Part of the LoA is action.
When you intend something, and believe you will recieve it you act as though you already have it.
As with the (excellent) lotto example, you must sometimes take action to initiate the process to create what you intend.
In my life I have often found that action was foisted upon me to get what I had intended.
I was working as a corporate IT trainer for an international IT company for a while, but I realised that I had learned just about everything I could teaching those same classes over an over. I wanted to keep learning, but I also wanted a few other things...
- To keep learning.
- To increase my salary
- To stop having to wear a suit all day
- Easier work
- Flexible hours
- Variety in my work
However the job was too good to leave. The salary was good, location good, team great, job mostly fun even though tough. I was also the top trainer in the student evaluations, and all the company KPI's and my mananger was grooming me to take over from her.
After I put that intention out, the education dept had a sudden drop in business and were forced to retrench several instructors. However the company has a last in - first out policy for retrenchment. I was the second youngest employee. So despite my top performance I was let go.
But it turned out to be exactly what I intended.
I got a $15,000 payout, got to leave while still maintaining good relations with the company and I then walked straight into a new job which gave me
exactly what I asked for above. But I had been forced into action by my intention.
The same thing happened when I decided I wanted to live in Japan. I got an out of the blue phone call from my friend who was living here at the time offering me his apartment and furniture if I moved to Japan in 3 weeks. I made it in 2.5.
My other forced into action one was with a house. I was living with a roomate from hell, but the house was too good to give up. But I was losing so much energy in conflicts with him that I was stuggling to keep my development up. I wanted to live by myself but I couldn't afford it at the time, (you often need to pay about 6 months rent in advance in Japan) and I wanted to get away from this person but felt like I couldn't leave the house.
But just as I was in the process of changing jobs, we had a big argument. He went and said something to the landlord and got me evicted. I still to this day don't know what he said because the land lord wouldn't speak to me.
Anyway, the new company hearing about my situation offered to help me secure a new house. Lower rent, better location, by myself, great size. Better in every respect than the one I left. But I had been forced to take the action required.
I could also list several dozen examples where I chose the action, but the bottom line is action is required. However as pointed out by Bob Doyle I think in The Secret (paraphrased, but possibly a correct quote, as I use thsi in my classes) :
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Action will sometimes be required, but if it is in line with what the universe is trying to deliver it's going to feel joyous, your going to feel so alive, you could do it all day.
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I live my life by the LoA now, and it hasn't let me down yet. Everything I have written down and focussed upon I have gotten.