How to understand the law of attraction.

Understanding the Law of Attraction

The law of attraction is a powerful concept that can help you radically change your life, but learning how to apply it and actually attract your desires can be challenging.

There is a lot of conflicting advice out there, some of which can be downright misleading.  Here is an easy way to get exactly what you want in life by applying this universal law.

The law of attraction is about two things: Your perspective and your objective.

Your Perspective
Your perspective is the way that you look at the world around you, it is about your experience. But here is a funny thing about your perspective – it can change. More importantly, YOU can change it to suit your needs. You see, no two people have the same experience, even if they walk side by side down a street. One person may notice one thing and the other may notice something entirely different.

What you see depends upon many things – your mood, your interests, what has been going on around you and in your life recently, even the opinions of your friends and family… lots of things affect the way you look at the world.

One of the basic building blocks of the law of attraction is that you must change your perspective, you must change the way that you look at the world, so that what you see matches what you want. This isn’t as hard as it sounds. What it means is that you have to stop looking at all the things standing between where you are now and where you want to be, and start looking at the opportunities

The key thing to remember here is that your perspective is flexible and can change.

Your Objective
Your objective is the thing that you want, or your desires. You have to be really, really specific about what you want in order to get the results that will bring you there.  If you have fuzzy goals, you will get fuzzy results. You also have to be clear about the reasons ‘why’ you want to achieve each particular goal on your list.

Be sure that you want your goals for yourself and not to please someone else. Your true attraction power or manifesting ability lies in your passion to change your life. The more passionate you are, the better. Nothing dilutes your ability to attract things into your life more than going after a goal that you don’t really want.

Getting What You Want
Master these two things, your perspective and your objective, and your life will change. If you are clear about them, you will begin to understand the law of attraction and how it will help you get exactly what you want in your life.

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The law of attraction is a two-way street!

You don’t have to look far to see a perfect example of how the law of attraction works – all you need to do is to take a look around your life right now!

When you do, you will see exactly what you have been manifesting up to this point. The good, the bad, and the ugly.

If you are anything like I was, you are quick to take the credit for manifesting the ‘good’ stuff in your life, and you are probably just as quick to avoid taking responsibility for those parts of your life that you don’t like.

This is a deadly trap, and one that snares a lot of people who begin applying the law of attraction in their lives. The truth is that the law of attraction is a two-way street. You create everything in your life by placing and holding your attention upon it. When you get good results you are happy and accept the fact that you created this result. But when you get results that are less than good, or less than you expected, you are unhappy, and you allow your ego to step in and take control for a moment. You tell yourself, “This couldn’t be because of something I did, it must be the fault of ______.” And you blame something outside of yourself.

Now, it is true that sometimes things happen out there in the world that seem beyond your control, but even when that is the case, it is your reaction to that event that either allows you to grow or to remain stuck. In either case you attract what you focus on.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that the law of attraction is only about getting good results. It is not. It is only about getting results. Period.

In the town called DESIRE, YOU determine the results you get by deciding which side of the law of attraction street you want to walk down. You can choose one side and walk toward all those things you want to create and manifest in your life… or you can walk down the other side and stay focused on your problems and keep blaming the world for your hardships… and keep manifesting more of the same.

Me? I will be on the side heading toward my dreams, only I won’t be walking, I’ll be running!

Which side of the law of attraction street will you choose?

Peace,

Bob Crawford
Your Success Coach,
and creator of Growing Your SELF!

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Are you ready to apply the law of attraction?

Want to know the secret of the law of attraction?

Of course you do! We all love secrets. We love the mystery, we love the thrill of having information that not everyone else has. It makes us feel special. It makes us feel like we are tapped into a special group of people who are somehow different… or even better than everyone else.

If you have seen or read The Secret, you might have noticed the claim that this secret knowledge of the law of attraction has been kept secret for hundreds of years and that only a select few have been allowed to access powerful way to manifest your desires.

Nothing could be further from the truth!

When it comes to success and the law of attraction, the truth is that there really is no ‘secret’. There is no hidden knowledge.

The keys to success, the keys to understanding and applying these ideas have always been here just waiting for you to step up and take advantage of them.

Transforming your life requires two things:

1. Knowledge of how to change

2. Action that initiates the change you want

If you are struggling in any area of your life, this is your solution. Learn how to change and then take action and start making the change.

Learning How to Change

This is the easy part because so much information about the law of attraction is readily available today, just waiting for you to grab it. The bookstores are full of it. The web is overflowing with it. If information was all it took to create the life of your dreams, the world would be full of happy people.

But information alone is not enough!

I’ve found that the problem is seldom that clients don’t have enough information… usually it is quite the opposite, they have so much information that they don’t know where to start. They suffer from overload. They are so worried about the process that they get distracted from their original goals.

