 you've probably heard of the law of attraction. So it's the way that a lot of people try to achieve their goals and manifest their dreams and visions. Well, for a long time, I have been a critic of the law of attraction. And today I wanna offer you an alternative. I'm gonna call it the law of attainment. And when I came up with this, I didn't realize, I just Googled it like two minutes before this video and realized, oh, well there's a book called The Law of Attainment written in 1961. But I've never read the book, I don't know what it says, but I'm just using play on words here. Instead of law of attraction, law of attainment. I'm gonna give you the four As of the law of attainment so that you can finally attain to your goals and visions, et cetera. And here's the process that I'd recommend. So just similar to the law of attraction, we start with aspiration. Having a clear goal. But the difference here is that in the law of attraction, you essentially fixate on your goal. You want a specific number. And I just wanna say, by the way, I think the law of attraction works when it comes to attracting a good relationship or a bad one. But I don't think the law of attraction, mark my words, quote me here. I don't believe the law of attraction works for financial success. I know that's shocking because most of the law of attraction, much of it out there is about financial success. I don't believe it works because, well, I tried it myself. I don't credit law of attraction for my success. I tried a little bit in the beginning, didn't work. I don't know, maybe I integrated it. Maybe it does work. I don't think so though because I've seen lots of people try the law of attraction. Maybe you have as well. Didn't bring financial success. And I think a couple of reasons why is that it typically makes you have fantasy, magical thinking about what financial success, how it can be achieved and what you can achieve and what timeframe. So it's magical thinking, it's wishful thinking. It's not grounded in reality. And it's also tensed, law of attraction teachings tend to, they don't talk enough about action. They talk a lot about visualization, emotions and all that stuff that you can do sitting down. Or at most standing up and doing power poses or whatever, which power poses do work, I believe that. But you can't just imagine, visualize, feel and change your language, blah, blah, blah. But you're not taking strategic action. The law of attraction ain't gonna work. So much of the law of attraction teachings, I think are just selling people. They make lots and lots of money because it feels good. It feels good to imagine being rich. It feels good to come across a modality that just tells you you don't have to do anything scary. You just have to sit there and imagine feeling rich and imagine what wealth you could have and do power poses maybe. Power poses is at least a little bit of action there. But so they make lots of money, taking money from you because they give you methods that feel good to you. But in order to actually attain something you don't have, it requires you to go outside of your comfort zone. That's why the law of, if you don't get out of your comfort zone, if you just feel good, feel good, imagine things, you don't get outside of your comfort zone. It's the universe partners with your physical body to achieve physical results. Spirit uses your third-dimensional physical being to, if you want, third-dimensional physical results. So I just to complete my rambling here about the law of attraction, I think it does work for relationships. I feel like that's how I manifested my spouse, my wife. But I think that the law of attraction for relationships works in terms of the inner characteristics. I think if we picture a particular type of person on the outside and how tall or short they are or whatever, what they look like, I think you're limiting yourself dramatically. But the law of attraction does work for inner stuff, for vibrational stuff. So for like, oh, I want this kind of energy, with this kind of energy and this kind of person, I think it really does work. But when it comes to financial business success, after 10, 15 years of looking at people trying it, I don't think it works. And let me give you the law of attainment then. So the first step of law of attainment is aspiration. So we do start with a clear goal. It's okay to have a clear number. I want to enroll 35 students in my next online course, let's say whatever it is you're trying to do. But here's the key. You've got to be careful about the number being wishful thinking, unrealistic, ungrounded. Where are you getting the number? If you're saying, I want to make, I can imagine, I feel so good to imagine myself making a million dollars a year, okay? Where are you getting this? Where are you getting this? Million dollars a year or six figures or whatever. Where did someone give you that number and say that that equals success? And then you believe them? Do you even really know what it means to have a million dollars? Do you really even know what it means? And how you get there? It's magical. Stop the magical thinking, everybody. Please, okay, it's ridiculous. And it's keeping you stuck for decades. If not years, at least months, years or decades for some people. So stop the magical thinking. Make it a clear goal that is realistic, but yet a stretch. So if you're making $10,000 a year right now and you tell me, George, I'm visualizing $100,000 a year. I'm like, do you even, have you ever made $100,000 a year in your life? No, I've made $10,000, $30,000, $50,000, never $100,000 a year doing this business. You're just totally ungrounded and you're just floating in the clouds and it never becomes reality. So if you make $10,000 a year right now, then say in this year, last year you made $10,000 and this year you're gonna make $15,000. Well, George, you can't pay the bills of $15,000. Go get a job. I've said this in many of my videos. You can't look down on people who have jobs. Jobs are, to me, having a job is harder than being in business because I can't work for other people. I just can't anymore. So being in a job means I have to constrain myself and really become much more obedient, less of a rebel and take less initiative and all that stuff. So that's really hard for me. But if I had to, I would go get a job. I would be humble. Humility is a good