Making a Wish on a Penny

You all know about having to sow before you reap. So what is something you can sow that will be just plain goodness? There is an old saying that if you find a penny heads up on the ground you get a wish. You have probably heard variations on the legend; from good luck to minor wish to dream come true stuff. Nevertheless, there must be something to it or it would not have got so wide spread.

So, what do you do if you find a penny heads up on the ground? Well, you pick it up and make a wish. After that there is everything from throwing it into running water to putting it in your shoe. Depending upon the region you are from the saying varies a bit, but it is all good.

So about that sowing mentioned earlier, here is what I do. Whenever I see a penny on the ground tails up, I turn it heads up for the next person to find. In addition when I am in a parking lot I reach into my pocket and walk around placing pennies heads up in various out of the way, but still visible, places. This is called giving away wishes because most people will find the penny and will make a wish.

Put a heads up penny on the ground every time you wait in a line, or any time you wait somewhere. Try to do it without anyone seeing. You will discover you have lots of opportunity to give out wishes. Leave some heads up pennies every where you go. This way a lot of people will find a heads up penny that will make them happy, at least for a moment. They will pick it up because it is heads up and either feel lucky or make a wish or both. This is sowing good stuff; positive karma, if you will.

Now of course there will be a reaping, but it is not immediate. You can’t go put a penny in the doctors office, then rush home expecting a reward. Like all crops, it takes a while to germinate and grow. Someday when you must have it, it will come to you in a way that will feel right, yet you have done no overt action to acquire it. Yet you must not wait for it nor demand immediate results. This is one of those that will grant you a reward a long way down the road.

So look around your place and gather up a handful of pennies. Then go out and give away wishes. Keep a few pennies with you and whenever you find yourself waiting somewhere, give away wishes.

Be Blessed

The Right to Choose Your Reaction

Being happy is a personal choice. How you react to situations is a choice that you make. How you think about a situation is your choice, what meaning you give to that situation is your choice. You have the right and responsibility to control your self and your thoughts. You are the one that determines your emotional state by the way you have reacted to the situation.

Let us say your friend who was coming to pick you up fails to arrive at the set time; how you react to that is your choice. You can choose to worry that they got into an accident, or worry that their car broke down, or got a flat tire. You can think negatively, that they forgot, or even went without you. You can have low self esteem and think that you are not worthy to get picked up on time. Finally you can accept the situation, that you friend is late and you then choose to do something else, like read a book, or write a new manifesting entry into your book, and so on, until your friend arrives.

Happiness is a learned skill. Like learning to ride a bike for the first time it seems a dauntless task, yet after you have learned to ride you wonder why you thought it was going to be so hard. Personal happiness is first and foremost a choice. You choose to be happy: You can and do make that very choice hundreds of times a day.

Every time there is a situation, it is your reaction to it that determines your happiness. A situation is just that a situation, an event, a happening. Your reaction to that is your choice; and this choice is what determines your actions, and these actions carry on to influence your happiness level.

So when an event happens; look at the situation, it only takes a few seconds. What meaning do you intend to attach to this event and why. Think for a second, will the meaning you attach to the situation serve you, or will it cause you to make bad choices. Will you choose to be happy and do something else, or will you choose anger and make erroneous statements? Like when your friend is late, do you do small chores and easy tasks while waiting, or do you get mad and curse them for being irresponsible and wasting your time?

Things happen because there is a reason. Are you so wise and all knowing that you can accurately determine why an event has occurred? The reason is usually not what you jump to conclusion about. More often than not the meaning we attach to an event is not even closely related to the actual cause. This results in confused emotions, and a side effect of stress that you just do not need to inflict upon yourself.

Maybe you thought the worse about your friend and were ready to forever damn them as lowlife scum; when, your friend shows up and says they had to get you this present and it took a little while longer to get it wrapped than anticipated. You are so worked up from your anger you say things that later you will regret. However had you just occupied your time with a few small tasks while waiting, you would then be happily surprised.

So when an event happens, just realize it is an event, nothing more. You then make a choice of how you will react to this event. Will you choose to be happy, or will you choose to be unhappy?

