As some of you may know, My husband and I are in the process of tearing down our old house and putting up a new one.  I’m elated over this because for the first time in my life, I will have everything working at the same time!  We also are getting some incredible deals along the way!  Here is one of the reasons why I believe things are finally turning around in my life.

You see, I was raised with the poverty mindset.  My Dad was cheaper than Scrooge!  He actually took pride in that attribute!  Anything we had was of the poorest quality because you get what you pay for.  I knew no better so it didn’t bother me really.  I thought that’s just the way things are until I moved out of the house.  That’s when I saw that things are different elswhere.  I however, continued on in the same mindset.  When I bought a house, it was definately a fixer-upper.  The house was huge with much potential.  (it was built around 1875).  Things never did get fully repaired as by that time I was a single parent of 4 and always had someone else living with us, usually for free.  After several years, I moved to where I am now to care for my elderly father.  His house, of course, was in total disrepair because he could not longer “jerry-rig” it himself nor would he spend any money to have it done for him.  Needless to say, the place is so bad, I can’t even have my grandchildren come and visit as this place is NOT even safe.

I had enough!  It’s time for me now.  I started an online business.  I had to have a way to make some money!  I left my job as my Dad required more and more attention.  During my research, I came across the Law of Attraction and other related laws.  It rang true to me so I began to pursue it, devouring all the free information I could about it.  So for the past year I’ve been learning and applying what I’ve been learning, by changing my THINKING.

One of my daily exercises has been to change my mind concerning money.  People who are rich or are becoming wealthy, don’t think like I do at all!  I set out to think like they do.  Daily, during my “quiet time”  I focus on this:  “Money flows easily and effortlessly to me.  I am a money magnet.”  I look at this statement from every angle I can think of as to how it pertains to today.  I am beginning to see progress in changing my environment.

Those deals we’re getting now, never happened in the past.  Remember Murphy from Murphy’s laws; Whatever could go wrong, does go wrong.  Well up until recently, Murphy did rule but no longer.  I kicked him out of my belief system, although he still tries to get back in.  I won’t let him!  In purchasing our new house, we were given thousands off, having been given extras for just the base price.  We thought we’d have to replace our septic system.  Now it appears we don’t.  We wanted ceramic tile in our new house and we found a really good sale on some that’s even cheaper than vinyl flooring!  These are just a few.  To me this is just as good as cash in hand!

There is one more reason other than changing my THINKING.  I believe things have turned around.  We have started “giving” again to our favorite charity, Compassion International.  We support a girl who lives in an AIDS affected village as well as extra money to help eliminate the spread of AIDS in her community.  So another Law we have working on our behalf is the Law of Reciprocity.

Happy, Happy Day!

My daughter sent this to me via e-mail so rather than just forward it (I will do this too), I decided to share it here as well as this is such an inspiring story.  I was planning on something else, but this is way too cool to pass up sharing with you today.  This is VERY close to my heart as my brother was a person just like Shay.

Two Choices

What would you do?….you make the choice. Don’t look for a punch line,
there isn’t one. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have made the
same choice?

At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning-disabled
children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would
never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and
its dedicated staff, he offered a question: ‘When not interfered with by
outside influences, everything nature does is done with perfection. Yet
my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot
understand things as other children do. Where is the natural order of
things in my son?’

The audience was stilled by the query.

The father continued. ‘I believe, that when a child like Shay, physically
and mentally handicapped comes into the world, an opportunity to realize
true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people
treat that child.’

Then he told the following story:

Shay and his father had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were
playing baseball. Shay asked, ‘Do you think they’ll let me play?’ Shay’s
father knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on
their team, but the father also understood th at if his son were allowed
to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some
confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps.

Shay’s father approached one of the boys on the field and asked (not
expecting much) if Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance
and said, ‘We’re losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning.
I guess he can be on our team and we’ll try to put him in to bat in the
ninth innin g.’

Shay struggled over to the team’s bench and, with a broad smile, put on a
team shirt. His father watched with a small tear in his eye and warmth in
his heart. The boys saw the father’s joy at his son being accepted. In
the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay’s team scored a few runs but was
still behind by three. In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a
glove and played in the right field. Even though no hits came his way, he
was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning
from ear to ear as his father waved to him from the stands. In the bottom
of the ninth inning, Shay’s team scored again. Now, with two outs and the
bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was
scheduled to be next at bat.

At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win
the game? Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit
was all but impossible because Shay didn’t even know how to hold the bat
properly, much less connect with the ball.

However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher, recognizing that
the other team was putting winning aside for this moment in Shay’s life,
moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least
make contact. The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed.
The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly
towards Shay. As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow
ground ball right back to the pitcher.

The game would now be over. The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and
could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shay would have
been out and that would have been the end of the game.

Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the firs t baseman’s head,
out of reach of all team mates. Everyone from the stands and both teams
started yelling, ‘Shay, run to first! Run to first!’ Never in his life
had Shay ever run that far, but he made it to first base. He scampered
down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled.

Everyone yelled, ‘Run to second, run to second!’ Catching his breath,
Shay awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to
the base. By the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder
had the ball … the smallest guy on their team who now had his first
chance to be the hero for his team. He could have thrown the ball to the
second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher’s intentions so
he, too, intentionally threw the ball high and far over the
third-baseman’s head. Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the
runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home.

All were screaming, ‘Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay!’

Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop ran to help him by
turning him in the direction of third base, and shouted, ‘Run to third!
Shay, run to third!’

As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams, and the spectators, were
on their feet screaming, ‘Shay, run home! Run home!’ Shay ran to home,
stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the grand slam
and won the game for his team.

‘That day’, said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face,
‘the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity
into this world’.

Shay didn’t make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never
forgotten being the hero and making his father so happy, and coming home
and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day!

AND NOW A LITTLE FOOTNOTE TO THIS STORY: We all send thousands of jokes
through the e-mail without a second thought, but when it comes to sending
messages about life choices, people hesitate. The crude, vulgar, and
often obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion about
decency is too often suppressed in our schools and workplaces.

If you’re thinking about forwarding this message, chances are that you’re
probably sorting out the people in your address book who aren’t the
‘appropriate’ ones to receive this type of message. Well, the person who
sent you this believes that we all can make a difference. We all have
thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the ‘natural
order of things.’ So many seemingly trivial interactions between two
people present us with a choice: Do we pass along a little spark of love
and humanity or do we pass up those opportunities and leave the world a
little bit colder in the process?

A wise man once said every society is judged by how it treats the least
fortunate amongst them.

You now have two choices:
1. Delete
2. Forward

May your day be a Shay Day!

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Today’s post is not an original.  It is taken directly from Napoleon Hill’s book “Think and Grow Rich”.  This is one of my favorite books next to the Holy Bible.  It contains many universal laws put in layman’s terms so we all can understand just how to work with those laws.  Bob Proctor of the “Secret” also studies from this book and uses much of it in his courses.  I encourage you to get a hold of this book and study it for yourself.  You can download it at no cost at Bob’s Six Munites to Success.  This excerpt is so well written, I thought it best to give it to straight from his own book, without any “intrepratation” from me.

FAITH IS A STATE OF MIND THAT MAY BE INDUCED BY AUTO-SUGGESTION

All down the ages, religionists have admonished struggling humanity to “have faith” in this, that, and other dogma or creed, but they have failed to tell people HOW to have faith.  Thay have not stated that “faith is a state of mind, and that it may be induced by self suggestion.”

In a language that any normal human being can understand, we will describe all that is known about the principle through which FAITH may be developed where it does not already exist.

Have faith in yourself;  Faith in the Infinite.

Before you begin, you should be reminded again that FAITH is the “eternal elixir”, which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought.”  The foregoing sentence is worth reading a second time, and a third, and a fourth.  It is worth reading aloud!

FAITH is the starting point of all accumulation of riches.

FAITH is the basis of all “miracles” and all mysteries which can not be analyzed by the rules of science.

FAITH is the only known antidote for FAILURE.

FAITH is the element, the “chemical”, which when mixed with prayer gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.

FAITH is the element which transforms the ordinary vibration of thought, created by the finite mind of man, into the spiritual equivalent.

FAITH is the only agency through which the cosmic force of Infinite Intelligence can be harnessed and used by man.

EVERY ONE OF THE FOREGOING STATEMENTS IS CAPABLE OF PROOF.  …

It is a well known fact that one comes. finally, to BELIEVE in whatever one repeats to one’s self, whether it be true or false.  If a man repeats a lie over and over, he will eventually accept the lie as truth.  Moreover, he will BELIEVE it to be truth.  Every man is what he is, is because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.  Thoughts which a man places in his own mind, and encourages with sympathy, and with which he mixes one or more of the emotions, constitute the motivating forces, which direct and control his every movement, act and deed.

Comes now a very significant statement of TRUTH:

THOUGHTS WHICH ARE MIXED WITH ANY OF THE FEELINGS OF EMOTIONS, CONSTITUTES A “MAGNETIC” FORCE WHICH ATTRACTS, FROM THE VIBRATIONS OF THE ETHER, OTHER SIMILAR OR RELATED THOUGHTS.  A thought thus “magnetized” with emotion may be compared to a seed which grows and multiplies itself over and over again, until that which was originally one small seed becomes countless millions of seeds of the SAME BRAND.

Now back to my own thoughts;

Can you get the idea of just how powerful your thoughts and words are?  What you think about (in your heart or subconscious) is who you are.  Out of that, comes your words, which are a creative force in itself.  You must take EVERY thought captive to the TRUTH…get rid of those that are not!