The DANGER of Shortcuts with the Law of Attraction and How to TRUELY Manifest
In this video Aaron Doughty warns against using quick‑fix or shortcut methods to manifest desires with the Law of Attraction. He argues that true manifestation is a by‑product of personal growth—specifically the alignment of one’s thoughts, feelings, and actions. Using personal anecdotes, he illustrates how he transitioned from a 40‑hour retail job to a full‑time YouTuber by embodying the version of himself he wanted to become, not merely by wishing for success. He explains that personality, defined as the combination of thinking, feeling, and doing, creates one’s reality, and that staying in an “autopilot” pattern reproduces the same outcomes. To break this cycle, Doughty recommends taking calculated risks, expanding consciousness, and focusing on the state of being rather than chasing side‑effects like money or relationships. He introduces his upcoming “Shift Experience” seminar as an example of moving into a new, uncomfortable role to generate higher‑level results. Throughout, he emphasizes setting intentions, following passion, and letting go of limiting self‑images, while also promoting his Instagram Q&A sessions and email updates.
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This video, I'm going to be sharing with you the danger of law of attraction shortcuts, and I'm going to be showing you the key to true manifestation. Welcome back to another video. My name is Aaron and I help people expand their consciousness. Now in this video, I'm going to be sharing with you the danger of going about things the quick way, the quick fix ways, and showing you instead how to focus more on this larger picture, that will make your life so much easier. Now, this is something that I have experienced in my own life. This is something that I've noticed in many other people's life. I was actually also just making a video about this just yesterday on Instagram. It was a video that was on winning the lottery, why you don't really want to win the lottery. Everyone thinks, I want to win the lottery. However, here's the thing. No one is really that passionate about winning the lottery. People just want the money that comes along with the lottery. People aren't passionate about going down to a 7-Eleven, cashing in there, getting their stamps and waiting earnestly like, I hope I win it. That's not really what people are passionate about. Most people, I mean, there probably are exceptions of some people like, no man, I'm really passionate about that. However, if we're honest with ourselves, we'll see that there's a different degree of passion that we begin to tap into and that changes everything. Now here's the thing also with winning the lottery, how many people have you heard that have won the lottery and then lost it all. It's like 80 or 90%. And how can that happen? I mean, you win hundreds of millions of dollars sometimes, sometimes 10, 20, or more millions of dollars, but then you lose it all within 2 to 3 years or 2 to 5 years. How does that happen? Well, they don't know, you know, they don't know how to manage it. Uh, they don't pay their taxes on it because they haven't developed a mindset of the kind of person that is worth that of $10 million. They don't know how to manage it. And because they don't have that self-image, they sabotage themselves and bring themselves back down to whatever their self-image is when they started, which many times is like $50,000 a year, right around there of the middle class. So it's about being aware that the shortcuts aren't what you want. When you, when you look at that of you want to attract a relationship and without going through the inner work of feeling whole and complete, you may say, well, I just want the relationship. I just want the relationship. But if you were to get the relationship, first off, you would still have these undertones of feeling not worthy there. So you would attract someone into your life that also had those undertones of feeling not worthy. And then you guys become codependent where you guys rely on each other and you guys are constantly kind of lashing out at each other when things happen, but you end up staying in a relationship because you feel like you need each other. That isn't a fulfilling relationship, but you see, when we go about it with the shortcut type way, It's very fleeting and it's very dependent on a circumstance. So even then, how can I manifest $100,000? Okay, well, if that is the focus, there's nothing wrong with it, but the idea is if you're looking for a shortcut to making $100,000, you make it once and that's it. It's like, yes, maybe you're like, okay, now I could do it again, but you haven't become the kind of person that is easily able to generate that over and over and over again. So the key to this video, like the mantra of this video, is understanding that what we manifest in our life is a direct reflection of our own personal growth. It's of our own personal growth. And I'm going to be talking about a couple of different facets in here, a couple of different things that you can begin to focus on. So me, for example, I had this intuitive feeling before I went full-time on YouTube that in order for me to go full-time on YouTube, I had to treat YouTube like my full-time before it was my full time. So here I am working 40 hours a week at Nordstrom, at Barney's New York. You've probably heard this story before, you know, I'm just sharing it again, but I worked 40 hours a week at Barney's New York selling women's shoes. I was working there and then I was making daily videos on YouTube. Now I was making a video a week on YouTube at the time. I sat there and I just had this recollection. I had this awareness that if I was to create daily videos, that would be the version of me that was already doing and living YouTube full-time. I imagined myself in a year, what is Aaron, the full-time YouTuber doing? I was like making daily videos. That's just what came to me. So I said, okay, I'm going to make daily videos. So I was making daily videos while working 40 hours a week at a job that I wasn't that passionate about. And over the course of a couple months, things started to pick up and eventually I went from growing by 3,000 subscribers a month to then growing by 20,000 subscribers a month. And since then it's been a steady about 20,000 subscribers a month. So that has come from me buying into that version of me, but even more so important than just the actions I took, it was the person I became. Because when I look at myself and I feel who I am now, I'm somebody that knows that if I put my mind on something, I'm going to do it. Before that, I was more of a lazy person that was