Today is a good day to note that every day really is a landmark day, a blessing to be here for, not to be overlooked or relegated to the ordinary. Life for you is now extraordinary because you are creating it as such.
I so recognize and appreciate the wide swing that life contrast offers [to those who observe it] the to gain clarity about (or towards) the things we really want.
It is so clear that LoA and a big God concept are an incredible dual witness to the power of agreement. I appreciate that I am aware of and cultivate both simultaneously.
Everything for you (your power) is in your now. You create it with the quality of your thoughts. Quoting Marcus Aurelius, “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature”
So, all is well and getting weller!
Thank you for you and for being interested enough in your own life to create it anew with great expectation daily. It may well be one of the few things that you have absolute control over. CO-create with God and watch the beauty unfold. You’ve gotta love the way that makes you feel.
Jeff
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Ten minutes to “What If” – Accessing the Law of Attraction
In concept, the universal Law of Attraction encompasses such a broad array of understanding that it can become exasperating just to attempt to “get it” – here is where you need to reverse the effort and allow it to “get you”.
Go with this concept for a minute…within the scope of the human condition exists a natural resistance to our own well-being. While that may sound a little skewed, an example will clarify: we say we want what’s best for us, our relationships, our family, job, avocations, etc.. but we are habitually predisposed to negativity and giving thought to the lowest part of human interaction, drama, fussing over things, gossip, arguments, misunderstandings, ego issues, pride, etc…
These things conspire to form resistance to our own well-being because cumulatively and progressively they form up who we are and what we are all about. Law of Attraction simply says that which is like unto itself is drawn. Following our example, negativity, or giving ourselves to the day-to-day life issues that are [not positive], brings us more of the same. This is how we find ourselves living by default rather than having the positive creative control ourselves.
What if it were entirely possible to reverse all of this?
What if… just by making a slight change to your thoughts, you could re gain creative control of your own life experience? Exchange living by default for living by deliberate creativity
Among all the very good video messages from Jerry & Esther Hicks, I recommend the following to you because I saw it as a comprehensive understanding that has the capacity to reach out and grab you at a personal point of life’s wondering.
You’re not reading this post by accident so why not invest nine more minutes in the possibility of this suggestion having some real meaning for you?
What do you want? Why do you want what you want? (If you’re new to this, try it on small, doable things and work your way up)
Align with the desired result first. Envision the result, verbalize positive aspects about it.
See it as accomplished and get the feeling of that satisfaction. Think and feel more on this.
Develop the energy of feeling the result. Wealthy, passion, clarity, love, well-being, whatever.
With alignment, you are now in tune, thought wise about your preferred outcome, you can “see it” Once aligned, you are inspired toward progress, at just the right time.
Now envision yourself navigating the necessary path as you “walk” toward the good result that your thoughts have already pre-paved a path for. Once you think it through, Law of Attraction will add to those thoughts all sorts of confirming and positive, forward looking and progressive thoughts.
Out of this new feeling, you’ll be inspired to the correct steps to take. Your action will seem natural and guided. But wait! stop and embellish the story, tell it even better, exactly as you prefer it to be realized.
It is always a good time to tell a better story, Cement yourself into the better feeling place. Before you know it, you’ll never go back to telling bad stories or holding unproductive thoughts.
When you develop this ability, the next time something bad comes, the feeling will not be one of fear or discomfort; rather you will have the confidence to feel just slight uneasiness, which you now can reverse easily.
Oh what a difference a day makes… 24 little hours, brought the sun and the flowers where there used to be rain…
I’ve added for you a nice piece of music below to read by…
What did the visit day accomplish for you in terms of a lifetime? Sorry, maybe the question is too big. Large or small, a fact you can count on is this: sometimes a single moment changes all the ones that follow… Are you looking for, expecting, and eagerly anticipating that moment?
Maybe you’ll know when that certain click happens, maybe you’ll feel yourself along and just find yourself there. Either way, these are some of the best of days you’ll want to remember! Keep your commitment to your new life! Grow, seek, be, learn. Aim high. You’re going to have so much to share.
I heard somewhere that someone said the parts we play in life are bit roles… Bit or not, it’s yours to live, to enjoy, to share and to find your happiness within. Bring those along who’ll add to your experience… Expand your capacity to attract the beauty of life and love and it will come. You’re special to someone who is looking for you! Of course you already know this.
