The Power of Wishing For Something…
In a post I made in July about having some "Car Trouble". I told the story of how I attracted a large amount of drama into my life during a period of a week or two. My life since has not seemed anywhere near as dramatic since then, which I see as good, although it gives me less interesting material to write about! Still I am not going to wish for any particular situations one way or another regarding this due to what I am about to mention in this post.
It is the following chapter in the story. One month ago my insurance claim was settled for my old car and therefore the shiny red, new sporty car I had been provided with had to go back. I had 7 days more driving of it and then it would be collected. Unfortunately the claim on my old car left me with nowhere near enough money to buy a new car, so I would be without wheels and reliant on the train for getting to work, so I remember making an affirmation to myself whilst driving the new car during that last week. I only said it once and then forgot about it.
What I "wished" as I was driving the car home was this "I want to keep this car for as long as I possibly can even though it is scheduled to go back in 7 days".
What followed was uncanny. For three weeks that car sat on my driveway, unable to be driven because I was no longer 
insured to drive it. On 3 separate occations somebody was due to collect it and they never turned up at my house. One of these occasions they even called me to ask if they could come and collect the car "within the hour sir" and they never showed. I had to call the company 3 times to remind them that the car was still in my posession and that I was getting really frustrated seeing as I couldn’t drive it. I just wanted it gone! All it was doing was reminding me that I couldn’t drive this lovely car, which just annoyed the heck out of me! Every representative of the car company that I spoke to was shocked that I still had the car on my drive. "That’s unbelievable. This has never happened before".
So to summarize. I wished I could have the car for as long as possible, longer than I should have it. I did. What I realize now that I should have affirmed to myself was ""I want to keep this car for as long as I possibly can even though it is scheduled to go back in 7 days and legally be able to drive it! ". Oh how it all makes sense now…
The car was collected this morning and now my drive is empty.
Comments
Comment from Rob
Time: August 28, 2007, 12:51 pm
Yeah I’d love to Proscilla. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do exactly. I’m sure I’ll figure it out.
Rob
Comment from Maria Palma
Time: August 30, 2007, 9:04 am
It’s funny because something like this happened to me as well…One day I kept affirming to myself, “I now attract to me a large sum of money…” Ten minutes later I get a call from my brother. He had left $700 in a jacket that he forgot about and wanted me to hold it until he came to visit again. Maybe what I should have said was, “I now OWN a large sum of money!”
Comment from Rob
Time: August 30, 2007, 9:22 am
Hahaha. Yes Maria… It is so essential that our thoughts and actions are impeccable. Many people deliberately skip over details because they do not want to be seen as petty or pedantic, but that is the very reason their results are always scrambled and “difficult”.
The magic is in the detail…
Comment from Lucid (Ask Lucid)
Time: August 30, 2007, 12:06 pm
Lol I have to laugh because I am relatively new to Law of Attraction and I read the Secret. I sware as I was applying the principals, I was making my life worse…. That’s when I said my LOA Genie had attention deficit disorder 
Comment from Rob
Time: August 30, 2007, 12:30 pm
Yeah that sounds funny Lucid…
That’s what happens to a lot of people, who then decide not to believe it, but seriously…
What appears as you making your life worse is the fact that you have suddenly become more aware of how your thoughts and actions create what occurs in your life.
The reality is that you were doing the same before without knowing it, so if you don’t know something is there then it simply isn’t there right?
The Law of Attraction is not simply a self-improvement technique. It is the law by which everything in existence works and is put together. If you know this then you can choose what to attract instead of having what you are unwittingly attracting “happen” to you. Of course human nature makes it easy for us all to forget about it all in a moment sometimes, so it calls for discipline of focus on our thought’s all the time.
Ain’t life grand?
Great comment by the way!
Comment from digitalnomad
Time: October 8, 2007, 2:12 am
That’s an amazing story there Rob.
Comment from Rob
Time: October 8, 2007, 7:45 am
Hi Michael.
I have learned that every time I “make a wish” I make sure I am paying attention to what I’m saying and I always put it into the most positive format I can. It’s like making a statement about moving towards what you want rather than away from what you don’t want.
IT WORKS.
Comment from Priscilla Palmer
Time: August 26, 2007, 4:12 pm
You have been tagged for The Personal Development List. (See my site for details), I would love for you to participate.