Archive for January, 2009

It’s nice to strive for the finer things in life. Achieving them, naturally, is even better than striving for them, not so?

Sometimes they feel so far out of reach, that they appear nearly impossible to reach.

So how many of you out there have seen “The Secret”? I saw it quite some time ago, way before it had ‘hit big’.  It suddenly ocurred to me that whenever things have gone particularly well for me, it’s when I’d been inadvertantly applying it’s principles.

For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, wow, that’s a pretty big rock you’ve been hiding under! Joking aside, you can find out more about “The Secret“  and the laws of attraction at that link.  While I think that the very beginning of the movie is just a tad on the cheeezy side, there’s no denying the power of what lies within it. Because frankly, it works.

What you ask for. You receive.

What you think about. Becomes.

Thoughts become things.

To give you a few examples, if you are constantly worried about debt, don’t you find that you just keep getting more of it? You can be as positive as you like about something but if your focus is wrong, the wrongness of it is what will follow you, so if it’s debt you’re worried about, stop thinking about ‘how to reduce your debt’ and start thinking about how to increase your wealth and abundance.

Some years ago, I was in a very stressful job, working ridiculous hours to keep up, and one night sitting alone in an empty office building I sat back and vividly saw in front of me what I wanted. I felt what it would feel like, how good it would feel when I had it.

I didn’t have the specifics yet, but I knew that I wanted to have a job in the future where I could work from home. Be online. It would involve something creative. It would allow me time away from my desk in the outdoors when I chose to have it. But the majority of the work would be done at the computer (heck I just love my computer).  Money would come to me without me having to sell ideas or products to people. They would approach me, and the money would flow naturally to me.

Approximately 2 years later, somebody showed me The Secret on DVD.  I was suddenly gobsmacked.

There I was a little under two years later, at home, with exactly what I’d asked for. I’d gotten married in the interim and had my first child.  I was at home.  I was an emerging photographer. I got out into the great outdoors shooting equestrian sports photography (I’ve always had a big interest in horses so it just fit).  People would approach me at shows and ask me for my business card. Ask me where they could view and buy the photographs.  They were approaching me! I didn’t have to go out and sell ‘myself’ as it were.

It was all just flowing naturally the way I’d pictured it.  The majority of my work was post processing after the shows and uploading to the web so that people could view and order the photos.  I hadn’t just got part of what I asked for, I’d gotten ALL of it.

Since then I’ve branched out into portrait photography, wedding photography and the universe still keeps on giving.

So in a nutshell about those finer things in life, they’re totally achievable. You just have to see it, feel it, ask for it, and wait for the universe to deliver.

So whether you’re like me, and furiously manifesting a 24″ iMac, or something simpler like a nice Audemars Piguet watch for your husband (or yourself) know that all of that and more is waiting out there for you.

Just ask.

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