Burning, lustful passion for what I want
Posted on June 22, 2009 in the Breakthroughs, Goals, Law of Attraction, Manifesting, Mike's Posts category
On Thursday I was having a great "What do you want to do when you grow up?" conversation with a successful businessman. He knows and supports my efforts as an abstract artist, but he had a sneaking suspicion that I was still not moving toward a larger goal that I had set for myself. This conversation was awkward and it must have felt like pulling teeth on his end.
While I was saying how I'm interested in doing something in the holistic field (including but not limited to energy work, massage, conscious movement and sound therapy), he kept asking "why". My answer was "because there's never an end to that stuff. There's always more to explore and experience." Being a creator profile, I know that I am most inspired to develop a project and move on.
Then he said something that struck me. "You have to find something that you want to do so much that the desire is almost sexual." It might sound weird that a business mentor would say that to me, but it was incredibly useful.
Think about it all the energy and thought that is put into sexual desire. Now imagine being so inspired to do a project or to change something that you can't pull yourself away from it if you tried. THAT'S what I need to being into my life. I do get in that mode when I am taking my photos and editing them, but it usually depends on outside stimuli, such as a really interesting wall or graffiti that I can't wait to take pictures of.
I can't say that I've experienced that driven, passionate, lustful feeling on any project for a prolonged period of time. And I think that's exactly what needs to change.
I am committed to rediscovering any burning desires/passions that I have this week. I'll post again when I figure it out!
What Do I Want And Why Do I Want It Game
Posted on June 15, 2009 in the Goals, Law of Attraction, Manifesting, Namaste's Posts, Real Life category
I’ve been studying a lot of Abraham Hick’s materials these past few months. If you are not familiar with Abraham Hicks check out their website at www.abraham-hicks.com for more info. To me the following quote sums up their work perfectly….
For every pleasing thing, there is an unpleasing counterpart, for within every particle of the Universe is that which is wanted as well as the lack of that which is wanted. When you focus upon an unwanted aspect of something in an effort to push it away from you, it only comes closer, because you get what you give your attention to whether it is something that you want or not. It is up to you to focus upon and attract what is wanted.
— Abraham
I’m really making a point to incorporate the lessons Abraham teaches into my life. What I’m finding is that focusing on what I want, instead of what I do not want, is a skill. It is so easy to talk about the things I do not want. It is so easy to put my attention on what is NOT working. I know that by focusing on what I do not want, I’m only bringing it closer to me. I know it, yet I still do it. I’ve realized that me talking about what I do not want is a habit. It actually is just as easy to talk about what I do want. I just have to create the habit of doing that.
I was talking to my girlfriend a few weeks ago about this situation. Her name is Regina by the way. She is a law of attraction coach. Her website is www.magnetic-ally.com. What qualifies her to be a law of attraction coach? Her real world experiences with the law of attraction. Most people go to law of attraction seminars, read law of attraction books, and listen to law of attraction audios and do nothing with the information. She takes what she learns and applies it again and again and again. She is intense! I love getting coached by her because she isn’t coaching me based on some info she read about. She only coaches based on what her experience have shown her to be true. She’s been studying and applying the law of attraction for 12 years. Her experience and depth of knowledge on the subject is incredible. I learn something new from her every time we hang out. I’m a really lucky guy.
Sorry I got off on a tangent there for a second. Like I said Regina and I were talking about how it really is a skill to talk about what we want, instead of what we do not want. We ended up coming up with a game to help us create the habit of talking about what we want. We call it the WHAT WE WANT AND WHY WE WANT IT GAME. When we catch ourselves talking (or thinking) about what we do not want, we stop, and then we correct ourselves by saying what we want and why we want it. It feels SO GOOD when I do this!
