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Issue No. 56 / Saturday, August 14, 2004

© 2004 by Andreas Ohrt / www.mindpowernews.com

In this issue:

SEVEN SIMPLE SECRETS OF NATURALLY LUCKY PEOPLE: These secrets are easy little things that you can begin applying in your own life. And when you do, things will start to change for you. One day you'll realize that now everyone has started calling you naturally lucky, too.

LUCK IS AN ENERGETIC FORCE: In coming months we will be examining the role of luck in our lives based on the most recent findings from the realm of parapsychological research. We will delve into precognition as expressed in our dreams and waking premonitions. We will learn the role of synchronicity and how these phenomena are related to being lucky.

EIGHT WAYS TO BECOME A LUCKIER PERSON: Luck is something you create and attract. If you will simply focus on each of these areas for one week each, can you not see how you luck would dramatically improve?

THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF ATTRACTION AND YOUR ROLE IN IT: Here's how it works. When you are focused on what you want, you are attracting to you what you want. When you are focused on what you do not want, you are attracting to you what you do not want.

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The Seven Simple Secrets of Naturally Lucky People

By Charles Burke

www.commandmoreluck.com

We've all seen people who are just naturally lucky. They're the ones who manage to sail through life with more unexplainable "lucky breaks" and fewer disappointments than most people get. Success just seems to come easier for them.

Where most folks have to struggle just to get ahead, lucky people regularly have opportunities just plop down in their laps. Of course, they work hard, but that doesn't fully explain the special treatment that life seems to reserve for them.

It almost appears that they were born with the proverbial silver spoon in their mouths. Or born under a luckier star than most mere mortals.

Well, cheer up; neither stars nor spoons are at work here. All they have is seven simple secrets. These secrets are easy little things that you can begin applying in your own life. And when you do, things will start to change for you. Your career will begin to blossom in unexpected ways. And one day you'll realize that now everyone has started calling you naturally lucky, too.

Ready to command more luck in your life? Here are the seven simple secrets of naturally lucky people.

SECRET #1: LUCKY PEOPLE DON'T BELIEVE IN LUCK

I recently interviewed ten unusually successful business people for a book I was writing about the role luck plays in the lives of successes.

Nearly every one of them stated plainly they don't believe in luck.

In the next breath, however, they told about unending streams of "serendipitous" or "synchronistic" events that routinely happen in their daily lives.

I believe they don't like the word "luck" because it implies there's no way to control it. They've learned that there is.

If you prefer to call it serendipity or synchronicity rather than lucky, that's okay. The message here is not which term to use. It's about what you can do to get these kinds of things happening for you. When they do happen, you can call them anything you want.

SECRET #2: "BAD" STUFF HAPPENS TO THEM TOO

There are several ways to have good luck. The most common (and the most useful) is to find opportunities in problems.

Let's say you and I are neighbors, and our whole city has a common problem. Maybe it's infestation with insects. Or it could be a serious pollution problem from a nearby plant.

While almost everyone is griping and complaining about the problem, you might decide: "Hey, if I can solve this problem, it will help my neighbors, and it can also make a profit for me." Your neighbors only saw the problem, but you looked deeper and found an opportunity.

All great fortunes have been built upon solving great problems. That's probably the most common and the most controllable way to generate your own luck.

SECRET #3: MORE PEOPLE QUIT THAN LOSE

If you knew ahead of time without a doubt that your success was guaranteed, how much would you go out and do?

Would it make any difference in the kind of things you would attempt? How much higher would you direct your aim?

Well, a funny thing happened to me a few years back. I was sitting and feeling sorry for myself one day because of all the failures that I had been through.

Then it suddenly occurred to me that one particular case hadn't been a real failure. I admitted to myself (reluctantly) that I had simply quit too soon. I had quit before I'd really had a chance to fail.

Then I thought of another non-failure. Then another.

And before long, I was buried under an avalanche of similar cases. In fact, I couldn't think of a single time when I had actually kept on trying long enough to fail. In other words, I had never experienced failure in my entire lifetime.

Only quitting.

A realization like that will realign your reality. After that, it's hard to consider yourself a failure because you've never failed. Who knows what you might really be, down inside?

I began to wonder: what would have happened if I had stuck with even a few of those situations just a little longer? What if I stopped being so ready to throw in the towel and surrender too soon? Would I start seeing the number of clear successes in my life begin to grow?

I started finding a new resourcefulness within myself. My "keeping-on" average began to go up, and my "failure" average started declining.

I count that one realization among the most important in my life. Not because it solved a problem, but because it identified one. Once I could see that the problem wasn't even what I thought it was, I was then able to work on doing something else instead.

And you know what? My luck began improving.

SECRET #4: BETTING ON LOSING HANDS MAKES LOSERS

Successful poker players don't play every hand they're dealt.

If you keep count, the hands they fold far outnumber the hands they hold.

That's because a good card player knows the odds for every possible card combination. They know whether a flush beats a full house and which is more likely to occur. Good players don't bet on risk, they bet on probability.

Lucky people are very similar. They know longshots when they see them, and they may bet, but it's a calculated bet.

Lucky people are some of the most tenacious people on earth when it's appropriate. But they're also some of the quickest quitters when the odds don't favor them. In fact, they'll usually opt out of most situations before they even begin because they have learned to recognize and rank opportunities.

What makes a good opportunity? First, does it solve a WIDESPREAD problem? Second, do the people with the problem have enough money to pay for solving that problem? Third, is it easy to reach the people with the problem? Fourth, is the solution a really good one?

If they don't find all four factors, a lucky person will walk away because they know it's a losing hand, no matter how much they personally love the idea.

So if a lucky person sees he's holding a losing hand, he quits quickly and cuts his losses.

SECRET #5: MOST GOOD LUCK COMES THROUGH OTHER PEOPLE

Good luck almost never happens in a vacuum.

Several years back I read a book by Max Gunther titled "The Luck Factor." Most of the details in that book have dimmed, but I've never forgotten the core idea: Most lucky breaks are brought to you by other people.

Few people find significant amounts of money on the street or buried in the backyard. Perhaps even fewer win lotteries. Instead, luck comes more often in the form of opportunities.

You're with a group of ladies (or guys) who are sitting around complaining about how it's hard to find respectable men (women) to date. Everybody is really getting into the problem.

The person next to you leans over and whispers, "Don't you wish everyone would just quit whining?" But instead of complaining about all those complaints, a little lightbulb clicks on in your head. You realize a good computerized screening service for romantic introductions would fill a real need here.

You don't say anything, but weeks later, when you announce the new service, and you're flooded with calls from singles all over the city wanting safer introductions, all your friends whisper, "She's so lucky. Where did she get that great idea?"

You know where the idea came from, but you're not telling.

A great deal of "good luck" is manually created out of discomfort often someone else's.

SECRET #6: GOOD LUCK FAVORS THOSE WHO HAVE PREPARED

Let's say you're appearing in an amateur play in a little theater in your neighborhood. A big-name producer from Hollywood is visiting a sick relative, hears about the play, and for a bit of distraction decides to attend.

She sees a spark of something special in your performance, asks to meet you, and offers you a screen test. Okay, freeze the frame for a second.

Are you prepared for this big break? Have you done all the study and the practice and the foundation work it takes to be a professional? Will you have the technique and the skills necessary to do the job?

Or are you going to try and fake your way through it?

If you're prepared, you're likely to do well. This means a giant step toward your dreams.

And if you're not prepared... well, good luck with your day job.

SECRET #7: YOU CAN ATTRACT GOOD THINGS, TOO

All this talk about finding opportunities in "bad" events and developing your skills is important, but there's a more sunny side to luck as well.

Internet entrepreneur Joe Vitale terms it his "Magic Escalator through Life," and award-winning author John Harricharan has titled it "The Power Pause."

I interviewed both of these men recently, as well as eight other fascinating people, about how they manage to stay so consistently successful.

Every single one of them has techniques for keeping their mind tuned to the things they want. And they attend to this "mind tuning" every day. They're not casual about this. Oh no, they put regular effort into it. Their successes and their luck are not accidents.

If you're tempted to greet this with a dismissive, "Oh yeah, I've read those positive thinking books," then you need to think again.

The hardest part of Secret #7? Taking responsibility for the bad stuff in your life. If you've got uncomfortable situations right now, you'll never have the power to change them until you accept the fact that you created that mess... exactly as it is right now.

Admit to yourself that you created your own problems, down to the last tiny detail, and only then will you take command of the power to change those problems. Fortunately, it's not as impossible as it sounds at first.

Your mind is like a bucket. If the bucket is filled with muddy water, all you have to do is start a steady flow of clear, fresh water into the bucket.

Soon, the bucket (or your mind) is filled with clear, fresh contents.

Steady daily input of clear, fresh thoughts will change the things that appear in your life, without the need for major renovation. It just happens. You work on the inside, and the outside takes care of itself.

This means you don't fight the old thoughts. You give them minimum energy. You don't resist, you don't struggle. Instead, you put your attention as much as possible on the good things you want to appear in your life.

The lucky things you spend your time thinking about just start happening for you, and one day you wake up and realize, "Hey, I'm a pretty lucky person now. When did that happen?"

Charles Burke is the author of "Command More Luck," a book offering powerful suggestions for getting more cooperation from life, luck, and your own mind. Whether you call it synchronicity, serendipity, or just plain old luck, you CAN become more "naturally lucky." Learn more at www.CommandMoreLuck.com

Luck is an Energetic Force

By Randall Fitzgerald

Phenomena Magazine

In case you missed it, a movie called The Cooler is out on video with a unique take - at least as far as movies go - on the subject of luck, and whether it’s an energetic force that can be channeled by ‘lucky’ people.

