The Power of Laws of Attraction

Published Date: 23 Mar 2015 Last Modified: 07 Jun 2017

Keywords: law of attraction, steps to success, secret to happiness

Most of us float along with experiences of life. When everything is going smoothly like we want, we are happy. If we end up in bad situations, we throw a temper tantrum and complain about how unlucky we are at life. Being the passive observers, we assume the role of victim when something happens to us that we didn't want happened.

The knowledge of Law of Attraction helps us to wake up to the fact that everything that is happening in our lives is only the result of what we are constantly feeling and thinking. This fact can liberate us from the position of a passive observer to a proactive one.

A person with a negative attitude towards life wakes up and sees only negativity all around. He sees that bad things are happening to him and might even feel like he is cursed. But Law of Attraction tells us that we can consciously choose our life experiences and by thinking and feeling positively, we can change our realities for the better.

Law of Attraction works through the power of focus. As you shift your focus from negative to positive, you start to change the experiences and completely change your your life. You may be a person who has no idea what the Law is or you may be a person who already knows a little about how the law works or you may be someone who has already achieved some success by implementing the Law's principles in your daily life. Either way, if you haven't awakened to the full power of the Law, you can start with the following practices daily:

Visualize your day

Wake up each day and visualize the day you'd like to experience. Form mental movies in your mind and clearly picture all the good experiences that you want happen to you. By consciously visualizing what you want, you shift you vibration focus from negative to the positive. When you align yourself with what you want, you start to attract everything you visualize.

Practice being positive

Eliminate negative thoughts of anxiety, worry and fear by deliberately focusing on what you want. During the day, whenever you observe your mind drifting towards negative thoughts, immediately think about something that makes you feel good or visualize the experiences you want to attract. This changes your focus from negative to positive. With persistent practice, this habit will become a part of your nature.

Don't try to figure everything out

To fully unleash the power of Law of Attraction, you must practice letting go. Don't try to figure everything out or do everything yourself. Only perform actions that can be performed by you and make the choices that are required and leave the rest up to the universe to take care for you. Just know that the loving universe is working on behalf of you, bringing you closer to the fulfillment of your desires.

There is of course much more to the Law than the three mentioned practices.

Understand how the Law of Attraction works in your life so that you can deliberately attract what you want. Know that you don't have to be a passive observer and start exercising this amazing power now!

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Subliminal Messages and Subconscious Mind

Negative conditioning of the subconscious mind is one of the biggest reasons why many people fail to achieve what they truly desire in life. Fortunately, there are ways to change our own negative conditioning so we don't have to be trapped by it.

Human mind works much like a computer. By understanding how a computer works, we can begin to understand how the mind works and make necessary changes to create the reality we desire. When you look at how a computer works, you will find that it has an operating system that runs automatically on already built-in software programs. It opens and closes programs without much effort on your part. A computer, depending on the model, also contains memory, about 50-100 gigabytes stored on its hard drive. This information is readily accessible with a simple click of the mouse. With the help of the mouse, you can consciously go the place a particular file is stored and decide to open it. At any moment, even with enormous information on the computer, we choose to run only about 2-4% because the computer would crash if we ran all the data at the same time. Now, if you want to open a file and you don't have the necessary software to do it, you update the existing software or download new software necessary.

The exciting thing is that the human mind works identical to that of the working of a computer. The subconscious mind can be considered an operating system running on programs of beliefs, thought and behavior patterns. The conscious mind can be considered the mouse, which is the control device used to select the programs you want to run.

Like a computer operating system, subconscious mind is capable of adapting to new thought patterns by the habit of repetition. However, it takes time for this process to take effect because the subconscious mind doesn't like change and tends to cling on to the existing patterns. New research studies are telling us that there is an easier way to access the subconscious mind. It seems it is more receptive when the body is relaxed.

Subliminal messaging is a technology that has become popular in the recent times in the self-improvement industry because it is a helpful way to induce subconsciously mind with positive directions without much effort on our part. This technology works by constantly repeating empowering messages to the subconscious mind. Although consciously we cannot hear these messages, subconsciously, we pick them up and store them in memory.

This technology is very helpful in eradicating the negative conditioning that keeps us from taking action to realize our dreams. It is also helpful in changing negative habits and forming new positive habits. Hence, if you are looking for techniques that speed up the process of updating your subconscious software, you should definitely try subliminal messaging.

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How to Reprogram the Belief System

Human beings are really special. Each and every individual is unique in his/ her own way. Hence, each and every individual's perception of reality is unique. The information that makes up a person's reality is the result of everything he/ she consciously thinks and feels in combination with his/ her conscious and unconscious beliefs.

