Good day and I hope you are having a great week. This week I am coming back to the written
format for a few reasons. It is an important lesson for one thing, and I did
not really get any feedback from the readers on the question I asked on my
Facebook page regarding the preference for video or text on these blogs.
I was frustrated at my progress in Jiu Jitsu; that is where
this blog post came from. I have being
practicing Jiu Jitsu on and off for about
7 to 8 years, however from an expertise point of view I am no further
off than may be a year into the practice.
The reason for that is because of that concept of expertise, and the proverbial
10,000 hours of practice. So over the past 6 years, I have been may be
going to practice for 3 hours per week, then I take a long time off for one
reason or another. For arguments sake
though, let’s say I have taken classes
for 3 hours/ week every week. So in one year I have amassed an inconsequential
156 hours of training, and in 7 years, I have done 1,092 hours of training if I
did not take any breaks. Do you see how
far away that is from 10,000 hours of practice it takes for one to become an
expert at something?
The people that are really good at what they do, put in the
time. To contrast that with my black belt training in Kenpo Karate when I was a
youngster, I was training 7 days a week and teaching. I would take 2 hours
classes, and teach another 8 hours per day. I was in and out of the dojo for
almost 5 years before achieving my black
belt. 10 hours a day, for 7 days a week
for 5 years or 18,200 hours. Very
different.
Now coming back to the concept of The Law of Attraction, the
good news is that LOA is allot more forgiving, than different arts and skill
sets. You need to, however, make this
your routine. You cannot wake in the morning and do 15 minutes of meditation
and visualization, and the rest of the day give up on the concept. You need to put in to practice the LOA in as
many places as you can during your day, as many days as you can during your
week, as many weeks as you can during the year and as many years as you can during
your life. The more you do this, the
more you become adept at it. The nooks and crannies of The Law of Attraction
will open up to you. You will figure out
how to make it work best for you, but it requires time and practice. It requires time and practice on a continuous
bases. You know we all have times when we hit walls and setbacks, when we give
up and take time off from doing our things, be it training or living The Law of
Attraction. When you take time off training, you see immediately how slow, and how
rudimentary your movements are . It take
weeks to get back to your peak. The same
is true for using LOA.
If you are frustrated because The Law of Attraction is not
working for you, take a look and see how much effort you are putting into
actually understanding, learning, and making it work for you. If you have diligently been putting the hours
necessary with intensity and it is still not working out for you then you have
legitimate gripe. If you have not been putting
the time in, or have just been going through the motions without emotion, and
intensity then you are like me being frustrated at my Jiu Jitsu progress. I really have not been putting the time in,
so I really have no bases to complain that things are not moving smoothly for
me, or be unhappy with my progress. We
reap what we sew.
I hope this all makes sense to you and you can relate. Do not be upset with yourself, or berate yourself
because of this. Remember, it is past
and you only are attracting more of what you don’t want by doing that. Commit to use every opportunity to use The
Law of Attraction in your daily routine.
Do rampage of appreciation, and segment intending. Do your meditation. Be happy now. Remember joy
is your default state.
Please feel free to share this with anyone who may benefit
from it. Comment on my Facebook, and Twitter pages, and let me know if this
makes sense or not, and what your experience has been. I would really like to get more of
a conversation going on these weekly posts on the Facebook page and Twitter
feed so we can learn more and more by the discussion. Only you can help and increase the
benefits of these posts.
