Hi Everyone! I would like to thank Davin for sharing The Secret. If you have not seen it it is worth watching.
With that in mind, and also with the attitude of gratitude, I rewrote my goals page, which was on my fridge, and wrote them 'as if they already existed.' You may think that this is strange, but I already have 90% of what is on the list. That makes me think that I just have a couple more hurdles, albeit big ones, to go.

Thank you for the wonderful family and friends that I have, including the friends I have here in the forum that encourage and inspire me.
Thank you for the good health that I enjoy.
Thank you for the material things that I have that make me comfortable in my life: my nice house, my car, my piano.
Thank you for making it possible for me to see a giant sequoia in person.
Thank you for helping me write my book.
Thank you for making it possible for me to make $50,000 by August 2007, so that I can live comfortably and help my nephews and niece pay for college and take a trip to Spain.

ali

Hi Ali,

I loved the secret too! I keep a daily gratitude list and only have recently "got" the part about acting as if you already have what you want now. I'm glad to know it's working for you. I've seen small steps toward my goals which would probably come quicker if I didn't tend to be so skeptical.

Karen

Xin and I loved watching 'the secret'! I think it's one of those things I'll never forget, (and I'm pretty forgetful when it comes to films!).

Lately with our online business projects, I've kept having a string of positive, super-productive days, followed by a couple where I just want to crawl back into bed again. Sometimes I get really negative, but I'm trying hard to do away with that as there's just no need and it holds me back.

A funny thing happened the other day though.

I was thinking back to the secret, and saying to Xin how I was going to really try with the visualisation thing, and convincing myself I'd achieved some goals I had.

The two goals I mentioned to him were that in the next couple of days, we get 13+ feed readers to our blog.

The second was that I'd feel much more secure with an extra £1000 in the bank. After I said it, I spent a while imagining I had it there, and didn't have to worry so much about a lack of earnings so far.

Two days later, we jumped up to 23 feedreaders on our blog, as well as noticing we had great google rankings and traffic to a couple of old blogs we'd given up on.

The craziest part though, was I got a call from my mum back in England that night. A relative who died about half a year ago had left every member of my family some money, which had been totally unexpected. Nothing like this had ever happened to me/us before. My share came out at exactly £1000!

For those who still haven't seen 'The Secret', I'd definately recommend checking it out, it's just really motivating and comforting.

Just goes to show that positive thinking can be very powerful.

Michelle

PS. seeing as this is the goals section, I might as well post up a new goal. I want to see earnings of at least £100 in the next month from some of our side projects. I'd also like to see our feed subscriber number get to 50 by the end of next week. Steep, but I'll believe in it and let you know if we make it!