New information that enters the mind is broken down into individual data bits, which are then compared to the existing experiences stored in memory and are matched up to the existing beliefs. This process is unique for a person because his/ her mental make up is unique. Mental make up is basically a personal version of reality that is perceived uniquely by a person. This is the reason why the same reality can be experienced differently by different people. A person's mental make up or construct is entirely unique and vibrates a particular frequency very different from the next person.

The uniqueness of the mental construct of a person is the result of unique memory, which consists of unique past experiences that make up the belief system, which is the person's personal paradigm. Your belief system, which is your perception of reality, holds the key to determining what you are capable of achieving and how far you will go to achieve your goals. Hence, you must change your belief system if you want to change your reality. This can be done through constant repetition of new directive to the conscious and subconscious mind until an old belief is discarded and a new belief that is supportive of your desires is put in place.

Persistence is the key to impressing the subconscious mind. It is important to have a clear mental picture of what you want, constantly impress this upon your conscious and subconscious mind by constantly focusing upon it until it manifests as reality, which happens because of the change in your belief system.

Many people fail with affirmations because they repeat them with no feeling. Reading affirmations without actually letting the feeling behind the words sink in, is not going to be of any use. Repeating affirmations is a powerful way to impress positive directions into the mind when they are repeated with a positive feeling. You must visualize what you want and feel how you would feel after finally having what you desire. With this feeling repeat the affirmations and expect the loving universe to bring you necessary resources that will help you make your dreams a reality. It is also important to keep in mind that setting aside a few minutes in a day to repeat affirmations and forgetting about your desires and focusing on negative or unrelated aspects of your life is not enough. You must be willing to constantly focus on what you want throughout the day and consciously REPEAT the affirmations when you feel like negative thoughts try to stop you from performing an action.

Many pricey self-improvement programs get your hopes up for sometime and keep you busy with mental activities and high expectations. Although most of these programs do have your best interest at heart, they can only do so much if you are not willing to persist and put in the necessary effort to manifest you're your desires. The objective of any program is to bring about the necessary change in your belief system to accommodate new beliefs that support your quest to fulfil your desire or change the current outdated beliefs and totally replace them with new ones. This change can only come about if you REPEATEDLY impress your mind, both conscious and subconscious parts with mental pictures, thoughts and feelings related to the outcome your desire in the future.

Keep this vital truth in your mind - To see a change in your current reality and manifest what you desire, you must change your current belief system through constant REPETITION by focusing on thoughts, metal images and feelings of the desired outcome to impress your conscious and subconscious mind with this new information.

You can pay for countless self-improvement programs or read a thousand books related to Law of Attraction; but until you persistently practice the principles and change your inner reality, you cannot change your outer reality, which is the mirror of what is happening inside your subconscious mind. You can acquire heaps of knowledge about changing belief systems, but until you persist and change your beliefs to change your perception of reality, you cannot change what you are experiencing in your life now.

So, first form clear mental image of your desire, put in the effort through constant persistence of practice, impress your conscious and subconscious mind with images, feelings and thoughts that create a positive emotion of already achieving your desire in you. Let this positive feeling sink into the depths of your mind and change your current negative beliefs that are working against you.

Don't get caught up in the hype of a new and an exciting program that promises to help you fulfill your desire in a short period of time. Many programs might work in the beginning because they aim at changing your negative thoughts to positive ones by increasing your positive expectations and keeping your conscious mind busy. But until you change your inner mental construct or perception of reality, you will not see real change you desire. Know the time taken to impress your subconscious mind totally depends on the time you allot to practicing a technique that will change your mental makeup and produce the desired results. It is also helpful to follow one program and one technique instead of obtaining contradicting information from different sources and getting confused about the right way to achieve your desires. Know there is no right and wrong program when it comes to changing your beliefs. You can follow any system that works for you

The little known secret to make the process of impressing your subconscious mind through constant repetition and persistent practice is the feeling of gratitude, which is very powerful because it instantly connects you with the positive forces of the universe. Just relax, let go and be thankful for everything you have in the moment. Be grateful for all the guidance and help you are being sent by the co-operating universe. With this positive awareness, focus on the feelings, thought and images that generate a passion and positive expectation in you to move forward and take action toward achieving your dreams. It is very important to exercise control on the mind and direct the thoughts towards what you want instead what you don't want through out the day to change your reality in a short period of time.

There is no dream that is impossible to achieve because the term 'impossible' exist only in the mind. When you take control of your subconscious mind and harness its power, there is nothing that is impossible in this world. Great men and women already used the awesome power of their minds to achieve outstanding things and contribute immensely to the betterment of mankind.

Follow these set of directions to alter your belief system and move forward fearlessly:

1. Decide what you want and form a clear mental picture that you would like to experience

2. Constantly focus on the mental picture and thoughts related to manifesting this mental picture. Focus on the positive emotions that accompany from the REAPEATED impression of thoughts and images on your mind will generate

3. Make persistence a habit and practice focusing until you see a visible change in your reality through the change in your belief system

Human beings have always learned though repetition. When we were at school, we had to repeat numerical table and alphabets constantly to memorize them. Repetition is also used to learn a new language. This technique is so powerful that we remember the alphabets even after several years. The fact is that repetition reinforces memory and hence is the best technique to reprogram the subconscious mind with new directions.