Be Blessed

How to Be a Thinking Person

Why do people not know how to think? Every human on this planet has a brain, therefore they are able to think, yet they don’t. There are a lot of people who do stupid things all the time; you can probably recall a few examples without having to strain your memory.

So why do you think it is that people do not think? Is it because they don’t know how? What is the main factor between thinkers and stupid people? Would you agree that it is those who accept responsibility for their actions are the ones who think?

By law, when a person becomes eighteen years of age they are legally responsible for their actions. Yet so many times you see people blaming others for their mistakes. Like the criminal who blames the police that they are in jail. They can not reason that they committed a crime, and so are paying the price; but instead it is the fault of law enforcement that they are in jail. It seems that those who will not accept responsibility for their own life are the ones who are constantly making mistakes and blaming others.

So since you become legally responsible at a certain age, is there a certain age when you should become a coherent conscious thinker? When exactly should a person know how to think? Is there training involved with learning how to think?

Like the young child who must be taught to look before crossing the street, and then escorted across until the parent observes the correct behavior, should people be taught to be conscious thinkers. The key to being a conscious thinker is to accept the fact that you and you alone are responsible for your own life. You must acknowledge that you make the choices that direct your life in a certain direction.

So after you have discovered that it is you who determines your actions, you can begin to think for yourself. You realize that by your thinking; you cause your life to happen. So with further thought you begin to control your life, and will your self to accomplish things that others, quite frankly, never think of.

It would too late to learn this once you are dead. As long as you are alive it is not too late to become a conscious thinking person. Like an asteroid that has been determined to hit the earth, when it is far away, it takes a very minor course correction, a tenth of a degree, to cause it to miss the earth by millions of miles. As the asteroid gets closer it takes greater course corrections to cause it to miss, a larger effort to get the desired results

So it is with you. It is easier to control your life if you make the discovery and decision to be a conscious thinker when you are young. It takes less effort to make the changes needed to make your life what you will. When you are older and become a conscious thinker it takes more effort to make your life to be what you will. The point is; once you become a conscious thinker you can make your life as you so will.

So make the choice, take responsibility for your self and become a conscious thinking human being.

Be Blessed.

The Manifesting Journal

Well, they do say that the teacher comes when you're ready to learn. So how do you manage to create and manifest things into your life?

You don't need to wallow over the debts you have which you're trying to get the money for. You don't have to continually worry about how you're going to find out how to do something, or whatever. You just let go of it all and trust in the process.

Here is what you do; feel the emotion whilst you remember the event as if it had happened already. That's all you have to do. However there's a little twist to it.

Keep a manifesting book. It is like a journal, and in it write; all the things that you want to bring into your life. Write the statements, as if it has already happened. For example: "I have attracted ..." (insert desire) like you have already achieved it.

Once it is written, read it over and over. It makes it easier to see it more clearly in your mind; as if it were real. Then after you have done that, after shut the book, and let go. Let the universe bring it to you, don’t worry about the how, just trust that it is, and will soon be a part of your life.

So what do you desire to bring into your life? Use the technique for yourself, and believe that it will be. Trust that the universe is conspiring for you and has your best interest as top priority.

Be Blessed

The Secret of Creating Your Life with Writing

A certain magic occurs when you place pen to paper and document what you have inside. In a sense; written thoughts and feeling become alive. This is an old technique and it has a long lasting impact.

If you were asked to describe your perfect life right now, could you? Chances are that you couldn't. This is a problem, because if we can't see our goals and desires clearly, we can’t achieve them.

To raise the odds of having the life you always wanted, you must first write down exactly how you would like that life to be. This document will be your life’s purpose, and you need to have one.

It will serve as your guiding light. Whenever faced with a decision, you will now be able to think, "Will choosing this bring me closer or further away from my purpose?" This will shorten the time it takes you to make decisions and will improve the choices that you make.

Not only that, it will be your snapshot into the future. When you are struggling and feeling defeated, you can always go back to your paper and get motivation from it.

This work will really get your imagination going. It will be exciting and fun. You get to write down anything at all that you would like in your life. You can describe your daily activities, what your house looks like, your cars, your pets, your clothes. You can describe your career, your friends, your colleagues, and on and on.