Others will come along to lighten your load, strengthen your hand, give stability, weep when needed and rejoice abundantly. Some you’ll have known a lifetime (whose time is now) and others whom you’ve yet to meet. Your role is not insignificant regardless of what the years or circumstance may have told you. Of course you know this too.
You have an all new life perspective that speaks to you of possibilities. In the quiet places, you’re making room for your heart’s desires… It matters not that you can’t clearly articulate it. Enjoy the mystery. Don’t seek answers, seek joy, the joy will bring the right answers. Focus now on joyous well-being, you can get there from here.
Take care not to encumber the path to joy and love with the burden of specifics. Likewise, remember what you’ve wanted. Is it still alive in you? Can you recall the moment you reached out for it? A full life like yours tends to cause a new vision to fade. Hopes and aspirations can be swallowed up in the reality of the static mundane. Its your choice to keep it alive. Start asking now… Get the feeling of it. Dance around with it in your heart – after all the heart knows long before the words come.
Your faith is good – it will carry you as it has done. It will keep you heart from an unfaithful surrender. You know that practicing faith takes some action and steadfastness. Why not trade your faith for a knowing? You can absolutely own knowing whereas faith is a moving target, subject to things uncontrollable. Faith may wear thin. Rather than test it as you compare what is to what you want, consider adding the owning of desire to your faithful believing on hope.
When you add this knowing to your dynamic, you’ll be able to perfect your creating and apprehension of certainty. It’s coming. The ability is being strengthened as you give it thought. Maybe you have to see some stuff working first. It’ll come; let the buffer of time do its work. Daily believe, daily know, expect at all times that your life is working in extraordinary ways!.
Desires, life, love… you have the good pleasure of thinking about it everyday. Goodness is racing its way towards you in the moment that you consider it. You’re making new room with each thought. Don’t you feel just wonderful when you think of the well being that is coming your way? When you allow the better feeling in… makes you wonder why you’d hold any contrary thoughts.
Life will interrupt. you’ve created the path you’re currently on. It cannot change overning. Are you ready to begin now? This life of yours…you formed it quite unconsciously, passively, by default. Reality is often what we observe. You now get that reality is something you can create. Time to get creative. You now see that regardless of how ever it looks from a particular angle, that the beautiful solution rests in the shadow of the very problem that would seek to derail your joy. How awesome is that? You’re becoming a deliberate creator. Just continually reach for the better feeling thought. Turn it around. How can I help?
Will you count me in?
Now take the long view of life, there is so much more to everything than what you see. It’s building all around you as you give it your best attention. All cooperative components are being assembled just for you! With this in mind, are you a cooperative component in your own happiness? What thoughts will you need to lay down as you lay hold to others? You already know some of this.. the rest of it shows itself to you as you define it.
Are the new thoughts worth the risk you’ll have to take to discover them? Without question you are the chooser of your experience…. you can just as easily maintain the as is. Would you prefer to try another set of thoughts? Ok… then project the “as is” into the “will come”. Look at it five years ahead. What you want is but a few well sifted thoughts ahead.
Create it big and it will be big, Finish that beautiful white room with the iron bed… put some furniture it, add a comfortable chair, some nice pillows, see yourself by that window.. what else do you see? is there a house, a vehicleWhat else will you risk to imagine being there? Be bold about it…
New life comes… it need not be earthshaking; it may appear in simple pleasures that add up quickly. All any of us needs are just a few simple adjustments. Don’t look for the big bangs of retrofit, take it easy. Don’t let it all become a psychological tangle – don’t over think it…. Enjoy it as it unfolds, it will become exactly what you are wanting.
Going through the play list, I came across this and recalled that when I first heard it, I thought it to be a really nice piece of music.
Now I think it to be a most complete song. It captures the fullness of the personal human frailty and balances it with the power and acceptance of commitment
Everything
I can be a nightmare of the grandest kind
I can withhold like it’s going out of style
I have the bravest heart that you’ve ever seen
And you’ve never met anyone
Who’s as positive as I am sometimes.
You see everything, you see every part
You see all my light and you love my dark
You dig everything of which I’m ashamed
There’s not anything to which you can’t relate
And you’re still here.
I blame everyone else, not my own partaking
My passive-aggressiveness can be devastating
I’m the most gorgeous woman you’ve ever known
And you’ve never met anyone as, as everything as I am sometimes.
