Clickincome Success Secrets - The Secret Law of Attraction
Many of my Clickincome clients are familiar with a book (and movie) that came out in 2006 called "The Secret." Not because I told them about, mind you. It was just a popular topic a year or so ago. You might have heard about it, too. I've read the book. It's not bad.
What they describe is a phenomenon called the "Law of Attraction." Rhonda Byrne, who wrote and produced "The Secret," isn't the first person to describe this phenomenon. The concept can be found in Hinduism and, by its influence, in Theosophy. The term "Law of Attraction" was first used by Helen Blavatsky in her 1877 book, "Isis Unveiled: Secrets of the Ancient Wisdom Tradition." In 1906, William Walker Atkinson described it in his book "Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World." This book forever linked the Law of Attraction with the New Thought movement.
"What has all this got to do with my Clickincome website?" you may be wondering. I can't blame you. To me, the Law of Attraction has more to do with the way you think, and the way that thinking makes you act, than it does with anything else. The way you think about your Clickincome website, or any ecommerce venture, is going to affect the outcome of your endeavors.
Simple put, the Law of Attraction applies the principle of "like attracts like" to the level of thought and conscious desire. The idea is that person's thoughts - conscious or unconscious - emotions, and beliefs can create a change in the physical world around them. This effect creates, or attracts, positive or negative, experiences based on whatever those thoughts are. Positive thoughts attract positive results. Negative thoughts attract negative results.
Let's put it another way. If you want something, I mean REALLY want something, you'll get it. If you don't want something, and again I mean that you REALLY don't want it, guess what? You'll get that, too. Whatever you think about, is what you attract into your life. In other words, your thoughts determine your experience.
There's no scientific evidence to support this, of course. The scientific community has criticized the misuse of the term "law" and rightly so. There's simply no scientific evidence to support the claims made by zealous proponents of the Law of Attraction, or within the New Thought and spirituality movements in general.
But, something is going on here. I've tried it, under various guises, and to some degree it seems to work. This does nothing for the scientific argument, though. All such "evidence" is anecdotal, self-selecting, and very subjective, including my own experiences. I suspect it has more to do with "thoughts determining action" than something more esoteric but, I've experienced weirder things in my life. I just can't dismiss it out of hand.
How we think about things seems to determine the results we will get, if they are coupled with action. I believe that if we think about things in a positive way, we will naturally take action that will lead to a positive result. If we think about things in a negative way, we will naturally lead ourselves to that negative result. Our thoughts seem to create self-fulfilling prophecies. This includes building a web site, though Clickincome or some other service.
Some of you might be thinking, "Oh no! What can I do? Now I'm afraid of my own thoughts!" You don't have to be. The nice part about our psyche is that we have the ability to monitor our thoughts through feelings. It's not a perfect system, but it's a pretty good one.
Whenever you're doing something that is in line with a positive thought, you feel good. Whenever you're doing something that's in line with a negative thought, you feel unhappy. All you've got to do, then, is pay attention to what you're feeling.
If you feel good about what you're doing, then your thoughts and actions are in line with what you want. If you feel bad about what you're doing, your thoughts and actions are in line with what you don't want. It really is that simple.
Sometimes it's hard to keep our thoughts positive. We are inundated day after day by negative messages. The news media thrives on negative stories because, for some reason, negative stories attract the most attention, and sell the most advertising (making that news outlet more money).
To make things worse, there's a group of people that seem to want us to fail. Consciously or unconsciously, they want us to fail. They act like crabs.
Crab fisherman dump their crabs into holding 'pots.' Most of the crabs will fight and even kill each other to get to the top of the heap. Other, smarter crabs, try to scale the walls to get out. The other crabs notice these climbing crabs, come to the wall, and grab the climber, and hauling them back down to the bottom where the crabs are 'supposed' to be.
Psychologists call this the "crab pot mentality." When one member of a group tries to find something better, and starts working to get out, the other members of the group fell threatened and pull them back down.
The bottom line is, don't let these crabs get to you. Don't give in to negative peer pressure and start basking in fear. Don't be a crab.
Remember. Thinking and, ultimately, acting in positive, powerful ways will get you what you want. Giving in to the crabs will keep you at the bottom of the pot.