This reminds me of all the excitement that everyone feels on the eve of each New Year.  Wishes for a Blessed New Year; A Prosperous Year and great spirits everywhere.

What makes us feel this way? What is different or special about another New Year?  I believe it is “Hope”. Hope to start all over again, hope for a chance to make changes. The first few days there are many resolutions made and moral is high. But as the weeks pass so does the enthusiasm.

Do we have to wait for a whole year to get motivated and make resolutions? Of course not!

Everyday is Unique

Do we have to wait for a New Year to feel like a fresh start is possible?  Does not every new day give us an opportunity for a new beginning? Yesterday is gone, today is what you have. You may have made mistakes but they are behind you; today you have an opportunity to make good the losses. Yesterday is lost but right now is yours.

Here are some pointers that will help you make each day a great day:

• Be thankful for TODAY! You are alive.
• Decide and tell yourself “I will have a great day today!”
• Treat each day as a NEW DAY with the possibilities of good things.
• Begin each day with a plan and purpose.
• Every day will have its challenges; treat them as opportunities for growth
• At the end of each day spend time to asses where you went wrong and what you can do to improve your tomorrow.
• Congratulate yourself on your achievements
• Dream and expect a GREAT DAY TOMORROW!

What makes your day great?

As soon as we say “great day” we picture a day where everything goes smoothly, there are no oppositions, no failures.  But in real life, each day may have its own set of surprises. This is not a “bad” thing. How we label each situation, “good” or “bad”, depends on our perception of these events. One person can have a hard day and go to bed exhausted but they feel a sense of accomplishment. On the other hand a person could have had just a small hurdle, such as a traffic jam causing them to be late to work, and moan the whole day long and spoil what could have been a great day.

How do you view life?

What does success mean to you?  Is it luxury, fame, power or just having a simple or quiet life? No matter what it may be that brings you joy, it’s not having any, which will leave your day empty and full of sadness.

Choose to make each day a great day and it will result not only in a successful day but a more rewarding and successful life!

I’ve found a good exercise that will allow you to use the positive feelings you have from being grateful to attract specific things that you want.

1. I Am Grateful For… Write down two or three things that you are already grateful for. For example: I am grateful for my health, my family, and my career. Go into detail about why you are grateful for each of these things.
2. Visualize Think about what you are grateful you for and feel happy about having these things. For example: Close your eyes and truly see yourself healthy and happy with your family and why you appreciate them. Focus and hold on to that fuzzy happy feeling, let a smile come across your face.
3. Feel In The Present Moment Write down one thing that you want that you don’t currently have, and feel that same feeling of gratitude as if it is already yours. For example: You may want a promotion at work,  imagine being promoted right now. How does it make you feel at this present moment to be promoted? What are you going to be able to do with the extra money, time or perks? Focus and hold on to that positive feeling. Feel grateful and happy about this promotion in the same way you’re grateful for the position you already possess.
4. Repeat Continue to repeat this pattern – focus on two or three things that you are happy you currently have, and then focus on one thing that you want.

Be Grateful You Are Living the Law of Attraction

This is living the Law of Attraction: using the feeling of gratitude to bring into your life more things to be grateful for.  Try to blur the line between things that you have now, and the things that you desire.  The universe responds to the way you feel about things.  If you can feel happy about things that you want to attract, by law they must be delivered to you.

Use All of Your Senses to Make Your Visualizations as Real as Possible

The sense of sight is the dominant sense with human beings. We define the world predominantly using this one sense. Though the term “Visualization” means getting a visual picture in our minds, the other senses can play an important role in making the experience more real.

In fact, the other senses sometimes have a greater effect on our emotional reaction to the world. Think of the way that certain smells will trigger strong feelings. For instance, the smell of freshly cut grass can make us think of playing outside with friends when we were children, which causes a strong emotional response. (I’ve read that smells trigger emotions more than any other sensory experience.)

If there’s a particular car that you want to attract you should:

• Visualize a detailed picture in your mind
• Feel the steering wheel in your hands and the soft seat cushions
• Hear the sound of the motor
• Smell that “new car smell”

By using all of your senses you’ll find that your “visualizations” will feel much more real and more pleasant. Try this yourself, and you’ll see what I mean.

Practical Application

• Visualization is not only using your sense of sight but also utilizing as many senses in your visualization process, this will make it more believable
• Visualizing in your mind, vision boards, or putting quotes and pictures near things you use on a regular basis are great exercises
• Keep that goal fresh in your mind with some type of Visualization exercise and it will be real before you know it

Here though… I want to talk about the beliefs that are deep rooted… the ones that pop up and surprise us. Even myself, I was brought up in a primarily Christian home, and I still have a lot of Christian beliefs, (and I have to emphasize and specify that I have a lot of limiting Christian beliefs) that still pop up every now and then. I’m not saying that Christianity is a limiting religion. We’ll leave that for a whole other discussion.

