Focus on Abundance

Abundance,Wealth, Prosperity, Financial Freedom– we all crave it, not just for what the money will do, but for the choices it will give us, for the fun we can create with it, for the life we can live with it. Why is it that some people seem to attract money and riches so easily, and others live their entire lives struggling to make ends meet?

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Why does it often seem that the rich just get richer and the poor just get poorer? Well guess what – it’s not about how MUCH money you make, but how you THINK about money and what you DO with that money that will make all the difference between whether you will live a life of Prosperity or one of continual money challenges. But no matter what your situation – it CAN be changed. If you desire MORE Abundance in your life – then read on!

Living the life of your dreams instead of just dreaming about it is all about creating a Millionaire Mindset. And that’s my specialty! I have been a Prosperity Mentor for over 4 years with clients from all over the world. I love to share different strategies, skills, exercises and ideas on how to keep your mind focused on raising the levels of Wealth in your life. Because the more you focus on something, the FASTER you will attract it into your life.

Take a moment to think about where your focus or predominant mental attitude is. And if it’s more on your bills, debts and lack of money, then you MUST begin to focus on wealth, riches and prosperity – or you will never be able to attract it into your life. A surprisingly simple but amazingly powerful exercise to attract prosperity to you takes less than a minute a day, and if you do this daily, you’ll be amazed at what you begin to attract into your life. This exercise is called Abundance Breaths and basically all you need to do is breathe. Well, actually, it’s a little more than that…

As already stated, you become what you focus on. Too often, it can be challenging to know exactly what you do want. You get caught up in trying to make up your mind – “Do I want this or that? What if I get that and I really would have preferred this?” “I thought I wanted this, but now I think I want that”.

Sometimes it’s easier if you can just focus on the feeling of abundance, rather than the specifics of what that abundance will be. It is the feeling that has the attraction power anyway. You can get specific when all the money comes in!

What you should do before this exercise to create avalanches of abundance and prosperity is find a comfy chair and sit down with your feet flat on the floor, back straight and hands resting in your lap with palms facing up. Gently close your eyes and keep them closed. Before you get started just imagine that you are now surrounded by tiny, minute particles of abundance; that you are immersed in a sea of prosperity and you can reach out and touch it and bring it into your life whenever you desire (which you can!).

When you’re ready, take a long, slow, deep Abundance Breath in to the count of three, totally expanding and filling your lungs. Imagine all the while that you are breathing in those particles of prosperity and they are filling every fibre of your being. Feel that feeling of being flooded with abundance. Hold your breath for the count of nine and feelevery atom, every cell in your entire body being plumped up with prosperity, filled with abundance, vibrating with riches. And then slowly, to the count of six, breathe out that Abundance to circulate throughout the Universe – really force all that air out.

Once again, take another long, slow, deep Abundance Breath in, and this time, see your body light up from the inside out, glowing with prosperity, sparkling with riches, dazzling with wealth. I like to imagine that my body is glowing from the inside out with that same golden glow that radiates from Scrooge McDuck’s millions, or the gold in Aladdin’s cave! Once again, hold for the count of nine, seeing that glow, feeling that glow, then on the out breath, once again breathe out the abundance to circulate throughout the Universe.

One last time, slowly breathe in a huge big Abundance Breath for the count of three, and while you hold that breath for the count of nine, imagine and feel what it’s like to be totally abundant, amazingly wealthy, to have achieved financial freedom and be rich beyond your wildest dreams.

Feel how that feels; feel how light and free and good that feels. Expand that feeling; feel it flood through your body. Embrace that amazing feeling throughout your body, mind and spirit. And for the last time, slowly breathe that abundance and prosperity out to circulate throughout the Universe.

And when you’re ready, slowly open your eyes, feeling prosperous, feeling wealthy, feeling rich, rich, rich! As I said, this is a very easy, very powerful little trick you can do daily or many times, if you want to attract MORE into your life. It only takes a couple of minutes, but has amazing money-magnetizing powers. Once you get really good at your Abundance Breaths, you won’t even need to close your eyes – you will be able to feel those feelings, see your body glowing with prosperity and really feel you are beginning to attract money anytime, anywhere – what fun! Remember, the idea is to focus on what you DO want – and that’s a life filled with prosperity, abundance, riches, wealth and happiness!

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I have some dreams that have faltered and need a big boost. I have a vision board that is in need of some love and repair. So I was pretty excited to have found Leonie, a self titled Goddess, amazing artist and spiritual teacher. My new inspiration to get my life back on track.  Her blog is a visual paradise of colour and art and a wonderful combination of “Creativity; Joy; Mamahood; Business and Soul.”

