Manifesting with the Law of Attraction

Each of us has the power to choose which path to follow as we go through life. There are always forks in the road that try to derail us and take us on paths that lead to nowhere. What are the effects of a positive attitude on which path to choose?

We decide everyday which path to take - the path that will lead us to the things we want and desire or the path that takes us to the valley of negativism. Challenges and obstacles occur everyday, it is how we choose to look at them and what we learn from them that determine where the path takes us. Wouldn’t you want the effects of a positive attitude to bring you health, happiness, fulfillment and abundance?

A positive mindset helps us navigate the negative thoughts, circumstances and negative people that cross our paths on a daily basis. We have the power to greet the world with enthusiastic energy or feelings of dread or defeat. A positive mindset helps you to enjoy life and every possibility, negativity affords us an excuse for failure, reasons why we fail to achieve.

The effects of a positive attitude are prevelant throughout our daily lives.
Choice is the difference between operating your life through passion with a positive mindset or living with a negative demeanor. A person with a positive mindset feels that they have control of their future success. Negative thinking people feel that other people are in control of their future.

Choosing to be grateful for the challenges that come your way is a great way to approach those obstacles. Ask youself, “What can I learn from this?” rather than always focusing on the challenge itself. When you focus on something, good or bad, you get more of it.

Let me explain the effects of a positive attitude through an example. Have you ever been around someone that good things just seem to happen to? How many time have you thought to yourself that they are just “lucky” and the good luck seems to follow them. Do you know someone like this?

Now think about someone that always seems to have bad luck and bad things just “tend” to happen to them. For example, they turn 16 years old and they get in a car accident the day they get their driver’s license. Or they are walking on the street and a car passes by them and splashes them with a muddy puddle, staining their clothing. Or a bird flies overhead and….well, you get the picture.

Do you ever wonder why some people just seem to have good things happen to them and some people seem to have bad things happen? Don’t attribute it to luck, there really is no such thing. The effects of a positive attitude can be seen through these examples. The person who has good things happen to them focuses on good things happening to them, resulting in more good things. The person that has bad things happen to them is always thinking about the next bad thing. So it shouldn’t be a surprise when those bad things continue to happen. How can you foster the effects of a positive attitude?

The effects of a positive attitude start today. Plant the seed every day and see what comes of it by taking action on the following:

Where ever you are look for positive people to mingle with or befriend - surround yourself with other positive thinkers
Read motivational/inspirational material that generate positive emotions for you
Make a conscious effort to focus and reflect upon the positive value you learned that day
Interact with others in a positive manner
Make a list of goals and objectives
You are as you think

You will soon see that the effects of a positive attitude reap more benefits than could ever be imagined. We start out as children with no fears, and without accepting no as the answer to anything. We never gave up to learn how to roll over, sit up or walk. Babies just keep trying until they can do it because they see us doing it, they know they can achieve it. Somewhere along the way we are conditioned to not have the same belief in ourselves, and we lose focus of what potential we each hold. The effects of a positive attitude are boundless and without limits.

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Jeri Atleson has been a successful internet entrepreneur for 3 years. She has a passion for learning and mentoring others to achieve their financial goals. To learn more about Jeri and how she may be able to help you achieve your financial success online with a free coaching session, visit her website at atleson.legitimatebusinessfromhome.net/index.html.

Let’s get straight into it!

If you want to live a happy life, then you MUST spend some time deciding what you want to do with your life, and then make the effort to live that life with passion.

It’s up to you!

No-one else is going to do it for you.

So, take some time out from your busy day-to-day routine, and consider the following questions.

1. What is my life’s purpose?

2. If I had to take a best guess at my life’s purpose, what would it be?

3. Who am I?

4. What is the most important thing in my life?

5. What do I love to do, more than anything else?

6. If I had only six months left to live, what would I like to achieve?

7. What would I like to leave the world, as my legacy?

8. What would I do with my life, if I knew I could not fail?

9. If money, or time, or current responsibilities were not an issue, what would I like to do with my life, more than anything else in the world?

10. What activities have I discovered that give me the most pleasure?

11. What do I still want to learn?

12. When I was a child, what did I dream of doing with my life?

13. What has been the greatest challenge that I have overcome so far in my life? Could I help other people to overcome that same challenge?

14. What challenge would I love to overcome, and then help others achieve the same?

15. Who are the people I most admire?

16. Why do I admire these people?

17. How would I define their life’s purpose?

18. What qualities do these people possess that I’d also like to be known for?

19. What is the biggest dream I have ever had for my life?

20. What subjects did I enjoy most in school?

21. What sport have I most enjoyed?

22. What art or craft have I most enjoyed?

23. What social activity have I most enjoyed?

24. What hobbies have I pursued?

25. What hobbies do I wish I had pursued?

26. What would I like to do, if only other people didn’t think it was silly?

27. Where in the world would I most like to live?

28. Who would I like to live there with?

29. Where in the world would I like to work?

30. Who would I most like to work with?

31. What would my perfect day be like?

32. Is there a spiritual side to me, waiting to be unleashed?

33. What would I like to do, RIGHT NOW, which would bring me the most happiness or pleasure?

34. What special gift do I have that I could give to the world?

35. What makes me cry with joy, or brings tears to my eyes?

36. What would I like to do this weekend, just for fun?

37. If I could be granted the power to change the world, what would I do?

38. If I were given three wishes, what would they be?

39. What is something that scares me a bit, but would be really exciting if I did it?

40. What does my heart say I am to do with my life?

41. What qualities do I possess that I am really proud of?

42. What have I done in my life that I am really proud of?

43. If I had time available to contribute to a charity, or some cause, what would it be?

44. What am I usually doing when I suddenly realise that time has flown by, and all my focus has been on that one task?

45. What do I want to do on my next vacation?

46. Who in history would I most love to be, and why?

47. What do I most regret not doing, so far in my life?

48. At the end of my life, what would I most regret not having done?

49. What is my life’s purpose?

50. If I had to take a best guess at my life’s purpose, and just get started with something that excites me, what would it be?

