| Just about everybody gets them...I had them just | | | | feel-good money vibrations into the Universe and |
| recently...Yup, I had a serious case of the "poor | | | | opening yourself up to receiving money.Here's my |
| me's", those down-in-the-dumps, pitiful, worthless | | | | variation...If you don't have $100, or getting the bill |
| feelings of failure and scarcity. I mean, I threw a | | | | is inconvenient, write yourself a $100 check and |
| full-blown pity party.My web host went down, so | | | | put it in your wallet. Then go shopping.And if |
| no one could see my web pages. I couldn't get | | | | actually getting out to the stores is inconvenient, |
| my email. I couldn't even get into the control panel | | | | pick up a stack of catalogs or log onto the |
| to make sure I had a current list of subscribers | | | | internet. I use catalogs because I still remember |
| for this newsletter...Then, just to make sure I | | | | wearing out the "Wish Books" from Sears and |
| was good and miserable, I threw in a few | | | | Montgomery Wards at Christmas when I was a |
| "what-ifs".What if the database is gone | | | | kid.I page through the catalogs slowly, looking at |
| forever?What if I never build it back?What if my | | | | the items and mentally "buy" anything that strikes |
| business fails and I have to go looking for a | | | | my fancy that I could order with my hundred |
| J.O.B.?What if I can't find one?What if we lose the | | | | bucks.I know this vibration stuff might sound kind |
| house...?By the time those poor-me's and what-if's | | | | of "airy-fairy", and I'm not an airy-fairy kind of |
| got going, in my mind we were living in a | | | | guy. I'm an engineer by education and training. |
| cardboard box and it was all my fault...Oh, how a | | | | One thing you learn as an engineer is that you do |
| good night's sleep can change things. I got up the | | | | what it takes to get the job done, and this gets |
| next morning, and started on my normal routine. | | | | the job done.Want an example? OK...This summer |
| Part of that routine is spending at least 30 | | | | I wanted to take a long road trip, and cash is |
| minutes reading something good. Something that | | | | pretty tight. We're making some improvements |
| will contribute to, and serve, my vision and my | | | | on the house and paying cash for them. So |
| dreams.In this particular instance, the book was | | | | where was the money going to come from?I |
| "Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting" by Lynn | | | | didn't worry about that, just started planning the |
| Grabhorn. The book talks about the Law of | | | | trip. What route would I take? How long would it |
| Attraction, that we get what we think and feel. | | | | take me? Where would I stop, and who would I |
| And the Universe provided just the right | | | | see? How would it feel to do things exactly as I |
| cure.Grabhorn outlined an exercise designed to | | | | wanted to do them on the trip?Well, a couple of |
| make you feel good about money, and having it. | | | | weeks into that routine, and the money fell out of |
| If you can get the feeling of having plenty of | | | | the sky. I mean it came down in chunks...Earlier |
| money, you open yourself to attracting that | | | | this spring, we attended to some family business |
| money, and the money flows in. I'm going to give | | | | out of town and didn't have room to haul |
| you the original exercise, and a variation I | | | | everything back with us. So we stored the extra |
| discovered.Here's the original...Take a $100 bill (or | | | | stuff with relatives and went back a month or so |
| the biggest bill you can afford-- don't skimp) and | | | | later to get it.While there, we got caught in a hail |
| put it in your wallet.Now go shopping. If you can | | | | storm. Chunks of ice the size of golf balls were |
| handle a full day, do it. Even a lunch hour at the | | | | bouncing off our car. After the storm, we were |
| mall will work. Just go someplace with lots of | | | | left with a cracked windshield and several dings in |
| different stores.Now wander from store to store, | | | | the sheet metal.Long story short, the insurance |
| picking out things you'd like to buy with your $100. | | | | company totalled out the car. We decided to |
| Don't start making a list and figuring what you can | | | | keep it and take the settlement, which is paying |
| get, just pick up individual items and tell yourself | | | | for my road trip. A side benefit is that, because |
| that you'd like that item and since you have the | | | | the car is totalled on the insurance company's |
| money in your pocket, you could buy it. Feel what | | | | books, we no longer pay for collision insurance, so |
| it's like to see something you like and know that | | | | our car insurance bill will go down for as long as |
| you can have it.If you're diligent, by the end of | | | | we keep the car...So just remember--When the |
| the day you may have picked up at least 1,000 | | | | going gets tough, tough...Go shopping!Here's what |
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