Monday, October 03, 2005
The 28 Laws of Attraction
Thomas Leonard, the man who founded the modern profession of Coaching, Coach University and Coachville, hypothesized 28 Laws of Attraction. The idea of these Laws is to practice them and make yourself irresistibly attractive to other people, so you're not chasing them, but they're drawn and flowing to you. I'm going to try to do one of these for each of my next 28 posts. As with all my posts, please feel free to dialogue with me about what you read.
One: BECOME INCREDIBLY SELFISH.
WITHOUT YOU, THERE IS NOTHING, AND ATTRACTION ISN'T POSSIBLE.
The idea here, and this is true of each of the 28 Laws, is to come from the inside out. You can't give what you haven't got. Take care of yourself: your soul, head, heart and hand. My dad was in the Pacific during WWII and he told me the Navy had a saying: "One hand for the ship, one hand for yourself."
I call this the inside/out, "Be, Do, Have Approach." It works this way: Be happy, Do (work) from that place, and you'll Have all the toys - cars, houses, relationships, career. This is diametrically opposed to the 'normal' way of doing things, especially here and now in American Culture, the outside/in approach.
The outside/in approach, the "Do, Have, Be Approach." This approach says: Do - work really hard at the highest paying job you can find (whether you really like it or not, afterall it's work and work is not supposed to be fun), then you'll Have the money to buy the toys and support your family, and you'll Be happy.
Which approach are you using, right now? Which makes the most sense to you? Which works best for you? There's often a gap between what we think and believe and what we do.
One: BECOME INCREDIBLY SELFISH.
WITHOUT YOU, THERE IS NOTHING, AND ATTRACTION ISN'T POSSIBLE.
The idea here, and this is true of each of the 28 Laws, is to come from the inside out. You can't give what you haven't got. Take care of yourself: your soul, head, heart and hand. My dad was in the Pacific during WWII and he told me the Navy had a saying: "One hand for the ship, one hand for yourself."
I call this the inside/out, "Be, Do, Have Approach." It works this way: Be happy, Do (work) from that place, and you'll Have all the toys - cars, houses, relationships, career. This is diametrically opposed to the 'normal' way of doing things, especially here and now in American Culture, the outside/in approach.
The outside/in approach, the "Do, Have, Be Approach." This approach says: Do - work really hard at the highest paying job you can find (whether you really like it or not, afterall it's work and work is not supposed to be fun), then you'll Have the money to buy the toys and support your family, and you'll Be happy.
Which approach are you using, right now? Which makes the most sense to you? Which works best for you? There's often a gap between what we think and believe and what we do.
