Attitude Is Key--Or Is It?

If you've seen the movie or read the book, "The Secret," then you know about the Law of Attraction.

To greatly simplify, according to the book and movie, what you think about is what you manifest. In fact, above all else, your attitude determines your entire life. A positive attitude will attract those people and circumstances that are helpful and supportive, while a negative attitude will bring you those things you'd rather not have.

I don't buy it.

Why? Because practically speaking, it doesn't hold water. I've seen plenty of successful, wealthy people whose attitudes were atrocious. Displaying the utmost in rudeness and arrogance, these people enjoy constant pampering, living life as if it were one long vacation.

Opportunity after opportunity falls in their laps, each promising millions of dollars in profits. And the truly maddening part of all this is that they don't even seem to be trying. They scowl at those around them as if they were insects to be swatted. They care nothing for their fellow man.

It just happens for these people. Yet, according to "The Secret," this cannot be. Their attitude would doom them to a life of poverty and solitude. It hurts when reality slaps you in the face and wakes you from this fluffy, namby pamby crap.

I've seen the reverse happen, also. Some of the nicest, most positive people I've ever met have struggled most of their lives just trying to make ends meet. These people are spiritual, giving, and honest. Most are hopeless optimists.

This is not to say that the successful don't possess something the rest of us lack. They certainly do. For some, it was bred into them. Some experienced it early on, and it became a pattern that set the course for the rest of their lives. For still others, we learned about it later in life, and consciously strove to develop this quality into our lives.

What is it? I call it the "Millionaire Mindset." It goes way beyond positive thinking or being optimistic. You don't even have to be a good person to develop it. In fact, like I mentioned earlier, there are many dreadful people out there who possess it.

Put simply, it consists of your thoughts. Now, obviously, if your thoughts aren't in line with what you want to accomplish, you'll want to change those thoughts. But, as simple as that sounds, there's a bit more to it than that.

If you've ever tried to consciously change your thoughts then you know what I'm talking about. It's impossible. That tape is constantly rolling. Sure, you can catch yourself a couple times a day thinking a negative thought and correcting it, but in the heat of battle, when you're on the job and it really counts, those thoughts can pop up and you won't even be aware of it until it's too late.

How do we change our thoughts? Well, your thoughts are dictated by your beliefs, which lie solely in your subconscious mind.

Your subconscious mind, you see, fights tooth and nail to maintain the status quo. This means that if you do nothing to change it, what you've gotten in your past is exactly what you'll get in your future. It's goal is to keep you stuck right where you are.

The reason most of us don't become wealthy is that the subconscious mind has no reference of that in our past. For most of us, it can only reference painful relationships and frustration, so it continues bringing us more of the same. But there's a catch.

The subconscious doesn't know the difference between what's real and what's imagined. So, if you truly want to be successful, you need to fool the subconscious into believing that you're there already. You do this with your imagination.

Most people call this visualization, but it's much more than that. When you experience something in real life, you use more than just your vision. You hear it, you touch it, you smell it, you sometimes taste it.

You must incorporate all your senses in your imagination, too, if you're going to fool your subconscious mind into believing that this really happened.

If you can envision your goal with this kind of clarity, your success is assured. There is no force in the Universe that can stop a focused mind from achieving whatever it wants.

For the purposes of achieving your goals, your attitude is less of a concern than knowing what you want and getting that picture in your mind.

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