Earl Nightingale set forth success principals in audio media and on the radio. He taught the principals of The Science of Getting Rich and the law of attraction. Directline is another of his products.

Wikipedia has a good backgrounder on the law of attraction.

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Thomas Troward, who was a strong influence in the New Thought Movement, claimed that thought precedes physical form and that “the action of Mind plants that nucleus which, if allowed to grow undisturbed, will eventually attract to itself all the conditions necessary for its manifestation in outward visible form.”In 1906, William Walker Atkinson (1862–1932) used the phrase in his New Thought Movement book Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World, stating that “like attracts like.” The following year, Elizabeth Towne, the editor of The Nautilus Magazine, a Journal of New Thought, published Bruce MacLelland’s prosperity theology book Prosperity Through Thought Force,in which he summarized the principle, stating: “You are what you think, not what you think you are.”The book “The Science of Getting Rich” by Wallace D. Wattles espouses similar principles — that truly believing in the object of your desire and focusing onto it will lead to that object or goal being realized on the material plane (Wattles indicates in the Preface and later chapters of this book that his premise stems from the monistic Hindu view that God pervades everything and can deliver that which we focus on). In addition, the book also indicates that negative thinking will manifest negative results.

Richard Weiss explains in his book The American Myth of Success that during the New Thought movement, the “principle of “non-resistance” was a popular concept taught in conjunction with the law of attraction.

Do What You Love And You Attract Your Life Purpose. By applying the law of attraction you bring your life into harmony and will bring all good things into your life. We can learn more at Applying The Law Of Attraction Blog.

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Susan Boyle

Susan Boyle, more than two years after this post was published origionally on April 16th 2009, is alive and doing well. She has a new album out soon, Someone To Watch Over Me, that will be a new sensation.

Susan Boyle had a dream that she kept alive, she had a vision nurtured through the years and she acted on the dream in the face of impossible odds. Check this out:

I would argue that this is the law of attraction manifest in a big-big way. It is what Wallace Wattles writes about in The Science of Getting Rich, from Chapter 11 – Acting In The Certain Way:

By thought you can cause the gold in the hearts of the mountains to be impelled toward you; but it will not mine itself, refine itself, coin itself into double eagles, and come rolling along the roads seeking its way into your pocket.

Under the impelling power of the Supreme Spirit, men’s affairs will be so ordered that some one will be led to mine the gold for you; other men’s business transactions will be so directed that the gold will be brought toward you, and you must so arrange your own business affairs that you may be able to receive it when it comes to you. Your thought makes all things, animate and inanimate, work to bring you what you want; but your personal activity must be such that you can rightly receive what you want when it reaches you.

I can envision that Susan Boyle’s dream had something to do with “Britan’s Got Talent” becoming a successful program so that she could have the opportunity that she clearly deserves.

Can you believe that about The Law of Attraction? That “under the impelling power of the Supreme Spirit, men’s affairs will be so ordered…” that other peoples business transactions were directed such that “Britain’s Got Talent” came to be so Susan Boyle could give this great performance and achieve her dream. Can you believe that? Can you believe it for yourself?

The same could be said of an earlier performance by Paul Potts. The same thing, Potts had a dream…

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finding simple joy

The law of attraction hinges on your state of mind.  You need to be positive and forward thinking, but how do you get into that state?  Here are some simple ideas that will help you get into that place so you can move forward.

Do you find yourself often feeling tired, spent, or even exhausted? Maybe you feel challenged to find balance and contentment. Human lives can get very complicated sometimes. However, it’s possible to discover some of the simpler joys in life to soothe your soul. Simple pleasures are all around you. You just have to be alert to notice them.

Try these strategies to cultivate more joy in your everyday life:

1. Marvel, once again, about the clouds in the sky.

When was the last time you did this? When you were small, you probably laid on a blanket outdoors, staring up at the sky, looking for interesting shapes in the clouds. Why not do it now?

Invite your partner or your kids to go outside with you. Grab a blanket on your way out the door. Then, lay back in the soft grass. No radios or phones! Look up and lose yourself in the clouds. Be present in only this moment. No past – no future – there’s only now. Share what you see with your loved ones.

You’ve just found a very simple pleasure – one you can enjoy almost any time.

2. Watch a sunset.

Talk about a wondrous event! Sunsets vary each day. Like snowflakes, no two are exactly alike.

Watching the sunset can be an awesomely peaceful and quiet experience. Or it can be the cause for a celebration, whatever you choose. However you approach it, sunset watching is an effortless joy that won’t cost you a penny.

