When you have a positive mindset you tend to see the positive things in situations and people.

When you are upbeat and enthusiastic about the future you tend to see the positive things in situations and people.

And upbeat, positive, and enthusiastic people tend to attract people who hold similar mindsets.

When brought together in a spirit of harmony upbeat, positive, and enthusiastic people tend to energize one another.

With high energy levels and positive mindsets groups of people are able to perform large volumes of goal-focused actions.

Naturally, all of these things combine to promote success and the achievement of goals.

With thoughts like those outlined above it is relatively easy to come to the conclusion that positive mental attitudes, reflecting belief in the abilities of people, can lead to better handling of a range of situations. With these mindsets situations can be handled well, in real time as they arise. Seeing people in a positive light and handling situations well are the proven ways to achieve goals and obtain success.

That is one way to look at the Law of Attraction.

I recognize this is a limited way of thinking about the Law of Attraction. I recognize there are far-expanded versions of the Law of Attraction that take people deep into the realm of metaphysics and cosmic thought.

The Law of Attraction does not have to be metaphysical. It can be thought of in common-sense terms.  It can be thought of in practical terms. It can be thought of in simple terms.

In simple terms, the Law of Attraction is - Like Attracts Like.

Positivity attracts positivity. Success-orientation attracts success-orientation. With these common-sense facts of life in mind, it is easy to understand how we tend to get what we wish for when that wishing is done with a mindset laced in enthusiasm and positive energy.

We do not have to enter the territory of metaphysical zealots to believe in the Law of Attraction.

We just have to step back and use a little common sense.

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We could write up procedures and provide parts and tools to teach people how to build bicycles. And, left on their own, many people would be able to use our instructions to build bicycles. 

We could write up procedures to teach people how to ride those bicycles.  And, left on their own, most people would struggle learning how to ride those bicycles.

There is Knowledge.

And there is Skill.

These are two very different things.

And, one does not necessarily follow the other.

Knowledge can be digested and learned quickly.

As the saying goes, ‘Knowledge is not power…it is potential power’. Knowledge becomes power only when it can be harnessed and put to good use...and that takes Skill!

Skill is developed by doing actions and learning over time though trial, error, and adaptation.

People struggle to develop skills.

Those who expect quick & easy success often give up long before they have spent enough time to develop the skills required to master tasks. Others - the people who succeed at performance of tasks - have the gift of persistence/perseverance/tenacity and use that energizing gift to drive repeated trial-error-adaptation cycles of action…for as long as it takes to master skills.

Successful people do not give up on skill development. That is the essence of success.

About the energizing-gift that allows the development of skill…

As another saying goes, ‘Edison learned 10,000 ways to not make a light bulb before he discovered one way that worked’.