| Positive thinking is not all that's involved in leveraging | | | | entire world begins to change. |
| the Law of Attraction. There's actually quite a bit | | | | Tasha starts working harder in school. She may find a |
| more to it than that. Luckily managing the Law of | | | | counselor to guide her through the college application |
| Attraction is not our job, but the universe's. There's | | | | process. Her aunt continues to mentor her from afar. |
| just way too much involved. | | | | She may look at her friends in a different light when |
| That's why it's funny that if you listen to Law of | | | | they choose activities that will lead to the typical |
| Attraction critics, they invariably talk about how you | | | | inner city dead-end. She may choose different |
| can't sit around visualizing a red sports car and have | | | | classes than her friends. |
| one magically materialize of out thin air. | | | | Next she may become active in activities inside and |
| Well if that were true everyone would have a bunch | | | | outside of her immediate community. Finally at the |
| of stuff and the universe would be a lot less | | | | end of the process she receives a scholarship and |
| complicated that it is. So I agree with the critics on | | | | enters college. |
| that count. | | | | How did all of this being? With positive thinking. Was |
| The fact is that that the universe is one complicated | | | | that the end all and be all of the |
| place and so is the Law of Attraction. | | | | Law of Attraction. No? |
| Take the butterfly effect for example. The butterfly | | | | Tasha's positive thinking allowed her to open up to a |
| effect is a phrase initiated by MIT meteorology | | | | whole new world of possibilities. Her environment and |
| Edward Lorenz. It is the concept the even the | | | | her actions began to change. But it all started with |
| smallest of events - like a butterfly flapping its wings | | | | positive thinking. |
| - can have a huge and widespread consequences. | | | | I like to think of the process of leveraging the Law |
| The same kind of thing happens when you begin to | | | | of Attraction in terms of what you are CALLED to |
| think positively. Imagine a young girl named Tasha, | | | | do. |
| who attends an inner city high school. Up until her | | | | C - Choose what it is that you want |
| freshman year of college it seemed inevitable that | | | | A - Anticipate what it will be like to have what you |
| she would end up a pregnant teen like so many of | | | | want |
| the people around her. | | | | L - Listen to your intuition |
| But then everything changes when she goes to stay | | | | L - Look for opportunities |
| with her aunt for a month. She sees a world she | | | | E - Expect your desire to come true |
| never really believed existed. She is acknowledged | | | | D - Do what it takes to make it happen |
| for her intelligence, creativity and common sense. | | | | But it really does all start with positive thinking, |
| All of a sudden this young girl from a high school with | | | | because without a positive thought, there is no new |
| over a sixty percent drop out rate begins to believe | | | | direction or opportunity. |
| that it may be possible to go to college and her | | | | |