Once you can fully grasp this concept in your life, you can quite literally start living the life of your dreams.

We want what is familiar. When something is familiar, it is comfortable. We tend to seek out comfort and familiarity instead of something different. But that something different is how you change.

If you are anything into the law of attraction or manifestation or living life on a higher frequency, I know you have heard this concept before.

Reap what you sow.

What you program in, gets programmed out.

Where your energy goes, your attention flows.

You get what you expect.

All of these are true. But how does this affect your life? What do we truly mean when we say thoughts, feelings, and behaviors dictate our life?

Let’s do a few exercises to show you what I mean.

Thoughts, Feeling, and Behaviors

Let’s start with a simple one: Your daily habits.

I have a morning routine where I am awake by 530a and spend an hour meditating, sitting in silence, sitting in gratitude, full of love and bliss. My time to just sit and be incredibly grateful for another day on this beautiful planet. Another day to see my beautiful wife and kids. To make a change in the world with my writing. Just to see and be. I emit a very high frequency – high vibrations – during this time because I am in a state of love and bliss.

Then at 630a, my boy’s alarm goes off and I go from a state of love and bliss to chaos and anger. Trying to get kids out the door who don’t want to get dressed, eat breakfast, or even go to the flippin’ bathroom! My frequency – no matter how hard I try, goes to a low frequency.

Those 2 hours of the morning, give me a middle wave vibration to start my day. High, then low, puts you an average of the middle. My day isn’t ruined, but I am also not riding a high vibration at that moment. I am in the middle. I am the sum total of my thoughts, feeling, and behaviors.

How can I raise my vibrations here? I am working on being calmer, and emitting more love when I get my boys ready in the morning. I raise that vibration, my average vibration goes up throughout the day and things start improving. Got me so far?

Great – so let’s use a real-life example of how we can apply this to life and our goals. Let’s do it with money and wealth.

When I was 26, I got married to the love of my life. And boy that was a stressful time. We both were finishing up master’s degrees, working minimum wage jobs, and living in a townhome we barely were scraping to get by. I think I was at 27k a year or something like that. I had just learned about the law of attraction via reading The Secret and was starting to soak up all the authors in this space. One of those reads was The Feeling Is The Secret, by Neville Godard. Basically, Neville says that the secret to life is FEELING the way you want to feel in the future. By feeling the way you want to feel, you basically BE the person you need to be to DO The things to get you want.

My first big at-bat with this was manifesting more money into my life. But it couldn’t just be about the money, because money doesn’t have a direct feeling or emotion attached to it. It is what money can bring. So I did a 10 levels deep exercise – where you go 10 levels deep on the ‘why’. You can read more here on the 10 levels deep exercise.

Turns out for me, making more money means giving my wife, and my future kids the life they deserve. A house with a backyard, vacations, and the works. I HAD to get there. So I set a goal: 100k before I was 30 years old.

Why 100k? I mean – isn’t that the gold standard for wealth when you are making 27k? And why 30? IDK – seemed like a good even number. So I set it – and off I went.

2 years went by, and I was making 35k. Nowhere NEAR where I thought I would be. I should be close to at least 60k if 100k was going to come into reach. And here comes all the doubt about does the secret really work? Am I really meant just to be a 35k earner in my life? Maybe this is what wealth looks like in my life?

Then one night, I randomly decided to log into my Kindle and go through old books that I read in the past. And one stuck out like a sore thumb: The feeling is the secret.

THE FEELING IS THE SECRET

I wasn’t FEELING wealth. In fact – I was feeling the opposite. I was still feeling debt. Lack. Scarcity. And you know what I was getting? Debt. Lack Scarcity. I was still worried about if we had money each money. Still stressing that I can’t take my wife to anything but the dollar menu at Mcdonald’s. Still looking at my beater of a car I quite literally would pray to god to let it start just one more day so I can try to change this position. And you know what god did? He gave me exactly what I asked for. That car always just barely started. I just barely could afford date night. I always just barely paid the mortgage. But that wasn’t the wealth that was going to give my future family the life we need.

So I had to change my feeling. I started with the most basic of questions: What does wealth feel like?

Well – I will tell you what it doesn’t feel like. It doesn’t feel like worrying about money. It doesn’t feel like wondering if you can pay your house payment or not. It doesn’t feel like not being able to take your wife to nice dinners. It doesn’t feel like a piece of shit car.

