Oh, the power of words combined with visualizing!! Allow me to elaborate...

I work in sales (vacation real estate), and performance is measured not only by dollars generated for the developer through sales, but also on closing percentage and efficiencies (for those of you in sales, you know what this is.) Today, actually last night, I learned a very powerful lesson on clarity.
I have been affirming and visualizing a 20% net sales closing percentage, visualizing happy clients and qudo's from my employer. Last night, a 'message' from a higher power (gut feeling) told me I have the percentage, but there is a twist. So today I checked my stats, and lo and behold it was true!! I DO have a 20% plus closing percentage, HOWEVER, this percentage is reflective of closing deals for other sales people! I was not specific enough in my desires.

I am extremely grateful for this stat as it is added wealth to my family and I, but I will adjust my thinking to reflect upon my own sales.
Thank you so much for the lesson big guy!
namaste
kevin

What a great example of the need to be specific.
Thanks for sharing that with us Amigo.

As a further example, when I was growing up, all I wanted to do was be in my dream job.
I had never heard of wally at the time and had no idea about living life in the certain way.

However, without knowing it, I was following wally's guidelines to the letter.

Every moment of every day, I dreamt about being in my dream job. Even though, with my skills and background, it was very unlikely that this would happen.
I narrowed everything right down to what time of day I would work, where I would work, even what my day off would be.

I did this along with taking daily action towards achieving my goal.

Then one day out of the blue, two people at the place where I wanted to work left to further their careers and I got myself in.

I got the EXACT job I'd been dreaming about.
Right down to the days, times, day off. The full thing.

It's only now that I realise what happened.

I've shortened this as it's a really long story, however it's further proof of what Mr Wattles talks about.

Has anyone else had similar experiences?

Hi Kevin,

LOL! Bet you have a bunch of co-workers that really like you, though.

When I was in college, I worked during the summer at a sewing factory, a job I disliked immensely. One day, I sat at my machine thinking about how wonderful it would be if only I could spend the summer at home, reading all the "good" books I'd not had a chance to read during the school year, and get paid to do so.

Within an hour, I walked into the breakroom, slipped in a water puddle and broke my leg. I spent the rest of the summer receiving a weekly workers' comp checks and reading bunches of books while my heavily casted leg remained propped up on a stool in front of me.

It was, I remember well, a painful way to learn the importance of specificity.

Glad to hear things are going better for you. Keep at it. There is far more good coming your way than you can even begin to imagine.

Blessings,

Kate

CandleKate, no offence, but your story made me laugh...what an eye-opener! And yes, my coworkers love when I come to their table for assistance.

I read the forums daily, and there is always a tidbit that speaks out to me - like an answer to a question I have been pondering, or an experience that is similar to one I may be 'creating'. It makes me feel and realize that I am not alone, and how closely we really are connected. Up till now, I thought we were all individuals, but at a closer look, and from listening to Wally, we are all "cut from the same cloth" and all have the same desire - full expression. It removes the wall betweem 'them' and myself and creates a new reality - us.

Having realized this, how could we not desire to give more value than that which we receive in return?

I am sincerely grateful for the insights I receive in these forums - their value to me is immense. Imagine for a moment, if one day we all met for a huge potluck dinner in a sunny meadow near a pristine brook. Children frolicking through the wind swept grass and meadowlarks serenading the day. What a wonderful hug that would be!

I invision you all creating a miraculous day....

namaste
kevin

Amigo,

I am there in the meadow with you and everyone else. I can see us ALL there with our families basking in the good energy and joy of the moment.

God Bless

That immediately brought to mind the old adage "be careful what you wish for"....

It was 1965 and whenever you turned on the TV or radio, you heard the sound of the 'Mersey Beat': pop groups from the North-West of England. Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Hollies, the Bee Gees and of course, the Beatles. I was only seven years old, but I wanted to be a pop star like them. I would listen to Gerry and the Pacemakers singing 'Ferry cross the Mersey' and my vision was clear. I wanted to be singing and playing a guitar beside the Mersey River.

I must add that this vision was about as far from reality as you can get. At the time, I lived in Sydney, Australia (is it possible to get farther from the Mersey? Unless you head for Antarctica!). I was considered to have no singing ability or musical talent and had no prospect of ever learning to play the guitar or any other instrument.

