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

Chapter 17. The Million Dollar Secret Formula

"What's the hardest part of creating life the way you want it?" a friend asked me over lunch.

I thought for a moment and replied, "Learning to stop figuring out how you will get what you want."

My friend looked confused.

She asked, "What do you mean?"

"If you try to figure out how you will get that new car, or that new house, or that new relationship, you'll limit yourself to what your ego can see and do," I explained. "Turn your goal over to your unconscious, which is connected to the spirit of everything and everyone, and let it bring the goal to you and you to the goal. Just follow your inner promptings, and act on the opportunities that come your way, and you'll get there."

Well, I'm not sure if my friend understood what I was saying. But a few days later, I was sitting in a limousine, being driven to have dinner with eight wealthy, wonderful, self-made people. All of these people started with nothing. Many of them started as I had, with empty pockets and hope in their hearts.

As I sat in the limo, a part of me couldn't believe I was there.

"How did I get here?" I remember thinking to myself. "I'm in a beautiful limo, with beautiful people beside me, going to have a beautiful dinner that some other beautiful person is going to pay for. I'm just a nobody kid from Ohio who left home to find fame and fortune. I used to dig ditches, drive trucks, work in the dirt, the rain, and the heat, and for never enough money to pay my bills. How'd I get ...