Understanding the law of attraction has CHANGED my life.

I almost wish I was more eloquent that I could share my exact thoughts and feelings with you in a way that you would all understand.  I’ll have to be content with concrete examples of how I’ve used the techniques and what has happend as a result.

Issue 1:

5 years ago, I worked in a stressful corporate travel company. Sounds glamorous, but I assure you it was not. I worked on average 12-14 hours a day AT MY DESK. I was on call 24hrs a day. I single handedly managed the travel operations for the major opposition political party through the last election.  They were only ONE of my TWENTY FIVE high profile clients.  I had NO LIFE.

One night at my desk, in our grey office block, in the middle of a deserted CBD, I looked outside the window after having wrestled with a flight issue for a client stuck in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysisa) for several hours, and realised that it was after midnight, and that there were no other lights on anywhere in the building, or the building next door.

I was a freaking sucker.

Why the heck should I be giving my life away – and for what? Extra money? SO NOT WORTH IT.

I sat back in my chair again, tilted my head back and closed my eyes.

One day, I’m going to have a job, that I love. A job that allows me to be outdoors part of the time. Changes of scenery. One that allows me to spend the rest of the time at home, with my computer (I love my computer), making money from right there. Dealing with clients using email.  I wanted clients to approach me for stuff, not to have to go out and look for ‘sales’.

Solution 1:

About 2 years later, I was a completely different person.  I had begun photographing horse shows. I spent time outdoors, enjoying the fresh air, the excitement that was generated by the thudding of the horses hooves as they cantered past, was EXCITING.

I *LOVED* it.  Still do.  At my first show, I hadn’t been standing there for 10 minutes when people (who saw my camera) began to approach me and ask me for business cards, ask where they could see the photos, where they could buy them.

The rest of the week was spent, in front of my computer, editing, uploading, and processing orders from customers. No crazy “the airline won’t issue my ticket” problems from Gaborone, Botswana on a Sunday morning at 6am!

It dawned on me one day, when I’d just taken a large order, and sat back feeling totally satisfied.  The memory of me sitting at my desk in that dark city office block swam to the surface and I just smiled.

I had gotten EVERYTHING EXACTLY AS I HAD ASKED FOR IT.

Issue 2:

Education. I’ve told you all before how much I’ve longed to study again. It’s been a burning desire for some time now. It was a huge decision.  I kept doing my manifestation exercises for them.  I look at Angel Cards. They kept saying, “Study and education are essential to your lifes purpose right now. Do not be swayed by indecision, we will see to it that you have all the books, equipment and tuition money that you need. Ask and your dreams shall be answered.”  So I took the plunge.

Solution 2:

My husband got paid his annual bonus, and gave me some money. It was enough to cover the deposit, extra international shipping charges, and first months tuition. EXACTLY.

I got this bizarre internet opportunity from something I signed up for MONTHS AGO. It came to life, kicked in, and I earned $120 in the space of 20 minutes.  This covers the next 3 months tuition.

I am getting everything I ask for.

Issue 3:

As you know we’re on the look out for jobs in Australia. We’re not going the permanent residence up front application route for the simple fact that the application is hugely expensive, takes 2 years and there is no guarantee.  We have applied to New Zealand instead, as the cost is substantially lower, and you only pay the higher fees once you have a guarantee of acceptance.  So that’s effectively, our back up plan right now.  Plan A is still the job hunting in Australia. If nothing comes up in the next six months at least we’ll have some kind of answer from the NZ immigration dept by then, and will know how to proceed from there.

We could sit back and say, oh it’s too hard. It’s so stressful. The job climate isn’t what it was because of the global credit crunch.

I REFUSE TO SEE IT THAT WAY.  I keep feeling happy and excited and KNOW that we are GOING to GO and GET WHAT WE WANT.

The Solution:

A friend of my brothers, came out of the woodwork, he’s in my husbands line of work, and he’s been instrumental in helping us reformat things like my husbands resume – to meet Australian standards.

They like to have things formatted very differently to here. That is going to make a big difference in our job hunt, in getting the application seen by the right people.  He passed on my husbands resume to some contacts of his and two different companies would like to meet the hubby. How we’re going to get the airfare together for that is part of my new manifestation exercise – because we don’t want to use credit cards or overdraft for this – roll on internet money!) because they want to meet him in person.  90 % of cases I’ve heard of is that job hunting from overseas is hard, but if you’re there, you get hired quickly. It’s like they want to know that you’re really commited to going over, before they cover the cost of the work visas etc.

Another thing came up. A ‘Work In Australia’ Seminar. These are held twice a year here in Cape Town.  I got emailed about this one, did some research, decided to surprise the hubby with tickets.

To explain these seminars a bit for those of you not directly involved in your own immigration processes, they have a couple of speakers who talk about various subjects on how to help you immigrate and then the rest of the time is spent talking to employers from Australia, who have flown out looking for skilled candidates.

This time the immigration dept is coming out to assist people directly with their questions (wow a helpful govt department!), and also to promote Perth as a destination.    When the govt is involved it’s a very real possibility of a fast tracked visa if you have the right skills, but to find out, you need to be there.

The tickets cost R425.  I was a bit floored because the last seminar they were only R75.  For three days every morning when I logged in to look at the seminar programme, I’d close my eyes and be SO grateful that I’d found a way for my hubby to attend. That the money was not an issue.  I even asked him whether he wanted to attend the morning or afternoon session, and told him that I was on top of it.  Still no idea how to pull R425 out of my bum, now that I was using my net money to pay for my course.

Then two days ago, I’m checking my email at like 3am. Because I was up, and compelled to check it. Just got this weird feeling.

There, from the seminar organisers was an email saying, the first 10 people to reply to this email, stating their name, email address and choice of afternoon or morning session, would receive free tickets.  I check the time on the email, it was like 3:02am. It was now, 3:08am. I figured it was worth a shot and fired off the email.

What did I get this morning in my email in box?

Free Ticket to attend the session of his choice.

So, there are three concrete ways in which the law of attraction has worked for me.

It’s pretty powerful stuff. It’s what is keeping my positive and why I have those annoyingly upbeat status updates on facebook, and also why I effectively control the universe.

Anybody want world peace? Just gimme a second, I’ll work on it.

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