3. Re-discover nature.

No matter where you live, you can walk outdoors and see what’s there. Even in Brooklyn, a tree is probably growing near you.

Do you love birds? Get a pair of binoculars and sit outdoors on the porch step and watch the free show that only birds can present.

If you’re into horticulture, take a walk to admire all the lovely trees and plants you see.

For a real treat, drive to your local national park and take in all the bounty of simple pleasures that nature provides.

4. Revive your love of reading.

Whether you’re curling up on the sofa with a novel by your favorite author or sitting in the sun reading one of the classics, reading is a simple joy that you can do anytime you want.

5. Spend a day in your pajamas.

You know you want to!

After you’ve had one of those really hectic weeks where work and personal situations collided to produce a lot of tension, try setting aside a weekend day where you don’t even get dressed.

Spend the day lying around in your PJs. All day, do whatever you like. Talk with your kids or spend quality time with your partner. Maybe you just want to read. That’s okay, too! It’s your day, after all.

6. Make yourself a great cup of coffee, your favorite iced latte, or glass of tea and relax.

Sometimes, all you need to feel better is doing something simple: fix your favorite beverage and take five.

7. Decide to do whatever you want just for one hour today.

Life can seem so overwhelming sometimes that you may feel totally disconnected from the activities you love to do.

Whether you enjoy doing a particular craft or playing a sport for fun, make time to do what excites you.

Creating a life of harmony includes regularly seeking out simple pleasures. Very little money is required, so you can experience joy in your life every day. Make an effort to find your simple joys, and you can create the life you deserve.

Seek out the simple pleasures and bolster your opportuity with the law of attraction.  You will definately move your life forward.

I’ve started recording the next audio book to be poste on this site, it is Genevive Behrend’s Your Invisible Power.  This is a book that has been on the site for a while now in text form and I encourage you to check it out.

The book is, like the others on the site, all about the law of attraction.  Behrend goes into great detail on the power of visualization and it’s ability to form the things you desire to bring more joy into your life.  She writes:

…when your understanding grasps the power to visualize your heart’s desire and hold it with your will, it attracts to you all thins requisite to the fulfillment of that picture by the harmoniouss vibrations of the law of attraction.  You realize that since Order is Heaven’s first law, and visualization places things in their natural element, then it must be a heavenly thing go visualize.

Visualization was used by the Wright Brothers to bring the airplane into existence, Behrand gives examples of how all great leaps involve visualization.  These things demonstrate the triumph of an idea over precedent, that greater secrets may be unlocked.

Before the airplane the same laws and materials existed as now and yet no way to fly existed until it was first seen in minds eye and held there until it was brought into the world.

I don’t have a firm time of when the project will be complete, I recorded the first two of fifteen chapters tonight.  They still need editing… I’ve had a difficult time with the different use of language in her manuscript compared to today and this makes for more editing.  I think as I read in and become more conditioned to the flow that there will be less need for editing and the speed will increase.  Bottom line: I expect completion by the end of the second week of June.  But perhaps we’ll all be pleasantly surprised.

We are into the Memorial day weekend now and I hope that everyone has an amazing experience.  Something is coming to you by the law of attraction and you should be expecting it.  In the U.S. we celebrate the lives of those who fought to protect the United States and to preserve liberty.  Those men and women, many in their youth, who died to preserve what was once only a vision of “a shining city on the hill.”  Those words by John Winthrop were spoken in a sermon given on the pilgrim ship: Arebella.

The United States was a vision held in mind by Winthrop and many others, a vision that brought this country into being.  Only a thought – a thought turned into a great nation – a nation which has set Monday aside to honor those who have fought and died to preserve it.

The Law of Attraction: Getting Everything You Want Out of Life Through the Power of Your Own Mind. And Let Your Thoughts Determine Your Destiny

Imagine for a moment that you have in your possession a source of complete and total power. You alone can command the warmth of the sun, the fall of the rain, the turn of the tides and the direction of the winds. What would you do with this kind of power? Would you abuse it causing the world to fall into utter chaos? Would you be benevolent and merciful, using your power to help the people of your planet achieve their ultimate potential?

Unfortunately (or fortunately, as the case may be) there is no way for a person to have that much power. Mother Nature controls the planetary systems according to her own rules and her own designs. You will never be able to have utter control over the environment you are inhabiting.

