7 Really Stupid Mistakes You’re Making When Practicing the Law of Attraction

The hard truth about why you don’t get what you want.

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It’s not that you don’t achive things because you scare the universe by reciting your morning affirmations in a voice hoarser than a bear roaring for the first time after hibernation.

(Although, who knows, maybe that’s why your neighbor looks at you funny in the elevator.)

The reasons usually lie elsewhere, and if I had to bet a hundred bucks, I’d bet it’s one of this list of really stupid mistakes I made myself repeatedly.

1. Everything you need to get started is all around you, but your perfectionism blinds you and keeps you from seeing it. There’s a metaphor from the self-help world that I’ve always hated because I bought into it. It wasted so much of my time: the idea that you should spend the morning sharpening the axe to chop down the tree. Instead, we should leave the tree alone and use that dull axe as a hammer to build something environmentally friendly. The moral is simple: it’s not the brush that matters, but the artist. There are great painters capable of creating a hyper-realistic painting with a simple Bic pen; they don’t need the most modern easel or the best watercolors, just the desire to bring something new to life. Follow that spark…