We Attract What We Perceive as Real

Recently I attended a local chamber of commerce business after hours event. I listened to a conversation of several people about the economic situation in the US now. One person was going on and on about how it is like a depression. Another reported that the media is calling it a recession. A third person said that the problems now are all because of the media reporting so much negativity that everybody started believing it and stopped spending money.

To each of these people their perception was reality. I enjoyed observing the different degrees of “buy-in” to the negativity that each of these three individuals reflected.

It didn’t surprise me that the most negative advocate of “gloom and doom” was a woman who had briefly been a coaching client of mine. She stopped coming when the coaching brought her to a point where she had to make some changes in her life and in her perception of being a victim. It also didn’t surprise me that the person who was most optimistic and blamed the media for economic problems, said she had stopped watching the negativity on television. She also reported that she had changed jobs recently in a proactive way, and was very happy with her new company. She was NOT a victim, and seemed much happier and more grounded than the first woman.

Unfortunately our society supports the concept of victimhood, so most people perceive themselves as being subject to the conditions around them. Others of us see how we actually create our own surroundings by attracting what we focus on. We contradict what the media and society are trying to get us to believe. We take back and claim our personal power, and so we attract a more positive and powerful reality around ourselves. 

Aha – you just can’t avoid the Law of Attraction… any more than you can avoid gravity on this planet!!