Do You Know What You Want?

I'm serious. Do you know what you want?

Energy flows where attention goes and results show.

What do you focus your attention on? What you want, or what you don't want?

One of the laws of the mind is that the mind cannot process a negative. If you focus on "I don't want all these debts", you're focusing your attention on debt. It doesn't matter that you don't want it. The mind doesn't process negatives. What you resist persists. Since your focus in on debt, you get more debt. If you find this confusing, go listen to the teleseminar recording of "Awaken Your Mind Power". It explains the 3 fundamental laws of the mind.

To get what you want, focus on what you want. Push what you don't want out of your mind. Instead of thinking, "I don't want anymore debt", think "I'm grateful I make more than enough money to meet my needs".

What you want wants you. The first time heard that statement, I thought, "Yeah, right. If it wants me, where is it? Why isn't it here?"

In retrospect, I find that if I wanted something badly enough, eventually an opportunity is presented to me. I dare say 70% of what I want, I've achieved. I'm still working on the other 30%.

The other thing I noticed is that things happened when I'm ready for it. If what I want isn't appearing, it's because there is something I need to learn, something that needs to happen to help me grow so that I'd be ready to receive it.

So don't worry or give up if what you want is not happening. The setbacks and so called "failures" are a way of preparing you for it. Never ever give up.

In Chapter 4 of "The 11 Forgotten Laws", Bob Proctor and Mary Morrissey talk about how to attract what we want. Here's an important principle:

"The principle involved is that you cannot long or yearn for anything unless it already exists, if not in form, then in substance, and desire is the motive power for calling it forth into visible appearance or physical effect."

Isn't that powerful? Whatever it is we want is already there. We just need to figure out how to manifest it in our life.

Another important thing to remember when deciding what you want is to not concern yourself with how it's going to happen. Once you focus your attention and energy on what you want, the way to achieve it will be shown to you. Maybe you'll be introduced to someone, or maybe you'll be presented with an opportunity. How it's going to happen is not your concern. The path will appear in due time.

Stop Begging! Start Manifesting

Do you remember that first spark of hope you felt when you watched "The Secret"? I clearly remember the desire that filled my heart, knowing that - Yes, I can make my dreams come true - FINALLY!

But how many of you soon saw that hope dwindle into frustration? How many of you (and be honest now) started muttering things like:

• "It seems to work for other people, but I just can’t get it right."
  
  

• "I’m frustrated that sometimes I can get it to work, but sometimes I can’t. What’s the trick?"
  
  

• "Why am I having so much trouble?"
  
  

• "I think the universe is against me."
  
  

• "I’m trying very, VERY hard but still nothing is happening!"
  

Don’t worry, you’re not alone. About 97% of people also couldn’t make the Law of Attraction work for them the first time round. Think about it, just like anything else, you have to practice many times before you see success. A child doesn’t learn to walk without falling over a couple of times, right?

But in practice, everything is easier said and done. When you’re frustrated, it’s hard to stay positive. And it’s especially harder to stay positive when the evidence all around you is screams negativity like the unstable economy or senseless acts of violence such as those recently seen in Mumbai.

And do you know what happens when you fail to stay positive? That’s right - you start attracting negative things in to your life.

So how can you make the Law of Attraction work for you - without getting frustrated? How do those who successfully implement the Law of Attraction do it with such confidence and finesse?

Well, here’s three quick tips so you will never feel frustrated or tired of begging from the universe, because you know how to start manifesting like a pro.

1. Allow Yourself To Receive

Just like a lost child who approaches a police officer and asks, "Excuse me Sir, can you tell me how to go to the post office? Can you? Can you? Can you? Can you? Can you?" Well, if the child goes on and on asking, the police officer can’t even give an answer, right?

Well, it’s the same thing with your mind. If the only thing your mind is doing is transmit, transmit, transmit, the universe - which is trying to respond - can’t give you a single thing because you’re not allowing yourself to receive!

So, have the confidence in yourself and stop exhausting yourself by running around person to person begging for riches, and then wondering why nobody is dropping a penny in your cup (Hint: It’s because you’re running away too fast for them before they can even reach for their wallets).

Just think of your desires and leave it out there, go away, and trust that your cup will be filled with gold coins (or whatever it is you asked for) when the time is right.