And here is where I had that moment of change in my life. I realized I was trying to manifest the feeling of wealth by NOT manifesting the feeling of lack. But that only made me see and feel the lack. The emotion of scarcity. The thoughts of “can we afford life right now”. I needed to flip the script.

I needed to get around wealth. I needed to get accustomed to how wealthy people live and think, to cultivate those feelings.

At this time, I was driving an hour each way to my job. About halfway through, I drive through a city called Del Mar. Known to be a high-end area, but not outrageous. It was a city I always thought wealthy people would live, and I wanted to live if I was wealthy. So one random day, I pulled off the freeway and pulled into a little housing development there. I got out and just walked around.

God damn it was uncomfortable. People in nice clothes, with nice cars in the driveway, in their nice houses, were looking at me wondering what this rif raf was doing in their neighborhood – or so that is what I thought people were doing. Truth be told now – no one gave a shit I was there. So I walked around.

And I did it again. Different neighborhood. New day – new area. I went to the coffee shops in the morning and bought a coffee in Del Mar. I went to their parks. I picked up groceries at their stores. I surrounded myself with the feelings of “wealth” or how I interpreted wealth at this time. I also did things like subscribe to the Robb Report. Signed up for ‘high-end’ newsletters. And the kicker – I took my wife out for a dinner that cost over $100 for a date night. I have never had more stress in my entire life – but I knew I had to do it. Do you know why?

Every single one of those events raised my standard of wealth and lowered my standard of what I would accept in my life. Because my thoughts, feelings, and behaviors were aligned when the idea of wealth because I was surrounding myself with wealth. I was normalizing Mercedes and BMWs instead of Ford and Hondas. I was seeing 30k watches in magazines and saying “I don’t like that color” because I have seen so many. I was raising what it FELT LIKE to be wealthy.

And sure as shit – one thing led to another, I randomly landed a sales role within my company, went from 45k to 85k, and finally 118k the year I turned 30.

I didn’t even realize I made it until 2 months after my 30th birthday when I got my commission statement to YTD was over 100k. I sat back in my chair and was like ‘Whoa – this works’. And I haven’t looked back since.

Don’t Stop Believing

Trust me I know it is very hard to do when you are scraping to get by to try to cultivate the feelings of wealth. But also trust me when I tell you that you need to. If you want to achieve all the dreams you have dreamt, you MUST put the thoughts and feelings into a place of feeling in that state NOW, or else it will never come. Yes – it is awkward.

It is awkward valeting your 2009 Hyundai Elantra at a restaurant where there are Lambos and Ferraris. Yes, I know your hand literally trembles to hand over your $250 limit credit card for a $115 meal for the first time in your life. Yes, I know the look in your wife’s eye when you mustard up all the money you have to attend a concert, but literally have no money for even a goddamn pretzel at intermission, but you still say “Get whatever you want honey”. Trust me – I know those moments are tough.

But it hurts the worst the first time. Before you know it, you are valeting your porches and commenting on the ugly color of the Maclren you are parked next to. The every date night is $150+. And those concerts are the best indulgences of your life.

I don’t say those things to impress you – I really don’t. I want to impress upon you that I was a lost soul who finally learned how to make the universe work for me, but using my thoughts, feelings, and behaviors-, and if you want to get everything you want in life – this is the way.

Set your sights on what you want. figure out the true why. And do whatever you need to do to cultivate the feeling that the life you want is already in front of you. Then sit back and relax as you watch everything you have ever dreamed about come into your life.

Or you can continue to struggle the way you are living now. The choice is truly up to you.

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FEELING.

I bet you know that your thoughts become things, but what doesn’t an elephant appear when you think about an elephant?

Ok, sure – you could say there is a gestation period like all things in the world – including manifestation – so things do magically appear. If this was your answer – kudos to being a great student.

But there is another reason why some of the things you manifest don’t reveal themselves: you think it – but you don’t FEEL it.

Whatever you are looking to get for your future self, you have to be able to FEEL how that would feel NOW. Not later. Not when you get it. NOW.

You can see this in happiness in most people.

I will be happen when I get that promotion.

I will be happy when I find that perfect person.

I will be happy when I make $100,000 a year.

The main issue in that way of thinking is that those goals will never come to you, because you are putting your feeling in that future state. If you don’t know how to feel those feelings NOW, how do you expect to feel those feelings then?

