Several years ago, before I heard of the laws of attraction, my family needed another car. My oldest son was starting college in the fall and he needed a car to get to school. He would have been fine taking mine, or for me to drive him. I wasn’t fine with that solution, however.

Mercedes-Benz

So I started looking for cars in the paper. I didn’t see anything that struck my fancy and so I thought, “what car do I want for GM?” I visualized an older BMW, Volvo, or Mercedes. (I really like these cars.) My brother-in-law had a 1983 blue Mercedes that ran on diesel. I thought, “oh I want one like SG has.” SG lived in another town about 4 hours away at the time.

I didn’t really think about it too much after that. It was winter and college was still 6 months away. Whenever anyone would ask me about our getting a car for GM the picture of my brother-in-law’s car would flash in my mind and I would say, “we’ll get one this summer.”

Well summer came and we still didn’t have a car. In June I thought I should start to get serious about searching for a car and I began looking in the local paper. One morning the phone rang. It was SG. They were moving to Southern Utah and wouldn’t need their Mercedes anymore. They had loved the car and didn’t want to sell it, but wanted to keep it in the family. So they asked if GM could use it for college! Read the rest of this entry »

I didn’t realize there were laws governing prosperity until about a year ago. Then I discovered Leslie Householder and her book Hidden Treasures. This is an explanation of the laws she discusses, and my personal take on them.

1. Law of Perpetual Transmutation. (Circumstances and things are perpetually coming or going according to your thoughts.)  I can never remember “Perpetual Transmutation,” so I just call this the law of change. Things are always changing.

2. Law of Relativity. (Your situation is not fundamentally good or bad until you compare it to something else.) This law reminds me to be grateful – especially when I’m whining. When I whine about my situation, I am usually comparing it to something that I think is better. When I stop and compare it to something that I think is worse, I am always grateful.

3. Law of Vibration. (Your thoughts control your personal vibration. Change your thoughts, get emotional about them, and you’ll change what is attracted to you.) This is the law that the book The Secret is based on. See The Secret to the Secret. Read the rest of this entry »

When I first learned about the laws of attraction, I thought they were really neat. Then I had a bad day. I was thinking all sorts of negative thoughts. One of these thoughts was, “Oh no, I blew it. I’ll never get what I want now!”I have come to realize that even if you are aware of the laws of attraction, you will have ups and downs. Leslie Householder calls this the Law of Rhythm. The Law of Rhythm reminds us that everything goes in cycles, or waves. We can’t be on a perpetual high or we wouldn’t appreciate it.

However, we can turn the topsy turvy wave on an angle so that our highs are higher and our lows are higher as well. That way we can progress upwards instead of only sideways.

So the next time you are down, look upwards for the good that is coming your way.

The Secret brought quite a bit of attention to the laws of attraction. But it didn’t tell the whole story. The Secret to the Secret is that it is just one of the laws of attraction. In the Secret it talks about the Law of Vibration. The Secret implies that all you have to do is ask, believe, and receive. In other words, think and things will happen; you will become thin, your relationships will improve, checks will unexpectedly arrive in the mail. You think and it happens. Well the thinking is important (really important), but you have to act as well.

You have to plant a thought seed and act as if it will happen. For instance, if I want to make more money I have to see myself having that money. But I can’t just sit on my duff and expect “the Universe” to deliver the money to me. I have to take some action – even if that action is searching on the internet for ways to make money, or sending 10 brochures to local businesses, or going to a Chamber of Commerce Meeting to talk to people about my business.

A good example of this is how I market my business. I am a writer and help people market their businesses with soft-sell advertising pieces. I’m not very good at promoting myself; but if someone asks me to evaluate a piece of marketing material, I’m usually full of ideas to help them market their business more effectively. So I have learned to ask people about what they do. We get talking and pretty soon I’m giving them suggestions (for free) and often they will hire me to carry out my own suggestions. If I visualized money coming in and didn’t get out and talk to people, that money wouldn’t come in

I discovered the laws of attraction about a year ago when I purchased a book called Hidden Treasures, which is by Leslie Householder. I had been searching for ways to improve my life for several years. I had discovered The Secret (movie and book) in about 2007. That gave me some hope, but I knew it wasn’t the complete story.

Hidden Treasures really impacted my life. I realized that if I was unhappy, I had made myself that way. Although this was a depressing thought, it also gave me the power to unmake my unhappiness.

This unmaking took some time. I also realized along the way that I didn’t really know what I wanted – which was why I didn’t have what I wanted. Seems simple, right? However, I now realize that a lot of people are in the same place. In fact, many people I talk to know that they want their lives to be different; they just don’t know exactly how they want their lives to be.

I’m still working at my life. It is a process; however, since last year my life has greatly improved. This blog will share some of the things that I have learned, and am still learning. I hope along the way I will find others who contribute and share as well, because I have learned that when I am trying to help others, they usually end up teaching me even more.