Have you ever heard the term “creative manifestation“? In a nutshell, it means that you can manifest the things that you want in your life by creating them yourself - by using your thoughts and feelings.

Sounds great, right? We can have whatever we want just by thinking about it! Well, if you know what you are doing, that is 100% true. However, most people are doing something much more common, and I call it “creative destruction”.

You may or may not be aware of the simple concepts behind the Law of Attraction, but they basically state that whatever we focus on is what we will bring into our lives. That is absolutely true, and most people would swear that they spend plenty of time focusing on the things that they want.

Unfortunately, those same people spend even more time waiting for those things to show up, and then wondering why it never happens. The reason it doesn’t happen is because those people are practicing creative destruction.

Even though they may have a clear vision of what they want, the majority of people’s thoughts are usually fixed on the fact that they don’t have the object of their desire. In other words, they are trying to manifest their desires, but they are doing so from a position of “lack”.

Bryant Sandburg coined it perfectly in his blog when he said:”So if you think about the things you lack, that is what you will attract. You will lock yourself in lack.” That phrase “lock yourself in lack” is so appropriate, because it describes perfectly something that you have probably been doing for years.

There is no shortage of desire for us to have the many things that we want in this world. However, - consciously or subconsciously - we spend far more time thinking about what we don’t have. Once again deferring to the all powerful Law of Attraction; if that is what you think about, then that is exactly what you will get!

That’s creative destruction. You are creating the very circumstances that you don’t want to be in! This smacks of the phrase that some of the readers from my generation will be familiar with: “Go get the belt”!

Just as when we were kids and we did something wrong that warranted some tough love from our parents, now that we are adults and parents ourselves, we are still doing it. We are creating negative circumstances for our lives, and then getting upset when those circumstances dutifully show up over and over again.

By now the question that is probably on your mind is, “What can I do about it”?

I’ll give you an answer to that, although I will ask that you PLEASE listen to these words, and put them or some reminder of them in a place where you will see them every day.

I make that request because the habits that we are talking about breaking here have very likely been ingrained in us after years and years of use, and changing our thought patterns is not going to be as easy as simply reading this blog post.

Some may say that by even making that type of statement that I am practicing negativity. To the contrary. I’m practicing realism! I very much believe in your ability to make positive changes in your life based on this advice, but I would be remiss in my duties as the “teacher” if I fed you some fairy tale about Amazing Changes in your Life with only 2 Minutes of Work per Day!

The truth is that you are an all-powerful being and that you can literally have, do, or be anything that you want. However, you are going to have to work at it, which will make the attainment of your goals that much better.

The key to creative manifestation (as opposed to destruction) is that you follow the Creative Process, as outlined in the movie The Secret:

1) Ask for what you want - This does not mean standing in your front yard, hands outstretched, head towards the heavens, and saying, “Please deliver a brand new car to my driveway”.

Those words - or any other words that you use - mean nothing to the Universe. To think that the all-powerful and timeless power of all that has ever been or ever will be is going to understand your language is arrogance at it’s finest.

No, the Universe only responds to vibrations. We create vibrations with our feelings, not with our words. Now, that being said, if by saying something out loud or in your head makes you generate the feelings of actually having what you are asking for, then go for it. Sing it to the heavens, Brothers and Sisters!

2) Answer - This is the job of the Universe - NOT you! The Universe will always answer, every time, without fail. However, the Creative Process is a 3-step process, and Step 3 is the one where you need to step up to the plate if you truly want whatever it is that you are asking for.

3) Receive - This is where you start to truly see the difference between creative manifestation and creative destruction. Ordinarily, we are used to looking at things from a position of lack, which means that we are generating the vibrations of NOT having what we just got done asking for.

I remember the day we got to throw a live grenade during U.S. Army bootcamp. Everyone was so excited! We had been trained and now we got to launch one of those pineapples down range and see just what it could do!

Then, you step into the cement shelter with the Drill Sergeant, you start to get nervous, and you see that he has a live grenade in his hand that he is about to give you so you can pull the pin and toss it over the wall!