What if you could, however, have the power to determine course of your own life? What if you could accomplish great things and acquire great riches just by using the power of your own mind? What if I told you that this does not have to be a “what if?” What if I told you that you possess in your psyche the power to chart the course of the rest of your life on whatever path you see fit?

Download it here.

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What if from the day you were born you learned programs that limit who you really are. What if: “most of your behavior is derived from programs that you received before you were six.”

What if it is possible to dissolve these programs? What if the greatest power in the universe can now reveal itself with in you?

If you want to hear about quantum physics and The Law of Attraction you’ll find it here – on steroids…

What If The Laws of Physics Don’t Apply When You Are Living In The Moment? What If? The Movie by James Sinclair buy it here

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What Does Tony Robbins Have In Common With Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and Dr. Denis Waitley?

Could it just be that Robbins, Peale, and Waitley are great motivators?  That would be too obvious, but you will figure out the answer shortly.

As A Man Thinketh haw a great message for everyone.  It was written by James Allen in 1902 and is based on his meditations on Proverbs 23:7.  Your mind is like a garden, it will bring forth.  If you cultivate it, it will produce good results, results that you want.  If you let anything grow then your results will be the same as if you let your garden grow – you will get weeds.

It is important that you cultivate your vital thoughts.  This is a law that is fixed you reap what you sew.  “As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.”  There is great insight to be gained from doing your own meditation on that verse.

Circumstances grow out of your thoughts, when you sincerely seek to remedy the problems in your character, which was produced by your thoughts, you will see a rapid improvement in your circumstances.  Right thinking draws you to a life of prosperity and achievement.  Keep your mind on the things you seek.  This is another statement of the law of attraction.  The book contains all the elements of the law and it’s study will help you advance in that study.

Allen talks of mental harmony where your mind and thoughts are not torn by competing ideas.  When we allow ideas to be planted by others, by media, then we are not being good gardeners and may even become share croppers with others controlling us by the messages we allowed them to implant.

Limiting beliefs plague everyman and as we cultivate our thoughts we need to examine these.  Beliefs can both protect us and hold us back.  That is why we must understand why we hold our beliefs and should we keep them..

Allen says: “A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.”  That is very clear and one of the main themes of the book. Our thoughts bring our environment and our environment becomes a looking glass into our minds.  If we cannot make ourselves do the things we think we should do then we need to look deeper in to what is being planted in our subconscious.  We have to cultivate the beliefs that will cause us to take action in the ways we want, in the ways that will benefit us.

The answer to the question about what Robbins has in common with Peale, and Waitley is that they were all greatly influenced by “As A Man Thinketh.”  Were you looking for a more profound answer?  Alright, they were all profoundly influenced by “As A Man Thinketh” as many thousands or millions have been.

Read and listen to “As A Man Thinketh” there is a free downloadable audio and ebook from the links on this site.

“As A Man Thinketh” James Allen is sometimes called “As A Man Thinks.”

Mar 21st 2009 Podcast

“The more you think about this law, the deeper you will see it goes. It literally hands you a blank check, signed by the Maker of Universal Law, and leaves you to fill in the amount—and the kind—of payment you want!” –Robert Collier

This morning I read a post on the Zen Habits blog (btw, a great blog) about the law of attraction: Why the Law of Attraction is Wrong, But Why It Still Works. The bottom line of the post is that the steps that the law of attraction spells out work but the law itself is wrong. If you state what you want, keep it in mind, and take action it works but, he says, the law of attraction is wrong. Well, OK.

But… those steps are the law of attraction plain and simple, no more, no less.

What the author is really taking issue with is all of the theory’s that have grown up around the law as to what is causing it to work – not the law. Confusion of the theory with the law. Let me say this: had confusion of the theory of electricity occurred with the electric light then maybe you would be sitting in the dark just as many who are trying to use the law of attraction may be. More on this later.

The big theory at the moment involves quantum physics and our thoughts actually affecting matter. And I say: “Interesting I like the idea of the theory, but who really knows?” Ultimately does it matter about a theory? The rules work, that is the law works so we use it.

Wallace Wattles in 1910 wrote The Science of Getting Rich. The book details the law of attraction, doesn’t even call it the law of attraction and yet every word tells you exactly what you should be doing to bring important changes to your life by attracting the things you want in.

How can you ever have something other than what everyone else has if you don’t know what it is? So you visualize it, you turn it round in your minds eye and begin to think about exactly how you want it. As you go through your day you allow the idea into mind to encourage you on but obviously you are working and you need your prime focus on the activities at hand.

