Attract What You Want

Why are some people successful and manage to attract everything they want compared to the rest? Why can’t I have my dream house, my dream car or my dream job? Why, why, oh why...

Have you ever thought like this before? If yes, then welcome to the not so happening club! There are millions of people experiences the same. Instead of using their wonderful asset called the MIND to attract what they want, we are wasting our precious energy and postponing or literally canceling the benefits of our power.

For the past week, I was having a recurrence of events, which is related to what I have read in 'The Secret', 'Law of Attraction' and almost all other self development books.

Early last week, I was parking my car in the office car park when I realized that there was this new model Camry that was being parked at my director's car spot. I was astonished as he uses an old Camry.

I saw my big boss getting down from the car. I asked him and he said he just got this car. I recall him talking about this car with passion for a few months and even well aware of the details of the car.

Today I bumped into my cousin. He just changed his car to a BMW 5 series. He has been talking about this car for quite a while. He has been having this image of getting into the car, putting on the seat belt, starting the engine…etc. He even test drove this car a few years ago although he could not afford it at that time.

Being curious, I asked him about this. He started talking about his experience with a gentleman called Francis Khoo, whom he interviewed in 1997. The gentleman told him that to be successful we will have to visualize the details.

This man pulled out images of car. ‘You need to have the clear detail of what you want, how you want it to be, how will you feel when you put on the seat belt, when you drive it…etc.’ This is exactly what “The Secret” says and I bet you it was not out in 1997!

And there is living proof now of this as his wish for BMW 5 series materialized.

If you really, really want something, don’t ever say “no”, “not”, “cannot” or “don’t”.

If you say I don’t want to be poor. The mind takes the message anyway as a negative vibe (as in “poor”). This will dilute or remove out all the positive aspects of what you need to do. It is useless to then go ahead and do something as 99% it will not turn out to be as expected.

Other than work, I always have problems in other areas like investment and business. I had not been getting good returns. I always used to feel bad about it. However, now I understand where it went wrong.

It’s always been like - I won’t fail, I won’t lose money, I won’t make mistakes…etc. Of course I will. At work till now, I have never thought I will not fail. Whenever at work, it has always been I will come out of this successfully. I am now going to use the same principle for my other areas of life and I am pretty confident I will share with you the successful results in future blog.

Say you want to be rich is not enough. You have to have a set goal - how much money do you want in your current account. Visualize the feeling of having it already. Believe you can do it and then start working on it. If possible, do a mock statement of your bank account. Look at it, visualize it to make it real.

There is a very good article which our friend YC shared with us. Its “Doing without doing”. Now it’s not that you are just sitting somewhere and not doing anything expecting a windfall!

What it says is you first have to belief. Unwavering belief of what you want, why you want to do, followed by the visualization and then lastly only followed by the action. The ‘intention’ or the ‘Why’ is the key.

In short it is “being - having and then doing”, which is similar and linked to the car incident earlier shared by my cousin.

Always remember that your mind is like a garden. Either cultivate it with good fertile soil, tend to it to be vibrant or allow it to be muddled. As we are going to live our lives anyway, why don’t we opt for this first option? You have the choice!

GKing