On one hand, you are thinking, “Oh, this is so exciting, and I can’t wait”! On the other hand, your heart is beating a mile a minute, you see flashes of you and the instructor splattered all over the inside of the shelter if you happen to drop it, and suddenly you’re not quite sure if you really want it after all.

That is exactly what happens when most people ask the Universe for something. They really want what they are asking for, they can’t wait to have it, but deep down inside - deep down where it really counts and where the Universe is listening - they don’t truly believe they should have the thing they are asking for, or they don’t truly believe that it’s possible that they can have it.

Well, I’m happy to say that in Basic Training I managed to toss the grenade OVER the wall, and I’m still here to tell that story.

The question that you need to ask yourself is whether or not you are going to have guts to have FAITH in the Universe, to BELIEVE that you deserve what you are asking for, and to FEEL grateful and happy as if you already had whatever it is you are asking the Universe for.

If you can remember that 3-step Creative Process, and remember to Believe, have Faith, and to Feel grateful and happy about what you are asking for, the Universe will deliver.

Don’t let yourself get “locked in lack”. Haven’t you spent enough time there already?

Have you ever heard the term “creative manifestation“? In a nutshell, it means that you can manifest the things that you want in your life by creating them yourself - by using your thoughts and feelings.

Sounds great, right? We can have whatever we want just by thinking about it! Well, if you know what you are doing, that is 100% true. However, most people are doing something much more common, and I call it “creative destruction”.

You may or may not be aware of the simple concepts behind the Law of Attraction, but they basically state that whatever we focus on is what we will bring into our lives. That is absolutely true, and most people would swear that they spend plenty of time focusing on the things that they want.

Unfortunately, those same people spend even more time waiting for those things to show up, and then wondering why it never happens. The reason it doesn’t happen is because those people are practicing creative destruction.

Even though they may have a clear vision of what they want, the majority of people’s thoughts are usually fixed on the fact that they don’t have the object of their desire. In other words, they are trying to manifest their desires, but they are doing so from a position of “lack”.

Bryant Sandburg coined it perfectly in his blog when he said:”So if you think about the things you lack, that is what you will attract. You will lock yourself in lack.” That phrase “lock yourself in lack” is so appropriate, because it describes perfectly something that you have probably been doing for years.

There is no shortage of desire for us to have the many things that we want in this world. However, - consciously or subconsciously - we spend far more time thinking about what we don’t have. Once again deferring to the all powerful Law of Attraction; if that is what you think about, then that is exactly what you will get!

That’s creative destruction. You are creating the very circumstances that you don’t want to be in! This smacks of the phrase that some of the readers from my generation will be familiar with: “Go get the belt”!

Just as when we were kids and we did something wrong that warranted some tough love from our parents, now that we are adults and parents ourselves, we are still doing it. We are creating negative circumstances for our lives, and then getting upset when those circumstances dutifully show up over and over again.

By now the question that is probably on your mind is, “What can I do about it”?

I’ll give you an answer to that, although I will ask that you PLEASE listen to these words, and put them or some reminder of them in a place where you will see them every day.

I make that request because the habits that we are talking about breaking here have very likely been ingrained in us after years and years of use, and changing our thought patterns is not going to be as easy as simply reading this blog post.

Some may say that by even making that type of statement that I am practicing negativity. To the contrary. I’m practicing realism! I very much believe in your ability to make positive changes in your life based on this advice, but I would be remiss in my duties as the “teacher” if I fed you some fairy tale about Amazing Changes in your Life with only 2 Minutes of Work per Day!

The truth is that you are an all-powerful being and that you can literally have, do, or be anything that you want. However, you are going to have to work at it, which will make the attainment of your goals that much better.

The key to creative manifestation (as opposed to destruction) is that you follow the Creative Process, as outlined in the movie The Secret:

1) Ask for what you want - This does not mean standing in your front yard, hands outstretched, head towards the heavens, and saying, “Please deliver a brand new car to my driveway”.

