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Pay Your Bills With JOY…

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pay your bills with joyIt’s time to take a different look at your prosperity. We talked about this a few weeks ago when it was time for your taxes. But it’s pertinent all the time. We just need to expand our vision and get a bit out of our own little world.

If you want more prosperity, you have to feel prosperous. The best way to do that is to be thankful and joyful when you are paying your bills. You should write on the envelope “thank you” or “I am grateful for this statement”. If you use the word “bills”, it’s even more important that you feel deep gratitude. Why? Remember that your subconscious does not have a Merriam-Webster dictionary inside of it and does not know the difference between bills and bills – meaning the currency you carry around in your wallet and the pieces of paper that come from companies asking for money. Thus, the more gratitude and joy you bless both types of bills with, the more the Universe will bring prosperity back to you.

If you look beyond your wallet and bank account when you are responding to those statements (paying your bills), you’ll see how many people have been (and will be) positively affected by what you are now paying for. There are the people who worked hard to make the product (or provide the service) you purchased. You have helped them. Maybe this was a single mom who has 3 jobs and just barely making it from paycheck to paycheck. You have helped her and perhaps even bought a meal for her child. Then there are the folks who are sending you the statement. You know they don’t make a lot of money either. You have helped them with their income. And so on down the line. Try to imagine ALL the people you are helping by paying this one bill and be thankful that you are helping other folks even if you don’t know them. Imagine that you do know them and that you are there handing them the payment and seeing the smile and perhaps some tears on their faces.

Frequently we tend to only think of those in “power” who run the corporations that are “charging outrageous prices” etc. All that does is make the process painful for you and increases your despair, disappointment and resentment. I encourage you to look beyond all those “people in power” (PIPs). I don’t know about you but I work for a BIG power corporation (the government) and if people stopped paying what they are supposed to pay, I would not have an income. What about you? If you’re in business for yourself, it’s as bad or worse if others just didn’t want to pay the bills you send because they don’t think they “should”.

Try it for a few months. Bless your bills, write on them “Bless this bill and I’m grateful for this”, and visualize giving someone on the other end their money. Then pay the bill, smile and move on. In a short while this will be contagious and you’ll be blessing everything you pay for and you know what? You’ll start reaping the benefits. Gratitude is the strongest force in the Universe.

Terrie

 

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Law of Attraction – Rule #10 – Thank You!

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loa rule 10Ah – we come to Rule #10 – the last in this series. Of course, you can make as many rules as you’d like. One (of many) definitions of the word “rule” is: “a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.”. A rule is not a law. The Laws of the Universe are not things we make up. They exist no matter how much we try to deny them or change them. When trying to understand this, always remember the Law of Gravity and then go sit under the apple tree :-). But the interpretation of how to work with these Laws (or even the man-made laws) is set down in rules that we create. So you see, I have presented these 10 rules on how to get the most from working with the Law of Attraction. I have found them the most effective over the years and even more importantly the most consistent.

So what the heck is rule #10? It’s the most important rule in the Universe and the most powerful force in the Universe – GRATITUDE! Showing gratitude all day long as much as possible will bring you everything you want. It’s like the Energizer Bunny for the Law of Attraction. The Law of Attraction will work no matter what you do. However, we want it to work FOR us, don’t we? Of course we do. You can start small and see how it snowballs in your life. Start by being thankful that you woke up and that you have a house, your health, family, pets, friends, automobile, job, whatever in your life. Even if things are not perfect for you right now, they are a lot better than they could be gratitude-journal120x150and they are certainly a lot better than they are for many people around the world. Find something! This should not be that hard. Then as you go throughout the day continue to be grateful no matter what. Get stopped at a stoplight and you’re late? Be grateful anyway. Say “thank you for having me stop at this stoplight. I know there is a divine reason and I am grateful for it even if I do not know what it is at this moment.” I tell the story about the time I worked in Washington, DC and lived 60 miles south of there. One day it had started to snow and I had asked my boss if I could leave early (people in that area do not know how to drive in the snow and even if they did, there are a whole lot of them out there). He said “no” because we were in an important class. Naturally I was grumpy and moped around until we got released. And yes it took me 8 hours to get home that day. But you know what? If I had left at the time I asked him, I would have been right in the middle of the 100 car pileup on Interstate 95 that the snowstorm led to. Instead I was just inconvenienced by a longer drive home – but I was safe and sound. The Universe was looking out for me even though I didn’t have any idea of what was happening or what would have happened to me had I left when I wanted. Instead of grumbling I should have been praising the Universe. I did that later but it would have been more effective had I done it when I was told I couldn’t leave. Remember the mantra “everything is always working out for me”. Say that over and over. It will be the topic of a separate post soon.

Start a gratitude journal. You can combine your gratitude journal with your pleasure journal if you want and it will become a very powerful tool. Especially if you carry a small notebook around with you all day and are continually writing both your pleasures and your gratitudes in your notebook.

You can also use our Gratitude Journal software program (for the PC) we created for everyone to use.

