
How often are you prone to thinking in terms of what you do NOT want to happen in your life and business?
I  think we all do, some more often than others; it's one of those human  things: we tend to worry about things, try to avoid things, make  arrangements not to have to face things, insure ourselves against  things, stick our head in the sand about things, blame ourselves for  things, blame others for things, etc. etc. You get the point.
I've  said it so often, and I'll say it again: in itself, no-thing is right  or wrong. It just is, or rather: "things" just ARE. What makes a "thing"  good or bad for us is our interpretation of it. Take bankruptcy; in  itself nothing more than a legal state of being without funds to pay  creditors. Bank
ruptcy for one person is the end of the world; it can be  the trigger to even more determined -and successful- behavior for  another.
The Pull Strategy (I tend to prefer this term over Law of  Attraction nowadays) dictates that whatever your interpretation of  something is, that something seems to be what you attract. So, if you  worry about the state of your business or your personal life, things  that you worry about seem to pop up more and more. Even neurologically  it works that way, as you literally train your brain to look for, or  interpret negatively, situations you don't like. You're becoming this "I  told you so..." person, who will time after time prove s/he's right, as  your predominant focus creates results in that predominant area.
If  this is the case, what to do? Are we all doomed, as we can't really  stop looking for the bad stuff, or is there an easier, more pleasurable  way? There is.
As with Law of Attraction, the Pull Strategy  dictates that whatever you focus on will neurologically become a  dominan
t thought, which you will act upon. This action will then create  results in -most likely!- that predominant direction. Knowing that, and  understanding that you can change your thoughts about "stuff", you can  choose to think different predominant thoughts; this will ultimately  change you results. You can also change your interpretation of your  current dominant thoughts; this will ultimately have the same results as  changing your dominant thought altogether.
Two examples, one of each.
- Changing  your dominant thought altogether. You find you are constantly  thinking/worried about your sales and marketing skills. "I cannot seem  to attract enough new clients to be profitable", could be one of your  predominant thoughts. Change this thought into a new one: "I am working  on my sales and marketing skills and getting better and better at  attracting new clients", could be a good new idea. You'll obviously have  to act on this new idea by focusing on increasing your sales and  marketing knowledge, but if you keep this thought up long enough, and  focus on evidence that validates it, you WILL at some
 point form a new  belief around sales and marketing. No doubt you will be attracting new  clients. - Change the interpretation of your thoughts. Cognitive Behavioural  and Neuro Linguistic Programming tools are extremely useful with seeing  your current reality in a different light. This mainly happens by  challenging your current ideas with questions. You can ask yourself:  what is the benefit of not having good sales and marketing skills? I bet  you there is something else you are really good at because of it. Or:  how are my current ideas about sales and marketing helping me to improve  my game? Or: what wouldn't I be as good at if I had focused on sales  and marketing more? What would have suffered? The idea is to find enough  challenging questions, or interpretations, to admit that your current  thoughts and feelings are not as bad as they seem to be. Professional  help with formulating those new ideas will be useful. Sometimes we're  just "too close to ourselves" to properly challenge ourselves. Changing  your perception abo
ut a situation will help you putting your thoughts  and feelings into perspective, and will definitely take the emotional  sting out of the situation. Feeling negative about something is usually  caused only by a lopsided perception. 
The fact to  remember is that your thoughts are the predominant forces to create a  "vibe" within you, an emotional response to what you are thinking about.  Long term emotional responses will establish a certain reality for you,  brought about by the Pull Strategy. There are also physiological  factors that come into play with certain emotional feelings, but I'll  leave these out of the equation for now.
The upshot is that, if  you want to change a situation, and you are willing to take  responsibility for having a part in the creation of this situation -by  your thoughts and feelings, you will have change your thinking pattern.  The results are generally swift and amazing. The first step is to  identify which situations are constantly getting your worked up (or  which ones you are trying to avoid), so that you can start assessing  what your predominant thoughts around this area are. Try this for the  next two weeks or so, and email me the results. I am happy to discuss  these with you so you can balance them out!
To your success!
                             Marc is a certified life/business coach, master NLP  Practitioner and AusIDentities Personalities Facilitator on the Sunshine  Coast in Queensland, Australia.
Working as an Executive Business  mentor with Glenn Dietzel, Marc is among Australia's Law of Attraction  (LOA) experts, and coaches/mentors internationally with the LOA  principles in both business and private settings.
Marc inspires  his clients to create "Knowareness", a powerful state of presence that  allows clients to make the right decisions at the right time, all the  time.
Through powerful Personality Type Profiling techniques,  Values Elicitation and Business Positioning tools Marc takes his  clients' lives and businesses to massive new heights.
Having been a  lawyer for nearly 9 years in his "previous life", before immigrating to  Australia from The Netherlands, Marc knows exactly how daunting taking  the first step in a new direction can be.
On the other hand, he  also knows how fulfilling and profitable taking that step can be, and  has the knack of imparting his knowledge and wisdom in stunningly simple  and highly effective ways.