kind of like, I just hope things come to me. You know, I, I was like, I don't really want to do anything. Um, I thought someone was going to put me on. I remember thinking it's like, I'm going to meet like one of those big And I actually met one, I met Jack Canfield at my work and I helped him. And I remember thinking like, I'm going to meet someone like that and they're just going to be like, oh, I see all this potential in you. And they're just going to like hand me like on a silver platter, some type of like platform. That's honestly what I thought. And what I realized is like, no, I have to take this into my own. I have to become the kind of person that is that valuable, the kind of person that adds value to other people to where that is my reality. So that's when I started doing the daily videos and that's when everything began to change. So remember that. When it comes to this whole process, you don't always get a reflection in life of that which you want, but you always get a reflection of who you are being, who you are being. Now, who you are being is about understanding the 3 things that make up your personality. This is something I heard from Dr. Joe Dispenza. So it is very powerful. The idea is your personality creates your personal reality. Your personality is a combination of what you think, how you feel, and what you do. These 3 things make up your personality. And when you start to wire in this more authentic version of you, you will start being the kind of person that you were desiring to be like, which is who you really are. Because a lot of times we have these filters around ourselves. I had filters around myself before I started my YouTube channels, like, oh, if I share these kinds of ideas, people are going to judge me. All these, those weren't really who I am. So me branching outside of that was about me just being aware that I am more than that little self-image that I had myself in. So for this process, understand that in life when it comes to your manifestation, you will get rewarded in proportion to how much personal growth that you make. So how much are you focused on your personal growth? Now, personal growth could be your willpower. It could be your discipline for yourself. Like, I trust that if I start eating healthier, I'm going to have more energy. It could be you focused on something and using that. Now, some people would say that's like the old way of going about it with the law of attraction. Focusing and having goals, but if you're not having great results yet, that's where I recommend starting. I recommend starting with understanding that we do live in a physical reality and in physical reality, taking action is a powerful way to build momentum. Now, as you raise your consciousness and as you start to gain momentum, you don't need to take as much action. The action changes, you know, now I have enough momentum with my YouTube channel and my social media and everything that I'm doing that I don't have to grind it out as much as I am. However, I enjoy it and I love what I do, so I continue to do it. But in the same way, what you can become aware of is how much are you growing in your personal life, because what you create in your life experience is in a direct proportion to how much personal growth you are experiencing. Who you become is going to be equal to the reality you experience, or not even who you become, but just who you naturally are. Let go of the filters. Let go of the things that don't. That don't serve you anymore. So be aware of that. Now here's the thing, from the current level that you're experiencing a reality that is equal to how you think, how you act, and how you feel. Your reality right now is equal to that, and it may be very, very comfortable. You may really think, oh, this is, this feels good, this feels comfortable, it feels familiar. But if you want to experience more, what must happen is you must be, go, go beyond what you currently think, go beyond how you currently feel, and go beyond the actions you're currently taking. So to do that, you have to really take more risks. Take more risks. This isn't something that has to be scary. This is just a part of the way it works. Taking more risks. The reason something seems risky to you is because it's unknown. You don't know exactly what's going to happen if you do it. So what I recommend that you do is start to see where you could be taking more risks and doing things you haven't done before. When you get into the unknown, that's where miracles and amazing things can begin to happen. You see, you create anything amazing out of the autopilot mind. The autopilot mind is how you've priorly been thinking, feeling, and acting. You're going to continue to create the same reality over and over and over again because you have the same personality and therefore you create the same personal reality over and over and over again. Our thoughts are mainly in auto loop. We're just thinking the same things over and over again many times. And here's the cool thing as well. Even if you keep experiencing the same things over and over again, You're actually experiencing something new over and over again. It's just that you're creating the illusion that it is the same. It is like the idea of understanding parallel realities. We're constantly shifting from parallel reality to parallel reality, and if we keep experiencing the same one over and over again, it's because we are having that autopilot mind just play itself out over and over again, but it's actually a completely different parallel reality, but we keep ourselves locked into the familiarity. So the key is to break out of what is familiar and understanding that it's more about the person you become because you can never take that away. If you were to interview and ask the most wealthy people in the world about their wealth and you were to threaten them and say, I could take it all away, and you did take it all away, you know what they would do? They would just recreate it. That's all they would do. They go, okay, well, they have these connections. They know how to network with people, all the skills that they've learned. All the ways of maybe the different, the different things that they've learned about the process of their business or whatever it is, they would apply those same things to a new business and they would very shortly be back on top because the person they have become is somebody that is able to generate that kind of abundance. However, when people are looking for the quick fixes, the little shortcuts, it's not incorporating in who they are becoming. And because of that, it is not in proportion to their personal growth. We get in life in relation. We get in life what is