Remember the movie, “CITY SLICKERS” with Billy Crystal and Jack Palance? Remember on the cattle drive when Jack Palance’s character Curly holds up his forefinger and says “The key to life is just one thing!” Well, A few days ago I received a gift of the book, “THE LAW OF ATTRACTION” by Esther and Jerry Hicks and I now know that “one thing” and am ready to pass the secret on to you. First, allow me to say that what has struck me most in reading this great book is how similar the Law of Attraction principles are to the more common principles of goal setting.
For those of you who don’t know, the Law of Attraction says, “that which is like unto itself, is drawn.” In other words, we receive those things in life, good or bad, that we think about most. I thought that goal setting is based on the very same concept.
Why do people with goals succeed in life…and people without them fail?
Well, let me share something with you that can alter your life immediately. If you understand it totally like Curly did, your life will never be the same from this moment on. You won’t see everyone else having all the good luck because if you understand what I am going to share with you, you’ll suddenly find that good luck just seems to be attracted to you also. You will find that the things you want will just seem to fall in line and from now on you won’t have the problems, the worries, the gnawing lump of anxiety that we have all experienced before. Doubt, anxiety and fear will be things of the past.
Here is the key to success and the key to failure that Curly was alluding to:
We become and achieve what we think about most!
Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement.
Consider what Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman Emperor, said: “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.”
Benjamin Disraeli said this: “Everything comes if a man will only wait. I have brought myself by long meditation to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfillment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson said this: “A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
Well, it’s pretty apparent, isn’t it? And I will bet that every person who discovered this believed (for a while) that he was the first one to work it out.
We become what we think about.
So whether it is called goal setting or the Law of Attraction, the principles are exactly the same. What we think and focus on most defines who we are and our station in life. Thanks, Curly!
Have a great day! Rick
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