But there are a lot of interpretations of various aspects of the Christian religion that I do feel can limit a person. I know that I can say it has limited me. As I said, a lot of these beliefs will resurface every now and then, and I have to catch myself and say, “Oh my gosh, that’s not what I want to create for myself. Yes, I was taught that when I was younger. But wow, that is not what I want to create for myself. I want to create ____.” And I shift my focus to that.
Again, this is someone who’s done 20 years of this type of work, not only on myself, but I’ve been teaching others as well. I still have belief systems that are just latent, that just come blasting out every now and then. It just kind of throws me for a loop.

It is these latent beliefs that we have to catch on change. Catching it once is not going to be enough. This is a process that we have to work on a daily basis, putting the positive influence there. Realizing that our old way of thinking can still creep in and throw off all of the good, new, positive work we have been doing on ourselves.

Anyway, I just want you to walk away from reading this post and not be discouraged, and not be frustrated, but actually be encouraged to know that you can make any shift you want. You can make any change and shift your paradigm to anything you want. The thing that I want to put out here as a suggestion, as a recommendation of making this process easier for you, is to not expect it overnight. Be kind to yourself. Give yourself grace and recognize that just because you watched the secret last week or last month or even last year doesn’t mean that you’re going to be a millionaire this year. It doesn’t mean that you’re going to have all of these things just showing up.

Now things will start happening quickly because there may be some areas that you were able to shift very, very quickly. But in those other areas that may be a little more deeply-rooted than others, give yourself grace. Be kind to yourself and love yourself. Give yourself the time that you may need to shift from one place to another. This will benefit you on so many levels.

What I mean to say is that it took you time to develop the belief system you currently have… so it only stands to reason that it is going to take some time for you to change that belief system. I’m not suggesting that it’s not possible for a person to change “overnight” but it is highly unlikely.

I think we put enough pressure on ourselves as it is, and when you put this type of pressure on yourself where you are saying, “Well, I’ve read this book on Friday, and now it’s Sunday, why am I not a millionaire?

Why am I not attracting all the wealth and abundance that this book said I would?” You’re putting more pressure on yourself than necessary, and really what is happening then is the opposite of what you want to happen.

Unnecessary Pressure Can Negatively Impact Achieving Your Goals

You’re putting stress on yourself, you’re putting pressure on yourself, and you’re setting an expectation for yourself that is highly unlikely. Not that it’s impossible, but it’s highly unlikely that your goal or the change that you want to take place will actually be accomplished in that short a period of time.

Again, I just want to emphasize here. I would never tell anyone, “You can’t do something.” I would never tell someone, “This will never happen.” Because I believe that if you believe that thing on every level, with every fiber of your body, you will create that situation for your life.

But what I do want to say here is really take into consideration the fact that when you were two, three, four, five, six years old, seven years old, those are the absolute, most impressionable ages in anyone’s life.

How Your Brain Processes Information

Your brain is like just a sponge, just taking in information. Not only does it just take in every bit of information that it gets, it also takes it on as the truth. It’s actually taking that information on as this-is-the-way-things-are. Because of that, it starts to build a belief system. It starts to actually mold your paradigm that you will potentially live into.

Of course, again, that paradigm can shift at any given time. But if you’re 25 years old, and you’ve learned something at five years old, particularly, if that thing was reinforced at five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, 20 and still 25.

I mean, if you think about the fact that something may have been taught to you and reinforced in your life for 20-some, 30-some, 40-some years, the likelihood of that belief system going away overnight, again, is very, very low.

The point is that if you truly want to change your belief system and create the life you want you have to stop the insanity and give yourself time. Be persistent and consistent in your efforts and you will see the rewards before you know it.

But feeling bad about sending your money away is not going to help you attract wealth. Your dominant vibration will be about losing your money, so you’ve got to find a way to look at the situation positively.

First of all, you can feel good about the fact that you are able to make the payment. At least you’re getting the payment out of the way – you won’t owe the money any longer.

Think about the good things that will be done with your money:

The people who work for the electric company will be getting paid. Don’t think about the big guys at the top, who you may believe are making too much money anyway.

Consider the woman working as a secretary, or the guy who has to go out in terrible weather to fix power lines so that you won’t freeze. These people will use your money to buy their food and pay their bills.