Has this ever happened to you?

Success will come when you release your need to master some secret technique and instead focus on the actions that will move you toward your desired outcome. Once you forget about trying to become ‘good’ at the law of attraction, or becoming good at manifesting, once you let go…

… that’s when the magic happens. That is when you will see your reality beginning to align with your desires.

It’s a process, and the process only works when you leave it alone. Remember, a watched pot never boils!

Peace,

Bob Crawford
Your Success Coach,
and creator of Growing Your SELF!

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Happy Sunday! Here is your Sunday morning law of attraction video. I recently stumbled across this wonderful video featuring Marianne Williamson and just knew that I had to share it with you.

Truly, this is the path that we all seek to be on. To be open to the wonders of life around us, to be in the flow, to be part of the creation process.

It starts each morning. Each morning you have a choice. You can either choose to let yesterday’s garbage ruin any possibilities that today might bring…

or you can choose to start your day fresh, energized, and ready to move forward on the path you have chosen…

The choice is yours!

Each day brings you a new opportunity to have a GREAT DAY. You simply have to decide to take advantage of it.

It is easy to feel like the choice is not yours to make, that all these terrible things are going on in your life, but the truth is that all that stuff can only effect you to the degree that you allow it to.

Just as a primary lesson in the law of attraction is to learn to allow your desires to come into your life, you also have to learn to NOT allow yesterday’s garbage to stink up today.

You see, you choose what to allow into your life through your attention and your focus. How you react to what happens around you sets the tone for your day.

As Marianne says in this video:

“If you are involved in a deeper inquiry, if you are involved in a more reflective life, if you are involved in prayer and meditation and serious spiritual seeking, that stuff just recedes. Its there, its there to dance with and to have fun with, but its not there to make you suffer.”

Here’s to dancing and having fun!

Peace,

Bob Crawford
Your Success Coach,
and creator of Growing Your SELF!

p.s. Creating your day with the law of attraction is one of the core lessons that we cover in the Inner Circle of Success.  The Inner Circle is our members-only self improvement study group and we’d love to have you join us!

It's not magic! Learn how to create your day the law of attraction way.

Creating your day.  The law of attraction promises us the ability to literally do just that… to change the very fabric of our day, to have a BETTER DAY.

I was thinking about this concept today, as I was out running some errands. I was driving along in my car, half listening to a wonderful course from Bill Harris, half daydreaming, when I realized the fundamental problem most people have when they talk about creating their day.

They simply don’t have better days. At least not enough of them.

In their mind, they envision each day to be full of love and happiness and balloons and candlelit dinners and mailboxes full of fat checks…

…but the reality is that even after trying, REALLY TRYING to use all these wonderful techniques that they learn about from law of attraction books and teachers, even after meditating and getting centered and aligned and who knows what else…

They STILL have bad days.

So they blame the law of attraction or they blame the teacher, or they blame God or the universe.

But that doesn’t help either and soon they find themselves right back in the same mess they started with.

Here is the solution:

Creating your day, regardless of your beliefs about the law of attraction, is NOT about having everything go your way all the time, about the universe lining up to bring you desire after desire after desire. About day after day of bliss and happiness.

Creating your day IS about you learning to control your reactions to the events of your day. Because it is never the events that give you a hard time, it is always your reaction to events in your life that cause you to struggle.

The more control you take over your reactions the better you will be able to guide yourself into taking productive actions that actually help you move forward.

Enlightened people don’t have less problems than you. They have the same things happen to them as you do. They just look at those ‘problems’ in a different light. They react in a different way.

In every situation there is a way of thinking and acting that empowers you and helps you grow.

Your job is to find it and embrace it!

It will happen as soon as you stop TRYING to have a good day and simply decide that you will have a good day, in spite of whatever comes up.

Sometimes you need to pause and step back to see what is really going on. Sometimes you need an outside viewpoint, like a trusted friend or a mentor, to help you see the truth of your problems.

In either case, as soon as you are able to change the way you are looking at your problems and your ‘bad’ days, the sooner you will be able to transform them into ‘good’ days!

You don’t have to be a law of attraction expert to learn to create your day, you just have to be willing to change!

Peace,

Bob Crawford
Your Success Coach,
and creator of Growing Your SELF!

p.s. Creating your day with the law of attraction is one of the core lessons that we cover in the Inner Circle of Success.  The Inner Circle is our members-only self improvement study group and we’d love to have you join us!

Law of attraction key: Stop counting and start living!

In the last post, I shared a law of attraction video from Michael Losier, who talked about setting goals with the law of attraction. One of the things he said struck a chord with me, and with several readers as well. He said we tend to ‘keep score’, which distracts us from our original desire.

This is important. If you are busy keeping score, if you are always counting to see how close to your goal you are, then guess what?

