My Law Of Attraction Story

All great inspirational teachers and speakers have a story. It befins with something like “10 years ago I sat down and re-evaluated my life, created a vision of what my ideal life could be and amazingly my life changed”. I’ve never had a story until…n n…10 years ago...
I was living what many would call a successful life. I had a large detached home, I was married to a pretty and loving wife with 3 wonderful children. I owned two cars, we had two incomes, as a family we regularly holidayed abroad. I was successful at school, achieved a degree, I secured a good job with great prospects and a career path. By 1994 I had successfully climbed the corporate ladder. To the outside world I had made it. I was a success. Having grown up in relative poverty, I had created a wealthy and secure home for my children that as a child I could only dreamed of.

I was a success, so why didn't I feel like one?

Despite my success, inside I was frustrated. I felt I was living someone else’s life, I was going through the motions of being a loving husband, dutiful son, responsible son in law, positive parent, loyal friend, ambitious, committed employee, friendly neighbor and 'good' person. For some reason I wasn’t connected to my life emotionally. I felt detached, like an observer, living my life on automatic pilot. It began to dawn on me that the life I was living was the direct result of the thoughts I had been thinking since my childhood. Wanting to escape my childhood life of poverty, the way I had been thinking had created, a stereotypical ideal of the ‘perfect life’ – the only problem was that this life was everyone else's expectation of me and didn't take into account my desires and my dreams. I had fallen into the habit of trying to please everyone else and forgetting about what I wanted. No wonder I felt so empty.

It was time to change...

I realized I had a choice. I could continue living someone else's life or I could start to live my own. Did I want a life by accident or a life by design? I began to study personal development books, listen to tapes and attended seminars. I learned that all successful people visualized their goals and aspirations and listed them down and somehow got what they wanted. I visualized myself self-employed running my own Personal Development business, I visualized earning twice as much money doing half as much work, owning a red sports car and working on TV. I visualized my family happy and healthy standing outside a big dream house waving to me. I envisaged swapping my stressful life in the office with a bottomless in-tray and rush hour journeys to and from, for open roads and a workspace surrounded by lakes, mountains, forests and beautiful peaceful landscapes. I wrote these goals down in a book and then over the next 10 years as a direct result of all this positive thinking and wish list, my ‘merry-go-round’ life turned into a rollercoaster ride. At times exhilarating and exciting and at others, it felt like riding Universal Studios ‘Tower of Terror’.

Everything I wrote down and thought about materialised...

Some were wonderful but some were not so great. Just a word of advice, when you visualize your happy healthy family and see them standing, smiling outside your big dream house, MAKE SURE YOU ARE IN THE PICTURE TOO!! n
24 months ago...

I was living in the beautiful English Lake District running a work-life balance company surrounded by lakes, mountains, forests and beautiful landscapes. I could earn twice as much money doing half as much work - just not very often. I was again living the life I had previously visualized. But I felt isolated. I was under achieving and needed a new challenge. I was also feeling frustrated at the lack of British summertime and the abundance of rain and desired warmer climes. A friend sent me a clip of a motivational speaker with a great story. He’d worked in Saudi Arabia after deciding that he wanted to work abroad and had written a visualization list. He so inspired me that I decided to focus my attention East. Unknown to me at the same time in Abu Dhabi a frustrated training company owner was focusing her attention West.

Out of the blue...

January 2006 out of the blue I received an email from Abu Dhabi asking if I was interested in delivering training to UAE nationals. I googled Abu Dhabi images and the Sheraton beach club resort caught my eye. It was such a stunning picture of the hotel under a cloudless blue sky with a palm tree-lined, golden sandy beach fronting a beautiful deep blue lagoon, I felt compelled to put it on my screen saver. I responded to the email but heard nothing. I had almost given up on the idea when an email offering a meeting in London arrived. Although it was a long journey, short notice and I still had some doubts, I decided to go. We hit it off straight away and I discovered they used the Sheraton Hotel.

The Universe delivers…

A month later I flew out to Abu Dhabi, I was met at the airport and driven to the Sheraton Hotel. Within 24 hours of arriving I was sitting on the beach under the very same palm trees at the hotel on my screensaver.

Tingles up my spine...

There’s more, the sea looked gorgeous so I decided to go for a swim. The resorts lagoon was like stepping into a warm bath and the salt content in the water made swimming effortless. I lay on my back and floated on the surface looking up at the blue cloudless sky. Behind me was a diving platform so I swam over and climbed onto it and looked back at the hotel. At that moment the hair on the back of my neck stood up. I was looking through my own eyes at my screen saver picture. I was actually standing in the exact same place the photographer had stood when the screensaver picture was taken. A picture I found randomly searching the internet for information about a thought I had 6 months earlier. The Law of Attraction plus my ACTION and I have my ‘story’.

The story continues...n