And there is where most people fail with the law of attraction.

If you really want to succeed in your manifestations, you need to start FEELING the feelings that you would have when you receive it, but feel them now.

The Feeling Is The Secret

Getting the feeling down is probably the hardest part about manifestation because let’s face it: If you don’t know what it feels like to make 100k, how can you possibly know what it feels like to make 100k?

Or lose 50 lbs.

Or get that relationship of your dreams.

Or get that car of your dreams.

They do describe this in The Secret. There is a scene in the movie, where they are telling you to sit in your chair, and imagine that you are behind the wheel of your brand new sports car – and they have this whole scene about it. That is the feeling. Sure – you can imagine it, dream it, visualize it – but if you don’t have the FEELINGS behind it, you just won’t get there.

Because you have never been there, you truly don’t know what it feels like. And there lies the biggest problem. If you can’t feel it – you can’t manifest it.

So let’s pose the question: How do you get the feeling?

Simple – you get the feeling.

Yes – that is over simplistic but that truly is how you do it. In order to generate the feelings of getting what you want, you ave to start generating the feelings of what you want. Not when you get it – now.

I was 25 years young when I came across The Secret. Fresh out of college (yes – it took me awhile), working dead end job making maybe 30k a year. I wanted more – I knew I wanted more. I came from a poor upbringing and had a very poor money mindset. I wanted out of it – and knew that I could. But no matter what I did I could not get it. I did the visualizations, affirmations, meditations, and whatever other -ations I could throw at it. Nothing was changing. Until I changed.

I read this story about playing games with yourself in order to generate the feelings of what you are looking to do. In this case – financial abundance. So I decided it couldn’t hurt – it will only work, right? So I started putting myself in situations surround wealth.

• I subscribed to the Robb Report magazine.
• I took daily walks in the most affluent neighborhoods in San Diego (Rancho Santa Fe, Del Mar, Encinitas, etc).
• I would try on pants at a store, and put $20 in the pocket and put them back on the rack.
• I test drove a BMW 5 series.
• I took my car to the valet.
• I dropped $200 on a dinner with my girlfriend (now wife).

Every single one of these things scared the living sh*t out of me. I didn’t belong in those neighborhoods. I didn’t have extra money to just drop in pockets for someone else. I drove a 2000 Pontiac sunfire – who the f*ck valet thats? That $200 dinner – on a credit card because I didn’t have enough in the bank – hell the card only had a $500 limit!

Crazy? Yes – yes it was. Did I feel the feelings of abundance the first time? Absolutely not. In fact – it triggered more stress and feelings of lack that abundance.

But I kept at it. Because I believed this will work. And do you know what started happening?

• The price tag of those items in the Robb Report started to become normal. 100k for a watch? Well – it is a nice watch.
• I started to normalize seeing Porches and Mercedes and BMW and Range Rovers in those fancy neighborhoods. It was no longer ‘look at that fancy car’ but simply – look at that car.
• Parking in the valet became normal – I was actually pissed when a restaurant or hotel did NOT have valet. What – you want me to self park like a peasant?
• Date nights now consist of $200 meals easily, and freely.

2 years later, I pulled my first 100k year –  nearly 4 years to the day of earning that 30k a year.  But more important than the earning is building my abundance mindset. Every time I drop $200 on a dinner date with my wife, I give a little smile because it isn’t money being spent, it is good times and memories being made, well worth the money for dinner.

That story may feel like a boastful brag, but the key takeaway point is to generate the feelings. Yes – it will feel uncomfortable walking through ritzy neighborhoods when you are used to the slums. Yes – it will feel weird shopping for the new clothes you will wear when you lose that 50 lbs. Yes – it will feel odd testing driving that 911 GT3 Porsche.

But unless you know what it feels like in those moments – you will never know what it feels like in those moments. You will never be able to normalize a fancy neighborhood. You will never be able to see yourself 50 pounds lighter. You will never know what 346 ft lbs of torque really feels like off the line.

That is why you need to do whatever you can to start feeling the feelings of your end result. Feel FROM your goals, not when you get there.

If you can master the feeling of what you want – there literally is nothing stopping you from the life of your dreams.

So feel the feelings – and get the life that you want!

