The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn’t waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation, you can make of it what you will. -Lewis Lapham
The law of attraction works in my life, and I am grateful for validation.
Every day as I venture out into the world, I have a few affirmations I say to myself, and one of those is, “I attract love, I attract success, I attract respect, I attract health, and I attract wealth.” I say these things to help build up my spiritual armor, to ward off those little nagging arrows of doubt, and self-doubt, that get fired at me as I travel my path through life.
These little seeds of success are growing, and giving me the confidence I need to actually go out and achieve the things I desire, or have a passion for. These seeds in turn, act as a blessing when I cross paths with others in this life. How? When people gossip, or when people offer up “constructive criticism,” neither of these usually are truly constructive. Usually it is self-doubt, a lack of self-confidence, that causes people to demean, or belittle others to make themselves feel good. This is something I do my best not to participate in, I instead try to focus on the positive aspects of people. I try to offer up compliments instead of criticism, because I no longer need to find fault in others, in order to try to lift myself up.
An added benefit to having this inner confidence is it draws people to you. You have got something they want in their life, and they want to know what it is. You in a sense become a human magnet. If you have not seen anything like this in action before, then just walk with Jan or Linda through any casino poker room, and watch how a lunch party of three, quickly turns into twelve.
Now I say I am grateful for validation, and it is because of something that was said to me last night at work. I was working with my manager last night, it wasn’t an especially busy night, but at times the traffic seemed steady. We were at a lull when I decided to take a quick restroom break, and when I came back to the kiosk people began to line up, and Andreea looked at me and said, “It’s like you attract people when you come in here,” and she meant it.
I always felt it was true, that when I arrived at work, somehow people would just start showing up. People would tell me how dead it had been all day, and then I would clock in, and all I would see is steady business for the rest of the day, and inevitably I would be working alone for the most part.
The interesting thing is, is she used the word ATTRACT to describe what happens when I would come to work. I know I attract people, I feel it when I walk through places, I feel like the eyes of the world are on me at times. Are they? Not necessarily, but even if it is just one set of eyes, it will be the right set of eyes. Those eyes will someday belong to the love of my life, or the key to an invaluable opportunity, because I do attract many things. I attract love, I attract success, I attract respect, I attract health, and I attract wealth.
