I met with the Landmark Grads group that Melissa and I found on Craig's List.  Really cool people.  Lots of potential there.  I'll be seeing more of them for sure.

A friend of mine and I are launching a company that studies achievement called the Open Achievement Organization (www.openachievement.com).  The first project this organization is working on is called Decoding Success.  The point is to discover if there is a formula for success that anyone can follow and achieve success.  I'm going to invite people here in Vegas to join me on finding out if there is a formula.  OA as we call it is a great way to meet people and research something I've always wanted to find out more about.

Things are looking good! 

I kept thinking "Art takes a long time to make money.  Only really connected or lucky people are successful.  There are other people who are better out there."

Well not anymore. From this point forward I am manifesting $4,000 per month in income from selling my art.  I am open to selling my art in new and interesting ways.  I intend for my art to get in the hands of people who are genuinely inspired and attracted to my art.  My art will create value for the right person and will fit perfectly in their home or business.  The right people will go to my website and purchase my art.

I am in the process of thinking of innovative business plans to sell the art, but in the end, I am not attached to that.  I am committed to doing what I love (creating art) and making enough money to live off of it.  I am committed to creating valuable pieces of art that make people feel good. 

A friend of mine shared with me that she had a similar desire.  We found some Landmark Education Grads and are going to hang out with them some time soon.

We posted an ad on Craig's List.  We got our first response back and the woman sounds super cool.  We will be meeting with her soon.

I attended a seminar over the weekend and now have 4 new people in my life standing for my dreams that live in Vegas.  Yes!

Awesome results with only a few weeks of manifesting put in.  What's important to note is that I didn't have to do anything to have these results come into my life except focus on my manifesting.

I attended the first Wealthy Dynamics Seminar to be held in the States last weekend. During the conference an interesting question and point was made.

Focus all your efforts on the one thing you are good at, even if it's NOT that big. Why? When you become "the man" or "the woman" in that area you become "the expert" and people stop competing with you and start flocking to you. Until you become number 1 in something people WILL ALWAYS BE COMPETING WITH YOU. YOU WILL FOREVER BE LOST IN THE CROWD. Become the best at one thing. 

Ask yourself…

What am I REALLY good at?

What do I want to be number 1 in?

What am I going to be number 1 in?

What is it that I'm number 1 in?

What I came up with and what I want to manifest into reality…

I want to be number 1 at implementing the steps to success in people's lives so that they achieve their dreams. We all know that success leaves clues. We've all heard that everyone who has ever made it big has taken the same basic steps. I want to build the implementation system that takes these steps and puts them into people's lives in a useable way so that they succeed. Good bye to all the guess work and years of lame trial and error.

NOW YOUR TURN IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE.  WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE NUMBER 1 AT?

In a perfect world I'd take off to a foreign country for a month, party and return refreshed and ready for action.  However doing that this time wouldn't be smart.  The job I have is amazing.  I work part-time and I get paid full-time.  I set my own hours.  I see my boss 15 minutes one day a week.  I have total control of my schedule and that is what has allowed me to build 5 Privateer Nation krewes.  Leaving this job at this point would be stupid.  I'm to close to living my dream for real.

I realized that I don't need to leave to a foreign country to get over burn out.  All I have to do is build a Gen X & Y tribe here in Vegas.  When I realized this I wanted to hit myself over the head.  I can't believe I'm having to relearn this lesson again.  It's never the place you are living.  It's never the trip you are taking.  It's always the people that count the most.  The people you are with make or break every experience.  Going out to have fun once or twice a week is all I need to get over the burn out.  I really didn't want to put the time into doing this until I realized it will actually help me build the Privateer Nation.  Now I'm sold.

I'm going to manifest a fun krewe of people here in Vegas who help me get closer to my dreams.  In the process of doing that my hope is I'll find the woman I've been looking for as well.  I thought about getting more detailed then this but I'm going to leave it up to the Universe to fill in the details.  I'm tired of fighting.  I'm going to go with the flow that comes my way…

HOW IT ALL GOT STARTED
Will is a pastor at a church in Kansas City.  Back in 2006 he came up with an idea for a sermon that discussed the nasty impact complaining has on a person’s life.   At the end of the sermon he threw out a challenge.  Everyone knows it takes 21 days to create a new habit.  Will challenged the audience to go 21 days with out complaining. To aid those that were willing to take the challenge he passed out purple bracelets.  The idea was that you had to switch the bracelet to the other wrist if you complained.  The goal was to keep the bracelet on the same wrist for 21 days, signifying that you had gone 21 days with out complaining.

REALITY CHECK
Now I’m going to say something that might shock you.

You have NO IDEA how much of a whiny, sniveling complainer YOU ARE.  If I were to ask each one of you individually, I bet all of you would say, “At the MOST I complain once or twice a week.” You’d be SHOCKED if I followed you around with a tape recorder for 1 day and then replayed what came out of your mouth.  And believe me I know because I’m speaking from personal experience.

