Simply put Law of Attraction is just

1. Ask
2. Believe and
3. Receive

Understanding the Law of Attraction in theory is very simple.  All of us subconsciously know and believe in the Law.  It’s been preached to us through centuries by gurus who have also doubled as life skill teachers.  The hard part is to comprehend and apply the law of attraction to one’s own life.  It seems then that the universe is conspiring to put road blocks in the way.

The trick to make the law of attraction work for you is to know and control your emotions.  The Law of Attraction is based on subjective reality. In simple words, the basic premise is that for you, the world mirrors exactly what you are inside yourself.

Consider this … if you are angry, that is exactly what you will get.  If you are feeling helpless and broke, the universe is not going to listen to your fervent prayers for money.  It will send you back more of that helplessness and poverty. The smart thing to do is gain control over thoughts and emotions.  Then you can actually make this law work for you.

Let me explain ….
Every student of the Law of Attraction is looking for abundance. But if you, for instance, have been brought up to believe that rich people are bad and unscrupulous or that you are an ordinary middle class person, you need to change that way of thinking.

Practical Application

How to Get Out the Loop:

1. Understand your emotions
2. Gain control over those negative feelings.

This is the most important step to making the Law of Attraction work for you.

Life will immediately become better as you replace “upset” with “happy”.

Rather than wishing for money, you need to do whatever you can to feel as if you already have it.  I understand that this can be hard to do when your bank statement tells you that you’re currently broke, but it can be done.

For example, don’t just say to yourself that you’d like a nice suit, imagine that you own it right now.  Find a picture of a suit that you like, and picture it being in your closet.  See yourself putting it on and looking in the mirror – don’t you look good in it?  Make sure that you focus on specific details: button the buttons, put your hands in the pockets, adjust your tie (and check to see if your fly is open).

Here are some more things you might try in order to make your visualizations as real as possible:

• Go to an auto dealership and test-drive the car of your dreams.
• Go to an expensive restaurant.  Look through the menu and consider ordering the steak and lobster, but then decide that you’re pretty full and that you’ll just get a dessert.
• Call a real estate agent and have them show you an expensive home.  Walk through it, and imagine yourself watching television in the living room, playing pool in the game room, and lounging in the whirlpool while you drink a glass of wine.

I think you get my point.  Do whatever you can to feel wealthy at this moment – now!  You’ll then be more in tune with having money and the things that money can buy.  This will be the vibration that you send out into the universe, and this will be what the universe will deliver to you.

My answer is no…and yes.

The reason why I say that is because I want to make sure that people have an understanding of the basic principles of the law of attraction.

The Law Of Attraction, though it’s somewhat of an esoteric type of teaching, it is an active law, meaning there is some activity (action) that is required to “activate” the law.

Unlike the law of gravity that is more of a passive type law, meaning you don’t really have to do anything to take advantage of the law of gravity. You can just sit there, you won’t magically start floating away. You just sit there and you are impacted by the law of gravity. The law of attraction isn’t the same

Though your thoughts may not seem to be a physical action, thinking is something that is “active” in the whole scheme of things.

You do have to actively desire something for that thing to show up for you. Additionally, once something shows up in your life, you have to receive it…and receiving is an active process. It’s an activity.

Hypothetically, if you are trying to use the law of attraction to win the lottery, you still have to go down to the store…buy the ticket, fill it out, then concentrate and focus on winning that lottery. And even if you won you still have to physically go down to the lottery office to claim your prize.

The law of attraction is an active type law.

I’ve said on multiple occasions, just looking at the word ‘attraction’, if you took out the word ‘action’, all you’re left with is ‘attr’ which means nothing, which is what you get if you don’t actively pursue the things you do desire.

Now, what does this have to do with losing weight or fixing your credit? Why did I answer the question initially no and yes? Because yes, you can use the law of attraction, but only as a “mechanism” to attract the things necessary to facilitate you losing weight.

What I mean by that is this: if you want to lose weight, and you think about losing weight, you visualize losing weight, you concentrate on and put time your thoughts and beliefs on losing weight, then what will happen (through the law of attraction) is you will begin to attract the information, the resources, the people, the tools and the necessary things to help facilitate you losing weight.

I do NOT believe that by just visualizing losing weight, the weight will just start melting away.
I do not believe that if you wanted to fix your credit, you can just think about your credit going up and then magically your credit score goes up.

I think what happens is when you focus on your credit being improved, you may find that there is some company that overlooked something that you paid off, that was not showing up on your report, and for some reason you didn’t see it before. Even if it’s not something that you DID…maybe focusing on improving your credit may initiate the process of some other company saying “Hey, we made a mistake on your credit report. We’re going to switch this and it’s going to improve your score”

So, do I feel that you can just sit there think about losing weight, think about winning the lottery, think about improving your credit or something of that nature and it just magically happens? No. I

really don’t believe that because the law of attraction is not a magic genie in a bottle. It’s a natural law that has specific conditions to actually work. This is not to say that the law of attraction does not work, it is mainly to say that the law of attraction is not a magic trick. It’s a principle that works through the avenues that it does in a natural environment that we live in.

