Law of Attraction - Manifesting in 20 years or Less

I have always believed in the law of attraction. When I was younger, it wasn’t called that, but, somehow I knew that I could make things happen. I always had “beginners luck”, I’d try something for the first time and could do pretty well at it. I wanted a guitar and found that if I sold 88 packs of American Seeds, I could get one, so I did. I’d set goals and accomplish them, I wanted something, and would not stop until I had it.

I will tell you, I set small goals. They were good goals, but, small. I ran into some trouble as I got older. I was introduced to a network marketing opportunity (now called MLM or Multi-level-marketing). I saw the opportunity, networking seemed so obvious, I loved the products (many were biodegradable and environmentally friendly back in the 60’s and 70’s) but, I couldn’t seem to do anything more than sell a few products, I might have sponsored in one or two distributors, but, couldn’t seem to get things rolling.

I even enjoyed going with my sponsors to the pep rallies, probably referred to as leadership conferences or some such. I listened to wonderful motivational speakers and others who were doing it and I knew that I could do what they were doing, building a large network, helping people and making lots of money. But, when I got home, the reality of “I don’t have a lot of money” and “I don’t have a network” would set in, and eventually, I stopped trying. I know now that that these were just my limiting beliefs and thinking about “what is” that stopped me from going where I wanted to go.

Interestingly, just yesterday it dawned on me that in my adult life, it seems that it has taken me 20 years or more to “come into alignment” with many things that I have wanted.

For example, a little over a year ago, I was between jobs. I had a job lined up, Originally thought I would start working as soon as I finished my current job and settled into my new home. But, what actually happened, was that I ended up with a month off between jobs. I had a little money saved up, so, I enjoyed having the time off and decided that I should take a little “vacation”. Who knows why, perhaps because I was living in NE Pennsylvania at the time, I suddenly realized that Herkimer, NY was only a few hours away. Herkimer, for those of you who do not know, is the home of the Herkimer Diamond Mines, which I had heard about in the mid 1980’s. “Herkimer diamonds” are actually double-terminated quartz that form in pockets in the rocks in this particular area of New York. This is a somewhat rare occurrence, to have points on both ends of a piece of quartz.


I had heard stories from people who had gone, found rocks and cracked them open and found lovely little gems that fell out of their ancient homes and into the hands of these modern day miners. I mentioned to my partner at the time how I would love to go there with a sledgehammer and crack rocks open looking for these precious little gems. He raised his eyebrow, sort of laughed and really never gave it another thought.

So, here I was, 20 years later, with no partner to stop me, and an opportunity to possibly take a ride to New York State and see what this was all about. I researched it a little bit on the internet and thought I would take a few days and go up there, if the weather would co-operate. Around that time, a dear friend came to visit me for Memorial Day weekend, and between our yard sale-ing and natural gourmet food snacking I mentioned that I was thinking about going to Herkimer and that I had wanted to do it for 20 years. She said, “Let’s go!” I looked at her in amazement, “Really? Now?” “Sure! Let‘s Go!”, she replied. And that’s all it took. Later that day we were on our way to New York and first thing the next morning we were at the mine cracking rocks. We even brought a few rocks home with us, and just for the record, I did crack open one of those rocks and found two beautifully formed Herkimer Diamonds. It only took 20 years to manifest that!

And there are other examples. When I was in high school I wanted to be a teacher and a gymnastics coach. I was talked out of it by my guidance counselors and my step father, who told me that there was a surplus of teachers and that I should go into music rather than phys ed. I realize now, that they were just giving me the advice that they thought was good, but, 15 years later, I found myself coaching my own gymnastics team which is in itself an intense form of teaching. Very rewarding, but, training involves the mind, the body, the heart and soul of a young athlete and the coach’s job is to bring out the best in each of those areas in each gymnast, and sometimes to face the inevitable or obvious, that without all of those parts working together for that dream or desire, the athlete can and will only go so far. Not everyone will climb the mountain, and that’s okay. But, I continued to coach at several different gyms with a great deal of success for about 15 years. That only took 15 years to manifest - without a degree.

These days, I find myself in a wonderful relationship with a man that I fell in love with almost 30 years ago. He admits now, that he fell in love, but, was afraid of the commitment to anyone or anything, at the time, he “pushed” me away and we went our separate ways and lead our separate lives. Now, here we are 30 years later, happily together. I would like to add here, that I am not sorry about the 30 years, I have three wonderful children that could never imagine living my life without. I believe it’s all as it should be, and that only through our individual life experiences are we able to feel so free about this relationship and friendship. But, the realization keeps coming up that it has taken me a long time to manifest these happy events in my life.

To be fair, I’m sure that there are many things that I have manifested much more quickly. But, the one thing that I have been working on all my life, and have nearly come close to breaking through on is freedom and prosperity.

Ah, that wonderful word, freedom. Prosperity, in the financial sense, releases the worries that hold us down. Money gives us the freedom to give, and go and do things without limits. So, it is this area of limiting beliefs that I still require the most work on releasing resistance. I believe this applies to most people. Since I have been working on this one for about 50 years, I think it is time. “Let’s go!” “Really? Now?” “Sure! Let’s Go!”


Or more appropriately, Let Go!