thing to practice, something the law of attraction doesn't teach also. Humility is a great, wonderful trait. If you have to go get a job, go get a job. It only will benefit you financially. It'll benefit you spiritually. You'll learn to be humble. You'll learn to be obedient. It's a good thing. And then you'll also have more motivation to work on your business at night or on the weekends. You'll have more motivation because you wanna get out of the job. Eventually. So make sure you're financially stable first, period. Financial stability has to come first before you build an authentic business. Otherwise it can never be an authentic business, not never. But you'll always want to manipulate other people or you'll always have to manipulate other people to make your business work. Whereas authentic business means you can be your higher self, your most authentic self in your business and build a real business that way. So, okay. You made 10,000 in your business last year. This year you'll make 15,000. That's a stretch, but it's realistic. You know you can do it, okay? Because you made 10,000. Now this year you can make 15,000. Okay, pick the numbers you want. Maybe you made 50,000 last year in your business. This year you can make 60 or 70,000, maybe 75,000. It's a realistic stretch goal. Get clear on that number, okay? And once you get clear on that number and you realize it's realistic, now if you say, well, George, I don't know what's realistic because it's first time in business or I've made money but not as being self-employed in my own business, then you need to talk to an expert, a proven expert that can be realistic with you and not sell you dreams because they wanna take your money. Because so many people like me want to take your money to sell you dreams and unrealistic steps. And hopefully I'm going to give you realistic realism. Realism that's grounded in spirituality. So realism plus spirituality. So number one, aspiration, clear goal, that's a realistic stretch and here's the key. Once you have a clear goal, that's a realistic stretch. I invite you, I encourage you to hold loosely to that goal because the second part of the aspiration is now that I have a clear realistic goal, what are, can I get also clear on the process it'll take to get to that goal? What is the action steps? What are the strategic, what's the strategic journey from where you are now to that realistic stretch goal right down the action steps? And if you don't know how to get there you need to do some research or work with a proven expert that knows how to get from where you are to where you wanna go and have the realistic steps to do it, okay? So that's the first step of law of attainment is aspiration. Clear realistic stretch goal, once you get clear on it, hold loosely to it but get super dedicated to the strategic process of actions that will take you from where you are to your realistic stretch goal, okay? So that's aspiration, okay? Now, the second step from aspiration is alignment. Now, again, this is also borrowing a bit from the law of attraction because there are some parts of there that are good that's why it's so popular. And alignment means here not sitting on your couch visualizing the red Porsche, visualizing the million dollar, you know, billion dollar income or million dollar house or whatever it is, no. Alignment means to get clear how you want to work as you take the strategic journey from where you are to what your realistic stretch goal is. That journey doesn't have to be stressful. It doesn't have to be filled with anxiety and frustration and fear, which is how so many people build their business, right? Hustle, hustle is founded on anxiety, grasping, you know, over ambition, right? And trying to prove, you know, trying to prove a puffed up self-image to, you know, friends and family to prove that you're worth something. No, you don't have to do that. Alignment means I want to, from where I am to my realistic stretch goal, I want to work with a calm joy. I want to work with a playful experimentation. I want to work with bringing love to this moment. That's how I want to work. Because the bigger truth beyond your realistic stretch goal, the bigger goal is to live a life well lived. The bigger goal is if I should die today, I have spent this day well. Doesn't matter if I got to my realistic goal or not. Did I spend this day in spirit? Did I spend this day embodying spirit? That's much more important than your goals or your work or your business, right? So how would you work as you go from here all the way to there? Every moment is your life. You don't work and then live life. Your work is your life. This is your life. You spend the majority of the best energy of your waking hours working. So that is your life. So align how you want to work with how you actually work. So before you do any hour of work on your business, before you do any hour of work on your business, spend a minute aligning your emotional and spiritual posture, maybe physical posture too, with how you want to work during this hour. Whatever thing it is you're doing, you might be doing something so-called scary, reaching out to a potential client. Oh, writing something. You don't know what you're gonna say. You don't know what you're gonna write. Most of the things that we're gonna do in our business is scary. I'm sorry to say if no one has told you. Yes, you're going to have to do scary things every single day in your business. It's gonna be scary. You're not gonna know how it's gonna turn out. You're not gonna have any guarantee of results. You're not gonna, as you write, you don't know if the piece is gonna be bad or good. You don't know. It's all scary, but if you align with how you want to work, then you reframe the scariness, the fear. You reframe it as excitement, as curiosity, as adventure. So alignment is the second step in the law of attainment is every single hour of your work towards your realistic stretch goal, you are aligning your spirit and emotional posture to how you want to live. So alignment, the second step. The third step is action. Action is the third step of law of attainment. I was doing some quick research on the steps to law of attraction. And those of you who are law of attraction experts, how would you list the steps to law of attraction? Because when I did some research, just the first Google results for steps