The Law of Attraction is a straightforward lesson: you attract into your life what you focus on. Why is it then that there are so many books, movies, and teachers that provide people with the lessons of the law of attraction, yet so few are able to really create the life they desire?

Although the lesson that the law of attraction offers may itself be a simple one, the application of that lesson may not be so easy for the quick-fix, instant-gratification world that we live in. And it is in the application of the lesson that we make the shift from learning about the law of attraction to living the law of attraction.

How can we make that shift to stop learning and start living? In three little words: Play Full Out.

Playing Full Out means to step into action, to take on the role that you want to play in the game of life and really make it yours. It means choosing what you want to create and allowing yourself to be the person that attracts it in. Here are some steps you can take to step into your game of life, play more fully, and start living in attraction. The first three are about getting in touch with what you want and who you are. The rest are ways that you can start playing full out.

1. Choose what it is that you want to create. You can’t create something if you don’t know what you want. Don’t know what you want? Take a look at what you don’t want and think about what would make it better.
2. Get clear about and connected to what you chose in step one. Think about all the details involved, what does it look, sound, feel, taste, and smell like? Really think about it and get emotionally connected to how you will feel when you manifest it.
3. Imagine what you’ll be like when you manifest your desire. What kind of person are you now that you’ve manifested your desire? What did you do that helped you to attract your desired outcome? What did you let go of? What did you allow in? What are the characteristics, strengths, values, and talents that you now have?
4. Choose to take on one or more of the characteristics that you uncovered in step three and start being/embodying it now. For example, after manifesting your desire, is fearlessness one of your new characteristics? Then, if you are faced with something that you don’t want to do, ask yourself what you’re afraid of. Then ask yourself if you were fearless, how you would approach the situation – and then do it! (Of course, use caution and don’t do anything that jeopardizes your safety.) As you get comfortable with that characteristic, add another one in, and then another, and so on.
5. Take inspired actions. Listen to your heart, intuition, gut, inkling, promptings, or whatever else you want to call it, and take the actions that are associated…you know the ones….the actions that you just get the feeling to do.
6. Surround yourself with like-minded people. Being around others who are also creating things and playing a bigger game in life will help to keep you positively focused and motivated.
7. Act as if. Don’t wait for “if and when” to occur – do it now on the scale that you can and, most importantly, get yourself into the atmosphere. Go on a luxury home tour and feel what it is like to be in a mansion. Test drive your dream car, or go talk to a salesperson about it. Start being a philanthropist now and donate what you can to something/someone that inspires you.
8. Be radically responsible for living by your values. Identify what your values are and choose to do things based on them, and only based on them. Take a stand for who you are and choose to do things that are a reflection of that.
9. Do something brave every day. Take actions daily that are brave for you. For a shy person it could be brave to strike up a conversation in a coffee shop. Likewise, for someone who talks all the time, spending time in silence can be a scary prospect. Or maybe being brave to you is having the courage to speak your mind. Do something that takes courage for you to do. You’ll grow in ways you never imagined and have a fuller life as a result.
10. Have as much fun as you can. Life should be fun, and the more fun you’re having, or the more you experience joy, the higher a vibration you stay in. The higher the vibration you are in, the lower the resistance you have and the easier it is to allow your desires to come to you.

Dr. Wayne Dyer says “We do not attract that which we desire, we attract that which we are.” What/who do you choose to be and what can you do to really step into that role and play full out?

Lena Salonikas is a Success Coach who works with driven and authentic leaders and entrepreneurs using the law of attraction to create results that impact the world. She is the co-founder of Living in Attraction and leads a monthly discussion group at Life Force Arts Center that creates space for people to explore the law of attraction and invites them to go beyond just talking about and understanding the principles to really applying them and playing full out in their lives. To learn more about Living in Attraction or to sign up for her weekly law of attraction newsletter, visit www.livinginattraction.com.