I will give you another chronologically documented example of LOA at work.
This year I had been working towards getting a promotion. My company announces promotions every February, so basically I have been working towards a promotion in Feb 07.
Well, I got tired. Because I felt that there is only so much I can do, towards getting my own promotion. Many other factors are outside my control - eg my boss's opinion, the number of promotions available, the performance of my other colleagues who also want the promotion.
So for certain reasons, I just decided to PRETEND to myself that promotion was inevitable. I would just ASSUME that it would happen. I just wanted to take some self-imposed pressure off myself. What I didn't know then is that this is a powerful IM technique - just ACT as if the thing had already happened, and it probably will.
Anyway, on
August 28th, I wrote this on my blog:
More on the Breakthrough « Little Strategies "I’ll assume that I will be promoted in Feb 2007. Thus I don’t need to focus on this anymore."
Thus I accidentally stumbled onto another key point in IM - detachment. That comes from the part where I wrote: "I don’t need to focus on this anymore."
Suddenly a series of events is activated. A few days later, in
early September, headhunters start calling me about interesting job opportunities elsewhere. One thing leads to another, and my bosses become aware of this. They get quite worried. By
3rd week of Sep, I get to write this on my blog:
Acting Like Godot: 2007 Career Goals "Market demand for professionals like me is currently very high. I get interesting, unsolicited phone calls from headhunters quite frequently. The latest two calls are indeed compelling. Word has gotten round, and in order to retain me, my own management has been promising me substantial salary upgrades early next year."
And guess what happens next? By
7 October 2006, there are further developments. I get an immediate salary increase - even though my company never increases anyone's salary at this time of the year. I get to write this:
Acting Like Godot: Money
"They had promised a promotion in Feb 2007. Yesterday - surprise, surprise - they pulled a rabbit out of their magic hat. I got an 80% salary increase, effective this month.
82% to be exact."
This is the biggest salary increase of my life.