There are two major hurdles that stand between you and the realization of your desire through reprogramming of your subconscious mind. One is lack of necessary time to thoroughly impress the mind through repetition. Second is your lack of faith in the process might succeed in forcing you to give up. When you proceed with the conviction to break through these hurdles, you can certainly succeed in changing your perception of reality that is preventing you from attracting what you desire in life. Depending on how strongly the current beliefs that are contrary to the new beliefs and the amount of time to a person spends focusing on repetition, different people take different lengths of time to completely break down the current belief system and reprogram the mind.

All the resources you need to fulfill your desires have always been present and are yours to command. People and circumstances are not the reason why you are not able to progress and move forward. The only person stopping you is YOU and your limited thoughts and beliefs. Once you change these limited beliefs and expand your awareness to include the possibility of achieving the impossible, you can truly attract whatever it is that you want.

How badly do you want to achieve your goals? If the feeling is intense enough, take the necessary action to persist and REPEATEDLY impress your mind with mental pictures, feelings and thoughts that empower you achieve what you want in life.

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Wisdom vs. Knowledge

Knowing information is very different from applying the information and experiencing the consequences. Contrary to the popular statement, knowledge is power; the application of knowledge is power. Let us take the example of Law of Attraction.

Many people who got their information from the popular movie or the book 'The Secret' failed to manifest what they want because they applied the Law incorrectly. They were told they would be able to get something if they think about it. However, the Law does not work that way. On the other hand, many people had put in the effort to know how exactly the Law works and applied it correctly and manifested everything they wanted in life.

Become powerful by applying the knowledge

Are you one of those people who have heaps of self-improvement books and notes gathering dust in your drawers? If so, it is time to take them out, revisit them and immediately start using the information in those pages. Your life is not magically going to change if you don't apply the technique and put in the effort to actually change your experience of life. Let's again take the example of Law of Attraction.

It states that once you form a clear picture, think about it and feel like you have already achieved it, you must surrender your thoughts to the universe and allow it to manifest your desire in the best way, meaning you must let go of the need to control how things happen to you. Many people, despite having tons of knowledge about the Law, fail to apply this part effectively not willing to let go of the control.

When you take a class or a seminar, you will benefit more if you ask questions and understand exactly how to apply the knowledge. With the wisdom gained from applying the knowledge, you can slowly become more adept at using the knowledge to better your life. Because of your deep understanding of the workings of the knowledge, you might even be able to help others if you choose to.

You can start applying the knowledge by actually practicing every day. Write down your desires. Make mental pictures of your fulfilled desires, draw vision boards, write affirmations and practice a technique that can change your existing limited belief system. Just start doing!

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Power of Focus to Manifest

Did you know that a power as meager as 800 watts, which is barely enough to sustain an average room, when focused within a diameter of 1mm, can cut through sheet steel accurately? This is a powerful testimony of the power of focusing energy. This fact can help us understand that scattered energy produces little to no desired result; whereas the same energy when focused can produce tremendous results.

This principle can surely be applied to Law of Attraction. You can manifest everything you want in life if you develop the power of focusing your attention and mental energy on achieving your goals.

Understanding what focus is

Merriam-Webster.com defines focus as ' directed attention'. This is exactly what focus is. It is the ability to direct your attention towards the fulfillment of your desires.

Famous self-help author and motivational speaker Tony Robins once said, 'What you focus on consistently, you tend to manifest in your life.'

The power of this quote cannot be taken lightly because it sums up an important principle of Law of Attraction. Many people are struggling to manifest their desires because they are implementing this principle ineffectively. Focus must be made a habit. With initial effort and persistence, the habit of focusing can become a second nature and starts showing up in your behavior naturally. With the power of focus, you can perform the necessary actions that dictate how you manifest your desires.

Understanding how the brain works

Human brain is a massive processing system that processes gargantuan amount of data every second. On an average, the brain takes about 2 million sensory inputs every second through the five sensory stimuli - sight, smell, sound, touch and taste. Like a computer, which crashes if we run all the information stored on it, our brains, to avoid overload, filter the information against existing memory and belief system and consciously process only a little amount compared to the entire lot. Although this process is helping us to keep up with massive data we are inputting, we might be missing crucial information that can be the next big opportunity or miss the approach of danger.

To better understand this process, let us take the analogy of a dark room. If you are given a torch light and are asked to find a door to get out the room quickly, you would try to focus the light in one direction and try to find a door. If you just focused the light on the floor, all you would be able to see is the floor and not the door which is to your right. You would then walk along the focused path and may bump into the wall. On the other hand, if you focus the light everywhere by waving the torch light in all directions, you might be able to see more of the room, but you could still miss the door.

