I got an idea this morning that came in the form of a question that popped into my head. “What’s it like being a millionaire?” Many personal development teachers, including Abraham-Hicks, talk about the value of acting as-if and of focusing on your life as you want to live it more than you do on how it is now. So when this question popped into my head, I decided to spend a little time writing in my journal and answering the question. Some very important ideas came out of this little exercise, which took me all of 10 minutes, and I’d like to share them with you.

The thing that struck me as I wrote was that the overall flavor of my life as a millionaire was not that different than it is now.  I just had nicer stuff and more time to enjoy it. But I still woke up. I still spent some time writing in my journal and visualizing. I still made coffee and had breakfast. I wasn’t spending my time trying to figure out how to spend my money, which is what I might have done when having more money was all I could think about.  The feeling was something like the realization Dorothy has at the end of The Wizard of Oz, that everything she really wanted was right in her own backyard. My lifestyle as a millionaire doesn’t start when I have the million dollars. It starts with habits I’m forming now. It starts with how I’m thinking and feeling and acting now.

So what I decided to do was to go through what I imagined in my “ideal scene” and write out some practices I could implement right away that will serve me in achieving my goals. One of them is the idea of lying in bed for a few minutes and being grateful. I have been doing this for just a few moments a day, but I decided to make this a real discipline because, for one thing, the time when we are just waking up is one of the most creative times for us. So if I spend some time giving thanks and thinking about my day, visualizing it as I would like it to be, this particular time is one of the best times to do it because my conscious mind is not in the driver’s seat yet.

Another idea was to create as beautiful and pleasing an environment at home as I possibly can. I don’t have to be a millionaire to do this. I just have to apply myself. Let go of clutter. Focus on the things in my home that are especially pleasing and meaningful to me and let go of the things that aren’t so pleasing. Catherine Ponder talks about this in her book The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity. In doing this, I am giving my subconscious mind more room to work and more inspiration to nourish it. I know that these two ideas alone will make me feel better and allow me to be more attractive in allowing the Universal Forces to come to my aid in accomplishing my goals.

But the biggest aha I had from answering the “What’s it like being a millionaire” question is that I truly am closer to being one than I realized. In terms of creating the life I want, I know that gratitude is the stuff that dreams are made of. As Dorothy reminds us, there truly is “no place like home” (i.e. being grateful for what we already have — even if we have to really stretch our imaginations to find what we’re grateful for right now) when we’re looking for the place to start living our dreams.

I know that I’m going to be doing this little exercise again because it feels good and I have learned from it. Maybe you’d like to give it a try. If you’re already a millionaire or if you are focusing on other goals, just use them instead of the idea of being a millionaire. See for yourself that acting “as-if” has real benefits in the here and now. And maybe you won’t even need to take a tornado-ride to The Emerald City to realize you were rich all along and that even more is coming your way.

By the way, did you know that gratitude is one of the highest vibrations there is? And also that the more gratitude and love you express, the faster the things you are wanting can come to you?

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International “It’s All Good!” Day

October 21st, 2008

Today, October 22, 2008, is International “It’s All Good!” Day.

International IT’S ALL GOOD DAY is a special day in honor of my dear friends Martin and Connie Jordan’s son, Andrew, and the 1st anniversary of his passing. Andrew crossed over last year after a four-month battle with leukemia.

Even before his illness, Andrew had an amazing positive attitude and love of life. He was an inspiration and continues to be from the other side.

Andrew was diagnosed July 11, 2007 with AML Leukemia. During his nearly 4 months at All Children’s Hospital, he kept his attitude of “IT’S ALL GOOD!”, even when he got injections of chemo shot into his spine a few times a week. The hospital staff and patients regularly gathered in Andrews room noting that his energy was always calming and uplifing.

If a 16 year-old young man could keep his positive attitude while enduring excruciating pain, than so can we, for at least one day!

Andrew’s greatest desire was to touch, teach and inspire people all over the world. On the anniversary of his passing, we decided to do something to help Andrew keep his spirit and his legacy alive.

So, on Oct 22, 2008, in honor of Andrew, I encourage you to set the intention to consciously keep a positive mindset, no matter what. Smile at a stranger, hold the door open for someone. Be a part of the goodness that flows between us as Divine Siblings. Every chance you get, notice the Good that surrounds you! Remember that you will be joined today by many people around the world celebrating Andrew’s life and IT’S ALL GOOD DAY!

In honor of IT’S ALL GOOD DAY, I invite you to join me in a special project. I have a special 18- year-old friend, Sarah Parker, who has volunteered six months of her life to work with orphans in Nepal.

Sarah recently emailed her Dad and asked him if he could send warm hats, scarves and flea powder for the children. If you would like to help Sarah and her Dad keep the orphans warm, I invite you to send childrens hats, scarves, art supplies (especially pens and paper…we take for granted how lucky we are to be able to write anything whenever we want…) and anything else you’d like to share with the children to me:

Karen Curry
5321 Park Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55417

I will be giving Sarah’s Dad your donations to send in a package to Sarah on October 31, 2008.

