| The Law of Attraction has been described in | | | | are using a map. Because regularly feeling |
| many ways. "Thoughts become things" is one of | | | | gratitude for something as mundane as a map will |
| the simplest descriptions I have ever seen. Some | | | | activate the Law of Attraction in your life as a |
| people have trouble understanding this, but these | | | | runner, consider the following statements of |
| same people do understand the concept in other | | | | gratitude for maps. |
| ways. For example, race-car drivers know that | | | | - I am truly grateful to everyone involved in |
| they should look where they want their cars to | | | | collecting and updating map data. |
| go, not at the wall that they want to avoid, for | | | | - I appreciate those who have the combination of |
| looking at the wall will tend to steer them toward | | | | scientific and artistic skills to design maps. |
| the wall. Similarly, good tennis players know that | | | | - I am thankful to every map user who reports |
| they must constantly focus on where they want | | | | to a map-making company the problems with |
| to place the ball, for looking elsewhere will tend to | | | | maps, such as a street closure, a new name for |
| cause the ball to go elsewhere. | | | | a section of a street, or a change in a street |
| Feeling gratitude for what you have works in a | | | | from two-way traffic to one-way traffic. |
| similar way, in that it tends to attract more for | | | | - I am grateful for the way that maps depict |
| which you will feel gratitude. And maps are one of | | | | major and minor streets differently. |
| the key parts of a runner's life. Some may say, "I | | | | - I am glad that the maker of my online mapping |
| do not use maps," thinking that I am talking only | | | | system gets frequent updates to its map data |
| about physical maps and not considering online | | | | from the map-making company with which it has |
| mapping systems. Others may say, "I use my | | | | a contract. |
| GPS system, not a map." But both online mapping | | | | Do you like these statements? If you prefer |
| systems and GPS systems rely on maps. Without | | | | other statements, then make your own list that |
| accurate maps that underlie these systems, they | | | | matches your personality. Either way, read the list |
| are worthless. | | | | daily or weekly, focusing on the positive emotions |
| So, no matter whether you use a physical map, | | | | that come to mind as you read each statement. |
| an online mapping system, or a GPS system, you | | | | |