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Do You Let Negative Thoughts Rule Your Life

Okay, that’s what I thought.   I've been gone the last couple of months volunteering as watch stander aboard the Training Ship State of Maine, the cadet training ship for my alma mater Maine Maritime Academy.  In other words,I trained students to become deck officers in the merchant marine.  After two months I was ready to get home, so I did as I always do and visualized the experience I expected to have flying home.  No long lines.  Flights on time.  No lost luggage.  Well, you get the picture.

The trip to the airport was uneventful, but I had already prepared myself to be angry for having to pay for my bags.   You see the airline had emailed me saying that my second bag would cost me money.   I already had a response prepared for when they asked for more money.   I put both bags on the scale. They both hovered around 49 lbs so I got in under the wire on baggage weight.  Now was the time when they'll ask for money.   I was ready.  But she just passed me my ticket and said have a nice trip.  Hey! Wait a minute, ask me for money! I have a lot of emotional time invested on being upset for the injustice of paying for the second bag!  All a waste of time. I could have spent that time doing something fun.

I noticed that my seats had changed for the second leg - the 5 hour leg - of my journey.  No aisle seat for me - now I was in the middle.  Oh the injustice!  I bought my ticket 3 months ago for an aisle seat and they gave me a middle seat.  They explained the flight was overbooked and they had changed the plane at the last minute.  There was nothing they could do.  Externally, I was polite - it wasn't the fault of the airline people behind the counter.  Internally I was furious, so my inner self started working negatively.  Hey, what about this intention I made?  This law of attraction mumbo jumbo doesn't work and I now have proof.  The heck with Law of Attraction Simplified.  There was nothing simple about this!

On the flight to Newark I internally preparing myself to give the airline representative a piece of my mind.  Hey, you've had my money for 3 months and this is what I get.  It’s no wonder everyone hates you guys. My inner self was working overtime putting me into a frenzy.  Well, the airline representative had an attitude to match my attitude so I didn't get very far.  The flight was really overbooked and they were even asking for volunteers to give up their seats.  So my inner self started saying, so much for this law of attraction stuff.  So it’s worked a couple times in the past but this is proof this LOA stuff just doesn't work.  That’s what my inner self was telling me and I was starting to believe it.   I went back in time for a few minutes and visualized some of my previous law of attraction accomplishments.  Sure they worked, but that was then and this is now.

I'm sitting in Newark airport watching the people go by when I get a call from the airline representative.  My inner self started thinking the worst. So I go up to the desk and the representative said they had changed my seat.  Oh great, probably a middle seat further back in the plane.  She said that a family needed two seats together.  Great, my inner self said, what am I, a pawn in a chess game?  So she gave me my new seat up front and on an aisle.  Hey, my inner self said, hey, this is not fair - I have too much time spent being mad.  You can't give me this great seat now, and beside this might prove that the law of attraction works.

Sorry, Law of Attraction.  I guess you were testing me.  How many of you people allow your negative inner self to dictate your feelings and emotions?  How many of you waste way too many hours of your life preparing for the bad things that just might come up?  Start spending your time on something more productive.  Don't give up on the LOA. 

Using the Unstoppable Forces of Visualization and the Law of Attractions

I don’t know why, but I get the biggest kick out of the law of attraction. Let me give you an example of my latest adventures with it. I live on the West Coast and had a job interview on the East Coast. I’d been hearing all the negative experiences everyone's been having with the airports and unfriendly airlines. Okay, with all the security horror stories blah, blah it’s hard not to fall into negative expectations.  

So this is what I did. I started visualizing what my trip was going to look like. I saw myself passing through the long lines quickly. I saw myself passing through security without any problems. I visualized the planes on time and a no-hassle trip. And most important, Mr. X would offer me a job.

So how did it go? As I drove to the shuttle, I kept on seeing what I wanted to experience. I arrived at the hotel parking lot where I was to catch the shuttle to the airport. It’s 0200 and the hotel manager said he was doing an audit and couldn’t take my money. He said to park for free. The shuttle arrived on time and we got to the airport early. It was quite busy at the airport, but I walked straight through to my gate. No problems with security or lines. So far everything’s great. As I was walking to my gate I noticed a Bose representative at his booth. I had a broken pair of head phones and asked what it would cost to repair. He said "Sir, you’re in luck today," and gave me a new set.

I had visualized a much shorter trip, tailwind, etc. but I guess the law of attraction does have some restrictions. Anyway, we arrived on time and my trip from the airport to the hotel was short. The shuttle driver was just driving up as I walked to the curb. Talk about luck. Or was it the law of attraction?

I spent a day in Baltimore interviewing and caught an afternoon flight. I had the same results on the way home. My flight to Phoenix was 45 minutes late and I thought I’d be spending the night in Phoenix but my connecting flight to Seattle was also 45 minutes late.   I had visualized this trip and couldn’t have asked for any better. So does visualization and the law of attraction work? You be the judge.

To help you with your visualizations you can create a vision board.  Check out this easy to use and inexpensive piece of software and create your own vision boards.  Very cool!  And very personal to your own goals.  

So did I get the job? I’ll let you know.  Yes, I did but because of the housing market I was not able to take the full time job and I'm presently under contract with them.

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