by Michael Griffin

Hope and faith are necessary parts of the law of attraction.

True hope is one of the most motivating emotions going for you.  I used the word emotions to describe hope, but there is more to hope than that.  Hope is a real thing not just an emotion.

Hope is not wishing, often people use the word that way but a true understanding and appreciation of the word will bring a power to you that you won’t otherwise have.  Often when people give up they say to themselves “I hope things will get better.”  Here “hope” is used synonymously with “wish.”  Wish carries no power behind it, hope on the other hand in it’s true sense does have power.  I am talking of using hope as a verb where it means to look forward to something with desire and reasonable confidence.

Why should you hope when there is no evidence?  This sounds almost like a subject for church, doesn’t it.  And when taught correctly in church, hope is an active and real force in your life.  Many churches fail to teach the power of such things as hope and faith and wind up putting them in the realm of wishes and fantasy.

Wallace Wattles use of hope and faith

We know that Wallace Wattles had a religious background and if you read The Science of Getting Rich you will see this.  But Wattles, correctly, recognizes that hope and faith are not just things for church but are active forces to use in your life.  In the same way that he doesn’t use the words “law of attraction,” he doesn’t push hope and faith and yet the precepts are there in every chapter.

Hope and Faith when used correctly are forces at work in everyone’s life, not just for those who are religious.  These are not religious terms.  Consider:

“That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust (Math 5:45 KJV).

Hope and Faith are the same, just like the sun and rain, they are forces in our lives that work for all, for the just and unjust (whatever you consider just and unjust to mean).

Wattles talks about holding your vision of the thing you want in the formless substance, to see it, to visualize it, to get your emotions into the visions.  This brings you into vibration with the thing (or desired outcome) and attracts it to you.  Your mind will collect data and at some point you will know what to do and then you should act.

This “Law of Attraction” is of the same stuff as described by a proper use of the terms “faith” and “hope.”

Hope, actively hope, and have faith – a calm assurance, that the things you are looking for, that you are holding in the unseen substance are yours and you have received them.  Soon they will catch up to you in the physical world.

Use hope and faith everyday in your life by seeing the things inside that you are creating outside in your world.

The Walmart Effect

Walmart’s success affects the country and the entire world.  Walmart has put many things within the reach of all of us but it’s operation has sent ripples around the world – changing the way business is run, causing us to look at how imported products are made and asking ourselves if we should care?

Love or hate Walmart there is no question that Sam Walton’s success story has affected everyone.  Have a look, consider what it means to you, and leave a comment.

Other Walmart Stories From Around The Web

Wal-Mart Responds To My Sustainability Questions

For this one, only time can tell. I’ll do my best to keep my eye on the progress of the index. I certainly hope it turns out to be a success. If everything works out the way Wal-Mart hopes, it sounds like it could be great.

Wal-Mart Hints At Future ‘Green Rating’ Labeling For Products

Though Wal-Mart has had quantitative success at lowering its stores’ operational energy consumption since embracing its new self-imposed ‘sustainability measures’, the company’s overall carbon footprint continues to grow due to it’s massive size

Wal-Mart Foundation Awards $3 Million for Youth With Disabilities

The Arc of the United States in Silver Spring, Maryland, has announced a $3 million grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation to establish a nationwide initiative designed to improve outcomes for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities

Could Walmart taste success in India

Could Walmart taste success in India. Posted by Praveen at 7:21 AM . Thursday, June 11, 2009. Labels: general. Wal-mart Inc.,the World’s largest retailer has opened it’s first store in India.

Gun Woo – Sam Walton and Walmart

 This looks like a school project, Gun Woo has captured the key points in Walmarts history-great job.

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
– John Lennon

The law of attraction tells us to focus and visualize – this causes idea creation and we take action — but what happens then?  Here are some answers from Wikipedia:

In 1886, 28-year-old David H. McConnell, who sold books door-to-door, gave out perfume to entice women to buy his books. (The perfume became more popular than the books, so he started the company that became Avon)

The William Wrigley Jr. Company was founded on April 1, 1891 originally selling products such as soap and baking powder. In 1892, William Wrigley, Jr., the company’s founder, began offering chewing gum with each can of baking powder. The chewing gum eventually became more popular than the baking powder itself and Wrigley’s reoriented the company to produce the popular chewing gum.