As many of you may know I am an advocate for self improvement, creativity, entrepreneurship and alternative therapies so I was pretty excited to have found Leonie Goddess Circle for like-minded women who want to grow their business, meditate and motivate. I have recently signed up and I wanted to show you to how it will benefit as part of this community. Click here to view more details

There is a circle of Goddesses, with infinite space to speak, share, heal, create, ask, answer, laugh, cry, bear witness — and be cradled, with limitless compassion.

There is a community where courage, softness, love, wisdom and wonder swirl in abundance. Where your Goddess power is strengthened by the support of your sisters. Where
bad days become living lessons, and good days become a cause for celebration.

I believed (and still believe) that every woman in the world needs a circle. That this world would be changed if we remembered to circle again together as women.

And that this women’s work is powerful, potent, soulful and sacred. That it can change lives and hearts and souls and minds.

I know because it did mine. (Goddess Leonie)

So I challenge you to join us in our Goddess Circle.

Lisa xo

I have decided to take the Og Mandino challenge. I have a collection of books listed under the “self-help”, “inspirational”, “motivational” category and as much as I mostly enjoy reading them they are soon forgotten and left on the shelf. Honestly to be in the now (The Power of Now) and constantly thinking positive (Law of Attraction) can sound like a broken record after awhile and exhausting to practice when you need a break from the kids to have a shower, tackle the traffic to work or stare at your empty bank account mentally calculating those bills.

So I have the Mandino  trilogy which included the short story, The Greatest Salesman in the World. You can buy it from Amazon here: Og Mandino’s Great Trilogy
I have had these books for a little while and they were not a favourite of mine due to the language being a little old and the intertwined god references. However I have renewed motivation to do the hard work due to the support of millions of others who have followed the steps of the ten scrolls.

The process is – read one scroll, three times a day for a month. The theory is by consistently reading and applying each scroll new habits will form which will transform your life. So here goes – I jump straight to Scroll Marked 2.

Scroll II – I will greet this day with love in my heart.

I am jumping to the second scroll as the second book in his trilogy, The Greatest Secret in the World starts a Success Recorder journals to track your journey.

Most people give up, Og says and already I am behind (you are supposed to start it on a Monday) but here we go. The scroll in my pocket to read every day for a month.

Have you ever followed the direction of a self-help book?

Lisa

Blink

Next week is my Birthday. I am 31. Blink

Where did my 30^th go? I was once 13. 18 years ago to be precise. Blink

My 30th Birthday

The year after my 13^th I gave away the glasses for contacts. I did not like high school.

13 Years old. Note the 1993 calendar.

Today I have 1 year old twin daughters who are already growing up everyday. So quick to want them to grow up and walk but stop just wait and listen. Tomorrow they will walk. Tomorrow they will start school. Tomorrow there will be fights over trivial matters and I hate you mums. Blink.

March 2011 Girls 15 months.

I am a mother. How did that happen? Blink

Am I a good friend? Do I have supportive and encouraging friendships in my life? Am I in a rewarding career? Do I still like my job? Has the years of study benefited my education and learning? Blink.

Am I happy?

Where do I want to be when I am 40? What needs to stop and what needs to change. Blink.

If you see me madly cutting around my head with imaginary scissors, not to worry, I don’t intent to look crazy, I am just cutting the cords of attachment from all the negative and rude people I meet in the day to day of my life. I learnt this technique at one of the meditation classes many years ago. It is called “Cutting the Cords of Attachment” and now it has turned into a little habit that both N and I share.

Just quickly if you have no idea what I am talking about, cord cutting is a term to describe the energetic threads that link people together. Energy cords are invisible cords of energy going from you to other people and from them to you.

Some of these cords are positive (partner, family and friendships) complimenting positive relationships but most often they can be harmful and negative (ex-partners,unhealthy relationships ) and unless you use techniques like meditation to sever them, you have energy cords attached to you that you do not need. However a quick and easy technique in case you do not have time to meditate (like me) is visualizing and cutting with your fingers. Simple.

Perhaps I have taken it to the extreme because as soon as I feel angry or feel negative about someone (friend or foe) I get out those scissors and start cutting away.

Some of my most memorable cutters include:

• To the Community Health Nurse who I called at work to reschedule an appointment because A) I was home alone with twin newborns, B) It was pouring with rain and C) did not think I could cope packing up the babies, three trips to the car, driving across town in the rain, unpack the car for an appointment on my own. To my disbelief the lady was unkind and the appointment was cancelled. Cut.

• To the Manager at the Ella Bache store. I had a gift certificate given to me on my baby shower. The certificate was saved within the valid date. I selected a beauty treatment. I organized a babysitter weeks in advanced. I went to the salon for a luxury that I no longer take for some relaxation. After the consultation my gift card was not accepted. No money was on the card (mistake from the purchasing store). The company would not honour the card and quote, “I don’t care you have just had twins, it is $80.” Cut Cut

• To that person at work who stood at my office door after returning to work two weeks early when my twins were only 4 months old because I believed my work was valued and important but was “too busy” to see me for a few more week and often asks if I A) can attach a document to an email, B)convert a document into PDF and C) Do Track changes. CUT CUT CUT

Feel better now.

