Last night I ran a warm up/ warm down and stretching programe for a local Basketball team in a State based competion. This may not sound like much but I had completed a Diploma in Remedial Massage some time ago and had involvement in Sports training, it is a real passion for me & something I am very good at, but I could not see how I could support my Family doing it or to become wealthy, so I did not pursue my dream. As part of LL14 I decided to do the training for Sherbrook Suns and find out what I need to do to get reaccredited as a Massage therpist. Last night I had such a feeling of fullfilment after the training. I am in a differnt bussiness at the moment and still cant see my way out of this and into Massage or how I can make the sort of money that will give me and mine a decent life style or security. That is the faith part I reackon.
Writting this down is great, I needed to get this out into the world. I am both excited and scared.

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I am in a differnt bussiness at the moment and still cant see my way out of this and into Massage or how I can make the sort of money that will give me and mine a decent life style or security. That is the faith part I reackon.

RAB, the "how" isn't your part of the process so you really do not need to be able to see how anything will happen.

In 1991 I owned a graphic design and commercial typography firm in Manhattan. Almost overnight I fell in love with the idea of leaving the city, buying a sailboat and taking off.

I'd only been sailing in dinghys except for one short day cruise in a friend's dad's cruising boat.

But I was hooked. I read everything, went to talks, spent weekends walking the docks just soaking it all up and gazing at the beautiful boats.

Then I went to Florida and took a one-week liveaboard learn-to-cruise course with six other women.

Now there was no way I was coming UNhooked!

I went back to the City and told my friends I was going to sell my business and go sailing. I had no idea who would buy my business or how to go about selling it. I just knew I was done with it (and I also saw that personal computers would soon make a lot of my services obsolete and the idea of chasing the technology the rest of my life sure didn't appeal to me).

So I just thought, well, I don't have a clue -- and went back to focusing, dreaming, enjoying my fantasies of having my own boat, living on it, sailing off into the sunset, etc.

About two weeks later a gentleman walked into my office and said he wanted to buy my business. He represented one of the really BIG companies and they, too, saw the writing on the wall about the future of the industry. So they were buying up all the little companies to get their customers!

This was way before I knew anything about SOGR or Law of Attraction, of course, but it just proves how powerful this principle is. I knew what I wanted REALLY clearly. I knew NOTHING of how to make it happen. But I also gave no thought to it NOT happening. I just knew that was the life for me!

As it turned out, I didn't sell to that company. I told a friend of mine in the same business what had happened and she said, "I'll buy your business." I felt much better turning my beloved clients over to her.

And so about three months later I was living in a beach town, free as a bird, looking for my boat. A couple months more and I was living on that boat.

Think about what you want. Enjoy it as if you already had it. Just let the thrill and the joy and the enthusiasm carry you. The "how" will show up and any action you need to take will become crystal clear.

It absolutely works.

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I am in a differnt bussiness at the moment and still cant see my way out of this and into Massage or how I can make the sort of money that will give me and mine a decent life style or security. That is the faith part I reackon.

Hi RAB,

Yes faith (the knowing of that which is not yet seen) plays an important role but you're not flying without instruments.

In any moment we only have one choice to make, one thing to do. We never have to make any decisions larger than this. The cool thing is, when we're clear about what we desire and what we must have our choices are much more clear.

When we get clear and move in the direction of our desire the universe moves with us. It actually forms itself around our way of being.

In 1998 I was rehired for a job that I'd been fired from twice before. But this time instead of returning as a sales manager I returned as a teacher. Yes I still performed the same functions as I had previously but this time I acted like a teacher, made the choices a teacher would make, and conducted myself like a teacher. My subordinates weren't employees they were students. I was there to teach them how to get whatever they wanted. Within ten months I made two lateral moves and then was assigned as the business development manager. This was the highest teaching position within the organization. The how part of the story is kind of miraculous but that wasn't my job. The what and the why were mine. Life took me where I wanted to go.

One of the little tricks I learned was to catch myself thinking, "I don't know what, or I can't see, or I'm not sure how," and change that thinking to, "If I did know what would it be? If I could see what would it look like? If I could feel that how would it feel?" These are very powerful questions when we get in the habit of asking them.

Thank you for your post.

Bob