"Rules" of Action

Yesterday a friend said, "Thank you for reminding me that I make up the rules!" I laughed as I recognized I'm not a big fan of rules, and that my favorite thing to do is break them. But I can also get on board with each of us making our own up. That feels right.

Which may be why I get so riled up when I hear LOA experts telling us what the rules are.

I've got some nerve to question one of the country's strongest LOA authorities on how to best practice deliberate creation. But honestly, if I hear one more person say my furniture will get repo'd because I sat on my butt instead of taking action, I'm going to lose my cool.

This is ridiculous!!

Back to the beginning: Blogger Mark says he's having his first experience with LOA. Good for him! John Assaraf, one of my favorite guys in the Secret, posts a comment encouraging him to visualize a clear outcome and reminds him that action is of course also required.

I was crushed! Not John, too!

Here's the deal, or at least the way I see it. (And I'm willing to be wrong on this.) But my opinion is that action isn't what creates our success. We don't create with our hands. We didn't come here for the action journey! We are Visionaries, not Actionaries. (I'm basing that on info from Abe, which feels true to me.)

I mean, how many times has something finally gone your way when you gave up the action? It's happened a LOT for me. Some of my favorite miracles came after I stopped the action. And the success, when it finally revealed itself, often didn't have anything to do with the prior actions I'd taken to make it happen!

I could fill this post with examples.

Action serves us best if it helps get our vibration lined up with what we want.

And that's about it.

"Success won't come knocking on your door if all you do is sit home thinking about it." Oh yeah? Says WHO? I've got this Universal Manager working for me. It does everything. I just do what feels good. And sometimes that's sitting on my butt.

My girlfriend experienced Mr. Right knocking on her door. She didn't do anything. Other than schedule an in-home massage one day. Everyone (besides me) had told her, "You gotta get out. You gotta put yourself out there. You have to start dating. Get on Match. You've got to make some effort!"

Well, she'd done all that and more, and it was a big fat bust. For over a YEAR! (And this girl was HOT - with all capital letters. No reason she shouldn't have been an active dater.)

She finally gave up thinking that anything good would happen for her in Utah.

And she scheduled a massage.

He came knocking on her door. The guy who swept her off her feet and had her thinking twice about what Utah had to offer after all.

I hear some of you guys ... "Well that was her action, Jeannette. Scheduling a massage."

That's my point! That WAS her action! A glorified "sit on your butt" action!

Taking a nap! Or a shower! Going to the movie; going for a walk; playing with the kitties!

THESE are strong actions. These are the types of things that get us into allowing. That get us to open our door to the Universe, so all the magic and miracles that Universe has lined up for us can come in.

I don't often find myself touting Michael Losier's work, but I have to say after typing up this post last night, and reading his article on the topic of action today, I was proud of how he addressed it. Much more on target than we hear from many others, whom I refuse to name because I'm in love with at least one of them.

You know how I could get a sale to close back in the corporate world that I was having trouble with? By going for a bus ride in the middle of the day. Or sneaking out for a matinee. That's when good things happened. When I RELAXED. When I gave up my stupid action journey of follow up calls to decision makers, and overcoming objections, and coming up with new incentives, etc. etc.

When we're so busy doing this and that, we're often not in a vibrational place to let the good stuff in.

Let's get clear about what action can and cannot do for us.

My success doesn't happen because of the action I took. It happens because of the energy I flow.

And MAYBE the energy I flow happens because of the action I took - but don't mistake that action for being the "cause" of the success! It was my ENERGY. My VIBRATION.

And I don't have to have BOTH. I get the energy right, and I'm golden. I've proven it, and my clients have proven it, too many times to doubt it.

I'm not saying everyone sit home and never do anything again.

I AM saying don't think that action is required for you to get what you want. It simply isn't.

UNLESS, you think it is. And then that's when action serves you.

I hope I'm making sense. This is a big topic, so I'm sure I'll be addressing it again. Your thoughts, comments and questions are invited (and appreciated).