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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Do you know about The Law of Hocus Pocus?
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Okay forget the particular wording in that supposed "law".
Would anyone deny that a person's attitude and expectations about life and towards life have a massive effect on what they will achieve?
I read an old book from the early 1900's which has some vague similarities to this law of attraction, people should be able to find PDF's of it on the internet but the name has slipped my mind. It had some very specific examples of people in some of the biggest industries in America back then (steel, etc).
One of the points that stuck with me about goals is they suggested everyone make a goal of achieving X many dollars in the next however many years. Keep in mind I'm massively paraphrasing here since I read it years ago but this setting of the goal had the suggested effect of basically implanting a question in your brain, or starting up an unconscious process that asks, "How will I make this money?" The author suggested that once you've asked yourself that question, set that goal, that your brain will come up with answers to it when it can. So you may start to evaluate things in your life in terms of opportunity towards achieving this goal. A creative idea may be sparked in response to something that would not have been sparked if you hadn't set the goal.
I'm sure we've all met a person who is always looking for a way to exploit a situation for money. Its not hard to believe that people like that may have a lot of bad ideas but may come up with a few million dollar ideas as well. Ideas that would not have been sparked if they didn't frame things in terms of profiting, if they hadn't set a goal to make money. Obviously the idea is only half of the equation since you have to commit and follow through on it as well.
Anyways probably a bad explanation, hopefully somebody can remember the book title because it was relatively short and interesting and a lot less hokey than some of this "law of attraction" stuff.