They will then spend their money at a local restaurant, and the people who work there will now have money to buy things that they need. Imagine all the good that comes from the money that you are putting into the system.

Be positive about spending money, and you’ll be in a much better position to attract more wealth to yourself.

Some people are concerned that wanting a lot of money makes them “greedy”. They’ll say they don’t want to be viewed as “overly materialistic people”, and so they’re afraid that putting a lot of attention on money will detract from the “higher” goals they have in life.

If any of you are in this position, then realize that you’re putting out a mixed message to the universe. It will be very difficult to ever bring money into your life when you’re in this state of mind.

You have to release any feelings of guilt you have associated with money – there’s no reason for you not to thrive financially. You may have very deep-seated feelings about money and greed, but you’ve got to find a way to be purely positive about your desire for wealth.

Aren’t there wonderful things that you can accomplish if you have more money? Won’t having more money give you the freedom to devote yourself to what you want to achieve?

Remember that you don’t necessarily have to think about money itself in order to bring wealth into your life. You don’t want money just so that you can roll around in pile of cash. Think about why you want more money. Put your attention on the things you want to accomplish. Make that desire pure. The universe will take care of the means to make it happen. If money is needed, then the money will come – but only if you don’t push it away through your feelings of guilt.

Are you in a more positive place, a place where you can attract wealth, if you feel that you have done more than what was expected of you, or if you believe that you have gotten away with doing less? Isn’t it better to come home knowing you did a task to the best of your ability, whether or not you got paid a lot to do it?

There are practical things (like promotions and raises) that can result from “going the extra mile”. But even if your efforts aren’t appreciated by others, it’s still worth it. Always remember this: giving your best effort isn’t something you do to please your boss, it’s something you do to please yourself. If you’re doing your best work, and aren’t getting compensated enough for it, you may not feel good about your employer, but you will always feel good about yourself.

Try to separate the two issues of working to the best of your ability, and how much you get paid. By all means, look for another job if you’re not being treated fairly. A good worker is worth a lot of money to the right employer. Feel good about your hard work, and envision a job that pays you what you deserve. This is the best way to attract a better future.

One is that I want a Mac.

Sorry PC guys….I’m going over to the other side. I’ve been getting so frustrated with going back and forth with the issues and ills of owning a PC.

I’ll probably keep my laptop…I’m not just going to throw it in the trash but I’m just at the point now where I’m conceding that the Mac is just by far a better computing system…especially for what I’m doing–podcasting, video stuff and few other things–it’s just a better platform to be on.

From my understanding and from what I’ve seen and heard from other people, Macs just have less problems, less viruses, all that stuff. It’s just one of those things where I’m just really wanting to get into a Mac.

The other reason why I have the Mac emblem there is related but more specifically as it relates to the law of attraction. I want to manifest a brand new Mac book Pro in the next 3 months – for no money at all.

The Mac I want, including tax costs $5,919.43. This is for the 2.93GHz Intel chip, 8G of RAM, 256GB solid-state drive–plus other software stuff.

That would be the absolute perfect computer setup for me and What I want to do is to manifest it without paying a dime for it…
So, having the Mac symbol on the back of my dell is just a constant reminder of what it is I’m looking to manifest.

Maybe the computer won’t just show up out of think air, maybe it will. But, I’m not limiting myself to it “magically showing up…I’m also open to the possibility of having an influx of $5,900 above and beyond my regular income. Like some unexpected new projects, or a check from stuff I did months ago…if anything like this occurs, I’ll feel that it’s the answer to my desire.

So for all of you who are wondering why I’m walking around pretending to be a Mac guy, (what this one guy said in Starbucks the other day) that’s what I’m doing. I’m manifesting a new computer for myself!

One way to put yourself in the right frame of mind for making big things happen is to focus on smaller, more immediate segments of time. When you wake up, think positive thoughts about the morning cup of coffee that you will enjoy.

When you start to go to work, imagine a drive without traffic problems. As you’re driving, notice the nice weather and the beautiful buildings or trees that you pass by. Think about having good conversations with people at work and getting your tasks done on time.

These are all things that you know are possible, so it’s fairly easy to clearly visualize them. The positive thoughts will put you in a state that attract these things more readily. Days that start out good tend to continue to be that way all day. You’ll get the ball rolling in the right direction.

You’ll find that your more ambitious goals are much easier to visualize when you’re in this state of mind. When you feel positive about small things, you will be able to believe that much bigger things can happen for you.

Practical Application

Focus Your Attention on the Present. Don’t think about the past, because it’s gone and you can’t do anything about it. Additionally, don’t worry about the future, because it’s not here yet.