I messed up big time but had the resources to change it around

As a coach and mentor, I rely on the law of attraction as a tool to know how to move forward. It is like a compass that helps me to know if I am on track or off course. I went off course but here is how I changed this.

The Law of Attraction is simple. It simply states that like attracts like. Everything is energy including your thoughts and emotions. When you put thought to something you attract the same energy. The more you focus on something the more of it you get. For many they say it does not work because from a place of lack they said they wanted more of something but the energy they were putting out only gave them back the energy of lack or not enough.

Now here is what happened to me a few months ago. I was thriving. My business was growing every month and I was excited. One day someone called me a liar and tried to publicly humiliate me. I believed I was right and needed to hold to my boundaries but none the less I was still upset. Fear set in as I thought about this young man who was not emotionally stable coming after me and my family. As a result my emotional set point dropped from positive expectation and joy to a lower vibration of anger, resentment, frustration, rage. What ever the emotion was it was not good and of course spilled over into all areas of my life. Attracting angry people into my life made me cautious in my interactions. Business started to slow down to a crawl. Money became scarce and I fell into a dark space.

I did, like most people, look to find where the problem was. Was it the election, the economy, my website, the way I talked, what I said..... The list of possibilities was endless. Now remember the more you focus on a problem the greater it gets. The truth is that the problems are never external. They are always a manifestation of what is going on internally. It took a few months before I realized that in my worry I was only attracting bad things.

Now that I saw clearly why I was attracting that which was unwanted, I was able to really quickly turn it around by using an Abraham-Hicks process known as the "wouldn't it be nice if" process. Twice a day I would make a list of 20 things that would be nice. It went something like this:

• Wouldn't it be nice if I had a fully booked calendar

• Wouldn't it be nice if my clients were kind and appreciative of what I do

• Wouldn't it be nice if I had more than enough to pay my bills in full when they arrived

• Wouldn't it be nice if I had old clients coming back for more

• Wouldn't it be nice if I had multiple sources of clients

At the end of a couple of weeks my business began to turn around and continue to grow. I use this process now in self-hypnosis to find the feeling and to anchor it in so that more good things continue. Hypnosis gave me the tools to turn around a situation that would ruin me if allowed to continue to something positive with plenty of new opportunities unfolding.