Those words - or any other words that you use - mean nothing to the Universe. To think that the all-powerful and timeless power of all that has ever been or ever will be is going to understand your language is arrogance at it’s finest.

No, the Universe only responds to vibrations. We create vibrations with our feelings, not with our words. Now, that being said, if by saying something out loud or in your head makes you generate the feelings of actually having what you are asking for, then go for it. Sing it to the heavens, Brothers and Sisters!

2) Answer - This is the job of the Universe - NOT you! The Universe will always answer, every time, without fail. However, the Creative Process is a 3-step process, and Step 3 is the one where you need to step up to the plate if you truly want whatever it is that you are asking for.

3) Receive - This is where you start to truly see the difference between creative manifestation and creative destruction. Ordinarily, we are used to looking at things from a position of lack, which means that we are generating the vibrations of NOT having what we just got done asking for.

I remember the day we got to throw a live grenade during U.S. Army bootcamp. Everyone was so excited! We had been trained and now we got to launch one of those pineapples down range and see just what it could do!

Then, you step into the cement shelter with the Drill Sergeant, you start to get nervous, and you see that he has a live grenade in his hand that he is about to give you so you can pull the pin and toss it over the wall!

On one hand, you are thinking, “Oh, this is so exciting, and I can’t wait”! On the other hand, your heart is beating a mile a minute, you see flashes of you and the instructor splattered all over the inside of the shelter if you happen to drop it, and suddenly you’re not quite sure if you really want it after all.

That is exactly what happens when most people ask the Universe for something. They really want what they are asking for, they can’t wait to have it, but deep down inside - deep down where it really counts and where the Universe is listening - they don’t truly believe they should have the thing they are asking for, or they don’t truly believe that it’s possible that they can have it.

Well, I’m happy to say that in Basic Training I managed to toss the grenade OVER the wall, and I’m still here to tell that story.

The question that you need to ask yourself is whether or not you are going to have guts to have FAITH in the Universe, to BELIEVE that you deserve what you are asking for, and to FEEL grateful and happy as if you already had whatever it is you are asking the Universe for.

If you can remember that 3-step Creative Process, and remember to Believe, have Faith, and to Feel grateful and happy about what you are asking for, the Universe will deliver.

Don’t let yourself get “locked in lack”. Haven’t you spent enough time there already?

The title of this post is actually a quote from Mike Dooley of ‘Tut’s Adventure Club‘, a fun-loving group of people who see life as a grand adventure, and one that can be made infinitely more enjoyable by learning to control the power of our thoughts.

Mike Dooley is one of the many teachers who was featured in the movie ‘The Secret‘, and his club is a recommended stop on your journey to happiness and prosperity using concepts such as positive thinking and the Law of Attraction. I have singled out his name and his organization for this post due to the fact that I just watched a free clip that is available on the Tut website, and it reminded me of the need to clear up some misconceptions about using your thoughts as tools in your life.

The concept of “positive thinking” is certainly nothing new, although I think that in some ways, it may be reaching a point of market saturation because it is actually being OVER used, rather than simply being used properly.

Positive thinking falls into the same category as knowledge (see my article on knowledge) in the fact that simply having a positive attitude or a bit of knowledge is not enough. You have to use those resources properly if you want to see the benefits.

You probably know someone who is always happy, always smiling, always laughing, and seems to not even take serious things seriously! Yeah…that’s not the best way to have a positive attitude.

That person will certainly attract more happiness into their life than someone who runs around wearing a frown every day, but even the “happy go lucky” sort need to use the power of focus in order to actually get something specific out of all of that joy that they feel each day.

I could sit right here at my computer and start laughing hysterically for no reason, and the immutable power of the Universe would simply obey my commands and send more hysterical laughter vibes my way. However, I wouldn’t actually have accomplished any specific goal or task that my “positive thinking” was supposed to have helped me with.

As Mike and the gang at TUT say, “thoughts become things”. So, if you’re just laughing for no reason, and you don’t really have anything that you are trying to attract with your positive vibrations, then the Universe does not know what to send you.

