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How Well Do You Filter the Thoughts in Your Head?
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How Well Do You Filter the Thoughts in Your Head?

Here are five ways to focus on what you really want

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Sep 15, 2023
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Norman Vincent Peal wrote about it in “The Power of Positive Thinking.”

James Allen penned, “All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.”

And Earl Nightingale said, “We become what we think about.”

Each author was referring to the Law of Attraction — the idea that we attract into our lives what we think about. The more passionate our feelings, the greater likelihood of our thoughts becoming reality.

These age-old concepts were the basis for The Secret, the best-selling book from several years back (and a few others that “expanded” on the process).

So does it really work?

Can our conscious thoughts actually control what happens to us? The answer is somewhat ironic …

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