Similarly, in life, if you focus on the wrong place and narrow your vision to only this place, you might miss the opportunities that are all around you. On the other extreme, if you scatter your energy everywhere and try to focus on too many things, you get confused and still could miss the right opportunity for you. Hence, it is important to learn how to focus the attention in the right place.

What you focus your energy on, manifests in your life. Are you focusing your energy in the right place?

When a person focuses on poverty, he/ she will manifest more poverty. When he focuses on lack of health or diseases, he manifests more disease. On the other hand, if the same person focused on prosperity, he will surely manifest prosperity in life through Law of Attraction. If he focused more on health, he will manifest more health in his life. This is an important concept to grasp because it is the difference between you manifesting all your desires and you failing because of all the negative conditioning.

Awareness is power

Be aware of what you are focusing on in your life. Focus your attention more on achieving your desires and exclude other unnecessary aspects of your life and see the magic of power of focus in manifesting.

Focus on being thankful

Being grateful for all that you have right now is a powerful feeling that will put you immediately in tune with positive manifesting force of the universe. Take time everyday to be thankful for what you have. On days, you can't see anything to be grateful for, stop, calm down, and ask yourself, 'If you can be grateful for 3 things in your life right this moment, what would you be grateful for?' Learn to see the best in any situation in life instead of focusing on things you don't have.

Plan

Planning eliminates confusion and gives you direction. Have an end result in mind and write down achievable goals that can help you progress towards the desired end.

Practice acceptance

Every person is just as he or she is because of his/ her unique past experiences. Be aware of all that happened in your life that made you who you are today. Acknowledge that all your negative and positive conditioning is a result of the unconscious beliefs you have come to accept as truths. Accept yourself for all that you are and accept everybody around you for all that they are. This is powerful because it releases you from the trap of negative memories. Focus on how you would like to be starting from now and only focus on that.

Program your subconscious mind for success

We all have the same amount of time in a day. Your success depends on how you use this time to focus on your desires and how to manifest them. Take time in your day to quite your mind of the clutter and meditate upon your dreams and desires. Write down specific plans to achieve them.

Write down powerful affirmations that you can repeat to clear the negative conditioning and impress your subconscious mind to attract all the necessary resources you need for manifesting your desires.

Make a list of your goals and stick the copies of the list in several places where you are likely to go in your home. Always constantly remind yourself of your goals. Keep them fresh in memory.

To make time for yourself in a day, turn of all your electronic gadgets and let other people know that you are not available for this particular slot of time. Enter a quite room to work in peace and completely focus on your dreams. No matter how busy your day is, even if you can spare only half an hour, do it.

Well known author Catherine Ponder explains Law of Vacuum this way - to make room for something, we must have space to fill, meaning we must clear the existing unwanted garbage in our lives. Always remember this vital truth when you, in a day, feel like you are being pulled into some drama that serves no purpose towards the achievement of your goals.

The amount of time you allot to manifest your desires determines your progress. Make this time of your day most important and complete all the tasks that you have been procrastinating about. Also, remember to always finish only the tasks can help you progress in terms of achieving your goals. Remember that focusing on too many things will only scatter your mental energy and prevents you from seeing the right opportunity in front of you.

Take the example of a fox and the hedgehog. While fox is clever and knows many tricks to use to get a meal, hedgehog is rather dull and but knows one trick, which is to roll into a spiked ball for protection. Fox, even with its many clever ideas and strategies cannot win with the spiked ball and obtain its meal. Hence, the hedgehog always wins. This analogy is very apt in describing the many failed efforts of intelligent people who waste their precious energy doing too many things at a time. One good strategy is always the best to follow instead of diluting effort to make several different clever strategies to work.

Focus your energy on one project and finish it completely to your satifaction before you take on the next task. Approach your goals by taking one step at a time. This process can make even the daunting of goals seem achievable.

Another important aspect of practicing to focus is to be in the present. Many people spend their time focusing on the past or the future. For achieving any goal, your mind and body should be present now and hence your mind should be focused on the present moment instead of the future. There will be time to reflect on the future and make necessary plans in the present to achieve the desired goals. But when you have tasks you need to finish now, no matter how mundane and intolerable you find the present tasks, perform them being grateful.

In summary, human beings are conditioned in such a way that we experience what we focus on in our lives. Hence, it is important for us to learn how to focus on achieving our desires. We must learn to focus on the positive aspects in life that propel us towards achieving all that we desire. To develop this power of focus, we must learn to manage our time properly. We must learn to make time in a day to focus on what is necessary by clearing out the unnecessary through clever discerning skills. But more importantly, we must learn to act and not procrastinate.

