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I’m Confused! Do I Need to Take Action or Not?

People are constantly asking me for the answer to the question “Do I need to take action or not when using Law of Attraction?”

Some teachers say not to take action while others insist you must take action. Here’s how I see it.

The answer is… no and yes.

Let me explain. When setting the energy in motion for your desire using Law of Attraction, your “Vibrational Request” is in the manifestation process and you will begin to attract things - people, contacts, resources, opportunities and ideas, in perhaps a day or two or longer that are in alignment to your desire. Maybe just a little at first or maybe a lot but it’s working.

When you take direct action right away, you’re stopping the flow of possibilities that the Law of Attraction may be sending to you. For example, you may have decided you’d like to attract more money and now you’re searching for a part-time job. In doing so, you are not allowing the Law of Attraction to present to you multiple other ways that you can attract more money besides a part-time job.

It’s like doing an internet search and telling the internet where to find the exact information you’re looking for. That’s not your job! Your job is to submit your request and let the internet figure out where to find the webpage of the information you’re seeking.

So when your search yields 20 or 25 pages and hundred’s of websites, your first job is to check out those pages and to see how close your match is. The websites that are coming up in your search are a result of the direct feedback of the search criteria you entered.

In both cases, you’ll know you’ve attracted your ideal match by how it feels.

It’s now time to take action!

For example, my friend Anna desired a new vehicle and she did her clarity through contrast exercise to help her identify the ideal vehicle and purchase. She did this on a Saturday morning and was so stimulated, she decided that afternoon she would go window shopping for her ideal vehicle. Before heading out, she also did some research by looking through the Lemon Aid™ car guide, searching over internet sites, and then drove from used car lot to lot searching for her ideal vehicle. End result? She came home frustrated and disappointed when she didn’t find it. I reminded her that she wasn’t using Law of Attraction at all in this process and that she was using her own shopping abilities to look for the vehicle instead.

Law of Attraction had just gotten her request 2 hours before and hadn’t had time to unfold and orchestrate results for her. We both laughed when I said “Even a professional auto finder wouldn’t have found it in 2 hours!” I reminded her that her job was to identify what she wanted, set the energy in motion and watch for matches coming to her. Despite my advice, next Anna hired an auto finder (for the sum of $649.00) to find her her ideal vehicle, again not allowing Law of Attraction to do its job, and he failed to find a match for her. Finally, totally disheartened, she said “That’s enough!” and decided to let Law of Attraction do its job. She then sent out the vibes to the universe to find her the perfect car, at the perfect price from a person she could totally trust. When she arrived at work the next morning, she found a telephone number of a guy who sold used cars (which she’d totally forgotten she’d had), and gave him a call. Not only did he have exactly the car she desired, at the price she was willing to pay, he was also a Master Technician for a well known car dealership. She is now the proud owner of the exact perfect match (yes, a vehicle including sun roof, leather seats, CD player and all the criteria she’d asked for!) and a mechanic she trusts to service her new vehicle, all delivered courtesy of the Law of Attraction. After a brief phone call with him, she knew she’d found the ideal match… by how it felt. NOW is time to take action.

In summary, identify what you desire, set the energy in motion, let Law of Attraction figure it out and know the time to take action is when it feels just right. Get out of your own way and let Law of Attraction do its work!

You Are Here

Recently I drove into Austin and met with the staff who run my Attractor Factor Coaching program and my Hypnotic Marketing Coaching Program.

I had some exciting news to share with them, and some astonishing news arrived while I was there.

In the morning The Today Show called, wanting information on my forthcoming book, Zero Limits.

That’s pretty big, but not as big as the news that came later.

At lunch I handed out the recently completed bibliography of my life’s work so far — 45 pages of books, e-books, audios, videos, software, fitness formulas, and more — an entire listing of everything I’ve created up to now. The heft of the document alone impressed even me.

But that wasn’t the biggest news of the day, either.

At lunch with the staff, I stood up and told them something that I felt inspired to share.

I put a dot on the whiteboard on the wall and circled it.

“You are here,” I said.

I told them the whiteboard is like the map at the mall where all the stores are listed and a little box says “You are here” to give you your bearings.

“Where do you want to go from here?” I asked.

“Up,” someone said.

“Off the whiteboard itself,” someone else said.

“This is all good,” I went on. “You all want to move up. You want more sales, more results, more wealth. Right?”

They all agreed.

I then put another dot on the board, way up at the top of it, and circled it.

“That represents where you want to go,” I said.

I then asked the key question, “How do you go from where you are to where you want to be?”

They were quiet for a moment, but then began saying things like “Take a straight line,” and “Do one thing at a time,” and “Make more sales calls,” and so on.

“That’s all good,” I said. “Those are all practical answers. But I want you to think in terms of the movie The Secret and my book The Attractor Factor.”

I added, “I’m going to tell you what I think is the greatest secret to manifesting whatever you want.”

They were quiet, not sure where I was going with all this.

“Does anyone want to know what the secret is?” I asked.

They all burst out laughing. They definitely wanted to know.

