The Law of Attraction - How Are You Using It?

The premises at the base of the LOA are:
1. Everything is an energy form that vibrates at a certain frequency2. Thoughts are a non physical form of energy3. Each of us can be in charge of our thoughts and those thoughts create our reality4. The thoughts we think (either consciously or unconsciously), have a certain vibration to it5. The world is about baIance and so in order for the energy to be in balance, the thought vibration needs to "attract a match", hence the LOA.
This is a universal principle and in science it’s called Quantum Physics, you either agree with this or not.
So with this understanding you may say, “Ok, all I have to do is control my thoughts and I’ll attract whatever I think of.” That may be true, although most of us are not conscious enough to be in charge of our thoughts. What ends up happening is that you try to think in a more positive way for a few minutes and then the phone rings and you fall back into the old thought patterns which becomes you dominant mode of thinking again. Nothing then changes and you’re back at square one.
The truth is that you do have the power to create something different for yourself without the mental struggle. It will require you to bring something though, your PRESENCE.
What does that mean? Well… firstly, understand that there’s a mind where thoughts arise and that works through whatever circumstances you grew up with (unconsciously), then there is YOU, the observing presence, the one that’s aware, Consciousness.
The fact that you can be aware of your thoughts means that there is a gap between this one that can observe and the thoughts. So if you practice on being aware of what you think, say and do, then this it gets easier to notice whether your thoughts and actions support what you want or not. The intention is to get a good look at how you, as an ego, operate.
Once you start this you’ll see that there’s virtually not a moment that something isn’t happening during your waking hours. You’re either doing something mundane and lost in thoughts (or lost in the TV’s drama’s) or, you’re doing something that requires you to concentrate, in which case you bring a more presence. Start with when you’re brushing your teeth and see where your mind goes!
So to implement the LOA you now have two choices:
1. The old way of visualizing what you want everyday and hoping something will change, or;
2. Focus on being present so that where you are right now feels good and you trust that whatever shows up in the next moment will be fine also. Through the presence, you’ll get to see the negative thoughts and then you can simply allow them to keep flowing through so that you “stick” to you. In this way you align with what is and your vibrations will be much more benign.
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The Law Of Compounding

At least that is what Albert Einstein is rumored to have said of compounding. Why would the father of atomic energy, a man who certainly knows something about real power, say that about something so intangible? The power of this mysterious force is best told in the following legend.
Once upon a time a Mogul king wished to reward a local peasant for saving his daughter’s life. “You can have anything you want,” offered the king. The peasant asked merely for one grain of rice to be placed on a chessboard. Courtiers began to laugh at the meagerness of this request, but the suddenly audacious peasant held up his hand for silence. “I ask for one more thing”, he said. “Each day the amount of grains will be doubled and placed in the next box, and so on, for all the places on the board.” The king thought this trifle a bit ridiculous, but agreed. The story does not end well, for on the 64th place there was not enough rice in the entire kingdom to satisfy the request. The embarrassed king had the peasant hanged.
This little story illustrates well the effects of sequentially adding, or more accurately, multiplying; the impact of growth on top of some previous impact of growth. Most people think of compounding in relation to compound interest, and consider it, like Einstein, to be the most powerful force in finance.
In business acceleration we think of compounding in altogether different terms, although the effects will once again be felt on your personal finance. We call it the Law of Compounding and use it to describe how a business can grow dramatically by making a series of incremental changes to various elements of that business. This magic works reliably as long as the various elements are interrelated.
For instance, since lead generation and lead conversion are interrelated, an increase in the number of leads your company attracts each month compounds on top of an increase in how well you convert those leads into customers. An increase in your average price compounds on top of that. An increase in the size of your average sales transaction would compound on top of those previous increases, as would an increase in how often the same customer buys a service or product from your company.
To find out how fast your business will grow when you make these types of changes, we’ll use something called the Rule of 72. Divide 72 by the number of separate but interrelated elements on hand, to get the amount of change needed to double.
For example, if you have seven elements (lead generation, lead conversion, price, etc.), 72 divided by 7 is approximately 10, (10.28), which means your business will double by increasing each element 10%. Have six elements? You must increase each one by exactly 12%. (72/6 = 12) Five? Doubling will take an increase of around 15% each. (72/5 = 14.4)
How hard do you think it would be to improve just a few aspects of your business by ten, twelve or even fifteen percent? Not that hard, right? If your company generates 25 new leads each month, then a 15% increase means 4 more. And, if your company closes 20 leads out of 200, then a 15% increase means closing 23.
Of course, you don’t have to make these changes all at once. You can do them in sequence over time, the effect of one change compounding on top of the previous change. By following the Law of Compounding examples above you can see how relatively small changes in your business can add up to substantial business acceleration; dramatically increasing revenues and profits over a short period of time.About the AuthorFind out more about how to put the Law of Compounding to work increasing revenues and profits in your business. Contact Paul Lemberg, CEO of Axcelus: Business Coaching for Business Acceleration. http://www.axcelus.com/acceleration_request.html