Good News

I have an idea that sounds like fun...
We start a pay it forward email chain sending people the message
"Today Is Your Lucky Day"
and ask them to pay it forward to at least one person and as many as they want.
I'll start. Check your email!

Beautiful Fruit !

Here's another Law Of Attraction story that just happened today.
I'm still basking in it .
My husband and I are staying in California
(from Hawaii) for the summer to promote my book which is being printed.
One of the things I've been looking forward to with being back on the mainland and in California is being able to eat all the fresh fruits that are in season all summer.
In Hawaii we get beautiful mangoes, bananas and papaya but fruits such as plums, apples, grapes and pear don't grow there. I've really missed having these.
For as long as I can remember I've written down that someday I wanted an orchard filled with every kind of fruit tree that I love, and also grape vines filled with green and red grapes and especially concord grapes which happen to be one of my favorite fruits ever.
I've thought about this over the years and realized it would take a long time before I could enjoy the fruit from the trees if I got the land or bought a house, and planted everything I want, but I still desired having the orchard. Another idea I had was to purchase an old farm with an existing orchard...then I've had the thought, do I really want to do all the work to maintain an orchard or do I just want access to the fruit?
I figured I didn't need to worry about all that now since I'm not in the market to purchase a farm right now anyway. So, I continued to desire having fruit and put it out there to the universe to help me attract the fruits I love in whatever way was best.
Today my husband and I looked at a place to rent while here in Calif. We've been staying in a very small one bedroom place and I wanted more room, so we set out to find a 2 or 3 bedroom place with a yard. My husband found an ad that said the house was on an acre, had 2 bedrooms and beautiful gardens with an orchard. When we arrived to view it I could hardly believe that it was real.
It was like walking into a dream...another realm. Like paradise.
I was truly in heaven.The entry way had a trellis over the patio with grape vines hanging down FILLED with fruit! As we walked the yard I was pinching myself and saying to my husband, I can't believe this...can you believe this...isn't this incredible? He was also amazed at the beauty of all the fruit trees. There were rows of apple trees filled with apples of different types, several citrus, orange, tangerine, lemon, and Meyer lemon.
There were plum trees galore and grapes around every corner with beautiful green, red AND guess what other... my beloved CONCORD grapes!!
I was picking and eating while walking and ecstatic.
If you've ever picked fresh organic fruit from the vine you know what I'm talking about. There's nothing better in my opinion.
There were also cherries, blackberries, pear, pomegranate, persimmon (two varieties)
Asian pear, and in the front by the driveway the biggest fig tree I've ever seen FILLED with figs almost ready to pick.There is even kiwi growing all over the back patio trellis.
The woman who owns the place lives in the main house next to the house we were viewing.
She said she's never sprayed the trees and has been growing them for over 30 years.
I've never seen trees so full of fruit. I could feel the trees were cared for with love.
The house was nice and clean, comfortable, has many windows that look out at all the trees and is in a very quiet area. It's furnished and we can have it for as little or as long as we like.
Now how great is that!
Needless to say we took it and are moving in.
The LOA still amazes me even after all the incredible demonstrations I get, again and again, day after day!
I'm looking forward to fresh apple juice, orange juice and lemonade and excited to be seeing that my manifesting is getting easier and arriving quicker.
I LOVE this deliberate creating stuff!