Actor William Macy plays a character named Bernie who works for the Golden Shangri-La casino in Las Vegas as a ‘cooler,’ someone who carries such a negative charge that he can ‘cool off’ hot streaks of luck being experienced by gamblers, thus making (or saving) money for the casino.

All Bernie needs to do is stand next to a gambler and, in his words, “their luck turns. I do it by being myself.”

Bernie is portrayed as “a born loser,” someone who attracts bad luck by his very nature. In the ‘real’ world, even mathematicians and probability theorists talk in these terms: out of 6 billion people on planet Earth, the law of averages dictate that X-number of them will be either lucky or unlucky for their entire lives.

But in this movie, Bernie is a lonely bachelor who ‘gets lucky’ with a cocktail waitress at the casino. He falls in love. His luck immediately flips from a negative to a positive charge, and everyone he touches or stands beside becomes lucky instead of unlucky, costing the casino a small fortune.

When the love interest leaves him (under circumstances orchestrated by the casino), he becomes depressed again and that low voltage once again drains the power of the luck streaks going on around him.

During months of research for my book, Lucky You!, documenting how we can channel streaks of paranormal luck, I personally witnessed many of these Bernie characters (both male and female) as embodied in slot machine players at casinos in California, Oregon, and Nevada.

Some of these streaks of luck were truly extraordinary. I watched one 60-year-old woman intuitively sense which slot machines were ready to birth jackpots, walking from one to another, much like a human dowsing rod sensing veins of gold, and winning impressive jackpots at each and every one.

When I interviewed these winners afterward about what they were feeling or sensing while in the flow or zone, they always talked in terms of intuition, being able to use their bodies as a kind of receiver picking up precognitive signals. Many of them simply knew or felt beforehand they were going to be lucky. Even accounting for our very human capacity for self-delusion and selective memory, these examples of winning streaks, as I personally witnessed them, defied the law of averages to such a remarkable degree that paranormal luck seemed a reasonable if not likely explanation.

In coming months on the pages of Phenomena magazine and on this website, we will be examining the role of luck in our lives based on the most recent findings from the realm of parapsychological research. We will delve into precognition (glimpsing the future) as expressed in our dreams and waking premonitions. We will learn the role of synchronicity (patterns of meaningful coincidences) and how these phenomena are related to being lucky. We will look at intuition using the latest research from psychologists and neuroscientists and how this “handmaiden to inductive reasoning” can expand the reach of the human mind. Stay tuned. It’s going to be a fascinating roller coaster of ideas.

Randall Fitzgerald is a Phenomena managing editor and the author of Lucky You!, a book about the parapsychological and spiritual dimensions of luck and good fortune. You can follow his research at www.doctorluck.com

Why Some People ALWAYS Get the Luck!

Being lucky is a skill, just like any other skill. As you learn it and you practice it, you get better. You get more successful... people will say you're "luckier." And yes, you can learn this skill. How do I know? Because I learned it myself - beginning from absolute zero. Finally, stop wondering what's going to happen to you next. Start calling the shots now, take charge. Of your luck, your success, even your love-life. Learn more here: Command More Luck

Eight Ways to Become a Luckier Person 

It is my belief that luck is something that you can create, rather than that there are just lucky and unlucky people in the world.

If you would like to believe the latter, no need to read further. You can just continue with your old expressions: "I have bad luck" or "Nothing good ever happens to me" or "Good things only happen to other people." And that is what you will continue to create.

However, if you are ready to change your luck, by doing a few simple techniques, which can be significantly amplified through the power of hypnosis; allowing these ideas to penetrate your subconscious mind, then do read on.

8 WAYS TO BECOME A LUCKIER PERSON

Luck is something you create and attract. If you will simply focus on each of these areas for one week each, can you not see how you luck would dramatically improve?

1. Get Ready for Luck: Become more prepared, alert and aware of all those many chance opportunities that ordinarily are available to you that you weren’t able to recognize before. 

2. Create Mental Alertness: There are an abundance of chance encounters that will come your way. Learn exactly how to make use of them. Create the ability to sharpen your mind and to become more mentally alert with razor-sharp thinking. Make quick and intelligent decisions. Have the ability to act upon information and ideas immediately. 

3. Practice Generosity: The practice of generosity attracts luck. Find creative and imaginative ways of improving yourself and to become a more understanding person. Have the confidence to be a good friend toward others, including those whom you did not know before. Improve your attitude and project good positive vibes toward others and you will have pulled more lucky situations into your life than ever before. 

4. Get in touch with your Desire: There is nothing in the world that is more attractive to luck than your desire. Find something inside of yourself that you feel very passionate about. That is in alignment with all of your values. There is a desire that is one of the many infinite combinations of all desires that is so special and so specific to you as an individual. Your likeliness of creating luck grows as you are able to touch upon and hone in on those few very meaningful desires that mean the most to you. 

5. Increase your Intuition: Of course it stands to reason that intuition plays a huge role in the luck you have in your life. If you are able to tune into that inner voice that tells you that something is good or something is bad you will greatly improve your luck. Enhance your intuition by going into meditation or hypnosis on a daily basis and pay attention to your thoughts your feelings and all of your senses. The more you are able to tune into and trust your intuition the more success you are going to have in all areas of your life, especially concerning your luck. 

6. Undo Past Bad Luck: Think about various situations in your life that could have turned out lucky for you, where in hindsight as you look back on these situations, had you acted differently, it would have been lucky for you. Now, replay the scene in your mind, having acted in the way you would have and experience the feeling of that new experience, allowing it to leave an emotional impact on your subconscious mind, thereby created a new path your subconscious mind will now take in the future. Your subconscious will help direct your thinking in news ways based upon the learning that you integrate through that feeling state. 

7. Create a Luck Anchor: Create an emotional anchor, charged with the vibration of luck. When you are feeling low or your energy is low you are vibrating at a low frequency. The law of attraction simply states, like attracts like, hence, when you are vibrating at a low frequency you are only going to bring about things in your life that are vibrating at an equally low vibration. Think about the things that make you feel good, things are on a high vibration plane. When you are feeling good, your energy vibration is simply going to attract more of the things that are in alignment with your energy … Anchor this feeling in by squeezing your thumb and forefinger together. Now, whenever you need to access this resourceful state you are going to create, you then whenever you press your thumb and forefinger together and you will feel all those wonderful feelings. 

8. Morning Luck Meditation/Affirmations: It’s a good idea to begin the day on a positive note, to open you up to an awareness of potential lucky situations and to simply feel like you are a lucky person throughout the day. The first thing you will do every morning before getting out of bed repeat these affirmations: Today will be filled with all sorts of lucky opportunities; I am a lucky person; I experience luck in my life daily; I am learning how to create more luck; I attract good fortune; My intuition is increasing and guiding me toward luck; I feel my luck is changing for the better; I am in the right place at the right time; I enjoy new encounters which increase my chances of luck; Today could be the luckiest day of my life.

Source: Hyptalk.com

The Universal Law of Attraction and Your Role In It

By Eva Gregory

Excerpt from "The Feel Good Guide to Prosperity"

Are you aware of what a powerful creator you are? Do you know that everything that is happening to you or has ever happened to you is, without exception, in full response to your thoughts - and more importantly - the emotions behind those thoughts?

Take a look at your life. There are probably some areas you're really happy with and some areas you're not so happy with. You may even believe you are a victim of your circumstances. I'm here to tell you, you are not a victim! It's simply a matter of understanding how to play the Game (of Life) by understanding the rules...the Laws that define the Game.

Would you agree that whether you believe in the law of gravity or not, it exists? It is the same with Universal Laws. They exist and affect you whether you are aware of them or not. Universal Laws are infinite and beyond all boundaries.

Of all the Laws, the single most powerful law is the Law of Attraction, which simply states, "Like attracts like". This means that what you are focused on, you draw to you.

Here's how it works. When you are focused on what you want, you are attracting to you what you want. When you are focused on what you do not want, you are attracting to you what you do not want.

Right now your thoughts are probably going something like "So if it's that simple and clear, why haven't we known this before?" Or, "I've been focused on money for years, so why don’t I have any?"

The Law is simple and clear. However, our thoughts are usually very unfocused and running in many directions at once. For example, you may say "I want a loving relationship." In that moment, the Universe is orchestrating circumstances and events to bring it to you. And yet in the same sentence, you may sabotage yourself by saying something like, "I feel so alone." So, in essence, the Universal forces say, "Wait a minute. Now he says he feels so alone." And you stop the energy flow.

So, take it a step further. When you are thinking about wanting a new relationship, but feeling so alone, where are your emotions? They are focused in feelings of lack; feelings that you want something you do not believe you can have. Can you see how, by not understanding this Law, we hold things away from us we could otherwise have? Our thoughts and emotions are our attraction base.

Let's take the example of money. You say you've been wanting more money for as long as you can remember. When you think of wanting more money, how do you feel about it? Happy? Elated? Or frustrated? Angry? Sad? Maybe, jealous of those who do have money? In my experience, this particular subject has more people on an emotional roller coaster than all other subjects combined. The good news is that it doesn't matter how long you've felt this way or how deeply. You can literally turn it around, and begin flowing money to you by consciously and deliberately practicing the Law of Attraction through your thoughts and feelings.

Anything in your life you want to change, you can, simply by understanding the Law of Attraction and choosing to deliberately change your thoughts and constantly reach for the thought that feels better. The way you predominantly feel about any given subject is your barometer for knowing what your balance of thought is on that subject. The circumstances of your life are another indicator. If you're ever wondering which end of the barometer your thoughts are on, check in with your emotions. Your emotions never lie about the way you are flowing your energy.

