Creative Bent: Spirit is working on what you asked for … whether you know it or not!
A couple weeks ago, I decided to start working through Bob Proctor's seminar rendition of Wallace Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich. It's been months since I last worked through the audio and workbook, and in just weeks, I've seen, noticed, and been reminded of how powerfully Spirit works in our behalf.
Nearly a century ago, Wattles wrote urgently about the necessity to marshal our conscious thought, as every thought begins to whir energy into motion to create that very thing. As you've learned from The Secret - a beautiful follow-up to Wattles' primary concepts - it doesn't matter if it's a positive minded thought about your life or a negative thought - it is created, period.
Now, I know you and I are both working on lofty visions - concepts we're consciously thinking of that will massively increase our success … our wealth … our happiness. But don't fail to notice or commend Spirit for bringing you those things that you considered more "minor!" What we might view as "minor achievement" is really an example of the absolute power we have working within and through us for EVERYTHING that we think. Let me give you a personal example of this . . .
This week, my new couch was delivered. It's the first new couch I've had in 12 years. About two weeks ago, I was shopping on the Santa Monica Promenade with a girlfriend of mine. We were in a 2-story furniture shop and had gotten separated. She came to the landing at the top of the stairs and said, "Di! You've got to see this couch! It's perfect for your place." She was right. I had an idea to buy a couch this year, and had actually written it as one of my goals at the first of the year. But I hadn't been actively looking . . . yet, this was a great find. So, this week, it arrived at the "ocean skybox."
I was cleaning out my car's console two days ago and discovered a scrap of magazine that I'd cut out more than two years ago. It was a picture of a couch I particularly liked, and I'd added it to my poster board of "Things I'm Buying For My Penthouse." About three months ago, I removed it from the poster board and put it in my car so that I could keep it in mind when I began couch shopping. Not a single friend saw this photo in a magazine, nor did I even think to look at it again. Further, I never started couch shopping.
You know where this story is going. My good friend had found a couch - completely unaware that I was even looking for a couch - that was a 98% match to the couch in the magazine picture. Even the odd color pillow lineup is an exact match.
You think that's a coincidence? It's not. That's a smile from God.
As I sat this week, pasting the magazine photo and the "real" photo in my journal, I began to make a mental list of "odd coming abouts" that have happened in just the last two or three months.
Here's another example that had completely slipped my mind that has to do with business goals.
At the first of the year, I made a goal to create two actual books of my own - one on websites, the other on strategic marketing. I was in an airport bookstore in April and saw the greatest series of business books - they were compact, short reads that anyone could pick up and read on a plane trip. I thought, "Wow. I love the cover, I love the insides, this is the perfect length … I'm going to do my books like this."
Then, of course, I walked away from the rack of books and couldn't, for the life of me, find the same series again. I looked in other airport shops. I looked that airport bookstore up on the internet and tried to find the book series there. No luck. I had small moments of beating myself up about it - why hadn't I bought just one book to use as a model?
Well, over the next 2 months, the idea for the books fell between the cracks and I wasn't even thinking about that goal. In June, I was traveling to New York and ended up sidelined in Chicago on the tarmac, waiting for a storm to pass. My seatmate, bored from the long wait, rummaged around in his briefcase and sat up with two books in his hand - the same books from the same series I'd been looking for.
That wasn't just a smile from God. That was a nudge. A serious nudge.
Now, despite the fact that I gathered enough information from my seatmate's books to find them again, did I act right away?
Of course not. Why do that and … you know … succeed at creating an instant stream of income while sharing my knowledge with tens of thousands of people around the world who are seeking these very answers? Seems like something I should stall on, right? So I did … stall, that is.
Finally, two weeks ago, I decided it was time to get them done. I set a very unreasonable date - my birthday, Sept. 10, to deliver the completed copy to my designer. That's three weeks from now.
First, I had to find a transcriber to transcribe all my audio series for the book content. Several months ago, I'd done a tiny bit of looking for a transcriber, hadn't found anyone and decided to call it a day. So, this time, I sent a note out to about 4 of my favorite business cronies, asking if they knew of a good transcriber. In an hour, the two busiest people that I LEAST expected to hear from recommended the same transcriber. I called her that day and in TWO DAYS she had delivered the completed 10 hours of transcription!