I pointed at the little “You are here” dot and said, “The secret to getting what you want is to totally appreciate this moment. When you are grateful for this moment, then whatever is next for you will bubble up out of this moment. You’ll be inspired to take action of some sort. That will lead you up. But the only way to get to the upper dot is to live in this dot with gratitude.”

They’ve all heard this before, but I wanted them to truly get it.

I then told them about my Maui friend who says my favorite line these days: “I’m totally satisfied, I just want more.”

That’s the key to success, I explained.

It’s wanting more without needing more.

I went on and on about being grateful, and how it leads to that upward climb. Most of us aren’t happy right now, thinking we will be happy when we get to that other dot. But the great joke is that when you get to the other dot, you won’t be happy. You’ll be looking for another dot on the map. You’ll use unhappiness to whip yourself forward. The thing is, it doesn’t have to be that way.

Just be happy now.

Out of this now will come the miracles you seek.

The group got the message. They shook my hand. Smiled. Showed light in their eyes. Walked away with a spring in their step.

Now here’s the really juicy part.

I got a phone call right after that meeting. It was Suzanne, my assistant. She almost never calls me, and she knew I was in a meeting. So I knew this call had to be important.

I took the call and to my delight I learned that Oprah’s people wanted my media kit.

And they wanted it by midnight.

Oprah’s folks are considering me as a guest for a show.

Oprah!

Now get this: I was happy in the moment. As I’m happy, the next moment brings it’s own rewards. As I’m happy in that moment, it too gives birth to more joy.

You can do this, too. You may not have Oprah call you, but you will get what is right for you. I explain all of this in the book, Zero Limits. But the essence of the message is this:

All you have to do is embrace the dot that says “You are here” and do what it tells you to do.

And when the phone rings, answer it!

Ao Akua,

Joe

PS - If you want more information on either of my coaching programs, see http://www.attractorfactorcoaching.com/ and also http://www.hypnoticmarketingcoaching.com

Enjoy the dot.

Lately, I’ve been pondering the question how much of life is about being and how much about doing? Actually, I understand the Law of Attraction and know that Everything is consciousness. I also understand about inspired action. It’s no good to just go about doing. We are not meant to be human doings but human beings. I know this. And yet, some things don’t seem to be getting done that I want done - and I don’t seem to be inspired to do them,.

Yesterday, I heard Dr. Oz on Oprah saying - most people wait to be motivated to do something and the opposite is true, you have to do something to get motivated. This is an interesting statement. Don’t you think? What DO you think? I’d love to hear.

One of the main principles I teach is that what you focus on increases…and if you focus on what you are grateful for, you begin to see more. If you find yourself focusing on what there isn’t enough of - it - first of all feels awful - and secondly - produces MORE of the same… We don’t have enough money; there isn’t enough time; I don’t have enough self-esteem – I have discovered that one of the thing that stops me most is my belief in NOT ENOUGHNESS

Usually toward the end of the year, for example, I ask - what have I accomplished? Mostly - what HAVEN”T I done that I wanted to do or thought I SHOULD HAVE done? Do you see yourself here?

Sometimes we look forward and we make a list that says - This year I’m going to…. Which is usually another list of the things we are berating ourselves for - that we don’t have enough of or do enough of…

Lately, instead I am choosing to focus on ABUNDANCE - which basically is an attitude of Gratitude that says THERE IS ALWAYS ENOUGH…

Abundance is our divine birthright. It is a quality of God, and therefore, by analogy, one of the qualities we all inherit as ‘children of God.

This idea of focusing on qualities rather than on resolutions is very powerful… and something you’ll be hearing a lot more from me on. (It’s the topic of my new book and CD’s – coming soon!)

Qualities of God are not TO DO lists - They are WHO GOD IS - they are therefore more about BEING than they’ll ever be about DOING. And, we are made in the image and likeness of God - and like most of us have finally probably realized with our own parents or children - the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree…and in this case, we inherit ALL of the Qualities of God - because we are individualized expressions of God… Does this make sense? This is an essential point in New Thought - WE ARE ALREADY
all these things - but we bury them over with layers of FEAR -

Whatever you think you could use more of - start giving more of it…. There’s a great song I want to play at our offering — SEND OUT MORE….

Physicists and people like Deepak Chopra have taught us that by focusing on a particle we actually bring that particle into existence. There is no need for effort - or strain - isn’t that good news. We simply need to put our
attention on what we want instead of what we don’t want. Whatever we focus on increases in our lives. Whatever we send out - that’s what we start to get…

If we focus on lack, for example, we tend to create more of it in our lives. Likewise, if we focus on abundance, we’ll create more of that as well.

Did you ever notice that those who talk about being ill a lot are usually ill? The Master teacher, Jesus said, as you believe, so shall it be done to you. We show outwardly what we truly believe in by the words we speak. We may say we believe in health, for example, but if our conversation is always on our illnesses, or our fear of illnesses, that’s what we bring about in our life.

If you focus always on what went wrong in the past, you are doomed to repeat the past. The course in Miracles says, That which we resist persists. The reason that it persists is that that is what we are giving our attention to.

So, I am inviting you to choose a quality of God and GIVE YOUR ATTENTION To it… EVERYDAY.