is a popular motivational speaker, author and Internet Infopreneur who has created some of the most visited personal development sites on the Web. He offers a free download of the classic James Allen’s As a Man Thinkest.

January 1, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: self improvement  No Comments