I had a client say to me, "I don't understand. You're telling me I'm the creator of my experience, and there's no way I would have created this crisis in my life on purpose!" I agree! Certainly not on purpose. Definitely by default. It is the lack of understanding of Universal Laws that has us creating our lives by default. Once you understand these Laws, you can begin to create what you want in your life consciously and deliberately.

When things are going wrong in our lives, we want to deny any responsibility for creating it. Yet, until you understand the power you hold and accept responsibility for everything in your life -- the good, the bad and the ugly -- you deny your true freedom in life! You are held hostage by the wants and desires and expectations of others. And I've got news for you. There is no way possible to satisfy all the wants, desires, and expectations others project on you. It is a losing situation!

Simply put, the Law of Attraction means whatever you focus on you draw to you. So, if you are focused on something you do not want, you attract more of that to you. If you are focused on something you do want, you attract more of that to you. As thinking, feeling human beings we are in a constant mode of creating, whether we believe it or not.

We are creators. Anything you focus on, by Law of Attraction, you create, without exception. Your creativity never stops. The good news is that once you understand the Universal Law of Attraction, you can be deliberate in your intent. You can choose thoughts about the experiences and things you do want in your life rather than thinking thoughts about what you don't want in your life. In other words, you begin to create what you want purposefully and intentionally.

Consciously and deliberately begin choosing the thoughts and emotions that feel better. Always reach for the thought that feels better. How do you know when you're in alignment with what you want or when you're not? Check in with your emotions. Your emotions never lie!

You may ask, "Where does action come in"? Clearly, as humans, we are action-oriented beings. Yet, when we put our focus on being in action first -- being in the 'doing' first -- we are going about our creative process backwards. The natural order is to identify how you want to feel, then identify what you want from that feeling place. From that point, you will be inspired to the right action.

One of my favorite quotes from Abraham-Hicks is: nothing is more important than that you feel good! And from that feel-good place, you can easily create all you are wanting in your life. It is the difference in coming from a negative place, working really hard to fix what is wrong -- to being in a positive place, clear about what you want and attracting it to you easily, effortlessly and joyfully. It is your job to create what you want in your imagination, get into the feeling place of it already happening, and then allow the Universe to bring about the people, places, circumstances, events and action from inspiration that allows it to become a part of your physical reality.

Excerpted from “The Feel Good Guide to Prosperity” by Eva Gregory. Copyright 2004. Published by Leading Edge Publishers. Get more information about Eva Gregory at www.FeelGoodGuideToProsperity.com

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How to attract better luck.

The thing you call good or bad luck is actually a learning experience and an individual's perception.

Some people blame unfortunate results and justify their misfortunes as fate. They don't seem to realize that providence favors those who impose self discipline and put in the efforts.

Things actually just don't happen. You create them. People who are fortunate are those who have made the decisions to take charge of their lives. They use bad experiences as lessons and avoid making excuses.

How to attract better luck.

Changing your perception and identity.

The thing that you set you set your mind to believe becomes your reality. If you continue to lament on how unlucky you have been, you will deny yourself the chance to have your big break.

You need to change how you have been identifying yourself and perceiving things. You have to hold a higher standard for yourself and expect fortunate events to happen in the future regardless of what has happened in the past. You do that by focusing your attention on the positive and on what has worked.

To overcome unhealthy belief systems that work against you, check out Change Your Beliefs, Change Your Life.

Recognizing opportunities.

The next person that you meet, a lecture that you listen to, or reading some useful information might contribute to your big break. Take time to listen and watch successful people talk about how they made it.

Unless you are ready and prepared, you won't recognize it when it appears. Get yourself prepared by knowing what you truly desire. Make a firm decision on what you want to become and do.

Work hard at it.

The longer and the harder you work in the right direction, the bigger are your chances of being lucky. When you are busy doing and working, you will find the thrills and joy of creation and productivity.

You have to gather as much knowledge as you can and develop better skills. Your attitude about how much time and efforts you are willing to put in will determine your outcome. Remarkable results will happen when you are committed, stay positive and do all that you can.

Applying the law of cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson stated that shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. And there is a popular quote that states, "The best way to best way to predict your future is to create it."

So can you predict how the outcome of your efforts will turn out? Yes, because the law of cause and effect shows that things do not happen by chance. Whether you are aware of it or otherwise, whatever you have done or thought of in the past produced your experiences today. What you are doing and thinking today and onward determine your future.

Understand that it takes time.

Almost everything takes time to develop and grow. Keep on persevering even if you are not seeing the blessings from your attempts. If you put in the hours for study and work, your big break will show up. It's quite predictable. The trouble is people give up too soon.

Remind yourself that you will reap the rewards equivalent to the amount of time and efforts that you are willing to put in.

Simple things to do in life

Mind your own business; don’t interfere in other people’s personal matters unless they request it of you… it keeps you free from extra tension.

Don’t be too curious; never try to investigate or inquire about a person’s schedule, as these inquiries usually make you and the ones questioned uncomfortable.

Help yourself; always do your work yourself, try not to use help unless you actually need it. It keeps you busy and secondly it saves you the hassle of another’s carelessness.

Help other people; you get a lot of pleasure by helping the needy. Always be ready to lend a helpful hand. Thanks and warm wishes will make your journey, life, happy and safe.

Recognize small achievements; don’t aim too high as small goals are equally important. Always remember little droplets makeup the ocean. Your small achievements and virtues will also prove your worth.

Give thanks and say sorry; never hesitate to say thank you and sorry. It shows your kind and caring nature. It also compels other to respect you and advise you.

Remember God; always remember and thank God, the Almighty.

ABC of happiness

A–Accept

Accept others for who they are and for the choices they’ve made even if you have difficulty understanding their beliefs, motives, or actions.

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B–Break Away

Break away from everything that stands in the way of what you hope to accomplish with your life.

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C–Create

Create a family of friends whom you can share your hopes, dreams, sorrows, and happiness with.

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D–Decide

Decide that you’ll be successful and happy come what may, and good things will find you. The roadblocks are only minor obstacles along the way.

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E–Explore

Explore and experiment. The world has much to offer, and you have much to give. And every time you try something new, you’ll learn more about yourself.

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F–Forgive

Forgive and forget. Grudges only weigh you down and inspire unhappiness and grief. Soar above it, and remember that everyone makes mistakes.

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G–Grow

Leave the childhood monsters behind. They can no longer hurt you or stand in your way.

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H–Hope

Hope for the best and never forget that anything is possible as long as you remain dedicated to the task.

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I–Ignore

Ignore the negative voice inside your head. Focus instead on your goals and remember your accomplishments. Your past success is only a small inkling of what the future holds.

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J–Journey

Journey to new worlds, new possibilities, by remaining open-minded. Try to learn something new every day, and you’ll grow.

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K–Know

Know that no matter how bad things seem, they’ll always get better. The warmth of spring always follows the harshest winter.

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L–Love

Let love fill your heart instead of hate. When hate is in your heart, there’s room for nothing else, but when love is in your heart, there’s room for endless happiness.

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M–Manage

Manage your time and your expenses wisely, and you’ll suffer less stress and worry. Then you’ll be able to focus on the important things in life.

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N–Notice

Never ignore the poor, infirm, helpless, weak, or suffering. Offer your assistance when possible, and always your kindness and understanding.

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O–Open

Open your eyes and take in all the beauty around you. Even during the worst of times, there’s still much to be thankful for.

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P–Play

Never forget to have fun along the way. Success means nothing without happiness.

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Q–Question

Ask many questions, because you’re here to learn.

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R–Relax

Refuse to let worry and stress rule your life, and remember that things always have a way of working out in the end.

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S–Share

Share your talent, skills, knowledge, and time with others. Everything that you invest in others will return to you many times over.

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T–Try

Even when your dreams seem impossible to reach, try anyway. You’ll be amazed by what you can accomplish.

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U–Use

Use your gifts to your best ability. Talent that’s wasted has no value. Talent that’s used will bring unexpected rewards.

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V–Value

Value the friends and family members who’ve supported and encouraged you, and be there for them as well.

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W–Work

Work hard every day to be the best person you can be, but never feel guilty if you fall short of your goals. Every sunrise offers a second chance.

X–X-Ray

Look deep inside the hearts of those around you and you’ll see the goodness and beauty within.

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Y–Yield

Yield to commitment. If you stay on track and remain dedicated, you’ll find success at the end of the road.

The Secret—101 Quotes

The Secret—101 Quotes

1. “We all work with one infinite power”

2. “The Secret is the Law of Attraction (LOA).”

3. “Whatever is going on in your mind is what you are attracting.”

4. “We are like magnets - like attracts like. You become AND attract what you think.”

5. “Every thought has a frequency. Thoughts send out a magnetic energy.”

6. “People think about what they don’t desire and attract more of the same.”

7. “Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation.”

8. “You attract your dominant thoughts.”

9. “Those who speak most of illness have illness, those who speak most of prosperity have it, etc.”

10. “It’s not “wishful” thinking.”

11. “You can’t have a universe without the mind entering into it.”

12. “Choose your thoughts carefully; you are a masterpiece of your life.”

13. “It’s OK that thoughts don’t manifest into reality immediately (if we saw a picture of an elephant and it instantly appeared, that would be too soon).”

14. “EVERYTHING in your life you have attracted—accept that fact—it’s true.”

15. “Your thoughts cause your feelings.”

16. “We don’t need to complicate all the “reasons” behind our emotions. It’s much simpler than that. Two categories—good feelings and bad feelings.”

