I have been doing great with SOGR for the past couple of months, at least from the perspective of getting clear about what I want and living in gratitude (man, does THAT feel good! I have SOOOOO much to be grateful for!). However I notice that I sometimes waiver in my trust, faith, and sense of certainty that what I want will somehow come to pass. Especially when I don't see from today's vantage point HOW it can, and/or when I feel that others perceive me as naive, overly optimistic, or out of touch with reality. Indeed, I myself have sometimes seen adherents to the Law of Attraction as out of touch. So I find myself slipping in my faith and trust, and I know that will affect my results. What can I do to keep my sense of certain expectation strong even when the world around me suggests I would be wiser to pay more attention to my current state?

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This is a good thing (as you'll find out later in the course).

If you could see right now exactly HOW your heart's desire could happen, then it would be very likely that you were actually playing it safe and thinking too small, not REALLY letting yourself feel that TRUE desire.

Hot damn...that is stellar advice.

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I sometimes waiver in my trust, faith, and sense of certainty that what I want will somehow come to pass. Especially when I don't see from today's vantage point HOW it can

This is a good thing (as you'll find out later in the course).

If you could see right now exactly HOW your heart's desire could happen, then it would be very likely that you were actually playing it safe and thinking too small, not REALLY letting yourself feel that TRUE desire.

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I have been doing great with SOGR for the past couple of months, at least from the perspective of getting clear about what I want and living in gratitude (man, does THAT feel good! I have SOOOOO much to be grateful for!). However I notice that I sometimes waiver in my trust, faith, and sense of certainty that what I want will somehow come to pass. Especially when I don't see from today's vantage point HOW it can, and/or when I feel that others perceive me as naive, overly optimistic, or out of touch with reality.

I am going to pull the same quote as Sui Generis and add some additional thoughts to her good advice.

If you are looking for faith that LOA works, just look at what what you said in your post, Blake. With the view of others and the life they have, how can you not think that you don't get what you believe in life? Clearly, these people, that you describe, choose to see the world differently than you would like to. And if would be my guess that what they believe about the world, they are getting. So, if they believe that the world is a bad place or that money is scarce, or that you have to live in fear in life, then they will have situations in their life that support that. It's that simple. How much more evidence do you need that what you think about, you bring about?

In addition, whatever others choose to believe, so what? The exciting thing is that The Universe, LOA, God (whatever you want to call it, it doesn’t really matter) conspires wholeheartedly to give you whatever you believe and put your attention on. There is the reality of what happens then how someone chooses to see it. It’s all perception and how you want to perceive it is completely up to you. The very cool thing about this is that nobody is right and nobody is wrong. So don’t worry about the nay-sayers...if they want to choose it their way...big deal. Don’t bother paying attention if you don’t want to, if it doesn’t inspire you or make you feel good to do so. You seem to want others to give you the freedom to see the world the way you do. Well start by doing exactly that for them. You don’t have to change their minds and you don’t have to prove to them that you are right. There is no point in getting in a tizzy about that. Give them the space to believe what they want to because, it doesn’t matter anyway. Personally, I have no interest in changing the minds of others or trying to have them see the world the way I see it. More importantly, how I choose the view the world, and what I choose to believe isn’t affected by their view points or opinions. So if they think you are naive or over-simplistic...again, I give that a big SO WHAT, they are entitled to that. None of this should effect how you choose to live YOUR life!! Let them do their thing and you do yours.

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What can I do to keep my sense of certain expectation strong even when the world around me suggests I would be wiser to pay more attention to my current state?

Is the world really suggesting that you pay attention to your current state. Really? Really, really, really? Think about it. I don’t think so. That is something you believe the world is doing. Nobody, not even the world for that matter, can make you do anything. It is your choice to see that the world around you is doing this to you. The world is impartial on the matter. You give your world power, its not the other way around.

Of course, there may be a bit before you get your thinking in order and you may feel a pang of emotion wanting to pull you in the opposite direction than where you want to turn next. This is totally normal and something you can be gentle with yourself about. Take it from me, someone who lacked tremendous faith for many, many years...it takes time. See it as if you were running a marathon. Do you get out and run 26 miles on the first day? No. You build up to something like that. But, everyday, with practice, you go a bit farther, until one day you notice that with your commitment to this goal, you have achieved it. The cool thing is that along the way on this journey of increasing faith, you will learn tons and tons making the journey worthwhile. Yes, it took me a long time to have faith. However, every step of the way of having faith was equally important.

