In this video Aaron Doughty challenges the traditional "white‑hot burning desire" teaching from classic law‑of‑attraction texts like Think and Grow Rich. He argues that obsessively wanting something creates a vibration of lack, which the universe mirrors back, keeping the desired outcome out of reach. Instead, he proposes a shift from outcome‑focused desire to a process‑focused, present‑moment approach that emphasizes who you become, humility, service, and authentic expression. Aaron illustrates the concept with personal stories—from selling women’s shoes in a commission job to building a successful YouTube channel—showing how letting go of rigid outcomes, focusing on giving value, and embodying the desired identity led to natural abundance. He explains the role of intention, action, and "tension" in rewiring reality, and stresses the importance of being present, reducing the importance placed on results, and allowing the divine flow. The video concludes with a promotion of his new meditation app, Daily Vortex, which offers meditations aimed at decreasing importance, connecting heart fields, and leveraging group consciousness for personal and planetary transformation.
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No matter how many times you read the book Think and Grow Rich, it may tell you you got to have a white-hot burning desire. If you really, really want it, then you're gonna get it. A white-hot burning desire mixed with faith and all of these things. I'll tell you right now that everything I've learned about the law of attraction, creating my dream reality, the more I've wanted anything is the more I pushed it away. Because energetically, it anything we want, we are getting a reflection of. Think about it. Think about the universe in a way giving you what you're asking for. You tell the universe, you put out the energy, I want money, I want love. The universe then looks at you and then says, oh, Aaron wants more money. Aaron wants more love. Let's give him the experience of wanting more money and the experience of wanting more love. That's how it works. So when we talk about in the old school book, Think and Grow Rich, which means, well, I love this book, but there's parts in it that no no longer are actually the energy dynamics of what works. Now here's the thing. Desire, a white-hot burning desire, can sometimes get people to take action. And when they take action, what eventually happens is it changes their self-image. It changes what's natural for them, and it becomes more and more natural for them to experience it. But a white-hot burning desire is emphasizing lack. Anything you want, you'll lack. And in this video, I'm going to show you how to turn this around, why desire is not the way, what the alternative is, and this is exactly how I've created my dream life, how I went from working a 9 to 5 job selling women's shoes to living the life of my dreams, traveling the world, doing what I love, and I'm going to share with you the steps along the process of how I realized this right now. 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 that of the white-hot burning desire BS. BS means belief system. If you believe that you gotta really, really want it in order to get it, then you're really, really gonna be putting out a really, really powerful vibration of lack. That's what's gonna happen. You're gonna feel lack. And when you feel lack, you feel like you're not enough. Imagine you go out and you feel like, oh, I feel a lack of love in my life. I really would like to attract someone into my life to reflect back to me Wholeness, 'cause I don't feel whole. That's the subconscious thing. Well, then you go out and you're feeling lack and other people feel that lack off of you and it's not attractive. And even then you're telling the universe that you lack love, so the universe isn't gonna give you experiences of being love, of being in that vibration. So the same thing with money. I used to work a sales commission job selling women's shoes. The more I wanted to sell $3,000, $4,000 in a day, 'cause I got paid like, you know, a certain percentage of commission on that, The more I wanted it, the more I resisted it, and the more I put it on a pedestal and it was important too, is the more that it would then, I would then literally repel it. But when I would let go of the outcome, you see, when we want things, it's all outcome dependent. Once I have that, then I'll feel this way. It is not process-focused with being present to the moment. If you are in the moment, it's a different energy that you bring to the table. When I would go to my sales commission job and I would focus on connecting with other people, much more magnetic energy. When I would focus not on myself, here's the thing with desire, most people's desire and with the law of attraction in general, it's what can I get? It's all ego-focused. What can I get so that I feel better? And when I went into that 9-to-5 job and I started focusing on how can I give to people, and give to people in the sense of how can I help them find out what they want? How can I help? Without putting out that good energy, people could feel that contagious energy of me wanting to actually help them. And that was contagious. And that would then have the abundance come back to me anyways. The attention wasn't so much on the what am I gonna get, but is what am I gonna give? And when you're focused on doing what you're actually passionate about, a lot of times it will involve something that you're giving. There's almost a benefit of just people being around you. Now, the reason also, the thing that has changed my life more than anything else is realizing and recognizing that it's not so much about the outcome, it's more about who I become in the process. For me to create my dream life of this Aaron right here that has these plaques behind me that make me feel so significant and whole and complete. And by the way, I wanted that. I imagined that for a very long time. Then I got it, the million-dollar plaque or the million-dollar, the million subscriber plaque. Why did I want it so bad? Part of me wanted it so bad because I thought I'd feel more worthy, whole, and significant. It was my search for wholeness to heal the mother wound from when I was a kid not feeling like I got enough attention because when my brother was born when I was 3 years old, what happened is the attention shifted and I felt unworthy, alone, insignificant. Let me create the significance in my own life. Let me control it somehow. I really, really wanted, I'll tell you, anytime I made a video I really, really wanted to go viral, it never went viral. It's always the videos you don't expect and it's always the videos that are connected to your heart and it's always the videos that add value to other people. That's just how it works. So anything you really, really want, if you stay in the wanting of it, you continue to lack it. The more I've let go of outcome is the more I would notice an influx of results. The more I let go. But when I became and I created this life on YouTube of me doing what I love, I had to focus on who I became in the process. I went from a guy that was literally sitting on the couch trying to think of thoughts that would get me to where I want, and I spent a year doing that, to then I started being the ideal version of me. I started making daily videos