The study of Laws inevitably leads to realizing one’s intentions and goals. Knowledge helps one set sincere values and principles in pursuing self-awareness. 

Laws exist for every aspect of existence, including those of Society, the Universe, and Science.

From the video “How to Master the Art of Think” by Brian Tracy.

Live Your Best Life Forward.

You are a living magnet, and you inevitably attract into your life the people, events, and circumstances that harmonize with your dominant thoughts. Whatever you can hold in your mind continuously, whatever thought you hold clearly and with your emotions, you will be setting up a force field of mental energy that draws towards you the things you need to achieve that goal. Your mind is highly mighty, and whatever you think emotionalized becomes a form of energy, like a magnet, that attracts the events and circumstances you experience into your life.

Be Your Best Self Forward.

One of the most common examples of this law is when you enter a room full of people and invariably seem to have a sympathetic resonance or attraction with someone. You will tend to gravitate toward a person with whom you are comfortable and compatible, and very often, two people at a social gathering will have a sympathetic resonance that draws them toward each other and into a conversation. By the same token, when you have an apparent goal or idea, you will attend to attract people to you and be attracted to people with ideas, information, and resources that can help you realize that goal.

Another illustration of the Law of Attraction is its opposite, the Law of Repulsion. When you become a particular kind of person because of how you change your thinking, you will find yourself attracted to people who are similar to you. You will also find yourself repelling and repelled by people who do not think like you. This law explains why positive people tend to associate with other positive people, why negative people tend to associate with negative people, and why neither group finds the other group very interesting. You can begin filling your life with the people you respect and admire by becoming the kind of person in your thoughts that will attract them to you.

“Whatsoever a Man Thinketh in His Heart, so Is He.”

Whatever you believe with emotions becomes your reality. You always tend to act consistently with your innermost beliefs and convictions. Your beliefs act like a filter or a screen that edits out incoming information and only allows into your conscious awareness the things you have already decided are true about yourself and the world.

For example, if you want to believe that you are meant to be a great success in life and that no matter what happens, nothing can stop you from achieving the greatness that is yours. In this case, you will act consistently with that belief and eventually make it come true. If you doubt your ability to be successful for any reason, your tendency to hold yourself back will demonstrate this negative belief.

The Danger of Self-Limiting Beliefs.

The most important part of the Law of Belief is questioning your self-limiting beliefs. These are the beliefs that act like the brakes on your potential. These are the nagging doubts and fears people have about themselves and their abilities that cause them to sell themselves short. When you have self-limiting beliefs, you tend to settle for far less than you may be capable of. Self-limiting beliefs revolve around your ability to lose weight, quit smoking, earn a certain amount of money, be attractive to members of the opposite sex, or develop new abilities that are more conducive to your success and happiness. One of the most important steps you can take toward achieving great success is to question these self-limiting beliefs.

Remember, self-limiting beliefs are often used as excuses. An excellent way to test your self-limiting beliefs is to ask yourself whether anyone else with the limitations you perceive you have has nonetheless gone on to achieve success. You can also look at your actions to decide what you genuinely value. 

Remember, it is not what you say, hope, wish, or intend that truly expresses your values and beliefs – it is only what you do. We all know that a person’s actions are the true reflection of their innermost convictions. There is a great deal of confusion and unhappiness because many people feel that if they say something emphatically enough or write about it, they genuinely believe it. But this is false – you only honestly believe what you do. Your actions do speak far more loudly than your words.

For example, if you genuinely believe in persistence and dedication, it will be evident in your daily work. If you truly believe in honesty, integrity, and self-discipline, you will demonstrate these qualities in your every behavior. You can tell what a person values by looking at what they did in the past when the pressure was on. You know what you genuinely value only when you are forced to choose.

Another example is when choosing between family and work or between money and honesty, your values come out. The wonderful and vital thing about your values is that you can develop them by disciplining yourself to act consistently with them, even if you have not made them a fixed part of your character.

“Belief creates the actual fact.”

External Adaptation.

Change is inevitable. The only constant we have in life is that of change. Everything is changing, even your curiosity after this moment. But the wonderful thing about the Law of Change is that nothing is fixed. All progress requires change. And since change is happening in any case, you can be, have, and do anything you want by simply harnessing the forces of change and taking advantage of them.

Internal Adaptation.

The Law of Change also says that your life can only improve when you get better, but not until. It says that you cannot remain the same and somehow improve. The law says that if you do not take advantage of change, you will become the victim of change. Things will happen over which you have little or no control, and you will have to go along and adjust your actions and behaviors to whatever occurs.

Nature vs Nurture.

You are always free to choose the content of your conscious mind, but in so doing, you are choosing every other part of your life. Your thoughts control your reality, and since no one else but you can think for you, the thoughts that you choose to harbor determine everything that happens in your life.

The wonderful thing about the Law of Choice is that it says you have complete freedom to think and, therefore, to be anything you intensely desire. The choice is always up to you.

