The law of attraction is a great resource available to mankind and we use it often whether we know it or not. We exercise the law through our desires and passionate longings based on the things that we see in our environment.
Consciously and unconsciously, we attract or invite the things and people we come in contact with. Consciously through what we see, hear, smell, taste and feel from the external, we express desires and have internal monologues that feed our subconscious; and unconsciously from the same things that we feed from when we engage with the conscious. These work through our subconscious minds to manifest our desires. We do not pay attention to these things because we seem to forget that we are spirit beings.
While this law is good as it works on our desires and cravings for the things that we thirst for, it is not enough to desire or attract things. After we have attracted whatever or whoever it is, we have to do more to ensure that we maximize the opportunity that we have attracted. This is where the fortune lies. Again, it is important for us to pay attention not to attract just anything because we can attract the negative as well as the positive.
What more do we need to do in order to make the law of attraction a great and productive resource that can earn us remarkable personal and otherwise outcomes?
Relationship Management
We do not meet the people we meet by accident. At some point in time in our past, we sought to meet those kinds of persons through our thoughts. It is the reason that we must be careful what we think about because we attract things and people into our lives through our imagination and introspection.
How we manage the relationship after we have attracted them is more important than the attraction. Our ability to manage and grow relationships is essential. We have to define the purpose, we have to be tolerant to deal, and we should genuinely care about the feelings of others as we engage with them. These attributes help us to grow with the people we meet. Sometimes we are caught in a web of sensitive people so that if we are not careful to manage such persons, we would inadvertently fall out of their favour.
Look Beyond the Surface
It is said that we cannot judge a book by its cover. This is a strong thought that admonishes us to be careful not to wrongly base our evaluations of people and situations on the superficial. We should be patient to use observation as we pay attention to character, attitude and seek to extract value that is underlying.
Once we are able to see these in people we come in contact with, we can decide to either deal or not deal. The reason is that we can tell from observation what their principles and core value indices are. Without having this for a surety, it is not advisable to play. Patience is therefore important to enable us make right judgments beyond what we see on the surface.
Sometimes, it takes months or even years to arrive at a decision but during the period you are watching the deliveries and mannerisms of this person. That is why good things take time because they are usually a concert of people and ideas over a period of waiting time. There has to be synergy of key essentials.
Power of Interdependence
The power to use collaboration to achieve win-win is not common.
After we have attracted people and met them, we must ensure that we come alive in them and vice-versa. What this means is that we must learn to collaborate with people. And as hinted at the end of the preceding paragraph, collaboration is only possible if we learn to synergise and harmonise essential elements in us.
To collaborate effectively we must accept the strengths and weaknesses of others. Where they are weak we must be their strength instead of being a thorn in their flesh. We must learn to harness diversity and use inclusion. We are different from people just as they are different from us but because we have been thrown together in the same space, we must find a common ground to play and earn outcomes. Big wins are the results of great synergies.
Personal or Self-discipline
Self-discipline is the ability of the individual to know their boundaries and to diligently stay within same to such an extent that they do not become a burden to others. Without the power of self-discipline, it is impossible for anyone to lead themselves, let alone to lead others. Where you cannot lead yourself, you cannot even lead an effective life.
With self-discipline we use self-caution and regulation such that we know when to speak and when to listen. We are able to mortify our excesses and emotions. We live intentionally based on our awareness of ourselves. Through such high level consciousness, we are able to gain the confidence of others in our space. This earns the respect with which reciprocate others accordingly. With self-discipline, we keep vision, purpose and goal in view. That is needed focus.
While the law of attraction is good in itself, it is not enough because we have to invest practical efforts to ensure that the things and people we attract are used in the attainment of our shared vision. We have to equally see what negative things that we may have brought into our space based on our irrationalities. We must accept these things and keep them under control using the power of self-discipline.
We have to put in the work. How we manage it after we have gained access is where the fortune lies. Again, we must be careful about the things that we desire especially when we encounter them from the conscious space, because whether good or bad, it aligns with the law. The law of attraction does not discriminate. The subconscious mind does not discriminate or reject what the conscious mind has attracted. What the subconscious mind is fed by the conscious mind is what it receives and works on.
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