A few pointers as to your writing; first be specific. Saying that you have lots of money someday doesn't give the universe a definitive target to aim for. So how much is lots of money? Then when will that "someday" be? In a few months, a year, ten years?

Second don't limit your ideas. Is it possible for you to have 10 million dollars in the bank? Yes, it is possible and that's all your subconscious needs to know to allow the universe to bring it into your life.

Third don't worry about “How” you will make the events come true. That is what your subconscious mind and the universe will work on. You simply have to worry about the “What.”

You can be what you will to be. So put your will on paper: Start by writing out your day, what is your “normal” day like. Then progress to larger events and details. Write a short story about your life, there is no limit on what you can write into your life, so use as much artistic license you desire.

So get to it; the longer you delay the longer your life will not be as you desire. Get going today. Buy a spiral note book, they are inexpensive, and fill the pages with the words of your dream life. The sooner you get started the sooner you will arrive into the life you will to live.

Be Blessed

If You Can Expect Then You Can Manifest

The old saying of “If you can believe it, you can achieve it” is so very true.

What you believe is what controls your life. If you believe you can do something you can; and if you believe you can’t do something you can’t. As an example; if a person believes that they are naturally unlucky then they will never be able to successfully manifest “luck”.

This belief system that each of us has is what subconsciously controls our lives. This individual belief system has developed and polarized over the years based upon the successes and failures you have experienced in your life. It is the expectation, based on this belief system that enables you to manifest situations, events and material objects.

Expectation characterizes your belief system and portrays the innermost aspects of your personality. It also represents the psychic building blocks from which the physical constructions will be successfully constructed. Expectations are basically formed from your emotions. If you can develop “emotional excitement” about potential physical constructions (such as events) then you will find it much easier to manifest that which you desire.

Expectation is the force that triggers your psychic realities into your physical realities. If you want to change your fate then a mere desire is not enough; it is expectation that will cause the manifestation of your desires into reality. It is actually expectation that triggers inner data into physical construction.

You will receive what you expect, in other words if you believe it then it will happen. Do you believe you have the ability to make breakfast and eat it? If you do then you will soon find yourself eating a cooked breakfast. An expectation of success will encourage success, followed by more success. Conversely an expectation of failure results in failure.


Expectation is the force that triggers psychic realities into physical realities. The combination of thought, expectation, emotion and desire creates a form. This form which is created by subconscious manipulation of the basic energy units of the universe comes into existence solely because you have desired it. It is for this reason that if you focus strongly on some desired event in your future it is likely to happen, given that you add the necessary emotional yearning and expectation.

Expectation is absolutely vital for the construction of physical objects and events from the universal. It is also vital that this internal data be sifted and categorized, within the framework of your personal belief system.

If emotional expectation and desire are present, manipulation of matter may arise in the manner that follows the desires of your conscious mind. The conscious desires must be parallel and resonant with subconscious expectations, along with sufficient emotional yearning.

Expecting is what brings it to you: So if you have an expectation of happiness, then you will attract happy circumstances into your life; whereas an expectation of danger will attract dangerous circumstances to you, and so on.

Your belief is your faith, which in turn is your expectation. If you have faith you can move mountains.

Be Blessed

How to Know What to Do With Your Life

There comes a time in ones life where you must force an epiphany. You must face your self and see the truth. You must quit being timid, and be brutally honest with your self. This is a task that only you can do, the sooner you cross this threshold; the better your life.

The universe is abundant and will grant you abundance of what you desire. Think about wealth and abundance, NOT about lack and limitation. Desire wealth; lust after it; don’t just wish for it. Believe in it and your right to it. Stop believing in scarcity. There is none. When you have nothing, you have an abundance of nothing. When you have mediocrity, you have an abundance of mediocrity. What you focus on will be what you have.

You are living your life for a reason. You have some gift that you must give to this world to make it a better place. When you begin to live your life in the way you are meant to you will have all the things needed to do so. It is not just your right to be wealthy, it is your duty. You must have the means to help your friends and family and all those who require your help.

This does not mean you work your tail off to support a bunch of free loaders; instead it describes the ability to help people who are in need of what you can do. If you have mechanical ability, people will come to you with their vehicle problems, you either tell them what is wrong or help fix it. They drive off happy; you have served and are also happy. Conversely they won’t come to you for medical advice as you are a mechanic not a doctor.