BENEFITS
So let’s talk about the benefits you’ll get from creating the habit of not complaining…

We’ll start with Pat’s favorite word “Entrainment.”  We are constantly synching up to people around us.  When you complain you are “entraining” i.e drawing other complainers to you.  Think about the people in your life right now.  Are they complainers?  If so that means you are too.  Stop complaining and you’ll draw fun, joyful, loving people to you

Complaining is talking about things you DO NOT WANT rather than what YOU DO WANT.  When we complain, we are using our words to focus on things that are NOT as we would like.  Our thoughts create our lives and our words indicate what we are thinking.

By not complaining you get play at the leadership level of Gandhi and Princess Di and your peers will see you as a leader at a higher level.

Buddah said, “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.”  Most of your complaints don’t even escape your lips but you are still thinking them.  Guess what you are becoming?

Stop complaining.  Change your words, change your thoughts, and you will change your life!  When Jesus said, “Seek and you shall find,” it was a statement of universal principle.  What you seek, you will find. When you complain, you are using the incredible power of your mind to seek things you say you don’t want but nonetheless draw them to you.  Then you complain about these new things and attract EVEN MORE of what you don’t want.

Now let’s hear from a couple of people who have chosen not to complain…

TESTIMONIALS
I suffered from chronic headaches.  Every night I’d come home and tell my wife how much my head hurt that day.  While taking the Complaint Free Challenge I realized that telling my wife about my headaches did nothing to lessen their occurrence or painful severity.  I decided to stop talking about them.  To my utter and complete surprise my headaches stopped.  Today I’m headache free.
        Tom Alyea

In 1999, at the very young age of 39, Hal was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.  The doctors gave him 6 months.  In addition to his mortal diagnosis, Hal was facing other challenges.  Even though Hal had sold health insurance for a living, he had none.  His bills piled up and it was a constant struggle to keep the lights on and his family fed.  When Will (the pastor who wrote A Complaint Free World) found out about Hal’s situation he went out to visit him.  Will expected to find Hal in a pretty bad way but Hal spent the entire visit talking about how great his life was and how fortunate he was.  Will came back to visit him twice a week after that.  One day Will asked Hal, “How do you manage not to complain with all you are going through?”  Hal smiled and said, “Easy, it’s not the 15th of the month.  I decided that I’d allow myself to complain one day a month.  And you know what the great thing is? By the 15th of the month I’ve forgotten what I was going to complain about.”  Hal actually lived for 2 years past what the doctors gave him and he was an inspiration to everyone that even in the face of terminal illness you can choose to be happy.  That’s the health affirming power of living a life of gratitude rather than one of complaint.
        Will Bowen

This last one is my personal testimonial.  Like everyone else I thought that I complained very little.  Two weeks after putting my complaint free bracelet on I hadn’t even been able to keep it on the same wrist for one day.  Today I’m at 2 months and the longest I’ve gone is 3 days.  Now I know why the average time to win the Complaint Free Challenge is 4 to 8 months.  Even though I still have a ways to go to reach my 21 days I’ve noticed a dramatic increase in my daily happiness.  This was super surprising to me because I was already a happy person.  I feel like this huge weight has been lifted off me.  I’m floored and it keeps getting better.
        Namaste Faustino

In closing, when Will was being interviewed by an associate producer before he went on the Oprah Show he was asked, “What is your goal with all of this?”  He replied, “To transform the consciousness of our world.”  The associate producer looked at him and smiled sympathetically, “That’s a pretty big dream, don’t you think?”  He smiled and replied, “Do the math.”  The challenge started just over 2 years ago.  Today we’ve shipped over 6 million complaint free world bracelets to 80 countries around the world.  We’re now receiving over 1000 purple bracelet orders a day and those numbers just keep getting bigger.

It’s no accident that you are on this call.  You can change the world by simply becoming an example of positive change.  You can create a complaint free world.  As you become a happier person, you raise the overall level of happiness in the world.  You will send out a vibration of optimism and hope that will resound with others of similar intent.  And together–we will–change the world.

Go to www.acomplaintfreeworld.com and order your bracelets today.  However you can start immediately by simply putting a rubber band around your wrist and switching it when you complain.  Don’t wait.  Do it now.

I promise you that it will be the most impactful thing you do this year.

A woman who has an intense physical and mental attraction to me and that I also have an equally intense physical and mental attraction to her and who is…

Under 33 years old

Lives in Las Vegas (but not required)

Really Extroverted

Eats healthy, normal body mass index & and stays in shape

Waiting to have kids until later

Entrepreneurial & serious about creating wealth

World Traveler or wants to see the world

Committed to making a difference in the world

Self-improvement student or open to learning

Thoughtful

Spiritual not judgmental

Loves clean living spaces so opts out on having pets

Is inspired to work with me to make all of our dreams to come true

And if you are Bi that would be a nice bonus. I'm sure a nice bonus for you would be me being rich. I'm not there yet but I'm on my way =)

Well, without getting into the debate about whether or not a job is the way to go in order to attain long-term success, let's just say for the moment that - for whatever reason - you do actually want to know how to manifest a job. Just like manifesting anything else, there are very specific steps that you need to take.

