By Brian Tracy

More than 5,000 years ago, in the ancient mystery schools of Egypt, the mental and spiritual laws and principles of success were taught to students who dedicated their entire lives to learning in what was called the “Esoteric Arts.”

One of these “secrets” was the Law of Attraction, which said that your mind is a magnet and that you invariably attract into your life people and circumstances in harmony with your dominant thoughts, especially your dominant thoughts emotionalized.

Today we say, “Like attracts like” and “Birds of a feather flock together.” From ancient times, it was known that your mind sends out vibrations, like radio waves, that are picked up by the minds of other people who are tuned into the same rate of vibration.

The force that determines the sending power of your mental vibrations is the amount of emotion, positive or negative, that you put behind a thought. If there is something that you intensely desire, something that excites you and enthuses you, you will send out powerful, high-frequency vibrations that can travel large distances in split seconds and cause your phone to ring from someone you have not heard from for months or even years.

Because your mind is so powerful, especially when backed by emotionalized thoughts, you must handle it carefully, like a child handling a gun. The Law of Attraction is neutral. It works on both positive and negative thoughts. It brings into your life whatever you are thinking about on a regular basis with either fear or desire.

When the book, “The Secret” came out, along with the movie, I was happily surprised to see that the first half of the movie comes from my audio program and seminar, “The Psychology of Achievement” which was produced initially in 1981. We videotaped the live seminar which explains the Law of Attraction along with thirty-one other laws, plus how this law is applied in every area of life, and then distributed the video seminar world wide, including New Zealand, where the Author of The Secret comes from.

The weakness in The Secret is that it is “necessary but not sufficient.” Of course, it is important that you think positive thoughts and that, by so doing, you will attract positive people and circumstances into your life. But it is not enough.

In response to The Secret, I decided to write a book which is called “Flight Plan — The Real Secret of Success.” In this book, I explain that life is very much like a long distance flight. When the plane takes off, it will be off course 99% of the time. But nonetheless, the plane will eventually arrive at its destination, even thought it was off course most of the time.

In my experience, the real secret of success consists of three major factors: First, you must be absolutely clear about your destination. By this I mean that must have clear, written, specific, measurable goals, committed to paper and organized into specific, step-by-step plans of action.

Before you can set your goals, you must know exactly who you are and what you want. You must do a thorough analysis of yourself, your life, your hopes, your dreams, your ambitions, and where you want to be sometime in the future. Then, you create a “Flight Plan” to get you from wherever you are today to wherever you want to be in the months and years ahead.

The second part of Flight Plan is that you must “take off!” You must have the courage to step out in faith with no guarantee of success. You must be prepared to launch in the face of your fears, doubts and natural reluctance to break out of your comfort zone. “To achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must be prepared to do something that you have never done before.” (Les Brown).

Once you have launched toward your goal, like an airplane, you will meet with unexpected turbulence, headwinds, updrafts and downdrafts, lightning, storms and every sort of mechanical problem. You must be prepared to make continual “course corrections” as you move toward your goal.

Perhaps the most important quality for success is, and always has been, the quality of persistence. You must resolve in advance to persist in the face of any difficulty or problem that you experience. You must resolve in advance that you will never give up. You must resolve in advance that you will view every temporary setback or difficulty as merely a signal that you need to make a “course correction” as you move inevitably toward your goal.

This is a great time to be alive. The very best days of your life lie ahead of you. The highest income of your life is still to come. The greatest experiences of your life are still to be experienced.

There is very little that you can not accomplish if you will file your flight plan. Determine exactly what it is that you want to achieve, take off toward your goal with no guarantees of success, and then make continual course corrections until you finally succeed. If you resolve to do these things, nothing can stop you from creating an extraordinary life.

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Published by @INeedMotivation

10 Comments

  1. Flight Plan is one of the best books i have ever read and still is my favorite book to this day. I didn’t know there was so much good stuff out there. I think Brian Tracy is one of the best in his field and when i look at his success, i think to myself, hard, hard work. And there’s no other explanation for his great success.

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  2. Flight Plan is one of the best books i have ever read and still is my favorite book to this day. I didn’t know there was so much good stuff out there. I think Brian Tracy is one of the best in his field and when i look at his success, i think to myself, hard, hard work. And there’s no other explanation for his great success.

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  3. Inspiring article, its true that if are well focussed and disciplined we can achieve what we want..

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  4. Inspiring article, its true that if are well focussed and disciplined we can achieve what we want..

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  5. This is very true. And this is a great post!
    The Law of Attraction is just the first step to get what
    you want, it is the action that you take that will determine
    your success.

    Know what you really want in your life, set goals and create
    plans to achieve it, and take massive amount of action.
    This is how almost every successful person achieve and
    create amazing results in their life.

    I’ve read some of Brian Tracy’s books and I have one of
    his goal setting audio programs. They are great!

    Thanks for sharing,
    Shawn

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  6. This is very true. And this is a great post!
    The Law of Attraction is just the first step to get what
    you want, it is the action that you take that will determine
    your success.

    Know what you really want in your life, set goals and create
    plans to achieve it, and take massive amount of action.
    This is how almost every successful person achieve and
    create amazing results in their life.

    I’ve read some of Brian Tracy’s books and I have one of
    his goal setting audio programs. They are great!

    Thanks for sharing,
    Shawn

    Reply
  7. Great Post and at the perfect time.

    I am in one of those lightning storms right now. I have no problem starting something and putting it out to the world. My problem has always been that I have never persisted long enough to see my dream come to life. I have always thought that sometimes enough is enough.

    I also find that there is much information out there where every teacher and guru has a slightly different take on how to go about manifesting your desires.

    Your take is that we are suppose to have specific plans of action. Whereas I have always heard that we were just suppose to listen to heart or our inner voice.

    I know this too shall pass but right now it feels like poo.

    Thanks for your info.

    Learning…Enjoying…Sharing

    David

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  8. Great Post and at the perfect time.

    I am in one of those lightning storms right now. I have no problem starting something and putting it out to the world. My problem has always been that I have never persisted long enough to see my dream come to life. I have always thought that sometimes enough is enough.

    I also find that there is much information out there where every teacher and guru has a slightly different take on how to go about manifesting your desires.

    Your take is that we are suppose to have specific plans of action. Whereas I have always heard that we were just suppose to listen to heart or our inner voice.

    I know this too shall pass but right now it feels like poo.

    Thanks for your info.

    Learning…Enjoying…Sharing

    David

    Reply
  9. The law of attraction only works if your mind is open to opportunity knocking!! I’ve recently learned of an amazing way to open the mind to the opportunities fulfilling your goals.

    The subconscious mind is much more powerful than most give it credit for! You may not realize, but your subconscious thoughts translate into habits- your conscious mind will actually try to execute your subconscious thoughts. So, in essence, changing your thoughts into more positive ones will create more productive habits. This way, you can better achieve your goals.

    I use visualization every single day to calm my nerves and create focus around my goals and desired outcomes in life.

    Reply
  10. The law of attraction only works if your mind is open to opportunity knocking!! I’ve recently learned of an amazing way to open the mind to the opportunities fulfilling your goals.

    The subconscious mind is much more powerful than most give it credit for! You may not realize, but your subconscious thoughts translate into habits- your conscious mind will actually try to execute your subconscious thoughts. So, in essence, changing your thoughts into more positive ones will create more productive habits. This way, you can better achieve your goals.

    I use visualization every single day to calm my nerves and create focus around my goals and desired outcomes in life.

    Reply

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