Jackie Harder
Are you a “bad luck” magnet?
Do you expect the worst, so you won’t be disappointed? Or does nearly everything go your way? Do you see the bright side in everything that happens to you?
Either way, I’d bet a week’s salary that you get exactly what you expect.
Why? It’s call the Law of Attraction, based on the law of physics that states that whatever energy we put out – negative or positive – is matched by more of the same.
Consider the tuning fork – a simple metal two-pronged fork whose tines resonate at a specific pitch when struck against a surface – used to by musicians to tune their instruments.
Put a hundred thousand tuning forks, all set to vibrate at the different frequencies of the musical scale, in a stadium. Strike one fork – the A, for example – and all the other A’s in the stadium will resonate. Not the B-flats or C’s…just the A’s.
This is the Law of Attraction, and it applies equally to your personal life as to your business life.
Like attracts like, so if your mood or feeling is positive, you will attract positive things in your life. The reverse is surely true as well.
To bring “good luck” or “good karma” into our lives, we need to change the way we feel about it, and how we express it to ourselves.
There are three words we need to remove from our vocabulary: Don’t, not and no.
If you go to Google and type in “No football,” what will be pop up on the screen? If you say to your pet, “No treat,” what word is it going to hear?
Same thing applies to the positive and negative energy you put out.
If you say, “I don’t want to lose this account; I don’t want to cry in front of the boss; I don’t want to be broke,” the message – the energy – you’re sending out is “lose,” “cry” and “broke.”
By focusing on your “don’t wants,” that’s exactly what you’ll get back.
When you change the words, you also will change the energy and your frame of mind.
“I want this to keep and grow this account. I want to be calm. I want my life to be filled with abundance.”
Something like this has happened to all of us: Our alarm doesn’t go off and our first thought is, “Oh, man, is THIS going to be a rotten day!”
And sure enough, it is.
We stub our toe getting out of bed, we burn the toast, we lose our keys, the car has a flat and on and on.
We need to learn to use the Law of Attraction deliberately, tap into it and make it work for us.
Here’s a three-step formula to do just that:
- Identify your desire. We’re not good at this; we’re better at saying what we don’t want. But we can figure out what we do want by knowing what we don’t want.
Hate your job? Keep focusing on that and nothing will improve. Instead, try imagining your perfect job. What kind of work would you do? Who are the people you would work with? How much money would you make? What would your environment look like? And most of all, how would it feel to have that perfect position?
- Raise your energy. Give it attention, energy and focus, because the Law of Attraction says “you attract to yourself whatever you give your attention and energy to, whether wanted or unwanted.”
- Allow it. This is the most important step of the three – and the most challenging.
What is allowing? It’s the absence of doubt, which is negative energy. If strong desire meets strong doubt, nothing happens. The moment you shift your energy to the positive is the moment you start to attract the positive to your life.
Try it. What do you have to lose, except “bad luck”?
Need help? Ask a coach!