If you would like to donate money instead, I can make your purchases for you:




Spread the word! IT’S ALL GOOD!

Love,

P.S. To learn more about Andrew’s journey, please visit: http://www.healive.org

P.P.S. To learn more about Sarah’s Orphans, please visit: http://www.oceannepal.org

If you were just one step away from reaching your goal of flooding your life with wealth, would you take that step?

How do you know, right now, that you’re not?

What a shame it would be to stop making the effort, when just a little bit more would make it all worthwhile.

What a shame it would be to have taken all those steps, only to miss this very last one.

This next step you take may very well be the one that makes all the others count.

You owe it to yourself, and the efforts you’ve made, to take this step.

Its simple… go to the website below and read my entire letter from top to bottom.  I promise you – you’ll be a changed person for the better.

http://tinyurl.com/3ehscb

P.S. Don’t delay – run to that website now.  At some point success is just one step away. Keep going and you’ll be there.

P.P.S. There is a curve called failure, a loop called confusion, speed bumps called friends, caution lights called family, and you will have flats called jobs.

But, if you have a spare called determination, an engine called perseverance, insurance called faith, and a driver called God, you will make it to a place called success.   Go to this website right now -

http://tinyurl.com/3ehscb

“Each man has inside him a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated, but it takes courage for a man to listen to his own inner goodness and act on it. Do we dare to be ourselves? This is the question that counts.”

As I was looking at this picture and quote this morning, I was inspired to learn a bit more about Casals. I found this wonderful video on YouTube, which I think says more about him than perhaps any biography can do:

Whatever one may think of his politics, his personality or his personal life, what I feel from his words and from his music is a great understanding of people and of the soul. For instance, here’s another quote:

“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?”

Casals lived through the Catalan fight for independence and through the Spanish Civil War. Opposed to Franco, he spent the rest of his life away from Spain. His understanding of love being without borders was undoubtedly hard won. But when I listen to him play, all of the circumstances of his life, while informing who he was and how he played, come together into something more.

This is something I strive for in my own life: to live it in such a way that it becomes something more than circumstance, but speaks through the music of the soul to others who may need to be reminded of Who We Really Are. To flow with the Divine Symphony every, every day.

“The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.”

Casals reminds me that the child he speaks of is still inside me and each one of us. That child just needs to be remembered and honored. If you are a parent or grandparent, it’s safe to assume that you want what’s best for your child. What about the child in you? What about wanting what’s best for him or her? I think that in taking time to figure that out and to do something every day to nurture that child, we are tapping into the inner goodness that Casals speaks of.

Abraham-Hicks says that there is nothing more important than feeling good. I think that feeling good is allowing that inner goodness that we are to flow through us. And this, as Casals says, is what the world needs most. You think about that.

However, if you’re still on the fence about this Mind Movie stuff and want to try it out for FREE, try out this homegrown method. First, write out some simple affirmative statements about what you want to create in your life. Make sure they’re in the present tense:

Examples:

• I am a money magnet
• My relationships are loving and supportive
• I have a successful sound coaching practice

Then type these statements out in your favorite presentation software, such as PowerPoint or OpenOffice’s
Impress software. (Open Office is a FR.EE office suite that is compatible with Microsoft Office software).

For best results, use a black background with white text. The Mind Movies folks suggest 48 point type
and a non-serif font such as Arial.

Then go onto the internet and search for images that support these ideas. This can be really fun! Aside from
the image files on Google itself, do a search for free photos and you’ll find dozens of sites that will help
you find the images for your movie. Pick enough images so that you have at least one or two pictures
to go with each affirmative statement, saving each one to a special folder on your desktop. Then
insert these images into your Presentation file with the affirmative statements.

Once you have the statements and the images arranged to your liking, pick some music to play along with your slideshow. Pick something that is uplifting and inspiring, to go along with the new life you’re creating. You could also use brainwave entrainment audios, if you have them, to really speak to your subconscious while you’re watching your slideshow.

Now that your Presentation is ready, and your music is picked out, you’re ready for your “debut.” Start your
music and open your Presentation software. Select View – Slideshow in your Presentation software and voila! You have your own homemade Mind Movie! It’s suggested that you view your Mind Movie at least twice a day — morning and evening.

Give it a try. It can be a lot of fun and is a good way of raising your vibration and your expectancy level.

By the way, if you’d like to see the Mind Movie I made using the software, check it out on You Tube here.

Hey, I’ve been there too. Here’s what is cool about this behavior: it shows us that when there is emotional value in something, we have the means to attract it into our experience. It is that emotional pull that gets our rears into gear and we find a way to make it happen. The trick is to do this more intentionally, on a daily basis.