It was not a big disappointment, though. In due course, I forgot about this particular idea and moved on to the next 'craze': hula hoops, I think it was ... or maybe the Mickey Mouse Club?

I recalled this old visualisation recently, though, when I realised that, forty years on, having returned to the UK, and taken up folk music, and work opportunities having brought me to the north-west of England, I can now be found most Tuesday nights in a folk club in Stockport, singing and playing guitar, in a pub just a few yards from the banks of the Mersey River.

Not only does the Universe give you exactly what you ask for, but it knows no time limits.

The Universe never forgets!

Peace, prosperity and well-thought-out visualisations to all.

Polly.

Atta girl, Polly! At first your story gave me nostalgia, then goosebumps, and finally a huge smile.

Cheers to you, Poll.

Laurie

I read Laurie's comments, dismissed them and went on to scan this thread finally settling down to read Polly's story. Then I felt the goosebumps and the smile and realized that Laurie was right on (nostalgia had been there as well). Wonderful story Polly, Thanks

Oh my dear!!! And I taught I’m almost the only one who’s experienced something like this!!!
Hi to all of you!! I’m new here and I wanted to share my story with you. I hope my English is well enough for you to understand me, as I’m a native Macedonian, currently living in Germany ( since 12 years ).
I first read the SOGR almost an year ago, but I really missed to understand the power of it. Until two weeks ago.
You all know, it was the article in the monthly newsletter we receive, about giving and receiving. Just few hours after I read it all, I realised that, in the past 13 years, I’ve been thinking and acting just as Mr. Wattles teaches us to do, always unconsciously.
The problem is, I wasn’t always specific enough in my wishes. Therefore, sometimes I get what I wanted earlier, sometimes later. But, almost everything came to me in a time frame from two months till five years.
It will be pretty difficult to tell you the whole story of the last 13 years, but I’ll try to give you an example of how it worked for me.
Nine years ago, I continually started thinking about what I would want to work. I wanted to be self employed, but first of all, I didn’t want to work hard any more. And I set a time limit too, this should happen latest when I’ll be 35 years old. Also, at the same time, I wished I would become very rich. But I didn’t specified it clearly, as you can imagine.
In the middle of 1996, I started working for a big German company in a Warehouse, working hard ( loading and unloading textiles from big trucks ). After few years, I just imagined how nice it will be if I would get a job in the office.
But once again, I wasn’t specific enough. It was just a flash in my mind, but I taught there is no chance at all, so I shouldn’t bother my self with it.
Then, 3 years ago, at the age of 33, I found my self still working for the same company, still working hard and I still wasn’t rich! So I decided I have to change something ( acting in the certain way without even knowing I was doing the right thing ). I just arranged to see the “BIG BOSS” of our company and I told him I’m not pleased any more with my current job. I told him he’s losing money cause I’m overpaid for this job. I told him I do have an unbelievable skills about learning foreign languages and if nothing happen, I would leave the company ( I was already working there for five years ). He listened patiently and answered he’ll have to ask the personal manager to inform him self about me and he would come back to me.
Two days later, he called me in his office and told me, I should apply for a Job in the office!!!! He recognised my English is well enough and there I was, sitting in the office, doing Imports from GB, IRL and Spain to Germany. And this was only possible because the lady who worked this, was expecting her first Child and was to leave the company for at least 3 years!!!
So I was almost there!! I wasn’t working hard any more, but I wasn’t rich.
Few months after I got the Job in the office, my second child was borne, my wife and me got a wonderful Daughter too. But at that very moment ( I was present in the maternity room ), I saw my daughter and I was overwhelmed with an unbelievable feeling of being the richest man in the world at that moment. I had to thank God for making me happy, for giving me this wonderful family and two Children, a boy and a girl.
Now, I’m not working hard any more and I consider to be rich as God gives me and my small family wealth and health. But…
… I still hasn’t achieved all that I was dreaming of. I’m still not working for my self, I still can’t consider being rich now ( but I do have much more money now as I could ever even think about it ) and finally, I want to enjoy my life, having enough time to do all that I want.
So, I started living my NEW life in my mind exact the way I would like this to come.
I imagine how I get awake every morning at THE SECOND FLOOR of my NEW HOUSE ( my new house should have at least two floors ), I make a breakfast for my children, drive them to School with my NEW AUDI and my wife is also going to visit her clients in her NEW VW BEATLE, I came back home, turn on my NEW NOTEBOOK, work for a while as I do have a HOMEJOB now, sit for a while in my GARDEN, pick up the Kids from School, SPEND A LOT OF TIME WITH THEM, help my Son to become a PROFFESIONAL FOOTBALLER ( soccer ) as he is very talented in this sport, go on a vacation in my NEW SOMMERHOUSE in Croatia on Adriatic See and have a lot of fun in my live.
And this is only the beginning…. I still have to improve my dreams ...

