Jorge

Five years from now, I want to travel, to have gained a TEFL qualification to teach English, and to carry on working as a freelance writer and illustrator as I travel. Five years from now I want to be in a position where I can move out of my parents home and carry on travelling and working. I also want to be the healthiest version of me so far, because I take my health more seriously now than I did when I was younger.

But I am also aware that I won’t accomplish any of these things unless I try and work hard, and even then there is always the possibility that things will not work out.

There have been times when I thought everything was going to work out exactly as I had imagined it but I have learned that sometimes nothing ever goes to plan. Sometimes it just didn’t work out at all, and I was left disappointed. I’m not knocking visualisation – I can’t help but visualise the desired outcome on something because it motivates me to take action but these days I have to allow myself the possibility that it won’t always work out.

My questions to you, Jorge – where were you 5 years ago? What was life like for you? Did you imagine where you would be 5 years from then (now)? What were your hopes back then?

Please post again 😀

Joe

Dear Jorge:

My input on the Law of Attraction as you described it: I suppose there are elements in it that make sense: having stated goals, acting towards stated goals persistently. Absolutely makes sense, of course. And a person can hype themselves into believing these can be achieved and that can be helpful. How far though can a person who doesn’t believe (in achieving visualized goal) can ride of that wave of temporarily believing?

All the people wondering around the face of the earth without goals, or with goals abandoned, don’t wonder aimlessly because they don’t have goals, or because they are too lazy to act toward their goals, but because

1. Believing in what you don’t believe will take you only this far. A person can take that wave-of-temporarily-believing, get lucky and achieve a goal before the wave crashes. Most of the time though, the deep core beliefs will win. And the wave crashes.

2. People are afraid. Again, if the person gets lucky, and achieves a goal before the wave of courage crashes, good. Most of the time, challenges in life, old and new trigger the old fear and the person crashes with the wave.

There is no fast and easy way, unfortunately. While there are elements that make sense in the Law of Attraction, the individual, through insight, healing of old wounds, patience, mindfulness, correcting distorted core beliefs about self and life, over time, learns to navigate the ocean of life, learns to survive and thrive not only riding one wave, the Law-of-Attraction-Wave, but a wide variety of waves, which is what life is.

anita