It’s like walking into a convenience store, laying $100 on the counter, and then just looking at the clerk expectantly. Not the most effective way to go shopping…

The Universe works the same way in that you have to be specific about what it is that you want. Yes, happiness and laughter are powerful and should be used as frequently as possible. However, if you actually want to manifest something out of all of that positivity, you need to choose a specific goal.

If what you think about then comes about (thoughts become things), then you need to think about exactly what you want. Do you want money? Do you want a better relationship? What about a new car?

Those are all things that people wish for, but again, let’s use the example of the convenience store clerk. This time you walk in, lay the $100 on the counter, and say “Food”.

Again, not very effective, is it? By this point you are making the clerk wonder why he/she took that job with all of the weirdos in your neighborhood, but other than that, you aren’t accomplishing much.

GET SPECIFIC!

If you want money, then exactly how much do you want? $10,000 a month? $25,000? It doesn’t matter what the amount is. If you know how to focus your positive intentions to get that money, you WILL get it! The Universe is never wrong, and it always delivers. However, you have to know how to place your order by asking specifically for what you want, and then holding the image of that thing in your mind as often as possible.

What about a relationship? I’ll use a female looking for a male counterpart for this example.

If a girl wants a better man in her life, she could say to the Universe, “I want a man”. 2 hours later, Larry “plumbers crack” McGill shows up to fix your pipes. Hmmmm… not exactly what you had in mind.

How about this: “I want a man who is 6-feet tall, athletic, with striking eyes and a beautiful smile”. A few weeks later that guy moves in right next to you! Unfortunately, he is married and drives a 10 year-old Yugo with a bumper sticker that says “Nerds do it in Class”.

Uh…. that didn’t exactly work out, either. Let’s try this one more time:

“I want a man who is around 6-feet tall, has a beautiful smile, a dark complexion, and a perfect mixture of self-confidence, masculinity, compassion, and romanticism. He will be around my age, be single and available to me in every way, and he will adore me at least as much as I adore him”.

Okay, NOW we’re getting somewhere! Remember, the Universe always delivers what you ask for if you ask for it in the right way. You ask for these things with your thoughts and with your feelings.

So, whether you are trying to manifest a new car, a pile of cash, your dream lover, or just a pewter-lined pocket protector that automatically recharges your laser pointer and your nose-clippers - get specific about it!!

Once again, giving props to Mike and the gang at Tut - “Thoughts become things… choose the good ones!”

p.s. - To see the video clip that I referred to, go to the Tut site using the link above and click on “Live Recording” in the resources menu when you get there.

Welcome to the first of what will ultimately be a veritable warehouse of messages about how to empower your life, improve your circumstances, and invoke the universal power of the Law of Attraction in order to find your personal definition of happiness!

The purpose of this blog is to provide a free and easy to use system for people to learn how to make their lives what they want them to be by learning about how things truly work in the universe.

Most of us have been brought up in an environment where we were taught and/or surrounded by people who might not have had the true answers that we seek today. As of the writing of this post - September 22, 2006 - we are only a generation or two into an era of humanity that will shape our futures in a much more fundamental way than the “brick and mortar” version that past generations have seen.

We are now beginning to understand that the power of our minds (for lack of a more detailed explanation at this point) is even more powerful than the world around us. In fact, the world around us is only there because of the power of the human mind. With no thought, there can be no creation. The sooner you embrace the fact that you are walking around with cosmic power at your fingertips, the sooner you will start to learn how to wield that power for your own good, as well as the good of humanity as a whole.

There are many concepts, teachings, and points of view that go into learning how to be “enlightened” so that you can truly embrace freedom and happiness on this earth. I will cover many of those things here on this blog, and many others as well.

Although my primary course of study and understanding is presently in the effective utilization of the Law of Attraction, I have no doubt that other well known - and not so well known - practices and beliefs will also be gracing my life, as well as these pages.

You, the reader, need only come by here as often as you like in order to learn and also share your own opinion on these matters. This resource is here for you, and I intend to make it as valuable as possible so that you will come here frequently to expand your awareness, and share your thoughts.