So now you must discover what you are and what you should be. You can be what you will to be, but if you go with what you are talented at; the process is faster. So sit down with a piece of paper and a pen, and write down what things make you happy. Write it down no matter what it is, if it comes into your mind then write it down. Don’t be bashful; nobody but you will see this list, so write everything down that makes you happy.

What you are creating is a bunch of puzzle pieces that you will assemble into a picture of your life. The cool thing about this is it is a living picture that can and does change with just one piece of puzzle move.

Now look at your list, find a recurring pattern. Continuing with the mechanical example; a complete set of wrenches makes you happy. Having a rolling tool box makes you happy. Listening to an engine purr after you have worked on it gives your great satisfaction. So then you should focus on becoming a better mechanic.

Find the recurring thing on your list and add them together to find out what you are skilled at. Then desire more of what you have that makes you happy. The universe will supply all that is required and more.

Be Blessed

First Thought

There is a secret that controls everyone’s life to such a degree that it is amazing that we haven’t used it more. This secret is called the first thought.

What is first thought? It is the thought that you have first thing in the morning when you wake up. This first thought is the most powerful thought you have. It sends out a message to the universe instantly and this first thought will determine your day. This first thought controls you and the type of experience you are going to have for the rest of the day.

Most of us when we rollover to hit the alarm clock think something along the lines of “I don’t want to” or “not another day of work” or something similar. We start out negative, we curse the alarm clock, we think negative about coming events, or worry about the day before and how it is going to have to be paid for today.

We could go on and on about the crap we think when we wake up. Realize this; the first thought of the day starts a chain reaction that has massive effects on us for the rest of the day. So we need to take control of our lives, we need to lead a better and happier life, and this is the place to start; literally.

Try to remember what you were thinking when you woke this morning. Was it thought of how peaceful and happy your life is? Did you think to yourself what a wonderful world this is? Probably not, you got up and ran the gamut of thoughts concerning having to do something this morning to what you did yesterday that you need to work on again today, or even thought about how you don’t have enough of something.

Here is what we should do in the morning: We should wake up and think something good, something we desire. Before you even move to turn off the alarm; this great thought should enter your head and be thought. So what thought should you have in the morning? Start with this one:
“I can be: What I will to be.”

Tell yourself the night before that this is the first thought you shall have in the morning. Write it on a note card and prop it in front of your alarm clock. Think about that thought as you are falling asleep, reminding yourself that this is the first thought you will have the next morning.

Every day when you wake up, think to yourself, or even out loud; “I can be: What I will to be.” When a negative thought or worry tries to creep in to your thoughts fight back and replace it with your new thought. You can be what you will to be.

After a few weeks you will see a major improvement of your life and your circumstances if you faithfully make your first thought “I can be: What I will to be.”

Once you have mastered this thought you can modify your first thought as you see fit, but you have to master this one skill before you can begin to have a massively great life.

Be Blessed

I'm Back

Well I am back, time to try to get back on schedule. All went well, my son graduated from boot camp and is now off to “A” school to become a corpsman (medic/EMT) saw a couple of relatives and went the long way through Chicago.

Anyways, I will start writing articles again in the morning (Friday the 20th) for all those who missed the blog. Also since I have over 400 e-mails to wade through I may take a bit to respond to you all. Please be patient with me while I go through the mail.

So until tomorrow, Be Blessed.

Yes You Can Solve Your Problems

Hello all I hope you have been enjoying the adventure as I put all these lessons into written cyber form for you to absorb. On a side note: I am going north to see my son graduate from boot camp (Navy) This will be my last entry until next week; I am not taking my computer with me, so I will be incommunicado until July 18th.

Please come back after the 18th of July, I still have much to share.

And now for the lesson:

Yes You Can Solve Your Problems

How many times have you had a problem you thought could not be solved? Did you feel that that problem leads to a dead end; you felt stumped knowing that the problem before you is one you cannot solve, no leads, no options, and no solutions?

