faith in attraction

At what point do you have faith that the positivity you bring for your life will pull you to make a positive, healthy choice when give a really hard choice to make? Is there a point when the law of attraction applies and you give in to the pull of positivity, or negativity? I wonder, when do you let go and allow the world to fall into place, and when you have to take an active part in controlling your own destiny? Are those two even mutually exclusive ideas? ponder, ponder..