The long and the short of it

The long and short of it goes something like this...

When one stops looking for the quick and the easy way and just deals with what's already on their plate, the quick and easy way soon finds them.

This is similar to the Law of Attraction which basically says that what you think about and do most often gives you similar results. There are many colloquial sayings relative to this, such as, 'what goes around, comes around' or 'what you put out, comes back.

It has been discovered scientifically that your mind responds to negative input many times more than it does to positive input and what you focus on expands in your mind.

If what you focus on expands. What do you do? It may seem obvious that if you only focus on 'positive' things you will have a happy life. This may be true to some extent. But our daily lives are anything, but continuously 'positive'. The trick is to surround yourself with positive people, stop listening to the media, use some method to produce how you want your life to be, for example, listen to subliminal repetitions of what you want, meditate, and become aware of your life.

Once you have proven to yourself that the statements above relating to your thoughts expanding into physical reality, you can use them to get what you want. Know that What You Focus On Expands. Keep that in your mind and use it to make your life work the way you want it to. Does it work immediately? No. It takes practice and time, but it will come together with the more you do it.