The Law of Polarity In Business

Is it possible to accelerate your success? Why do some people find it easy and others struggle?

It’s all to do with the Law of Polarity, which states that everything in the universe has an opposite and it’s equal in opposites. In other words, when you come across someone who has a desire or a need for any amount of money and they don’t have it, what they can’t see is that the money is right there for them already in their lives. They’re just not seeing it.

As far as the Law of Polarity is concerned, there is a pressing need for money and the opposite of this is that the money is already there – it’s just invisible to the person right now. The toughest part when somebody doesn’t have any money in their life and there is this huge pressing need to have money for whatever it is they need it for, then it’s difficult to get this understanding across to them. Because for the Law of Polarity to do it’s work, there is a need to keep an open mind that the money is already there and understand that it is only their belief system that is telling them they don’t have any money.

The first part of understanding the Law of Polarity is to understand that what they’re seeing in their life has everything to do with their belief system. They see what they believe and they don’t see what they don’t believe. So the idea is about starting to change their belief system so they can see the money.

Napolean Hill in ‘Think and Grow Rich’ calls this the sly disguises of opportunity. He says ‘when the opportunity came, it appeared in a different form and from a different direction’ than he’d expected. It’s one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of creeping in the back door and is often disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat. He goes on to say that, ‘perhaps this is why so many people fail to recognize opportunity – the opportunity for them to extend products and services and then, receive money for them.

So many people working in their own businesses do not see the opportunity until they have changed their belief system and that is the big challenge. Because when there is a need to change the belief system, it’s often where people get frozen or they don’t want to take the next action step. In other words to become of themselves they have to want to step up to the opportunity in order to grasp it.

Napolean Hill describes it in this way by saying ‘sometimes it comes in misfortune or temporary defeat because the fact that they have to make changes that are uncomfortable for them, it appears unfortunate’. They’ve got to do things that they’re already programmed to be uncomfortable with. Most of the people around the world are programmed with the idea of working for a living. In other words ‘go and get a job of some kind’. They are employed by someone else. The rules and values and beliefs that actually help a person thrive in employment to another individual are totally contrary to the rules, values and beliefs that an entrepreneur has in order to extend great service and make money.

So part of the process for an entrepreneur is to identify what their beliefs, rules and values are which are working like an operations manual in their lives that are preventing them from getting the things they want and then seeing it and recognizing it and having it flow into their lives really effortlessly. Now when I say effortlessly, this does not mean without having to do some work!

We all have 24 hours every day and we all do something within those 24 hours. So you do have to be very critical about what you do during those 24 hours. But when the belief system changes, the money and the results start to flow into the person’s life, very effortlessly.

In other words, they will still do work but the work that they do is likely to have changed to work that they love. They may have found their life’s purpose. Sometimes individuals’ change may be in the passion they feel for what they do. Or it might be in their relationships or in their jobs. Whatever it is, the results they are getting will be very different to those they had with their previously limiting beliefs.

So start by looking beyond the ‘I haven’t got the money to do this’ and focus on making the invisible visible.

If you’ve struggled this year – and yes, it has been a difficult one for all small businesses, maybe you’ve had to make some changes. And some of those changes may have been ones that pushed you to the edge of your comfort zone – the boundary which we feel secure with and when outside of this we begin to feel as though we’re out of control.

Yet it’s something that every adolescent or small business needs to go through to grow. This needs to happen when it reaches a point where there is a need to push beyond the boundaries originally set by the owner.

Your business is limited by how much you can do yourself. Or if you’re managing people it’s limited by how ever many people you can safely manage yourself. The entrepreneur or small business owner’s boundary is limited by the number of others that might be engaged in pursuit of their vision.

Whatever you decide to do you are limiting your business growth if you are the only person who has the ability to control it, touch it, feel it and oversee the work that needs to be done.

Often out of desperation you search for a solution. But when you do this you have a tendency to search for what you already know rather than what you don’t. Therefore you may live in hope that the person you met at the last networking event or someone you recently exchanged business cards with will be the answer to all your prayers.

And often it’s a false hope. It’s not that the person you thought you could do business with hasn’t fulfilled their obligation. Its rather that they are too busy building their own business to manage your business too. Because that’s what’s actually needed – managment of your business.

And the way to grow your business is to look for managers who will take control of some of the aspects that are limiting your growth. Yes, it will challenge you. Yes, it does mean you have to hand over some of the control. Yes, it does mean you’ll have to pay more that you’d probably envisaged. And yes, you will be very uncomfortable for a while.

But it will all come back to you in much greater ways that you ever envisaged. That’s pushing you beyond your comfort zone to a level you’ve never been to before.