How To Create a Life You Really Want

Have you ever heard anyone who is having continuous problems in their life, talk about what a happy life they are leading? Have you ever heard anyone in school with poor grades mention how they get good grades and mean it? How about someone who drifts from job to job talk about how easy it is for them to find a better paying job than the job they were last let go from?

I almost never hear someone utter those words or thoughts in reference to their life. If you have not read it here on this blog, you have read or heard about self limiting beliefs other places. If you have not read or heard about shaping and creating your own life on this blog, you have read it somewhere else.

It has frustrated me that so many people have read from many differing sources, ideas and ways to change their life; yet nothing ever changes for them. They read something here, or somewhere else, get all hyped up, and start trying to do what ‘everyone’ says they should be able to do, and nothing changes.

Until recently I was of the opinion that nothing changes because they do take not any idea of changing seriously. I thought perhaps they try out a suggestion they have read about over and over, and after a week or two give up on it.

A second possibility occurred to me that perhaps those people who were not able to realize any change were comfortable right where they were and they preferred the present circumstance of their life to the possibility of improving their life. I know a few people really do not what their life to change. Change is scary, what they have for a life may not be good, but it is comfortable.

I see it every day when a few people do the same things over and over again, expecting different results from their actions. It reminds me of an old computer saying, “input equals output”, which was a programmers pleasant way to say, “Garbage in, Garbage out’.

While reading last week I came across another explanation. Once I read it, I knew the reason people have trouble with ideas like LOA, and other Life Changing Strategies is because no matter how it is explained, people are not understanding what they should be doing. People read and read, practice, and practice some more, and nothing changes. All because what is so obvious to everyone who has used they strategies is omitted in the telling.

Law Of Attraction generally tells people in one form or another how to create a thought and then let that thought go out into the Universe. The Universe using some unknown magical ability is supposed to take your wish and make it reality. Poof, your wish has come true!

Other life changing strategies including my own, are to start living your life as if you have achieved your goal. Sounds pretty simple on paper from my side of the fence. If you want something to change, start living your life as if the change has happened. Works for me over my lifetime, it should work for everyone same as it does for me.

There are many who would rather I did not say what I am about to tell you. They are making a lot of money and really would rather not do anything to unset that proverbial apple cart. Some experts send desperate people down the path of pay for which does not really tell anyone anything they do not already know. Or they provide a multi step program, at so many dollars a step, never quite reaching the end.

People are using what they know to achieve what they want for their life, and the heck with the rest. The immediate goal is financial, with ulterior reason hidden away in private. The only thing separating you from them is either in the end they do not tell you what you need to know. Maybe they tell you what you need to know, but it is so disguised, that when you hear or read it, you probably gloss right over it. More to follow in the next post.

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LOA For Today and LOA For Tomorrow

Everyone wants to know about Law of Attraction, or LOA. Some people want to prove LOA is nonsense. A few well meaning people and a few scammers want to make money from the ‘idea’ of LOA. Other people want to know how to make LOA to work for them. Some people are unsure what LOA really is, and how to apply it to their lives.

They have a vague idea of LOA from snippets here and there, but not enough of an idea to really know what LOA is or how it works. Reading the rest of this post will change all that, and you will become your own LOA expert.

Here is a simple example for you to do to help you understand LOA in action.It will take either doing the task, or pretending to do the task, which ever works best for you. However doing it works better.

Take a blank sheet of printer paper and something to write or color it with. Sit down at a desk or table with your paper and pen until you are satisfied with what you have done to the sheet of paper, or until the paper is beyond recovery. There are no extra points for artistry. Same for making something you are not so proud of. As long as you try is what matters most.??What you did to the paper is generally how LOA works in our lives. We each create our own world to some extent. We are like the paper. We have some pre-imposed constraints in our world. We are also like the pen, pencil, crayon, or marker.

You choose your world beyond the restraints imposed by the paper by changing and modifying your world. LOA in your life is you being the paper, and at the same time you are the pen or marker that can changes the paper into something else.

Real world examples of LOA in action are easy to find and relevant to you right now. People like  you and me, and everyone else all have links to LOA, even though we may not know we do. LOA was not just invented, nor has it been hidden away in a treasure chest, as a dusty tome of arcane knowledge. LOA does need some help from you to really work. LOA needs your help to help you to be successful in your life.

First and foremost, you must have a strong Desire for something. If you have no strong Desire, your wants changes from hour to hour, and day to day. Weak Desires float into and out of your world when there is no strong Desire.