These first steps will begin to activate subconscious thinking and according to Wattles and most LOA writers actually cause it’s formation (it doesn’t matter what you believe is causing the formation). The third part is the kicker. Ideas will begin to enter your consciousness about how to go about getting your thing — as you get them take action. That is what Wattles describes, those are the core ideas of the law of attraction, that is the law of attraction and every other writer has said so.

The problem is we fill up the pages with all sorts of reasons why things are the way they are to help others relate. It can distract from the main idea.

Here is the same thing again: a girl sees boy she likes and thinks about him. She has the vision and her mind begins to work, perhaps she gets ideas from friends on how to get him, maybe she reads a book, but her mind automatically starts gathering ideas…it’s how we humans work. She gets the idea that she should make her self as pretty as she can and begin to talk to him. So she primps, begins to smile at him, and says hi.

And there it is: vision, the action ideas come, action taken. If she doesn’t get that boy, another boy will find her because she is more attractive and it stemmed from the vision.

The law of attraction is basic, simple, we use it intuitively and yet we miss it for the big areas of our lives because so much crap gets in the way of our clear thinking and belief .

Break it down for yourself very simply and begin to believe. If a particular theory helps you believe then that theory is great, I consider theories more like analogy’s they help me understand but may or may not be the truth.

Merriam-Webster says that a theory is: a hypothesis assumed for the sake of argument or investigation b: an unproved assumption : conjecture c: a body of theorems presenting a concise systematic view of a subject.

So enjoy the discussion but don’t be put off anything by the theory behind it. Theories are just tools.

My background is in electronics. Electronics is built on theory and when I started learning – I had the worst trouble because all of the discussions of how circuits worked involved these long discussions of the theory behind it, very confusing. Later I learned to set the theory aside and just note what happens – do this and get this effect. When you apply voltage to a light bulb it comes on*. Do I really care about electrons (invisible particles that flow through solid matter) and the atomic theory of conductors and insulators? No, just give me cause and effect and maybe I’ll come back for the other stuff later. So it is with the law of attraction, just use it.

The steps that Wattles discussed, that Rhonda Byrne put into The Secret, that Ester Hicks channels with Abraham and reveals… All of these boil down to vision, idea formation, action. Just get it. Set the theory aside, set the part about getting a boost from the universe aside if you want … This stuff is part of you … it works … just get it, just use it.

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*Even Thomas Edison had things wrong about the most basic laws of electricity, he said current flowed from the positive terminal of a battery and through the circuit to the negative terminal. Now, “We Know,” (wink, wink) that the invisible electron current flow really goes from the negative terminal to the positive. Even if this is true, does it really matter to most people? It didn’t matter to Edison and he was the most successful inventor of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Do you think Edison practiced the law of attraction? Just read Think And Grow Rich.

Your dreams, do you know what they are or have they been completely washed away.  You had them once and you built them into a glorious castle and now, where are they?  Like building a sandcastle by the ocean, the opinions of others and the day to day things of life,  like the water of the ocean, taking a little bit of it each time the tide comes back.  Soon your dreams, like the sand castle, are leveled and you cannot tell where they were.   So what does the law of attraction and universal laws have to do with this?  Be patient – you are attracting the answer.

When you did have a dream, what was it? Was it a dream? Was there something you once wanted to do but you got the message from somewhere that you didn’t have the gas to get it done.  Still can you see even the faintest image of your dream?

Whatever it was take it out and turn it round and round in your mind. Dust it off and look at it from all sides. Polish it up. Just do this once a day for a week or two. You will begin to notice other ideas coming about it. Act on them. It doesn’t matter how small the ideas are or how small the actions but begin to act on them.

Every night as you fall asleep muse over this idea. If you are sedating yourself with TV to fall asleep stop, tune into your own channel and make this dream whatever you’d like it can become as big as you make it.

Now the crazy part, your dreams will become your reality if you start taking these small steps.

This process is based on the law of attraction and it is working in your life right now, perhaps you are just not attracting the things you want.  Look in the sidebar to the right for an audio book called “The Science of Getting Rich” and download it, it is free. This is not some screwball book but will help you get the things that you want in your life rather than just taking what shows up. Listen to it and keep listening to it until it becomes part of you, part of your thinking.  This is one of the best single sources on the universal laws ever written.

Live an inspired life – not a life of have-to or should’s. Live your life – yours – believe in yourself and in your dreams and the law of attraction and the universal laws will work for you.