17. “Thoughts that bring about good feelings mean you are on the right track. Thoughts that bring about bad feelings means you are not on the right track.”

18. “Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what is in the process of becoming.”

19. “You get exactly what you are FEELING.”

20. “Happy feelings will attract more happy circumstances.”

21. “You can begin feeling whatever you desire (even if it’s not there)-the universe will correspond to the nature of your song.”

22. “What you focus on with your thought and feeling is what you attract into your experience.”

23. “What you think and what you feel and what actually manifests is ALWAYS a match - no exception.”

24. “Shift your awareness.”

25. “You create your own universe as you go along” Winston Churchill

26. “It’s important to feel good ( ( ( (((good))) ) ) ).”

27. “You can change your emotion immediately-by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.”

28. “When you get the hang of this, before you know it you will KNOW you are the creator.”

29. “Life can and should be phenomenal-and it will be when you consciously apply the Law of Attraction.”

30. “Universe will re-arrange itself accordingly.”

31. “Start by using this sentence for all of your desires: “I’m so happy and grateful now that.””

32. “You don’t need to know HOW the universe is going to rearrange itself.”

33. “LOA is simply figuring out for yourself what will generate the positive feelings of having it NOW.”

34. “You might get an inspired thought or idea to help you move towards what you desire faster.”

35. “The universe likes SPEED. Don’t delay, don’t second-guess, don’t doubt.”

36. “When the opportunity or impulse is there—ACT.”

37. “You will attract everything you require—money, people, connections—PAY ATTENTION to what’s being set in front of you.”

38. “You can start with nothing—and out of nothing or no way—a WAY will be provided.”

39. “HOW LONG??? No rules on time—the more aligned you are with positive feelings the quicker things happen.”

40. “Size is nothing to the universe (unlimited abundance if that’s what you wish). We make the rules on size and time.”

41. “No rules according to the universe-you provide the feelings of having it now and the universe will respond.”

42. “Most people offer the majority of their thought in response to what they are observing—bills in the mail, being late, having bad luck, etc.”

43. “You have to find a different approach to what is through a different vantage point.”

44. “All that we are, is a result of what we have thought” - Buddha

45. “What can you do right now to turn your life around?” “Practice Gratitude.”

46. “Gratitude will bring more into our lives immediately.”

47. “What we think about and THANK about is what we bring about.”

48. “What are the things you are grateful for?? Feel the gratitude-focus on what you have right now that you are grateful for.”

49. “Play the picture in your mind—focus on the end result.”

50. “VISUALIZE!!! Rehearse your future.”

51. “VISUALIZE!!! See it, feel it! This is where action begins.”

52. “Feel the joy—feel the happiness!”

53. “An affirmative thought is 100 times more powerful than a negative one.”

54. “What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists.” Alexander Graham Bell.

55. “Our job is not to worry about the “How”. The “How” will show up out of the commitment and belief in the “what.””

56. “The ‘How’s’ are the domain of the universe. It always knows the quickest, fastest, most harmonious way between you and your dream.”

57. “If you turn it over to the universe, you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered-this is where magic and miracles happen.”

58. “Turn it over to the universe daily—but avoid making it a chore.”

59. “Feel exhilarated by the whole process—high, happy, in tune.”

60. “The only difference between people who are really living this way is they have habituated ways of being.”

61. “They remember to do it all the time.”

62. “Create a Vision Board-pictures of what you desire to attract—every day look at it and get into the feeling state of already having acquired these desires.”

63. “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” -Albert Einstein

64. “Decide what you desire-believe you can have it, believe you deserve it, believe it’s possible for you.”

65. “Close your eyes and visualize having what you already desire—and the feeling of having it already.”

66. “Focus on being grateful for what you have already-enjoy it!! Then release into the universe. The universe will manifest it.”

67. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it can achieve.” -W. Clement Stone

68. “Set a goal so big that if you achieved it, it would blow your mind.”

69. “When you have an inspired thought, you need to trust it and act on it.”

70. “How can you become more prosperous? INTEND IT!!”

71. “”Checks are coming in the mail regularly,” or change your bank statement to whatever balance you desire, and get behind the feeling of having it.”

72. “Life is meant to be abundant in ALL areas.”

73. “Go for the sense of inner joy and peace, then, all outside things appear.”

74. “We are the creators of our universe.”

75. “Relationships: Treat yourself the way you desire to be treated by others-love yourself and you will be loved.”

76. “Healthy respect for yourself.”

77. “For those you work with or interact with regularly—get a notebook and write down positive aspects of each of those people.”

78. “Write down the things you like most about them (don’t expect change from them). Law of attraction will not put you in the same space together if your frequencies don’t match.”

79. “When you realize your potential to feel good, you will ask no one to be different in order for you to feel good.”

80. “You will free yourself from the cumbersome impossibilities of needing to control the world, your friends, your mate, your children.”

81. “You are the only one who creates your reality.”

82. “No one else can think or feel for you—Its YOU—ONLY YOU.”

83. “Health: Thank the universe for your own healing. Laugh, stress free happiness will keep you healthy.”

84. “Immune system will heal itself.”

85. “Parts of our bodies are replaced every day, every week-etc. Within a few years we have a brand new body.”

86. “See yourself living in a new body. Hopeful = recovery. Happy = happier biochemistry. Stress degrades the body.”

87. “Remove stress from the body and the body regenerates itself. You can heal yourself.”

88. “Learn to become still-and take your attention away from what you don’t desire, and place your attention on what you wish to experience.”

89. “When the voice and vision on the inside become more profound and clear than the opinions on the outside, then you have mastered your life.”

90. “You are not here to get the world to be just as you desire it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.”

91. Allow the world as others choose to see it, to exist as well.”

92. “People think that if everyone knows the power of the LOA there won’t be enough to go around. This is a lie that’s been ingrained in us and makes so many greedy.”

93. “The truth is there is more than enough love, creative ideas, power, joy, happiness to go around.”

94. “All of this abundance begins to shine through a mind that is aware of its own infinite nature. There’s enough for everyone. See it. Believe it. It will show up for you.”

95. “So let the variety of your reality thrill you as you choose all the things you desire and get behind the good feelings of all your desires.”

96. “Write your script. When you see things you don’t desire, don’t think about them, write about them, talk about them, push against them, or join groups that focus on them-remove your attention from ‘don’t desires’ and instead place them on ‘do desires.’”

97. “We are mass energy. Everything is energy. EVERYTHING!!”

98. “Don’t define yourself by your body……it’s the infinite being that’s connected to everything in the universe.”

99. “One energy field. Our bodies have distracted us from our energy. We are the infinite field of unfolding possibilities—The creative force.”

100. “Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - NOW is the time to change them. You can begin right where you are right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on.”

101. The Secret is the key to everything - the secret to unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth: everything you have ever wanted.

Luck quotes

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky. - Dr. Armand Hammer
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. - Edward Gibbon
The day You decide to do it is your lucky day. - Japanese Proverb
Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer. - Author Unknown
Be where the luck is. - Steven Scott
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck. - Og Mandino
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. - Larry King
Luck is believing you're lucky. - Tennessee Williams
Everything in life is luck. - Donald Trump
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? - Jean Cocteau
Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck. - George S. Clason
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein
Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness. - Les Brown
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. - John Quincy Adams
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. - Demosthenes
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. - Henry Ford
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. - Seneca

The loser's guide to getting lucky

By Professor Richard Wiseman University of Hertfordshire
Why do some people get all the luck while others never get the breaks they deserve? A psychologist says he has discovered the answer.

Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck.
I wanted to know why some people are always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experience ill fortune.
I placed advertisements in national newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me.
Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research and, over the years, I have interviewed them, monitored their lives and had them take part in experiments.

Professor Wiseman's top tips

The results reveal that although these people have almost no insight into the causes of their luck, their thoughts and behaviour are responsible for much of their good and bad fortune.
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves
Larry KingTake the case of seemingly chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not.
I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities.
I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside.

Professor Wiseman's formula came too late for some...I had secretly placed a large message halfway through the newspaper saying: "Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win £250."
This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than two inches high.
Anxiety
It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it.
Everything in life is luck
Donald TrumpUnlucky people are generally more tense than lucky people, and this anxiety disrupts their ability to notice the unexpected.
As a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else.
They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends.
They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and miss other types of jobs.
Self-fulfilling prophecies
Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for.
Luck is believing you're lucky
Tennessee WilliamsMy research eventually revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four principles.
They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.
Towards the end of the work, I wondered whether these principles could be used to create good luck.
I asked a group of volunteers to spend a month carrying out exercises designed to help them think and behave like a lucky person.
Dramatic results
These exercises helped them spot chance opportunities, listen to their intuition, expect to be lucky, and be more resilient to bad luck.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it
Thomas JeffersonOne month later, the volunteers returned and described what had happened. The results were dramatic: 80% of people were now happier, more satisfied with their lives and, perhaps most important of all, luckier.
The lucky people had become even luckier and the unlucky had become lucky.
Finally, I had found the elusive "luck factor" .

Here are Professor Wiseman's four top tips for becoming lucky:
Listen to your gut instincts - they are normally right
Be open to new experiences and breaking your normal routine
Spend a few moments each day remembering things that went well
Visualise yourself being lucky before an important meeting or telephone call. Luck is very often a self-fulfilling prophecy

Law of attraction

Whenever you form an intention, that intention has two primary components. The first component is the content of the intention. The content is the information part of your desire. It’s whatever you decide you want, such as a new career, a better relationship, or an extra $10,000. That part is pretty straightforward.

The second component of an intention is the energy you bring to the intention. Some people describe this as a feeling, like passion or gratitude, but the feeling is actually the result of the energy, not the energy itself. However, you know there is energy in your intention when you connect strong feelings to it.