You see everything, you see every part
You see all my light and you love my dark
You dig everything of which I’m ashamed
There’s not anything to which you can’t relate
And you’re still here
What I resist, persists, and speaks louder than I know
What I resist, you love, no matter how low or high I go
You see everything, you see every part
You see all my light and you love my dark
You dig everything of which I’m ashamed
There’s not anything to which you can’t relate
And you’re still here
I am the wisest woman you’ve ever met.
I am the kindest soul with whom you’ve connected.
I have the bravest heart that you’ve ever seen
And you’ve never met anyone
Who’s as positive as I am sometimes.
There’s a nice tune I’ve added below for you to listen to while you read…
What will we do today? While designing your tomorrows you’ll contribute to all the things that make up today’s life. All along the way you’ll be ever stretching your vision on the vastness and the exciting unknowns of the future. Is it really all unknown? Not so much. You’re pre-paving it now: how then will it be a mystery?
You’ve got ideas about it all. You have unexplored wants and silent desires.. maybe its time to write them down and contemplate them more actually. You see it all coming although you can’t define it really. You’re seeing that there is a stream of well-being that calls you never-endingly toward it. It’s always been that way for you as an eternal optimist. (It’s one of your most endearing qualities)
It’s all good because you think of it that way. You’re quickly remembering and learning that you are the creator of your happiness. It is delightful to see you beginning to trade embedded limiting beliefs for the vastness of unlimited possibilities. It’s a new experience, maybe a little uncomfortable. Its like looking through the glass darkly.. don’t be concerned that the focus is a little off. If you could see it all now, it would blow your mind!
Have you thought of all the things you have to look forward to?
Who, what, where, when, why, how… all irrelevant.. those things cause you to worry and no good thing comes from that. The focus is not for you to gain today. Your job is to want better and support that want with whatever gives life to the desires of your heart. Be selfish about it. You’ll have nothing to give unless you create your best you that you can be. While you’re at it, get your heart back.
You’ve got desires about it all… You take them to bed with you in the form of delightful thoughts and wake up with resoundly satisfying “‘wouldn’t it be nice if’s” You welcome each day with understanding that God is ready to answer your summoning.. Ask and it is given.. A sea change is upon you; that defined as a striking change in appearance, a major transformation for the better.
You’ve got some work to do… hopefully you’ll share some of those tasks. Consider the sharing as investments.
So what do you want? You’re in the perfect position to get there from here. Nothing has to change in your now experience for you to begin deliberately creating your best tomorrow. Ya know how they say that things seem to work out? If there is any truth to that at all, which there is.. why not orchestrate the working out by giving that your best attention? What else is of value to consider? The way things are? The things that are not working out now? The stuff that you say is your reality? All rhetorical.
Why not give your best attention to the way you’d prefer it to be?
The really cool thing is that you are seeing it, you always have seen it but you had to for survival, as a coping measure. Now it is out of hope, expectation, joy, and the newness coming. You’re not fated to pretend, you’re staged to gain the best that life has prepared for you all along. I’m excited for you and I enjoy the opportunity to see it all unfold. Ya know, we’re on the same road.. meet me down the road and we’ll compare notes.
And this.. Patience has its virtue. Allow its discipline to guide the evolution of what you want. Remember when Garth thanked God for the unanswered prayer? It’s kinda like that except you’re not in high school! You see the shadows of what you want. As you refine them all with great emotion of purpose and greater clarity of want you’ll gently draw them into the light. No more fog. You’ll know it when you see it. You’ll never again be surprised by what occurs in your experiences. You understand that you have invited it all.
You’ll say Hello today! You’re just want I expected.
Jeff
Solo Con te (Only With You)
I will find joy in my heart
With you I will reach heaven
There will be peace
I will find joy in my heart
With you I will reach heaven
There will be peace
I will find joy in my heart
With you I will reach heaven
With you I will see a new world
“Hello there. I thought about you a lot today… I heard this really great song on you tube that inspired me to send you a note… “We’ve only just begun” Wow it was nice and I knew you’d like it! I appreciate how we share such nice things, I anticipate your coming. I hope you have a great week. See you soon….
Recently I’ve been talking about a topic of “missing relationships” with a couple of friends. One is a female blogger I’ve recommend, close to my age of 47 years and the other is a young man of 22, a friend of the family. Both are single and looking, thinking, wondering.. all the things single people do when not “in a relationship”. Since the topic has come up, I’ve been able now to have it with others.. so I figured I’d write a little about it.