A Great Law Of Attraction Story

Here's a great Law Of Attraction story:
A lady had moved into the house next door to us a few weeks ago. We met her on the day she was moving in and she mentioned that she had 2 dogs. Her dogs were still at her old house (which we had no idea where it was) and we had not seen or met her dogs yet and had no idea what they looked like.
A few days after meeting our new neighbor my husband and I were across town, a few miles from home. We usually took a different route home but for that day I asked if we could go another way home for a change. Just as we turned the corner we saw a dog running around. It was a very busy downtown intersection.
The dog was obviously scared and looked panicked. Cars were racing by almost hitting it as it ran frantic across the street in and out of traffic. I was surprised that no one had stopped to help.
I told my husband that we had to stop and help this dog. We pulled over and the dog which was a young border collie, started barking at me. I said out loud to the dog, "It's okay, I'm going to help you. I know you're scared. We'll get you back home, don't worry. I then took her by the collar and she willingly jumped into the car with us. She licked my face and then started licking my husbands arm as he was driving.
I really wasn't sure what I was going to do. I knew that I'd give the dog some water and started mocking up that I could put up signs where we found her to see if someone would claim her.
When we got about 3 blocks from our house I started having this thought that the dog belonged to our neighbor. It was a very strong feeling and I thought, well that would make it easy.
I really liked the dog and was thinking it wouldn't be so bad if we ended up having to keep her! When we pulled up in front of our house the dog got very excited and I held onto her collar and walked her towards our house. My new neighbor was by her front door and shockingly said "Where did you get my dog"?
I replied "I KNEW it was your dog"!
She was blown away and I was laughing to myself, knowing it was the law of attraction in action, once again!
It bonded us as neighbors and I now get to have a dog friend next door to borrow for walks and kisses anytime I want!

Oh...the dog got out because someone didn't latch the gate at her old place.
The probability of us driving by at the exact time, and taking the dog home with us, AND that my neighbor would be there to see us with the dog etc. was uncanny!

Today, I appreciate knowing that we are ALL looked after and we are ALWAYS taken care of.
All IS well!

The Dog And Butterfly

A few weeks ago I posted a story in my blog called "Flirting With Love."
I mentioned how butterflies were showing up all around me and how fun that was to see. Well, so many coincidental and serendipitous things have been happening
since that I know now it's the Universe responding with the law of attraction.
It's uncanny how often little miracles and magical things are presenting themselves.
We've recently relocated to another town...almost an hour away from where we were when I wrote the post commenting on how butterflies are all around me.
A few days ago I heard the neighbors little mini chihuahua dog barking in the back yard. It was such a cute, happy yipping sound that I decided to see what was going on. I thought I'd find the owner and the dog playing with a ball or something. What I saw was the little dog dancing around by itself in circles, looking up at the trees and wagging it's tail. It kept doing this and I thought to myself, it must see something I don't. Then I noticed a butterfly go by right above the dogs head. It appeared to be teasing the dog. It would swoop down and then go back up just high enough so the dog couldn't catch it.The dog seemed to be enjoying the interaction and was spinning in circles and yipping. I thought it was cute but didn't think too much more about it.
The next day I heard the dog barking again so I looked out the window and saw him spinning in circles and looking up above him for the butterfly. I saw a butterfly flying around the dog again but didn't have the time to watch what was going on. Yesterday I heard the dog yipping again and I had some time to check it out a little longer. I watched from the bathroom window as the little dog jumped and spun and yipped with delight. He was clearly having a good time with this butterfly that was clearly playing with this dog!
I could hardly believe it, but then I could. It's been more the norm for my life lately! It was the cutest thing I've ever seen. The dog would chase the butterfly and the butterfly would get just close enough to almost let the dog jump up and touch it and then fly away. The butterfly would land on a tree branch or the fence and stay there while the dog was spinning and yipping, wagging it's tail waiting for more. The dog was having a blast and it seemed that the butterfly was too.
I had no idea that butterflies had that much consciousness and apparently a big sense of humor. Life is full of beauty and it keeps getting better and better!
Here's a cute video clip of penguins chasing a butterfly:



Today I appreciate all things in life that bring a smile to my face.

Bringing The Soul Back Home

My friend Katya Williamson's newest book is now in print and available for purchase!
It's called Bringing The Soul Back Home-Writing In The New Consciousness.

