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Originally Posted by Addict  I posted this as a response to a thread in the Business section. No one has responded to my reply yet. It actually seems more relevant here:
My god. This scares me. How many people actually have this thought process? A loan is not abundance. A loan is debt. It can help you. It can be beneficial. It is still debt.
The thing I hate about LOA and similar ideas is it's like this:
Person A-"You can have anything you want by wanting it and being positive."
Person B-"How do I start?"
Person A-"You must rid negative thoughts completely out of your head."
Person B-"What if I'm poor?"
Person A-"You must believe you are not poor."
Person B-"What if I stay poor?"
Person A-"You must believe you are getting richer"
Person B-"What if LOA fails?"
Person A-"It won't. You must believe that it won't fail."
So basically, for LOA to work, you have to convince yourself that it works and that is working regardless of your circumstances.
You keep getting poorer and the LOA keeps working for you (in your mind), because you've agreed to believe in it 100%. I don't want to hate on people's system, especially if it's working for them, but how do I know if it's working for them if they're going to convince themselves of their success one way or another? It seems like this line of reasoning is destructive as people will stop providing value (that in turn gets them real value) and instead wait on the universe to provide them their welfare check. Am I completely missing the point? |
That scenario can be played out in the sporting field. In fact any situation. It is usefull to identify something you want to change, and why, but useless to continue to focus on it. Focusing on your preferred state is necessary to achieve it. Wandering around saying the equivalent of woe is me, I am a poor, below average athlete, its no point trying to be something I'm not, or whatever, is useless. There are myriads of examples in all fields, where people held an image in mind, long before they were there, and it came into fruition. That's the common denominator. Their ability to do so, to stay focused on that image against popular derision, and positive, in seemingly impossible situations.
Bill gates left University to achieve his vision. He virtually went temporarily into education debt as a point of change. So, what would have he achieved by thinking, 'I cant do this, look at my reality, I am broke, I have lost my education, I am going backwards, face reality, I must stop deluding myself, wake up and get back to Uni'.
Leighton Hewitt dropped out of school, the population focused on the disaster of his lack of education. News papers chastised his parents. Where would he be if this and that happened. Again, he held his focus, despite at one stage just being a hopefull, who had dropped out of school.
Richard Branson, Robbie Williams (Robbie Williams teachers told him he wasn't much of a singer and dancer, and would never make it in showbiz), same thing. The list is huge. One of my mates recently told me that as a little kid he stuck a picture of a perfect surf break on his wall, Gland, and told me he dreamed about surfing it continually, despite being considered a 'kook' by his peers. He is a surfing legend now, described by world champion surfers as the best surfer to have ever surfed the place, and ended up as the first westerner to be employed there, and be able to live there. Its hilarious, his description of how everyone surfing it used to rant and rave about what a paradise it would be, to be able to live there. One day the Indonesians rounded everyone up, and said they wanted a camp manager. My mate said he's never seen so many people #### themselves, dribbling excuses coming from everywhere... 'wow, I'd love to, its just that my mom's auntie's, uncle's, sister needs a new toothbrush and I have to rush back and get it,' or 'gee I don't think my boss will let me, and I can't contact the bank manager...he might get angry'. His story interests me, because he has never read a personal development book in his life, and dropped out of school, but he had a crystal clear vision which he imagined vividly, daily.
And following your dream mightn't always mean it turns out exactly the way you thought. Leighton Hewitt may have become a coach, a manager, a guy working in a tennis store, a commentator, linesman, umpire, official, but at least would be involved in, contributing to something he loved. Who knows, once he experienced it, he may have decided a life in tennis wasn't for him. He may have gone back to school later. Neither is following your dream a guarantee that your whole life will suddenly be perfect...that takes belief and focus too. But, denying your dreams, a life without inspiration and dreams, without self power and belief. Not for me. Like we say in surfing, 'You'll never know if you never go.'