Personality to Character.

The Law of Choice also says you are where and what you are because you have chosen to be there. If you are unhappy with where and what you are, it is up to you to be and do something else.

Focus on Your Character.

Whatever you concentrate on and think about repeatedly with emotions tends to become more and more a part of your inner and outer life. Some of the most critical work in psychology shows that if you dwell upon qualities you wish to develop, like courage, sincerity, and persistence, you tend to build those qualities, brick by brick, into your character and personality.

Consistency Is Authenticity.

What you concentrate on largely determines the quality and quantity of the results you get and the success you enjoy.

Human Experience is “As Within, So Without.”

Your outer life will be a mirror image of your inner life. Your external world will correspond almost precisely to what is happening inside your conscious and subconscious minds.

There are four major areas where correspondence is working.

1st: In Your Attitude. What your attitude is, often before you even say anything, people will reflect it to you in how they talk to and treat you, as within so without.

2nd: In your Relationships. Your relationships will mirror your attitude and your personality. You will have good and happy relationships if you are doing good and a happy person. As you become more patient, tolerant, and loving, your relationships will reflect this almost immediately, as a mirror will do.

3rd: In your Health. Much of your health can be traced to specific attitudes that cause you to suffer from minor and major illnesses. The extensive work done in holistic medicine suggests that there are corresponding attitudes of mind for most illnesses that you or I suffer, from the common cold and flu up to the most severe illnesses that are often life-threatening. Whenever you are anxious, upset, or unhappy for any reason, for any period, your body will begin to reflect those feelings. The basis of psychosomatic medicine is the conclusion that your mind ‘psycho’ makes your body ‘soma’ sick. What your mind harbors, your body eventually expresses.

4th: In your Brain. Your external world of material accomplishment will exactly correspond to your internal world of preparation. The more knowledge and skill you gain that helps you to be more effective in your work, the more you will be paid. You cannot hope to acquire or achieve anything more on the outside until you have acquired it or achieved it on the inside.

The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.

Whatever you expect with confidence will tend to materialize in your life. You may get different from what you want, but what you can expect with the most incredible intensity of what you need.

For this reason, an attitude of positive self-expectancy goes hand in hand with great success in every area of your life. The wonderful thing is that you have the power to manufacture your expectations. You can decide to expect only good things to happen to you. You can walk, talk, and act like you believe the world conspires to help you achieve your goals.

The Inverse Predictability Is That You Win or You Learn.

The way that you apply the Law of Expectations is by confidently looking for the good in every person and every situation. When you have a temporary setback, you can look into the setback for the valuable lesson that it might contain. Instead of becoming upset, you can say to yourself, “I believe in the ideal outcome of every situation in my life.” This kind of affirmation causes you to approach everything you do more positively, openly, and optimistically.

The most powerful of all expectations are the expectations you have of yourself. You should approach everything you do with calm, confidence, and self-expectancy. You should expect to be successful more times than you are unsuccessful, expect to win more times than you lose, and expect to achieve your goals eventually if you carry on long enough.

Happiness Is a Byproduct of the Things Done.

Virtually most things that you do is automatic and unthinking. You are a creature of habit. From when you get up in the morning to when you go to bed at night, you tend to follow the path of least resistance and do the things you have become accustomed to doing in the past.

You eat the same foods for breakfast. You brush your teeth with the same toothpaste. You take the same route to work. You greet people with the exact words. You go to lunch at the same time. You work in the same way. 

Now, there is nothing wrong with establishing habits that enable you to simplify your life. Your life becomes successful to the degree that many things you once needed to concentrate on, such as driving a car, have become automatic and unthinking. When you make things habitual so they no longer require thoughts in your mind, then it becomes free to concentrate on other things that can be more helpful to you in achieving the things you want.

Good Habits or Bad Habits.

Good habits are hard to form but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to form but hard to live with.

One of the hardest things to change is bad habits, which are counterproductive to the goals you want to achieve. You must sit down, think through your habits, and analyze them carefully. You need to decide whether or not they are moving you toward your goals or away from them. Be disciplined.

Remember, one of the most critical observations on success is that everything you do either moves you in one direction or another. Nothing is neutral. Everything counts. If a habit is not helpful, it is hurtful. If a habit is not leading you to success, it is probably leading you to failure. The way that you overcome bad habits is to override them by the development of new, more positive habits.

For example, if you have a golf swing causing your ball to go into the rough, you can override that habitual swing by taking lessons and learning how to hit the ball differently. Suppose you have a habit of getting up later than you should. In this case, you can override that habit by repeatedly getting up earlier until that new behavior becomes the habit that dominates your thinking and your actions. 

By practicing the Law of Concentration in conjunction with the Law of Habit and thinking continually about how you would be with a new habit of behavior, you drive this message into your subconscious mind, and you eventually begin to behave in a manner consistent with the new habits you wish to form.

