People who teach about the Law of Attraction often speak about focused intention and attention and suggest the use of affirmations and other techniques for staying focused on what you intend to create. When you do this, the theory goes, what you want to have happen will.

Great theory, yet not necessarily what happens in real life.

I’ve spoken to a number of people (many, actually) who repeat affirmations and do their best at having positive expectations, yet are still stuck financially. And others I speak to have no conscious awareness of employing focused attention, yet they seem to easily manifest much of what they want.

Does that mean that conscious, focused attention is a waste of time? Absolutely not. However, in order to stimulate more satisfying results, a few things have to happen. You need to:

1. Take action. Let’s suppose you have the intention of increasing your income by twenty percent. You do affirmations and imagine yourself budgeting the extra money. You do your best to make the increase seem real, even practicing feeling excited about the increase.

There’s a good chance that as you do this, new opportunities will present themselves that could lead to an increase in earnings. When they do, you must take action, and that’s where a lot of people miss the mark. They’ll find many excuses to avoid taking action because action often requires taking a risk — getting outside of their proverbial box without knowing what the outcome might be.

Taking action can include activities such as honing your financial and business skills, keeping track of your cash flow, developing a financial plan that you actually follow, and making conscious financial decisions (spending, saving, investing, tithing, etc.).

2. Be willing to change your identity. If you have always been an underearner or debtor and generating an additional twenty percent will move you into a more-than-enough position, this has the potential of making you uncomfortable. You may, in fact, have a just-enough or less-than-enough self-concept and more than enough could feel so unfamiliar that you revert to old behaviors in order to be able to predict the outcome of your actions. Result: you stay stuck where you are.

In my book Build Your Money Muscles, I identify this phenomenon as the Identity Factor. It’s the major reason why, no matter how much personal growth work a person does, they only creep forward. No major changes.

On June 18th and 19th, Asara Lovejoy and I will be helping people overcome the obstacles to taking action and moving forward into a new financial identity. We will be combining the highly effective techniques we use to let you “Unleash Your Inner Power & Let Your Income Soar.

For more information about this teleclass, visit www.WatchYourIncomeSoar.com. We are limiting the number of people who can participate in this class, so visit www.WatchYourIncomeSoar.com today.

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