equal to the personal growth that we are experiencing. So me, for example, let me show you what that looks like in my life. Before it was, I worked a job I didn't really care about and I had to start doing something that I wasn't getting payback for right away. I wasn't getting much money from YouTube at all. I didn't turn on my ads for my YouTube channel for like 8, 6 to 8 months. I almost had 100,000 followers before I even turned them on because I wanted to grow. I wanted to. Really put everything I had into it. So the key is for me was being aware of that and then deciding to do that. Now I'm at a place to where I still make daily videos on YouTube. I'll keep doing that. My next step though is doing something that is a little bit uncomfortable. It's something I know I'm going to be passionate about. That is speaking in front of people, doing large events and doing seminars and workshops. I know I'm going to be passionate about it. The other side of that is knowing it is going to be a little bit unfamiliar. If I give a talk and it's like, you know, it's, there's pressure. You're in front of different, you're in front of a lot of people, you're pressured to perform or be a certain way. You want people to get a certain type of result. So it's going to be a little bit unfamiliar, but in order for me to get to the next level in my life, I have to push myself to get to that level. And then the reality I experience will be equal to that growth that I've made by facing a fear or something that's a little bit scary or uncertain what could happen. At a live event. So it's about being aware of that. And for me, that's my next step. My next step is, okay, I'm putting together right now something called the Shift Experience, which is that of a seminar that shows people how to shift to the reality they want plus shift their level of consciousness. It's going to be an event plus a, a whole digital course that you can get as well. And it's going to be something that becomes live in January of this year, of this coming year. When I get into that, it's going to be something I'm very passionate about and it's gonna be something that I enjoy, but it's going to be the next level because I'm going to be moving from that of where I currently am with my current who I am being that is equal to the reality of experience to a new level, a live person, an event. It's a different role and that's something that I'm excited for. Now if you want to also just a little side note here, the shift experience, if you want to sign up and get updates as to when that becomes live, and info on that, you'll see in the top of the description box below, you'll see that of a link and you could sign up there and I'll send you updates. I also send daily emails out as well, or every other day at least, of just content like I'm sharing with you right now, but in written form. So if that resonates with you, you'll see that there as well. So with this whole process, shortcuts many times are also on the side effects. So you loving yourself 100%, a relationship is a side effect. Of that manifesting one, because as you love yourself so much, that emanates out and other people feel that love off of you. When it comes to money, for example, when you're in an abundant state, when you're doing what you're passionate about, money is a natural side effect of that. So it's about being aware of that. And when you're aware of it, that's when everything begins to change because then you don't have to keep beating the old drum, the things that don't work anymore. When you're going for the side effect, which is like money, you're going for the wrong things. You see, the ego might want it. The ego say, I want the money, I want the relationship. But at a greater consciousness level, when you go straight to the emotion, then the things come. A lot of people say, I will be happy when X, Y, or Z manifests, but in actuality, when you are happy, then X, Y, or Z will manifest. So instead, make it more so about your state of being, the person you will become. For me, and the best way that you can go about this is doing what you're passionate about. If you do what you're passionate about, this process becomes so much easier. Find out what you're passionate about. Set the intention. If you don't know what that is, it's totally fine. Set the intention and then be aware of what comes into your life, the kind of people, the kind of conversations you overhear, the books that fall out or pop out at you. Be aware of all of that. Set the intention, start to see the pattern of what that is, and then start to follow it. And then as you do, you will— it'll lead you to the next best thing, the next best thing, the next best thing, and then you'll start to refine it. Set that intention. Follow your passion. I don't focus on how much money can I make this year. I have certain goals in my mind, but it's mainly about how much value can I add to other people? How much can I do what I'm passionate about? What kind of freedom lifestyle do I want to live? And as I focus on that, everything else comes anyways, but the shortcuts are not really satisfying and the shortcuts make us dependent. We are then dependent on what is happening. If you find that you are not experiencing what you want in your life, You may just need to take more risks because right now what you experience in your life is equal to how you think, how you act, and how you feel. You will continue to create the same experience over and over and over again because of the autopilot mind, but when you start to go beyond these 3 things, how you think, act, and feel, then you get to a totally new level. So what you experience in your life is in direct proportion to your own self-growth. So focus on the person you will become, and as you do that, as you up the ante, as you let go of the layers that no longer serve, you will experience more of what you want in your life. So that is really the key. Now, something else that I'm going to be doing on Instagram is more live Q&As. I've been bringing people on the live Q&As. I've been doing almost every day. I've been doing them. If you want to be a part of them, you'll see a link right here. You can, uh, or not a link, but you know, you can follow me on Instagram right here. I also post twice a day. I post native content there as well, so I'd be excited to see you in there. Other than that, I hope you enjoyed this video. Feel free to like this video if you liked it. Subscribe if you haven't already. Hit the little notification gear next to the subscribe button so that you can see the daily vids that I do. And other than that, as always, peace, much love, and namaste.
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