The Power of Intention and Attracting Abundance

It was almost four years ago that I recommended reading The Power of Intention by Wayne Dyer. This book and other books by Dr. Dyer have been instrumental to my personal development and life philosophies.

I came across this clip of Wayne Dyer's presentation on YouTube - the PBS special that I "happened to come across" that began my journey to abundance. Watch the first 10 minutes...(Email readers will have to click here to watch the video)



It's amazing how much more powerful you become when you intend to do something versus wanting to do something or attract something. Even the process of saying aloud "I intend to...." is very different from saying, "I want to..." Try it and feel the difference in the energy behind the words!

So if it's abundance that you want to attract into your life, create an intention to do so. Instead of saying, "I wish to attract abundance" or "I want to attract abundance", say "I intend to attract abundance!"

By the way, Wayne Dyer has a new film called Ambition To Meaning. Find out more about it by visiting: www.ambitiontomeaning.com

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Good Life Thought of the Week

"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -- Albert Einstein

When I read this quote, I think about how focusing on the positive things in life attract more positive things to you. Likewise, if you think everything is a miracle, more of those miracles will flow into your life!

So, how do you do that? How do you even start being a more positive person if you haven't been in the past?

I recommend reading this article, 9 Ways To Be More Positive, which has some good tips to help you get started. One tip I would add is to stop watching the news on TV that is always talking about the doom and gloom of our economy!

Do you have a tip on how to become a more positive person? Are you looking at things in your life as though they are miracles?

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What Is Success?

"Success is discovering who you are..."

This is what Rob Cooke says in this excellent post titled "You Are Success" over at his blog, Neural Recon Report.

I was pretty moved by what Rob shared because for so many years I chased the idea of success thinking that it was a destination to be arrived at. My idea of success was very typical: Good-paying career, college degree, house with the white picket fence, nice car, and the whole nine.

I love when Rob says this:

"To succeed is to remember what it is that is held deep within you, what you were born with and are here to share. By discovering your uniqueness and expression of it, you have success because your whole way of being will be in alignment with who you are and there will be no resistance to what is because you will be who you truly are and therefore want to be."

I think that many people try too hard to fit into society's definition of success or rather, they try to be something they're not. Success is staying true to yourself.

Truth is, everyone has a definition of success. Those of you who have been reading this blog for awhile may recall my theory of success which I shared three years ago. I would say that those thoughts still ring true today.

I love Bill Strickland's idea of success:

Success is something you assemble from components you discover in your soul and your imagination. Authentic success, the kind of success that will enrich your life and enlarge your spirit, the only kind of success that matters, comes from knowing and trusting the deepest aspirations of your heart.

I'm not here to judge people who think that having money and material abundance means success. I just think it gets to the point where chasing this money becomes an obsession - meanwhile you lose your sense of self. You then start thinking that people who have less than you are less of a person.

What are your thoughts on success?

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Book Review: Harmonic Wealth by James Ray

If you've been reading this blog for awhile, you may recall awhile back that I had gone to see James A. Ray speak in person and shared some of the lessons I learned. Well, I finally got around to writing the review of his book, Harmonic Wealth, and it's posted over at the Joyful Jubilant Learning blog as part of the "A Love Affair With Books" month.

Click here to read the review...

For more inspiration from James Ray, check out this video where he is a guest on The Balancing Act Show...

Religion and the Law of Attraction

Have you ever wondered how the Law of Attraction fits into religion?

I spend a great deal of time online reading other blogs and watching videos on YouTube that talk about prosperity and the Law of Attraction. What I've noticed is that there are people out there who think that having this desire to live an abundant life is a religion in itself.

I used to think that people who were rich were bad people who exploited the poor...that people who thought about being prosperous were "money hungry". In retrospect, I realize that I was just jealous of those people. I've learned now that there are many people who are prosperous and very spiritual or religious.

My thoughts on the Law of Attraction and religion coincide with the author of Feeling Good:

"I see the study of Law of Attraction as a component of my overall spiritual journey because, as far as I am concerned, Law of Attraction, Universal Consciousness, The Creator, The Tao, Allah, and God, along with a host of others, are all simply different terms for the same thing. I also acknowledge that we are all individuals, each on our own path, and that some may have very different views from myself."

I believe that everything on this earth was created by God...and that goes for money as well. God put all of this here for us to experience it. The Law of Attraction is part of The Universal Energy that is a part of all of us, regardless of what religion we are affiliated with.

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