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Q & A: How Do I Keep My Positive Thoughts When I’m Disappointed?

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Question From RGC:

Hi, I truly enjoy receiving my daily quotes and ideas. I understand that feelings are the key to knowing what’s going on. I have a question. Today, I went to storage to find a piece for my juicer that I have misplaced. I went with feelings of happiness that I had found it but I didn’t find it. So of course, I had feelings of disappointment. The quotes say that I must continue to think positive thoughts and have positive feelings but how can I do that when I’m so disappointed? What should I do?

Thanks. In love and peace, RGC

Here are my thoughts…

I’m glad you find the emails useful, and thank you for your comments. I can understand that you would be disappointed to not find something you had been hoping to locate.

Even though it may seem like it, there are no musts in the messages – only suggestions. The only “message” in the Prosperity Challenge is to find the best feeling place you can at any moment. It’s perfectly fine to feel disappointment from time to time. We are human, and isappointment merely means we did not get an outcome we had wanted or hoped for.

Trying to deny disappointment is, as Abraham-Hicks would say, like putting a happy face sticker on an empty gas tank. It doesn’t change the level in the tank, and it doesn’t make anything better. So go ahead and feel disappointment – it is, after all, a way to notice contrast and become clear about what you want. When you are finished being disappointed, simply look for a way to start feeling a little bit better. Once you notice you do not feel the way you would like, look for a way to close the gap between how you are feeling in the moment and how you would prefer to feel.

It doesn’t have to be a big step, just find anything that makes you feel better. For instance, when you were at your storage place, did you find something else you’d been looking for? Or did you empty out some of the stuff that had been just sitting in there? Or did you feel good about the place or the conditions of your storage unit? Or, are you glad you know know one place where that item isn’t?

Remember, when you are disappointed, it’s a reflection of the fact that you did not get/accomplish/create something that you wanted. The disappointment is a result of the gap between how you are feeling at that moment and how you want to feel. It’s just that you are tying the emotion to the “thing” instead of remembering that nothing can make you feel bad unless you let it.

At times like this I get up and walk (great stress reliever), or I reorganize something, or I make something. Each of these activities help me get back to feeling like myself instead of feeling powerless or at the mercy of my circumstances. And that’s the true message here – to make our way back to feeling like ourselves.

For most people it’s far too difficult to make that transition in one quick movement, so any little step you can make will help.

Warmly,
Katie

Got a question?  Feel free to send it (or post to the blog) and I’ll do my best to answer.

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Another Way to Clear Your Head

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

There are many ways to “shake out the cobwebs” and get a new perspective.

At one of my prior jobs it would sometimes become so intense during the Board meetings that when I left I would put the top down on my convertible and drive home the 40-60 miles like that – even when it was overcast!  I’d just simply turn up my heater, and even though it was foggy, the air rushing past my ears just helped to get rid of the pressure and stuffiness of the people I was dealing with.

Another great way to clear your head is to go someplace totally different. This could be for a day, for a week, or in my case, for 5 weeks!

Next Sunday we fly out for a week in Australia and then 4 more in New Zealand.  My husband’s brother and family live in New Zealand, the native land of our sister-in-law.

I am very much looking forward to having a wonderful experience and coming back with a totally new perspective.  I’ve told my husband that I think this will change everything.

By that I mean we will be away from our normal routine for 5 weeks.  We will specifically NOT be working (although I will check the internet every few days). We will be doing some very fun things – like snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef, visiting a rainforest, black water rafting through glow worm caves, visiting glaciers, taking an overnight cruise in Milford Sound, taking a silver metal clay class, and a bone carving class from a Maori, and all the time in between, just being together and enjoying the country!

It’s an opportunity to revisit what’s important to us – the first time we’ve really had a chance to do that since we first got together 15 years ago.

So, it won’t change who I am or what my values are, but it certainly will shake up the priorities I’ve developed in the past 2 years working for the organization that currently employs me.  And having what I consider to be a relatively significant time totally away (on the other side of the world) will certainly give me room and time to consider where I want to go from here and where I want to be in the next 2-3 years!

For a perspective on why I think vacations are an important part of your working life, read my post at Career Life Strategies.

For a slightly different perspective that focuses more on the synchronicity of doing what you love, read my post at my gratitude blog, ER=100x

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Get What You Want By “Clearing” Your Mind

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

As you may know, I’ve been a fan of Joe Vitale’s for a long time. I think he provides very good information in general, and excellent information on what he calls “Spiritual Marketing”.

In his article below, he describes A “Crazy” New Way to Increase Sales — from Zero. Interestingly, it’s a very effective method for getting anything you want – from sales to relationships, to peace of mind.  I use a variation of it often.  I find it helps to create peace so that drama and other emotions are not cluttering what you are doing at the moment.  That’s a good thing, because how you feel is so very important to your success, regardless of the content.

Here is the article by Dr. Joe Vitale  www.mrfire.com

In my new book, “Zero Limits,” I talk about the unusual therapist who helped heal an entire hospital ward of mentally ill criminals — without seeing any of them.

