The Law of Cause and Effect The Law of Cause and Effect says that for every effect in your life there’s a specific cause. If there’s an effect in your life that you want more of, you merely need to trace it back to the causes and repeat the causes. If there’s an effect in your life that you don’t enjoy, you need to trace it back to the causes and get rid of them.
This law is so simple that it’s baffling to most people. They continue doing, or not doing, things that are causing them unhappiness, and they then blame everyone else, or society, for their problems,
The most important application of the Law of Cause and effect if this: “Thoughts are causes, and conditions are effects.” Your thoughts are the primary causes of the conditions of your life. If you change the quality of your thinking, you change the quality of your life.
By applying the Law of Cause and effect, you bring yourself into harmony with the Law of Control.
If you do high-quality work and achieve the results that your school needs to grow and prosper, you’ll be successful and happy. If you treat others well, they’ll treat you well. You’ll always get out of life what you put in – and you control what you put in.
The Law of Belief
The Law of belief says that whatever you believe, with feeling, becomes your reality. For example, if you absolutely believe that you’re meant to be a great success in life, then no matter what happens, you’ll continue to press forward toward your goals. Nothing will stop you.
People generally have two ways of looking at the world. This first is what is called a “benevolent” world-view. This means that you have a tendency to see the good in people and situations and to believe that there’s plenty of opportunity around you and that you can take advantage of it. You believe in the future, for yourself and others. You are primarily optimistic.
The second way of looking at the world is with a “malevolent” worldview. A person with a malevolent worldview has generally negative and pessimistic attitude towards himself or herself and toward life.
Needless to say, people with optimistic beliefs tend to be movers and shakers, the builders and the creators of the future. Whatever your belief, if you believe it strongly enough, it becomes your reality.
One day, I read a true story about a young man from a small town who graduated from high school with straight A’s. He then applied to the State University for admission. As part of the admissions procedure, he had to tae the Scholastic Aptitude Test, like all the applicants to universities nationwide. A few weeks later, re received a letter from the admissions department informing him that he’d scored in the 99th percentile on the test and he was accepted for the fall semester.
He was happy to be cceptd, but there was one problem. He didn’t know about the percentiles and he concluded mistakenly that the 99th percentile was his IQ score. He knew that the average IQ is 100 and he felt he could never do university-level work with his “limited” intelligence.
For the entire fall semester he failed or nearly failed every course. Finally, his counselor called him in and asked why he was doing so poorly. “Well,” he said, “you can’t blame me. I’ve only got a 99 IQ.” The counselor had the student’s file in front of him. “Why do you say that?” he asked, “That’s what it said in my letter of admission to the university,” he replied.
When the counselor realized what had happened he explained the difference between an IQ and a percentile. “A 99th percentile means that you’ve scored equal to or higher than 99 percent of all the students in America who wrote this test. You’re one of the brightest kids on this campus.”
When this young man realized his error and changed his belief about his intelligence, he became a different person. He went back into his classes and went back to work with a new sense of competences and confidence. By the end of the semester he was on the honor roll and eventually graduated in the top ten of his class.
This story holds a valuable lesson for you, as it did for me. We too easily accept that we’re limited in some way. Then we ignore or reject any evidence that contradicts what we’ve already decided to believe.
Don’t be so quick to sell yourself short. Refuse to accept limitations on your potential. You can probably do far more than you’ve ever done before.