Try it.

Lisa

Another great idea finding technique in the Creative Problem Solving process is called Directed Imagination/Visualization. In our example on how to Mend a Broken Heart, we took an object (any object) and started making associations with the object to the problem. In this example we used a pair of sunglasses. These were the results:

 RESULTS, ASSOCIATIONS AND STREAM OF THOUGHT

HANDLES:

• Feeling that you need to handle your emotions, gain control again.
• Provides structure and so a sense of structure is needed in the attempt to overcome a broken heart

EAR STRAPS:

• Go around the ears. The ears are the key to listening. Key to relationships is being able to listen to the other person.
• For future relationships and so that a break-up doesn’t happen again, listening has to be improved

   REFLECTION:

• Light is reflected from the lenses. In order to move forward the person must first reflect. This involves introspective look at your self, examining yourself and your value in order to see the way forward

SCREWS:     

• The sunglasses have screws connecting the handle to the lenses. In the same way, some people can not move forward until they get over the feeling that they have been screwed. Must recognise that whether they were or were not fact is no longer relevant but that they must get over this, put it in the past and move towards the future.

AESTHETIC APPEAL:

• Sun glasses have an aesthetic appeal to them. After a break up has occurred often the reason for the breakup is attributed to one partner believing the other has lost aesthetic appeal for them. To get past this feeling, the broken hearted in some instances need to build their self-confidence as their aesthetic appeal is directly related to this. Build confidence in yourself and your appearance, appreciate who you are and this will help on the path from a broken-heart

SCRATCHES:

• The lenses of the glasses had a number of scratches. These scratches can distort vision. Emotionally, a person can be scratched or scarred. You must recognise what these are, they are part of your person now and try not to let them affect your vision.

BRAND:       

• The glasses had a brand name, making them recognisable and somewhat complete. A person may feel that they too have been branded, their heart branded by the name of their ex-partner. In order to get past these the person must unshackle this feeling of branding and become their own person again.

VISION:        

• Glasses can lend towards a distorted view. For example rose coloured view of things when things are not so rosy in real life. Similar to a broken heart scenario, though you look back and think of all the good times and it hurts at this period of time, it must be remember it was not all good and the broken heart has come for a reason.
• Vision is also associated with clarity and thus seeing faults.

REPLACEABLE:       

• Glasses are replaceable. Though there may be a personal attachment with a particular pair of glasses, there are more on the shelves to pick from. This analogy can be used in the instance of a broken heart- you had an attachment but it’s now time to choose a different one to lavish your affection on.

What techqniques have you used to solve a problem?

Idea Finding is the fun part to the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) process. By applying a range of techniques to enhance creativity and idea generation you can come up with many different solutions to a problem. In the example of “How to mend a Broken Heart” Part 2 we used Brainstorming, Mindmaps, Lotus Blossom and the Directed Imagination/Visualiation techniques.

Brainstorming was designed to encourage a group of people to generate a quantity of ideas or solutions to a problem. Good brainstorming is part of the creative cycle of expansion and contraction. The Classical brainstorm technique was undertaken by the group as a creative tool for the problem ‘How to Cure a Broken Heart’. Classical brainstorming was used as the group felt they were suitable brainstormers and could come up with wild ideas. The first draft of results became a random list of suggestions with no structure whereas most of the suggestions were not new or innovative; they were mostly products and services already in existence in the market, for example the chindogu below. 

Classical Brainstorming Results 

• Personal life coaching
• Dating internet sites
• Dark glasses
• Enroll in a Masters Program
• Start new hobbies
• Big Brother – women of mass dumping
• Go out with his best friend
• Sex with your ex
• Get pregnant – child support
• Hallmark card broken up party
• Divorce vows
• Blog diary of your breakup
• Rent a rabbit/ pet/ stuffed animal
• List bad attributes
• SMS engine
• Listen to music
• Bounce back bar (rebound)
• Crying box (grief)
• Exercise – redirect energy
• Counselling Services
• Chocolate
• Time limited to 60 days with no contact
• Take new hobbies – art classes
• Do a will or post humus love letter
• Memory epitaph
• Join a dumping organization or motivation group
• Go overseas
• Quit job
• Online matchmaking (RSVP and Match .com)
• Burning Ceremony
• Delete photos/ phone
• Plastic Surgery
• New hair-do
• Hire a nuisance/ “legal confines”
• Rent a billboard
• Have a shrine to remember them
• Antidepressants
• Drugs: New medication – love drug
• Miss affection hugger
• Pillow Arm
• Service: Affection – hugs
• Read self help books

Next post explores another Idea Finding activity: Directed Imagination/Visualiation techniques.