2. Be Patient With Yourself

Receiving takes time.

Sadly, many people give up just a couple of steps before the finish line because they’ve decided that if it’s not working by now, it’s never going to work at all. Worse still are those who throw in more and more energy because they think that with more resources, the results will come faster.

This is like expecting 9 mothers to conceive and deliver a baby in 1 month. You also can’t bake cookies in half the time by doubling the temperature. You’ll incinerate those cookies to ashes!

In simple terms: Everything in this world has a natural development time, and this fact will not change no matter what resources you throw at it.

So relax and be patient. Remember that you too, as part of the universe, are also governed by the laws of the universe, and you cannot change the natural development time.

If you remember this, you will less likely work yourself up into frustration, or worse, push yourself into a downward spiral of negativity.

3. Support and Educate Yourself

Like the child who is learning how to walk, you need support. You also need to guidance on how to do it, and also the role models to look up to.

Many people give up because they think that "The Secret" is the "be all and end all" solution. Well, it’s NOT. "The Secret" is just a small portion. It was never intended, and has never been, the whole answer.

Coming to the conclusion that the Law of Attraction doesn’t work when all you ever did to educate yourself was watch "The Secret" 19 times (without looking at changing the habits of other areas of your life) is like coming to the conclusion that exercising is not an effective way to lose weight because all you did is run on the treadmill for 2 hours a day (but you’re still stuffing yourself with fried foods and cheesecakes).

So seek and be hungry for new knowledge. Also, make an effort to be amongst people or communities where you can support each other, learn from each other and also share new knowledge that you have found.

While the Law of Attraction is not an overnight delivery service, it will indeed deliver, if you do your part too!

Check out The 11 Forgotten Laws website.

What Fruits Do You Want in 2009?

Get a piece of paper and a pen. Draw a big tree with 7 branches. Draws fruits hanging from the branches.

The tree represents you. Each branch represents an aspect of your life. The fruits represent the results you want to see in your life.

Label each branch as follows:

• Financial
  
• Health
  
• Family
  
• Social
  
• Spiritual
  
• Personal Development
  
• Contribution
  

In order for you to get what you want, firstly you have to ask. Be specific about what you want in 2009. Then identify what you need to do to achieve them.

To help you do so, for each branch, ask the following questions:

1. What fruits do I want?
   
2. Who do I need to connect to so that I can have the what?
   
3. When do I want it to happen?
   
4. How am I going to do it?
   
5. Why do I want this?
   

I've done it for my financial and family branches. Two down, five more to go. :-)

Why Hasn't It Happened?

"To live is the rarest thing in the world.
Most people exist, that is all."
-Oscar Wilde

I received an email from a reader who asked me if the law of attraction really works. She had been depressed for a while and often imagines herself dying of a terminal disease. If law of attraction is a real thing, why is she still alive?

I honestly don't know the answer to that question. As far as law of attraction is concerned, I can only speak of it in terms my personal experience. Does it work for me? It certainly has.

I knew that if I wanted to change my life, something has to change. I have to learn new things, move out of my comfort zone, and find the courage to do what I've never done before.

After watching the movie "The Secret" and reflecting on my life, everything that happened (and didn't happen) suddenly made sense. I suddenly understood the reason for my successes and failures. I understood why I underachieved when I could have done better.

I wrote in a previous post that thinking and wishing is not enough to change your life. The first step is deciding what you want. The next step is taking small, baby steps each day that will get you closer to your goal. Wishful thinking alone is not going to get you there. Many people want to be a millionaire but only a handful of them do. Why? Those who become millionaires did what need to be done to achieve their goals while the majority simply dream of becoming millionaires.

Life is short. We can choose to do something significant with our life or we can choose to waste it. The choice is yours. If you think you life is bad, start counting your blessings.

Last December, I wrote about my visit to a children center that was founded to help underprivileged children. After seeing the children there and what they had to go through, whatever problems I thought I had seems so trivial.

We can go through life blaming others for our hardship and misfortunes. We can play the victim role. Or we can choose to take charge of our life and turn it around.

What do you want to do?

"You don't get to choose how you're going
to die. Or when. You can only decide
how you're going to live. Now."
-Joan Bacz