This blog is part of the web presence that I have at http://www.todayisthatday.com, and you will find similar teachings and resources there.

Another thing that will separate this blog from my main site is the content. You will see references to articles that I have written, which I do encourage you to check out, although I will not be posting articles here on the blog. For one, the articles are already housed on the main site, and you are encouraged to go there and sign up for the free newsletter so that you can receive notification about that content. However, the real difference between those articles and the postings on this blog will be the nature of the material.

Although the concepts will remain the same, and all information will be geared towards educating and helping people, articles are very “official”. They are not written from the first person perspective, and they tend to need to “work for everyone”. There is nothing wrong with that, and I write at least one new article each week.

However, the type of content to be found here on the blog will be much more personable. It will not be a day to day recount of my life, as I recognize that my personal details will mean very little to you. However, the words on these pages will come from a much more down to earth perspective.

I will use examples from my own life as well as the lives of the people that I help and come into contact with. I will use these real life circumstances as examples of how to apply some of the concepts of self improvement and self empowerment that you will learn about on these pages.

There is real value in learning how to apply these concepts to your day to day life by learning how others have done the same, and that is what you can expect to find here on this blog.

I make no promises about how often I will post information for you, as that will depend on how often I am inspired to do so by witnessing or experiencing something that you may find valuable. I will not mindlessly make up things to talk about just to fill pages. If I take the time to write it down, you can rest assured that it will be of some value to you, and worth you taking a few minutes to check out.

As with most of the present day blogs, I have provided plenty of ways for you to subscribe so that you do not miss anything. The links - or chicklets, as some call them - in the right column can be used to subscribe to this blog with your favorite system.

You will also notice a very complete line of social bookmarking links at the bottom of each and every post, and I certainly encourage you to bookmark anything on this blog that you find of value. Whether you want to personally refer back to it, or if you want to help yourself by also helping others (a concept you will hear more about), then bookmark any of the pages of this blog so that others can take advantage of the information that you have come across during your web travels.

So, I think that about wraps it up for the “official” introduction, and I will leave you with the parting statement that I believe in my heart to be true, and I have made it a part of the message that I am giving to the world:

YOU are in charge of your life, and don’t ever let anyone tell you otherwise!

Chow for now, and peace.

Aaron M. Potts
aaron@todayisthatday.com

Did you ever get in your OWN way? You know - those times when no matter how hard you try, everything goes south, and at the end of the day, you look back and realize that a large portion of it was your own fault?

Yeah, I hate those days. And I used to have them all the time. Until I learned about the Law of Attraction, that is.

Basically what happens with the Law of Attraction is that by the nature of your thoughts and your feelings, you attract into your life those very things, or things very similar. So, if you feel like you’re having a bad day, guess what? You’re right! And you are the catalyst for the entire process.

The good news is that just like you are the spark that lights the fire of those bad days, you are also the fire extinguisher that can put them out! It is done by your own conscious awareness of your state of mind. Your ability to decide to think and feel things that will be of benefit to you is available every single minute of every single day for your entire time here on Earth.

There are circumstances - that I encourage wholeheartedly - when you can use the power of the Law of Attraction to bring large amounts of happiness and success into your life. I strongly urge you to read some of my articles on the Law of Attraction in order to do exactly that. However, this post isn’t about attaining long-term success, but rather about how to use the Law of Attraction to handle the day to day trials and tribulations that we all have to deal with.

Here is a situation that I recently experienced where the Law of Attraction came to my rescue. I’m sure you will recognize where this same type of situation could happen to you, or maybe already has:

Awhile back I had made a commitment to someone to do some work for them, although the individual in question took quite a bit longer than I had expected before she was ready for me to actually jump in and help.

The day she finally called me to say she was ready, I was totally swamped. I was knee-deep in about half a dozen separate projects, and all of them were at the point where I was about out of time to finish them in anything remotely resembling the timeline I had available.

I do a lot of technical work on my websites and my products, and the work can be exceedingly time consuming if something doesn’t go as expected, which is what had happened with me previous to her phone call.

