When you start using the law of attraction, you don't always attract to you the item,
you don't get the car showing up in your garage, but what you do get is the resources,
the strategies, the magazine articles, the books that people put in your hand,
the seminars they tell you to take, and people like this sitting down next to
you, saying, "hey, I can partner with you and we
can make this happen".
So it's critical that we learn the power of our mind and use it,
and I know most of you know this, but it's important to really see
how far this extends.
So again, your reality is not the cause of your thoughts and your feelings,
but your thoughts and feelings are, in fact, what is creating your reality.
Now, every thought you send is a vibration.
And I want to share a story with you.
Mark and I decided one day that we were going to
sell a million books in one day.
No one had ever done that up until then, since then, J.K.
Rowling has done it with, I think, the third Harry Potter book.
Now, at that point, there was no model to go after,
no one to say, how did you do it, so we can model what you did?
We simply had a vision and a goal.
And we started holding this in our mind, every day we'd see a picture.
New York Times headline, "Canfield and Hansen sell a million books
in one day".
And we visualized it, we intended it, we put energy into it, we talked about it,
we fantasized about it, we believed it was possible.
About thirty five days later, we're at this conference in New York,
we're at this conference in New York, where they have the American Booksellers Association
convention, and I get on a bus after the convention to
go back to the hotel.
I sit down next to this woman and she says, "you're Jack Canfield, aren't you?"
And I said "Yeah", thinking she knows who I am, I'm pretty cool.
And then she said, "it's your name tag".
Kind of reduce my ego a little bit.
And then she said, "what are you and Mark up to,
you're the chicken soup guys, right?"
And I said, "yeah".
I said, "we just decided to sell a million books in one day".
She said, "really, I can help you do that?"
As fast as I said it, she said, "I can help you do that".
And I said, "really, how?"
She said, "I'm the buyer for the WHSmith bookstores".
Now, if you've ever been in an airport, most of them have a WHSmith book store.
And she said, "what we could do is put all your co-authors
along with you and Mark in the East Coast around 6:00 in the morning,
and we'll put you in New York and Boston and Washington and
Atlanta and Miami, and we'll have you sign books for two hours".
"We'll take you all the way across the country, in the evening you can be signing books in
California and Portland Oregon and Washington, D.C".
I said, "why would you help us do that?"
She called me dummy at that point, she said, "dummy, if I sold a million books in one day,
don't you think that'd make me look like a champion of my boss?"
I said, "absolutely, I get it".
Now a lot of people would say, "Oh, you were just lucky, that was coincidental,
that you got this person to sit down next to you".
I say no.
We sent out an email saying, "Jack and Mark want to sell a million books
in one day anyone who wants to play, please reply".
And the way she replied was by sitting next to me on the bus.
When you start using the law of attraction, you don't always attract to you the item,
you don't get the car showing up in your garage, but what you do get is the resources, the
strategies, the magazine articles, the books that people
put in your hand, the seminars they tell you to take,
and people like this sitting down next to you saying,
"hey, I can partner with you and we can make this happen".
A couple of months ago, I said, I want to go to the Olympics in Beijing,
I've never been to the Olympics, except in L.A. for one day, so I want to go.
Thirty days later, I'm walking into a company that I do some speaking for to give
them a big motivational talk.
And as I'm walking in, in the back of the room,
this Chinese guy walks up to me and he says, "are you Jack Canfield?"
I said, "yeah".
He said, "have you ever spoken in China?"
I said, "Hong Kong, but not Mainland China".
He said, "how would you like to do that?"
I said, "great, I said, even more importantly, I'd like to get tickets to the Olympics",
he says, "oh, that's a done deal, I can get that for you".
He walked up to me.
So literally, you'll start having these people come into your life,
there's actions you have to take, but it gets very, very exciting.
So literally, I want you to act as if you're creating everything
and become really, really, really, really disciplined about what you think,
what you read, what you watch, what you talk about.
Now let me tell you a principle here that's critical,
it's called the 30 day principle.
Research was done at NASA they had astronauts wear concave lens goggles
for 30 days.
Concave lens goggles make your world appear upside down.
Imagine twenty four hours a day for 30 days, everything's upside down.
You're trying to negotiate the stairs, your soup, which looks up there,
you've got to reach down here to eat it.
They did this to see if they would become nauseous,
if they would lose their ability to focus, if they would become hostile.
How would they relate to being in outer space when there was no gravity?
That was basically the experiment.
What they found that they didn't expect to find
was at 25 to 30 days into it, every one of the astronauts,
their brain fliped the image right side up again.
Even though the image was coming at upside down,
their brain flipped it right side up.
What the neuroscientists tell us is it takes 25 to 30 days
to create a new neural pathway in your brain.
Takes 25 to 30 days to lock in a new belief system,
takes 25 to 30 days to lock in a new habit pattern,
takes 25 to 30 days to have your visualization and affirmation
start to change the whole way your brain perceives the world.
So your perception is part of what's controlling your reality
right now you're not aware of what you're feeling in your right foot,
but as soon as I say right foot, you're aware of it.
That's one reason most people's affirmations don't work,
it's one reason a lot of the seminars they take don't work
because they don't take the tools and do them every day for 30 days.
It's like that 10, 24/7 idea.
The repetition over and over locks it into the unconscious.
And also opens up the perceptual field for you and also programs
universal consciousness out there in the world.