I confess, this is almost a rhetorical question. For most people it gets very very challenging to stick to those great ideas passionately born at the end of December with the true intent to this time make them happen. Because things get in the way, life gets in the way… and it is quite challenging to keep focused and inspired. Well, I found something that I believe can really assist you in keeping your goals and dreams alive, every day, whenever you choose to! If you watched the movie The secret, you know how powerful it is to visualize and imagine your dreams all the time.

When I came across this amazing system I loved it straight away. It is really powerful, easy to use and huge value for money. It is created by OrangePeel Vision Boards: experts on how to utilize the power of The Law of Attraction and how to make visualizing work for you. I have come to know OrangePeel as a very trustworthy company that has perfected this excellent tool over the past few years through continuous development, fueled by the feedback of their users. The result is a solid system that works and which users rave about.

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I truly believe Vision Board is a MUST HAVE if you are serious about creating the life of your dreams in 2009, under ANY circumstance. You can not afford not to invest in this support system! So I suggest for you to choose right now to ignore all negativity and instead to focus on abundance and to dream big. Make this unique tool part of your daily manifestation system TODAY. Use it every day to keep inspired and focused on your goals fro this year. Let it help you to FEEL as if you are living your dream life right NOW by watching it daily. This will snowball the attraction of your dreams into your reality. What a powerful way to visualize and manifest your future!

Using this system is crucial if you are up to big things this year!! They also explain about how you can benefit from visualization and how you can make the power of The Law of Attraction work for you. Even just to learn more about that, I highly recommend having a look at their site. And if you are serious about creating abundance and prosperity in your life, get a copy of one of those Vision Boards, so you keep focused and inspired.

Don’t wait with checking this out… the time is NOW to work on your New Year’s resolutions and to start visualizing and attracting the dream life you deserve NOW!

1. You must really know what you want. So start asking yourself what you really want.
2. Change the way you think to change your life. Whatever you believe to be so, you are proven to be right!

Shockingly what I thought I really wanted was not what I really wanted. I accidentally realized it two years ago.

As far as I know, I’ve been fond of eating delicious food… baby back ribs, beef steaks, roast lamb chops, yakiniku, crabs, raw oysters. But all of that food comes with a price: fat and high colesterol. I didn’t care about it. I thougth eating delicious food is how I enjoyed my life.

Then one day, I met a stranger and we got into casual conversation. Somehow he mentioned he didn’t eat meat and seafood. I was surprised and blurted unconsciously, “How do you enjoy life if you don’t eat meat and seafood?” He calmly answered, “For me, be able to watch my grandchildren is enjoying life. To be able to live long, healthy and happy with my family is enjoying life.”

Slap!

His answer hit me and made me realize how wrong I was. It was a great reflection from a stranger, wasn’t it? Hence I started to change my diet. I ate only healthy food and avoided all of those “dangerous” food. But it didn’t last long. After about a month, I resumed to my old habit. Eating “bad” food again.

Until finally I came across a good diet book, Living The G.I. Diet. There was a sentence in this book that changed the way I think, “It’s not a diet. It’s a life style.”

So in my own simple example, my two ingredients are:

1. I really want to live long happily and healthily with my family and be able to watch and play with my grandchildren. It’s still long way to go since my son is still 16-month old!
2. I change the way I think about food. It’s not a diet. It’s my healthy life style.

I hope that enlighten you with my own experience.

What’s yours? Come on, share yours so that we can motivate each other

Napoleon Hill summarized in his book Think and Grow Rich that there are 13 unique characteristics that every wealthy, successful and powerful man and woman has. He called these characteristics the Thirteen Steps to Riches.

Noone was born with any of these characteristics. All were born the same. These characteristics are learned and developed to be the second nature. What are these characteristics, the Thirteen Steps to Riches?

1. Burning desire. It’s the starting point of all achievement. You must have burning desire.
2. Faith. Visualization of, and belief in attainment of desire.
3. Auto-suggestion. The medium for influencing the subsconcious mind.
4. Specialized knowledge. Personal experiences or observation. You must focus in one area and concentrate there.
5. Imagination. Remember Law of Attraction?
6. Organized planning. The realization of desire into action.
7. Be decisive in nature. The mastery of procrastination.
8. Persistence. The sustained effort necessary to induce faith.
9. Surround yourself with master mind. It’s your driving force.
10. The mystery of sex transmutation.
11. The subsconcious mind.
12. The brain.
13. The sixth sense. The door to the temple of wisdom.