I bet that if you keep track of your gratitudes for the next month, you will see a remarkable change in your life. Try it. What do you have to lose?

Terrie

 

 

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Your Pleasure Journal

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book_with_tabs_text_11043I have to credit Cheryl Richardson with this wonderful idea. I learned about this just the day before yesterday while on a run (great place to learn about new things – trouble is always remembering them by the time you get home..ha ha).

The concept is that we should be paying attention to what is happening and what we are experiencing now, right now – NOT what we “might” experience when x, y, z happens. I think experts cause this being “present”. If you combine this paying attention to the joy you are having at this moment with the idea of seeking pleasure, you can have a beautiful day every day and you don’t have to wish for or wait for the future. You really can have instant gratification as long as you are willing to look at things differently.

Make finding pleasure in your day a priority and record it every day. You can use your Gratitude Journal or have a completely separate Pleasure Journal to record all the pleasurable things in your life. These are not necessarily big or major things although that could be great too. It may be things that you do every day but until you pay attention to what you do all day long you don’t even realize what pleasure this thing brings you.

I’ll give you a perfect example. Today was my “long run” day and my plan was for 14 or 15 miles. It started out ok but I quickly realized that for many reasons it was not going to be a good day. What were my options at that point?

  • I could stop and turn around and go home – NOT an option at all since I wanted to at least cover the distance
  • Continue on and just mull over how cruddy the run was and how I wasn’t getting my endurance back or how my breathing was bad or whatever negative thing I could find – that would have made it an even more miserable day comedy_tragedy_400_clr_1629
  • Continue on and find things to enjoy starting right then when I made the decision – this is what I picked. Why?
  • I wanted to do the distance but I didn’t want to be miserable for all those hours
  • I wanted to apply this “finding pleasure” concept and see what a difference it made
  • I had plenty to “work on” on my MP3 player and in my mind and wanted to take advantage of that
  • It was a beautiful day and I was so grateful that I was able to be out there and running even if it wasn’t as well as I wanted. At least I was still out there.
  • I wasn’t going to build my endurance by complaining, griping or moping around

 

You know what? It ended up being one of the best runs ever – not because my endurance or breathing improved because they didn’t but because I looked for so many things to find pleasure in. There were several times it clouded over so the mid nineties temp didn’t feel like that any more. There were times I stopped on the way up the hills because of my breathing but I used those opportunities to send myself emails with reminders on stuff I had just read or thought of (for my upcoming program). So, instead of just standing there swearing at myself, my body, my doctors for my situation I moved up to the positive end of the emotional scale and excitedly journaled my ideas in an email. Did that help my time or endurance? Heck no…lol…of course it didn’t. But since it was already a day that would not go in any record books, I was making the most of it and enjoying the heck out of it.

So what are some of the things I’m making as my first entry in my pleasure journal? Forgive some redundancy.

  • The breezes coming up the hills on the way out and then on the way back
  • When it got overcast, it felt so beautifulfigure_standing_on_blank_note_text_10947a
  • I got great ideas for my new program and was able to remember them by sending myself emails (it was too bright out to use the recorder like I did yesterday)
  • I listened to several audios that I had been wanting to listen to
  • The sun was glorious and it felt so wonderful to be running in the sun, feeling it generate sweat on my body – that felt outstanding
  • I saw my “friends” the long horn cattle that I had not seen before last week. I talked to them again this week.
  • I had the courage to ask someone to open a bottle of gatorade for me – it felt so good to stop struggling and just approach a terrific gentleman and ask him to do it
  • My cold water tasted so refreshing as long as it stayed cold
  • I loved having my phone with me and being able to use it for notes/emails

And then there were more pleasure entries when I got home – especially that exceptional salad I had been looking forward to and much, much more.

Even though I only wrote down a few items, there were multiple times that each of some of them occurred, e.g. drinking the cold water, feeling the breeze, exalting in the sun shine etc…

Try it. Get yourself a journal, carry it with you, and record your pleasures as the day goes along or at the end of the day.

Thank you Cheryl Richardson

Terrie

 

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Honoring Larry Macon – Day #5 – Honor Someone Who Has Inspired You

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15675_529528713748794_727665780_n Today’s honoree is an extremely special person and it’s fitting that I honor him today since on Sunday (think I’ve got that right) he will participate in his 1,000th marathon – the Cowtown marathon – now that’s rockin!

But this man does so much more than run marathons. Mr. Larry Macon is a successful attorney in San Antonio, Tx and he’s about 68 (not good at calculating) and that makes me honor him more! Not because he’s old but because he’s only about 4 years older than I am and he’s done so much more and I want to be like him when I grow up.

Mr. Macon ran 153 marathons in 2012 and is the most unassuming person you’d ever meet. You would never know he was a trial lawyer who is more successful than Perry Mason in my book anyway.  Do you know how many marathons a week that is? Do the math and you’ll figure out why he’s so impressive. But it’s not just 2012 that he rocked. He did it the year before and the year before that. Check out this 2009 article about him.  And even so far this year he’s knocking at least 2 marathons out every weekend.  He is the Guiness Book of World Records holder for the most marathons in a year.