You are slowing your own progress because you are no longer focused on your goal. Now you are focused on that area of lack that exists where your goal will eventually go.

As with most things related to the law of attraction, this seems to be a paradox, it seems to be an impossible task.

But the letting go of your desires so that they can manifest is, in fact, a natural way to live. It is much more stressful to be constantly checking to see if you have those ten new clients that you want, than it is to simply move towards those new clients isn’t it?

When an author sits down to write a 1,000 word article or a 50,000 word book, he or she doesn’t count each word along the way. Sure, they might check once in a while, but not all the time. If they did, they wouldn’t get any writing done. And they don’t just stop writing the instant that they hit 1,000 or 50,000 words either, the story they are telling may flow beyond those limits.

How often in your life have you found success when you stopped counting, stopped keeping score, and just focused on doing the thing that moves you forward? A lot I bet!

It happens to us all. The difficulty comes because we like keeping score, we like knowing just how far we have left. But when you keep your attention on the gap between your desires and your reality, the gap only grows bigger.

Let go of your dreams and live as if they are already real!

Peace,

Bob Crawford
Your Success Coach,
and creator of Growing Your SELF!

There are many pieces to the law of attraction puzzle, but none as critical to your manifesting success than inspired action.  In this video I shot last year I talk about the importance of taking inspired action:

Are you taking inspired action? Or are you just busy taking action? There is a big difference between the two, and there is also a big difference in the results that you will get in life.

Inspired action always comes from within. It can be subtle, but it is always there. It is your inner voice whispering to you, urging you to take a certain action.

Let me ask you this, how many times have you ignored your inner voice and later regretted it?

More than you’d care to admit?

Well, that can change, right now!

It’s just a matter of learning to listen to your SELF.

Most of the time, (if not all of the time,) you know the answer to your problem. You know what to do next. You know in your heart the right path to take.

But you are not acting from your inner self, you are acting from your conscious mind, complete with all your fears and doubts and worries. Maybe you are looking for solutions outside yourself, maybe you are stuck in the blame game, maybe you are torn between conflicting desires.

Those are all things I’ve written about before.

The solution is always the same.

Get clear about your desires and take inspired action.

Once you have decided on a dream, your inner self goes to work. It looks for ways to bring you to your dream. It looks for opportunity, it looks for connections, it looks for the shortest path to your dream.

Then it tells you what it finds. Your inner self actually tells you how to reach your dream. It tells you the steps that you need to take, it tells you where to go, what to do, who to talk to.

The problem is that you don’t listen.

So, let’s change that!

Here are some simple ways to begin taking inspired action:

1. Starting today, commit to paying attention to your inner voice. Promise your SELF that you will listen, that you will take action when the time is right.
2. Meditate. Meditation is a great way to gain control over your focus, which will allow you to hear your inner voice more clearly.
3. Write it down! When you get a great idea or an inspired plan, write it down! Many times your best ideas come when you are busy doing something else, and by the time you are done, you have forgotten your brilliant idea.
4. Believe in yourself.  Believe in YOU. Believe that you will always act in the best possible manner.

That’s all it takes to start benefiting from your inner strength and wisdom, a belief in yourself and a commitment to listen to your SELF.

And don’t waste time worrying about all those times in the past that you didn’t listen to your inner voice. Forgive yourself, love yourself, and move on! The law of attraction proves that if you focus on your past mistakes you will only create more of them.

Focus instead on your dream, and take the inspired action that your inner self guides you toward.

Peace,

Bob Crawford
Your Success Coach,
and creator of Growing Your SELF!

p.s. One inspired action that you can take right now that will have a tremendous impact on your life is to join the Inner Circle of Success, our members-only self improvement study group. It’s a great resource that can provide you the support that you need as you journey toward the life that you desire!

How to attract love - does the law of attraction help?

Here is a question that I hear a lot:  How can I attract love using the law of attraction? Is there a secret?

How to attract love into your life, or how to improve the relationships that you already have, are among the most frequently asked questions surrounding the law of attraction. It’s a question that many people have on their mind. I frequently get emails and online messages about how to attract love, and people post questions about love and the law of attraction in forums all the time.

Why? Because your relationships have a profound effect on many other areas of your life, and the quality of your relationships is often a reflection of the quality of your success at manifesting your desires in those other areas.

In other words, if you are struggling with love or with your relationships, you are probably experiencing struggle in other areas of your life as well.

One of the keys to a happy, peaceful life is staying balanced, and when your love life is out of kilter, everything else seems ‘not right’ too.

So how do you attract love? Do you just think about love?

Well, yes… and no…

First, as with anything else that you are trying to manifest or create in your life, you have to be crystal clear about what it is that you want. This is doubly essential when it comes to love or your relationships.

