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Message 309

I was talking with a friend yesterday and it reminded me of how I ended up with the perfect house. So I thought I’d share it with you.

In order to get this perfect house it required a few components:

  • specifics 
  • Visualization 
  • Nothing negative getting it in the way
  • Acting as if 
  • And the most important factor was excitement 

I’d always known what I wanted in a house. One story, a computer room and an exercise room. A bike lane where I could run and bike.

When I was searching for houses in San Antonio I came across something called an outside access. Turns out that’s what we used to call a back door.

This was an exciting concept to me and I told everyone about it. If you asked me how I was doing, somehow I would work outside access into the conversation. The entire house I imagined really got me pumped up and I was excited about moving to San Antonio.

I came to San Antonio on what the military calls house hunting. I wasn’t having much luck. So my friend took me around the city and we looked for houses.

We found a couple in this one neighborhood. I gave the addresses to the realtor and the next day she showed me this particular house.

I walked in and it was exactly as I had visualized. They had a specific exercise room. The computers were set up beautifully in the family room. It was a single story and guess what. There are 5 outside accesses. Every room in the house has an outside door. The neighborhood also has a bike lane.

To make this an even bigger miracle is that the people living in the house were what’s called house sitters. They did not want the house to sell so they would take the for sale sign out of the ground and lay it flat so people wouldn’t see it as they drove by. It was just by “accident” that it was up when we drove by.

I know this discovery happened because I imagined it and sent it out to the universe. What cemented it, though, was the enthusiasm I had for it and especially the outside access. It also helped that I was confident that I would get a great house and be set. I knew nothing would stand in my way! And nothing did.

So remember these elements:

  • specifics are key 
  • Visualization is vital 
  • Nothing negative can get in the way
  • Acting as if (I already owned it) 
  • And the most important factor is excitement/enthusiasm 

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Daily Gratitude: I may have talked about this before but it’s something that is hitting home again as I work on my latest book.

As you would expect it’s about the 2025 Vol state. That’s no surprise but it’s got a definite new twist and the realizations and changes in me because of the race this year are much more valuable (and will last longer than the “woodalion” or the sticker (well maybe not more valuable than the sticker).

They are changes that impact the rest of my life. All for the better.

Can you take some time to look back at your “achievements” and list or describe some changes that each either caused or led to? If you can take the time to do that I think you’ll end up looking at your next project differently and be excited to see what unfolds IN YOU after that project or event is over.

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Daily Gratitude: It takes a lot of effort and practice to become quiet nowadays. There’s noise all around you. You have to block it out if you have any hope of keeping your nervous system feeling safe (or at least somewhat safe). That should be your first priority at all times for your nervous system is what rules your life.

Think about that for a second. Do you even know what’s going on in your nervous system? I didn’t for the longest time. No one ever mentioned or explained its importance. Once I learned that, though, it made all the difference in the world. I did everything I could to learn how to make my “control panel” (my nervous system) feel safe – meditation, journaling, walking in nature without the bustling sounds of traffic in my ears (which are connected to my nervous system), breathing techniques, writing, reading, relaxing, talking to my brain, etc.

It doesn’t matter what you do as long as it helps to soothe the fear and anxiety that your brain has built into it. That’s its survival mechanism but we just add to it with all the silly things we think are crucial to our survival. You know, like getting through the stop light before someone honks at you or making it out of the grocery store in record time (are you looking for a place in the Guinness book of world records?). What we do to ourselves is sometimes very funny in retrospect.

Why not take some time to talk to your brain and see what its feeling and ask it (yes that sounds weird but it works) what it’s afraid of. Then you know where to begin. Make this a major goal every day of your life.