Manifesting with the Law of Attraction

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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There’s a new fad sweeping the self-help field, including coaching. I guess its formal name is, “The law of attraction,” but it could equally well be called,

* “Your Get What You Wish For”
* “Your Thoughts Create the Universe”
* “Like Attracts Like”
* “You Are Responsible For Your Own Destiny”

And finally, it is “The Secret,” subject of the cult movie of the same name. Perhaps I’m oversimplifying, but it seems to go like this:

“The structure of the universe is much more fluid than we
have ever imagined – so much so that our very thoughts can
affect its flow. And since ‘like attracts like,’ negative
thoughts attract (cause) negative events, and positive
thoughts attract (cause) positive events. By thinking about
something with sufficient intensity, you change the universe
and cause it to happen – whether it is a good or bad
outcome. This ‘law of attraction’ is a fundamental law, on
the same level as Newton’s universal law of gravitation, or
Maxwell’s laws of electromagnetism, so it works always and
infallibly.”

If I’ve misstated the essence of the law, I invite some reader to correct me. Now, in this post I don’t want to go into the metaphysics of the law, or even whether it is true. You can read a long and bitter discussion of all these points in Skeptico’s blog. But I do want to talk about how some coaches are using it, because I’m becoming a little concerned.

Many coaches, including some friends for whom I have a great deal of respect, are fascinated by the law of attraction and are starting to use it in their coaching repertoire. Now I can see a positive and a negative way of using the law in coaching. The positive way would go something like this:

“If you really want your business to be successful, you have
to take it seriously and think about it and work at it all
the time. If you have a positive attitude and you hang
around with other successful business owners, you greatly
increase the chances that your business will be a success,
too.”

I’ve got no problem with this statement – it’s good coaching and it comes straight out of Norman Vincent Peale’s work. But everything in the statement can be explained by hard work, or by psychology, or by learning. If you pay constant attention to your business you are more likely to notice opportunities for success, and if you hang around with successful business owners, you will learn from them and will probably get some good contacts. But compare that formulation with this one:

“If you really want your business to be successful, all you
have to do is envision it as a success, and hold that vision
in front of you day and night. As you do that, you will
attract successful events and the universe will automatically
and infallibly alter its structure to make your business
success.”

I’m not making fun of anyone who believes this – truly I’m not; but I do believe deep in my heart that it’s bad coaching and that any coach who uses this approach is doing his client a disservice. The goal of coaching is taking action, and this advice tells the client just the opposite – that he can make his business successful without working hard, just by the power of his mind alone. No matter how much you, the coach believe this, it’s just bad coaching to lead your client in this direction.

So I’m not in the ultra-skeptical camp that condemns the law of attraction out of hand, but I do think that, if a coach is going to use it, then both the coach and the client need to be very careful to apply it in the right way, so that it leads the client to take effective actions to achieve his goals. If you’d like to follow up on this, there’s a thread in my blog where you can post notes – pro or con.

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