Law of Attraction and Manifesting Your Desires

Have you ever had something happen in your life that, at first glance, looked like a terrible misfortune but looking back you see that it was actually a valuable experience, which taught you something you needed to know? Sometimes, events that look difficult at the moment turn out to give us inspiration or new direction and focus.

A fable that I read many years ago sums up my point perfectly:
A farmer had a horse but one day, the horse ran away and so the farmer and his son had to plow their fields themselves. Their neighbors said, “Oh, what bad luck that your horse ran away!” But the farmer replied, “Bad luck, good luck, who knows?”

The next week, the horse returned to the farm, bringing a herd of wild horses with him. “What wonderful luck!” cried the neighbors, but the farmer responded, “Good luck, bad luck, who knows?”
Then, the farmer’s son was thrown as he tried to ride one of the wild horses, and he broke his leg. “Ah, such bad luck,” sympathized the neighbors. Once again, the farmer responded, “Bad luck, good luck, who knows?”

A short time later, the ruler of the country recruited all young men to join his army for battle. The son, with his broken leg, was left at home. “What good luck that your son was not forced into battle!” celebrated the neighbors. And the farmer remarked, “Good luck, bad luck, who knows?”

In my own life, as a teenager and into my early twenties, I got into drugs and alcohol and ended up broke, literally homeless, and in trouble with the law. I had no hopes, dreams or sense of direction in my life. I was as lost as anyone can be, at a crossroads, and in tremendous pain. I felt that there had to be something better than this. So I decided to choose something better for myself.

(Notice that I did not know what to choose, but I knew what I did not want, which was my first step.)
I had to stop drinking and drugging, get a job, and look for a way out, which wasn’t easy for a 22-year old. Boy, did I feel sorry for myself.

Looking back nearly 30 years later, what seemed like the end of the world was actually the beginning of a new world, which I might never have found had I not crashed and burned at such a young age. At 48 years old, I now live a life I never could have even imagined when I was 22.

Finding Opportunities within Challenges

This morning, I was talking with a dear friend who has just been diagnosed with cancer for the third time. She shared with me that both previous times she underwent diagnosis and treatment for cancer, she learned incredible lessons along the way. While she would not wish this on herself or for anyone, she can recognize the gifts her journey has brought to her.
She went on to say that after the shock of the news that the cancer had reoccurred, she had a realization.

While she doesn’t know if this third episode will be “her time” or not, realized that, either way, she needs to address some unfinished business with two of her children. While she would ordinarily prefer to avoid this issue, she now feels she must deal with it. Through her terrible news, once again, comes the urgency and courage to face her toughest issues head on. She has decided to be honest with her children and share what she knows in her heart needs to be said.

Successful people share with me, over and over, similar stories about some perceived terrible event like a divorce or illness or loss that changed the entire course of their lives dramatically. Yet that change may also have brought them to a place that is indescribably better than they could ever have imagined. Had those supposedly terrible experiences not happened, they might not have found the resolve to make other changes happen along the way.

I am not suggesting that there are no such things as tragedies or losses. What I am saying is that loss and pain can be just one aspect of a difficult experience; positives can result from making meaningful experiences out of our challenges. For example, one mother who lost her child to a drunk driver formed Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD), an organization that has saved many lives. Helen Keller used a lack of sight or hearing to teach the rest of us important lessons about living. Nelson Mandela spent half his life in prison trying to bring peace to South Africa yet emerged from his prison cell to lead his country as its first post-apartheid president.

The next time you perceive something as really bad, try also to look for the gifts in disguise. It’s all in the way you look at it.

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Each of us has the power to choose which path to follow as we go through life. There are always forks in the road that try to derail us and take us on paths that lead to nowhere. What are the effects of a positive attitude on which path to choose?

We decide everyday which path to take - the path that will lead us to the things we want and desire or the path that takes us to the valley of negativism. Challenges and obstacles occur everyday, it is how we choose to look at them and what we learn from them that determine where the path takes us. Wouldn’t you want the effects of a positive attitude to bring you health, happiness, fulfillment and abundance?

A positive mindset helps us navigate the negative thoughts, circumstances and negative people that cross our paths on a daily basis. We have the power to greet the world with enthusiastic energy or feelings of dread or defeat. A positive mindset helps you to enjoy life and every possibility, negativity affords us an excuse for failure, reasons why we fail to achieve.

The effects of a positive attitude are prevelant throughout our daily lives.
Choice is the difference between operating your life through passion with a positive mindset or living with a negative demeanor. A person with a positive mindset feels that they have control of their future success. Negative thinking people feel that other people are in control of their future.

Choosing to be grateful for the challenges that come your way is a great way to approach those obstacles. Ask youself, “What can I learn from this?” rather than always focusing on the challenge itself. When you focus on something, good or bad, you get more of it.

Let me explain the effects of a positive attitude through an example. Have you ever been around someone that good things just seem to happen to? How many time have you thought to yourself that they are just “lucky” and the good luck seems to follow them. Do you know someone like this?

Now think about someone that always seems to have bad luck and bad things just “tend” to happen to them. For example, they turn 16 years old and they get in a car accident the day they get their driver’s license. Or they are walking on the street and a car passes by them and splashes them with a muddy puddle, staining their clothing. Or a bird flies overhead and….well, you get the picture.

