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How the "law of attraction" will absolutely CHANGE YOUR LIFE

A post of a ranting nature...

BostonHusky

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LIKE MY COPY? You're probably breathing from your nose, and pretty pissed at me right now for having such a spammy and stupid title. I've been practicing. Got ya!

Nope, this is not a post FOR the utter disgrace to every average human's intelligence known as the "law of attraction".

I'm really, REALLY good with -beeeep-. I've started a -beeep- I get customers and -beeeep- fix whatever issue they're having. You have to know exactly what you're doing, though, as the slightest F*ck-up will result in -beeeep-.

I'm still doing it myself and saving up everything I earn to hire employees/move to a management position within the next month.

The interesting thing is, because of the nature of the job, you go through people's personal information.

I got a customer at a really lousy extended-stay hotel today. Pretty remote location, and a lower-class place. Let me put it this way: Through the window, I saw two hooded dudes hand each other things while looking around suspiciously as I worked on the job. (nope, not doing remote locations again)

He was around 65 years old - no partner, beer gut, untended room, chronically frowning face, download files that read "how to win at court", and a fridge stocked with microwave pizza and shitty ice cream.

You see, I don't have prejudice against people - at all. Everyone has stuff going on in their lives - and those qualities might have been caused by something that can't be controlled by the aforementioned gentleman.

Firstly: his bookmarks were filled with pages that went along the lines of "Dr Blabla Bla's Law of Attraction Accelerator", "Generate money by simply thinking about it", "The one secret that will make you grow rich", et cetera. You get the gist.

Now, I absolutely understand the desire to improve one's self. I'll admit that I believed in the "law" of attraction at some point when I was around 14 years old. It's an easy way out to deter action, and expect results by doing nothing but sitting on your a$$ and occasionally having sexual intercourse with your palm and fingers. It was an absolutely fascinating experience for my hormone-soaked 14 year old self, as you might imagine, but I had to move on to greener pastures soon enough.

After a while, this beautiful man asked me about my collegiate major. I am a dropout from a top Boston school myself (thanks MJ for ruining another A-okay collegiate career), but I tell customers that I hold a marketing degree (which is what I used to study). This man told me that he did marketing too, and how he was getting ready to start off his online business.

I puked a little bit in my mouth, believing that I had triggered YET ANOTHER MLM invitation by some random dude. It was worse, though.

The gentleman decided to show me his squeeze page - a page promising a free e-book in return for a name and an e-mail address.

His domain name was somethingblablaguru.com. His book name was something along the lines of "Manifesting $10,000 in just 3 days". His page promised "unlimited material wealth", "manifesting money effectively", "bettering yourself by requesting guidance from your higher self" (whatever the flying F*ck that means), and all kinds of shit of the sort.

I looked around in absolute bewilderment at what "unlimited material wealth" could buy you, congratulated him on his business, did my job A-okay, charged his card, contemplated accelerating to 150mph and driving off a bridge for breathing the same oxygen as this man does, got some wings, and finished my day after adjusting my ads based on recent a-b testing.

Morals of the story:

- If you clicked this thread actually expecting a magic pill, SERIOUSLY RECONSIDER YOUR MINDSET. YOU ARE ON THE WRONG PATH.

- Marketing without an actual product that fills a need is USELESS. ABSOLUTELY USELESS. You can know the best marketing tricks in the world, but you'll most likely not end up anywhere.

I see a lot of people fall into this trap - even in this forum. If your product is good enough, people will seek you out. It's much harder to create a need than it is to fill it. You require great reach for that. Months (in some cases years) of preparation with no worthy value proposition/sale will get you nowhere.

I know people in real life that file LLCs and get business cards printed when they don't even know how they're going to advertise their "product" to reach their customers. Most of the time, they can't, because their "product" is something that people don't really need, or buy in to.

YOU NEED TO OFFER VALUE TO PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE TO WANT TO INVEST THEIR HARD-EARNED MONEY IN YOU. THERE'S NO MAGIC MARKETING TRICK THAT WILL MAKE PEOPLE WANT TO BUY FROM YOU, GRANTED THAT WHAT YOU'RE OFFERING DOESN'T REALLY SATISFY A NEED.

What value does this man who lives in a jackshit 200 sqft room and eats carcinogens to survive bring to the table for you? NOTHING, solely because he is trying to teach you HOW TO BE RICH BY SIMPLY THINKING ABOUT IT. If he actually manifests anything, it would be the physical equivalent of an oxymoron.