I’ll explain the energy component in more detail in a moment, but first let’s address…

Failure experiences with the Law of Attraction

I often hear people complain that they’ve dutifully and correctly applied the Law of Attraction, but their intentions just aren’t manifesting. Some of the more stubborn believers will continue beating their heads against the wall, using the same ineffective approach even though it generates no results week after week. (Please don’t do that to yourself.) Others give up within a matter of hours when their cappuccino grande fails to manifest, concluding that the whole Law of Attraction concept is bogus. (Please don’t do that to yourself either.)

I’ve previously written an article called Why Do Intentions Take So Long to Manifest? which covers some common problems people experience when trying (unsuccessfully) to apply the Law of Attraction. Now I want to address the most common mistake of all.

Content alone is not enough

Here’s the #1 mistake people make: They mistake content for complete intentions. The problem is that content alone isn’t enough because energy is an essential component of every intention.

Great content + no energy = an intention that won’t manifest anything but frustration.

Consider all the content that’s available to you on the Internet these days. Does that content just whiz around the world by itself? Of course not. Electricity is required to deliver it to you. Without electricity that content is dead in the water.

Suppose I write a new article for this web site, and before I can post it, my electricity goes out. Initially I’m frustrated that my content isn’t getting delivered to my readers. How do I solve this problem? Is the problem with the content itself? Do I need to improve the quality of the content… to write more content… or to post it on my wall? Those would be pretty stupid solutions, wouldn’t they? But that’s exactly what many people do when trying to “fix” their intentions that don’t seem to be working.

If you’re nitpicking the verbiage of your intentions, you’re like a writer nitpicking the wording of a private journal entry that no one else is going to read. It just doesn’t matter.

What is the energy component of an intention?

The energy of an intention isn’t the same thing as electricity, but it’s a good metaphor for understanding the concept. Don’t get hung up on the exact term — it’s the concept that’s important.

Many people refer to energy as the emotional juice you bring to an intention. That’s part of it, but strong emotions are the result, not the cause, of that energy.

If you want to see some high-energy intentions, look no further than children. Kids are intention-manifestation masters. When they really want something, there’s no mistaking it. They’ll ask for it, they’ll jump up and down, and they’ll drive everyone crazy expressing their desires. And assuming they don’t give up, kids are pretty darned good at manifesting what they want.

What kind of energy do you bring to your intentions? Do you speak of them like you’re talking about a piece of burnt toast? Or are you so juiced that you’re just dripping with enthusiasm?

I’m not suggesting you should behave like a kid throwing a sugar tantrum, but if you get more excited about the coming weekend than you do about your intention, well… the weekend will be the only thing you manifest.

Emotions measure intentional energy

As I mentioned earlier, strong emotions are actually the result of energy, not the cause of it. The value of emotions is that they let you know how much energy you’ve managed to pack into your intention. If you’re so gushingly enthusiastic about your intention that people keep telling you to shut up about it, you clearly have plenty of energy behind it.

So what’s the real source of this energy then?

The source of this energy is actually the universe itself. The energy is already there. You just need to connect some of it with your intention.

Consider how electricity works. The electrons are already sitting there in the wires of your home, and they start flowing when you flip a switch to complete the circuit, thereby creating a current and providing usable electrical power to your appliances. Although the electrons as particles move at a fairly slow pace, the electric field moves at the speed of light, so your appliances turn on right away.

Your intentions work much the same way. The energy is already there. You just need to get the current flowing in the right direction. And this has virtually nothing to do with the actual content of your intentions. Electricity doesn’t care whether it’s powering a computer or a coffee maker, nor does intentional energy care whether you’re building a business or a bomb.

Polarity

So how do you get this energy current flowing? First you need to understand the concept of polarity.

Going back to the electricity example. Imagine a battery. It has two terminals which are polar opposites of each other, one positive and one negative. If you hook the battery up to a circuit, electrons will flow in one direction, thereby creating a current. If you flip the battery around and hook it up the other way, you’ll reverse the flow of electrons through the wires, thereby creating an identical current in the opposite direction. (I’m trying to keep this analogy simple, so if you feel the need to out-nerd me by bringing up things like differential resistance, manifest a life.)

Now what if you wanted to increase the current flowing through your circuit? You could do that by adding more batteries, right? But in order for this to work, the batteries must be aligned to create a current in the same direction. If you put batteries into a device with some facing the correct way and some facing the wrong way, the device won’t work because you’ll screw up the current.

So what does this have to do with intention-manifestation? Well, the energy you apply to your intentions also has polarity, much like a battery. It can flow one way or the other way. You’ll know you have a strong intentional current when you experience strong emotions. No emotions means you have no current.

Many people screw up their intentional energy flow by trying to use both polarities in the same circuit. You can’t do that and expect to get good results with the Law of Attraction. It just won’t work. You must use either one polarity or the other, and you must remain congruent in your usage.

So what are the two polarities of intention-manifestation, and how do you apply them to build a strong intentional current? I’ll cover that in detail in my next article, so stay tuned. Update: here it is… Polarity

When you hold an intention to create something new in your life, such as a career change, a new relationship, or better health, at first you may see no results at all. But as you continue to hold the intention, eventually it does begin to manifest, sometimes almost miraculously. Synchronicities occur whereby new people and circumstances come into your life to make your intention first possible, then probable, and finally real.

But sometimes this process doesn’t seem to work. You hold an intention and get no measurable results. Other times the process works so slowly that you can’t be sure it’s having any effect.

Why do intentions take so long to manifest (or not at all)? Here are some common issues that can delay or derail your efforts at manifesting:

1. You fail to hold the intention.

Think of intentions like electromagnetic waves that flow out into the universe, as if you’re transmitting a radio signal. The universe receives your thoughts and reflects them back to you via the physical universe. The more thought and emotion you put into your intention, the stronger the wave you’re sending out, and the stronger will be the bounce-back reflection. Failing to hold an intention means you don’t put enough energy behind it. The reflection (i.e. the manifestation) may be so weak you can’t even detect it.

Perhaps the #1 reason people fail to hold an intention is a lack of persistence. Physical matter is really just energy, but it’s a very dense form of energy. It takes time for our thoughts to manifest here in the physical realm. On other planes of existence, such as in your dreams, matter is much less dense, so your thoughts can manifest far more quickly. In the astral realms your thoughts can manifest instantly. But in the physical universe, reality is more solid, yet it’s still powered by intention-manifestation. It just takes more energy to get things moving, so initially it may seem like they aren’t moving at all. It isn’t unusual to hold an intention religiously for a week or longer and see no apparent results. Then suddenly the floodgates open, and the manifestation comes pouring through.

If you put enough energy into your intentions, they may continue working behind the scenes even if you forget about them. Yesterday I found an old list of my intentions from 2003. I’d held these intentions for several weeks straight, then put them aside and forgot about them. To my delight I found that about 70% of those intentions had already manifested. I was amazed because I remember these intentions were a big stretch for me at the time I set them. One intention on that list was to create a massive personal development web site with hundreds of articles (voila!). Another intention was to move to Las Vegas (I’m here!). And another was to build a network of great local friends (I have amazing friends!). And still another intention was to create abundant freedom in my life (after finishing this article, I’m off to play 24 holes of disc golf at Sunset Park with a friend… not a bad way to spend a Monday morning). Another 20% of those intentions are currently in the process of manifesting — they’ve moved from possible-but-unlikely in 2003 to probable in 2006. And the final 10% were intentions I dropped because I no longer wanted them. Reviewing this list really blew me away.

If you want your intentions to manifest more readily, I suggest developing the daily habit of holding your intentions using the 30-day trial method. Currently I practice holding my intentions at least twice a day, usually during meditation. Whenever you find yourself waiting somewhere with nothing to do, mentally focus your thoughts on what you want to create in your life. Imagine your greatest desires becoming real.

2. You put no energy behind the intention.

When it comes to intentions, emotion equals energy. If you aren’t really passionate about an intention, it’s like turning on a flashlight with no batteries. Don’t pick intentions just because you feel like you should want them or because everyone else seems to value them. Be honest with yourself about what you really want.

The most powerful intentions are those that will help you manifest joy.

3. You hold a fuzzy intention.

The best intentions are clear and focused. Be specific. If you want money, specify the exact amount, or join the Million Dollar Experiment. General intentions have very little power. Make your intentions like lasers instead of candle flames, and you’ll see them manifest much more quickly.

4. You inadvertently cancel the intention.

Every thought is an intention. One of the greatest challenges with intention-manifestation is that you must drop all thoughts that conflict with your desired intention. You cannot hold thoughts like, “I hate being depressed,” while intending to be happy. “I hate being depressed” is an intention to remain depressed.

Virtually every day I get emails from people who write things like, “I’m so depressed, and I hate it.” Of course they’re depressed — they just intended it… with emotion. If you want to use intention-manifestation successfully, you must stop acknowledging what you don’t want. To acknowledge what you don’t want is to intend it, which means you will simply perpetuate its ongoing manifestation. I’m not suggesting that you live in denial — quite the opposite in fact. Remove your intention from what you don’t want, and shift it over to what you do what. You should be more concerned with living in denial of your dreams. Depressed people live in denial of joy. Broke people live in denial of abundance. People in unhappy relationships live in denial of love. Acknowledge the reality you want to create more than the one you wish to leave behind.