Relationship issues abound… so it got me to thinking about something… I’ve been cautiously studying concept related to the Law of Attraction as popularized over the past 25 or so years by Authors Esther & Jerry Hicks. Very simply, Law of Attraction states: “that which is like unto itself is drawn”. By extension, a concept, and a Hicks book, “Ask & it is Given” parallels well the Christian faith principles of believing for what you want, asking for what you want and subsequently allowing for it to happen, or manifest. So I thought, maybe there could be something folks could do to actively participate in the coming of their relationship. Something beyond just wishin’ and a hopin’ as Dusty Springfield sings about.
The concepts regarding relationships are comprehensively covered in the in the Hick’s books and there are some exercises, they call processes, that assist to identify, clarify and set one thoughts & actions toward receiving the best of circumstances into one’s life experience. Relationships tend to be a delicate subject that perplexes many. There are tons of books about love & relationships but at the end of the day, “to each his own” rules supreme and the whole relationship thing frustrates many. The Hick’s process is called “wouldn’t it be nice if”. It suggests people think about and towards their ideal set of circumstances, imagining them to be a certain way. Sorta like positive thinking about a certain topic for a desired outcome.
So, out of this process and my own interpretation of the concepts of Law of Attraction, I recommended to these two friends, and now others, to begin to write to their relationships. Here is how it could work: when you find yourself thoughtful about the topic of that special person who’s out there somewhere, write the thoughts out on paper. (or on the computer) It can be anything really, anything that relates to the feeling you’re having when thinking about and imagining this person.
The writing need not be formal, thoughtful or articulated well. Free flow is probably the best format. Make it easy and out of the heart, in ways that are meaningful to you… where are you? I know you’re coming, How are you today? did you have a good weekend? I have this song that reminded me of you, looking forward to seeing you tomorrow; I missed you at the event yesterday. Whatever thoughts help you to enjoy the way if makes you feel to just consider that special person, write it in the letter.
The idea is to create the possibility, build room in your life’s experience for that thing you want that is coming already. Why not begin to converse with them as if they were already part of your experience? As you write, you’ll also be able to refine your idea of what it is that you really want Remember that God always knows what we need even before we ask. Relationships are important and whether it is a month or a year until the special one comes, why not ask for what you want and pre-pave their arrival by writing to them now? Why not get your hopes up? Then support that with additional positive thoughts.
Be sure to emphasise your letters with things that inspire your own preferences or reminders of what you’d like to see in them. Use things like poetry, songs, books, TV shows, your own fond memories from past relatiosnhips.. whatever mental postcards create the best image of what you want.
Time to give it a try… below is a tune I’d include in such a letter… More on this later
A thought that may cross your mind.. Don’t be surprised when your progress makes a mess!
Know this first. As long as you get that your expansion will be somewhat a challenge to some; you can deal skillfully with it.
You have the tools and they are becoming you!
You just have to believe that the challenge caused by your growth has an upside. It’s a lovely thing to imagine although you have no idea what forms the growth takes in all the various eventualities. Think on this. Practice the thoughts that support this notion. You’ll be just fine.
You won’t get all the answers today… not even tomorrow… in actuality, you’ll never have all the answers because you’ll never stop expanding. You understand that your growth makes a new you in the very instant you recognize progress. This is exciting stuff. Are you journaling still?
Who chooses for you? Be influenced but filter those inputs through your own knower… You’re poised now to embrace or resist a sea change. What has to be shaken will shaken be lest you block the incoming of your own happiness. Just allow it with great anticipation of the result that change will assuredly bring. Life’s best – boldest opportunities simply await you’re catching up to them. They are already established and you’re doing it.
Opportunities? You’re making them now – you are deliberately creating your new you and by extension, your new life. Thought to action, to habit, to destiny. You see it already. You see it every day because you’re expecting it. Your want makes it happen. Opportunities are evidenced in your happiness. I hear you even now saying…“It is now my dominant intent to deliberately create my life by attending to my own thoughts. I am the creator of my experience- I will pre-pave my outcomes with each thought”
Negative aspects? None… only management issues. It’s all up to you. You have great latitude of choice. This is a gift! Welcome it as such. You’ll be all right.
What if I feel negatives? Excellent! The more the better, they are there to show you the full force that the contrast between what you want and what you do not want. Welcome the tool of apparent negatives… then replace the associated feeling with one of loving imagination. Train your brain, create those new neural paths.
Some negativity may well come unbidden, just say yes and welcome, don’t resist it. You know it is part of your progress but you’re not to expect it, rather, expect the emergence of the new you and all the happiness that it brings with it. Your new ever-present is altogether wonderful. You already see it.