I’ve since learned his method for healing, which involves “cleaning” yourself of all negativity in order to see change in others.

It seems bizarre, but when you take care of your own issues, they disappear in other people.

The whole idea is to love the problems away. You do it by saying “I love you,” and a few other statements, non-stop. I’ve been doing it for two years now and my life is astonishing. I live in an almost moment-by-moment state of bliss.

Once I learned this method, I started to use it on other things besides illness. Since I’m a practical metaphysician and an entrepreneur, I wanted to see if this wild method would work on sales and other bottom line results.

Whenever I would write an article — much like this one — I would send love into it.

Whenever I would write another book — like my new one, “Zero Limits” — I would keep saying “I love you” in my mind.

What I noticed is my emails and articles would get read and distributed to *millions* of people.

And my book, “Zero Limits,” became an Amazon bestseller — six months *before* it was published.

But I didn’t stop there in my testing.

Because I want to be sure this method works for others and not just me, I taught it to my close friends.

Bill Hibbler, coauthor with me of the book “Meet and Grow Rich,” was skeptical. But he borrowed a pre-publication copy of my book, “Zero Limits,” read it, and started loving his products and his list of  subscribers. Here’s what he said:

“Sales for Jan 1-4 were 41.39% higher than Dec 1-4. During the four day period in January, I didn’t mail my list or launch any new promotion during that time. All I did was clean while reading your book and throughout the day.”

Bill went on to tell me he saw sales increase from sites like http://create-ultimate-ebooks.com/ — which he wasn’t promoting *at all*.

How is this possible?

How can “cleaning” yourself with a mantra like “I love you” make a difference in your sales?

It appears that there is nothing “out there.” The entire world is a projection of what you feel inside.

So, if you feel love, you will attract love. Because love contains gratitude, you attract more things to be grateful for. This is the essence of my book, “The Attractor Factor,” and of course  of the movie, “The Secret.”

You get what you feel.

That’s it.

At heart I think you (I) just want love. Well, so does everyone else. When you say “I love you” inside yourself, you cleanse yourself and you radiate an energy that others feel.

The result: more sales.

Still skeptical?

Look at it this way:

Even if this whole method seems totally crazy to you, what harm can come from you saying “I love you” in your mind as you make calls, write emails, deliver pitches, and go about your day?

If nothing else, you’ll have better feeling days.

Try it and see.

By the way, “I love you”.
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Dr. Joe Vitale is author of way too many books to mention, including the bestsellers “The
Attractor Factor,” “Life’s Missing Instruction Manual” and the forthcoming head spinner:
“Zero Limits.” He’s also one of the stars in the hit movie “The Secret.” His main website is at http://www.MrFire.com

The book “Zero Limits” will be available July, 2007. You can pre-order it from www.Amazon.com today. Read an excerpt at http://www.ZeroLimits.info
– the world’s first website to “cleanse” you as you visit it.

Copyright 2007 by Joe Vitale.

What are some other things you could say?  It will be different for each of you, and may be different based on the circumstances, but some I include on a regular basis are:

  • I’m sorry,
  • Forgive me,
  • Thank You,
  • I forgive you,
  • I wish you success,
  • I’m grateful for you,

Just use what seems to feel right to you.  It’s not so much a ‘structure’ as it is a way to move into feeling clean and clear so that you are not getting in your own way. When I use this method, I find a peacefulness that makes everything much easier.

As I gave up the struggle model, more and more I am giving up the blame model and accepting that since I create my own reality (my perception of what the world means), then it’s all up to me anyway, and I am ultimately responsible for even how others treat me.  So I am responsible for setting my emotions straight and moving back into feeling good, regardless of what anyone else might do to or around me.

Give it a try today….see what magic you can create for yourself and others!

Thank you, I wish you success.

Katie

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The Prosperity Challenge Becomes an Even Better Value!

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

Over the holidays I thought a lot about the Prosperity Challenge and what it’s brought me – clarity, new friends, expanded consciousness, more wealth.

I decided I wanted to make it accessible to even more people, as part of my contribution to this shift in consciousness that brings satisfaction and peace.  The easiest way to do that was to set the price point where it was more of a “no brainer” decision for most people.

I remember the first time I played the Prosperity Game (which is part of the Challenge). It dramatically shifted my thoughts about what I was worth, and gave me permission to spend money in a way that was empowering to me.  Most of us don’t give ourselves permission to trust that part of ourselves that draws the resources and solutions to us – that intuitive part that places the right teacher in our path.  So even when the Universe does provide, we make excuses about not trusting our own Inner Wisdom.

When I realized how much exposure to the Laws of Attraction and the Prosperity principles shook all of my old thinking loose and enabled me to make choices truly from CHOICE, not from old patterns of financial scarcity, I decided that I wanted more people to have that experience.

So, the price to play in the Challenge now is only $39.90, and I expect to keep it there until there is a compelling reason to change it.

To our Expanding Prosperity!!

Katie

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