Before reading Think and Grow Rich, you must be aware that this book was not written to entertain. You can’t diggest its contents properly in a week or a month.

Think and Grow Rich is a textbook on individual achievement of the experiences of hundreds of America’s most successful men. It must be studied, digested, and meditated upon. You must underline the sentences that impress you the most, and later go back to these marked lines and read them again. You will absorb its contents and make them your own.

What do you want the most?

If all of those succesful men could achieve their dreams, so can you. Remember that noone was born with these successful characteristics. Everyone was born the same.

Build your succesful characteristic using Think and Grow Rich !

And here’s the shocking fact, she started her website without making money on her mind! So who is Ashley Qualls?

Ashley Qualls comes from a humble and average American family. She had no connections nor any business professionals in her family. Her parents are divorced. Her father is a machinist and her mother is a retail data collector.

Everything started as a hobby. She started her website without making money on her mind! She began playing with web design when she was 9. She taught herself the basic of web design.

Her famous site, WhateverLife.com, just accidentally happened when she wanted to show off her design work. It started to attract interests from her classmates when she figured out how to customize MySpace spaces.

At first she even couldn’t afford the cost of her web hosting so her web host suggested her to Google Adsense.

She’s been offered more than $1.5 millions for her site but she refused. It’s her passion.

“This site started out as my own portfolio of my growing love for web design and now, MySpace layouts, Xanga, HTML tip. I created this from nothing, and I want to see how far I can take it.”

These stories inspire me more to take action and realize my dream.

However be careful because the inspiring stories about people making fortunes can actually become uninspiring when your perfect idea only makes a few dimes.

My point is, always focus, take action and persevere! You can do it using the secret of law of attraction.

To keep long story short, my mastermind group advised me to focus on 1-2 projects first and postpone the others. They also told me that one of the biggest reason many people fail is greed.

So that’s what I do. Focus and here what I’d do to keep my focus:

1. List down all the tasks I need to do.
2. Sort them by priority.
3. Make a schedule for it.
4. Tell other people I am committing myself to this schedule (I’ll tell my wife).
5. Tackle the tasks one by one.
6. Now and then, review my past actions. Ask myself how I can do it better? Or faster?
7. Visualize that I’ve done all of my task well.

I hope this is useful for you, too.

Well, during an average day, you walk around seeing and sensing things you might like to experience, and in doing so, you think about how you can obtain it. The clearer you are about the experience you want to have from the size, shape, texture, smell, etc., you will cause your emotion to trigger the action to create stronger thoughts, which are then stored into your subconscious mind. It is when enough similar thoughts have collected that the subconscious mind will send the specific signal into the Universe with your desired images. How? Through the constant repeating and storing of focused concentrated thoughts with information from your conscious mind to the subconscious whether it is positive or negative.

The conscious mind is constantly taking in almost everything visually screening, sorting, analyzing the content, and deciding whether it will become one of your experiences. As your conscious mind scopes out a new adventure, the subconscious mind vibrationally feels the emotional energy that is wrapped around the information it is receiving. This is done to see whether it is a wish or something that you really might like to experience in the future or now. But even if it is a wish the moment you insert enough emotion behind it, you will trigger manifestation. This is the formula for creating:

Thought + Desire + Emotion + Belief + Visualization + Expectation = Manifestation

Stay focused only on positive, uplifting, empowering thoughts about yourself and your desire, because unseemly chaotic, outside stimulation (family, friends, spouse, lover, etc.) can easily sidetrack you or cause you to become unfocused or stuck in pursing their desire rather than your own. Such subliminal information can also come from watching TV and listening to the radio and can slowly hypnotize a person into believing they need everything “right now” from a new car, a bigger house, to a better job without ever being clear about what else comes with that desire. Listening to others who seem to have your best at heart may have a bias, which focused on might convince you that you are never going to be a success or live a glorious, delicious life because successful people look like models, or are born rich and have the right connections.