It's published by O Books and can be found at:
http://www.o-books.com/product_info.php?products_id=593

Here's a review on her book:

This is an exciting book for people who want to explore writing and through writing- explore themselves. The magic here is the magic of what has always been present: that river of creativity that runs through every human being, the glory that is the earth itself, and the glory of the human body, the power of now and the power of believing in yourself. On her part, Katya Willliamson believes passionately in a democracy of writing. We are all part of something larger even as we all have a unique voice - something to offer the world. Anyone interested in discovering that voice, in digging a little deeper, in being a little more honest and a little more brave, will enjoy both the encouragement and the exercises to be found in this inspiring and practical guide to "writing in the new consciousness". Sharman Apt Russell, author, "Standing in the Light: My Life As a Pantheist"


Katya holds writing retreats in Hawaii, California and in England. I met her while she was staying next door to me on the North Shore of Oahu. She was there finishing the last chapters of her book. I had the privilege of receiving some private coaching from her. We would meet on my lanai for writing sessions with the sound of the waves and the chirping of geckos in the background.
Katya was instrumental in my following through with getting my book Danny And The Dolphin published. Thank You Katya , Thank You Universe, for bringing me Katya!
Her teaching and techniques in her book are easy to follow, helpful and very insightful.
Mostly what I've learned is to write what I feel, and write about my life experiences...writing from the heart, without thinking too much.
I love the stories and testimonials from the women that have attended her retreats.
Katya's gift of showing others how to release their inner beauty and share that with the world is something I appreciate and value immensely.
I know you will too. Get her book and see what you have to share with the world!

You Are What You Think

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become." ~Buddha

It's true, whether we want to believe it or not. I've experimented with my own life and it's so amazing how good it gets when I have my focus on good things. Good seems to multiply and it keeps getting better and better when I make the effort to look for it.
I'm not immune to going the other direction though. I can certainly create my fair share of drama if I put my attention that way. Recently I was upset over something and let my thoughts snowball...without going too much into detail I created a few avalanches in my life experience! Fortunately I have a large bank of inspiring information I've exposed my mind to over the years, Abraham-Hicks, Wayne Dyer, Norman Vincent Peale, Catherine Ponder.
With this information, I've learned to dust myself off and deliberately redirect my thinking. It's not always easy, it's just too painful to stay in a negative state for very long, so I tend to reverse the direction sooner now.
I do this by finding something I can appreciate and then look for more.Then I'm back where I like to be....feeling good.

If you'd like some help in getting back on a feeling good path, here's some info I've gathered online that may be useful:

Some inspirational reading:

http://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Thoughts-Living-Wisdom/dp/140191750X/ref=pd_sim_b_5

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Positive-Thinking-Norman-Vincent/dp/0449911470


http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/story?id=1402881
www.amazon.com/What-You-Think-Get-Realizing/dp/0965867900

Here's a youtube video with Brian Tracy :




TINY FROGS There once was a bunch of tiny frogs ... who arranged a running competition. The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower. A big crowd had gathered around the tower to see the race and cheer on the contestants... The race began... No one in the crowd really believed that the tiny frogs would reach the top of the tower. You heard statements such as: "It turned out that the winner was DEAF!!!! The wisdom of this story: Never listen to other people's tendencies to be negative or pessimistic. They take your most wonderful dreams and wishes away from you -- the ones you have in your heart! Always think of the power words have. Everything you hear and read will affect your actions! BE POSITIVE! And above all, be DEAF when people tell you that you cannot fulfill your dreams!
Always think: I can do this!

You are what you think about AND you get what you think about.

What are you wanting to manifest in your life?

What are you thinking?

Today I appreciate knowing I can choose which direction I take in my life.

I appreciate the Law Of Attraction teachings.
I appreciate having a strong inner guidance.

Today Is Your Lucky Day!

I'm a firm believer that we create our own luck...and that we create our reality, our destiny.
When I was growing up my mom use to say to me, "You must have been born under a lucky star". Back then, I never really understood what she was talking about. Now I know that she just didn't see what I saw, possibilities where others may see the end of the road, hope where there is despair and belief in my vision, somehow knowing it was on it's way to me because my believing kept it alive. Just how "Lucky" do you want to be? It's really all up to you.