So, when this person called and said she was ready to get started, my first instinct was to freak out! I would be lucky to finish the things already on my task list, let alone throwing another project in there.

However, I am a man of honor and a very ethical business owner, so when this person called, I knew that by my own moral code that I had no choice but to help her. Luckily, when she first called I wasn’t able to answer the phone, so I got the message via voicemail. The buffer of time that technology sometimes allows us can be a very good thing.

After listening to her message and finding out that my small amount of time was going to dwindle even further now, I started to have a negative reaction to that. Frustration, anxiety, nervousness, etc. - these are all negative emotions. Negative emotions create magnetically charged frequencies that will - based on the Law of Attraction - attract more negativity.

So I stopped and thought about the situation for a minute, and I had 2 potential ways to look at it:

1) I don’t have time for this! I’m already swamped, this person should have been ready when she originally said she was going to be, and it’s not MY fault that she chose this particular day to call me!

Frustration. Anger. Anxiety. Guilt. Negative. Negative. Negative. Negative.

2) I’ve got a lot going on, but I know how excited she is about me helping her with this project. She is really looking forward to finishing this up, and she is going to be in a much better position to improve her life and to help the people around her once this project is done. I remember how excited she was when we talked about doing this together, and she is looking forward to having this project done so she can be proud of it, and take advantage of what it represents to her.

Charity. Pride. Understanding. Accomplishment. Positive. Positive. Positive. Positive.

Even though I was busy, I chose to open Door #2, Monty. And get smacked right in the face with the Law of Attraction!

I called her up after having thought all of those positive things, I was ready to help her, and I knew that one way or another by taking the high road, things would work out, and they did.

It turns out that even though she was ready to get started, there were still some preliminary things that she had to finish before I could jump in with both feet, and she didn’t really need that much of my time that day, or the next day. In fact, based on the discussion that her and I had about the project previously, she had done almost all of the “leg” work, and what I actually had to do turned out to take less than half the time that it was supposed to.

On top of all of that, she is so happy with the work that I did for her that she is going out of her way to do everything that she can possibly do before calling on me to lend a hand.

She is very grateful to me (one of the most powerful positive emotions), she is sharing my work with others who are very complimentary, and she has me feeling so good about the work that I find it hard to believe I ever even considered having a negative thought about the whole thing!

As of the writing of this post, her project is almost 100% done, and I am actually more caught up on the tasks on my to-do list than I have been in a very long time.

Coincidence? Luck?

Hardly.

This is exactly how the Law of Attraction works! I am so grateful to be able to share a story like this with you because I think that it helps to clarify some of the confusion about the Law of Attraction.

People who have heard of it but don’t really understand it tend to think that things are quite a bit more literal than they really are. Yes, the Law of Attraction can - and will - attract very specific things into your life over the long-term.

However, you don’t sit back, think about a brand new car, an instant cure for your allergies, and teenagers who are model citizens, and then expect those things to come waltzing through your door 5 minutes later. It doesn’t work that way.

As I said earlier, the Law of Attraction will attract similar frequencies to what you think and feel about, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that you will understand the path that the universe will take to grant your wish until it is granted!

In my case, it started out as a schedule that was already too full and then got added to with this individual’s request, and I was in a position to have a serious problem on my hands.

By simply reacting in a positive manner rather than a negative manner, not only did I honor my obligation to her, but I ended up more ahead of the game than I have been in months.

All of that by simply going Positive instead of Negative. No money was spent, no classes were taken, no counselors, swamis, or business coaches were consulted. There was no prayer involved (although there is nothing wrong with that), there was no destroying 2 days in my calendar and rebuilding them from scratch with a “new and improved” plan of action, and there was certainly no anxiety-induced panic attack.

I simple decided. I am going to have a positive reaction to this situation.

That’s it, that’s all. The Universal Law of Attraction took care of the rest.

Now that’s what I call service.

I implore you - take advantage of the Law of Attraction at every available opportunity. You have absolutely nothing to lose, but everything to gain!