So, starting right now, decide on a goal that you can achieve in the immediate future. Make a plan on how to achieve this goal based on what resources are available to you at this moment.

Make time to work on these plans and complete tasks.

Keep repeating powerful affirmations powerfully with feeling to focus on your goals.

Be grateful and be consistent with working on your goals until you achieve them.

Transform your life by taking action. Manifest all you desires one desire at a time with the power of focus.

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The Secret of Happiness and Success

Most Law of Attraction gurus will tell you the secret to attracting everything you want in life is to think positively about your dreams. They will tell you to expect the best always so that you will receive the best. Although this message has its merit, positive expectation alone cannot materialize what you want in life. Many people failed to manifest their desires by just following the information that was given in The Secret. 'You think about it, you receive it' may be true but Law of Attraction does not work that way. Without right action on your part, you cannot expect to your desires manifest. Inaction does not prepare you for the future. Neither does it take proper precautions to protect you from the present challenges and problems. Only you can do that by making necessary choices and performing necessary actions.

Some people are fortunate to have found their purposes in life and making a living out of them. What about the rest of us? Many self-help experts tell us that the secret to happiness is to find our unique purpose in this life and make a life around it. Although this also is a fair point, the problem with finding a purpose is that it takes time. In the mean time, you will have to deal with financial difficulties and other personal problems. Don't get me wrong. It is actually quite noble to develop the strength of character to be able to be satisfied with what you have and be happy despite the circumstances. But this process is also very hard.

If you ask a few happy people what is the secret to their happiness, you will often hear one popular answer - service is the secret. But what if your life is full of resentment and problems? You can only share what you have abundantly in life. Hence, you would be only sharing more negativity unconsciously. If what you have is abundance in life, it will certainly bring you happiness to share this abundance with the rest in need. So, sharing and social service is really not the number one secret to happiness.

What then is the ultimate secret to happiness? It is you. It is your ability to become active in life and become adept at solving your own problems effectively. Nobody can just tell you how to be happy because nobody knows what makes you happy. When you get involved in your own life and work hard at solving your own problems, you slowly gain the ability to deal with daily challenges. As you solve more of your problems, you can start to become happy. Your involvement in your own life is then the true secret to happiness and success. As you become happy and successful, you might feel the need to share this joy with the rest, which will only multiply your own success and happiness.

Thinking positively about life comes automatically without any effort and when this attiude is combined with right action; you can expect great results and see all your dreams come true. As you focus on yourself and your own unique talents, being entirely satisfied with your life, you will become free of the limitation of competition. Then, you will experience a different level of joy.

What is important to you?

Do you know what is important to you in your life? Can you tell me what the values you stick by in your life? Most people cannot answer these questions because they don't know what are their personal values are. They live by other peoples' values. For example, an employee who lives according to the values of his employer such as accountability, work ethic, results and profits, might consider he is successful if he can live up to these values and get promoted. But for most people, success means much more than just earning money. Most of us may not define our success by how much we are able to please an employer by living by his values.

It is essential to realize that other people have their own values and these values are important and note worthy, especially when these values work to influence in our lives. But the secret to true happiness is to follow our own core values that are important to us. When we prioritize our wishes and values over other's values, we start to truly enjoy life.

So, take out a paper and write down what is important in your life. Write down your core values that you want to live by. This exercise is very powerful because it can reveal to you some powerful truths about yourself. It can tell you if you are living the way you want to and encourage you to take action to make your life more meaningful. By ditching the attitude of pleasing, which is the cause for stress in life, you can instead get empowered by knowing your personal values right now!

Developing personality for success and happiness

Personality and attitude are very important in determining whether you bring success or sorrow into your life. A positive person who sees the positive side of things and has a pleasant personality is powerful because he has the ability to attract people and opportunities to him. People naturally would feel comfortable with him and prefer to work with him than with someone who is always complaining and negative. Also, a positive person is sending positive energy into the universe and through Law of Attraction; he has to receive positive energy back.

There is an easy way to immediately ditch the negativity and move into the positive spectrum of thoughts and emotions. It is the feeling of gratitude.

Gratitude is one of the most powerful feelings you can practice everday because it gives you a positive perspective of life. When you remember why and for whom you are doing the work you are doing, you will feel more energetic and tend to enjoy what you are doing. No matter how bad life seems and no matter how big the problems we are facing, there is always something or someone we can be thankful for having in our life. This attitude teaches us acceptance and put us in allingment with the success. The more positive energy you send out into the universe, the more positive things, people and experiences you attract into your life.

Practicing gratitude is not really difficult. Maintain a gratitude journal and every night before going to bed, write down three things that you can be thankful for. Go over your day and think about people and experiences that you can be grateful about having and experiencing respectively. You will not only reduce your stress and go to bed peacefully with a smile on your face, you will also wake up with more energy to act and make you dreams come true.