Determination needs to be present. Without Determination, there is no Desire to accomplish any but those most immediate goals that take minimum effort. You need to be determined for LOA to happen in your life.

Intent is required for LOA to be effective. There are many things we have a Desire for, and for some of those things we are Determined. If you do not have Intent, Desire and Determination mean little. Intent is a glue holding everything together.

Focus is something you have to apply. If you are too distracted to stay Focused on getting what you want, it usually will not happen. If Focus is not present, it is easy to make decisions or not make decisions, that take you farther away from your goal, and not closer to it.

Lack of Will Power gives you the strength to not give up. Most people think they do things by will power. Will Power on its own is useless. If you depended on Will Power to get you through life, you would not be reading this unless it is at a library for free. Will Power means making the choices because you want to. Lack of Will Power is setting aside what you want at the moment for what you want in the future.

Last but not least you need to be flexible and adaptable. Flexibility and adaptability is what makes immigrants successful. People arrive in our country not speaking a word of English, and looking like they came from somewhere else. If you could see them a few months later, you would be surprised. They look like they belong here, they are making a living, and they are happy. They have been flexible and adaptable enough to find a way to thrive.

Every successful person uses LOA in some form or another. They put all their tools in place, they use them,  and they refuse to leave the path they have set out on. This is not how LOA works in a hyped up scammers version of LOA. This is real LOA in action. While the media would have you believe you something and suddenly you have everything, it just isn’t so.

You have to want, and you have to use the tools I wrote of that we all have. You have to apply them and go forward against all adversity. Finally while you feel you may be losing ground or net getting what you want, you have to dig deep and believe in yourself.

You were born with everything you need for LOA to bring you almost everything you desire. You may fall short of some goals you set for yourself. No one can have everything. You will find you are much closer than you were before you started applying the tools that allow LOA to happen!

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Walking, trash collecting, and LOA

I am not sure how, but I came across this blog by a guy named William and his girlfriend Kelsey. They enjoy being outdoors and decided when they went to a park, they would rate it for trash content. I found the idea interesting, as there is a park close to my house that I enjoy using. When I am out fishing or hiking, or even at the park, I occasionally pick up some trash and drop it in a trash can. Not always, because normally I am there for other reasons, but occasionally picking up trash is just something that happens.

A number of years ago, I was camping with friends in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The four of us had quite a party the first night, so there were beer cans and one whiskey bottle strewn around the campfire. Who shows up at the crack of dawn? No one else but a large group of Sierra Club members, perhaps thirty people. They were out for two day hike, and they were not impressed with our camp. If you ever want to know misery, try listening to a Sierra Club leader tell you about the mess your camp is in – on a few hours of sleep. Gosh it was fun, blah, blah blah, on a serious hangover…but they did clean up the cans for us, so it was not all bad. On the funny side, three of them stayed behind and begged a couple of cigarettes off one the guys.

That was my first introduction to picking up trash in public. Years later I was trout fishing at a little lake when a group of people came through picking up trash. They told me they were locals and try to clean up around their lake at least once a week, because some fishermen were not too careful, and they wanted to keep the shoreline pretty. I was not included in that group they said.

Back to the future, or almost; I was out walking yesterday and noticed a few aluminum cans in the park alongside the walking path. I thought I wished I had a bag so I could collect those pop cans. Then I remembered how I tell myself that i am going to actually show up with a bag one day and collect trash while I walk. That led to, ‘I wish I had a bag now, I would collect trash and the cans I have seen.’ As LOA would have it, within a hundred yards there was a plastic bag caught in a bush. Well, no excuse now, so I took it off the shrub and started picking up trash, and the few cans I found.

Only a few people were out walking, but I hope they realized what I was doing and it catches on. It really changed the monotony of just walking a mile loop, and now the area looks cleaner than it did before the bag showed up. Speaking of LOA and bags, by the time I completed the loop I found no less than three bags caught in shrubs. It was a nice feeling, doing something for the park that provides a place for me to go and walk, and if I want to, just sit on the grass and think.

Now the park looks cleaner, I feel better, and I did some bending and standing up that normally does not happen on a walks. I only found three cans, and by the time I was done they were mixed in with candy wrappers, empty plastic cups, broken glass, and other assorted nasties. I decided I was not going trash bag hunting through all that mess for my three cans, so they went into the trash can too.

On the bright side, at home when I took some trash out, there were five cans laying in the bottom of my trash can from a party a neighbor had a few days ago. LOA again, or just good fortune? At any rate, I felt vindicated over losing my cans with the trash from the park. Because of William and Kelsey’s blog, I will be out doing it again soon. Thanks!

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