When encountering such problems, you may feel like you're hammering against a steel mountain. The pressure of having to solve this problem may be too overwhelming. Well, relax and have hope; some creative problem-solving skills may be in order here.

First you must simply identify the problem. Give it definition; then you can understand it. Write it down so you can look at it objectively. Too often we personalize our problems and this makes them harder to resolve. Withdrawing yourself from the problem allows you to look at your problem in a different light.

Keep in mind the art of creative problem solving required that you must be open-minded to the fact that there may be more than just one solution to the problem. You must be open to the fact that there may be solutions to problems you thought were unsolvable.

Try to understanding the problem and having a concrete understanding of its workings is integral to solving the problem. If you know how it works, what the problem is, then you have a better foundation towards solving the problem.

Now try to make a simple statement of what problem is: Identify the participating entities and what their relationships with one another are. Take note of the things you stand to gain and stand to lose from the current problem.

Then try to take note of all of the assumptions you have of the problem. Sometimes it is these assumptions that obstruct our view of possible solutions. Identify which assumptions are valid, in which assumptions need to be addressed. Break down the problem into parts; try to solve the problem by its parts. Solve it going from general view towards the more detailed parts of the problem. This is called the top-down approach. From here you can develop the solution further, and increase its complexity little by little.

Now it helps to have critical thinking as you solve a problem, but you must also keep a creative attitude. When someone comes up with a prospective solution, tried to think how you could make that solution work. It pays to remember that there may be more than just one solution to the problem.

Remember that old adage," two heads are better than one." That is truer than it sounds. You can only benefit from listening to the ideas each person has. This is especially true when the person you're talking to has had experience solving problems similar to yours. You don't have to be a hero to solve the problem. If you can organize collective thoughts on the subject, it would be much better.

Don’t give up; where there is life there is hope. As long as you persevere, there is always a chance that a solution will present itself. Remember that no one was able to create an invention the first time around.

Creative thinking can help you in your quest be a problems solver. So, the next time you see a problem you think you can not solve, literally; think again. The solution might just be staring you right in the face.

Be Blessed

This or Something Better

For as long as there has been a human history there is a method of changing your life for the better. Most people simply struggle through their lives and hope for a better future. They hope that some day they will be happy, someday they can retire, someday this, someday that.

Something that most of us do not comprehend is that someday is not guaranteed. All we have is right now. You can hope for a future, you can plan for it, but you can not live it until it arrives. So how can you make your future something you look forward to; something that you anticipate, something better.

So it is time now; for a step by step method of making your life better…

Decide on what you desire. There is no limit, and no restrictions; what you decide is what you will get. However be warned; be careful what you ask for as you will get it, and it may not be what you want. The universe knows what is best for you and will deliver what you truly need and desire.


Now the most important step: Write it down. Writing it down is an action of power; something about writing it down causes the universe to act faster and with more precision. Sure you can get your desires without writing it down, but the end result will be less specific, less clear, and the generalization of your desire may be found to be not as good as you had hoped. Writing your dream results in a better focus and you will receive a better result every time. Two things that you should add in to your desire are the words: “I accept this or something better”, and the statement; “with harm to none.”

So we go to the next step and list your benefits. Why do you desire this to happen or come into your existence? Make sure it is for the greater good, in other words make sure it can happen with harm to none. Also add in that you will accept something better. Let us say you desire a car, but good deals on trucks keep coming up, that means the universe know you will be needing that pickup truck in the future, or that it will be more useful to you than a car, so accept the something better.

There are a few sub steps in this benefit analysis, so let’s cover them quickly. Analyze your current position; will this desire of yours help, hurt, change, or eliminate your current situation?

Find and Identify obstacles and risks; look closely at what side effects this may cause. For example if you desire to live in a better neighbor hood, will the people you help now suffer from your absence?

Here is a sub step that most people try to skip, and it will definitely come to haunt you if you do not pay it some attention: Identify dues, investments and sacrifices. Paying dues is the process of learning and achieving. For example to become a great pianist you would pay the dues of hours of practice, etc. etc. etc. Investments are things you would have to have to accomplish your desire. Again, to be a pianist requires a piano. Do not forget the last part; of sacrifice. Following with pianist example; you will have to give up some TV time in order to practice, and so on.