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How To Attract Abundance From The Universe

Abundance is one of the hardest feelings to attract from the universe, especially when you are used to LACK in your life – like so many are. One of the main ideas being attracting anything is to get into the feeling already. But if you are always in a feeling of lack, it is very hard to feel abundance. If you don’t feel abundance – you won’t have it. If you feel like it – you will get more of it.

You get what you feel. Most people want to say you get what you think about – but it really is you get what you feel. You get what you put emotion behind. You get the state that you are in.

So if you are always feeling like there is never enough – guess what you will have? Never enough.

And if you took a good look at your words & thoughts, you would see why your FEELINGS are the way they are.

Steve Harvey says it best: You have not, cause you ask not.

You are getting exactly what you put into your life. You feel like you are just getting by, so you do. You feel like you just have enough at the end of the month, so you do. You feel like if you can only get your car to last another year, so it does.

You are getting exactly what you are feeling.

So step 1 in how to attract abundance from the universe, is to watch how you are feeling.

Watch Your Feelings

Gabby Bernstein gives a great explanation of attracting abundance: It’s an inside job.  You have to watch your feelings, your thoughts, and your words that are going on in your life. This is hard to do at first – especially when you don’t know what the feeling of abundance feels like. And unfortunately, my abundance is different than your abundance, so I can’t really help you figure out how it feels for you – but you will know it when you feel.

My abundance feels like perfection. I have everything in the world that I could need – and at this moment, everything is perfect. Yours will look different – and that is just fine. You have to understand what abundance means to you – no one else. You can’t try to find abundance for other people – you will never find it. Which why step 2 is to find your abundance.

So step 1: Watch your feelings. Notice when you start feeling the lack and try moving yourself to abundance.

Step 2: Find your abundance. What is that for you? Is it money? Is it love? Is it peace of mind? Is it a house? Is it a new car? Is it a loving relationship? Is it a growing family?

Keep in mind – you are allowed to change what abundance means to you. Just because it is a house today, doesn’t mean it can’t be a loving relationship tomorrow. Attracting is an end-all/be-all. It is a way of thinking, a journey – and one of the most beautiful journeys you will ever be on.

As a kid, my dad used to tell us that he was the richest man in the world because he had his family. And it wasn’t until I was older that I realized if you count money – we were very poor. But if you count a loving family, we were so damn abundant.

Once you do some work on what your abundance is, it’s time for step 3 which is to get into and stay in that feeling as often and as long as you can.

How To Attract Abundance From The Universe

Step 1: Watch your feelings. Start to notice when you start feeling lack and move yourself to abundance.

Step 2: Find your abundance: For you. No one else. Figure out what feelings you want to cultivate and what that is. For you. Not your spouse. Not your boss. Not your kids. YOU. What is your abundance.

Step 3: Get into that feeling of abundance as often as you can remember, and as long as you.

Is your abundance money? Walkthrough the most expensive stores, try on the expensive clothes – don’t think about price or lack – think about the FEELINGS of what that feels like.

Is your abundance love? walk down the street with an open heart full of such love you truly see every human as a being on the same journey as you.

New house? New Car? Go test drive THE EXACT car. Go walk through the EXACT HOUSE. See how it feels.

Then spend as much time as you can cultivating that feeling. Doing when you walk, when you daydream, when you meditate, when you commute to work – do whatever you have to do to get into that feeling.

Soon – that feeling will become second nature to you. ANd you will know NOTHING BUT the feeling of YOUR abundance. And at that point – congratulations. You have an abundance. You may not have it physically yet – but it is coming your way. You are there. Now just relax your shoulders, smile, and wait for your abundance to manifest.

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One of the first steps in the framework to manifest everything you want is to know what you want. And surprisingly, this is one of the hardest things to do. You would think it would be the easiest, but people don’t handle it the right way.

The worst offender is people wanting something because someone else has it. That is the ego telling you what you want and sadly, the ego is the biggest blocker of the law of attraction.

See someone driving a nice car and saying something like “ug – why do they get to drive a nice car and I don’t” is coming from a place of lack – not abundance – and that is one of the worst mindsets to have in life – much less a life you are trying to get abundance on.

Another offender – which is the one I want to talk about here – is the ‘it’s impossible’ mindset. They want to attract all these things – money, relationship, success, houses, cars, you name it – but they limit themselves to what they think they could do.

