“I need this like a hole in the head.”

“ @#%&**$%”

“I can’t believe this is happening.”

“This crappy old computer.”

Of course none of this ranting and raving and the explosion and escalation of uncomfortable and unwanted feelings would have done anything to change the situation and they certainly would not have been conducive to overcoming the challenge with the most positive outcome possible. They would have dragged me down into a pit where even a good thing happening would go by unnoticed. So, how did I react?

The newer me looked at the situation and without judging it as bad or good but realizing that it just is. It is the way it is and I was able to accept that as a neutral fact, not good and not bad. I decided the best thing to do was to shut the thing down, unplug all the various apparatuses from it and take it to Digital Don the computer magician at Dijital Majik.

This is where the story gets really interesting. When I got to Don’s he reminded me of a conversation we had a fix or two ago when he told me that my old war horse computer was nearing the end of its useful life. Apparently there were some bulged capacitors on the motherboard. I don’t claim to know specifically what the ramifications of bulged capacitors are but I knew enough to know that it is a possible disaster situation in the making so we looked at new computers and the fix on the old one.

I chose a high end model with a quad core processor, more ram than I can count and a hard drive that would take years to even approach filling up. It could open programs faster than I can blink. Way cool! By the time we were done the total had blown past my initial budget by about $900.00. I was ok with that. I needed a new box and why not jump to the leading edge of the technology?

It would be Friday before the new box was built and all my basic programs and data were loaded. I saw Don at a meeting Friday morning and he said it would be ready about noon. I walked in to the store to pick up my computers and pay for them when Don came up to me and said “You don’t know how lucky you are.” I proceeded to follow along like a good customer and said “Why is that?”

Don told me that when they went to transfer the data from my old, small hard drive to the new machine that it began to chatter and make ugly noises. He was able to quickly make a copy of the drive onto another drive and save my data before it crashed completely causing me a catastrophic data loss and costing me major bucks to recover the data.
I now have my new computer and am loving the speed and I have my old computer which I am taking bids on from my wife and other family members.

Let’s take a look back and see how the Law of Attraction was working and how I managed to cooperate with it. Wayne dyer says “When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.” And that applies here nicely. When the breakdown began to happen I did not jump into victim mode and have a pity party. Instead, I chose to view it as just a situation that was judged neither good nor bad.

Not being thrown into a fight or flight response by negative emotions I was able to calmly rationalize the best thing to do was take the computer in to be fixed. It was what I would have had to do even if I went off the deep end about it. This way there was no emotional baggage to weigh me down and rob me of energy and attitude. The fact that I needed to purchase a new computer was not news to me. I had known that for at least 6 months and just done nothing about it.

Now for the good part. If the computer had not become ill with an interrupted upgrade and a sneaky virus the hard drive would have crashed on me. I was not good at backing up my information. It had been at least six months since I had done a backup. Bad Cowboy, bad Cowboy. I could have potentially lost irretrievable and irreplaceable data that would have been catastrophic to me and my business. I not only learned my lesson about backing up but I also got to see the Law of Attraction in action.

I believe that I attracted the computer problems to avoid a much more costly disaster. As I look back on the situation I am reminded of my own advice. “In every problem or challenge there is always a blessing, lesson or a gift and it is up to each one of us to find it in the situations we encounter in life.” This attitude allows us to rewrite situations from our past to our present in a way that turns them into a positive outcome and a positive vibration.

The blessing was that the bad hard drive was discovered in time to retrieve all the data. The lesson is to backup my box nightly. The gift, well that was the realization that the Law of Attraction is looking out for me and working for me on some plane of existence that I may not fully understand and that by not judging situations but by going with the flow I allowed the Law of Attraction to work. The other gift was the new computer. Sure it cost money but I had the money and can attract more money anytime I need it so the money was no big deal.

Just so that you know, occasionally I still react with old patterns of behavior that are not conducive to attracting good things into my life. The difference now is that I recognize them immediately and have the tools necessary to make adjustments and corrections to my unwanted or unhealthy reactions very quickly rather than wallow in them for days or even weeks. The Law of Attraction trail has no end point on this earth but the journey just keeps getting better and better with every step taken.

If I had to break this article down to a lesson it would be this: In every situation refrain from instantly judging it especially if the judgment is that it is a bad event or situation but instead take affirmative positive action to correct the situation and then look for the blessing, gift or lesson. They are in all that we do; we just need to make ourselves aware of them to see the Law of Attraction in action.

As John Baine said, "The first step towards the solution of any problem is optimism."

Wishing you peace, prosperity and love,

“Cowboy” Dave

“Cowboy” Dave is an internationally recognized speaker and expert on the Law of Attraction and in the field of transformational psychology. He frequently calls himself a “baggage handler” because of his unique ability to help people get rid of the emotional baggage that holds them back and keeps them locked in victim patterns of thought and behavior that perpetuate negative patterns of attraction. Cowboy Dave is available for speaking and training engagements for businesses and organizations wanting to improve the attitudes and life experiences for their employees, customers or members. For more on seminars and workshops click here.
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