To believe wholeheartedly in Cosmic Ordering?

[Reality]

Or really just the power of positive thinking.

I'm very much an optimist and tend to think I've had a pretty charmed life. You could spin it another way, as I've had homelessness, a shit marriage, depression, debt, poverty blah blah blah. But all that notwithstanding, I think I'm an incredibly lucky person. My ups outweigh my downs, by far.

Anyway, about six years ago I did a proper Cosmic Ordering shizzle (marker pen on my hand and everything, a la Noel Edmonds), and got a windfall, a new car and a new house within six months (which was exactly what I'd 'asked' for).

I'm not woo enough to think it was all handed to me on a plate because I asked for it, but I do genuinely think that if you visualise what you want, write it down if you feel the need, and believe in it, you can make anything happen. I've done it again in the last few months, and things seem to be working out better than I could have imagined.

What do you think? Do you believe in the power of positivity, and that we make our own luck, or do think it's all a pile of toss? Do you find that being optimistic leads to taking more chances which in turn leads to greater opportunities, or do you think I should stop barking on about it when clearly it's just blind luck and/or coincidence?

And yes I have had celebratory so I might be on a bit of a positivity buzz.

AIBU?

So isn't it just like making a to do list and getting on with it?

I'm not sure how that's 'cosmic'?

Cosmic always makes me think of Rodney.

Malcolm that's your Santa Claus list!

No you're wholly missing point,overstating minimal activity,overlooking the factors that worked
You're cognitively chosing to overstate the woo bs,and diminish effect of the reduced calories
Your purposeful actions facilitated change,not comic bs.

Cos it is fucking COSMIC, man.

No coke. I'm running on good vibes. And Cava. It's all coolio.

Hahahaha at coolio

You is one cool mothafucka, reality.

I can't speak for anyone else but I really don't want to piss on the OP's chips! But it's simply no good peddling this nonsense especially in an arena where there are people who have suffered and continue to suffer the effects of truly horrible events and luck. It does - whether intended or not - serve to make people feel somehow responsible. I totally get that this is not what the OP intends or means - but that will happen because - well, it just will.

I think Barbara Ehrenreich has some great insights on this topic: (10min talk)

Haha at smile or die.

That's me fucked, then.

Are you drunk reality

Not yet, SM.

Are you?

I don't drink
I was kindly offering you a excuse of intoxicated as excuse for your rambling
You've got a motivational list,and can do attitude.keep that lose the woo bd

Ah see I'd already covered the slight vino buzz in my op.

I'll keep the woo, ta. It makes me chuckle. I don't really think my successes, or failures, are down to anything other than work and a dollop of happenstance. But it's pleasant to ponder the fact that I control the universe, now and again.

I'm with you OP. Everything I focus on just seems to happen one way or another. I don't focus on what I consider is totally unrealistic and its not without hard work or stress.... but they still happen :)

Do you really need it spelling out?you focus on the achievable.whats realistic
That's not cosmic,that's you chosing and working toward achievable goal
I think some of you are yanking chain,to get reaction

No not really scottishmum, I focused everything on moving here (lived and breathed it) with DS and against all the odds we did it. It should have been totally impossible with everything that was happening at the time but it happened. I honestly look back and I don't know how we did it.

It was a total shithole, but all I could see was this lovely house that it could be and its now beautiful, better than I could ever have thought tbh.

I really wanted to build a treehouse for DS but no money/time etc etc but nontheless I dreamed about it and visualised it and now (one way or another) its actually nearly finished.

In all seriousness, I think the power of positive thinking and being optimistic is rather powerful. I am normally a glass half full type, five things a go, and if things go wrong am philosophical. I know when I am depressed when I get anxious, cannot try new things, think everything is going to have a terrible consequence and when things go wrong it is a disaster. To feel negative about life is very limiting.

I am probably waffling bollocks now.

Anyway reality I remember posts of yours and you have suffered real hardship, the fact you have pulled yourself out of that is a testimony to your intelligence, hard work, effort - and probably an element of luck (or cosmic Rodney)

Thank you, lovely people.

I'll keep on Rodneying

I think there is something in the Cosmic Ordering, but I was interested to read that Noel Edmonds business partnership with someone had gone very wrong and they were fighting it out in court, which seemed a bit of a downer.
I did wonder if he had got what he had wished for, but maybe needed to do give something back to the Universe with his new wealth.

But maybe I'm being unfair. Many people support charitable causes quietly.

Cosmic Ordering = Putting a tin foil hat on and barking at the moon.

As a realist I generally think that most ?good fortune? usually has its roots in things a bit more mundane like forward planning, research and the application of hard graft, or, to put another way, getting your shit together. Rarely stuff ?just happens? because you are an optimist or a positive thinker, it happens because you get off your arse and do something about it.