When working with the Law of Attraction, sometimes it seems like the things we don’t really care about attracting appear almost immediately. We simply think about them once, forget about them, and then suddenly we have them. But when it comes to the thing we really want to attract, it appears to take forever. We simply sit and watch the days go by, no closer to our desire than when we first began.

We make list after list of what we want, getting as clear as possible. We visualize. We think positively. We do everything we think we are supposed to do, and then when that doesn’t work, we start looking for something else to do. Because there must be something missing, right? We must be doing something wrong. All the time we are thinking, “It has worked for everyone else, so why isn’t it working for me?”

So is it possible to ever know how long it will take for the Law of Attraction to work?

Well, yes, in a sense. You see, it all depends on us. Whether something appears instantly or takes years to come into our lives, depends on how attached we are to the outcome.

The things that appear quickly in our lives do so because we do not care about the outcome. It is not because they are easier to manifest. It is because if we never get them, it is okay. Sometimes it might be a shirt or a favorite food that will appear quickly. All we did was think about how nice it would be to have it and then went on about our lives as if it was not a big deal, as if everything was already okay exactly as it was. And then before we knew it, what we wanted was there…everywhere, in fact. People were talking about it, sales ads for it appeared all over the place, we received dozens of e-mails related to it, and then, suddenly, we actually had it. The whole process was effortless. It was as if the entire world conspired to give us the very thing we wanted, and it even gave us little clues along the way — the overheard conversations, the e-mails — to let us know it was on its way.

But the new job, the relationship, the things we really want and care about, they still haven’t appeared. We have done everything the gurus say we should do. We have asked. We have visualized. We have imagined it as being so real, we could taste it. But we are still looking around and not seeing what we want. It is taking forever for the Law of Attraction to work. Why?

Well, there are four important things to remember here. The first relates to what we are noticing in the world around us. Because our thoughts create our reality, when all we do is notice how we don’t have what we want or that it is taking a long time for what we want to appear, then all we are doing is creating more moments in our lives where we don’t have what we want. We keep thinking we don’t have the new house or new job, and so we don’t have them. The more we notice we don’t have something, the longer we will go without it. The longer we think it is taking for something to appear, the longer it will take to appear. If we think it has been four days since we asked for what we want and we still don’t have what we want, we just created four more days of not having what we want.

The second thing to remember is that every time we think that the Law of Attraction is not working and start to look for ways to make it work, any time we tell others that we need help manifesting something we can’t do it, any time we think that there is a step we must be missing, what we are actually doing is telling the Universe that we do not trust it to bring us what we want. We are trying to control the situation. We are trying to determine how something will manifest. That is not our job. That is the Universe’s job. All we are supposed to do is ask and then allow our desires to appear in our lives. That is it.

The third thing to remember is that what we want to attract really is not taking forever to appear in our lives. Sometimes there are factors involved in creating our desires that we are not aware of when we ask for them. These factors can prevent us from instantly receiving what we want. For example, if we desire a new car, we want more than a certain make and model. We also want it to run well, to be affordable, to have a great time purchasing it, and so forth. These elements also have to be created. And no matter how badly we want our car right now, however long it takes for everything to come together is exactly the right amount of time needed for us to attract our desire.

The fourth and final thing to remember is that whenever we feel nervous, anxious, impatient, or scared, we are pushing away the very thing we want. That is why it is so important to detach from the outcome. Detachment is about not caring whether we will get what we want. It is about being okay with things being exactly as they are now. When we are okay with never getting what we want, all resistance will be gone.

Most importantly, detachment is not about giving up. It is not about resigning ourselves to never having what we want. It is about accepting what is. It is about allowing ourselves to have what we want, allowing ourselves to experience the feeling of hope that we will get what we want, but still enjoying the process that takes us from where we are now to where we want to be. It is in this process that true enjoyment of our desires can be found. When we simultaneously enjoy what we have now and what we want to manifest as if we already have it, the sooner our desires will manifest. So, ultimately, we decide how long it will take for the Law of Attraction to work and however long it takes is exactly the right amount of time for us.

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