So relax, enjoy the journey and for now, stop giving so much credence in the views of others and let them do what they want. Just focus on your own side of the street. It’s where you belong anyway.

I hope that helps!

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Especially when I don't see from today's vantage point HOW it can, and/or when I feel that others perceive me as naive, overly optimistic, or out of touch with reality. Indeed, I myself have sometimes seen adherents to the Law of Attraction as out of touch. So I find myself slipping in my faith and trust, and I know that will affect my results.

Hello Blake: I too was strugling with this, I even felt guilty of trying to feel good when I have so many things to worry about. But one day i had my AHA moment and i thought: what am I doing? How can I improve my situation by being miserable, worrying, sleepless, fearfull? and the answer was I CAN"T so maybe everybody in this forum and the followers of the LoA are right I need to live like I already have what I desire, and I have to tell you my life has change, the knot in my stomach is gone and things are looking better, not because i already manifest my CMI but because I see signs of it being manifested. And as Abraham says and many others including Wally i am enjoying the ride and not waiting for the results to be happy and it works it really does.

About the people around you who doesn't believe in the LoA is not your concern but theirs, I live with my sister from whom I am eternally grateful but she only see things the way they are, watching news and being depresed about the world situation etc. and she tells me I am crazy, stupid, naive, etc. and when i try to talk to my niece about she starts reasoning why I am wrong. These are people I love but instead of trying to make them understand or believe what I believe I just realize they are not ready and I let it go.

I stay away from people who are negative and if somebody starts with the how bad everything is I just excuse myself and walk away.

I am so excited because I know I will have what I want that I don't care what others think of it, they are not me.

Keep on it, everybody who's been an innovator, a creator, a visionary have been treated as crazy, evil or in the best case being laugh at.

We are who we are, we are where we are and even if we realize it or not it is true.

Don't look at the results but to the ride you'll see things different and the results will appear.

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I would be wiser to pay more attention to my current state?

What would you accomplish by doing this? To please other people and let them know you care about your situation? So they see you as a responsible person?

They don't know what you know so keep at it.

Keep reading this posts, keep rereading the book and go back to the lessons and keep your thoughts on your CMI. Enjoy the journey.

Lots of love to everyone

Luz Maria

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Other than fear, my biggest is I love my lake. I will never be able to afford a lake front on my own, and if I am working 40 hours a week, I don't get to enjoy it anyway. I love love love to swim in my lake. Hate pools and public places, but I love my private lake.

Hi again Ann,

This summer I took a trip visiting family across the USA. Three of those family members had lakefront homes that we enjoyed spending time on and swimming in! Two of the family members are uncles of mine living in Minnesota, one has a 17 acre pennsula (sp) with view of the lake from three sides of his home! Another has 80 acres with a lake front, he and one other family live on that lake. The other family member is our son who has a second home in Wisconsin with a lake front 15 minutes away from his larger home.

I'm not telling you this to brag, but to tell you that it is reasonable to expect that you could also have a lakefront home! None of those people started out with much money, but they knew what they wanted (CMI) and without knowing about SOGR they applied those principles into thier lives!

The 40 hours that you mentioned could be great or it could be unpleasent - it's your choice. In becoming rich it doesn't have to be 40 hours and it could be spent doing what you enjoy on your lake! It's up to you!

In developing your CMI it is important to develop what you desire, not what you don't desire!

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I will never be able to afford a lake front on my own, and if I am working 40 hours a week, I don't get to enjoy it anyway

Hmm... looks like you need to rephrase this sentence. If there's anything I hope you have learnt here, it's that you CAN have what you desire,if you persevere with SOGR principles.

Just be grateful for all you have, then more of the good will come to you!

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I notice you didn't answer my question. So again, if this life you keep describing is so distasteful to you, why do you remain there?

I've got lots of reasons for and against. Other than fear, my biggest is I love my lake. I will never be able to afford a lake front on my own, and if I am working 40 hours a week, I don't get to enjoy it anyway. I love love love to swim in my lake. Hate pools and public places, but I love my private lake. Heck...I even have a newfie, so as the kids grow out of their enthusiasm for swimmming with mom, I have a swim buddy....and she is the absolute greatest swimmer ever. I wish I wish I wish I was a fish...or a Newfy.

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Yeah...I realized right away I shouldn't be dwelling on the story this week. But even if the deserving aspect doesn't come into play, it still doesn't explain how this nice anchor lady manifested this beating death in her life. I was just pointing out I think that it is why it is difficult for some of us to have faith in the Law.

None of us can explain it because none of us know what goes on in another's mind. People often appear one way and inside it's quite different.