“Thoughts Held in Mind Produce After Their Kind.”

Your primary responsibility is to create a clearly defined and accurate mental equivalent of what you wish to experience in each dimension of your external life.

What you think becomes your reality.

“You Become What You Think About Most of the Time.”

If you want to be happy, you must clearly define for yourself and create the mental equivalent or picture of what happiness means to you. If you wish to enjoy health and long life, happy relationships, or financial prosperity, you must create a detailed picture of your desire.

Create in your mind first.

What Do You Think About Most of the Time?

You become what you think you are.

Everything you do is triggered by inner desires, urges, and instincts, many of which may be at an unconscious level. And your attitudes and behaviors will be determined by your dominant motivations. By what you want and need in life, not what you think you want.

Mind Action.

The ABC formula of Human Motivation and Human Action is simple. The ABC stands for Antecedents, Behavior, and Consequences. The antecedents are the things that happen before the behavior. The behaviors are the things you do. The consequences are what happens as a result of your behavior.

We know that psychologically only about 15% of your motivation comes from the antecedents. From what you read, learn, or are told to do or not do. However, about 85% of your motivation comes from your expectations, what you think will happen. Your beliefs about the consequences of the future cause you to behave in a certain way. The more precise you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behavior may lead to, the more motivated you will be. It is essential to clearly define your goals in each area of your life to be motivated to perform at your best, consciously and subconsciously.

An important point about the ABC formula is that your behaviors are not guaranteed to achieve your desired consequences. Still, every behavior or action that you engage in will generate a consequence of some kind. One of the most essential parts of understanding motivation and behavior is realizing that actions and inactions have consequences. What you do and fail to do will have a consequence in your future, and sometimes the consequences can be dramatic and long-lasting.

A good exercise in success is for you to describe the type of person you would like to be or not be and the kind of life you would like to live. The most potent faculty that you have is your ability to think and your ability to understand. The more accurately you can think about who you are, who you are not, what you want to accomplish, and how to accomplish it, the more effective and successful you will be.

Perfection Is in Revisions.

Evolution was an imperfect process.

If You Are Perfect, You Do Not Exist.

You can strengthen your mind with knowledge and information to troubleshoot negativity throughout your life. Emotions will never be flat. No one can experience only a positive life full of only positive emotions and people; such a world of only positivity does not exist.

Emotions come like waves. We must navigate positive and negative emotional waves. Filtering through. There is no perfection, there is only peace.

Know Your Blessings.

The most successful men and women tend to be very likable people. The more optimistic you are, the happier you will be moment to moment and the more things you will be willing to attempt.

Enthusiasm.

A positive mental attitude goes hand in hand with success and happiness in virtually every dimension of life. Optimism is the quality that makes you a cheerful and pleasant person, someone that other people like and want to be around and help.

Organization of the Mind.

First, whatever thought or idea is mixed with emotion in your conscious mind will be accepted as a command by your subconscious mind. This means that whatever thought, idea, or goal you can hold in your mind continuously, you can have because your subconscious mind will work to organize your thoughts and actions to bring them into reality. If you desire to earn or attain a certain amount of money, and you think about it continually day and night, and you use every means possible to drive this desire or hope deep into your subconscious mind, your subconscious mind will begin committing more and more of its reserve capacity toward bringing that goal or desire into your life.

Second, once you give it the proper commands, your subconscious mind will trigger your reticular cortex and its function, the reticular activating system; your reticular cortex is a small fingerlike part of your brain that alerts you to events and circumstances and answers around you that are consistent with your dominant desires or concerns.

For example, if you decided to buy a red sports car, this desire would signal to your reticular cortex that red sports cars are now paramount to you. From that moment on, you would see red sports cards everywhere, even a block away. You would become extremely alert and sensitive to red sports cars and the means of attaining one of them. If one of your goals is to achieve financial independence, you imbue this goal with intense desire. In this case, your reticular cortex will cause you to be extremely sensitive to all kinds of opportunities around you that would help you to earn more money. You would hear and see things everywhere that you might have been unaware of entirely without having established this goal and planted it in your subconscious mind.

Organization of the Body.

Your subconscious mind, which controls your autonomic nervous system and all of your muscles, nerves, actions, and reactions, also controls your body language and tone of voice. When you communicate with others, fully 55% of the message you send is contained in your body language, 38% is in your tone of voice, and only 7% is in the actual words you use. And your body language and tone of voice are primarily controlled by messages about yourself and your goals that you have sent to your subconscious mind as the result of how you think and feel.

For example, when you have succeeded, you send a charge of emotional energy to your subconscious, telling it that you are a winner. Afterward, you walk, talk, act, and think like a winner. Your step will be brisker, your voice will be stronger, your eyes will be more focused, and your body language will signify this belief about yourself. Your subconscious mind will accept your predominant emotional thoughts and organize your body, voice, and tone to fit a consistent pattern.