to law of attraction, I read the articles and I'm like, where is action? I mean, there's like eight steps to law of attraction and like step seven is maybe a little bit of action, but it's like, how can you attract something into your life or your work without being like half of it being about action? You know, like, I just don't understand. I genuinely do not understand how people can put up with the law of attraction teachings because it's like, where is action? It's like, okay, so anyway, step off of my ranting here and action is the third step of law of attainment. And well, you've heard me talk about this a lot. Consistent action, okay, produces excellence eventually, which produces results. So you know that action means going into the cave, meaning, you know, kind of going on a hero's journey, you're going to a cave of the unknown. Your business is not, nope, people will try to sell you a guaranteed five step process for six figures. They're lying to you. Let me just put it out there. Whatever five steps, three steps, 12 steps, 28 steps, guaranteed to six figure income or seven figure or successful business lies, lies, lies. A successful business is about going into the cave of the unknown with courage or fear. However people go in, they go in and then they learn about themselves. They discover what the market wants. They align the two, what they learn about themselves and what the market wants. And eventually more and more, they create something that the market wants and that they themselves are proud to offer and operationalize it in a way that's profitable. That's what a successful business is. I am never, it's not about guaranteed steps, simple, easy, ridiculous lies. What is true is, all that's true is action. You take action to go into the dark cave. Now, if you have friends to go with you, that's wonderful. If you have a coach that you can afford, great. If you have a Facebook group that is supportive of you and you can go in together, great, wonderful. You don't have to go in by yourself but you do have to go in, right? And it's still gonna be dark and it's gonna be unknown and you have to make your own light, right? You have to generate, generate within yourself, your own light. Some others can help provide a little bit of light but ultimately you have to go into parts of the cave. Some parts of the cave you have to go by yourself. No coach can say, well, let me do this for you. No consultant can do it for you. The way that's authentic to you, you will have to go into parts of the cave by yourself. So action, consistent action. You don't have to run into the dark cave because you'll probably trip and like hurt yourself. You can take small steps into the dark cave. Oh, let me try it a little bit. Ooh, okay, it's kind of scary but reframe it as adventure. So action, consistent action produces excellence eventually which produces results. It's that order. You can't expect market results without excellence of understanding yourself and your market and producing something excellent that the market wants, right? And then operationalizing that to become profitable. So action is the third part of the law of attainment. And finally, the fourth part of the law of attainment, adjustment, adjustment. Again, I don't see this in the law of attraction teachings. Please point me where adjustment is in the law of attraction teachings. I don't see it because the law of attraction, it kind of this idea of you visualize one thing and maybe, again, I'm not an expert on it. So maybe I'm totally bastardizing it but you visualize one thing and you just keep visualizing it until it becomes reality, right? There is no adjustment. There is only your egoic, your human egoic limit, extremely limited slice of what the future should be when God wants to give you so much more, when the universe is way bigger. Your vision of what your future can be is one grain of sand on one beach of the entire world and the universe, God, source wants to give you the entire world to say, no, open up, open up. Adjust, adjust as frequently as you can because you are learning about me, God says, universe says, your highest self says, you're learning about me as you go into the cave. You're learning about what you really want and you're learning about what the world really needs from you, adjustment. So you're gonna have to keep adjusting your aspirations and then your alignment to say, okay, no, actually, I wanna work in this way. I wanna work with courage. Okay, today I wanna work with courage. Okay, and then the next day, today I wanna work with grace. I wanna work with grace, I'm gonna practice that. So adjusting all along the way, your aspirations, your alignment, your action, all along the way you're adjusting and you attain as a result. You attain, guess what? Yes, you will attain your realistic stretch goals, of course, but you also attain your best possible self. And that's really what this is about. You thought you were going into the cave to find the treasure. You were going into the cave to find your best self. So I hope this is interesting. Four A's for you. I guess the fifth one is the law of attainment and that's the first day. Aspiration, alignment, action, adjustment. And just keep following these four. And I think the beautiful thing about these four steps, it's holographic, meaning you can look at these four steps in the context of a five year plan or a one month plan or this very hour. I aspire to accomplish this task, this hour. I will align the way I work. I will take action right now and I will adjust my actions along the way as I realize, oh, maybe that's not the smartest way of doing this. It's holographic, these four steps. Aspiration, alignment, action, and adjustment. So I hope you enjoy trying this out, using it. Take whatever piece of this or borrow the whole thing and let me know how you get along with it. So all right, thanks for those who are joining me live here. Lisa and Jayce, Aida, Justine, Jen, Yule, Michelle, Linda, thank you all for joining me. And I look forward to any questions you have or any comments you wanna share or from your own experience. How does this make sense or how might you adjust it? Adjustment is an important part of everything I think about as I work and as I teach. So all right, blessings to you and I wish you a successful attainment to the best that life has for you. Blessings.