But all that is a bunch of statistics. So what’s so special and inspiring about this man. Yes, the numbers are inspiring for sure but I have to tell you that you would never know that he was such a dynamo who just doesn’t stop. He’s so personable, friendly and supportive that I can’t believe he would talk to someone like me.

Yet, the very first time I met him we were passing each other (several times) on my first encounter with him and the other running family members in December 2012. I had no idea who this guy was (I had no idea who anyone was). But what I did know was that I was a newcomer and a “new”, inexperienced runner (compared to them – they are the elite ultra runners) and was very shy especially because I’m so slow.

But you know what? This man named “Larry” kept talking to me as we passed, soon learned my name and continued to encourage me every time he saw me.  At the finish line when I wanted a hug, he was there and willing to take a minute for that hug. When they had the big ceremony for him – his birthday and breaking the world record (again) he still had time for me and EVERYONE else around him.

He is selfless and cares about other people. It’s amazing when you read the articles about him or see the news videos he talks about all the people he’s met running these marathons, he’s not talking about himself unless someone asks him a specific question.

His smile is so contagious and welcome no matter how many miles he’s covered and how little sleep he’s had in the past week. He’s there for you. What more can you ask in a human being.

He takes his running seriously but takes life and people and their needs much more seriously. That is the mark of a truly inspiring human being – so unassuming, caring and compassionate while as the same time being successful at everything he does. He also has never complained no matter how miserable he is. He takes each day as it comes and we all need to emulate that. Whenever I’m feeling miserable during a run, I think of Larry and what he goes thru and then I think of his wonderful smile and greeting and things immediately get better.

Thank you for coming into my life, Larry – you are a wonderful guy and congratulations this weekend on # 1000 – you are the elite for sure.

Terrie

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Honoring Dr. Jeanette Cates – Day #4 – Honor Someone Who Has Inspired You

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catesheadshot300 Today’s honoree is a very special person in my life in SO MANY WAYS! I could (and probably will) say that about many folks during my “Top 30 Month” but Dr. Jeanette Cates holds a particular place in my heart – and mind.

I first met Dr. Cates in 2006 at a Jim Edwards conference. I had just started my business and knew how to do teleseminars with my business partner. Dr. Cates was speaking on, imagine that, teleseminars. I was intrigued by her teaching style, her knowledge and most of all by the fact that she lived just 70 miles up the road from me in Austin, Texas – at that point in my business life I thought that all IMPORTANT people were untouchable and lived “far away” (even though George Strait lives “far away” although he’s right here in San Antonio).

As the conference went on my shy little self finally got the courage to talk to Dr. Cates and thank her for her information and expertise.  We talked a bit and then I crawled back into my hole 🙂

When I got home I made sure that I followed everything she did and bought every product of hers that I could find. Her ability to teach and get the important points and concepts across in such a short period of time – so concisely and succinctly- amazed and pleased me. I had taken many courses that were weeks long and by the time I finished I forgot what was said in week 1. But Dr. Cates could take that information (from several weeks of a course) and place the practical knowledge into our heads in about an hour. I was blown away by her amazing talents to say nothing of her phenomenal knowledge.  She had a follower forever in me.

As the years went by we became closer (I think that’s because I was just a pest that she finally started to accept). We met at a few more conferences and I got a bit less shy and we talked more.  We also found out that she sometimes was in San Antonio and we took advantage of that and had lunch and then I would drive to Austin and we’d have lunch – can you see a pattern here – and a common denominator – food…LOL.

Without boring you I just will say that Dr. Cates has been a very influence in my life as a friend, mentor and internet business presence. There is NO ONE on the internet that can take you from nothing to success in such a short period of time like she can. She is so far beyond all of us (I still am a beginner in many ways even though I’ve done this for 7 years now) but, unlike so many, is able to remember what it was like to be at the beginning and knows exactly what we need.

She is compassionate and caring and will do just about anything for anyone who needs help and wants to learn. She is brilliant (genius is a better descriptor) but is not “too good” for everyone else as you often find in people that smart.

Dr. Cates really wants people to succeed – she’s had opportunities to expand beyond the beginner arena and yet remained a staple for us – a life preserver for us.  There really is no one else out there that fills her shoes. I would follow her anywhere and if she tells me to jump, I jump.

But she is so much more as a person and I owe her my life in so many ways. She stepped forward two years ago and gave me the information and the opportunity to change my life and begin again. I can NEVER thank her enough for that. So, not only has she had such a positive impact on my internet business but also on my personal life. Where in life do you ever have the opportunity to have such a total friendship/relationship. This only happens once in a life time and I know that I am so very blessed and realize that the Law of Attraction has brought Dr. Jeanette Cates into my life for a very important reason – I’m not sure I would be alive today if not for her. Not many people have a friend that has been a life line for them and had such meaning. But I am one who does and I revel in it every day.

Thank you Dr. Cates! For EVERYTHING! I honor you today (and every other day of my current and future life).

Terrie