Now I don’t recommend you go and sign yourself up to lists to get your ‘messages’. You’ll end up reading a thousand a day and not being able to move forward. What I do recommend is that, if you are receiving emails from lists, wait until something in the subject line, or just a feeling, tells you you should read what it has to offer and you may find it points you in the right direction.

So, I do get 100s a day and rarely do I read any of them. Yesterday was different. Having reached a point in my bricks and mortar business where I’d have to consider restructuring everything to continue making a profit, I suddenly received an email promising that outsourcing was the way of the future.

Obviously we all know about outsourcing but did you know that there are hundreds of thousands of people in the Philippines who can speak English, have degrees and run your business for you for just US $5 per hour? Some will even do some work for $1 per hour. All online work. I couldn’t believe it. I also couldn’t believe it was a) very easy and b) something everyone has been doing for years.

It was the solution to my problem.

Now, you might be thinking, ‘what has this got to do with me?’, ‘how does this help me?’

Do you have a problem you need solving? Are you looking for solutions but can’t seem to find one? Think a bit about your problems and perhaps the solutions will appear through other means. Maybe you don’t need to come up with the solution. Maybe someone else does. Outsource your problem to someone. Even just thinking about it may pull a solution to you.

This outsourcing story doesn’t end there though. I got this information from a series of videos that were posted online with the plan to pitch an online course on managing outsourcing employees. It sounded great but way outside my budget. Do a search online for: Outsource Force and you’ll find it. If I was a big affiliate marketer I’d include a link here but I’m only suggesting it so you know what I’m talking about.

Anyway, continuing with the story, I followed a link in one of the videos to find one of these people that can just sit there for hours and post adds to international classified ad sites advertising one of our online services. Now, being pretty down about everything that has been happening recently, I subconsciously needed something to give me a buzz or cheer me up or just give me some kind of encouragement. I certainly hadn’t been thinking about the Law of Attraction for weeks due to worrying about more pressing matters, so when I clicked on a resume and got this message I was very surprised:

“I’m a very optimistic person and I live by Christian D Larson’s “The Optimist Creed”

Of the thousands of resumes I’ve read in the past 20 years, no one has put that in their CVS or cover letters. Why is it, when I’m feeling at my lowest, do I find, on the other side of the world, a line directing me to something that will cheer me up? Needless to say I checked this out. Christian published this in 1912. I hope you find that it cheers you up a bit too. Until next time…

I didn’t have a chance to speak to him but a man walked into an event yesterday and the world seemed to adjust for him. He didn’t look like anyone special but, if you can open your mind to these things and keep your perceptions atuned you can spot people like this.

Here’s how I spotted him:

1. We were at a limited access but free family event at the Easter Show. We came half an hour early to get front row seats and were within the first 20 or so to do the same. Over the next half hour about 500 people filed into the little ampitheatre and all the seats were gone apart from the seats either side of our group where we had temporarily put our stuff while having breakfast. When we finished I organised for everything to be tidied away. Now, up until this point only families of 3 to 5 people had been filing into the seating area so no one was interested in single seats. Within about one minute of me moving the stuff a lone man strolled nonchalantly behind the line of people, asked the lady on the other side of the empty seat whether it was free and sat down calmly, like he expected there to be a free seat there. One minute later the show started.

2. One of the aspects of the event was to divide the crowd of about 600 people into groups of 4 cheering squads so an assistant was chosen to give 4 people a flag. When it came to section 3, our section, with only a cursory glance at the entire group the lady went straight to the lone man and handed him a flag to wave. He, of course, politely offered it to my son but my son gave it back to him knowing that he was the best for it.

3. The MC came out and looked around at the 4 people with flags and went straight to the guy in our section, called him over, had a friendly chat with him, got him to repeat some funny lines to lead into the next section and basically enjoyed talking with this guy. Afterwards the guy sat down and enjoyed the show. I believe he chatted further with people there at the end of the show.

It looked like the guy’s positive nature was affecting the world around him and attracting all the things to him he needed to make his day great! He was definitely an attractor, even if he didn’t know it. Now it’s your turn to do the same for yourself. Go out there, be positive and happy, and expect things to happen for you. It definitely worked for this guy.

