Have you been hearing the buzz about the Law of Attraction? If you haven't, chances are you've been living in a cave. It's the hottest topic in the non-traditional business communities and it's rapidly finding its way into the most traditional boardrooms in the country.
On the off chance you haven't heard about this, there's one very painless way to learn about it. It's a movie called The Secret. You don't even have to buy the DVD to watch it. If you have a relatively fast Internet connection, you can "rent" it for $4.95 and watch it online. If you decide you want to purchase the DVD after that you can even deduct the cost of the rental from the purchase price. You can read more about this very well-made movie here. That movie will lead you to a ton of other teachers. I'll probably be talking more about this as well and I'm sure I'll tuck my favorite resources in here as well.
If you don't even want to do that much to learn what this law is all about, here's the really short version (my short version). What you focus on, good or bad, is attracted to you. I could go on for hours but I really want to get to the reason I wanted to write this particular post.
I've known about the Law of Attraction for ages. I even thought I was paying attention to its principles for the most part. I could never figure out why my life wasn't a smashing success with all the focus I put on getting ahead. Again, another story for another time. In fact, I posted about this very thing here.
About a year ago I made an active decision to stop playing around with my Virtual Assistance business and go all out to make it a full-time career. I started by getting a personal and business coach. I've written about Deanna Davis before. I was very fortunate. She is no longer coaching because the other business ventures she's involved in have taken off so quickly she doesn't have time to coach any more.
The a dear friend of mine sent me a book about the Law of Attraction called Ask and It Is Given. I read that and figured out why I wasn't successful yet. I then started putting into practice what I learned there.
Just to give me a little extra time to build my business, the Universe kindly got me fired. That was pretty scary but it was absolutely perfect, of course.
I was still kind of clunking along on the whole Law of Attraction thing. It was working rather nicely for me but not quite as much as I had hoped for. I was making exactly enough to pay my bills each month. Hey, that's not awful considering it takes most people well over a year to build a suffiently large enough practice to support themselves but I had really been hoping for something more akin to "doing very well" than to "doing just fine."
I continued to read and watch DVDs and go to events and then, a little over a month ago, something clicked and I got it. I wish I could tell you exactly what it was or how I did it but it seems to have been a lot of little things. Here's how I know it actually worked for me.
I was sitting in my office one day nearly two months ago when the phone rang. It was a marketing consultant in Los Angeles who had found my phone number while searching for more information on Deanna Davis--that coach I was telling you about earlier. She wrote a book I reviewed very favorably in a post right here. The post led him to my web site and that led him to me.
What he said that was so amazingly Law of Attraction was something like this. "I know I hate doing the administrative tasks of running a business but I truly want to have my own business. I'm not big enough to hire someone full-time but I need help. When I saw your website I knew you could help me." He became my client immediately and we've been working together ever since. In fact, last month I earned three times what I did the month before and his business was responsible for half of that increase.
That, alone, would have been enough to erase any shred of doubt I might still have about the whole Law of Attraction thing but that's not the end of it. This same client said he thought he might need another senior VA-type person because his business was growing so quickly he needed more help. He knew I had other clients and didn't want to ask more than I could give.
On top of that, I received a response to an email I sent four months ago. I was writing to her to comment on one of those "small world" things that had happened and included her, a woman I have never met. Her response included a comment that she wanted to talk with me about working together! Oh my goodness! I'm getting more business than I can handle.
What does that mean? That means I get to find people to help me do the work! I get to provide income to other people! Now that's Law of Attraction!
I'll keep you posted on how this goes and more resources in case you're interested.
Until next time...