They really want to earn six figures, but they think based on their current state that that is impossible, so they say 60k instead. Still a stretch, but way easier to wrap the head around it.

I was doing some goal setting work with someone one time and they told me they want to earn 70k in real estate. I asked why not 700k (which is possible in real estate), and they said that is too big of a goal. 70k would be great.

Too big of a goal? That is the whole damn idea!!

If you are going to set goals, why not set them big? Why not dream as big as you can think? Because guess what – you are going to get what you think about. You are going to get what you are manifesting. Wouldn’t you hate to get to 70k and be like ‘shoulda gone for 700k’? Or would you rather hit 70k on the way to 700k and be like ‘awe yeah – one more milestone down’?

The choice is really ultimately up to you. Goal setting is something I cannot help you with. It has to be your goal – your dream – your desire. It cannot be for anyone else but you.

Here is the best way I tell people to start to ‘what do I want’ discussion with yourself:

What Would You Do If You Knew You Could Not Fail

If you knew that nothing could stop you, and that failure was impossible, what would you want? What would you be doing? If you had all the time, all the money, all the space in your life to put whatever you wanted into your life, what would that be? What would you have? Where would you live? What would you drive? What would your family look like? What would your travel look like?

Fill in all the space here. If there was no resistance – zero friction – who would you be? Write from that frame.

And think big!

I cannot stress this fact enough. When I first started on my Law of Attraction journey, I played it small. I played the who ‘let’s manifest a cup of coffee’ game. Which is great – I mean – I got it. But it feels a little letdown. It’s fun – but I should have asked for the whole coffee pot. Heck – how about the island with coffee beans growing on it?

You get the idea.

Don’t go small here. Manifest your life dreams means dreaming! Go big!

But start with the question of what would you do if you knew you could not fail. That will frame up the mindset of thinking big. No restrictions – who are you. Answer that – and watch your life unfold!

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Well – my method is different. My method won’t be like any others you heard. Are you ready for my technique on how to manifest $1,000,000? Ok – here it is:

How To Manifest $1,000,000

You don’t. 

BOOM! There it is.

And that is the truth that most people won’t tell you. You will never manifest $1,000,000 in your life because you don’t believe it.

“but Zach – yes I do. I really believe that I want to be a millionaire”.

Nope – you want to believe that – but the truth is you can’t. Let’s face it: If you are making $30,000 a year, you cannot grasp how much money $1,000,000 is. Sure – you say it’s $83,333 dollars a month and there is so much you can buy with that. But is that pre-tax? Cause post-tax it’s closer to $44,000 a month (which is still great don’t get me wrong!). I mean I am no tax expert – but the tax rate for wealth that high has to be in the 40% range. Ok – so you take your 44k a month. Can you really picture that? what would you buy with it? A new car? which one – and how much is that payment? OOOO Lambo – good choice. Did you factor in the maintenance on that one? An oil change on a Lambo is about $2k. 

That is the main problem I have with the way most gurus teach – and subsequently, most people try to manifest. They think of the biggest thing they can and pray for that. Look – I get it – I use to do that too. But the problem is – manifesting comes from the feeling. The feeling is the secret as Nevil Godard says. So if you truly want to manifest $1,000,000 you truly have to know what it feels like to be in that kind of wealth – including the problems that come with it – because you can bring it into your life. If you can’t feel it – you can’t believe – if you can’t believe it – you can’t feel it. 

Look – I am not saying don’t try to go for that million – I am more saying conceptualize it a bit more. One great exercise to do this is to use the “7 Layers Deep” exercise.

7 Layers Deep

The 7 layers deep exercise apparently is from Tony Robbins, but I have heard so many self-help teachers use it I don’t really know who it is from originally – but it really helps to get what you truly want – in a way you can truly feel – to get in a mindset you can truly believe. Here is how it goes:

You think of the thing that you want – then you ask yourself why you want it. Whatever your answer is to that – then you ask yourself why you want that. You do this 7 times (or more if you need to) until you can get something that you can use on a daily basis in your meditations, prayer, and otherwise manifesting activities. It helps you get that feeling that you want – that you need – in order to be successful.

Let’s do one now using our $1,000,000 example above.