Do you ever wonder why some people just seem to have good things happen to them and some people seem to have bad things happen? Don’t attribute it to luck, there really is no such thing. The effects of a positive attitude can be seen through these examples. The person who has good things happen to them focuses on good things happening to them, resulting in more good things. The person that has bad things happen to them is always thinking about the next bad thing. So it shouldn’t be a surprise when those bad things continue to happen. How can you foster the effects of a positive attitude?

The effects of a positive attitude start today. Plant the seed every day and see what comes of it by taking action on the following:

Where ever you are look for positive people to mingle with or befriend - surround yourself with other positive thinkers
Read motivational/inspirational material that generate positive emotions for you
Make a conscious effort to focus and reflect upon the positive value you learned that day
Interact with others in a positive manner
Make a list of goals and objectives
You are as you think

You will soon see that the effects of a positive attitude reap more benefits than could ever be imagined. We start out as children with no fears, and without accepting no as the answer to anything. We never gave up to learn how to roll over, sit up or walk. Babies just keep trying until they can do it because they see us doing it, they know they can achieve it. Somewhere along the way we are conditioned to not have the same belief in ourselves, and we lose focus of what potential we each hold. The effects of a positive attitude are boundless and without limits.

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Jeri Atleson has been a successful internet entrepreneur for 3 years. She has a passion for learning and mentoring others to achieve their financial goals. To learn more about Jeri and how she may be able to help you achieve your financial success online with a free coaching session, visit her website at atleson.legitimatebusinessfromhome.net/index.html.

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Your intuition is part of you. It is a part of you which wants to help you, which looks out for you, gives you good advice and works to ensure you avoid mistakes.

Sounds too good to be true? If it really did all those things, how come you aren’t listening to it?

Because the plain truth is many, many people work hard at ignoring their intuition and stumble along without it as best they can.

There would have to be pretty good reasons for not listening to something that useful, wouldn’t there? So let’s see how good those reasons really are.

1 It’s not proven scientifically.

Correct. Intuition has not been located in a lab. But the plain fact is that it works. There’s a hundred and one stories of it working. if you want to wait for a paper to be published which says what millions of people already know, then good luck and happy waiting. But who knows what you’re missing out on in the
meantime?

2. It’s too vague to be of any use.

Well, it might seem like that, if you want answers in black and white. Definite answers don’t always happen. Sometimes they do. But often they just need to be listened to carefully so that you get a feel for what’s right. If you want stronger answers, you have to listen more often so you get to know what your intuition really sounds like. It’s like arguing that you don’t want to
learn to read because there are lots of times when spelling is difficult and that everything should be spelt one way only. You’d miss out on an awful lot of information if you did that.

3 I’d look stupid if I trusted it and it let me down.

Now this one says what other people think is more important than living your own life. Not a good reason for not listening to your intuition. And anyway, if you listen correctly, it won’t let you down. Ever.

4. I don’t know what my intuition really is.

This is a simple one. Your intuition is the part of you that wants to help you. That’s all you need to know. Think of it as a very close friend who always tells you the truth.

5.It might make me do something I don’t want to do.

This is another way of saying, “I don’t want to change my life, even if it’s not going exactly as I want it to”. If your intuition is telling you to do something you think is a huge change or difficult or looks potentially risky, then listen
even more carefully!! If it’s that big, it’s going to be interesting to say the least. And no life should be lived entirely in safety. Life is to be lived! Intuition-driven changes are the really exciting moments in your life!!

6. I like being in control of my life.

If you really think you are in total control of your life, think again. You are at the mercy of your boss, your firm, your government, the economy, disease, other people. The list is endless. If you trust your intuition, you will get a smoother ride through life, and then you really will feel you are in control, not just kidding yourself.

7. I prefer to think things through properly.

There’s always room and time to think things through. But if that’s all you ever do, then you’re missing out on a whole lot of information your rational brain can never access. Get the intuitive hit first; then do the thinking. If you study the lives of great men and women, you’ll find they were never afraid to
listen to their intuition.

8.It only applies to small, insignificant things in my life.

It might seem that way if you are afraid to truly listen to it. If you only get told small, insignificant things, you’re probably living a small life. Not the life you could live. If all it tells you is which movie to watch, the good news is that you are listening!! Now try listening to what else it tells you about
your life. And be prepared to follow it!!

9. It’s too unreliable.

Again, you are at least listening to your intuition. That’s good! If you think it’s unreliable it’s probably because you want really strong, definite messages or you are afraid to follow up and do what the hunch said. Either way, relax! Let your intuition guide you. Note the word ‘guide’. Intuition does not ‘lead you by the hand’, but allows you to go at your pace to the goal. That way, you’ll find it to be far more reliable than you could imagine!

10. Like tarot cards and tea leaf readings, it’s just a fraud.

Of course there are always going to be people out there pretending to read tarot cards or tea leaves or any other method of fortune telling. But you miss the point. If it really didn’t work, no one would waste time and effort trying to convince you that it does. How do you think genuine fortune tellers work? It’s
not magic, but there is an awful lot of intuition in what they do. You probably know someone who either reads cards or visits such a person. Ask them about it. It is a wonderful way to enrich your life, add a new dimension and depth to it. And it could lead you to some truly wonderful times in your life. You have nothing to lose by listening to your intuition and everything to gain.

Conclusion

You can probably see that by following your intuition, by listening to your heart, by following your hunch, however you want to call it, you can have a better life. More satisfying, with fewer pitfalls and obstacles. What could be wrong with that?

So why aren’t you listening more?

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