To remind ourselves all day long that we are playing this game we each wear a rubber bracelet. Regina’s bracelet says “WHAT DO I WANT?” on the front. On the back her bracelet says “WHY DO I WANT IT?” She had her bracelet made at www.wristbandconnection.com. It was the only site that would allow her to make only 1 rubber wrist band. All the other rubber wristband sites wanted her to order 100 or more for the initial order. The total cost for her bracelet and shipping was under $15.00. I didn’t have a bracelet made because I already wear my white ONE bracelet everyday. I’m a big supporter of the ONE organization. Their goal is to fight against extreme poverty and hunger, particularly in Africa. I included the info on the ONE organization because I wanted to see if you caught it. Did you? What am I talking about? Look at what the ONE organization is focused on. They are focused on fighting extreme poverty. Guess what they are attracting more of by focusing on extreme poverty? You got it! Talking about what we want, instead of what we do not want, really is a skill that everyone could use. The goal of our game is to keep our bracelets on the same wrist for 21 days (everyone knows it takes 21 days to create a habit). We switch our bracelets when we catch ourselves talking about what we do not want and correct ourselves by talking about what we do want. We’ve been playing the game now for about two weeks and so far I haven’t been able to keep my bracelet on the same wrist for an entire day. That’s ok though because I’m in the game and one day I really will only think and talk about what I want!
Can you imagine how cool it would be to ONLY talk about what you want? I’m chomping at the bit for this experience. I really
believe it will speed up my manifestations a thousand percent. I invite you to play the game with Regina and I. Please send me an e-mail if you’d like to play the game. When we get 5 people playing, I’m going to begin collecting stories from everyone about how their manifestations are speeding up. Once a month I’m going to send those stories out in an e-mail to everyone. I’m going to close this blog post with my favorite quote from Abraham Hicks, “Life is SUPPOSED to be fun!”
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The Secret Law of Attraction as Explained by Napoleon Hill
Posted on May 21, 2009 in the Law of Attraction, Manifesting, Namaste's Monthly category
I had a feeling to walk into Borders Books on my day off. I found a book called THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION As Explained by Napoleon Hill. It's awesome! The authors took all the references to the law of attraction out of THINK AND GROW RICH and THE LAW OF SUCCESS IN SIXTEEN LESSONS and put it into this book. It's so cool to have Napoleon Hill explain the law of attraction!
I love this poem I found in THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION As Explained by Napoleon Hill….
You never can tell what your thoughts will do
In bringing you hate or love,
For thoughts are things, and their airy wings
Are swifter that a carrier dove.
They follow the law of the universe,
Each thing must create its kind,
And they speed o'er the track to bring you back
Whatever went out from your mind.
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I’ve Been Seeing 111’s A LOT!
Posted on May 12, 2009 in the Law of Attraction, Manifesting, Namaste's Posts, Questions and Answers, Real Life, Success category
I don't remember when it began happening. I think it was about a year ago. All of a sudden I began seeing a lot of the same numbers at the same time. I'd look at the clock and it would be 1:11. Or I'd see a text message and it would be time stamped 11:11. Then my girlfriend began finding a lot of single dimes and single pennies at the same time. She told me about this and then it started happening to me too. A few days ago I found 1 penny and 1 dime on three separate occasions. Why is this important? Became 1 penny and 1 dime add up to 11 cents.
Every time I see 111 or 222 or 333 (whatever) I wonder "What does this mean?" Was this always happening to me and I just was not noticing? I just can't believe that I would not notice something like this. I was telling a friend about my experience and today she sent me an e-mail with the following quote from the Bible "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." ~ Hebrews 11:1. I don't believe in coincidences. I asked the Universe "What does seeing all these numbers in sequence mean?" I believe my answer from the Universe is this quote from the bible. What an interesting world we live in….
Manifesting Hundred Dollar Bills!
Posted on April 22, 2009 in the Law of Attraction, Manifesting, Namaste's Posts, Real Life, Success category
I attended T. Harv Ecker's MILLIONAIRE MIND SEMINAR years ago. One of the big points he made during the seminar is that the majority of people walk by money every day and that's why they aren't rich. What is he talking about? Almost every day the majority of people walk by at least one penny and don't bother to pick it up. What's so bad about this? It proves they aren't focused on money. If they walk by a penny without stopping to pick it up it's likely they are walking by a lot more too with out noticing. I took his point to heart and to this day I don't walk by a penny with out picking it up.
