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.

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