Imagine driving a car. If you look where you’ve been (in the rear-view mirror), you’ll crash. If you look where you already are (straight down at the road), you’ll be stuck there. To drive successfully you must look where you want to go. Looking at the road ahead doesn’t mean you’re in denial of where you are. You can still see where you are via your peripheral vision. Live your life the same way. If you like where you are right now, get out and look around all you want. Enjoy it. But if you find yourself in a bad neighborhood you’d prefer to pass through quickly (such as depression), then just observe it peripherally while staying focused on the road ahead. Don’t set up camp in a place you don’t want to be.

5. Your intention conflicts with your beliefs.

Imagine shining a flashlight at the sun. No effect, right? You’re firing an intention into an overpowering field of pre-existing beliefs. This would be like holding the intention to become a billionaire when your thoughts are overloaded with limiting beliefs about why that would be impossible for you. If you try to hold an intention that conflicts with your dominant beliefs, that intention will simply fizzle and die.

Every night in Las Vegas, the Luxor Hotel shines a intense beam of light up into the starry sky. This beam is visible from anywhere in the city (and reportedly even from space). We locals even use it as a navigational beacon. If you put out strong intentions where you don’t have many conflicting beliefs, those intentions will tend to manifest rapidly. This is the part of your life where you have the greatest control. You’re going with the flow.

Even though you may not be able to tackle your dominant beliefs head-on, you can still work around the edges of them. This is where I tend to get my best results. Set intentions which are just a little beyond your comfort zone but which will make a real difference in your life when they manifest.

When applying intention-manifestation, be patient with yourself. When you slip, don’t fall. If you catch yourself succumbing to mental laziness, fuzziness, or negative thinking, simply turn your attention back to what you want. With practice you’ll build mental discipline, and you’ll find it easier to stay focused on your desires without so much internal resistance. And then you’ll find your intentions manifesting much more smoothly and effortlessly.








How Often Each Day Should I Read or Say My Desire Statement?
The purpose of the Desire Statement is to support you in giving attention, energy and focus to your newly birthed desire. It teaches you how to add language to your desires so that they feel good. The key to the Desire Statement is it needs to be TRUE for you. You'll notice that one of the recommended sentences is "I love how it feels knowing...." Using this sentence allows you to state your desire in a way that makes it true for you. When it is true for you, you send out a positive vibration. It’s not a matter of how often you read or say your Desire Statement each day. Your goal is to give your desire positive attention, knowing that as you do that you are sending out a positive vibration.

Once you create a Desire Statement, you have completed step 1 and 2 of the three-step Law of Attraction formula. Now your work is to Allow. Spend most of your time and energy there. Keep finding proof that you are manifesting something that is in alignment to your desire. When you celebrate and acknowledge something you have manifested, this proof helps remove the doubt and negative vibrations that prevent you from receiving your desire.

In short, it’s not about how often you do each step of the Law of Attraction formula. The key point is to send out or offer a positive vibration with respect to your desire. Identify what you want, give positive attention, energy and focus to it, and remove the doubt and negative vibration you may be sending by celebrating proof as you find it.

How Do I Know if I'm Getting Any of This Law of Attraction Stuff?
This is a popular question people ask me. How do I know if I am mastering the art of Deliberate Attraction? Is there an advanced course I can take? My answer is always the same. "The application of this material into your daily life IS the advanced course!" To help you gauge where you're at in the mastery of Law of Attraction, I've compiled a list of seven sure-fire ways to tell if YOU are joining the thousands of people who really are mastering this stuff.

7 TOP indicators that I am mastering Law of Attraction:

1. I understand and accept that Law of Attraction is a process which consists of gradually reducing the negative vibrational patterns I have towards some areas in my life and replacing them with positive thoughts. Through the intentional and deliberate use of the tools of Law of Attraction, I see evidence that my allowing is gradually increasing.

2. Over time I am seeing some behavioral changes in myself. Even though I constantly hear others using don't, not and no, I have eventually stopped using these words out loud. Each time I catch myself even thinking these words, I automatically ask myself the question "So, what DO I want?" I know that when I change my words, my vibration changes, and I can only hold one vibration at a time.

3. I've noticed over time that I am observing contrast (anything that doesn't feel good to me), more and more briefly.

4. I've noticed that I am having fewer and fewer experiences of negative people and events in my life.

5. It has become second nature for me to be aware of many, many more things that I can appreciate and express gratitude for.

6. I find myself automatically assigning all my new desires to Law of Attraction. When I want something new in my life I say "I'm using Law of Attraction to get that!"

7. I understand the expression "I get what I vibrate" and I hold myself fully accountable for everything that shows up in my life, both positive and negative!

Abundance is a Feeling by Michael Losier
This question and answer interview was done by Kathy Smith, one of Michael’s loyal Virtual Assistants. Visit her website.

Q: Michael, many times during your teleclasses and seminars, you say “abundance is a feeling.” Can you elaborate on that statement – what do you mean it’s a feeling?

First one of the important things that we’ve come to learn with the Law of Attraction is that we can duplicate feelings. In other words, just through the words I use I can stimulate somebody or discourage them. In short, we can create feelings within ourselves and within others by what we say and what we think.

Abundance is a feeling. Do you ever notice how excited you feel when you know you have a check coming or when you know you’re getting an income tax refund? The excitement you’re experiencing is the feeling of abundance. We feel abundant knowing that it’s coming, even before we put it in the bank. So a question to ask is, “Do I feel abundant knowing that I’m receiving some money or do I feel abundant only when I put it in my bank account?” For most people, they feel abundant knowing that it’s coming. It has nothing to do with whether that have it or not.

So because abundance is a feeling, and the Law of Attraction responds to feelings (vibrations), what if we were able to duplicate the vibration of abundance deliberately? (This is what’s called Deliberate Attraction). We’ve come to understand that this powerful force called the Law of Attraction is constantly checking to find a vibration that we’re sending and duplicates it by giving us more of the same. So what if when the Law of Attraction is checking at every moment, that in that moment, we are offering the vibration of abundance? Given the formula, the Law of Attraction would duplicate that vibration and bring us more of the same. That’s why it’s called the Law.

Q: How do you teach people to attract more abundance?

The Law of Attraction does not care why you are offering a vibration. In other words, it does not care whether you are remembering, pretending, complaining, creating, day-dreaming or observing your reality. It obediently duplicates that vibration. So ideally, we would find something that makes us feel abundant and include it more often in our daily vibration. There are a number of tools that people can use to duplicate the vibration of abundance. I’ll give you one of them today.

Q: How do you record abundance in your own life?

On my fridge, I have 15 – 2 dollar winning lottery tickets. So I can clearly and truthfully say I won the lottery 15 times last month. I’m a winner. Look how many times I’ve won! It’s worth 30 dollars to me in the bank and it’s worth much more to me vibrationally.

You know when people buy those lottery scratch tickets? Most would celebrate the win for 21 seconds. So for 21 seconds, you are offering the vibration of abundance by saying things like, “Hey I just won 2 dollars! I love it when I win scractch tickets!” And after the short offering of abundance vibration, most people cash the ticket in again and again until they lose. And now they catch themselves saying, “I just wasted money on this lottery again. I only ever win 2 dollars. Easy come, easy go.” Now they’re in a place of offering a negative vibration.

So here’s how to take advantage of the 2 dollar winning lottery ticket. Don’t cash it. Keep it in your wallet. Put it on your fridge. And as you look at it each time, it will be a brief reminder that you won 2 dollars. Now you can tell yourself, I won the lottery! I won money this week! And now, for more than 21 seconds, you are offering the vibration of abundance over and over and over again. Your 2 dollar winning lottery ticket is worth more to you vibrationally than the 2 dollars.

Believing is the Absence of Doubt
Ha! You've heard the expression "Just believe it and it will come." Well, technically, that is true. However, 'believing' is not just thinking that you can have it; it is also feeling that it is possible. When we believe that we can "have it," that means we have no doubt in receiving it.

In the formula for Deliberate Attraction:

(1) Identify Desire

(2) Raise the Vibration (feeling)

(3) Allow it

The allowing of your desire can come to you very quickly providing you have no resistance to receiving it.

Resistance = Doubt

When you remove the 'doubt' that you can have what you want, you are allowing and that is how it can come to you.

Tools for allowing:

There are a number of tools, techniques and strategies that can help you remove the doubt (resistance). Here is one that I like best.

Ask yourself this question:

"Is there anyone on the planet doing or having what you desire?"

For example, if your desire is to attract your ideal client, or your ideal relationship, then you could ask yourself "Is there anyone on the planet who has attracted their ideal client?"

Yes! There are millions of people on the planet who have attracted their ideal clients.

NOW THIS FEELS POSSIBLE!

And when it feels possible, you have removed doubt.

And when you remove the doubt, the universal Law of Attraction can bring your desires to you.

When using the formula for Deliberate Attraction, spend most of your time "Allowing," as it determines how quickly, or slowly, your desires will come to you.


f you really commit yourself to the idea, can you earn $1 from doing something you love?

Very often people who are stuck in the pattern of doing work they dislike will shun simple opportunities to earn small amounts of money doing something they love. They assume that if they could only earn a few bucks here and there doing what they love, then what’s the point? They won’t consider it unless they’re convinced such work will bring in some serious money… more than enough to cover all their expenses. A few dollars is just too trivial and pointless.

That mindset is a huge, huge mistake.

If you want to make a living (a great living), doing work you truly love, then a necessary first step is to earn that first dollar.

Be willing to receive
Allow that first dollar to arrive. Allow yourself to receive it. Make it feel welcomed even when it isn’t accompanied by 10,000 friends.

The first day I generated any real income from StevePavlina.com was February 14, 2005. Hmmm… I didn’t even realize until now that it was Valentine’s Day. How disgustingly appropriate! Now back to our story… That was the first day I put some ads on the site. I earned a whopping $2.36 from ad clicks.