It doesn't matter one whit whether or not we have "faith" in universal laws; they're still operating, just like gravity.

What DOES matter is that we choose to stop seeing ourselves as victims of some kind of cosmic conspiracy or something and take ultimate responsibility for EVERY aspect of our own lives. And finding "reasons" why that may be difficult is exactly the OPPOSITE of taking responsibility (which means letting go of blaming anyone or anything outside ourselves -- well, it's not about "blaming" ourselves either; it's just about stepping into Power instead of victimhood).

And let go of the idea that there are any "shoulds" involved here. Just pay attention to how you want to feel, what you want to experience and let THAT guide your thoughts and actions.

annievt, this is for you specifically: I notice you didn't answer my question. So again, if this life you keep describing is so distasteful to you, why do you remain there?

(And the truth is, you could change your whole experience internally, but that's another subject for another time perhaps.)

Yeah...I realized right away I shouldn't be dwelling on the story this week. But even if the deserving aspect doesn't come into play, it still doesn't explain how this nice anchor lady manifested this beating death in her life. I was just pointing out I think that it is why it is difficult for some of us to have faith in the Law.

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Then one day you wake up and realize you have nothing. No money, no house, no job, no retirement, a husband who would just as soon hit you as make love. And you think, according to LOA, either I am an awful undeserving person to attract all this, or that LOA doesn't work.

I know I really have to manipulate events and thoughts to make it work in my mind. Faith is difficult.

Annie, if this is truly how you feel -- about your marriage and living situation -- then I will ask you flat out: Why are you still there?

A lot of people have mistaken ideas about Law of Attraction. What comes to you has NOTHING to do with what you "deserve." It's just what you ATTRACT. If you fall down, the law of gravity worked. It didn't mean you deserved to fall down, you just tripped or whatever.

You are WORTHY of all abundance, all good. We just have these weird programs running in our heads about how it works. That old stuff is all we have to overcome. You definitely do NOT "have to manipulate events and thoughts." It's mostly about relaxing and letting go of old stuff which does not serve us at all, but which we are stubbornly attached to as if it were all of enormous value.

Now you say you did the news fast, yet look: You're still holding on, in your mind, to a story from a week before that. And it has NOTHING to do with you.

("Everybody said ..." So what? What do they KNOW of what went on in her thoughts, in her heart of hearts? ZIP. We cannot know -- and we don't need to know -- what other people are thinking. Did she DESERVE violence? Of course not.)

From your other posts, it looks like you're holding onto a HUGE amount of resentment, anger, victim feelings, unforgiveness (of self and others), and a lot more that can only bring more of their own kind. (Of course, that's just my interpretation of your words; I can't know your mind either.)

You do have the power within you to transform all of this. But you have to choose. And you have to be willing to LET GO of all that. A little later in the course you will get to some sessions that address this. I hope you'll embrace them because the FREEDOM that comes when we let go of all that is totally mind-blowing and life-changing.

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What can I do to keep my sense of certain expectation strong even when the world around me suggests I would be wiser to pay more attention to my current state?

Wally says in Chapter 10:

"Read this book everyday. Keep it with you. Commit it to memory, and do not think about other "systems" and theories. If you do, you will begin to have doubts and to be uncertain and wavering in your thought,and then you will begin to make failures. After you have made good and become rich, you may study other systems as much as you please."

I did this everyday for the last two years, and it has gradually transformed the way I think and do things. I was attracted to SOGR for its simple,direct and yet profound teachings.

By adhering to Wally's advice above,I comprehended a little more everyday, understood how to apply the principles a little better every day, and soon enough by a natural process of evolution as Wally would say, I am beginning to realize and manifest wonderful things in my life, to really feel the transformative effect of Wally's teachings starting to take root in my day to day thoughts and actions. I am very grateful and everyday I awake now and look at the world around in great wonder at all the abundance around,in me and everyone I meet.

AWESOME!!!!!!!

I am really feeling grateful after reading your post.

As for your friend (the Secret), I too have been that way with not believing and for me it was better for me not to believe and it don't happen then to believe and it don't happen. I have now since changed the way I think but I do have simpathy for those who don't believe.

However, I am having problems in the "Vibration" area can you furture explain. I have somethings I am believing for and know the feeling of relief that I will have upon receiving, yet I have not yet received so if you could give a little advice about what else I should be doing while waiting?

Hi Blake,

After reading your post, I pondered for a little while and saw myself where you are now, and I would like to make a long story short, but that isn't gonna happen.