So, in collecting data keep in mind you can choose the better part of something that may not be to your total liking. You may not like the person personality, but love the suit they have on, therefore focus only on the suit and not the person. Keep in mind that your subconscious mind has the ability to go beyond the physical and manifest anything you can create in your mind if you desire it with deep passion, and believe it. As with anything in colleting data always “consider the source” i.e., what is the purpose of this information, where is it coming from and is it for the highest good of all.

Ponder:

1. Acknowledge that you create your reality.
2. Acknowledge that you are worthy.
3. What are you grateful for now?
4. How decisive are you about your desire?
5. How determined are you?
6. Do you have faith?
7. What really inspires you?
8. What motivates you?
9. What makes you laugh?
10. If it’s not positive then it is negative.
11. Are you connected to the Universe?
12. Do you believe?
13. Are you aligned with the Universe?
14. Develop a positive Attitude.
15. Be grateful now for seen and unseen.

If it is something you don’t want, don’t think about it, it’s just that simple. For what you resist persist. The Law of Attraction cannot tell if you do not want the experience, especially since you keep thinking about it and wondering and predicting what you will do about it. Sensing that you want to keep creating more doubt, fear, anxiety, etc. because your energy is so focused on those types of experiences, the law says here’s more. The more you concentrate on the unwanted object or experiences, the more energy you give it to grow. If it is something you truly desire, think about it to the point you can smell it, feel it and taste it and then “act as if you already have it in your life. The next time you get into your old car, “act as if it’s that new luxurious one you desire. Every time you get behind the wheel only believe, smell, think of it as that new one. Start play-acting and pretend. Imagine you have the job, car, etc. and actually sense/visualize how you feel; insert yourself into the vision. Why? Because the universe does not distinguish between what is make believe and what is real. When you are pretending to the point that you actually believe you are in possession of the object of desire, then the universe matches it if you have mentally aligned with it and have physically made room for it.

How is this accomplished? Well, the universe doesn’t have a mechanism to detect when you are pretending, so your consistent desirous thoughts about what you would love to experience is responded to as the real deal.

Go to the car dealership and sit in that luxurious new car. Go to the jeweler and try on that diamond ring, and sit in on a corporate meeting and get that feeling of entitlement in your soul. Start pretending, act as if now. Use this exercise daily. Start small then build to a bigger desire, you will need to feel confident and comfortable when you are acting as if. Remember, the subconscious mind doesn’t distinguish between the real world and a virtual one. Acting as if will cost you nothing and there is not a great deal of energy expended. You simply incorporate the process into your normal daily routine.

Why pretend? Pretending is like having access to a virtual reality game without being hooked up to any electronic equipment. Believing it’s a game, the suspicious, cautious conscious mind will not reject, analyze or judge any of these thoughts against your current belief system because it views this exercise as play.

Do not be deterred if others think you are acting weird, for it is through understanding and practicing the principles of the law that you will receive everything you believe and desire. Yes, it is the Law of Attraction and one of its real secrets is “if you believe it, you can achieve it.” Only then can you have, be or do anything in your life if you desire it. Believing and having faith is the foundation for any desire to manifest.

Relationships

What kind of relationships do you want to create with God, with your parents, children, friends, co-workers, wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend, and most importantly, yourself? How do you attract the type of relationships that you want with the people in your life? How would your life change if your relationships were closer, more intimate, less judgmental, more trusting, and more loving?

Healthy Body and Lifestyle

What do you want your body to look like? How do you want to feel? What do you want to weigh? Do you want to live a healthy lifestyle? Do you want to live a long life? Do you have exercise goals? Do you want to have healthy eating habits?

Finances and Abundance

Do you want to save more money? Do you want to reduce debt? Do you want to increase your income? Do you want to create other sources of income? Do you want to have a new house, car, piano, boat, or other things?

Self-Improvement / Awareness

Do you want a better awareness of who you are; why you do the things you do; think, the thoughts, you think about; react in the way you do; judge yourself and others; are highly motivated in some things, but lethargic in others? Do you want to take classes, workshops, seminars? Do you want to finally get the degree, diploma, certificate, or credentials you have been thinking about? Do you want to read more books on subjects for which you have a passion?