Ponder these questions for a while. Pick out one that you can really relate to, and ask yourself the question over and over and over, until you have an answer.

The answers are within. If you ask, you will receive your answer.

You can live a life of purpose. You can live a life of passion and success! Ask, until you get your answer. And then take massive action. It’s worth it, I promise.

Lance Beggs.

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Lance Beggs is the author of the “How to be Happy Now” newsletter, and the soon to be released “How to be Happy Now” book. His mission is to help others live a life of meaning, love and happiness! Subscribe to his FREE ezine at www.HowToBeHappyNow.com

We are blessed to live in a time when more and more options for wellness are available to us. Along with what we call “conventional medicine”, we have alternatives such as chiropractics, acupuncture, reiki, yoga and homeopathic options. More and more MDs are utilizing combinations of both conventional and alternative medicine, making it easier to not only get well, but stay well. THIS is a beautiful thing!

Recently, having had the challenge of a severe physical malady to contend with, and being a person who believes (and practices) alternative medicine, I had the frightening realization that this time I might have to consult with an MD as nothing else was working. I shall spare you the details of the malady as I feel it has little (or no) bearing on the end result. In any event, after exhausting all alternative options (and pretty much my bank account) I decided it was time for me to open my mind and consider going to a doctor to see what they had to say about it. The moment I was given their diagnosis, I knew it was incorrect and was left feeling disappointed, irritated and running low on hope. What to do now?

After several conversations with people close to me, there were a few things that kept coming up over and over. One was that whatever it was that was causing the pain in my body was a direct result of an imbalance, not only in my physical being, but also in my spirit. In other words, the physical manifestations were a RESULT of what was going on at a much deeper level. Of course, I knew instinctively that these observations were correct. I’ve always believed that “dis-ease” is just that: a body NOT at ease with one’s spirit. The question was WHAT was my imbalance? What had I ignored that had resulted in such an intense physical manifestation?

The next thing that was presented was the idea of FORGIVENESS. Over and over these people who know me, love me and have been in my “tribe” for a long, long time kept saying things like, “You must forgive. You must forgive all those who may have hurt you in the past and, most importantly, you MUST forgive your SELF.” Another truth that resonated with me so fully that there was no way I could ignore it any. Again, another question arose: What am I NOT forgiving in myself? How is it that this is so deeply rooted that I am unable to see it?

So began my quest. I was determined to investigate this thing called forgiveness and find what it was I was either refusing or unable to see. I was absolutely certain that if I could identify this thing I would be on a path to wellness and get my life back. Easy to say. Not so much “do”. The journey I began at that point was to be filled with many moments of confusion, anger, despair and complete surrender. There were days when I couldn’t even get out of bed, the pain was so intense. I would lie there in a fetal position, aching and sobbing and praying for mercy. I even had a few moments when I really thought I was going to die from the pain (or wished that I would). For someone with my spirit, this was as shocking as it was terrifying. But somehow, with the loving help of my tribe, I managed to get through those moments and live to see another day. Some days were certainly better than others, but the overall experience was one of excruciating pain and paralyzing fear that I wouldn’t make it through.

Slowly, with fierce determination, I began to practice quiet meditations, asking for guidance to see what I was not seeing and to be shown the way to forgive myself. I honestly didn’t know HOW to forgive myself, as I didn’t know what TO forgive. I couldn’t seem to identify it. I gathered up all my journals and read them to see if perhaps there might be some clues. I looked at photos, trying to locate whatever it was that I was holding myself hostage over. I did a LOT of praying!

And then, without really realizing what was happening, I came to the conclusion that “identifying” this thing was not the issue. It didn’t matter at all WHAT I was forgiving myself for, all that mattered was that I did. You know that expression “forgive and forget”? Well, apparently I’d done it in reverse. I’d forgotten whatever it was but had failed to forgive. So I began a little exercise that turned out to be quite a remarkable tool. I would stand in front of a mirror every day, and look into the eyes of the person staring back. I would say over and over, “I love you. I forgive you. I’m so sorry I hurt you.” And even though, when I began doing this the words were hollow and without emotion, I began to notice that after a very short time they were actually touching me. I would do this exercise for 5 minutes and by the time I finished, I’d have tears in my eyes and could actually FEEL what I was saying to my Self. It was kind of weird. But it worked!

I offer this very personal experience to you now because it completely transformed my life. I am no longer the angry, defensive person I once was. I am much more kind, patient and tolerant of myself and of other people. I have all but eliminated the criticism that was once so prevalent in my life. I have come to terms with who I am and have actually fallen in love with this person. It’s a strange place to be, considering where I was before all this happened. But I am utterly grateful for having had the experience. When people tell you that it took nearly dying to learn how to live, they’re tellling you the truth. Even though my “condition” was not life-threatening in the literal sense, it WAS life transforming. The butterfly has emerged. Forgiveness was the key. And it is my greatest hope that you will find truth in my story and use it to forgive yourself every single day. Do it NOW before YOUR body responds to the emotional toxins. Living in forgiveness is a miracle elixir. Take it while you can!

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Camille Olivia Strate is an author, entrepreneur and critter-keeper who lives by the mantra “Joy is a choice. Choose Joy!” She enjoys sharing her life experiences to help other folks enhance their own lives, and believes strongly in Paying It Forward. She is also on a mission to find the perfect pasture to accomodate all the pretty horses in need of rescue. Her latest book, “Whispers” is expected to be available in the Spring of 2008. www.genuineintentions.com