I wish you all much more then you have ever dreamed of achieving for… and be thankful to God or to whom whatever you want for all that you achieved so far…and give away of what you wish to become more.

Best regards from Germany,

Malletzky.

Hi Panther,

Can you tell your story in more depth? I am new here and trying to learn how to be more specific in my own mind. This seems so simple, but so difficult at times with all the other meanderings that goes on in my brain!

Thanks for your input!

TOnia

When I first got out of school I joined the corporate world and landed in Butte, Montana. Having lived my entire life, until then, in Seattle I really missed the ocean. So, for nearly three years my thought was "I want to get back to the salt water."

That was when I learned that God has a warped sense of humor. I got transferred to Salt Lake City, Utah. It was a VERY obvious lesson about specificity. Even at the time I realized what I had done wrong.

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Originally posted by Tonia Dunham-Roa:
I am new here and trying to learn how to be more specific in my own mind. This seems so simple, but so difficult at times with all the other meanderings that goes on in my brain!
TOnia

Hi Tonia

Sorry for taking so long to answer your question.
I've been very busy at work. Which has been great I might add.
If you're struggling to be specific then can I ask if you've thought about goal setting?
I know most people sigh out loud when they hear this phrase but it's worked tremendously well for me and for many others.
I always try and think about the person I want to be. What am I doing? Where am I doing it? What do I look like? What are my consistent daily thoughts? You get the idea.
Really step into that person and you might be surprised what you find out about yourself.
Sometimes, what you think you want is not what you REALLY want after all.
As Mr. Wattles says, we must have faith in the formless stuff. It knows better than us what we really need.
I hope this has made sense and helped in some way.
If not, please post and myself (and everyone else on here) will try and help you in whatever way possible.
Try to figure out what you really want, then focus on it as much as possible.
What's meant for you, won't go by you.

My best wishes go to you.

Now I have a new question that has come to me this week:

Is what we want the same as what the universe wants for us? How do we know when what we want is in line with what is best for us?

Where does our faith in the formless knowing what we need start, and knowing what we want for ourselves end?

Thanks all!

Tonia, that is a great question and actually a question I posed in another thread.

Think of it this way, if you choose. The universe gives us whatever it is we focus on with heart and soul and faith. Now, here is the catch, if you will. The universe does NOT differentiate between this or that, good or bad, black or white. It just gives continually. Deep within us, there is (some say) a seed that is unique to each of us. It is up to us to find out what it is. Until that point, we still receive all that we focus on.

Personal desires in general, are 'good' - things we want, and when something feels good the only judgement placed is by ourselves. On the other side of the coin, whenever we place an emotional attachment to ANYTHING, be it good feeling or other, that clear message still gets delivered.

I trust that helps you...
namaste
amigo

quote:

Originally posted by Tonia Dunham-Roa:
Now I have a new question that has come to me this week:

Is what we want the same as what the universe wants for us? How do we know when what we want is in line with what is best for us?

Where does our faith in the formless knowing what we need start, and knowing what we want for ourselves end?

Thanks all!

I have come to see it this way to solve this delima you have expressed. THE UNSEEN INTELLIGENCE desires to expand itself. It has chosen us to do this. What matters on our part is...are we available for it (him/her) to use us in this expansion? Many times our desires are his/her/it's desires. Mr. Wattle mentions this matter of "desire" as having it's source in the Unseen Intelligence. So, the desire to succeed, expand, accomplish more in this life is the desire of the Unseen to expand through us. There is no evil as some have advocated in wanting to be rich, wealthy. What they are doing many times is surpressing The Unseen's Desire to expand with out know what they are doing....now that is the true evil, surpressing the desire of the Unseen to Expand. If "you" desire to expand, then your desire is it's desire.....not a matter of right or wrong, but LIFE or death....Life is to pursue this desire, to not purse it is death.