1. Why do you want $1,000,000?
   1. So I can buy a nice car
2. Why do you want a nice car?
   1. So I can show people the fruits of my labor.
3. Great! So why do you want to show people the fruits of your labor
   1. Because I have worked really hard and I want people to know how hard I have worked.
4. Ok – why do you want people to know how hard you have worked?
   1. Because I am the one slaying over a keyboard in late nights trying to make ends meet and I feel like I have nothing to show for it.
5. Why have you been slaying over a keyboard in late nights trying to make ends meet?
   1. Because I want to be successful someday and that is the only way I can.
6. Why do you want to be successful?
   1. Because then I can stop worrying about the stress of not having any money and what people think of me.
7. Why do you want to stop worrying about the stress of not having any money and what people think about you?
   1. Because then I can be happy.

BE HAPPY IS THE FEELING.

Most people don’t want the million dollars? They want the FEELING of the million – and they think that is going to make them happy. They want the FEELING of success and prestige because that is what will make them content.

I always ask people after this exercise: Why wait for the million? Why can’t you go be happy tomorrow? Why can’t you find something small to feel happy about and be happy now? Because once you start being happy for no reason – there will be no amount of money that you need. You will feel like a success. You will feel the fruits of your labor paying off. You will feel like you have a million bucks. And when you feel like you have a million bucks – manifesting $1,000,000 is finally within your grasp.

Learn the Basics

This is the basics. 101 class for manifesting. Most people overreach – they think too big, which again isn’t a bad thing. I love thinking big. But if you can’t conceptualize the big thinking – it is hard to get into the feeling of getting something. That is when most people quit. They ask for the money, can’t feel like what the money will do – and say ‘manifesting is bullsh*t and quit. You have to put in the work – you have to get your mind around the FEELING that you want. Once you have that, you can BE you who need to be to DO those things you need to do to HAVE the things you need to have. BE. DO. HAVE. Actually – it should be FEEL, BE, DO, HAVE.

FEEL happy. BE happy. DO happy work. HAVE happiness in your life.

That is the case with anything. Rethink what you are trying to manifest in your life. Do the 7 levels deep exercise and find the FEELING of what you need to do. Start there. Cultivate the feeling first – then watch the world come to you.

Need another example? Watch this great video from Dean Graziosi on the Lewis Howes Podcast. It is a great example of the power of this exercise.

Another tip: write it out. Don’t try to think it out in your head – you will forget or it will get lost in another thought. Focus for 10 minutes and do the exercising hand written so you can refer to it back again and again.

Manifesting is not hard work – but it does take the right work.

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Maybe you are deep in the world, maybe you are just getting started, maybe you are just curious.

Either way – the matter still remains – you are here. Welcome!

I have been an astute student of the laws of the universe since I read The Secret for the first time. That being my first introduction to this beautiful world of a positive mindset, where your thoughts dictate your world, I got deep into – and still am.

Even after all the things I have manifested into my life – it still amazes me and puts me in awe that by simply watching your thoughts, remaining positive, knowing what you want, opening your heart to receiving it, and surrendering the higher power out in the world, you will get whatever it is that you want in the world.

Without fail.

In The Secret, the author writes about manifesting just a cup of coffee.

“Yeah – right,” I thought. How can you just imagine a cup of coffee and get it?

2 days later I went to Starbucks, as I do sometimes, to buy a cup of coffee. The person in front of me bought my coffee. I was like – Aww – that was nice of them – and continued on my day. It wasn’t until I told my wife that night that I realized – OMG – it worked.

So I tried to manifest again. And again. And again. And again! And every single time – even to this day – with the right steps – everything I have asked for from the universe has come my way.

Sound too good to be true? Try it. That is all I ask.

How Does The Law Of Attraction Work?

At this point, you may be wondering how all this hocus pocus works. That is the makings of a book. I won’t be able to fit every single nuance of this law within this blog post – but here is a high-level overview of how the law of attraction works.

Let’s say that you are sitting on your couch watching TV. On that screen comes a commercial for a brand of water. That image goes into your mind, and you have the desire to go get some water. A thought goes into your brain “go get some water” and that produces an action to stand up, walk to the sink, and get the water.

Welcome to the law of attraction.

When you make thoughts in your head, those thoughts turn into actions in the form of synchronicity – things happening in sync with the thought. That could be inspired action, inspired thoughts or ideas, or anything else that takes you on the way of acquiring what thought when into your head. In the water example, the thought was “get off the couch and go get the water”.

