- Hi, this is Marisa.
I get asked a lot, what do I think of Law of Attraction?
Am I fan, do I like it, do I not like it?
And the answer is actually both yes and no.
I like Law of Attraction
because it teaches you about manifesting,
that if you think about something, you can maybe attract it,
that if you focus on something,
you can bring it into your life.
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So I do like the first bit.
I think the first bit is very good.
It's showed you to take your focus,
whereas if you focus on being ill, you feel more ill.
If you focus on being depressed, you feel more depressed.
If you change your focus, you can change everything.
What I'm not quite such a fan of
is it doesn't tell you the second bit.
It says if you want to find love,
sit on your couch and think about love,
but you and I know that if you want anything,
you must think about it, visualize it, and be proactive.
If I want to buy a new house, I can't sit on my couch.
I'm buying a new house.
I've got to go out and look at them.
I've got to read magazines, go and look at some houses,
and really focus on manifesting the house of my dreams,
while going out and looking for it.
If I want a new job,
I'm going to have to maybe go and do some interviews.
If want to find a great love in my life,
and there are a lot who will do this,
they sit at home and they try to manifest love
without getting off the couch.
Or they go to yoga, and women's book clubs,
where there are no men, and then they go,
"Yeah, this manifesting doesn't work."
A lot of people don't like me saying they're going,
"You got it all wrong.
If you believe it,
it will happen without you doing anything at all,"
but I don't think that's true.
You see, I decided to write a book,
and so all the time I was writing the book,
I was manifesting.
I was writing the book going,
"Everyone loves this book.
This book is amazing.
This book is going to be a bestseller."
And then I sent it out and to one agent,
and he got me a book deal, and it was a bestseller,
but I did have to send it to him.
The second time I wrote a book,
I wrote a different book, and I sent it out myself.
And that horrible feeling when you hear the thud,
and that is your manuscript hitting the floor,
and they only send it back when they don't want it.
I remember hearing that thud, and I'm thinking,
"Oh, no, it's come back again,"
and that horrible sick feeling,
but I knew what I had to do, I had to pick it up,
repackage, send it out.
My agent was JK Rowling's agent.
She talked a lot about that she sent her book,
'Harry Potter', in a little binder, folder,
and it would get returned sometimes without the folder,
and she didn't have enough money
to buy another little folder to package it and send it out.
But every time my book came back, I'd send it out again.
That became harder and harder, but I still did it,
and then one day it got picked up,
and it got 10 times the money I'd have got
from the first person who turned it down.
And that is really a key part of manifesting.
If you are a manifester,
if you visualize and manifest,
and what you manifest is, "I'm going to go out.
I'll meet the partner of my dreams.
It's all going to be amazing,"
and you meet someone, you go and talk to them,
and they reject you,
you say, "Oh, no, it doesn't work.
I tried that, it didn't work."
You see, it doesn't mean you won't get rejected
as a manifester.
It means you have to go back, and go back, and go back.
So I love manifesting.
I do believe in the Bible.
It says, "As you think in your heart, you are,"
and I believe that you can manifest all kinds of things,
like health, and wealth, and love, and joy, and success.
I also believe that you have to take action.
So if you got sick,
and you're manifesting for perfect health,
you should take supplements, and eat better,
and sleep better, and look after yourself.
If your relationship has gone wrong,
you should go out and find a new one.
So I hope that makes you see
that you can manifest whatever you want.
Visualize it, see it, make a mood board.
I love mood boards.
You see, I made a mood board many years ago,
and I put on so many things:
taking a hot air balloon ride
across the River Nile in Egypt,
getting engaged and getting a massive rock from a great guy,
going on a cruise around the world,
having my book in a bestseller list,
and I would cut out pictures of my book
and put it on my mood board, and go,
"This book is the bestseller."
And so I did all of that,
and I know Mark Victor Hansen,
when he wrote 'Chicken Soup for the Soul',
would cut out the New York Times bestsellers,
Tipp-Ex out the number one and write his book in.
But he also went out every day.
Every week he went to meet bookstores,
and literary agents, and people that would sell his book,
because you have to do both.
Wayne Dyer, who is a master of manifestation,
couldn't get his book published.
He put it in the car, he went on the road for two years.
He'd go to a radio station, talk about his book,
and go, "by the way, it's on sale
at X bookstore down the road."
Then he'd drive to the bookstore,
get all the books out of the trunk of his car
and persuade them to stock it.
He manifested and took action.
He took action and he manifested.
Manifesting without action can work,
but it's not powerful enough,
and taking action without manifesting can work too,
not powerful enough.
When you do both, you are bulletproof.
You are unstoppable.
You are unshakable.
So I manifested a great book deal,
but I still had to write the book.
And then when I wrote the book,
I didn't know at the time what I know now.
Might take you three months to write a book,
but the work you have to do
to keep that in the bestseller list,
the articles you have to write,
the radio shows you have to go on.
Who you have to talk to is much harder work.
And my agent said, "If you want a book deal,
you better be prepared to go on stage
and talk about your book because anyone can write a book.
Not anyone can get it published
and then not anyone can get it
to stay in the bestseller
chart, you've got to do a lot of work."
I mean, I was on trains going to places all over the place.
I was tired.
But it wasn't enough to write that book.
I had to write it, then take action to get it published,
then take action to make it a bestseller,
then take action to keep it a bestseller,
and the best manifesters work hard as well.
So I hope you understand the Law of Attraction.
You can attract love, you can attract wealth,
you can attract joy, you can attract health,
but you've got to do some work as well.
I mean, I do yoga.
I work out because I want to attract and keep a fit body.
I'm sure I could probably lie on my couch
and imagine having a six pack, and firm thighs,
and a flat stomach, but I also do the work, but I like it.
I like doing Pilates, I like doing yoga,
and that's another thing to remember.
When you start to do something you don't want to do,
like running, or lifting weights, or juicing,
or taking the sugar out of your coffee,
after a while you start to like it.
We like what we do all the time.
I'm going to end very quickly with the five things
that you can do to make work a joy.
Do what you love.
If you try to make it in a career where you hate it,
you'll always pay a price.
If you do what you love and love what you do,
it never really feels like hard work.
Take action every single day in the direction of your goals.
On your way to success, you have to take action every day.
Sometimes the lift to success is broken,
but the stairs, they always work,
and there aren't always shortcuts; there can't be.
You have to do what you don't want to do.
Ring people up and go,
"Hey, could you write about my product?
Could I come on your show?
Would you give me a slot?"
Some will say, "No."
You go, "Okay, thank you,"
and you just pick up the phone again.
So you must do what you don't want to do,
you must do it first, and you must believe in yourself
and come back from rejection.
Many phenomenal manifesters have been rejected,
and they come back, and they come back.
And success doesn't mean never hearing a 'no',
never falling down.
It's how quickly you get back up again.
Success might come to you, but you better go to it.
You see, if you wait for success to come to you,
it can be a long wait.
If you go to it, it's not a long wait.
What you want wants you,
and what you are moving towards is moving towards you.
So use the Law of Attraction, manifest,
but also do the work.
Everything on my mood board came true,
but I did a lot of work too, but I enjoyed it.
You can too.
Thanks for tuning in.
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