This being the first post of 2008, let me start out on a positive note and talk about the law of attraction and particularly the part that action plays in the achievement process.

According to Dr Joe Vitale in his latest book, The Key, it seems that when you are clear about what you want and clear from any unhelpful, limiting beliefs, mindsets or thoughts that might hinder you and also clear on the emotions that you will experience when you get what you want, sometimes action is almost not required. Your intention comes about unexpectedly and coincidentally, without you having to do anything at all.

I am not sure about the individual opinions of other law of attraction experts, teachers and mentors, but I find Dr Vitale’s observation to be true.

But I should stress the word ’sometimes’. Sometimes action is almost not required on your part.

And I should also stress the word ‘almost’. Sometimes actions is almost not required on your part.

Most of the time, from what I personally observe, the incident in which your intention seems to ‘manifest’ is usually a coincidence, a chance meeting of people or just an idea to do something that you had not tried before in order to get what you intend to get.

What comes after that is the follow up action.

You still have to act in that moment to communicate with that certain someone if he or she would be willing to engage in a transaction or do something with or for you, whatever your goal was.

You still have to act in that moment of seeming coincidence and take advantage of it whatever it was.

You still have to act on that idea which just struck you.

If you don’t act, if you somehow stall either because of an unknown and unclear fear, doubt or worry in your mind, or because of a sudden negative “What if something goes wrong?” thought that appears, you are in the way of attracting what you intended.

But then if let’s say your intention was to jump off a plane with a parachute while you only had minimal training and a thought stops you before you make your jump, for your own sake, listen to that stopping thought. Get more training, overcome your hesitations and fears comprehensively before you actually jump.

Not only do you have to tune in to your feelings as equally as you listen to your rational mind, you also have to rate the intensity and accordingly judge the validity of your thoughts and feelings.

Usually if there is something wrong that your conscious mind might not yet pick up, and consciously you think that you are on the right track and the entire rational aspect of you says you should go ahead although you still have some queasy and uncomfortable feeling, stop and ask yourself if that uneasiness is justified.

Ask yourself, “Is my feeling of uneasiness a result of fear or a legitimate concern? What is at risk here? What can I lose? What is the worst that can happen to me? Can I live with that? What is the best that can happen to me if I go ahead? How strongly do I want that? What are the odds of negative consequences befalling me if I go ahead? What are the odds of realising positive consequences if I go ahead? What can I do to ‘take out an insurance’ for myself in case of negative consequences befalling me? How can I deliberately tip the odds to favour positive consequences happening to me? What can I fall back on? What can I expect to experience if I go ahead and succeed?”

If you are unclear, you must do everything in your power to be clear. Gain that clarity. Asking questions of the above sort can help you gain that clarity.

Know however that clarity also can make you decide to either go ahead with full confidence or refrain from a course of action with certain wisdom. Either way, that clarity you gain is still to your advantage.

Never suppress your lack of clarity until you can almost not feel it (and have the illusion of clarity) and go on ahead with a certain course of action which you might not have satisfactorily calculated all its variables. Do not mistake the suppression of the lack of clarity with the attainment of clarity itself. This could be dangerous.

But in your bid to attain clarity about your thoughts and emotions, you should not over analyse until you are paralysed by inaction either.

Think about the worst (yes, I’m actually suggesting you can think about the worst even though you might attract it), ask yourself if you can live with it, think about how you can minimise its damage, then when you are satisfied and clear enough about the negative possibility, let it go and start to flood your mind with the positive possibilities, of what you can achieve if you go on ahead with a certain course of action. Think about the positive possibilities with utmost clarity and expectancy.

This is in a way an implementation of the oft-repeated piece of advice, “Hope for the best, prepare for the worst”, only I’d like to change that to, “Prepare for the worst, but hope, plan for and expect the best”.

Why would I tell you to ‘prepare for the worst’ even though by preparing, we are actually thinking about the worst, hence, bringing about it? Allow me to strengthen my notion.

One, there is not a single conscious being on the Planet who can be infallibly, immaculately and impeccably free of all thoughts, ideas, notions or feelings that might go against their desires in such a way that their intentions come about perfectly effortlessly.

Two, perhaps by saying this I am creating this reality, but even if I am wrong, a vast majority of people, although they have come upon the idea of the law of attraction and are working to implement it in their lives, would not be able to achieve such a ‘level’ described above (to be immaculate, impeccable and infallible in thoughts).

Hence, the ’safest’ bet would be to prepare for the worst; not in a way that you would worry and obsess yourself about it, but in a rational, detached, objective and positive way, just as you would wear a helmet to a construction site even though you are the most positively expectant construction manager in the world, or just as you would put on your seat belts even though you are the most positive thinking driver in the world.

If you have sufficiently and appropriately prepared yourself for the worst, naturally you would not want to think about it any more because you would safely feel that the worst is highly unlikely. Hence, when you do not think about it any more (because you had adequately prepared for it), you would not attract it.

Then, when you begin to entertain the more positive possibilities, hope for the best, plan for the best and expect the best, your eventual attraction of the best possible circumstances is almost guaranteed.

A wise man once said, “Trust God, but tie your camel”.

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