Embrace the negative? Easier said than done? Yes to both but only because you’ve not practiced the embracing of it. Change is your new best friend. You’re so far outside your box of a month ago already.. where else will you now go? Backwards. You also know that backwards offers you no quality of life or love. That’s all forward, coming at you with the dynamic force that is calling you never-endingly toward it! Are you now eagerly anticipating?
New brings new…. You’ve already seen some of the new “first things” that are coming; things entirely new to your life and experience.. Truly, old things are passing away and all things are becoming new. Allow it with all the exuberance you can muster….Let these new treasures of life enter your vision and your heart. Expect the new and it will manifest boldly!
What an exciting time this is for you. No person or experience can water this down unless you allow it to happen! How then can we best remember these days?
Life’s evolution and their emotions are clearly evidenced in the moment… in mighty ways, yet we cannot lay hold and say “See, here it is!” Holding those feelings, practicing them toward additional positive and lovingly supportive thoughts, extending the emotion leads to expansion. Exactly on time, today’s thought becomes tomorrow’s new us! It’s all praiseworthy.
What will you be doing with all those lovely mental postcards you’ve been reviewing lately? May I suggest they’re merely stepping stones? Maybe then we’re not supposed to remember as much as we are to grow, standing on the shoulders of yesterdays joys, seeing and creating tomorrow’s happiness and well beyond. You’re adding to the files now, Enjoy your new wants as they carry you forward. And above all, fear not.
Fear not – anticipate boldly – step lightly but deliberately – allow the challenges – align first then edit – get your bearing – acknowledge the love where it exists – be diligent to expand – judge lightly – be patient, its coming!
Here is an article I wrote back in 2007 for the Georgia Real Estate Investors Association. I was able to reference it recently when a flooring customer attempted to lowball an estimate we gave to him. While I understand someone looking for the very best deal in these tough economic times, it strains credibility to assume that business owners should sell below their cost of doing business.
As with everything I write, “no rights reserved” – Use at will with only the customarily applied credit.
A Victorian lesson in Due Diligence
Today’s history lesson: Born in 1819, John Ruskin, is considered to be among the greatest Victorian in the era. He was an artist, scientist, poet, environmentalist, philosopher, Professor of Art at Oxford, the pre-eminent art critic of his time, and a junior economist. Ruskin died in 1900 at the age of 81, leaving behind collected writings that stretch to 39 volumes, thousands of drawings and watercolors, and a legacy of influence that is felt to this day. He championed many of the tenets of our welfare state, and inspired the founders of the National Health Service, the formation of Public Libraries, the National Trust and many other cornerstones of civil society in the last one hundred years.
It is from among his writings in economics that we draw today’s lesson in due diligence. We are all interested is saving a buck on our rehabs & business support systems but in doing so be sure to carefully balance the quality received with the perceived savings. If price is your primary objective, you’d well to count the real cost of the shortcuts you decide to take. This can also be said of interpreting the deals that come across your desk and the flyers that you pick up. Ruskin noted that sometimes the risk associated with cutting corners can cost more than the money you thought you saved. In a simple observation titled, The lowest bidder, Ruskin writes:
“It’s unwise to pay too much, but it is worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money – that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot – it can’t be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it’s well to add something for the risk you run. And if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better.”
The next time you consider a deal that’s too good to be true, among your other tools of due diligence: simply run it through this little mental filter as written by Ruskin. The same thought applies the next time you try to squeeze that extra 10% out of your contractors or shop three quotes when you instinctively know you have achieved a good product at a fair price.
I’ll leave you to ponder this bit of Victorian era wisdom with another of Ruskin’s notable pearls… “The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it “
And a bonus.. “With One Look” from Sunset Boulevard – Piano Rendition
Here’s a wonderful Sarah Brightman selection. Watermark was originally offered by Irish vocalist Enya, but only as an instrumental on her 1988 recording title of the same name.
Sarah Brightman essentially recreated the hit with her vocalize version which is on her 2004 Harem Tour CD. Sarah has many vocalize performances which serve to extend the unique range of her essential talent.
I’ve also posted Enya’s instrumental version below.
Fun Fact: A vocalise) is a vocal exercise, often suitable for performance, done without words. It is sung on one or more vowel sounds and most effectively showcases the broad range of an exceptional vocal talent. . The singing of vocalise is called vocalization.