I’d been blogging for 4-1/2 months at that point, so I already had dozens of articles on the site. I might have had a few affiliate links up before then, but they really didn’t perform. So Feb 14, 2005 was basically the first day StevePavlina.com began to earn any real income.

Now was it worth my time to do all of that work just to earn enough to buy a gallon of gasoline? (This was back when gasoline was less than $2 per gallon — today you’ll need a lot more ad clicks for that same gallon.)

Twenty months later my daily income from this website had increased by more than 500 times. Don’t scoff at the extra few bucks when they show up. If you treat them well, they may tell their friends about you. Since dollar bills can really get around, they often make a lot of friends.

When you accept that first love dollar, you tell the universe, “Okay, I’m willing to be paid for this kind of work. Can you bring me more opportunities like this?” And the universe will say, “Absolutely… no problem.”

But when you block yourself from receiving that first love dollar, you tell the universe, “No, thanks. I don’t want to be paid for doing what I love. I’d rather make a living doing what I hate. Then I’ll take my leftover energy and try to do what I love on the side. Please give this golden opportunity to someone else. I’m too busy implementing my plan for lifelong unhappiness.”

Accept the opportunity — in your pajamas if necessary
When the opportunity to earn that first love dollar arrives, it probably won’t be wrapped in a beautiful gift box with a bow on top. It will more likely sneak in the back door when you aren’t even looking.

When you catch a glimpse of that opportunity, your first inclination will be to say, “Sorry, this isn’t a good time. I’m in my pajamas. Would you please come back later?”

Of course if you do that, the universe will reply, “Argh… wrong vibration. This bozo ain’t ready. Next!”

The correct response is to accept the opportunity even while you’re still in your pajamas. Just run with it. Try to maintain a playful, childlike spirit.

The next time you feel inclined to turn down an opportunity to earn money (even a puny amount of money) doing something you love, give yourself a good smack upside the head, and do it anyway.

Remember this quote from the movie Ghostbusters: When someone asks if you’re a god, you say, “YES!”

Intend the opportunity
If you’ve never noticed any opportunities in your life to earn love money, you are really, really, really blind. Such opportunities are everywhere. When you train yourself to start noticing them, you’ll see them everywhere. You’ll start seeing so many of them, you won’t even know what to do with yourself.

Even if you’ve been (consciously or subconsciously) rejecting opportunities to earn some genuine love money, you’re always free to request another chance.

Take a moment to set this intention right now: I am now noticing and accepting an opportunity to earn at least one dollar from doing something I love.

Feel free to rephrase that intention (including the currency and the amount) however you like until it feels right to you. Just keep it positive and in the present tense. The exact phrasing isn’t really that important though. The most important element is whether or not you can feel the reality of the intention.

As you think about that intention, imagine it becoming real. How would you feel if it actually happened? Grateful? Amused? Surprised? Impressed? Put yourself in that place of feeling those feelings. Take a minute to do this right now even before you read the next sentence.

I’ll even do this with you. I’m already earning quite a bit from doing what I love, but consciously intending more of it certainly can’t hurt. Maybe I’ll notice an unusual opportunity I’ve been overlooking.

This reminds me of something that happened at the gym this morning. I started exercising on one of the elliptical machines, and I noticed the water bottle holder on this particular machine had a bunch of coins in it — some pennies and some dimes. It was probably around 35 cents total. I left the money for someone else to find, but the point is that I could have gotten paid for doing something I enjoyed if I’d accepted the cash in exchange for exercising. I would have earned about a penny a minute. Hey, it’s a start — toward what I don’t know — but I doubt it was random chance I picked that particular machine today when there were dozens of others to choose from.

Most likely when you hold this intention, something will come up within the next few days. I usually see an alpha reflection for my intentions within about 48 hours. In this case my alpha reflection already happened in the past, but I didn’t recognize it until now. Sometimes that happens. As soon as you notice your intention coming into physical reality, accept what you get and run with it. See where it leads. Don’t worry about whether or not it will lead to massive riches.

Take the inspiration and run with it
Often opportunities will manifest in the form of ideas. Your job is to turn those ideas into action.

Here are some random ideas for earning $1 doing something you may enjoy.

Some guy earned about $5 auctioning his air guitar on eBay. Surely you could earn $1 auctioning something you created. (In case you don’t know what an air guitar is, it’s nothing but air — it doesn’t even exist!)
Write a poem, an article, or a song. Share it with as many people as you can, and ask if they’ll pay you a quarter for the value they received from it. Get four people to say yes, and you’ve earned your dollar. If no one agrees to pay you, ask them what you could create that would be worth at least a quarter to them.
Ask someone if they’ll pay you $1 for a 10-minute neck and shoulder massage (assuming you enjoy massaging people).
Ask someone if they’ll pay you $1 for you to listen to them talk about anything for 10 minutes. You can market it as inexpensive therapy.
Ask someone you know if they’ll pay you $1 to brainstorm 20 potential solutions to one of their problems.
As simple as these ideas are, if you actually take this exercise seriously and go do it, it shouldn’t be that difficult to earn your first dollar doing something you enjoy. Although the money you earn may be financially insignificant for the time invested, it will feel good to get paid doing something that doesn’t feel like work to you.

If you find a way to make a small amount of money doing what you love, you can gradually earn more. Maybe at first you’re earning a rather pathetic, unstable, unreliable income. That’s perfectly okay. If you keep at it, several things will happen.

First, if you really enjoy what you’re doing, you’ll get better at it. You’ll be able to build your skills much faster than people who hate their work. It’s really hard to compete against someone who loves their work.

Second, if you work cheap and produce halfway decent quality, you’ll start to get repeat business. If you can give a good $1 massage, it’s a safe bet that your happy clients will come back and request another — even if they’re just friends or coworkers. A 50-minute Swedish massage at a decent spa in Las Vegas typically runs about $150. $1 for 10 minutes is a real bargain.

Third, people will start to refer new clients to you. They may even gift their friends with your $1 massage.

Fourth, you can re-invest what little money you make to improve your service. Eventually you’ll be able to buy some scented candles, a relaxation CD, massage oil, a massage chair, a massage table, etc. You might buy a book on massage techniques or become a certified massage therapist. But initially all that matters is that you enjoy giving someone a back rub and hearing them moan with pleasure.

All of these factors work synergistically. If you keep at it, you’ll eventually get so much repeat business and so many referrals that you’ll absolutely have to raise your prices to keep up with the demand. Eventually you’ll be able to make a good living doing what you love.

Finally, when you get good enough, you can earn even more money teaching others to do the same.

Erin’s story
This is exactly what happened with Erin. A few years ago, she began doing psychic readings for people — just for free at first. The feedback was very positive, so she started offering her readings via her website. She didn’t earn a lot of money at first, but her prices were low for her skill level, so she was able to attract a steady stream of clients.

After doing readings for a while, Erin’s early clients began booking their second and third readings, and they also started referring their friends and family to her. Erin started getting more clients than she could handle, so her waiting list began to grow.

Eventually Erin began hearing complaints from clients who didn’t want to wait so long to get a reading, so she raised her prices to restore balance. This pattern kept repeating itself several more times… with further price increases dictated by supply and demand.

Two years ago a 30-minute phone reading with Erin was $55. Today a 30-minute phone reading with her is $295, and a 60-minute reading is $395. She keeps working to improve her skills, and she continues to get lots of repeat business and referrals. Erin is now earning five figures a month from her psychic readings with no end in sight.

When I first met Erin in 1994, she was working as a secretary for $9 per hour. Even then she was very psychic. She loved talking about her intuitive impressions, and she prided herself on being able to read people accurately. She used to take me to the Psychic Eye bookstore and explain various oddities to me. Occasionally we’d splurge on a 15-minute reading with one of the psychics, and she’d comment on it afterwards. At one point she took a retail sales job in a different metaphysical bookshop where there were psychics doing readings. More than a decade ago, she was surrounded by opportunities to get started on the path of doing her own readings, but she kept turning them down because she was still in her pajamas.

What recurring themes — what opportunities — keep resurfacing in your life… even as you repeatedly turn your back on them?

Say yes!
I think we’re often sent small opportunities to test our readiness. If we block those small opportunities, we’re broadcasting that we aren’t ready to receive the bigger ones yet.

Say yes to small opportunities to receive love money, and bigger ones will surely come your way.

Sometimes we get so wrapped up in what we’re already doing that we don’t allow ourselves to receive the golden opportunities that come to us. We don’t answer the knock because we’re too busy paying attention to what we already have… instead of noticing the arrival of exactly what we’ve been longing for.

Don’t make the mistake of intending what you want and then rejecting it when it arrives, especially if that first package is smaller and less exciting than you’d like. Prove to the universe that you’re willing to receive the small package with love and gratitude, and bigger opportunities will soon follow. If you fail to accept the small packages, you’re telling the universe you aren’t ready for the bigger ones.

That first dollar of love money is more important than you think. Don’t downplay its significance. Don’t tell it you’re too busy. Don’t slam the door when it asks to come inside. Treat that love dollar like royalty. Prove to it that you’ll be a good host for its thousands of friends.

What can you do within the next 24 hours to earn $1 from doing something you love? If you’re already doing work you love, how can you earn an extra dollar from doing something else you love but have never been paid for?

How can I earn an extra dollar from exercising? Hmmm…

One of the key models for goal achievement is that of cause and effect. This model says that your goal is an effect to be achieved, and your task is to identify and then create the cause that will produce the desired effect, thereby achieving your goal.

Sounds simple enough, right?

