[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Sam988

The way i mitigate risks to my success is to consider what could go wrong in my plans, and to consider if i can live with it, should what i expect of going right but has risks of going wrong does end up failing.

Gasp ... So we have similarities, after all.

Of course i'm always optimistic about everything,

Which is more than I can say for myself.

but i do not fail to consider that things might go wrong. If i don't consider the risks, i would end up doing stupid decisions.
That's the problem i have with the belief that some people have in this forum.
They believe in the SR and believe that if they just believe strongly enough in something, it will happen. They believe, e.g., they can manipulate the stock market, the economy, or whatever, because it is inside "their world", "their creation".

It all depends on where you are, in your personal development with LOA. For example, I do not currently believe that I can use LOA to manipulate the stock market - however, I do believe that I can use LOA to be guided to make excellent investing decisions.

If, however, I were Bernanke or Greenspan or Buffett, I may well genuinely believe that I can manipulate the stock market. One way to do it would be as simple as to make loud predictions about the stock market and announce them to the media, triggering a mass response among public investors. Another way to do it would be (in Buffet's case) to suddenly sell or buy large amounts of particular stocks, especially in the smaller financial markets.

How abut a non-financial example? Eg I believe that I cannot run the 100m under 10 seconds. This limiting belief doesn't bother me, since I have zero aspirations to be a world-class athlete.

However in the world, there are people who do have such aspirations, and there are people who do believe that they can do it. And well, so they have. What were you thinking - that people unintentionally win Olympic gold medals?

So this is the crucial point that you don't see, Sam. There are limits and constraints, for LOA users and everyone else, as to what you can actually get yourself to think or believe. The challenge is to push or bypass those limits and constraints, where they are an obstacle to your desired goals and intentions. It doesn't mean that you need to push or bypass those limits and constraints on everything, and certainly it does not mean that you need to push or bypass those limits and constraints on things which currently appear bizarre or theoretically impossible to you.