The excitement around “The Secret” is waning, because people are finding that just chanting “I love money and money loves me” doesn’t do anything. They’re all disillusioned because something magical and mystical is supposed to happen if you just will it into being. These people have missed the whole point.
When you decide what you want, and put energy toward it, you’ve just started the process. You’re creating a mindset that makes the dream possible. It is now up to you to act accordingly. That means, when you recognize the opportunities that arise, you need to do something with them. It’s not that the opportunities wouldn’t be there if you hadn’t “put energy to it”, it’s that by determining what you want, and staying on task, you will now recognize those opportunities for what they are.
It’s not about sitting back and waiting.
I talk to some people who say, “Wow, I said I wanted X, and now, look, here is the opportunity to get it!” Like they willed it into existence. It’s more practical than that. Say, for example, you want to move somewhere else. You have a particular place in mind. So, you start looking for houses there, start reading the want ads. You find a couple of houses there BECAUSE you’re putting action to your affirmation. You find an amazing dream job to apply for, BECAUSE you put action into looking for that job. You get offerred the job BECAUSE you spent years building up your resume, connecting with the right people, and because you put yourself in a position to find it.
Had you not wanted to move to that area, you wouldn’t have found that dream job there. It’s almost too simple for some people to understand. It’s about making an affirmation, putting your soul into it, and taking action to see it through.
While I’m at it, here’s another thing to chew on.
It occurred to me tonight as I was deep in thought (after registering for Trump University) that if you say, “If I had a ton of money, I wouldn’t change anything.” Or, “I wouldn’t do anything different.” You know what that means to me? You don’t really want the money, or you don’t really need it. In order to get money, you need to create space for money to grow, and a reason for it to be there. So, something HAS to change. The next time you’re thinking about attracting wealth, think about what it will do for you. What opportunities it will bring. How your life will change. Then it has a purpose for being. And you’ll have a reason to do what you need to do to get it.
