"Do not give your creative impulse to Original Substance, and then sit down and wait for results; if you do, you will never get them. Act Now."
This post is about taking action. Being open to receive what you desire and imagining the object of your desire coming to you is an essential part of the process for the law of attraction. (read the last post for an overview)
However, if you imagine, for example, your perfect date/mate but then sit on your hands and don't even talk to the women around you. Then your mental image is not worth anything.
Action is key to being able to receive what you want. Not saying hi to the passing hottie who looked at you with a smile may have consequences to your attraction practice.
She could have been the one the 'universe' brought to you or she may have brought you an essential learning experience to help you get what you desire. Because of your lack of action, your attaining your result may be delayed. You don't know – that is what you must do everything you can to attain your desire. You can't know in what way your goal will be brought to you. So you have to be prepared to take the appropriate action with each opportunity as it arises.
"You cannot act in the past, and it is essential to the clearness of your mental vision that you dismiss the past from your mind."
If you are focused on a goal you would like to attain and you think of past failures or regrets then you stop the flow towards you. At least, you stop the flow of what you want towards you. Your negative thoughts will have the same effect that positive thought has on the universal substance i.e. what you image is brought to you…or 'what you seek so shall you find'.
If you are unhappy all the time and think how you keep failing with women then it's no surprise that this failure will continue. The past is the past. It is gone and can never return (repeating itself is another story)
By referring to the past you interfere with the mental image and energy you have created for your goal. For example; if you want a fun relationship but keep fixating on the horrible relationships you have had in the past then you will disrupt your current dating experiences.
"You cannot act in the future, for the future is not here yet. And you cannot tell how you will want to act in any future contingency until that contingency has arrived."
This admonishment is to keep you focused on the present – on achieving your goal rather dreaming about what it would be like once achieved.
If you are imagining what a perfect date must be like, planning your comments, your moves, what you eat etc., then you are daydreaming and not focusing on your present situation. Trying to plan every tiny detail for the future, can hinder the effectiveness of your actions NOW. So deal with the future when it gets heres, till then focus on what you have to do now to move forwards and do it.
"Do everyday, All that can be done that day"
However...
"You are not to overwork, nor rush blindly into your business in the effort to do the greatest possible number of things in the shortest possible time."
Everyday is an appropriate for you to take action upon achieving your goal. If you need to work on self improvement, learning how to flirt properly etc. then do it. However, don't overdo it. Don't try to learn a weeks worth of skill in a day – then you will be rusty at everything you have learn't making it useless as you can't apply it. Do what you can for each day, as well as you can. If you can only learn ONE thing in a day, then learn it and no more.
The next day you can move on the next thing to learn. In other words, you must learn to be patient. Sometimes, what you want comes to you pretty fast. However, if you want something big then it will probably take some time.
To be able to face each day with your best foot forward, letting go of both past and future so you can focus all your efforts on the present is the absolute sure way to success.
There is only one more thing to say, "Everything is either a successful day or a day of failure; and it is the successful days which get you what you want. If everyday is a failure, you can never get rich; while if everyday is a success, you cannot fail to get rich."
Applied to dating and relationships; Everyday you learn about the opposite sex, improve your social skills etc. Basically, everyday you take action towards your goals is a 'successful day'. Any day you don't do this, is a failure. To attain your goals as fast as possible, it follows that the more days you successfully move forward, the faster you will succeed.
Quite simply, upon deciding on your dating and relationship goals just move forwards, forgetting about the past and the future – just focus on what you have to do right away and do it to the best of your ability. This is the behavior of a successful individual.
