Self-improvement or empowerment is not a new idea to the 21st century. Actually, such ideas have floated down through the decades since the 1930s. Before that, motivational speakers and forums might have been called something else. Today, the Law of Attraction is the key idea that has encouraged millions of people worldwide to reach for and attain goals in personal growth, financial independence and productivity.
Bob Proctor, the Canadian-born founder of the Law of Attraction self-improvement method, has been teaching and instructing people throughout the globe how to obtain prosperity and improved personal relationships since the 1960s.
Although a high-school dropout, Proctor has always had goals. He was not born into money and did not live a pampered life. He experienced many of the same trials and frustrations millions of people do today, including a lack of education and a sporadic work history. As a young man, he read a book that literally changed the course of his life. That book was called, "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill. It was the first book of its type that he had ever read. He followed it with works by Earl Nightingale.
Nightingale was earning quite a reputation in the 1960s, along with his partner, Lloyd Conant, founders of Nightingale-Conant, producers and publishers of a new wave of personal improvement media that seemed ripe for the plucking during that unsettled era of personal and spiritual growth and freedom.
Soon Proctor began to work for the Nightingale-Conant Company, and before long he became vice president, promoting the immensely popular culture the company engendered. Soon, Bob Proctor created his own seminars and began speaking engagements around the world. Since then, his speeches, workshops and uplifting and encouraging motivational materials have helped thousands of people reach for and obtain their own personal goals.
The popularity of self-help tools and motivational speaking has reached an-all time high as the 21st century ushers in more independent thinkers and business people taking advantage of global communications made possible by the Internet. Using tools that teach positive thinking, motivation and how to maximize human potential, Bob Proctor has created a program that teaches and uplifts people from all walks of life. Through his seminars and teaching materials, possibilities that were unimaginable before now seem possible for anyone who reaches out for help.
The greatest thing about Bob Proctor, says the majority of his followers, is that he doesn't talk at you, but with you as he speaks about attaining unheard-of wealth, personal satisfaction and growth. Anyone who has ever heard Proctor speak to audiences of hundreds has experienced the enthusiasm and joy he feels for his subject matter. Proctor offers not only the tools, but also the methods needed to use those tools to their fullest potential in order to obtain the goals that people yearn for. Take the time to find out what the Law of Attraction is all about. You won't regret it.
It's years since I last played it, which is frightening in itself, since it's a song I really love and not surprisingly the message and the vibe it contained had quite an effect.
It spoke so poignantly of a state of mind you only really experience at a certain time of life that revisiting it years later can't help but move you to tears.
I guess we all succumb to nostalgia once in a while, but the emotions that arise from this can make the moment you last felt them seem like yesterday. The fact that they are still so powerful raises an important issue with regard to The Law of Attraction.
Whenever you engage The Law of Attraction to create something you want now, you have to remember that 'you now' is not the only factor in this reality creation equation. There's also the you once were with his or her dreams and desires. If these past desires have already been realised and continue to be part of your life, no problem, but if they are not, you could be in for some difficulties if what you want now falls outside of the vision and values you had back then.
Here's what can happen.
Let's say you were a politically motivated teenager and had very strong views about social equality of one kind or another. Frustrated at being unable to do much about this at the time, you moved on and vowed that some day you'll find a way to make a difference.
Time passes. Circumstances change and with them your priorities change too. Suddenly you have family commitments and financial goals to reach.
Somewhere deep down you still hold the values you had back when, but you no longer feel compelled to act on them. Now the focus is more on money and success.
And it is these you seek to attract more of into your life.
This is where you now put the Law of Attraction to work. And if you are clear enough about what you want, you should have no difficulty doing this.
Unless the money and success, or at least the way you envisage getting them, runs against the grain of your old values.
Now, don't get me wrong here. I'm not suggesting that those younger values are more or less important than the priorities that drive your life now. Only that they are a part of your intrinsic nature and as such continue to have an influence on the kind of reality you are truly 'willing' to create today.
Getting in touch with these forgotten aspects of yourself is part of the processing work you need to build into your reality creation programmes.
You'll find it a great help to first acknowledge them and then make peace with them.
Who knows, you may even find they add a valuable element of their own that enhances the future you're shooting for today. The world needs strong positive visions and values now as much as it did back then. Probably more so.
If you are unfamiliar with Bob Dylan's Dream, it is from an album he released in the sixties; Freewheelin'.
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