Here is a wonderful article I found online:

How To Make Your Own Luck By: Daniel H. PinkWed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:41 AM
Some folks do have all the luck -- and psychologist Richard Wiseman can teach you how to be one of the lucky few.
"It's better to be lucky than smart." "You make your own luck in life." "Some folks are just born lucky." In an environment marked by rising tensions and diminished expectations, most of us could use a little luck -- at our companies, in our careers, with our investments. Richard Wiseman thinks that he can help you find some.
Wiseman, 37, is head of a psychology research department at the University of Hertfordshire in England. For the past eight years, he and his colleagues at the university's Perrott-Warrick Research Unit have studied what makes some people lucky and others not. After conducting thousands of interviews and hundreds of experiments, Wiseman now claims that he's cracked the code. Luck isn't due to kismet, karma, or coincidence, he says. Instead, lucky folks -- without even knowing it -- think and behave in ways that create good fortune in their lives. In his new book, The Luck Factor: Changing Your Luck, Changing Your Life: The Four Essential Principles (Miramax, 2003), Wiseman reveals four approaches to life that turn certain people into luck magnets. (And, as luck would have it, he tells the rest of us how to improve our own odds.)
Wiseman's four principles turn out to be slightly more polished renditions of some of the self-help canon's greatest hits. One thing Wiseman discovered, for example, was that when things go awry, the lucky "turn bad luck into good" by seeing how they can squeeze some benefit from the misfortune. (Lemonade, anyone?) The lucky also "expect good fortune," which no doubt has Norman Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking, grinning in his grave.
But if these insights aren't exactly groundbreaking, neither are they wrongheaded. For instance, Wiseman found that lucky people are particularly open to possibility. Why do some people always seem to find fortune? It's not dumb luck. Unlike everyone else, they see it. "Most people are just not open to what's around them," Wiseman says. "That's the key to it."
Wiseman began his career as a teenage magician who joined London's prestigious Magic Circle society and journeyed to Hollywood to perform for thousands. "Magic is very good training for seeing the world from somebody else's perspective," he says. Wiseman's latest research makes several forays into areas where most scholars rarely tread: He has investigated the psychological underpinnings of magic, the dynamics of deception, and the psychology of the paranormal. In 2001, he achieved international notoriety conducting a yearlong search for the world's funniest joke, testing how some 350,000 participants reacted to 40,000 jokes.
Fast Company was lucky enough to catch up with the hip and affable professor at a café overlooking London's Hyde Park.
How did a serious academic like you become interested in a squishy subject like luck?
Round about 10 years ago, I was talking to people about why they'd ended up where they'd ended up in their lives -- the people they were with, the careers they were in, and so on. And the words that kept coming up were things like "luck" and "chance." People said, "I met my partner by chance." Or "I'm in this particular career because I just happened to go to this party." I knew from the psychology literature that psychologists avoided luck. They said you couldn't do science with it. So I decided to test that. I did some research that asked people, "Do you consider yourself unlucky, or lucky?"
Over time, we built up a database of about 400 people from all over the UK, all walks of life, who considered themselves especially lucky or unlucky. The people in both groups were saying, "I've no idea why this is the case; I'm just lucky" -- or unlucky. But I didn't believe that for a minute. I thought there was something else going on. So in the Luck Project, we've had them take part in experiments, interviewed them, had them keep diaries -- all sorts of things -- trying to piece together why you'd have one group of people for whom everything would work out well and another group for whom things would be completely disastrous.
Isn't there a distinction between chance and luck?
There's a big distinction. Chance events are like winning the lottery. They're events over which we have no control, other than buying a ticket. They don't consistently happen to the same person. They may be formative events in people's lives, but they're not frequent. When people say that they consistently experience good fortune, I think that, by definition, it has to be because of something they are doing.
In other words, they make their own luck.
That's right. What I'm arguing is that we have far more control over events than we thought previously. You might say, "Fifty percent of my life is due to chance events." No, it's not. Maybe 10% is. That other 40% that you think you're having no influence over at all is actually defined by the way you think.