You know, I might be wrong with all the con artists like Tai Lopez ("Douchebag" from now on) out there, marketing the F*ck out of themselves and making bank. But you know what? People like Douchebag are scammers, they are the SCUM of this world, and no one with half a F*cking brain believes what they say.

And they literally THWART HUMAN GROWTH by creating businesses that do nothing but get money out of people's pockets. Those people end up being miserable fish following a slick-haired idiot talking about how he has a Lamborghini in his garage, and how he got rich by skimming a god damn book.

Don't be like Douchebag. Give actual value to people. Don't be a con artist. Please.

Courtesy of @Andy Black for sharing this earlier - please skip to 11:03


This customer of mine knew how to appeal to people - he actually wrote spammy copy that would get clicks by your average 9-5 zombie. His content was an absolute joke though.

And, finally:

I re-wrote this very part 4 times, because I was sure that I was going to get flagged for extremely offensive language. I deleted it all. That is all I'm going to say about how I feel about people who fool the underprivileged.

Work hard. Give value. Affect a lot of people, or affect less people GREATLY. Be smart. Learn every day. Learn ACTUAL, SCIENTIFICALLY PROVABLE things every day. Be smart. Be smart. Be smart. Don't believe everything you hear, and only believe half of what you see.

And that is how the "law" of attraction changes your life. It makes you a miserable human being expecting things to appear out of thin air. It destroys your creativity and negates any desire to actually work.

This is my humble opinion. I am not an expert. This is simply what I've learned through my journey so far.

Thanks for reading.
 
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I enjoyed your writing.

Now, take a lesson from MJ DeMarco. Use less words. Make every word count. This post was 50% too long. Measure every single words weight and value.

Next time you post, refine it like a potter sculpts clay. They don't have unnecessary blobs there. Their finished product is clean and clear.

You have the potential to be a great writer. Use less words.
 

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I enjoyed your writing.

Now, take a lesson from MJ DeMarco. Use less words. Make every word count. This post was 50% too long. Measure every single words weight and value.

Next time you post, refine it like a potter sculpts clay. They don't have unnecessary blobs there. Their finished product is clean and clear.

You have the potential to be a great writer. Use less words.

Will do. This was more of a brain dump/meditative venting than an actual attempt at writing well, but I'll watch out for length as I write my future posts. Thanks!
 
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i honestly don't have a clue what you're talking about.

What is this law of attraction which you despise so much?
 

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Hmmm...

I think the 'problem' with the Law of Attraction (LOA) is how easy it is for con artists to fool massive multitude of people (especially the lazy or greedy or both) into the idea that by merely thinking and feeling abundant they will get all they desire. That is so so false. These so-called experts leave out the part of EXECUTION/PROCESS to make it sound easy to do by subtly choosing the word 'manifesting' to sell their info products.

I've read lots of LOA books and seen many videos and one thing these con artists purposely and constantly refuse to emphasize is the role of CONSISTENT ACTION. Well, I believe that the LOA, in it's proper application, is to get you into a positive outlook to life and set you up to take inspired actions towards achieving your goals.

To think that 'doing nothing' equates to LOA is absurd. :wacky:
 
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Hmmm...

I think the 'problem' with the Law of Attraction (LOA) is how easy it is for con artists to fool massive multitude of people (especially the lazy or greedy or both) into the idea that by merely thinking and feeling abundant they will get all they desire. That is so so false. These so-called experts leave out the part of EXECUTION/PROCESS to make it sound easy to do by subtly choosing the word 'manifesting' to sell their info products.

I've read lots of LOA books and seen many videos and one thing these con artists purposely and constantly refuse to emphasize is the role of CONSISTENT ACTION. Well, I believe that the LOA, in it's proper application, is to get you into a positive outlook to life and set you up to take inspired actions towards achieving your goals.

To think that 'doing nothing' equates to LOA is absurd. :wacky:

100%.

I personally totally believe in the LOA. I believe that everything we could ever become in this life is there, but is just latent and unmanifest. The difference is what we believe, what we have therefore done and what we have manifested as true. So just sitting around and visualizing your immense wealth will do nothing.
 

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I personally totally believe in the LOA. I believe that everything we could ever become in this life is there, but is just latent and unmanifest. The difference is what we believe, what we have therefore done and what we have manifested as true. So just sitting around and visualizing your immense wealth will do nothing.

I'm with you on the LOA working....

The way I view it is that you can manifest opportunities....but you have to act on them.