Working towards your goals should not be a struggle. We must learn to enjoy and have fun in life while we focus on realizing our dreams. Most people fall into the trap of success. They work very hard to achieve success and when do, they want more success. This can be a never ending cycle. Hence, is important to be first grateful for what we have now and with this new found joy work towards achieving our desires.

Life can become an adventure when we make goals and set out to achieve them. We learn, grow and develop as individuals and learn valuable life lessons. Let us look at the summary on how to live a meaningful life that holds the secret to lasting happiness and success.

First step for you to take is always to look into yourself to find your own unique talents and abilities. Nurture these talents and believe in yourself to succeed. This is a necessary pre-requisite because it gives you the courage to act.

The second step to take is form of a vision for yourself and your life. The vision needs to be clear, precise and reflect exactly what you want out of life. So, first decide what you want and write down all your desires and then make mental pictures that generate a passion and positive feeling in you. These mental pictures are important to have in your mind because slowly they can reprogram your subconscious mind and delete the negative conditioning that may stand as a hurdle between you and the fulfillment of your desires. Decide on your short term and long term goals and make detailed plans about how to achieve your goals. Write down all the tasks you must complete in order to achieve these goals based on the resources available to you. Then, you must act.

The third step is to develop good working habits. Successful people all have strong work ethic and habits that help them achieve their goals without struggle. For example, if you know you need to make more time to do tasks instead of watching TV or procrastinating, you need to just do the tasks. Exercise your will power where necessary and get rid of bad habits that may be working against you.

Practice being grateful for everything you have every day as the fourth step to success and happiness. Write down a list of things, people and experiences in your life you are thankful for. Update this list every week with new things. Read the list every night before going to bed. Being grateful is a powerful feeling that will direct your mind to focus on the positive in your life. The more positive energy you send out into the universe, the more good things you attract into your life.

The fifth step is to decide to be adventurous and take a chance when the opportunity comes knocking. Be also ready to search for opportunities that you can grab and change your life for the better. Good things come to those people who act and take frequent risks. If you never take a chance and keep doing things that you have been doing, you cannot expect change your experience of life. Know that inaction will achieve nothing.

The little known secret to happiness and success is being generous. There is truth to the statement 'what goes around, comes around'. Law of Attraction states that for all the positive energy you put out in the universe, you will be rewarded tenfold. So, be generous. Do something nice for others and help people in need to the best of your ability. Share your talents and gifts and contribute something to the society. You might find that you actually enjoy your work when it benefits others. A successful person such as Oprah knows this secret and even dedicates time on her shows to demonstrate how powerful this secret really is.

Attitude can make or break you. Developing an attitude of responsibility is very powerful because it frees you from the role of a victim to someone with the power to take positive action to change your present situation. Many people are quite skilled in blaming others for their actions and circumstances in life. But what we ultimately need to understand is that we are responsible for our actions and must face the consequences because we are the creators our respective lives.

The final step is to focus your attention on achieving your desires and goals. The power of focus, as we have seen in the earlier chapter, can change your life completely. Re-read the previous chapter if you haven't yet fully grasped the magnitude of how focus can re-shape your personality and make you aware of the right opportunities that is all around you.

Let these lessons be a part of your daily routine through consistent practice and watch your life turn around and improve for the better.

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How Motivation Changes Life

Motivation is one of the most prominent factors that determine success in life. Without motivation, life can become a boring, mundane and droning. Lack of motivation is detrimental to achieving your goals because you would not have required energy necessary to act and enthusiasm to enjoy your work.

Are you experiencing a lack of excitement in life? Are you feeling tired of your mundane routine you follow day after day? If so, you need to address the problem immediately and perform necessary actions to get to the bottom of it. Often, the best thing you can do it is to take some time from the stress of your daily routine and revisit your dreams and desires that generate an excitement in you. Take out the paper you wrote the list of your desires on or look at the vision boards you prepared to get motivated about achieving your desires. Study all the goal plans again. This often creates a positive feeling, which induces energy into you. Enthusiasm also slowly seeps into you from the positive atmosphere you create by visiting desires that hold meaning to you.

Dullness is very sneaky and it creeps its way in, often without our unconsciously knowledge. It is always wise to keep vigil on your mind and to be aware of what you are feeling when you are working. Stress is one of the most common reasons why you may be feeling insipid or procrastinating. It is important to understand the cause behind your dullness to completely eliminate it.

Practice time management wisely to reduce stress. When your work becomes stressful, it can become boring. Hence, it is important to manage time wisely. Always try to finish a day's work in that day. But never force yourself to work through your tiredness. When you have unfinished business at the end of the day, simply make a list of things to finish for tomorrow. When tomorrow comes, you can just view the list and start working right away. Time management eliminates confusion and always gives you enough time to rest and rejuvenate.

