The Attractor Factor: 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (or Anything Else) From the Inside Out

Chapter 14. Step Three: The Missing Secret

Iwas on a teleseminar with a marketing friend of mine. We were telling our listeners how important it was to watch out for self-sabotage in their lives. We were pretty impressed with ourselves as we told them that their unconscious beliefs would create their reality, that if they didn't get clear, they could manifest failure.

Halfway through the call we introduced our surprise guest for the evening. He was a famous self-help guru from another country. The guru came on and began by dismissing what my partner and I had just covered.

"Can I take this to a new level?" he asked.

"Well, of course," we told him. "You're the guru."

"You don't need to unearth your past or change your unconscious," he began. "All you have to do is focus on what you want and stay focused on it in each moment."

I totally agreed with him, but also wondered how he expected people to stay in the moment—the greatest spiritual challenge of all time. But I kept quiet and let our guest tout his beliefs.

"I used to be a therapist and quickly saw that it was a waste of time to go into someone's past looking for the cause of whatever they were getting," he explained. "All you have to do is pay attention to your feelings. If it feels good, go in that direction. If it doesn't feel good, stop."

I agreed with all of what our guru guest was saying, but I had to wonder if he was only seeing part of the big picture. I began to feel that he was making the same mistake every other goal-setting, ...