First off, your first line says it all. Stick with it. When I first started SOGR, I also started to waiver in my faith and trust, but then I realized that what I had up to that point wasn't working for me so I had to make the decision to stick with it.

You know the saying, "Seek and ye shall find".
Well it's true. I have read materials that Rebecca has recommended and each recommendation leads me to another that helps me journey along my path to my next step in life. And each step is awesome!

My life used to be okay, not great, but okay.
Then SOGR entered in. It has taken a while, but I am happy right now and the possibilities I now have are enormous.

Here are a few examples:

About a year ago, I came upon a business opportunity that needed an investment that I had no way of knowing how I was going to acquire. All I know is that I saw myself doing this. By taking small steps towards this goal, it finally happened that a special was ran for the equipment I needed and at that exact moment, I was able to put the down payment on it with small payments for the remainder with no interest incurring. As it is, I am awaiting my shipment, arriving in 2 days.
I already have 6 jobs lined up for this weekend and I know that more will follow as soon as these 6 jobs are done and it will be all by word of mouth.(cause that's the way I see it happening.)
With this same venture, I wanted to get into a new casino being built in my area with this product and I also wanted to get into a 5-star
resort. I have made one contact for both of these venues and it literally fell at my feet.

I had an appointment for a demo 2 weeks ago, I had to re-schedule because of my other job. This appointment is a little over an hour away and the day of the appointment, I called the client to tell him I was expecting my shipment the following week and if we could possibly do this the following week, I could do the demo and because everyone that sees this wants it, I would just go ahead and put the job in while I was there being that he is so far away. The client said that would be fine. I was relieved that I could do this all in one trip. Well, that same evening, he leaves me a message, that his uncle was also interested in this and could I possibly come up on Monday, (this would be 5 days sooner than planned) because his uncle wouldn't be here for the original demo that was planned because he was going out of town. Well, this was going to be a 2 trip, possibly 3 for 1 demo and 2 installations. I called the client to tell him I would be there on Monday, if I could get someone to replace me at my other job.
As it turned out, I couln't get a replacement so now I would be doing 2 demos involving 2 trips, but, oh well.I will do whatever it takes. Now here is the greatest part. I called to tell my client that I would not be able to make Monday for the 2 of them and while I was on the phone, his wife hollers to him that the plans for his uncles' trip had been postponed and now the original appointment was being kept. This means in one trip I will give one demo and have 2 installations. WAY COOL! It is happening just like I wanted it to and I expressed my gratefulness immediately for this.

This is just one instance in my life. The list is long of all the positives. And I have run into the naysayers along the way too.

I shared my copy of The Secret with a friend. After watching it he said he agreed with it and it was all in how you were thinking. A few weeks later, I over hear him telling someone about "The Secret" stating it's just a mind thing and he wasn't saying it in a good way. I merely looked at him and told him that if he was happy with his life, good for him. I told him I had goals and dreams and I am getting everyone of them. His first comeback was that he didn't see the XLR sitting outside yet(the car of my dreams) My answer: It's here, I just have to get lined up with it! Of course he had no idea what I was talking about because he doesn't live right now. I know the car is here, as I get the vibration right, the car will appear.

And here is one for ya'll. You know how you have to get into the feeling of having it now? Well, I guess I have to go put my butt in one of these cars, because I have no idea how I am going to feel when the car shows up! I do know that it is going to be awesome, I get all fired up just writing and thinking about it, but I don't think it even comes close to the feelings I will have when I actually have the car!

Use this site. It has helped me so many times just from the reading the experiences of other members. I have gotten answers to questions I haven't even thought of yet.

Keep a journal
Do the Practical Genius Course and
as soon as you open your eyes in the morning be grateful for being able to do so.

Expect the best
Theresa

It is difficult indeed to maintain faith in the LOA. Just before my news fast, which is in one of the lessons from the course, I read about an anchor woman who beat and killed for a few odd trinkets in her home. The news articles called the woman an angel. Everybody said she was a ray of sunshine....kind hearted, beautiful. How did she attract being beaten, robbed and a week of suffering before she died?

We all see our interpretaion of LOA fail in our own lives. I used to give give give of my time and myself to my family, husband and neighbors. I didn't give a thought of getting in return. I was happy and grateful for the time at home with the kids. I know many women like me. Then one day you wake up and realize you have nothing. No money, no house, no job, no retirement, a husband who would just as soon hit you as make love. And you think, according to LOA, either I am an awful undeserving person to attract all this, or that LOA doesn't work.

I know I really have to manipulate events and thoughts to make it work in my mind. Faith is difficult.