Disciplining the mind is a must because the mind can easily waver and seek comfort. Develop the habit of discipline to always be motivated. When you have a task to finish, no matter how mundane, finish it by setting hourly goals. Successful people always set mini goals and concentrate entirely for that hour or two on finishing this goal. This is a great technique to practice to exercise control on the mind. You will have to make a few sacrifices, but think about the rewards you will receive in terms of finishing work and progressing towards achieving your desires.

Motivation can be ever green when you are having fun instead of yearning. Play, have fun and take a chance in your work. When you always think about making money or getting promoted, you subject yourself to unnecessary stress. On the other hand if you focus on enjoying the work and making a day count, you will start to love your life and be motivated.

A simple rule to always being motivated is know your limits and making sure you don't overwork or burn out. When you do excess than necessary, you will start to detest working. It is important to listen to the signals your body gives and take ample breaks to focus on other things. Always reward yourself for finishing your mini goals. The trick is to reward your efforts instead of linking reward to the end success. Think of the people and experiences that are important in your life and remind yourself why you are doing what you are doing.

Reread the last sentence of the previous paragraph. Although there is nothing wrong with finishing goals with external rewards in view, you should always remind yourself of the reasons why you started working in the first place. Have external rewards such as getting a nice dinner or watching your favorite movie after completing a particular task if that is what it takes, but never make the external rewards your primary focus. Always dwell inside and reflect on why and how the task you are working on helps you ultimately to fulfill your ultimate dreams.

Silent reflection is a great motivator than external rewards. But this does not mean you should not enjoy external rewards. When you finish a task, reward yourself and enjoy this reward knowing that you are completely worthy of it while remembering the real rewards, which are the acknowledgement of your determination and your ability to move forward, plan and climb one step at a time to reach the fulfillment of your purpose.

Visualization is a technique that is advocated by many self-help authors to people to motivate and inspire them to act. The power of visualization is observed in sports. Athletes practice this technique to motivate themselves to train everyday consistently. Let us look at an exercise that can help you instantly feel motivated to perform necessary action to move forward.

Sit in a quiet place and relax by taking deep breaths. Now imagine yourself standing in front of two parallel roads traversing away from you. Now imagine one path will lead you to a future that would be a result of your inaction and another path leading you to a future when you perform the current action. Imagine yourself walking along the first path of inaction and place yourself in a future situation a month from the present moment. Imagine all the negative consequences that can be a result of your inaction. Imagine as if you are exercising everything you are seeing now. See the mounting bills, relationship problems and the same mundane life you may be leading as now. Now place yourself further along, say eight months from now. Now imagine again all the negative consequences of you avoiding to perform the action that will make achieving your goal possible. What do you feel? What negative consequences do you see? Imagine as if you are experiencing these consequences of deterioting health and happiness right now. Now go even further and see yourself one year from the present living the same life if not more worse. Think about all the time you wasted procrastinating one day at a time, which you could have used to progress towards your goal.

Now come back to the present. Relax and take deep breaths. Now imagine walking along the second road. Imagine yourself one month from now after completing the present task. What do you see? How did your life improve for the better? Take in all the positive consequences of your action and imagine yourself as already experiencing them. With this new positive feeling, walk further down the road and imagine yourself six months from now. What improvements do you see in your health, love and social life? How good does it feel? Let this positive feeling seep into you and imbue with motivation. Finally, imagine yourself one year from now. Where are you? What are you doing? Imagine being happy, successful and excited because you took the action in the present.

Now come back to the present and relax. While practicing the above exercise, depending on your goal, adjust the time frame longer or shorter. When you take this exercise seriously and get into the spirit of it, you can really benefit from it because you can immediately feel motivated to perform the necessary task with a new found vigor. You can even enjoy the mundane of tasks by visualizing the positive benefits the completion of task directly or indirectly will bring you.

Practice this exercise consistently as often as you like. In fact, develop a habit of visualization. Visualize the achievement of all your goals and desires. If in the beginning if you have trouble visualizing, don't worry. Keep practicing even if it is for a few minutes every day. With persistent practice, you can become adept at visualizing with ease.

The significance of forming good habits cannot be taken lightly because good habits will help you achieve your goals with ease. Bad habits such as watching too much TV , procrastination, over eating, giving into limiting beliefs and fears all have an effect on your life. They not only sap the energy and have a negative effect on your health, they also stand as hurdles prolonging the time you require to reach your goals.

On the other hand, if you develop good habits with a little effort on your part in the beginning, you will always be in the flow of progress and reach your destination much faster. The use of will power in the beginning and persisting is the difference between changing your life for the better and watching your life fall apart. For example, many people struggle with bad diet. One slip in their determination to not eat something bad can lead to another familiar incident and another. So the incidents continue to happen and forming the good habit of eating health will only remain a concept. Can you remember a time when you were tempted and ate something you should not be when you were on a diet and then you justified your actions by saying 'just this once'? But then, you justified eating more bad food later by saying 'well I have slipped once anyway'. This attitude creates guilty conscious and frustration, which reinforces the bad habit. Hence, it is vital for you exercise your will power when necessary in the beginning. When the good habit of resisting temptation is fully developed, it becomes a part of your nature and no extra effort needs to be exerted to avoid eating bad food in the future.

