Many people know of The Secret and The Law of Attraction, but do they work? Is it all in the mind? In this short report I tackle these two important topics and give my opinion on whether they work or not, and what you can do to help them work for you

1. Does the
Law of Attraction & The
Secret work?
Richard Butler - Success Coach

2. The Power Of Thought
In this short report I want to discuss the Law of Attraction as well as The
Secret. Here's the question you’ve heard about it, the Law of Attraction… but
does it work?
If you’re not sure what the Law of Attraction is here’s a very simple
explanation:
The law of attraction – bluff?
You radiate energy and like energy attracts like energy. So for example if you
are angry and annoyed this is the type of energy you will attract. Think about
it, have you ever been trying to do something and everything is going wrong?
That’s the law of attraction.
What about if you are in a great mood, you tend to attract people who are in
a good mood as well.
Where I worked there was a lot of negativity and it was hard to avoid it, so
that negativity was multiplied by more negativity.
Have you ever had a really great day? Everything just went your way? Again
that’s the Law of Attraction playing its merry tune! Like attracts like.
Your thoughts play a huge part in the LOA. What you think manifests itself.
Therefore if you harbor negative thoughts, negative things will happen to
you.
If you think about success and opportunities suddenly you see things in a
di erent light. This happened to me in a few years ago. I usually don’t read
horoscopes but for some reason I read this particular thing.
The Law Of Attraction and The Secret

3. The Power Of Thought
When you begin to think about things, always think in the positive, don’t say
what you don’t want say what you want.
Watch your language!
Ok this main sound strange to some but I know it to be true as a Practitioner
of NLP – the mind can not process negatives. So if I say I don’t want to be
poor. The mind looks at that and says I don’t, don’t what, and then it sees be
poor. Or I don’t want to meet a women who cheats on me, again what’s the
result….
It told me that in October an opportunity was going to be handed to me on
a plate – so what happened? I became very open to all ideas during this
time, I looked for and sought out di erent opportunities, and yes an
opportunity was handed to me on a plate, and the plate is now over owing.
I begin attracting a lot of different things to me.
In these two examples reframe the thought as follows:
I want to be rich
I want a women who is faithful
Will it make a di erence? If you believe it will it will, remember what you
think you attract!
The Law Of Attraction and The Secret

4. The Power Of Thought
My top 5 tips for you are:
Rid yourself of negative thoughts
Don’t dwell on the past
Concentrate on the present and future
Think positive thoughts
Change how you think of problems – see them as challenges
A great book I read and recommend is Your HeadPaint Is Wrong It is a great
insight into the LOA and the Secret (which I explain about below).
The Law Of Attraction and The Secret

5. The Secret – making it work for you
A Different Perspective on The Secret
I guess if you are interested in self development and improving yourself you
have heard of The Secret? Maybe you have read the book or seen the
movie. I know a few people who have said to me – “Rich I read the book but
it´s not working for me”. And yes I agree with them. However that does not
mean that the book does not have value. Sometimes people read the book
and don´t really understand what they have to do with the information
provided.
Why The Secret works for some people and not others:
I bet you know people or have heard of people who seem to always be
winning. Be it with a promotion in work, a job change, or nancially. They
just always seem to have “luck”. It seems like The Secret is working for them
automatically.
So what´s the reason? They have a clear focus and have got rid of the
mental garbage in their head. They take action. To me this is the key,
actually taking action. These “lucky” people will visualise what they want, ask
the universe for it and then take action and receive it.
Why The Secret does not work for the rest of the population:
If you´re reading this maybe it is because you don´t fall into the category
above or you don´t seem to have automatic success like other more “lucky”
people. So let´s look at how you can change that.
The Secret & Law Of Attraction– making it work for you

6. The Secret – making it work for you
Let´s take an example that many people experience – losing weight! You
know you would look better if you lost X kilos or stones. You know that
during the summer you will have your beach body and feel better!
Then you think of having to “diet” to go without food, to exercise, and you get
a feeling of dread a feeling of oh no it´s too much effort!
I know that happened to me before. I thought I won´t be able to do this, it
will be too much work etc, but you know what – success breeds success.
When you see the changes taking place you will feel better and this will spur
you on
You have to be 100% fully committed to what you want. You can´t say i´d
like to lose weight or I should lose weight or maybe I might use weight. You
have to want to lose weight and understand why you are doing it. Then your
mind will become 100% focused and you will be in a better frame of mind to
achieve your goal!
The rst thing you need to do is ensure you want to achieve your goal,
and remove any limiting or negative belief. If you want to succeed for
example online, ask yourself why do you want this? What is the most
important element? Forget about the money, what else is there that is so
important? For me it´s to have more time with my little girl, to be able to
visit her when I want, to travel more, to be able to say to my wonderful
partner, forget about your job let´s enjoy life! I keep this in the forefront of
my mind constantly.
The Secret & Law Of Attraction– making it work for you

7. The Secret – making it work for you
A key tool you can use is visualization. Did you know that your mind can
not tell the di erence between a real memory and one that is vividly created
in your mind? So the rst thing you need to do is to visualize your
successful outcome. See yourself looking better, feeling better, enjoying
your new lifestyle. Really believe it and feel like you have it. This will plant
the idea in your subconscious and help you achieve your goal.
Once you can do this you are ready to use the power of The Secret
Making The Secret work for you to achieve what you want
Here´s something interesting. It´s called the blue feather manifestation.
The idea is simple you put the idea out to the universe that you want to
bring a blue feather into your life and within a speci ed time frame you will
see the blue feather.
I nd this and other variations of this exercise interesting as you have set it
into your mind that you will see a blue feather, so your subconscious is now
aware of this and begins to seek it out, without you even realizing.
Do you ever remember seeing a make and model of car, and then suddenly
you see it ever where? It seems that every one is driving this type of car.
Again your subconscious is seeking out this information and identifying it for
you.
The Secret & Law Of Attraction– making it work for you

8. The Secret – making it work for you
So is there any “scienti c” back up to this. Well actually yes. It´s something
called your reticular activating system working as it should. You see,
every day we are exposed to so many stimuli that we can´t possibly take
everything in. Your reticular activating system makes a decision as to
what is important enough to bring to your attention and what can be
“discarded”.
When you focus on something the RAS shows you more of it, it seeks it out.
So what you put into your head is what you get more o – take note of this
point. Your subconscious is not going to di er between “good” and “bad”
thoughts, it simply gives you more of what you look for.
So you see what you want is already there you just have to switch it on and
see and seek out what every it is. If you focus on the negative you will
receive more negative.
What you should be taking away from The Secret is the following.
It is telling you that when you put an idea into your head you be able to spot
opportunities, to help you achieve that goal. If you visualize the goal that
you want to achieve and really believe you can and take action you will see
amazing change.
If you don´t take action you won´t get closer to your goal. My three key
steps are:
Focus your mind
Visualise
Take action.
The Secret & Law Of Attraction– making it work for you

9. The Secret – making it work for you
Oh by the way, a good friend of mine has a great book that goes further into
the idea of getting your mind, or headpaint as he calls it in order. Here´s his
“headpaint” book. It´s a great read and can really help you focus
About Richard
Richard Butler is a life and business coach based in Barcelona.
Find out more a RichardButlerTheSuccessCoach.com
The Secret & Law Of Attraction– making it work for you