You have to look behind the idea of ‘love’ and understand what love really means to you. Love is a very lofty term, and we throw it around in all kinds of different situations, but we assign different levels of meaning to it in each of those situations. My ‘love’ for my mother is quite different from my ‘love’ for my daughter, which is also very different from my ‘love’ for my wife.

What does love mean to you?

A more important question to ask yourself when trying to apply the principles of the law of attraction in your life would be, how would your ideal partner make you feel? Secure? Comfortable? Empowered? Loved? Proud? You have to know what roles and feelings your partner is expected to fulfill.

So understanding what type of love you are trying to attract is the first step.

The next step to attracting love is where many of us struggle. We have to take a good honest look at ourselves and see if we are the type of person that someone with the qualities we are looking for would find attractive. And I’m not just talking just about the physical here. Are you attractive on the inside?

Are you the type of person that can allow a partner to share in your life? Are you the type of person that can receive those things that you desire from them?

Ask yourself what you can do to make yourself more likely to attract the kind of person you are seeking. Then listen to your heart and begin to make some changes in yourself. Clean up your act and step it up a notch.

Become a better quality person and you will attract a better quality person.

That’s the essence of the law of attraction and love.

Peace,

Bob Crawford
Your Success Coach,
and creator of Growing Your SELF!

p.s. Creating great relationships can be one of the most frustrating aspects of manifesting, but it doesn’t have to be. At its core it is no different than anything else. YOU can have great relationships right now, YOU can attract the love you desire!

How NOT to succeed... it's easier than you think!

You might be surprised, but it turns out that it the law of attraction works no matter which direction you decide to point your life in. In fact, as you may have discovered, it is just as easy to attract mediocrity and failure into your life, as it is to attract abundance and success.

There is really no difference!

So, with that in mind, I wrote a short little list for those of you who are tired of struggling to reach your desires and are ready to crawl back into the warmth and safety of your comfort zone.

The following ten tips are guaranteed to help keep success away, and every single tip has been recommended by leading experts in the fields of failure and disappointment.

10 Ways to Make Sure Your Life Does NOT Get Better

1. Buy self help books… but don’t ever read them.
2. Read self help books… but don’t try any of the ideas that you read about.
3. Spend a lot of time talking about changing your life… but don’t ever make changes.
4. Spend hours and hours creating wonderful sounding affirmations… but don’t ever look at them again.
5. Use lots of cool words and phrases like, “I wish…”, or “Someday…”,
6. Procrastinate. A lot.
7. Be jealous and/or suspicious of everyone else’s good fortune.
8. Hang out with other people who share your desire to NOT be successful.
9. Learn to quit. Then do it often. Especially when it gets tough.

and finally…

10. Learn to use the ultimate power phrase, guaranteed to keep success out of your life… “I CAN’T!”

Take these simple ideas to heart and I promise you that you will soon find yourself back where you started, before you ever heard of those nasty words, “Self Improvement”. In no time at all you will be back in your comfort zone, where your dreams are just that… just dreams!

OR…

You could do the exact opposite of each of these ten ideas and actually begin achieving your goals and dreams.

The choice is yours.

The law of attraction is always at work, and you are always moving toward those things that you choose to focus on.

Whichever direction you aim your focus in, that is the direction you will ultimately move in.

So, you get to decide – will you choose to remain in your old familiar comfort zone?

Or will you venture out onto the new, and sometimes unknown road to success?

Aim for your dreams… and you WILL achieve them.

Peace,

Bob Crawford
Your Success Coach,
and creator of Growing Your SELF!
p.s. Although this post is meant to amusing, the ten things I mention here are real problem areas for many people. Go back and read this list again and see how many of these things strike a chord in you. Which of them have you been guilty of doing in your own life? Go ahead and share your thoughts below:

The law of attraction should really be called the law of creation because the truth is that you create much more than you attract. This short Sunday morning law of attraction video talks about this crucial difference.

If you are struggling, if you are trying so very hard to attract all those things you want into your life, if you feel ready to give up on your dreams and throw in the towel… STOP!

The key to successfully manifesting your desires is to approach things from a mindset of creating rather than attracting. You are not a magnet, so stop trying to be one! Magnets are mindless, and have only one ability. You, on the other hand, are a powerful manifesting being who is capable of creating just about anything you desire.

Once you stop trying to attract your desires you will free yourself from your struggle. Attracting implies waiting for something outside yourself to come to you. How long have you been waiting already? Forget that! Instead, focus on taking action, on moving yourself towards what you want, on creating the opportunities that you need.

You’ll see the difference in your results almost immediately!

Peace,

Bob Crawford
Your Success Coach,
and creator of Growing Your SELF!

p.s. You will find many great ways to supercharge your manifesting ability in my free law of attraction report. Be sure to grab your totally free copy of the ultimate manifesting ebook, available  at http://www.freelawofattractionreport.com

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