on YouTube. That changed my self-identity. I literally started to see myself as a, a harder worker or somebody that was natural for me to make videos. And then it became easy. People would ask me all the time, Aaron, how do you make videos every single day on YouTube? Well, it's easy because it's natural. I see it as natural. So anything you want, you put on a pedestal. You really, really want this love connection, this date to go well? Well, you really, really want it, which means you really, really lack it or you're putting fear into the equation. Instead, let it be natural for you to express yourself. Focus more on expression instead of impression. Expression's more on the present moment. Impression's more on the result that you get, which you can't really control. Like, you wanna control people's perception of you? That a lot of times is rooted in not having a high sense or a sense of inner validation, inner worthiness. So for this process and for what I'm explaining right now, realize the more you put anything on a pedestal, the more important you make anything, you separate yourself from it. The key to this is bringing it more down to earth. And also this is just in the law of attraction in general. I don't really talk about manifestation on my channel anymore. Have you guys noticed that? I think that there's this big miscommunication about it where it's all about thoughts. And there's a grounded part of myself that really wants and like believes that it really requires, not always requires it, but it's enhanced with physical action. And not just the physical action, but if you are being the version of you that has that which you quote unquote want, it is natural for you to think, act, and feel equal to that reality. Act is part of it, not just thinking. And the thing is, is when we start focusing on this more as like a holistic system, it changes everything. You start focused on who you are being how you are showing up. But this new thing for me has been learning humility. Humility is bringing things back down to earth and not knowing, not knowing. Think about it. I want this, I want that, I will control it. Instead of allowing the divine to flow through us, we are all divine spiritual beings temporarily dreaming. We are these separate little ego avatars and we say, I need self-esteem, I need to feel The self, the self is an illusion. You are an eternal spiritual being having a temporary human experience and you can allow the divine to flow through and it mainly flows through when you're also focused on adding value to others and you are present to the moment and you're bringing the awareness into your body. So for me to create my dream life, I was doing some of these things even unconsciously, but I was wanting to add value to people. Part of it is 'cause if I added value to people, then I would feel worthy. So it was somewhat rooted in that shadow. But one of the most important things to understand about this is that once you are being that version of you, because it's who you choose to be, because it's an end of itself, you're not trying to, it's not a means to an end. Once that is the case, it is natural for you. And when it is natural for you, you're okay if it happens and you're okay if it doesn't happen. And you have a certain level humility. Be okay with not knowing. I've been meditating on this recently, just not knowing. I don't know what's gonna happen. I have certain things in my life that are reflecting back that normally I try to control. I'm like, you know what? They talk about, I've heard like Sadhguru and a couple other people talk about enlightenment. And they say the difference is, is people walk around with the history of the past of like all this baggage and they infuse that into the present moment right now. When Sadhguru or someone else that supposedly enlightened does that, They say it's the first, it's almost they feel as if it's the first time they've ever done it. They're not bringing the memory into the present moment. So be okay with not knowing. Be okay with not knowing and allow the universe to show you, to give you something even more amazing because then you're more present. The divine flows through like a river. It's like we're flowing down this river, but then we're trying to control everything. So the key to this whole entire video is realizing you make it natural when you focus on who you are being and being authentic to who you choose to be. Doesn't mean, by the way, that you never go into tension ever. Being authentic is the path of least resistance. It's just thinking a better thought. When I do what I do now on YouTube, I had to learn marketing. I had to learn how to do thumbnails. I had to learn graphic design. I had to learn how to edit videos. They didn't feel all really high vibrational, but I noticed that the version of me that was being that ideal version of me knew those things, or at least learned them and then outsourced them once I had the abundance. And that's what I've done. So for this whole process, realize that there may be tension for a little bit. It's intention. Intention has the word tension in it because one reality, there's not much tension at all. It's the autopilot mind. How I think, act, and feel is on autopilot. This reality over here has something you want and you really, really want it and you really, really want it, which really, really emphasizes lack. And if you were to take the action, intention and action are the same thing, in tension, then you start to wire in this new reality over here where it is natural for you to have love, abundance, and success. But it's making the choice. It's making the choice to wire this in and to be present and to do it because it's who you prefer to be. Not put things on a pedestal. White-hot burning desire is rooted in lack. It is rooted in a sense of incompleteness and not feeling whole and complete in this present moment right now. And a lot of times if you just let go of the desire, Oh, if I let go of desire, then I'm not gonna get what I want. You can still have intention, but you can also allow the universe to help show you what that is, to help show you different new reflections in your life. So this really is the key to this whole entire process. And something new that I have, by the way, is I have meditations that help with this, decreasing the level of importance you give things, allowing the universe to flow through you. I have a brand new app that is called the Daily Vortex. You go to thedailyvortex.com. It is an app that you can download meditations, premium meditations, live meditations, activations we do for decreasing importance and connecting our heart fields together to manifest and using group consciousness. And it is now open. So if you want to check it out, click the link below. Join the Daily Vortex. I'm super excited to announce this and you will see it there. There's meditations there and community that comes with it. There's so many cool things about it. So it's Unity Global Mass Meditations for changing our level of consciousness and changing the planet. You click the link below to check it out. Other than that, I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Hit the like button if you liked this video. Subscribe if you haven't already. I got more energy dynamic videos coming like this out. And that, as always, peace, much love, and namaste.