Some folks do have all the luck - and psychologist Richard Wiseman can teach you how to be one of the lucky few.
What are some of the ways that lucky people think differently from unlucky people?
One way is to be open to new experiences. Unlucky people are stuck in routines. When they see something new, they want no part of it. Lucky people always want something new. They're prepared to take risks and relaxed enough to see the opportunities in the first place.
How did you uncover that in your lab?
We did an experiment. We asked subjects to flip through a news-paper that had photographs in it. All they had to do was count the number of photographs. That's it. Luck wasn't on their minds, just some silly task. They'd go through, and after about three pages, there'd be a massive half-page advert saying, STOP COUNTING. THERE ARE 43 PHOTOGRAPHS IN THIS NEWSPAPER. It was next to a photo, so we knew they were looking at that area. A few pages later, there was another massive advert -- I mean, we're talking big -- that said, STOP COUNTING. TELL THE EXPERIMENTER YOU'VE SEEN THIS AND WIN 150 POUNDS [about $235].
For the most part, the unlucky would just flip past these things. Lucky people would flip through and laugh and say, "There are 43 photos. That's what it says. Do you want me to bother counting?" We'd say, "Yeah, carry on." They'd flip some more and say, "Do I get my 150 pounds?" Most of the unlucky people didn't notice.
But the business culture typically worships drive -- setting a goal, single-mindedly pursuing it, and plowing past obstacles. Are you arguing that, to be more lucky, we need to be less focused?
This is one of the most counterintuitive ideas. We are traditionally taught to be really focused, to be really driven, to try really hard at tasks. But in the real world, you've got opportunities all around you. And if you're driven in one direction, you're not going to spot the others. It's about getting people to have various game plans running in their heads. Unlucky people, if they go to a party wanting to meet the love of their life, end up not meeting people who might become close friends or people who might help them in their careers. Being relaxed and open allows lucky people to see what's around them and to maximize what's around them.
Much of business is also about rational analysis: pulling up the spreadsheet, running the numbers, looking at the serious facts. Yet you found that lucky people rely heavily on their gut instincts.
Yes. You don't want to broadly say that whenever you get an intuitive feeling, it's right and you should go with it. But you could be missing out on a massive font of knowledge that you've built up over the years. We are amazingly good at detecting patterns. That's what our brains are set up to do.
What are some other ways you found that lucky people's minds operate differently?
They practice "counter-factual thinking." The degree to which you think that something is fortunate or not is the degree to which you generate alternatives that are better or worse.
Unlucky people say, "I can't believe I've been in another car accident." Lucky people go, "Wonderful. Yes, I had a car accident, but I wasn't killed. And I met the guy in the other car, and we got on really well, and there might be a relationship there." What's interesting is that both ways of thinking are unconscious and automatic. It would never occur to the unlucky people to see it a different way.
Isn't there something delusional about that approach -- sort of a modern version of Dr. Pangloss's "All for the best in the best of all possible worlds"? Suppose I said, "I just wrote this article, and the article stinks, and nobody read it. But hey, at least I have two arms."
What's so delusional about that? If it keeps you going in the face of adversity and softens the impact of the fact that no one read your article, and therefore you think, "Well, I can write another article, and I'm going to learn from the mistakes of the past one, and I'm going to keep on going," I think that's fine. It would be delusional if you took it to the extreme -- especially if you weren't learning from your mistakes.
But can we acknowledge that sometimes bad stuff -- car accidents, natural disasters -- just happens? Sometimes it's purely bad, and there's nothing good about it.
I've never heard that from a lucky person.
So if you buy that way of thinking, then there is no bad luck.
That's right. That's what was weird about conducting some of the interviews. Subjects would say, "I'm the luckiest person alive" -- and they'd come up with dreadful stories. They'd have the same life events as the unlucky person, but they'd look at them entirely differently.
Isn't that just a fancy version of the power of positive thinking?
There's more science to it -- as opposed to the classic "Just think positive, and you'll be successful." I think if you understand a little about where it's coming from, it's a bit easier to adapt into your life.
We had a subject named Carolyn. When she would come to the unit to be interviewed, it would be just this whole string of bad-luck stories: "I can't find anyone. I'm unlucky in love. When I did find someone, the guy fell off his motorbike. The next blind date broke his nose. We were supposed to get married, and the church burned down." But to every single interview, she'd bring along her two kids. They were 6 and 7 years old -- very healthy, very happy kids who'd sit there and play. And it was interesting, because most people would love to have two kids like that, but that wasn't part of her world, because she was unlucky in her mind.
How do you get people to begin thinking like lucky people?
We've created a Luck School that teaches people certain techniques. One thing that we do is have people keep a luck diary. At the end of each day, they spend a couple of moments writing down the positive and lucky things that happened. We ask them not to write down the unlucky stuff. Once that starts to build up, what they're doing is adding on, each day. So they look back, and it's five days' worth of positive events, and now it's day six. After doing that for a month, it's difficult not to be thinking about the good things that are happening.
What are the applications of your research to business?
We've just done our first Luck School with an entire company. We took all 35 employees through it. The CEO was very open to change. The ideas resonated with him because that's how he has lived his life. So when he heard them, he said, "I want everybody in my organization to think like this." If we did nothing but make his employees feel better about themselves, he'll be a happy man. If it has an impact on profits and productivity, he'll be a very happy man.
Do you think that lucky organizations really exist?
Yes. Whether it translates to just percentages of lucky people, or whether it translates to a particular mixture, where some score high on one principle and others score high on another, I don't know. In the sense of organizational culture and identity, I think that some organizations will be seen as lucky and successful and others will be seen as unlucky, in the same way that individuals are.
According to Richard Wiseman, these four principles can create good fortune in your life and career.
1. Maximize Chance Opportunities
Lucky people are skilled at creating, noticing, and acting upon chance opportunities. They do this in various ways, which include building and maintaining a strong network, adopting a relaxed attitude to life, and being open to new experiences.
2. Listen to Your Lucky Hunches
Lucky people make effective decisions by listening to their intuition and gut feelings. They also take steps to actively boost their intuitive abilities -- for example, by meditating and clearing their mind of other thoughts.
3. Expect Good Fortune
Lucky people are certain that the future will be bright. Over time, that expectation becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because it helps lucky people persist in the face of failure and positively shapes their interactions with other people.
4. Turn Bad Luck Into Good
Lucky people employ various psychological techniques to cope with, and even thrive upon, the ill fortune that comes their way. For example, they spontaneously imagine how things could have been worse, they don't dwell on the ill fortune, and they take control of the situation.
Daniel H. Pink (dp@danpink.com), author of Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself (Warner Business Books, 2002), is writing a book about the rise of right-brained thinking in modern life. He considers himself one lucky guy. For more information on the Luck Project, visit the Web (http://www.luckfactor.co.uk/).