1) Become absolutely clear on the job that you want

In my particular situation, although it is thankfully temporary, I do find myself wanting to work for someone else for a short while. Notice I said wanting, and not needing. Need just sends out the vibration of need, which will just bring you more of the same. More on that in the next section.

The primary goal in my particular case of wanting to get a job is simply a temporary desire to have more consistent income than I have at the moment. I have a kick-ass plan for my long-term professional and financial growth (hint: Surfside Fitness),  but in the short-term I want to bring in a bit more consistent financial abundance.

My fellow Alchemists, Namaste and Mike, reminded me that even when it comes to getting a job just to grease the financial wheels, I could use the power of manifestation to get that job, as opposed to spending countless hours going through the "standard" (and boring) methods that most job-seekers use.

In order to manifest something, however, you have to know specifically what it is that you want to manifest, otherwise you are sending out mixed signals which will - at best - bring back mixed results. So, with their help, I formulated the following specifics about the job that I want to manifest:

• I still want to have time to grow the aforementioned Surfside Fitness, so I just want a part-time job - between 20 and 30 hours per week.
• I want to work in a capacity that has something to do with health and fitness. A gym of some kind would be ideal, but I am not attached to it being that specific.
• I want to make at least $10.00 per hour. More would be better, and I'm worth far more than that, but again, the only "must have" goal here is to make enough money to tend to my near-term financial obligations.

2) Feel the feelings of having the job

As is always the case when it comes to manifesting, your job is not to feel the feelings that will come about from a specific METHOD of getting what you want, but rather just of getting what you want.

There is a HUGE difference between saying "I want to work 20 hours per week at the gym on the corner, I want to make exactly $10.00 per hour, and I want to only work Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays" as opposed to saying "I want to work part-time in some sort of health and fitness capacity, and I still want to have time to grow my business on the side, and also have enough income to be comfortable".

The first statement conjures up an instant emotional resistance because we all know that we can't predict every last tiny detail that is going to go into our goal attainment. Since we DO know that, the emotional resistance will not allow us to fully enjoy - and believe in - the feelings of getting what we want.

The second statement, on the other hand, allows us to believe that we'll get what we want, because we aren't "tying the hands" of the universe by saying that things have to go exactly, precisely, some specific way.

Allow yourself to frequently - preferably at least once a day - feel what it will feel like to have accomplished the goal - NOT to have preordained every single detail that will go into that accomplishment.

Another important note about feeling the proper feelings in order to get what you want is that you must never NEED your manifestations to come to fruition. If it is our emotional state that attracts our desires (and it is!), then an emotional state of neediness will simply attract the circumstances that cause you to continue to feel needy.

The only things a human being truly "needs" are food and water. Everything else - and I mean everything - is a luxury. The next time you catch yourself saying you "need" something, remember that by needing it, you are simply pushing it away.

3) Have a sense of expectancy that you will get the job you want

If someone put my face to the fire and told me that I had to be honest about the single most important thing when it comes to manifestation, a sense of expectancy would have to top the list.

Yes, desire must always be the beginning, but since we must desire something before we can manifest it, desire is simply an automatic part of the equation. Expectancy, on the other hand, is what fuels the universe to do its behind the scenes magic that causes our desires to come to pass.

You must note the difference between real expectancy, however, and hollow words that are basically just "lip service". We've all known people who talk and talk and talk about their grandiose schemes, but then none of it ever comes to pass. The same thing will happen to you if you think that babbling on about your goals is going to cause them to come to pass.

A sense of expectancy means just that - you actually expect to get what you are manifesting. It's got nothing to do with the planning, the details, or the tasks that go into getting what you want. Expectancy is nothing less than a 100% sure knowing that what you want is already on its way to you!

I'm ready.  It feels so good to type that.  I know I'm not blocking.  I know there is nothing in the way.  It's just a matter of time.  And I can't wait.  She's going to have to be truly amazing to make sense.  Wow, am I amped to meet her.

In a lot of ways I'm surprised that it's not Kiara.  She and I have been best friends for years.  Ever time I checked my intuition though the answer came back a flat out "NO!"  That was never really easy to accept because we make a great team.   

I've met some amazing women in the last couple of weeks.  One I know is going to become a dear friend for life.  She inspires me.

I'm going to start spending some time each night before I go to sleep focusing on my request and feeling grateful for having it fulfilled.  I'm so excited to record the results on here.  This will be the best story on this blog yet!

I went to the event in early July.  If you are curious you can check it out at www.electricdaisycarnival.com. I had an amazing time and when I returned I was ready to go back to manifesting the woman of my dreams.

I made a conscious decision to do that 2 weeks ago.  It feels so good to be manifesting her and KNOW that I'm not blocking.  If you don't know what blocking is read the blocking section on this website.  Since that time I've had a number of prospects pop up in my life.  The one I'm most excited about I'm going to hang out with in a few days.  She is an entrepreneur, world traveler and a humanitarian.  She is amazing.  And I am super excited to post about this story as it unfolds because I really am finally ready for her to come into my life now.