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Complaining and the Law of Attraction

I’ve seen many a person claim to be using the Law of Attraction properly, holding only positive intentions and thinking predominantly about what they want to attract. Then after a few weeks of little or no results, they fire off an explosion of complaints:

This LoA stuff is nonsense! I gave it a real shot, and it isn’t working for me. Why haven’t my intentions manifested yet? Why does this seem to work for other people but not me? I’ve wasted a lot of time on this and have nothing to show for it! Robble robble robble!

People who really grasp the LoA won’t do this sort of thing. It’s like planting a seed and then digging it up in a wild thrashing manner to see if it’s growing. You just killed the plant in the process. Now consider this: If someone finds it necessary to kill their plant to verify it’s growing, did they really expect/intend the plant to survive and thrive in the first place? Obviously not. If you know the plant will grow, you won’t dig it up. Similarly, if you intend with certainty that your intention is going to manifest, you won’t lash out with complaints about your failure. You’ll simply continue holding the intention until it does manifest, no matter how long it takes.

In practice you will see some intenders hold their intentions patiently for months and years, while complainers will usually give up within the first 30 days. Why? You might not like what I’m going to say, but the truth is that the complainers were predisposed to eventually give up. Failure was their true background intention.

You see… people who backlash at the LoA for not giving them what they want never fully embraced the LoA in the first place. They were always expecting to fail, simply paying lip service to the idea of positive intentions. But their background thinking remained negative.

You can’t fool the LoA. It knows your true expectations, and it isn’t going to release its treasures to those it knows will eventually give up.

link: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/08/complaining/

for more information, The LOA is also known as The secret which is on sale on some of the major bookstores. What the secret states is that, Whatever you think and believe to have, will attract the relevant rewards and thoughts back to you. Let's say you believe you can run a gold timing 2.4km, It will be manifested as so. If you otherwise doubt you can, you won't be able to hit a gold timing.

I believe that what Steve Pavlina has said makes total sense. It applies to me. Having read Think and grow rich the book, I thought I gained mastery of the techniques in the book, so what did I do? I applied them. Yet however, they never took form. Although I never blamed the techniques, I felt depressed and waned.

Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin empire's quote was, "Screw it, let's do it"
Under his empire, he had as many as 200 companies, majority doing different stuff from one another. From airlines to Coke to Entertainment, there's almost nothing he hasn't step into. HE doesn't say, hey I've never tried airlines and didn't do it. He probably said, Screw it, let's do it.

He didn't let his inability of the industry worry him or stop him. He didn't say, I don't know how, but I'm gonna screw it up. He said, Let's do it, we'll get better along the way.

To a more personal tone, I've always ran a slow 2.4km timing. 11.17 was never impossible.
There was a few times I got 11.38 merely short of failing a silver. Recently I set myself upon the target of gold, which thus I had to run 9.44. I didn't tell myself I can't. I told myself to try.

I know that an average of 3 mins a round was needed for first round. I did my trainings by running a mere 800m. I had to clock 3 mins. Note that in normal situations, I'd run 3.40 fastest. But guess what, the moment I set my goal to be gold timing, I did 3.03 the first time I did the run. LOA does work doesn't it?

I'm trying to apply as much of it to other areas to my life. Napoleon Hill Said this: