{"id":352,"date":"2010-05-25T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/2010\/05\/law-of-attraction-in-action-lifes-potholes.html"},"modified":"2010-05-25T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T12:01:00","slug":"law-of-attraction-in-action-lifes-potholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat\/2010\/05\/law-of-attraction-in-action-lifes-potholes.html","title":{"rendered":"Law of Attraction in Action: Life’s Potholes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b>This
\nis post 88 in my series on the Law of Attraction in Action. You CAN use your
\npower to attract all that you need. I do it every day! Read the
\nposts in this series<\/a> to see how.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Do
\nyou get angry if things don’t go your way? That’s a normal reaction. But, it
\ndoesn’t have to be yours. When you can accept that everything happens has a reason, you
\ncan roll in and out of life’s potholes without letting yourself get hurt on impact.
\nWhen I was a DoorMat, potholes sent me into “Why me?” mode. I thought I was
\ncursed, or if there was a God, He didn’t love me. Or, I was so unworthy that I was getting what I deserved.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Potholes
\ncan be seem very negative on the surface but, if you accept that everything has
\na reason, you can relax in knowing it will be okay.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Lamenting
\nthings that get in the way of what you think you want or that interrupt your
\nflow attracts more potholes, since your focus is on what you don’t like. The more you
\ncomplain about it, the more energy you give it to attract more negatives. Accept that every person encounters potholes. Unless you cocoon yourself and never go out except to go around the corner on a road you know is smooth to avoid them, the roads you follow will have them.
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When
\nyou can accept what happens, good or bad, and move on, you can stay more
\npositive and attract better situations.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Since
\nthe fall I was trying to find a tech student to help me with my blog. I
\nwanted to redesign it and would have paid to get it done. I asked a college
\nprofessor whose students do what I need to help me find someone and he said no
\nproblem. But it was a problem. Every time someone was supposed to come it fell
\nthrough. Every person fell into a pothole. Though it was frustrating, I accepted it as meant to be and truly knew
\nthat it would all work out. And it did in a wonderful way!<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

If
\nI’d found someone to hire, I’d have paid money to fix up the blog site I’m not
\non anymore. I believe that I couldn’t find someone to help me since I was going
\nto be asked to move my blog to Beliefnet, so I didn’t need to fix up the other
\nsite! I had enough faith to
\nwait. I could have called the professor again and again to get more names, but
\nI didn’t. I felt that there was a reason and I let it play out. And now I don’t
\nneed site changes! Had I pushed to find someone I’d have wasted my money. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

When
\nyou accept the roadblocks or glitches or changes in plans, etc., knowing it
\nwill all work out, you attract a good outcome down the road. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

When
\nyou whine or moan or complain about how awful your luck is, you’ll attract more
\nthings to attribute to bad luck. It’s hard to accept it’s okay when things go
\nwrong. I know. I used to be the queen of complaining. Accepting feels so much
\nbetter! Some good examples of how glitches can be positive happened on <\/span>9\/11. Being from
\nNYC, I heard many stories about people who had things happen that kept them
\nfrom being in the World Trade Center when the planes hit. I bet at the time
\nthere was complaining from the:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7      <\/span><\/span><\/span>Person who got
\nstuck in traffic behind an accident<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7     
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>Woman whose alarm clock didn’t wake her so she
\nwas late<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7     
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>Guy who missed his bus<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7     
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>The man who got a bad blister from his new shoes
\nand stopped to buy a Band-Aid<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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There are more people who had “bad luck”
\nthat 9\/11 morning and got to the towers after they were hit. So their bad luck
\nturned into blessings to be alive and unharmed. Everything happens for a
\nreason. Next time you can’t get a cab, someone you need to talk to doesn’t answer
\nhis phone, the contract is late, you can’t find something you think you need,
\netc., remind yourself that everything happens for a reason and relax<\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

The more you accept what happens and KNOW
\nit will all work out, the more it will work out in your favor.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Please leave comments under
\nmy posts so we can stay connected.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n


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