However, the main problem with this model is that nearly everyone seriously misunderstands it. And that misunderstanding comes from not knowing what a “cause” really is.

You might assume that the cause of an effect would be a series of physical and mental actions leading up to that effect. Action-reaction. If your goal is to make dinner, then you might think the cause would be the series of preparation steps.

To an outside observer, that certainly appears to be the case. The scientific method would suggest that this is how things work, based on a purely objective observation.

However, within your own consciousness, you know that the series of action steps is not the real cause. The actions are themselves an effect, aren’t they?

What’s the real cause? The real cause is the decision you made to create that effect in the first place. That’s the moment you said to yourself, “Let it be” or “make it so.” At some point you decided to make dinner. That decision may have been subconscious, but it was still a decision. Without that decision the dinner would never manifest. That decision ultimately caused the whole series of actions and finally the manifestation of your dinner.

Where does that decision arise from? It might arise from your subconscious, or in the case of conscious decisions, it arises from your consciousness. Ultimately your consciousness is the greater power, as it can override subconscious choices once it becomes aware of them.

Missing this very simple distinction has contributed to quite a number of failed goals.

If you want to achieve a goal you’ve set, the most crucial part is to DECIDE to manifest it. It doesn’t matter if you feel it’s outside your control to do so. It doesn’t matter if you can’t yet see how you’ll get from A to B. Most of those resources will come online AFTER you’ve made the decision, not before.

If you don’t understand this simple step, then you will waste a lot of time. Step 1 is to decide. Not to ruminate or to ponder or to ask around and see whether or not you can do it. If you want to start your own business, then decide to make it so. If you want to be married and have a family, then decide to attract a mate. If you want to change careers, then decide to do so.

It blows my mind that people think that something else has to come before the decision. People waste months trying to figure out, “Is this goal possible?” And this makes a lot of sense to do so if you’re at a certain level of consciousness. But all you’re really doing is creating delay, and you’ll simply manifest evidence to suggest that the goal is both possible and not possible. You think doubt in your head, you find doubt in the world.

Time and again I’ve seen evidence that not only people, but the universe itself, can sense a lack of commitment to a goal. Have you ever heard someone tell you about a goal of theirs, and you can just sense how wishy-washy and uncertain they are about it? They say things like, “Well, I’m going to try this and see how it goes. Hopefully it will work out OK.” Is that evidence that a clear decision has been made? Not remotely. Are you going to help this person? Probably not — who wants to waste their time on someone who isn’t committed?

But what happens when you sense total certainty in the other person? Will you help them if they ask for it? You’re far more likely to help a committed person because you can tell they’re eventually going to succeed anyway, and you want to be part of that success. You even feel more energized and motivated yourself to contribute to the success of people who are very clearly committed to a goal that resonates with you and which is genuinely for the greatest good of all.

Don’t you think this process works the same way within your own mind? If your consciousness is divided against itself, do you think it will commit all its internal resources to your goal? Will your subconscious give you all the energy and creativity it possibly could, or will it hold back? Think of your subconscious mind as a multi-tasking computer processor. What percentage of resources will it devote to a task that you’ve told it to execute with the words, “Run this for a little bit and see if it works, but quickly dump it if it seems too difficult”? Now what if you gave that CPU a process labeled, “Run this now”?

The universe itself works on the same principle. Think of it as the superconscious mind. When you’ve made a clear, committed decision, it will open the universal floodgates, bringing you all the resources you need, sometimes in seemingly mysterious or impossible ways.

Whenever you want to set a new goal for yourself, start by setting it. Take the time to become clear about what you want, but then just declare it.

Say to the universe, “Here is the goal. Make it so.”

Do not ask the universe for what you want. Declare it. Don’t ask. This is very similar to prayer, but you are not praying FOR what you want. You are praying WHAT you want. You are simply saying, “Here it is. Make it so.” It is like planting a seed in the ground. You do not say to the ground, “Here is the seed. Please, can you make it grow?” You simply plant the seed, and it will grow as a natural consequence of your planting and tending to it. It is the same with your intentions. Simply plant them. There’s no need to beg.

Intend that your goal manifest in such a manner that is for the greatest good of all. This is very important, as intentions that are created out of fear or a sense of lack will backfire. You may get what you want, but it will yield a bitter aftertaste. Or you may get the exact opposite of what you want. But intentions that are genuinely made for your own good and the greatest good of all will tend to manifest in a positive way.

After I declare my intention, I wait for the resources and synchronicities to arrive. Usually they begin to manifest in 24-48 hours, sometimes sooner. Sometimes these synchronicities appear to be the result of subconscious action. I just happen to notice things that may have been there all along, but now I see them in a new light, and they become resources for me that I never noticed until after I declared my intention. But many times it’s nearly impossible to explain such synchronicities as the result of my own subconscious action, even if I step back and try to look at them purely objectively. Sometimes they come in such unusual avalanches that I can only explain them as the result of superconscious action. On some level the universe itself is aware of my intention and is doing its part to help manifest it. I also find that the more inviting I am of these synchronicities, the more easily they flow. Right now I typically experience about 10 per week on average, and I think that’s because I have many different intentions in the process of manifesting, so there’s a constant flow of resources coming to me.

The mental and physical planning and action steps come later. That’s how I organize the resources that have arrived. Once enough resources have come to me, I can begin to see how they all fit together to achieve the goal. But if the path seems too complicated or difficult and I don’t like what I see, I put out some new intentions to make it the way I want it to be. I declare, “Let it be simpler.” I again wait for the synchronicities to arrive, and a simpler approach becomes clear. Usually for an approach to be simpler, it means I have to get past some personal block within me. I have to grow on some level in order to be able to take advantage of a simpler solution. Or perhaps I have to learn a new skill first. So while it might be simpler, it might also be harder on a personal level. For example, by putting out the intention to do more to help people, I had to develop my communication skills. That makes the goal easier to achieve, but it’s more work up front.

It took me a number of years to be able to trust this approach before I could begin to use it as my default manner of goal achievement. I have to be open to achieving goals in unusual ways sometimes. I get what I intend, but not always what I expect. So when the synchronicities begin dropping me clues, I do not always understand how they’ll be part of the path to the goal. But invariably there’s an intelligence at work, and if I trust it, it will work just fine. Usually it will bring me new information first, so I can raise my own awareness and knowledge to the level required to achieve the goal.

For example, if you declare your goal to become wealthier, within a few days you might see all sorts of synchronicities related to spirituality. They may seem to have nothing to do with wealth whatsoever. So you figure it’s just a coincidence, and the approach isn’t working. But the approach is sound, and it is working. Most likely it’s a signal that the path to wealth first requires you to improve your consciousness. This is especially true if your intention was for the highest good of all. If you become wealthy before your energy and consciousness have reached a certain level, then greater material wealth may only feed your problems — your goal cannot yet manifest for the greatest good of all. But if you first learn to use your energy and consciousness positively, then the greater resources that wealth provides you will be a positive manifestation instead of a negative one.

In truth this is a simple and direct process. But our minds are so cluttered with the flotsam and jetsam of social conditioning that we have a hard time thinking on this level. We get so attached to seeing our goals manifest a certain way because that’s how they manifest in TV shows or in movies. Or maybe that’s how our parents or friends did it. But this attachment to a particular “how” blocks us from allowing our goals to manifest far more easily. If we could loosen up a bit on the “how” and just learn to allow the manifestation to occur in its own perfect way, goal achievement would be far easier.

So often I see people sabotage their own goals because they do not understand the power of intention. Realize that EVERY thought is truly an intention. Every thought. So most people manifest a cluttered mish-mash of conflict in their lives because their thoughts are in conflict. They simultaneously set a goal and then unset it. “I want to start my own business.” “I wonder if it will work.” “I wonder if I’ll succeed.” “Maybe this won’t work.” “Maybe John is right, and this is a mistake.” “No, I’m pretty sure it will work just fine.”

If you are trying to achieve goals on the level of action-reaction, meaning that you’re purely focused on the action steps, while at the higher level of intention-manifestation, you’re putting out conflicting thoughts, then you’re sabotaging yourself. If you go on a diet and exercise like crazy, while all the while thinking, “I’m fat. This is hopeless. This is taking too long,” then your higher level intentions will override your actions, and negative or incongruent results will follow.

If you want to achieve a goal, you must clear out all the “hopefully” and “maybe” and “can’t” nonsense from your consciousness. You cannot allow yourself the luxury of a negative thought, and that is an intention to manifest what you don’t want. This takes practice of course, but it is the essential art of learning to use your consciousness to create what you want. When you are congruent in your thoughts, your goal will manifest with ease. But when you are incongruent in your thoughts, you will manifest conflict and obstacles. As within, so without.

Why is it you’re able to do this? Because you have that power. Not believing in yourself simply means you’re using your own power against yourself. You’re like a god saying, “Let me be powerless,” and you don’t even realize it. If you think/intend weakness, you manifest weakness. If you project your power outside yourself and onto the external world, you lose your power.

You don’t need anyone’s permission to do this. It is a natural human ability. But it takes practice to develop your consciousness to the level where you can apply it and especially to learn to trust it.

What happens if you decide to manifest a really, really big goal, one that seems physically impossible? The process will still work. It’s just that there will be a lot more steps, and you may be led through various synchronicities for years before you’ve reached the point where your ultimate goal can manifest. It might take longer than your human lifetime if the goal is so big. But you will certainly make progress if you use this approach.

So what is your goal? Say it out loud right now, and let it be for the greatest good of all. Then say to the universe, “Make it so.” Wait for the synchronicities and unusual coincidences to arrive. Follow them where they want to lead you, even if it seems strange at first. Allow your goal to manifest.