In my coffee example above, it was the inspired thought/action to go to that Starbucks at that time to get that free cup of coffee.

Here is another example, which is probably the biggest thing to date that I have manifested.

I read The Secret when I was 24 years old. Down on my luck, struggling to survive and getting by with literally only cents in my bank account, I came across an Oprah episode (thank you Honey) where people were raving about this book called – The Secret – and how it changed their life. To say I was intrigued was an understatement. So I went to my local Barnes and noble, and learned that the book was WAYYY too much for me to afford at the time – so I had to wait a few weeks till it was discounted before I got it. I read it. Then I read it again. And again and again. I started using it – manifesting all the things I wanted into my life: Money, better friendships, better grades, COFFEE!!

2 years later – I married that beautiful girl who was watching Oprah, and while my life was better, it still wasn’t where I needed to be to start a family. So, at 26 years old – out of college making a whopping 18,500 dollars a year – I threw out to the universe that I would like to make 100,000 dollars by the time I turn 30.

4 years later, 2 days before my 30th birthday, I closed a deal on my new found sales career that netted 56,000 in commissions, putting me over 100,000 for the year. I did not realize it until I got paid and got my commission statement that I did. I literally took a gasp of air in disbelief.

Between age 26 and 30 was the universe works. Showing me the way. Giving me opportunities like working for a new startup as an account manager, having a panic attack from a new job, asking to switch positions, CEO telling me I should try sales, dipping my toe in the water, then cannonballing off the deep end.

It works. It may be ugly, uncomfortable, gritty, and long. But you will get what you ask for. Every. Single. Time.

Just like the cup of water – if you get thirsty and that thought goes into your mind – you will get a cup of water.

So go ahead – dream that dream, think that though, then watch what happens!

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1. Those who believe it and practice it to some degree
2. Those who do NOT believe it
3. Those who tried it, and decided it doesn’t work for me.

Now – number 1 is obviously my favorite. Those who know there is a higher power working for us, and all we need to do is tap into it and our lives become as magical as we can dream.

Number 2 there is much to do. Believing in the law of attraction is a belief system, where it is engrained to your core. Sadly – not believing is a belief system as well. It makes it hard for people to switch unless they have compelling proof to do it.

Number 3 is a fun group – people who have tried and said that this doesn’t work for them. They asked for a million dollars and are still broke. They asked for the new car, and still are driving the beater. They asked for the vacation, but still can’t afford to go to Starbucks.

This group is fun because you can evoke the most change into them. They believe, to some extent, that this works. Yet they claim they have tried it, and it didn’t work for me, so they stopped.

My arguments back to them usually are the following:

• You stopped doing it because it didn’t work the first time. Did you stop riding a bike after the first time you fell? Did you stop reading after the first time you couldn’t understand a word? Did you stop playing baseball the first time you struck out? Probably not – so why is this any different? With anything in the world – you have to practice – be in a continued state of practice. If you believe it works – and I know you do to some point because you tried it – why wouldn’t you keep trying? If you believe that there is a force and a universal law that says whatever you desire, so shall you have, wouldn’t you spend night and day trying to master it?
• You didn’t get what you asked for from the universe, or you didn’t get it yet? You are not in control of the timing or HOW the thing that you desire will manifest itself into your life. All our job is to ask – and wait for it to manifest. It could be for hours. Days. Weeks. Years. The question becomes how much desire do you have behind the item you are manifesting, and how long are you willing to wait? If you know – with a true conviction – that this is true. You WILL get that million dollars. You WILL get that new car. You WILL get that vacation – if all you can do is plant that seed, have the faith that it is already coming to you, and watch it manifest into your life. If you asked for a million dollars, and didn’t see it the next morning and thought “what a bunch of hocus pocus”, you were never in the mindset to attract 1,000,000 and therefore, it would have never got to you anyways. Change that thinking to an unwavering belief that whatever you so desire shall show up in your life – on its own time and in its own way – and watch the magic happen.
• You tried it and it didn’t work – or YOU didn’t work. Thanks most impart to The Secret, some think that law of attraction / manifesting anything is as simple as putting something in your mind – and watching it appear in your life. The Secret actually uses the example of someone sitting in a chair, dreaming, and imagining that he is driving a brand new car – and one appears in his driveway. While that could work (again – not our duty to figure when or how), most of the time it takes work to get what you need to do. But the universe again will show you the right way to work. You will get inspired in specific ways. You will understand something that you didn’t understand before. You will take inspired action after noticing the little synchronicities that will show up in your life. And you have to take the action on them. You will miss the opportunity if you are not looking for the opportunity. Asking for a million dollars? Be prepared to work for a million dollars.
• You stopped because you asked for money coming from a place of lack. That is the easiest way to halt the mindset of attraction. If you have a bill due, or you don’t have enough money, and you say “Universe – I need money – tomorrow” that is a coming from a place of lack – noticing the debt you have to pay off – and changes are you will get more of that debt and that lack mindset. Remember – it is not our place to understand where the money is coming from, or when, or how. It is our place to put ourselves in a state of abundance, and create more abundance in our life.

