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Originally Posted by Foggy  However, why create a bunch of new-age mumbo-jumbo for a pretty simple reality which is that if you really connect with a goal and work hard/smart for it, chances are you will reach it if it's possible. |
What about the goals/desires a person has that he apparently has no direct control over? He puts out an intention, maybe thinking "I sure wish this would happen," and then it just happens.
When I first started college, I applied for a single room at the dorm. I knew it was unlikely I'd get one, though I wanted it really bad. I prayed about it, saying I really wanted a single room, but if it would be better for me to have a double, that was ok too.
I got assigned a roommate and we got in touch, and she was a junior. She said she'd applied for a single room and decided if she didn't get it, she was moving off-campus.
So when I got to school, I had a single room. And the university had a policy that if you got a single room by default, you could keep it if you were willing to kick out the extra money for it.
The LOA and IM explains this sort of thing a lot better than working hard for a goal does.