In 2008 I manifested an amazing woman into my life. I recorded it in real time on this blog as it was happening. One of the coolest things was she had taken the T. Harv Ecker's Millionaire Mind Seminar as well. And she also had taken his point to heart. It's been a blast going on dates with her and we both race for the pennies we see. A few weeks ago she began finding a dime and a penny at the same time. She told me that this was happening to her and suddenly it began happening to me too. It was a trip that every time I saw a dime I'd find a penny near by. After this had been happening for a while I thought "I love finding 11 cents all the time but I'd love finding quarters even more." Guess what? I started finding quarters. I believe this began happening because I switched my focus from pennies and dimes to quarters. We all know that what we focus on we bring into our lives. One day I texted my girlfriend and said "I love pennies and dimes, and quarters are cool, but I want hundred dollar bills!" Guess what I got? Damn skippy! Five days later my girlfriend called me up and said "I need to meet you. I've got to give you the money for the Abraham Hicks Alaska Cruise in July." I agreed and we met up. She handed me 8 hundred dollar bills. And then she handed me 2 more. One hundred dollar bill was a gift to me for some coaching I'd given her on her wealth profile. The other hundred dollar bill was for a wealth profile a friend of hers wanted to buy after hearing about them. Success! The Universe answers our request in the fastest way possible. That's why it's important to state what we want and NOT how we want to receive it. The only time manifesting has failed me was when I was trying to control the method the Universe was bringing my request to me. If you want to know what a wealth profile is keep reading…
I found out about the wealth profiles when I joined the XL NATION. It's an international organization for humanitarian entrepreneurs. Here's the deal. Everyone has 1 or 2 things they are REALLY good at and a bunch of other things they aren't great at. If you look at everyone who has become a billionaire they all worked from their strengths and delegated their weaknesses. This is NOT how most people live their lives. Most people spend all their time working on their weaknesses and very little time working from their strengths. The wealth profiles tells you what your money making strength is. It's such a trip. When I heard that I thought "This is a con job." However I heard all these millionaires raving about it so I had my wealth profile done. I found out I had a MECHANIC WEALTH PROFILE. Mechanics are gifted at working on systems. When I heard that I thought "This is a con job just like I thought." Then I started thinking about it and I realized that every business I'd ever been involved in had been about improving the system. I was blown away! I began focusing on building the system and delegating everything else and I'm loving the results! If you'd like to find out more about wealth profiles go to www.wealthdynamics.com. However don't take the test without contacting me FIRST. If you take the test before contacting me the coaching will cost you $300 to break your profile down. If you contact me first I'll do the coaching and the profile for $175.
Is Abraham Hicks Real or A SCAM?
Posted on April 17, 2009 in the Law of Attraction, Manifesting, Namaste's Posts, Questions and Answers, Real Life, Success category
My girlfriend took me to an Abraham Hick's Seminar in Los Angeles for my birthday. I was so amped when she told me! I've been wanting to see Ester Hicks channel Abraham for a long time. Why? To figure out if Abraham Hicks is real or a scam.
Before I went to the seminar I pictured two things happening. The first was that we'd be seated in the front row. The second is that Abraham would select me and answer my questions about intuition.
We arrived about 40 minutes early and we were seated in THE DEAD LAST ROW. I laughed, as there was nothing we could do, I just kept holding the intention of being seated in the front.
At lunch (comes as part of the ticket price and the food was absolutely amazing) we ate fast and returned to the conference room early. Regina found some seats in the center that were not saved. I figured "What the heck?" I walked to the very front row and began checking for seats. When I saw 2 open seats, I smiled, thanked the Universe that I believe in manifesting and sat down. Regina soon joined me =) About a 1/2 hour later a group of people came up and said "You are in our seats!" I asked "Why are these your seats?" They responded "Because we were sitting there!" I said "Well these seats were unmarked when I sat down. Did you save them?" They said "No, we don't have to." To make a long story short I asked one of the seminar employees and he confirmed it is an open seating seminar. We stayed in those seats (SUCCESS)! For the people that don't believe in manifesting I'm sure it appears as if we got lucky. To the people who know that manifesting works, they know we manifested those seats. The view from the front was just like I’d pictured it.