Then, I had to find those danged books for my model. Of course, I'd managed to lose all the publisher info and titles I'd written down from the Chicago airport miracle find. I did, however, remember one of the subject lines of the books - so I entered that in Amazon on a whim and - kaboomy - there was the model book, first in line, with its entire recommended series. At this point, I've stopped questioning if I'm supposed to be writing these two books - I whipped out my credit card and ordered a couple of the "models" and sent one shipment to me, and the other to my favorite designer in Arizona, Patti Knoles.
The books are on. They will be completed and turned over to my designer by my birthday - that's just the way it has to be.
See, there are two examples here of how God and the Universe and all the angels crowding around us immediately begin working in our behalf, based on the SINGLE THOUGHT, the SINGLE GOAL we choose to write down or focus our mind on.
Since these two discoveries this week, I wrote a quick list of "odd coincidences" that have occurred in just the last few months … things that pertain to my list of goals I wrote for completion before my next birthday (My "New Year's" is my birthday) … I have 18 "coincidences" that have either completed the goal in its entirety, or have arrived to roll the world along in a very straight path to my goal.
This stuff works.
It works for couches that you cut from magazines and put on your "Image Board." It works for finding a single piece of desired furniture in the middle of nowhere in a third world country and managing to get that piece to my penthouse when no official shipping companies would pick it up and I had no personal contacts to bring it here . . yet, it sits here now on my deck (heh. That's a whole 'nother miracle story.) It works for creating and completing the product or service that the Universe knows is needed. It works for new friendships of supportive, like-minded people. It works for bringing in the kind of client I have specifically detailed. It works in health issues and doctor visits. It works for finding a talented junior writer. It works for finding and settling my Mother into a new house in my brother's town when, 8 months ago, she was NEVER going to move. It works for finding a true source I can work with in real estate investing. It works in finding a true source I can work with in financial investing and tax planning.
Look at what's changed in your life this year. Who are the new people in your life, and could they be connected to that goal in your head? Could they be six degrees of connection from that goal being completed? have circumstances changed around the people who are already in your life? You see, these people could be in your life NOW because Universe sees them as connected to YOUR goal. And … you could be in THEIR lives for the very same reason.
Keep this in mind. Tomorrow, I'll be writing more about the specifics of Wallace Wattles' theory on thought.
Nearly a century ago, Wattles wrote urgently about the necessity to marshal our conscious thought, as every thought begins to whir energy into motion to create that very thing. As you've learned from The Secret - a beautiful follow-up to Wattles' primary concepts - it doesn't matter if it's a positive minded thought about your life or a negative thought - it is created, period.
Now, I know you and I are both working on lofty visions - concepts we're consciously thinking of that will massively increase our success … our wealth … our happiness. But don't fail to notice or commend Spirit for bringing you those things that you considered more "minor!" What we might view as "minor achievement" is really an example of the absolute power we have working within and through us for EVERYTHING that we think. Let me give you a personal example of this . . .
This week, my new couch was delivered. It's the first new couch I've had in 12 years. About two weeks ago, I was shopping on the Santa Monica Promenade with a girlfriend of mine. We were in a 2-story furniture shop and had gotten separated. She came to the landing at the top of the stairs and said, "Di! You've got to see this couch! It's perfect for your place." She was right. I had an idea to buy a couch this year, and had actually written it as one of my goals at the first of the year. But I hadn't been actively looking . . . yet, this was a great find. So, this week, it arrived at the "ocean skybox."
I was cleaning out my car's console two days ago and discovered a scrap of magazine that I'd cut out more than two years ago. It was a picture of a couch I particularly liked, and I'd added it to my poster board of "Things I'm Buying For My Penthouse." About three months ago, I removed it from the poster board and put it in my car so that I could keep it in mind when I began couch shopping. Not a single friend saw this photo in a magazine, nor did I even think to look at it again. Further, I never started couch shopping.
You know where this story is going. My good friend had found a couch - completely unaware that I was even looking for a couch - that was a 98% match to the couch in the magazine picture. Even the odd color pillow lineup is an exact match.
You think that's a coincidence? It's not. That's a smile from God.
As I sat this week, pasting the magazine photo and the "real" photo in my journal, I began to make a mental list of "odd coming abouts" that have happened in just the last two or three months.
