My Story #8 - I Discover the Law of Attraction

At the end of part 7 I growing increasingly dissatisfied with my new job and my desire to quit and go back to self employment was burning stronger and stronger. I was becoming deeply engrossed in Internet Marketing and then in the summer of 2007 I heard of something called the Thirty Day Challenge. Funnily enough, the last post I wrote on my IM blog was the wrap of the 30DC for 2008!

Anyway, in a nutshell the 30DC is a course about Internet Marketing and I took the course but there several special things that happened to me during the challenge. First of all, there was a special something about the guy behind the challenge - Ed Dale, I couldn’t put my finger on it but I knew I wanted to meet him. He lived in Australia and I live in the UK but never mind. The other thing was that I got really excited about the challenge, or the potential that it held.

I knew, just knew from my very soul that I could make a living online. I didn’t know if the 30DC techniques were the vehicle (they’re not, as it turns out) but that didn’t matter. I couldn’t stay in the day job any longer, and on the 22nd August, before the challenge was over and before I even earned a single dollar I handed in my resignation!

A week later, Ed Dale came to London to meet up with local challengers, I jumped on a train and got to meet him! At the time I didn’t see the significance of this but now I know that was Law of Attraction working for me. Stranger still, it was at this meet up that I learned about Law of Attraction.

There were about a dozen people there and I spent quite a while chatting to a guy called Mark Attwood. I’m sure he doesn’t remember me at all but I will always remember him because that conversation I had with him changed my life more radically than anything that came before it. I had actually heard of LoA in passing a few times but I didn’t know what it was.

We were talking about money, online business, success etc and he just asked me, “so, do you believe in Law of Attraction?”. “What is that? I’ve heard of it…”, I asked. He asked me if I had read the book Think and Grow Rich. My jaw almost hit the floor - that was the book that had started my first transformation 5 years earlier. I remember reading it and thinking that I never understood “the secret” that it was supposed to contain. Mark told me to watch the movie, “The Secret” and said it was a modern day explanation of Law of Attraction.

The true realisation didn’t come for another couple of weeks because after the meet up I forgot all about it. However, I had been set on a path by then and a couple of weeks later I came across something about The Secret and then I remembered our conversation. I got the DVD and when I watched it I felt the most amazing series of AHA moments I had ever experienced!

Everything suddenly made sense - I looked back at everything that had gone wrong (and right) in my life, my drinking, the loss of my career, the depression, the dodgy Internet business, University and I could see with such clarity exactly how I had attracted everything that I had ever experienced.

At first I felt a bit angry at myself because knowing this meant that I was responsible but of course, I knew this already because I had already started to take responsibility a few years earlier since reading the books on personal growth. But after I stopped beating myself up I watched the movie again (I’ve watched it lots now!) and then I started to dream…

I spent the the next two months thinking intensely about every aspect of my life and decided exactly how I wanted it to be. I thought about my family, and how I wanted the relationship with my partner to improve. I thought about my relationship with our son and what our family could look like in the future. I thought about my work and business life and of course, money. I thought about what money could buy - travel, adventure, a nice home. I thought about the time I wanted to spend with friends, the sports I wanted to do, the sights of the world I wanted to see and on and on.

Every day I spent time just day dreaming, visualising this future and it felt really good. Finally I felt as though I was in control. I had let go of all my past demons, I had completely changed as a person, I was deliberately choosing my life and I felt as though nothing could stop me from getting everything I wanted.

So you can imagine my shock, disbelief and total confusion when just two months later my world collapsed…

Stumble it!