Just in case you have no clue what I'm talking about, The Law of Attraction is the magnetic force that brings into your experience what you pay attention to. This is the secret that a small fraction of people have known about throughout history. It is the same force that makes people who expect things to go badly continue to have bad things happen. Those who understand how to apply this law are able to attract whatever they want into their experience, including material wealth, situations, success, and relationships.

The Secret Movie has started a movement. The idea of magnetic reality is not new. It has been expressed in various ways throughout history. However, the Law of Attraction was often relegated to the murky backwaters of "ooga-booga" thinking. Detractors would say it was all but superstitious to believe that you attract everything that happens to you. Proponents would say that you can attract everything you want by thinking of it strongly as if it has already happened.

Magnetism is a powerful force and can be harnessed for your good. But can there be too much of a good thing? Yes.

Most people fail to understand the "motor" that drives what you attract into your reality.

I am a firm believer in attraction as a spiritual, magnetic, and scientifically provable force. One of the things I like about The Secret Movie is that there are not only teachers who promote positive thinking and driving your own reality, but there are scientists who show how this law is a real force.

However, there are people who take attraction to an extreme. They decide that they can have anything if they believe hard enough, and then they sit and wait for the universe to deliver "their stuff."

Have you ever considered what it is that makes any cell alive? Every living being can only be moving toward life or death. When you are moving toward life, you are responding to the environment, growing, and moving. When you're moving toward death, you are reactive, static and unmoving.

How does this biological fact apply to the Law of Attraction?

Imagine that you want to have a strong, healthy body and you spend time sitting with eyes closed, dreaming about this wonderful body as if you already have it. Then you open your eyes and go to work and live your normal life.

Are you going to go from couch potato to hot pepper just by thinking of it? NO! If you think thin but eat a box of candy and don't get your body moving, that trimline physique will not shape itself.

You already know this, don't you?

In order to make ANYTHING in your life happen, you have to put the second half of that Law into effect. You have to take ACTION.

Do you want to create success in your business? Apply the Law of Attraction to bring what you want into your mind so that the reticular activating system will start showing you examples. Be aware of those confirmations of your growing success as you get them. Be grateful. And realize that your mind will highlight for you those little "coincidences" of what you are attracting. You will start meeting just the right person at just the right time or finding a solution to a problem or noticing the perfect opportunity to grow.

But if you just sit on your rear and go, "gee, that's cool," and fail to act, all this will pass you by and one day you'll say, "That law of attraction is just a bunch of bunk."

Here's an experience I had this year. I am a published author with two books out and another on the way. Back in May of this year, I was reading a magazine article about writing. The perception of the struggling author got me so mad I stood up and yelled, "I will NOT be a poor author!" I refused to buy into the all-too-common idea that unless you're a Big Name, you'll work your fingers off for peanuts even if you're talented.

That day, a friend sent me an email about a seminar for writing. That led me to a free teleseminar with Glenn Dietzel of www.AwakenTheAuthorWithin.com and I signed up. I knew the gift was designed to sell a program, but what harm was there in exploring. After all, that first session was free.

There was my dream laid out for me. I had indeed attracted a solution to my problem, but what good would that do me if I didn't take action? I joined the program. Sure, I could write books, but I also understood that I needed to learn much more about sales and marketing. My future financial well-being depended on it.

Once I committed to the Entrepreneurial Authoring Program, I threw myself into it heart and soul and worked hard.

Where am I now, just seven months later? The book I co-authored during the authoring program went from conception to ebook to print book to publisher's bestseller in just under six months. And I started mentoring for the Entrepreneurial Authoring Mastermind Mentoring Program. So now I have the wonderful task of creating my dream and helping others live theirs too.

My life-changing experience started with a decision, and a call to attract what I wanted, but it would have been nothing without action.

This magnetic law is potent beyond measure, but you have to move yourself toward life and growth. You can't just wait for the Universal Parcel Service to deliver your stuff.

To get what you really want, you have to make it the Law of attrACTION!