One of my favourite subjects when I did my Master’s degree was Creativity and Innovation. Problems are encountered constantly in all levels of life. The Creative Problem Solving (CPS) process is a way of responding creatively to solve business problems, personal problems, and in this post a common problem getting over a Broken Heart.  The CPS process can be broken down into six stages; objective finding, fact finding, problem finding, idea finding, solution finding, and acceptance finding. At the time we decided to find ways to solve a common problem of “How to Mend a Broken Heart” using a number of creative problem solving techniques. I thought in the next few posts it would be of interest to go through them as there are plenty of new problems I have that I thought could be inspired by doing this again. .

“The physical pain alone was terrible. I always used to think the expression ‘a broken heart’ was just a metaphor. But it felt as if I was having a heart attack” Bob Geldof, on the end of his 19-year relationship.

 The person you loved took a good long look the awesomeness that is you, evaluated your relationship together and said, “No, thanks. I’ll try my luck elsewhere,”(Behrendt, 2005 It’s Called a Breakup Because It’s Broken: The Smart Girl’s Break-Up Buddy)
The hard truth is that break-ups are sink or swim. Some people spend their whole life in an emotional downward spiral because they can’t get over lost love. Thus a problem was identified ‘How to Cure a Broken Heart’.

Problem Finding

Problem finding and definition involves re-stating the problem to unlock new viewpoints, which may lead to creative solutions. Based on the fact finding stage, the problem ‘How to Cure a Broken Heart ‘was expanded to the loss of someone close to you and by understanding the grieving process. Originally the loss was focused on relationship breakups, but there are some principles that are applicable to the death of a partner or relative. It was acknowledged that there are a series of interrelated physical and mental symptoms that devastate a person’s grief, and the impact of each symptom will vary. Boundary examination and progressive abstractions enabled a new problem definition to be stated; ‘In what ways might we reduce the mental and physical grief associated with losing a loved one?’

The next stage we can continue to redefine and find some new techniques to find a solution.

Today I received my first submission to “The Law of Attraction in Action” from Twitter friend L.Marie.

This is her story.

The Law of Attraction is Real

By: L.Marie

The Law of Attraction is real. I have always used the Law of Attraction in my life without knowing the terminology.  Growing up I used visualization to obtain all that I desired. However, it wasn’t until two years ago, when I was given the book Ask and it’s Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks, that I learned the terminology and changed my views.

Using the Law of Attraction is not only about putting an idea out into the Universe; it is about taking that idea and matching it with your emotions.  If you want to have more money, and you put the intention out there, but you are feeling fear or inadequacy, you will not have more money. It is all about your thoughts matching your vibrations and emotions.

I have had success with the Law of Attraction and I have had ‘failure’. I put failure in quotations because whatever you put out into the Universe will manifest, but it might not transpire quickly or the way you imagine. I have used the Law of Attraction for all things, love, career, money, and more.  The most obvious success story I had using the Law of Attraction, was when I manifested four additional months of an internship stipend.  When I graduated from school in May of last year, my internship stipend was supposed to conclude. A few weeks before I graduated I put into the Universe I needed money up until August.  I didn’t know where the money was coming from, but I knew I was going to be fine. The next month when I looked in my bank account I had received a direct deposit from the school. Even though I was done with school, from May up until August, I received a direct deposit. I did not question it, because it was the Law of Attraction and I had manifested the money through my positive thoughts and vibrations.

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If you would like to submit a short story (200 words) on “The Law of Attraction in Action.”please email me on lisad@thelastdegree.com.

I am looking for your everyday stories of success in family, health, wealth, relationships, and career.

Part two of Market to Market.

Saturday @ The Mathilda Markets

It was bright and early Saturday and I needed to drop the girls off at my parents before breakfast to be at the market to set up by 7am. N needed the day to dig up the yard and my parents had offered to dress the girls in My Island Baby designer wear as little models later in the day. The Mathilda markets are only held about five times a year in each capital city and showcases the most gorgeous baby and kids goods. Stall holders are chosen to deliver divine and original clothing, accessories, homewares and toys.

We had our three trolleys of clothes, a banner proudly displayed at the back and a table showcasing signature items such as baby bloomers and singlet dresses.

The three of us worked for the full two hours setting up before the first round of shopping mums and dads arrived. Women and children, prams and babies soon filled the aisles. Quickly pointing out the benefits of each item, “The dresses will become skirts or which dresses will be tops” highlighting the multiple uses of different items to maximise the value. We did well and it was fun. My little girls were a highlight – wonderfully dressed and sold the products just as well. My mother later said I should pay the girls in an account for each modelling assignment.

Adelaide our little model.