Another step that speeds up the process is to identify the knowledge you will need. Continuing with the pianist example; you will need to learn how to read music, and to translate what you read into finger movements, so you will need to seek an instructor to help you discover this information.

Lastly there is a step that most people skip, and in so doing set them selves up for failure and disappointment: Set a deadline. Three simple words that are so filled with terror, that for some that it freezes their actions. Without a deadline you do not have a timeline for the universe to go by. Yes the universe is timeless, but you are not. You can desire something all you want but without a deadline in place the universe will treat your desire as a low priority. You may get it in a timely manner, you may not. Setting a deadline creates a sense of urgency that will have its affects manifest promptly.

So there you have it, a recipe for your life, a method of working, a skill for using, whatever you wish to call it. You now know, and in knowing you can make better choices, and reap better rewards.

Remember this; before you can reap, you have to sow

Be Blessed

To Do as You Will

I am so busy I don’t have time to mow my yard; I pay my unemployed neighbor to do it. I work three jobs, four if you count my blogging. That brings us to today’s subject; to do as you will.

First we must define the word “will”, the way it is meant in today’s subject. In the context that the word “will” is ability. Will equals ability, add in a little desire and determination and your getting close to what “will” means. To do as you will; means to accomplish that which you want to do.

So comparing myself with my neighbor, I feel over worked but have money; my neighbor has no money and lives off his parents, doing odd jobs for some spare cash. So why is there such a disparity between us? Because I am willing; and he is not. I desire something and have goals; he complains nobody will hire him and the government doesn’t pay him enough. I deposit my pay checks in the bank; he cashes his welfare check. I will my life to be better, and take the steps to make it happen; he seems to have no will.

My neighbor without realizing it has manifested the exact life he doesn’t want. He has attracted into his life the things he says the most. He complains a lot about being unemployable and that’s what he has received.

The difference between us is I accept responsibility for my words and actions. I have tried to teach him the Law of attraction, but he will not listen and continues to ignore the proof before his eyes. He does as he wills and gets poor results; on the other hand I do as I will and get good results.

To do as you will, brings responsibility into your actions. You must consciously choose an action and then do it; to be doing as you will. You must understand that your desire turned into action is your will. What you will is what controls your life, and you control your will.
To do as you will; indicates that you have a direction, a goal, a mission to accomplish. You make your will by desiring a result and therefore you cause it to happen. You use the knowledge you have to influence events to make your will become reality. If you know of a system, or methods of making it happen, you are doing your will.

When you commit a course of action, you are doing as you will. Even if you do not know about, acknowledge, or understand the forces involved in doing as you will, your will still becomes reality. If you choose poorly you get poor results. Certain actions always cause certain results. To deny that this happens is to be dishonest with your self.

Knowing about certain ways of doing things makes doing as you will an easier and more desirable action. Being able to use the knowledge of how things work to do as you will with them; makes your results more achievable and pleasurable. When you know about something, like the Law of Attraction, and you do not use it to do as you will, you are going against reality. Not using the natural laws is just a waste of life. Can you imagine trying to sled uphill because you refuse to recognize the law of gravity?

Doing as you will; results in great satisfaction and a happier life. Learning and using the ways and methods of doing as you will; causes your will to happen.

So realize what you are doing, and do as you will.

Be Blessed

What Can We and What Should We Manifest

There are many facts of life that we can not change. These facts of life can also be called natural laws. The sun comes up and the sun goes down is a fact of life. Things like; water is wet, snow is cold, rocks are hard, and so on, are simply facts of life.

Most of us know these facts of life and do not worry about changing them. Why do we not worry about those things? It is because we know we can not change them and so do not bother to waste our time.

So what can we change by manifesting? We can change the things that affect us for the short term. We can manifest things to solve our needs and desires. We can actively direct the smaller things that affect us. To not take a proactive outlook is to allow our lives to be decided by chance, by default. We must direct our own lives and so we can manifest that which is in our sphere of influence.

We can manifest a good day, a good job, a good parking spot, the right product at the right price, and so on. These are things we can and should control in our lives. We have the duty and the right to shape our daily world that we live in.