Thank you Daniel H. Pink

Today look for ways to be luckier. See all the possibilities around you.

Appreciate that good things are available and on their way to you...if you're "lucky" enough to notice it.

I appreciate knowing I create my reality and my own good luck.

I appreciate having fun, happy go lucky people in my life.

I appreciate all the great writings and information available on the internet.

NOTE:

This is SO cool....
About a half an hour after posting this my husband and I went out to run some errands. We had to stop for some gas and on the way to the gas station I was telling my husband about the blog I just finished writing. I told him it was titled "Today Is Your Lucky Day."

A few minutes later while at the gas station, some kids walked by our car carrying their beach gear and boogie boards. One of them, a boy, reached down and picked something up from the ground. We think it might have been some money. He said very loudly while running to catch up to his friends..."This is my lucky day!"
My husband looked at me and said "Did you just hear what that kid said"?
I replied "If you hadn't heard it too, I might not have believed what I was hearing"
Then we went over to get a bite to eat a near by restaurant.We were sitting there eating and I overheard the guy next to me talking to his friend. He was going on and on about a client he was working for, designing a web site.
He continued talking to his friend and my attention drifted from his conversation until I heard him clearly say, "This must be my lucky day!" I don't know why he said it or what he was saying it about but I heard it.
It was almost the exact phrase the kid had said minutes earlier.
After we were finished eating I stood up and walked over to the guy that was talking to his friend. I apologized for ease dropping and asked him if he designed websites. He said he did and gave me his card.
I've been looking for someone to design a new website for my book Danny and the Dolphin.
Talk about Law of attraction! Believe it folks...this stuff works!!
What we put our attention on grows.