Whatever your bad habits are, make decision to replace them with good habits that are supportive of your efforts to reach your goals. When you feel like you are slipping, practice the visualization exercise mentioned above to instantly feel the benefits of your positive action of not slipping and get motivated to remain strong. Persist with this practice and in time you would not have to put a lot of effort to become motivated to do the right thing for you.

You can actually utilize the mentality of 'as long as I have done it, I might as well enjoy it' to your advantage. For example, start with performing a positive action. Then tell yourself to enjoy the task as long as you are doing it. Write motivating affirmations that make your work more enjoyable.

Include the good habit into your identity. For example, if you are trying to lose weight or getting rid of the habit of over eating, you can find it helpful to write affirmations such as 'I am a healthy and fit individual who like to eat clean and healthy food'. This is just an example. Write affirmations that speak to you personally. Excitedly look for healthy diets and research the ones that imbue with positive expectation. Find a trainer or a health professional. Write down detailed plans and goals. Make vision boards and visualize yourself as having healthy fit body. Immediately act and surround yourself with information relating to losing weight. This will get you motivated and get you started.

Often, joining a community always works better in motivating a person to take action. There are many people who join weight loss communities and publicly post their progress so that their friends and community members can hold them accountable for their actions. Start using the wisdom you gain from your own journey to share through blogs and tweets. The support of other people can be great motivator and sharing also keeps you in a positive mindset.

Positive mindset is powerful because it attracts to you all the good things, people, experiences and resources you need to motivate yourself. Optimism should be cultivated because it helps a lot when the journey appears tough. Let us again take the example of weight loss. Pessimistic people are so focused on the results that any small increase in weight will get them dejected about their journey. They will work only half-heartedly and give up at the first sign of trouble. On the other hand, optimistic people actively find a solution to the minor set backs and challenges they face during their journeys to obtain a fit body. They view each challenge as only temporary and expect good results in the end. More importantly, they put their whole heart into the process and give it all they have got to achieve the desired outcome.

Earlier on in the report, we have already seen the power of focus and Law of Attraction in shaping our futures. The power to achieve results multiplies when you are an optimist and expect good things. By sending out positive energy, you get back positive results. Negative feelings and thoughts can become self-fulfilling and through Law of Attraction, bring back negative expected results. So, exercise control on your mind and always try to see the best in any situation.

Now let us observe how this process unfolds in a person's journey to lose weight through diet and exercise as an example.

If a person, in the past, has tried multiple diets and exercise routines, but failed to lose weight, or perhaps lost only a few pounds to gain it all back, that particular might have a pessimistic attitude about losing weight. He/ she might have already formed a limiting belief, which goes something like this 'Nothing really works for me. I am just a fat person'. This belief is damaging because it unconsciously determines how the person acts. If a temptation presents itself in the form of large chocolate cake, he/ she, instead of reminding himself/ herself about the goal and resisting, will probably give into temptation unconsciously believing that 'nothing really works'. After eating, feeling guilty and frustrated because he/ she failed, the person might give up on dieting.

Because the dieting failed, the person even might decide to stop exercising because 'there is no point'. As a result, the person doesn't see any results, but at least he/ she gets to reinforce his/ her belief that nothing works for them.

See how this negative attitude is detrimental to achieving a goal?

On the other hand, when you are an optimist, even though you have failed in the future, might see the failures as educational because you got to learn about what diets don't work for you. Now, you fully commit to losing weight and focus on achieving this goal no matter what.

You visualize yourself as slim and fit to instantly feel motivated about exercising and eating healthy food. When a temptation comes up, you remind yourself the vision you have of the future in which you have the body you desire. This makes it easier for you to exercise will power and resist a temptation. As a result, you don't gain unnecessary weight. When you start seeing results of your efforts, you get even more motivated and keep up with your efforts through consistent practice.

In both cases, weight loss is an example. People have many different kinds of goals. But by observing the power of attitude in the above illustration, it can be obviously understood that when you are positive about achieving your goal, you are more likely to succeed.

Achieving any goal requires effort and consistent action. You don't have to make the journey difficult for yourself by having a negative attitude. Believe in and tell yourself that you are capable of achieving the desired result and with this positive attitude perform inspired actions that can bring you closer to your destination.

Be your own best friend and constantly motivate instead of criticizing yourself. Give yourself a pat on the back whenever you resist temptation and keep up with your progress.

Know that you are a powerful being and the universe is conspiring to bring you what you desire.