With the right mindset, life seems to....flow.... much more easily - but once again...you have to act on those opportunities.
 
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I was in a casino a week ago when I found a purse that somebody had left on a stool. I brought it to the pit boss who thanked me for turning it in.

An hour later, The same pit boss was signing off on an IRS form for me after I won a jackpot.

He smiled and said "law of attraction."

I don't really believe in karma or the law of attraction, but I do think a positive outlook on life is just as easy as a negative outlook on life. I believe if you look for the silver linings, you often will find them where other people overlook them. Setting out to be intentionally positive as a life choice will prepare you for the roller coaster of ups and downs.

Make your own "luck."
 

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LIKE MY COPY? You're probably breathing from your nose, and pretty pissed at me right now for having such a spammy and stupid title. I've been practicing. Got ya!
No. You're mistaking misleading headlines for good copywriting. If you have to resort to shit like that to get people to read your stuff, you didn't practice enough. Didn't read the rest of your post because of that first paragraph btw.
 
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No. You're mistaking misleading headlines for good copywriting. If you have to resort to shit like that to get people to read your stuff, you didn't practice enough. Didn't read the rest of your post because of that first paragraph btw.

Then you missed the whole point that completely relates to the title.
 

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I do think a positive outlook on life is just as easy as a negative outlook on life.
I respectfully disagree @Vigilante! I think it's much easier to have a positive outlook on life. It looks like such hard work to be constantly miserable.

I remember, years ago, when I was leaving a company and we were having my leaving lunch. I was stuffing my face and gibbering away as I do. I looked up and one of the older guys had stopped eating and was just looking at me. He set down his fork and said: "It's a sunny little world you live in Andy."

I didn't know what he meant back then.


Everything's dark when you go looking for the dark side.

Everything's sunny when you go looking for the sunny side.


Problems are just stepping stones in disguise.

And anyway - A stream with no rocks is a stream with no song.



Personally, I'm neither a "glass is half empty" nor a "glass is half full" kind of guy.

I'm more "Wow! I've got a glass! How cool is that!"
 

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I've read books on LOA; I've watched The Secret and it's 2016 sequel.

Ultimately, I see the LOA like this:

1: Set your mind to a goal - envision it and believe it's yours (I view this akin to any visualization exercise. I'm sure you've all read some studies whereby athletes who used this type of brain exercise to improve their actual game. It works - it's been proven.)

2: This should result in motivation; "I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." --Peter Thiel

3: The LOA promotes being positive - in all aspects of your life. Now sit back and think: if you're in a pissy mood - how do the people around you react? Stay positive or do you end up sucking them into your vortex of negativity? Most often, they'll join you on the negative side - it's powerful. By being positive and doing things just out of kindness is a reward on its own, but you never know what will come of it! (Surely got nothing to lose, do you?)

4: Give. No, not just money; Time. It is of such value that when you spend it without expecting anything in return and just giving your time to help others, it has a huge affect on you. -I- know of no volunteers who are bitter or negative; on the contrary; the more you volunteer, the more you realize just how "lucky" you are. Have a look at war torn countries, people fleeing. Have a look at countries where they struggle to find clean drinking water and/or enough food to live. Then look at your life now - turn on a tap, water! Food! (Even if you haven't got food, chances are you have the ability to hit up a food bank, not an option in all countries). So GIVE your time to other people, don't expect anything in return and you'll find you'll be rewarded.

5: Mediate. Find time for yourself, be with yourself without any outside distractions. Listen to yourself. This can be done in many ways, not just sitting there. Go for a walk in the country! Clear your mind! You never know what will come to you in those moments of tranquility (examples? Albert Einstein, Napoleon Hill.. just to name a couple.)

6: You have a goal; you have motivation; you're positive; you give; you also give to yourself (point #5) - all this will work on you changing your outlook and the LOA WILL change your life.

7: Never expect something for nothing, but there are times when you get nothing for something. There is a lesson in everything - if you pay attention.

*mic drop*
*walks away from the post*
 
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Totally off topic - but that looks a lot like a VFR800 in your avatar? :)
First bike was a mate on his CBR 600RR. The ZX7R in the middle was mine. I think the last one was indeed a VFR800.

Location: Somewhere in the South of France.

Location of the other 4 bikes: Somewhere else in the South of France (we never could stay together somehow).

Location of the yellow mini: Some cafe ahead of us probably... enjoying the sunshine and not having to wear full black leathers.


(Apols for the derail OP!)
 
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