Practical Application
Don’t expect things to just ‘happen’. Everything requires some type of action. Even if its merely desiring what you want and allowing it to come into your life – these are still actions!

When opportunity comes to you in the form of coincidences, you have to act on them to create the things you desire. You have to take advantage of the “coincidences” when you attract them.

Does this sound familiar?

“I can’t buy that eBook, I need the money to pay the electric bill…”

“I can’t find someone to be in a relationship with, I just don’t have the time to look”

“Sure that business coach could really help me get my new business off the ground, but I can’t afford to pay him because my car payment is due”

If you’re hoarding every dime you make so you can have enough to pay the bills…you’re probably getting just that- just enough to pay the bills. But this is the poverty mentality and this is the exact attitude that is going to keep you in “poverty”, keep you from becoming successful. It’s the Law of Attraction – in action. You get what you constantly focus on.

When you’re pinching pennies every where you go. You going to get more of that.
You absolutely must break out of the poverty mentality line of thinking. Stop focusing on what you don’t have and don’t want and focus on what you do have and on what you want in life.

One thing I find with people who have this mindset, usually are too scared to invest in their future….which is one of things that keeps them in the same place. People who are successful in any area are always investing in themselves to continue their education.
Invest both your time and finances in the things that will get you want you want – like investment/business books, seminars, coaching. I’m not implying that you should spend, spend, spend on everything and get yourself into debt. But like I said in the How To Easily Create The Millionaire Mindset post, spend like a millionaire and the millions will come.

This is what will get the energy of money flowing to you.

And when people try to pull you back into the poverty mentality, RUN….run like your life depended on it….

Because it does

Okay this week I was supposed to make $4.   I made $3.55.  Not great, but not bad.   I’m not sure why I didn’t get my $4.  But it’s still progress.

I’m going to focus on what I need to do to make $8 next week.

Keep track of my progress here:  Attracting Wealth: Double A Dollar

I was going through some old MS Excel files while doing some reorganization and I ran across a file named “double_a_penny”. I opened it and I was pleasantly surprised to see a chart I did about 10 years ago that calculated the amount of money you’d have by doubling a penny every day.

It’s a pretty neat concept, in that by day 30, you’d have over 5 million dollars. It went something like this…

DAY 1 $0.01
DAY 2 $0.02
DAY 3 $0.04
DAY 4 $0.08
DAY 5 $0.16
DAY 6 $0.32
DAY 7 $0.64
DAY 8 $1.28
DAY 9 $2.56
.
.
.
DAY 25 $167,772.16
DAY 26 $335,544.32
DAY 27 $671,088.64
DAY 28 $1,342,177.28
DAY 29 $2,684,354.56
DAY 30 $5,368,709.12

I used this in my financial seminars to explain the concept of compounding. If you would like a copy of this just email me at doubleapenny {a t} antoniothornton.com (obviously, just replace {a t} with the @ symbol)
Anyway,

As I was sitting there, a really funky idea hit me….

What if I did the same thing for my new business..but just on a bigger scale.

What if I focused on making 1 single dollar this week;

then focused on making $2 dollars next week;

then $4; then $8; then $16…

By week 12 (only 3 short months from now) I’d be earning $2,000 per week ($2,048.00 to be exact) from this new venture.
That’s not bad.

Well, just one month later…If i continued the doubling, at week 16, I’d be at $32,768.00 – PER WEEK! That’s about $130K per month.

Now here’s the interesting part…as you know, last October I made $100K in a week. Which, at that time, was the most money I’d made in that amount of time.

The tricky part to this in week 18, the income is $131K per week. Now, this may seem like a lot of money…and it is. But there are people I know personally who are making this amount of income week-in and week-out. BUT, the truth is…

I don’t believe I can make that amount of money consistently.

So guess what? I won’t. The Law Of Attraction states that you’ll only attract to you what you believe you will. Beliefs are what create your thoughts, your feelings, your words, your actions, and ultimately, your reality. So you can only achieve what you believe…and admittedly, I don’t believe I can earn $130K per week right now.

But let’s jump back to week 16 – The $32K week.

I’ve made $32K per week before so, I can feasibly wrap my brain around making that kind of income.

But here’s the funny part. What if I did this entire process and got stuck at $32K per week?

Would that be such a horrible thing? Would it be terribly disappointing to earn almost $130K per month from a new business venture after 4 months?

So, here we are…Jan 4th, 2007. I just checked my stats and I’ve earned $.41 this week. So I’m a little under halfway there to making my dollar for the week.

I’m going to do a couple of things to make my other $.59 for this week, then focus on $2 next week. Then $4 the next week. Up to my $32K per week in April.
I think this will be fun.

Anyone want to join me?

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