On Success and the "Law of Attraction"
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So, if you're not enjoying much success (let's define "success" here as making boatloads of money), the law of attraction says it's because you've been thinking contrary thoughts. (Yeah, it's all your fault you're not Warren Buffett.) And if you just change your thinking, everything will be all better. (This is the time in the presentation where the guru hawks his book to you.)
Now don't get me wrong. It's not that I think that there isn't any truth to the notion of our responsibility when it comes to our own success or lack thereof. Of course, we are responsible. And what's going on in our heads / minds (positive or negative) does contribute or detract. No question. It can be explained as simply as the difference between a frown and a smile. (Which person would attract you?)
But if we really had the power to think things into existence, what would keep the bad guy from thinking everybody out of existence?
And ~ maybe it's just me ~ but you see, I've been thinking, thinking and thinking some more (while biting down hard on my lip and furrowing my brow) for that big, bright and fiery, yellow ball up in the sky (see picture) to not come up one morning.
And you know what? It worked. I'm not kidding. It happened last winter. (Yes, it did.) It was cold. It was rainy. It was spitting snow. (Spit, spit, spit.) It was a cloudy, overcast and devoid of sunshine, dismal day. (Isn't that close enough?)
No, success doesn't come via some PollyAnnish, choo choo train, "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can." (But it's important to think right. I've already said that. And I like "The Little Train That Could." Please, no hate emails.).
Instead, success comes through the age long and accepted actions that most often can (and many times do) lead to success: Hard work, not giving up when the going gets tough, selflessness (versus selfishness), being responsible (versus expecting a hand out), honesty, integrity, etc. ~ you know the drill(?).
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2 Comments:
I enjoyed the read. I think, however, that the guys who are peddling the extreme side of this are indeed wrong (ie just think whatever and it will come) but I have to say in my years of research and studying highly successful people and cultures like the Jewish culture they simply think differently than others who achieve less. There is no way around this. It is true that a thought may not magnitise a person but a thought will direct them. Jews make up 2% of the US population and yet they, depending on the year, represent 1/4 of the Forbes 400 richest. Why? They think differently about business, commerce and money, and yes they work very hard and they love the value of education. With that said they have attracted success, as I have watched it take me from the inner city to achieving my life dreams, though not all, by changing my thoughts. I have Old friends stuck and when I get around them they still have the same stinking thinking.
Good post - as far as business writers go, Dan Kennedy's book on attracting wealth is decidedly practical and responsibility based instead of "metaphysical". It's a nice change. Go giver is fairly good too though one might say it's laws are mostly restatements of Jesus "Golden Rule".
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