The Laws of Life

01. The Law of Cause and Effect
02. The Law of Belief
03. The Law of Expectations
04. The Law of Attraction
05. The Law of Correspondence

Why are some people and organizations more successful than others? Why do some people have wonderful careers, moving from position to position, onward and upward, earning far more money, being consistently paid more and promoted faster?

And why is it that others go from job to job, continually worrying about money and feeling that they are unappreciated for their hard work and their contributions? Why do so many people, as Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "live lives of quiet desperation"?

When I started my business career, I was so far behind, I thought I was first. I moved from job to job, seldom by choice, a bit bewildered by the swirl of events around me and the seemingly unreasonable and unpredictable behaviors of my bosses. I felt like a pawn, playing in a game, or being played in a game, in which I didn’t clearly understand the rules.

Then I began asking, Why are some people more successful than others?

I noticed that the people around me who were doing better than me did not seem to be smarter than me or of better character. Sometimes they had difficult personalities and questionable ethics. Often their ideas and opinions didn’t make much sense. But they were doing well nonetheless.

The Great Discovery

The first big breakthrough for me was my discovery of the Aristotelian Principle of Causality, what we today call the Law of Cause and Effect. At a time when most people believed in gods on

Mount Olympus who amused themselves by toying with human fate and destiny, Aristotle stated something completely different. It changed our view of the world forever.

Source: Brian Tracy, The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success, 2000.