The Truth About the Law of Attraction
The following chapter is from Street Smarts: 101 Short Stories, Essays, and Insights to Improve Communication Skills
When I used to hear about the law of attraction, I thought it was a bunch of crap.
You visualize something, work towards it & you will attract it?
That just sounds like hard work to me.
‘When did your perspective regarding the topic change?’
When I noticed its effects.
A few years ago, I was at a stage where I was starting an athletics wardrobe company.
It was a drop shipping company that I was investing a lot of my energy in.
Around that time, my engineering job had built a walkway behind our building where the workers could walk around to unwind & get active.
Every day, I began to walk around that pathway while listening to hype music that made me feel. Every time I was walking on that path, I was imagining a bunch of cool thoughts.
My thoughts were rarely about my athletics company.
Rather, it was about public speaking.
I was on stage with hundreds of people watching me, and they were intrigued by what I was saying.
Day in & day out, my mind defaulted to these thoughts during the walks.
Eventually, I came to a point where I realized that public speaking may be calling my name.
So, I decided to start the ArmaniTalks Twitter page as a hobby. Plus, I was going through a tough time in my life. This would be a great creative outlet in addition to it being a hobby!
However, during that time, my gut ended up telling me that this page was going to be much bigger than a hobby.
I tweeted every day for 2 weeks straight & racked up a stunning 3 followers.
Seemed like no one really cared about public speaking.
But oh well, I knew that this was just for fun.
For some strange reason, I still had this feeling that this page was going to be bigger.
3 weeks into tweeting every day, I told my friend that I would eventually have to make a choice. I would either have to invest my time towards my athletics company or ArmaniTalks.
I had to choose.
He looked at me like I was crazy.
‘Bro, you have 8 followers on your Twitter page. What makes you want to leave your athletics business for that?’
He had a point.
I had nothing to show for my work.
But deep inside, I had faith that something was going to happen.
Guess what?
In a few weeks, the faith had served its purpose.
One night, I turned down a party to do some writing.
That was the same night an account that went by the name, WesternMastery, found one of my tweets & decided to give me a shout-out.
Overnight, I got my big break & racked up 200 new followers.
This led me to producing 10 times more & within 3 months, I racked up 4,000 followers from all around the planet.
‘Did you ever end up speaking in front of the audience of hundreds of people from your visualizations?’
Yes, multiple times.
Why do I tell you all of this?
It’s to get you to think correctly about the law of attraction.
In my case, it really felt like the universe was bending its will to make things become a reality.
- I visualized it.
- I allocated my energy toward this direction.
- I manifested.
That’s the blueprint for the law of attraction.
However, understand that for a thought to form into a belief, there should be a passion for the action. Even if you don’t have a passion now, you can later. To develop passion, the mind needs a WHY.
The WHY shouldn’t be solely tied to material possession.
Otherwise, the mind cannot perceive the bigger picture.
Honest truth?
I started the athletics company solely for the money.
I love sports, but I had no passion whatsoever for sports clothing.
My desire was towards speaking & storytelling.
It was my hobby that I would do for fun.
What are you trying to manifest?
Are you taking consistent action towards it??
Or are you just visualizing and then taking a nap???
The journey is the car.
Visualization is the destination.
And you are the driver.
It’s dope if you know the destination, but without clicking the accelerator, the car is not moving.
So press the accelerator.
Take a few wrong turns.
Learn how to take the right turns after discovering what the wrong turns were.
One day, the destination will be reached.
Then the vision becomes bigger.
Now the mind has another destination.
And another.
And another.
And another.
That’s the journey bud.
If you can see it, and the body is capable, then you can achieve it.
Shatter limiting beliefs & use the imagination to paint your destiny.
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