By Michael Griffin

“1 in 8 get help at food banks, 14 million kids among hungry.” This is one of the headlines in USA Today as I write this article. The story goes on to say that “…poverty and hardship are rising.” How can this be?

The law of attraction swept the country in 2006, by 2007 the movie “The Secret” and the book that inspired it “The Science of Getting Rich,” pervaded the Internet and even showed up in stores like Walmart. Yet, in 2008 the U.S. and the world entered the biggest recession that the last several generations have ever known. Many who thought they were practicing “The Secret” and the law of attraction were disenchanted. It was supposed to be easy – just hold the good thoughts. What happened, how can this be?

We got the wrong idea, that’s what happened. Sure you have to hold the good thought but the law of attraction is also about action. It’s not just wish and it is mine. Rather it is a cycle that you set in motion starting with your thoughts:

1. visualize an outcome – see the result
2. take note of the ideas that come to mind
3. see the world in the context of this vision
4. notice new things, create a mindset that appreciates things rather than discounts them
5. add in these things to your vision and let the vision morph
6. take action in anyway that you can on these ideas and on your vision
7. repeat morning and night every day

Instead of this process that feeds itself and requires you to get off your ass – many took the approach of the James Thurber character: Walter Mitty.

In “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” Thurber chronicles a life of dreaming and moving from one thing to the next, not stopping long enough to do something concrete toward any of the things that Mitty wanted to do. It was simply escapism and daydreaming, nothing more that self-deception and a diversion from a boring life.

The law of attraction is meant to lead you into a dynamic life of doing, not wishing. For doing to be effective there must be a plan behind it, hence the visualization and the feedback of ideas and things you discover in the world back into your vision. How could so many miss the most central idea in “The Science of Getting Rich?”

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it.

This is far from wishful thinking and far from a Walter Mitty kind of existence. Yet many, whether they saw “The Secret” or not, whether they have read “The Science of Getting Rich” or not, have tried some wishful thinking and nothing happened after a few days or a few weeks. Then they conclude that there is nothing to it, nothing to the law of attraction.

1 in 8 get help from the food banks, that is a sad reflection of the state of our country. You can be part of the solution, set the law of attraction cycle into action in your life.

Learn to prosper no matter what shape the economy is in. You can use the law of attraction and “The Science of Getting Rich” as your own secret weapons and your key to success.

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By Michael Griffin

Jan 9th 2009 Podcast

How To Your thoughts create and control your circumstances

Can you see yourself a year from now, walking on the beach – the beautiful blue ocean out before you. The water is so clear you can see the fishes, small ones, larger ones, and some big ones. It is a wonderful day, perhaps you’ll take a swim later but now you are just taking it all in. You are here because a year ago you got some ideas and you immediately took action and put them to work in your business, in your life — now you are here on the beach on a perfect day.

Do you get that?

Thoughts + action taken = results

This is the underlying theme of “As A Man Thinketh.”

What kinds of thoughts is your mind churning out? It probably depends on what has gone into your head. Are you hearing how business is bad and no one has a chance. Perhaps you heard it on the news or even from some marketer who wants to use scare tactics and have you believe that his product is the only way out of your business dilemma.

The fact is the human mind is the most powerful goal seeking system on the planet. A question properly phrased, an instruction to find the answer, and the understanding and underlying belief that the result will come. In the case of the news and the marketer, information was planted in you mind by someone other than yourself. In the case of the marketer he had in mind actions that he would like you to take. In the case of the news report, perhaps a reporters bias of the facts, or a government agency, or something that is just wrong, has skewed the report causing confusion and inaction.

You have to take control of the information that feeds your mind. You have to examine what has gone into your mind that is driving the decisions you are taking today and that those decisions are driving your tomorrow.

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad
thoughts and actions can never produce good results. This is but
saying that nothing can come from corn but corn, nothing from
nettles but nettles. Men understand this law in the natural world,
and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral
world (though its operation there is just as simple and
undeviating), and they, therefore, do not co-operate with it.

Could your thoughts bring such great results to your life?

Allen says:

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours; that which it
loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its
cherished aspirations; it falls to the level of its unchastened
desires,–and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives
its own.

A person must come to a decision about his life that he (he or she) is responsible for it. At that point he must begin to examine his thoughts and recognize the powerful goal seeking system that is his mind. He must look at the beliefs that would have him not make that extra sales call, or watch three or four hours of TV instead of looking for ways to produce the income that will give him the perfect days at the beach, that will insure his future.

TV wasn’t a part of the picture when Allen wrote As A Man Thinketh but there have always been plenty of ways to ‘sew nettles’ in the fertile field of the mind. The point is what beliefs are running your mind and therefore your life that would cause you to spend so much time in a way that will cause you to be only a very ordinary person? Earl Nightingale discusses this very issue, he calls it “The Strangest Secret.”

How They Laughed When I Said – my thoughts create and control my circumstances

What is it that you want to do that you’ve had on the back-burner so long that you hardly think of it at all anymore? Perhaps you bought a course quietly, to study in private, so people wouldn’t see you reach for the stars? So people wouldn’t laugh? Where did that thought – that people will laugh – come from? Is it your thought or is it just one of those thoughts generally held that keep people mindlessly doing the same thing as everyone else and causing them to trail down the road of life one-after-the-other like cattle to the slaughter?

New Thought Will Help You Put the law of attraction to work in your life, bringing you the things you want rather than what society has for normal people.

Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at
the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions
of his life.

If you direct your mind – if you tell it to seek the things that you want by holding a clear and definite picture of the outcome you want, then it will begin to target that result and not the results that people all around you are getting.

Nature helps every man to the gratification of the thoughts, which
he most encourages, and opportunities are presented which will most
speedily bring to the surface both the good and evil thoughts.

Remember that your mind is a powerful goal seeking system. Unless you want to wind up somewhere else – you need to take over what goes into it yourself, you need to be the programmer. Allen has also, without saying so, introduced the law of attraction into the mix. This is a step beyond the simple cause and effect relationship that we spoke about in part 1 of this post and have continued until now. “Nature helps every man” and from the previous quote: “rapid transformation.” These are acknowledgments of the larger force at work as we have been discussing in Wallace Wattles “The Science of Getting Rich.” We will develop the idea more as we examine the later chapters of the book but will not focus too much on it for now.

The Effect of Thought on Circumstance – As A Man Thinketh – This is the message, take charge of your thoughts and you will take charge of your life.

Next time we’ll pick up with chapter 3 of James Allen’s “As A Man Thinketh.”