The Founding Fathers got it wrong!

Although noble, and revolutionary, the inclusion of the phrase "the pursuit of happiness" may have set

the wrong tone.

We have been told over and over again that we need to be pursuing our goals. I’m beginning to think

that this mindset is setting us up for struggle and disappointment from the start.

When you are pursuing something, what direction is it going? Away from you!

When you attract something, what direction is it going? Towards you.

I had a friend that moved recently to the country. He was a photographer and had heard there were lots

of deer in the area. So he would go out into the fields and woods to find the deer day after day. He

got fleeting glimpses of them and a few nice pictures, but only with a telephoto lens.

Then he discovered that some of his neighbors had deer right in their back yards daily. Instead of

pursuing the deer, they attracted them with a salt lick and deer food scattered on the ground. This one

distinction made the deer part of his life instead of something he only got a fleeting look at.

Could we be making the same mistake in trying to achieve goals? What does ‘attracting’ goals look like,

compared with ‘pursuing’ them?

This proposed manifesto will examine this concept, with practical application to the goals of money,

success, friendship, love and health. It will contrast using situational examples how each of these

goals is pursued by the masses without success, and attracted by the few, with phenomenal success.

I'll briefly outline one example: Money. With this goal, I will contrast the hundreds of millions who

regularly pursue wealth by buying lottery tickets with the owner of the lottery kiosk at the mall, an

immigrant who econimized fiercely, saved and borrowed to buy the franchise. She says to her customers, a

thousand times a day, "Better luck next time!", while her children are earning their medical and law

degrees.

This will be no rehash of pop philosophy; our heroine has not seen "The Secret", although I am sure many

of her customers have. Attraction may start in the mind, but bears fruit only in consistent action.

About livinglife365: | I am a husband, father of six, and an interior design consultant and tailor. I am a student and teacher of the sometimes tenuous connection between the mind and reality. My job (not career, that would imply forethought) pays my bills; writing pays my soul, it condenses and clarifies the internal and external thoughts that argue with each other in foggy corners of my mind, sometimes even producing a clear winner.

Web site: http://www.livinglife365.com