No matter where you are on the scale of belief in the Law of Attraction – I hope this post helped you out a bit to see that there is always a way to get exactly what you want in your life – just ask – and you shall receive.

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OK Zach – Does manifesting work?

YES

OK Zach – How does manifesting work?

You produce the result that is in your mind.

OK Zach – How do I manifest?

You put the result in your mind.

It is that simple – it really is. But people don’t believe it – so they doubt it – and they wonder why this whose belief system doesn’t work. It only works if you do!

But I still get asked time and time again, how do I do it? How do I manifest?

Here are some real-world examples over the past month that I have done personally:

1. Mothers Day Padre Game. My family decided to go to a baseball game for mothers. Our local MLB team had a Sunday afternoon game, so we all committed to going. Family of 4, plus some drinks, hot dogs, etc, I knew this day would cost me about $150, even with cheap seats. Sure – we have the money to just pay and go – but where is the fun in that. It was time to manifest it. So I put the thought in my mind, that this padre game is taken care of, committed to go, and told the universe to make it happen. I have had some stuff online I am selling for a few months, with no biters. And wouldn’t you know it – the week before the game, I sold golf clubs and a garden blower, netting a total of $170. Baseball game here we come!!
2. Big Bear Weekend Getaway. My family wanted to go to Big Bear (local mountain) over the upcoming 3 day weekend. We decided to make it a 4 day weekend, and take Friday off to head up there. We looked up cabins, and since my inlaws are also going, we would need a 4 bedroom cabin to fit everyone. We found one, and the total bill was right under $1000. Sure, we could put it on the credit card – but where is the fun in that? So again, I put it out to the universe, but the thoughts of acquiring the trip to big bear, and let the universe do its thing. And wouldn’t you know it – bonus at work of $1400 means the trip is paid for, plus some cash for the weekend.
3. Best Dad Award. I have been fighting a little fatigue lately, not sure why. Around 2p, I’d just lose it. Cant’ stay awake, can’t focus, makes it hard to be a good dad and husband. And at the end of the day, that is the only thing I want to be. So I decided to let the universe help me, and for a few days, I meditated on what I want to be, bringing that thought to the fully conscious mind. I saw myself, full of energy morning noon and night. Coming home from work, and playing with the kids. Having the energy to cook dinner, put kids to bed, and do the dishes, so my wife didn’t have to. The kind of dad and husband that most people can’t. I saw myself, felt those emotions. This past week, after I finished doing the dishes, my wife told me that I should win the best dad award for everything I was doing. Not in it for the award, but made me think about what I wanted to be, and wouldn’t you know it – I was being everything I meditated on and didn’t even know it.

This are just 3 examples in the recent past for me. You can have these too! Here are the steps to manifest anything you want.

HOW DO I MANIFEST:

1. Know what you want. Simple first step – but if you don’t desire anything to manifest, what – really then – will you manifest?
2. Put yourself in a state to feel the emotion of that item – as if it was already present in your life. This part is tricky but is key. This raises your vibrations on the item that you want.
3. Surrender. Once you put your mind on something and get yourself into a state of the emotion of the item, surrender to the universe. Know it will take care of you and whatever you desire is coming your way.
4. Repeat starting in step 1 as often as possible in your life.

This process works – EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Without fail. It’s truly amazing – and I want you to experience it! Try it today.

Now – word to the wise – this list above, while 100% correct process, is fairly simple. There are so many other aspects that go into manifesting something, but at its core – this is how you do it.

Follow these steps, continue to learn how the universe works, and be amazed at how your life changes.

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