Hobbies / Entertainment / Fun

What hobbies do you have now that you want to become better at? What hobbies would you like to begin; gardening, chess, painting, reading, collecting (coins, stamps, comic books, cookbooks, etc)? What would you like to do for fun and entertainment: Attend a live performance featuring your favorite bands, fish, or travel? What would you like to learn to do for fun: Ballroom dancing, golf, tennis, play an instrument? What would you like to do just once in your life: Jump out of an airplane, talk in front of a large group? Do you want to travel and experience nature, different cultures and scenery?

Passions Purpose

What are your passions? What is your purpose in life? An easy way to identify this is to look at what you fantasize about or do in your spare time because you want to do it or love to do it. If you have a garden in your back yard and you really enjoy the hard work of maintaining a garden, then that is a passion of yours. If you play tennis, golf or bowl on the weekends, then that is a passion of yours. If you enjoy babysitting your granddaughter, or fixing things around the house, or finding new recipes to cook fun special meals, then that is a passion of yours. Once we get past the belief that we can have only one passion or only one purpose in life, it is easier to see that we have many passions and the only work we have to do is to make time for them, be present while we arc doing them, and enjoy, enjoy, enjoy! Our purpose in life is to live to our potential, experience love and life to the fullest, become aware of who we are and be true to our soul. Whatever form that takes in your life is right for you.

An affirmation is a mental or verbal declaration to yourself and to the Universe about how you want your life to be. Words and thoughts are powerful things. Your life as it is right now is a physical manifestation of all your thoughts, both positive and negative.

In the Law of Attraction positive affirmations are an effective tool for clearing the negativity out of our minds and our lives, and for propelling us along in our efforts to create our lives exactly the way we want them to be.

Anyone who has used positive affirmations consistently knows how effective they can be in helping us to achieve what we want in our lives.

Take some time in the next few days to come up with a personal statement that expresses the thing or things you most want in your life right now—peace, tranquility, simplicity, wisdom, enlightenment, omniscience, spiritual growth, whatever.

Make your affirmation a positive statement that declares to yourself and to the Universe that you have this thing or quality in your life right now, such as “I live a simple, peaceful life.”

It doesn’t matter if the statements you affirm are not true yet. Repetition of an affirmation, combined with belief and imagination, enhances the ability of your subconscious mind to bring about the reality you affirm.

Use a section of your journal (if you have) to record these affirmations for your daily use. Get into the habit of actively thinking about and repeating selected ones to yourself throughout the day. Use Post-it notes or whatever means works as a reminder until the habit of working with your affirmations for your inner growth is firmly established.

Then be prepared to change and/or adapt your affirmations as your life changes, and you gradually begin to become the things you affirm yourself to be.

Synchronicity

We have had all days where everything just seems to go right. We hit the traffic at the opportune moment, and drive straight to the office without delays. We pull into the parking lot just as a convenient parking space opens up for us. The people we’ve been trying to reach all week suddenly call or appear, and we’re able to wrap up our business with them with unusual efficiency. Our iced tea is cold and our soup is hot. The money comes out of nowhere for a project we want to start. Everything is in sync.

Since I’ve begun taking steps to the Law of Attraction I’ve found synchronicity operates in all areas, and much more frequently than it did when my life was complicated. Over and over again, as soon as I’ve become clear on what it is I want, the circumstances I need to get it are miraculously available to me.

As I look back, I realize that before the Law of Attraction, the messages and the possibilities for these synchronicities had always been there, but often I was too busy to pay attention to them, or didn’t believe them when I heard them.

This is not to say that everything is now a piece of cake for me. But I’ve learned that if things aren’t going well, I need to slow down and listen. When I get back into sync, things start to flow again.

Reducing your pace and looking within will help you make your life work the way you want it to. It will also expand your time and energy so that synchronicity becomes a natural and joyous part of your life.

If you like the idea of latching on to synchronicity, perhaps it’s time to make a formal declaration to yourself and the Universe that this is what you want. It’s amazing what can happen when we simply declare ourselves in the game.