Despite the people to the left and right of us glaring, Regina and I continued to enjoy the seminar as best we could. I was the second to the last person chosen to ask Abraham questions (SUCCESS AGAIN)! This is a huge deal as there at least a hundred hands up at any given time. I sat down in the Abraham Hicks Hotseat as it is called and began asking questions about my intuition (you can hear the conversation Abraham and I had on the Abraham Hicks CD's from the March 28, 2009 Los Angeles workshop). Thankfully, my conversation was being recorded because I wasn't paying a lot of attention. I came to the seminar to find out if Ester was conning everyone about channeling Abraham. I was listening to her/Abraham's answers to my questions. However I was spending all my time focusing on her eyes. I wanted to see if her eyes looked different when she was channeling. The eyes after all are the window to the soul. All I can say is my experience of staring into Ester's eyes when she was channeling was different. I was staring at intelligence. That's the only way I can describe it. What does that mean? It means that I while I was staring into human eyes, what was looking back at me didn't FEEL human. I'm an incredible skeptic. I know how many cons there are out there. I got my start hustling on the streets of southern California. If Ester is a con artist… I don't believe it. I know what I saw. It blows my mind that what she is doing is for real.
THE 2 BIGGEST THINGS I GOT OUT OF THE ABRAHAM HICKS SEMINAR
Abraham said “Controlling your emotions, learning the self discipline of speaking WHAT YOU WANT is the most important thing you will do in your life.” I'd write more about this but that truly says it ALL.
I also got a tool called the Abraham Hick’s FOCUS WHEEL. The idea is that you write a circle in the center of an 8/11 sheet of paper. You draw a line through the circle in the center. At the top 1/2 you put what you do NOT like. At the bottom half you put how you'd like the situation to be. Then you write 1 through 12 around the circle just like a wall clock in the old school buildings. What you then do is start at the 1 and write 1 thing that could be positive about the current situation you are hating. Then you move to 2 and do the same. I used this technique 3 days after the seminar. Regina and I had an argument that I didn't see a way out of. I didn't think the wheel would help but I tried it because I didn't have any other ideas. By the time I got to 7 I was STOKED OUT OF MY MIND that Regina and I had been arguing. And that's not the best part. I made a decision that I wanted the Universe to deliver an answer to our argument that I couldn't see. Six hours later Regina called me and told me about a woman she had met at Starbucks that morning. The woman recommended a book to her for me (Regina had shared with her about our argument). The book was called THE WAY OF THE SUPERIOR MAN and it had the answer I was looking for. HOW COOL IS THAT!
To find out more about Abraham, and their channel Ester Hicks, go to www.abraham-hicks.com
I’m holding myself back – time to remove the blockages!
Posted on March 19, 2009 in the Blocking, Manifesting, Mike's Posts category
I was typing in my personal journal yesterday (it's nothing fancy, it's just a private blogging account that I shoot emails to) and I was thinking about how my coworkers and people who follow me on twitter are getting interested in my work. And yet I haven't been gung-ho about actively promoting myself.
Why? Because I feel like my website still needs work on the back end to be more functional. I've been able to pinpoint the cause of my website being incomplete and it is because I want the consumer interaction to be perfect. The only problem is that perfect will take way too long to fix.
So here I am, with people who are becoming interested in my stuff. And I'm holding back from providing them with what they want! This is a funny realization. It's time to take this situation and run with it.
