Visualization, Confrontation and Calendars

     Well, you just never know how things will work out, do you? I told you that today was my deadline for renting my house. I have not rented it yet. I also told you that my mother has decided to try using visualization and positive thinking to sell her house. It just may be sold, already!  

     I have had lots of calls on my rental and a few lookers, too. I don’t like to wait until the last minute. I wanted to get this resolved today, but it is not. Thursday is the first of the month. I know the place will be rented by then. I have a couple in mind who looked at it the other day. I should have their rental app. by tomorrow. We’ll see.....
     In the mean time, my mother has had her house listed with a realtor for the past three months with hardly anyone taking notice. All you hear are negative things about the housing market. Yesterday I put up a sign with a greatly reduced price. Today I made posters and put them up all over. And tonight a couple came and looked at the house. I think they are seriously interested. I think they are going to buy this house!
     So who knows how things will work out? I only know they will.        
     The first time I learned of and tried using the power of intention, I was a distraught single mother with two babies, from two different dads, crying to the heavens - “Where have I gone wrong in my life?” It certainly was not my plan to raise two kids alone. I was compelled to look inward and being the practical person that I am, I sought counseling. I ended up going to a drug / alcohol / and miscellaneous misfit center. Which was the only thing that fit my budget (free).  No, I have never had drug or alcohol problems, I was the miscellaneous misfit. It was called Confront and that’s what we did. We sat in a circle and confronted our problems by yelling and screaming, pummeling pillows and crying until we were exhausted.  Then we all felt better and went home, until the next Wednesday when we did it all over again. My friend, Sharon, who lived across the alley, hated those warm Wednesday nights in the summertime,”Close the windows, they’re at it again over at Confront!”
      I don't know what I took from that experience but I do remember their example of us being like of a cup full of fear, anger and all that other bad stuff. They said if we got rid of all the negativity then the good that was underneath would come flowing up and fill the cup to the rim. Apparently that happened to one of us. Jared had been just pitiful. He’d lost his job, had no place to live and his girlfriend left him. Every Wednesday his woe is me was worse than Eeyore. Then we didn’t see him for a few weeks. When he got back we hardly recognized him! He really looked good. He had enrolled in a nursing program, got a nice new apartment and of course, a new girlfriend. Everyone was frantic to know how he had done it.
      He had taken a workshop in the Silva Method, which is simply a method of visualization to create what you want in life. I studied the book and decided - this was for me. I was so inspired that I made a plan. I was going to get my kids out of the city and into a better life in Montana before my son started Kindergarten.
      I made up a calendar, I think it was thirteen weeks long. I had to finish my house, get it on the market, sell it, quit my job, pile my things into a truck and move 3000 miles away. Every night after I put my kids to bed I looked at my calendar and visualized the completion of each step in the process. I remember those nights. I felt so alone and with such a big job looming over me, yet at the same time, I knew there was someone/something on my side, there to help me. I believed with all my heart, in my dream of a new life in a better place for myself and my children. And what is more, I was unwilling to accept anything less. As time moved along, the sale of the house, the closing and everything happened either on the exact day I had visualized or the day before! I got my son into kindergarten in Montana right on time. I still have that calendar, today.
      I made another calendar almost twenty years later in preparation for my move to Costa Rica. That calendar was seven months long. Again I gave the gods no alternative. I was going to live in Costa Rica - and I did. Now I have one with thirty days on it - twenty nine left to go.
      I’ve used many different methods to materialize my desires over the years. Among other things, I have cut out pictures from magazines, listened to tapes of lectures by aliens (seriously) and written letters to God. Lately I use that groggy time between wake and sleep to picture my dreams fulfilled. Often at bedtime, it flows into some lovely dreams. Then in the morning I watch The Secret for twenty minutes while I do my exercises. Throughout the day my energies are directed toward my goals. Often I stop and notice how much fun it is and how much there is to appreciate in life. Today I received encouraging emails and supportive comments on this blog. People write with all kinds of creative ideas. Strangers want to help. I feel like I’ve got a bunch of cheerleaders out there, just for me! If you ever get discouraged with the state of mankind, just talk to me. I can attest to the good in human nature. People are wonderful!
      Well, even though I did not get my house rented by the day I had in mind, I’m not discouraged. I’ll keep on going in a positive direction and maybe I’ll pick up that old Silva book I’ve got and look at it again.......

AND Today I start the countdown!   
Yesterday I sold an eBook - $9.36
so $5000.00 - 9.36 = $4990.64 to go!