Many of you already know the steps to manifesting, but a quick review is in order. Decide what you want; bring the desire out from inside you, by speaking or writing it down, then visualize the desire coming into existence, wait with faith that it has become, and finally receive it when it arrives.

We can easily manifest that which is ours to control, but what about things we can not control? The problem a lot of people have run into is in the area of what they can not control. Things like insight, guidance, illumination, and enlightenment. These things are not within a person’s wisdom to accurately specify. So all that can be done is to make a request, and allow the higher forces to work out the details.

When we command that which we control, then this is the proper use of our spiritual power. When we attempt to command that which we do not control; is a waste of time and effort. To try to push a river would be folly, sheer silliness, and so we should not try. So why would we try to force the universe to do things; and then like little children get mad because it did not happen, or it didn’t happen the way we wanted.

So with that I must give you fair warning: Be careful what you ask for as you will get it, and it may not be what you wanted.

Over time reality will show you what is in your power to manifest. You will discover what is in your ability to manifest and what is not. Disappointments are just a way of telling you that it is either not yours to manifest or the time is not right.

Be Blessed

Here's a Simple Solution to Happiness

Ask your self a simple question: Do you want to be happy?

Ask your self again; do you really want to be happy? Do you deserve to be happy? Are you doing everything in your power to be happy? Or do you think happiness is something for the wealthy, the good-looking, royalty, and the spiritually advanced?

If you think happiness is not for you then stop right now. You might not be ready for this. On the other hand; if you are ready for happiness, then read on.

First allow me to explain that “Being Happy” is a state of existence that is driven from the inside out. From the beginning of human history we have been searching for happiness.

Unfortunately we have placed material gain as our happiness. We think that having this or getting that will make us happy. Most of our daily functions and overall desires all revolve around satisfying our material needs in the mistaken attempt to be happy. Being satisfied is a key goal in our current "materialistic society."

Then something that the spiritually advanced noticed quickly was that everything material is impermanent; beauty fades, youth withers away, things wear out and break, everything material gathers dust and needs storage space. So happiness cannot depend on the material things we seek.

So as this revelation was made clearer, many ancient traditions focused on the opposite, the spiritual. Thus, you begin looking on the spiritual side, studying ancient texts, following spiritual leaders, and so on. Soon you'll notice their complexity. The more you learn the more you get confused. Eventually, the main goal; happiness, is lost in the maze of information overload.

Some, the very adept, are able to reach that state of pure happiness through spiritual ascension, via ascetic practices. However let us be realistic here; going on retreat to the middle of nowhere and living in a monastery devoid of life's trials and tribulations, just does not seem like a practical option for a normal human being living in the modern world. Heck, for us, the normal human beings, spiritual ascension is a goal we might want; but not at the expense of "living life to the fullest."

All of us know that our time is our most precious commodity. We love to live life in the moment and we enjoy life more when we are in action. We like doing, evolving, learning, interacting, being, moving; this is who and what we are.

Sitting in a room quietly for thirty minutes, then thrusting your self into this hectic world and thinking everything is going to be perfect is not a realistic view of life. Plus, with bills, spouses, bosses, coworkers, offspring, traffic, and other obstacles, one needs a "real world" approach to this fast-paced life.

So we must do what humans do, adapt and overcome. We change our view to this statement: Personal contentment is more important than spiritual ascension.

You see only with personal contentment can you ascend spiritually. You discover your spiritual side through being content. Personal contentment does not mean material or sensory satisfaction. Personal contentment means to be truly happy with yourself right here and now.

You only ever have right now, the present moment to exist. You do not exist yesterday, and you do not exist tomorrow. You are here right now, and that’s it. Happiness is a choice; you must choose to be happy right now. You can not wait to be happy tomorrow for it may not arrive, you must be now.

Have a dream to guide your life, but be grateful for what you have right now. You know you can find things to be grateful about, so be grateful for what you can. When you are contemplating the things you are grateful for, you will notice a sense of contentment creeping in. A subtle feeling of peace and happiness; this is what you enjoy in the right now. Personal contentment brings peace of mind.

So be grateful for what you can, and be grateful frequently. You will find that the more you are grateful, the more you will have to be grateful about.

Be Blessed