Manifesting Post-It Notes!-Namaste
Posted on January 29, 2009 in the Law of Attraction, Manifesting, Namaste's Posts, Real Life, Success category
For the last couple of weeks I've found myself wishing I had post-it notes. I always tell myself that I'll go to the store and get them. I forget and then I need them again all of a sudden. When you need a post-it note nothing else will do. I'd say at the times I've wanted a post-it note the desire has been REALLY high. To make a long story short, I walked into my mastermind group meeting here in Vegas this morning. Guess what was sitting there waiting for me? Tamara Tyrbouslu (an international real-estate professional in Las Vegas who you can learn more about at www.tamarasgarden.com) handed me a care package. Inside the package was not one, but two kinds of post-it notes! How cool is that? To you it might not be a big deal. To me it's a huge deal. From this point forward I will reach for a post-it note on my desk when I need it most and it will be right there waiting for me. You can manifest anything that you REALLY, REALLY, REALLY want. What do you want?
And on a quick side note I was at dinner tonight with my friend Serina. She mentioned that she isn't having any luck finding the guy of her dreams. I asked about her manifesting list and she said "I have it but I haven't looked at it lately." I told her my story of finding Regina (see my blog posts) and she promised to go check out her list and update it. I want to be sure to mention it now because it will be super cool to report her success story on here when she calls me up to tell me she's met the guy of her dreams.
Manifesting An Electronic Planner-Coincidence or Intentional?-Namaste
Posted on January 25, 2009 in the Beliefs, Law of Attraction, Manifesting, Namaste's Posts, Real Life, Success category
About a month ago I was thinking about switching from my paper dayplanner to an electronic one. I've always used a paper one but mine is so big I actually wear a backpack to carry it around all day. I did some research online about electronic planners. The problem was that I couldn't actually play with the ones I was reading about. I wanted to hold each one in my hand, play with the functions, really get a feel for it before I bought. And I REALLY wanted to do this, but I ran out of time and went and bought the regular paper one again for another year.
The other morning I see my dad and he says "Do you know what this is?" I look at it and realize it is an electronic dayplanner. I tell him what it is and he says "Marylin gave it to me a number of years ago. I don't want it. If you want it, keep it, otherwise throw it out."
As soon as he said that I thought back to a few weeks ago when I was thinking how badly I wanted to hold an electronic dayplanner in my hand and play with it.
What happened? If you believe in the law of attraction you believe that I manifested this. If you don't believe in the law of attraction you'd say this was a coincidence.
Obviously, I believe in the law of attraction. And I believe that I REALLY wanted to hold an electronic dayplanner in my hands. I believe that the desire was high enough for the Universe to deliver it to me.
A number of things are interesting to me about this experience.
#1 I didn't ask the Universe to send me an electronic dayplanner. I just really wanted to hold on my hands and play with it. This is both cool and scary. I've believed forever that the key to manifesting is emotion. Any thing that I have a high enough level of emotion about I bring into my life. Thinking about the implications of this experience I need to be very conscious about what I get emotional about. I didn't ask for the electronic dayplanner but it came into my life anyway. I wonder how many times I'm doing this and not conscious of it? How many times have I been emotional about my business NOT going the way I want? OUCH!!!! It's a harsh lesson to think back on what I have been creating.
Another thing that this brings to mind is that the Universe can bring me anything I want big or small. To the Universe everything is the same. Why do I think that it's more or less difficult for the Universe to bring me an electronic dayplanner instead of a mansion over looking the ocean for example.
#2 I only thought about wanting an electronic dayplanner a couple of times. My normal way of manifesting is I think about the one thing I want to manifest all day long, everyday, until it shows up in my life. It's a lot of work and not a lot of fun.
This really makes me wonder. I seriously only thought about wanting to hold an electronic dayplanner a handful of times. Under ten times for sure and likely under 5 times total. And the electronic dayplanner manifested in my life. I really think I've been overworking myself. I've had things manifest after only thinking about it one time with an incredibly high level of emotion. It really only takes one time. Not believing that is saying I don't trust the Universe and I think that the Universe has to work to do anything.
#3 I got exactly what I put out there. I got to hold an electronic dayplanner in my hands and play with it. It's NOT the kind of electronic dayplanner I want. I'll look at it a little more closely soon but I'm likely going to donate it to GOODWILL. I should have specified that I wanted to hold an electronic dayplanner that I might actually want to buy.
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