Here's another example that had completely slipped my mind that has to do with business goals.
At the first of the year, I made a goal to create two actual books of my own - one on websites, the other on strategic marketing. I was in an airport bookstore in April and saw the greatest series of business books - they were compact, short reads that anyone could pick up and read on a plane trip. I thought, "Wow. I love the cover, I love the insides, this is the perfect length … I'm going to do my books like this."
Then, of course, I walked away from the rack of books and couldn't, for the life of me, find the same series again. I looked in other airport shops. I looked that airport bookstore up on the internet and tried to find the book series there. No luck. I had small moments of beating myself up about it - why hadn't I bought just one book to use as a model?
Well, over the next 2 months, the idea for the books fell between the cracks and I wasn't even thinking about that goal. In June, I was traveling to New York and ended up sidelined in Chicago on the tarmac, waiting for a storm to pass. My seatmate, bored from the long wait, rummaged around in his briefcase and sat up with two books in his hand - the same books from the same series I'd been looking for.
That wasn't just a smile from God. That was a nudge. A serious nudge.
Now, despite the fact that I gathered enough information from my seatmate's books to find them again, did I act right away?
Of course not. Why do that and … you know … succeed at creating an instant stream of income while sharing my knowledge with tens of thousands of people around the world who are seeking these very answers? Seems like something I should stall on, right? So I did … stall, that is.
Finally, two weeks ago, I decided it was time to get them done. I set a very unreasonable date - my birthday, Sept. 10, to deliver the completed copy to my designer. That's three weeks from now.
First, I had to find a transcriber to transcribe all my audio series for the book content. Several months ago, I'd done a tiny bit of looking for a transcriber, hadn't found anyone and decided to call it a day. So, this time, I sent a note out to about 4 of my favorite business cronies, asking if they knew of a good transcriber. In an hour, the two busiest people that I LEAST expected to hear from recommended the same transcriber. I called her that day and in TWO DAYS she had delivered the completed 10 hours of transcription!
Then, I had to find those danged books for my model. Of course, I'd managed to lose all the publisher info and titles I'd written down from the Chicago airport miracle find. I did, however, remember one of the subject lines of the books - so I entered that in Amazon on a whim and - kaboomy - there was the model book, first in line, with its entire recommended series. At this point, I've stopped questioning if I'm supposed to be writing these two books - I whipped out my credit card and ordered a couple of the "models" and sent one shipment to me, and the other to my favorite designer in Arizona, Patti Knoles.
The books are on. They will be completed and turned over to my designer by my birthday - that's just the way it has to be.
See, there are two examples here of how God and the Universe and all the angels crowding around us immediately begin working in our behalf, based on the SINGLE THOUGHT, the SINGLE GOAL we choose to write down or focus our mind on.
Since these two discoveries this week, I wrote a quick list of "odd coincidences" that have occurred in just the last few months … things that pertain to my list of goals I wrote for completion before my next birthday (My "New Year's" is my birthday) … I have 18 "coincidences" that have either completed the goal in its entirety, or have arrived to roll the world along in a very straight path to my goal.
This stuff works.
It works for couches that you cut from magazines and put on your "Image Board." It works for finding a single piece of desired furniture in the middle of nowhere in a third world country and managing to get that piece to my penthouse when no official shipping companies would pick it up and I had no personal contacts to bring it here . . yet, it sits here now on my deck (heh. That's a whole 'nother miracle story.) It works for creating and completing the product or service that the Universe knows is needed. It works for new friendships of supportive, like-minded people. It works for bringing in the kind of client I have specifically detailed. It works in health issues and doctor visits. It works for finding a talented junior writer. It works for finding and settling my Mother into a new house in my brother's town when, 8 months ago, she was NEVER going to move. It works for finding a true source I can work with in real estate investing. It works in finding a true source I can work with in financial investing and tax planning.
Look at what's changed in your life this year. Who are the new people in your life, and could they be connected to that goal in your head? Could they be six degrees of connection from that goal being completed? have circumstances changed around the people who are already in your life? You see, these people could be in your life NOW because Universe sees them as connected to YOUR goal. And … you could be in THEIR lives for the very same reason.
Keep this in mind. Tomorrow, I'll be writing more about the specifics of Wallace Wattles' theory on thought.
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