I’ll give you a few examples to demonstrate how this works. When I first began my coaching practice I drove a Honda Accord. It wasn’t in bad mechanical shape but the paint was oxidizing. It didn’t look good for a “success” coach to drive a deteriorating car. The main thing was that I didn’t feel good driving it. I was clear that I needed to upgrade my vehicle and I didn’t want to spend more than $5000 on a used car. I found a BMW 325i that was perfect. I got a killer price on it. My desire brought me this car at a savings that seemed miraculous.

Many years later, the BMW’s paint began to oxidize and my brother’s purchase of a new car got my interest peaked. I was now hooked on BMWs and wanted a newer one. I went to the BMW dealer and found my perfect car in the first five minutes. I’d never bought a car off of a lot before. I came with no money and no clue about financing and pricing. They asked for a down payment of $8000. Geez! I didn’t have that kind of money available for this type of purchase. But oh! I wanted that car. Had to have it. I told them I’d find a way to finance in the next 24 hours.

Where emotion is strong, there will be a way. I found a way. It looked crazy from the outside looking in but I was confident it would work. It did. And as if that down payment wasn’t enough to challenge me, my monthly car payment was more than my rent at that time. I loved that car so much I was never late on a payment, even through my financial crash a few years back.

Most of my clients want more money. I always tell them to lock on to what they would use the money for. It’s so much more compelling than focusing on a certain amount of money. A couple years back, I decided that it was time for some business debt that Eva and I had together to go bye-bye. We’d been making payments for years on it but I guess neither of us was passionate about deciding it would be paid off before that point. I was tired of seeing the statements for our payments due. As soon as I made the decision it took three months and it was gone. My irritation and decision pulled in additional income to enable us to make the goal.

Emotion is the magnet or repellent to the money we desire. The emotions related to fear are repellents. They’re like a skunk. They stink and nobody wants to go near them. Any emotion relating to joy, love, excitement, peace or confidence is like bees to honey. They find it from far away and it keeps attracting more! Get emotions behind your decision to have more money and you will see an increase immediately!

(C) 2008 MasterPeace Coaching

Jeanna Gabellini, CPPC, Law of Attraction Expert, publishes the weekly ezine Designing Your MasterPeace. If you’re ready to attract more money, a growing business, and great relationships with fun and ease, get your FREE tips and tools now at www.MasterPeaceCoaching.com.

Beliefs and behaviors are habits of thought and action that get
established over time through repetition, yes? So if I’m going to
change them, it’s not really just a matter of stopping the old belief
or behavior but also of replacing it with something more pleasing –
kind of like giving a toy to a baby so they’ll give you the car keys
they’ve been gnawing on.  Let’s face it. We do things because they feel
good. At least they start out that way.  We’re getting something out of
them, otherwise we wouldn’t do them.

So if we’re going to change them, we need something that feels just
as good or better than what we want to replace. For example, let’s say
I have a belief that I’m not worthy of success. It’s not always there.
I have my ups and downs with this idea. But on one particular day, I’m
feeling really low and this belief is just eating away at me. What can
I do in that moment? I can choose to take a walk. Call a friend. List
all my accomplishments up to this point in my life. I can do a Sound
Clearing Exercise. The point is, I need to do something to counteract
the not-so-great-feeling. Of course, I could choose to wallow in it for
a day or two, but in the end, in order to come back to Who I Really Am,
I need to let go of that belief that is hurtful to me and take an
action that affirms who I am.

One of the mottos of Twelve Steppers everywhere is One Day at a
Time. Changing limiting beliefs and behaviors is accomplished one
moment at a time. While this may seem daunting in the face of truly
addictive beliefs and behaviors, taking actions that support us become
positive habits that really feel good. And they’re infectious.  My
husband is big on taking walks to clear his head and now this is
something I do often, myself. He also does this little thing of blowing
on my head when I’m not sure how to resolve something, as if he’s
blowing all the cobwebs away. Not something I’d do with anybody else,
but it’s endearing, all the same.

So instead of just Stopping It, the idea is to keep going, but in a direction that feels better. Even just a little bit. As Abraham-Hicks says, “The better it gets, the better it gets.” In other words, by the Law of Attraction,
the more we focus on something, the more of that thing will come to us.
So it makes sense to learn how to ease out of habits of belief and
behavior that don’t feel good and into ones that do. It’s as simple as
finding thoughts and activities that please us. That’s something easy
to start doing today.

Probably one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned in working with LOA is not to focus too long on what doesn’t make me happy (such as losing all the older posts I had here). Instead I’ve decided to use the inconvenience of the missing posts as an opportunity to start fresh.

To get us started on our new journey, I’d just like to share this video of Napoleon Hill speaking about using the Law of Attraction. Oh, he doesn’t call it that, but as you watch, you’ll understand that this is exactly what he’s talking about.

Hope you enjoy the video and I look forward to sharing more with you on this new path before us.

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