The collection of interviews is in The Secret style with quick edits between people discussing the subject matter, and some nifty backgrounds. James decided to go with an arthouse style of editing that meant he was talking directly to you facing the camera and then, for some inexplicable reason, we get to see him side on talking to the right. I’m not sure how this works as it would suggest he’s talking to air! Still, it added to the uniqueness of this production.

The content is mainly about recognising your place in the universe through understanding a translation to English of the line “I am that I am” which should actually be “I am that, I am” This is all explained in the DVD so I won’t go into details here but suffice to say, when one of the people being interviewed said something like “we’ve heard this line all our lives and have not really understood it properly” I was definitely out of the loop as I had never ever heard that line before! In fact, I think the last time I read a passage from the old testament it was delivered through chalk drawings at Sunday school.

I think my high expectations of finding out some revelation was what made it a bit disappointing. Also, I don’t actually know any Jewish people and anything I’ve learnt about Jewish religion was through South Park so I was struggling to understand some of the references.

Having said that, for those of you who do understand Jewish history or religion you might find it very informative, compelling and life changing. And anything that changes your life for the better has got to be good. Find out more about it here

So, what have you been manifesting lately? Many people want physical, solid objects that they can hold. This is the materialistic and consumer culture world in action. There are other things you can manifest too. Like solutions.

I’m always trying to find solutions to problems. The Law of Attraction is great for this. I think of a problem and meditate for a solution. It may not come to me at the time but it will suddenly appear out of the blue later.  Like wanting to find an entrepreneurial club with the intention of finding someone who can help me with my business, and finding the club, then the mentor I need at the first meeting I went to. Or needing a new timesheet software for my staff and having a student tell me all about the timesheet software he used to sell that’s still around. (How many English students do you know that used to sell timesheet software???)

So, rather than focus on the problem and stress about the problem, meditate on the universe finding you a solution. It could be about money, time or space but the universe will help. The answer may not be what you’re expecting but the universe always answers. Just ask.

The movie explores the universal law that operates whether we know it or not known as the Law of Attraction. The movie goes into some detail as to how you can use the law of attraction to change the world around you. It interviews several people from around the world and they tell all their stories and how their belief and vision have attracted what they need into their lives. I was particularly impressed with Jack Canfield’s story, enough to then go out and buy his book The Success Principles . Having read most of his series ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’ and looking forward to his latest Teacher Tales he was the one that finally won me over. Admittedly I have yet to stick a vision check onto my ceiling but I’ll do that one day.

I thought the video was brilliant for a number of reasons.

1. It is full of self-empowering and complimentary comments. For those people who are feeling a bit depressed it is a feel-good movie. Lots of lines about why YOU are special and how YOU can change things.

2. It doesn’t try to sell you anything. All the information is freely given and there’s enough there for you to go and do it yourself without buying any additional merchandise. On the DVD release version there is an advertisement at the end by Bob Proctor encouraging you to buy merchandise, but that’s the only sell.

3. It’s like a science program on gravity. You learn everything you need to know about gravity but until you drop a ball you can’t completely believe it. The movie gave examples on how you can test the theory of the law of attraction for yourself. Imagining a car parking space where you want it to be or believing someone will buy you a cup of coffee. Simple things like that that you can test yourself. So, of course, I tested them and found the law of attraction to work for me too.

4. The direct to camera cut and swap style of storytelling is not for everyone but I liked it. The stories and music and background images, as well as the fact that many of the speakers gave their own views, in sections, on how things worked, that were well-edited together, meant that it kept my attention. Each section was a revelation for me and kept me wanting more.

The other great thing about the movie is that, unlike other direct to camera interview documentaries, there were copious reenactments and explanatory scenes going on while the speakers talked. This helped reinforce a number of things some of the speakers were saying and also meant the movie did not get boring.

One of the downsides is that, if you were one of the people who went to the cinema to see this movie based on the advertising, you were probably disappointed. Many thought The Secret was a story rather than a group of interviews. I don’t think I’d ever pay money to see a movie at a cinema featuring interviews!

Even so, the fact that the movie contained life changing information made it worthwhile for anyone who decides to follow the 21st century way of viewing the universe. 9/10. Find out more about the DVD release here