Henry Ford starts the Cadillac Automobile Company by mistake: With the help of C. Harold Wills, Ford designed, built, and successfully raced a twenty six horsepower automobile in October 1901. With this success, Murphy and other stockholders in the Detroit Automobile Company formed the Henry Ford Company on November 30, 1901, with Ford as chief engineer.^[10] However, Murphy brought in Henry M. Leland as a consultant. As a result, Ford left the company bearing his name in 1902. With Ford gone, Murphy renamed the company the Cadillac Automobile Company.

The bottom line here is things don’t always go the way you suppose.  What’s the problem?  Go with it…   Dale Carnegie said, “when life hands you a lemon, make lemonade.” That’s what they did in these cases and you can do the same.  Look at the results you are getting in whatever it is you are doing and figure out what it means.

For McConnell the books weren’t working but he purfume was; for Wrigley it was the gum; for Henry Ford’s partners in the first Ford Motor Company it was not Henry Ford – but they created the Cadillac Company – in the same enterprise things weren’t right for Ford and he moved on, started another company and yet another auto giant.

Although life will change things around on you – keep moving forward looking for the good.

What can we learn when areas of the brain are injured?

Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples.

Ramachandran is the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego, and an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute. He is the author of Phantoms in the Brain, the basis for a Nova special, and A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness; his next book, due out in January 2008, is called The Man with the Phantom Twin: Adventures in the Neuroscience of the Human Brain.

Always reframe and view rejection as a learning, a honing experience. It is said that Colonel Sanders was turned down (rejected) over 1000 times before he got his first franchisee for Kentucky Fried Chicken. All the while he was traveling around, sometimes sleeping in his car all on the strength of a recipie he belived in.

Rejection doesn’t mean the rejector is right in rejecting you. Look at all those 999 who didn’t take the opportunity that made the Colonel and the Colonel’s number 1000th call rich men. So it’s right don’t take it personally – it may be bad judgement on the rejector’s part.

Thomas Edison failed 10,000 times at making a viable light bulb. At last the bulb lit and lasted and Edison gave a great gift to the world. Rejection and failure are actually two sides to the same coin.

Both of these men had belief that got them past the hard places. You must develop a vision that lets you continue to take action in the face of rejection.

Sales trainers always talk about statistics for sales calls. After a little time you might learn that you make 10 calls and make one sale. In this case each turn down should be viewed not as a rejection but as another step toward the sale.

These kinds of ideas apply to everything in your life. Sometimes you just have to get out there and keep going. Many give up after one or two tries at something new, but that is not how life works, stick to it.

“Peace, be still!”

Serenity

The result of applying the principles of As A Man Thinketh. Of recognizing that your thoughts are the creators of your world. James Allen writes:

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the
result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is
an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary
knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.

The things that you think about are what you become. If you think empowering thoughts, if you see the result that you want, then not only will you have achieved but you will gain serenity. Allen in As A Man Thinketh echo’s many of the same ideas that Wallace Wattles expressed in The Science of Getting Rich. The idea of thoughts controlling your experience in the world is a common theme in the books. These two books go together in putting your mind and actions in harmony with the law of attraction.

Earl Nightingale expressed it as: “you become what you think about all day long.” Earl has a wonderful presentation called “The Greatest Secret” that also picks up the theme and echo’s Allen’s words. Earl talks about the heard mentality that exists whereby we do the same things we see the other guy do. At the end of it all we have passed through life but haven’t really contributed to it. We grow old watching TV after a hard day at work. Not much to show for 80 or so years of life.

So in what way should we turn, James Allen says it all comes down to your thinking. Examine your life and think about what you want to accomplish. Really examine it. Remember what Socrates said, “An unexamined life is not worth living.” Examine your life and it’s trajectory. Perhaps you want to pick a new target, start visualizing that target and being grateful that you have already hit it.

The belief that it is already done will give you confidence to take the action you need to take and lead you to the serenity that Allen writes about in chapter seven. He ends the chapter with the words of Jesus, “Peace Be Still.” Words to keep in mind when the storms of life hit. Words that Jesus used to still the waters, words that have been handed down to you still energized with power. Serenity is yours: “Peace Be Still!”