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Blessing to you,

John Derrick

In the early spring I plant the seeds, knowing full well that later in the year I will be able to eat wonderful foods that came from my efforts.

So today, I was working in my garden, and I realized that the law of attraction is a lot like gardening.

When you want to have food in the garden, it all begins with a seed.  You then nourish and water the seed and it grows and grows until one day you find yourself with the fruits of your labor.

The seeds are like the seed of thought, and all things in life begin with thought.  Without the correct mindset…  without nourishing positive thoughts, you can not expect positive outcome.

Now, most people live life under the false assumption that things are random.  They have no idea what will appear in their life (or in their garden) and they hope that something good happens to grow.

They live on what ever they find, all the while not realizing that they are in charge of what grows.

Other people would walk into the garden and demand food in the spring.  “Where is the food?” they would ask.   They want things immediately and are disappointed when the food is not there before the seeds are planted.

These people don’t have time for seeds.  They are too busy.  So they go from garden to garden always hoping to find fruits and wanting to live on the seeds and fruits of others.

Someone who understand the law of attraction is like a master gardener.   They realize that the soil must be fertile  (the mind) and that they must plant the seeds of what they desire (specific positive thoughts) and then they nourish the seeds until they grow into what the gardener desired when he planted them (Manifesting).

The law of attraction is much like a garden.  The results do not happen over night.  Everything in your life was planted long ago.  Events are not random…  you have more control of things than you ever imagined.

So if things are happening in your life that you do not want, the master gardener would say you must pull your weeds.

Pull your weeds…  stop attracting what you do not desire.

You see, if you have a garden full of weeds, it is still your garden.  You allowed them to grow by not pulling them.

If you have a life full of things you do not desire, make changes today.  Pull your weeds and plant the seeds of what you truly desire.  Then nourish your seeds and watch them grow into your desires.

When I wrote the Secret Course I was not thinking of gardening, but Book I: (Harness The Power of The Law of Attraction) of the Secret course prepares your soil for planting.  It removes your weeds  and gets the soil ready for your new seeds. This is the base for the new garden that is to come.

Book II (The Manifesting Cards Method) is the instruction manual of sowing seeds.  It tells you how many seeds to sow, gives you the right seeds and the instructions to make sure your seeds grow up healthy and strong and as quickly as possible.  This is the growing book.

With both of these books, it is my belief that anyone can have a strong healthy life without weeds.

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Let me explain,

I have been broke in my past.  So broke in fact that I had to file for bankruptcy.  Sure, I was frustrated, but I never was poor.

You see, once I discovered the power of The Secret Course, I knew that I was rich long before the money showed up.

Being broke is a temporary state in which you have a temporary lack of money.

Being poor is a way of life.

Poor people believe they have bad luck…

they believe that life is hard….

they are often jealous, envious or even bitter towards people who have money…

and they expect to always be poor.

Your thoughts, your attitude, your expectation and even how and what you say to others are all creating your personal future.

Be sure you never fall into the “poor me” trap, and instead KNOW that you are rich.

So how do you feel rich when you don’t have any money?

There are a LOT of tips on this very site.  One of the best articles to make you feel rich, even if you are broke, is:    Odds Are, You Are Richer Than You Think!

More tips to feeling (and thereby becoming rich) can be found at:  Stop Wanting Start Having

They exact method that I used to go from lack and wanting to always having more than I need is The Secret Course.

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Stop Wanting And Start Having

I have worked with hundreds of people one-on-one and with thousands of people who have used the Secret Course, Manifesting Cards, Subliminal Videos and the Quantum Cookbook law of attraction courses.

I also have helped countless others on this very site and through my free weekly newsletter.

Working with this many people has given me a unique insight into the lives of the people who were not achieving success with the law of attraction.

They followed the course(s) and the teachings, yet many were not getting the big results that others were getting.

This insight into their lives led me to an Amazing discovery!

I found the problem…
THEN I found the cure!

I finally found what it was that stopped people from achieving fast and easy success with the law of attraction.

They all had fallen into the same trap!

YES, the courses I mentioned above are all VERY GOOD.  Extremely good in fact….

They give good information on the law of attraction, and provide special tools to help you turbo charge your manifesting.

BUT…

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It was a HUGE success…   Thank You to everyone involved.

The sale may be closed, but Things are STILL absolutely CRAZY around here.

The looks the neighbors have been giving me when I load my kids into a car that is filled nearly to the roof with packages…..   

“Be careful what you wish for.”

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“You get more of what you focus on.”

When you think about something and feel about something, the universe takes it as a wish.  Even if you REALLY don’t want the thing you are thinking about.  You see, the universe is not a mind reader.  Nor does it speak English.

Vibration is the best term we have to describe the language of the universe.  Whatever state you are in, you send out a vibrational frequency that attracts other similar frequencies to you.  (Read More About This Here)

With that in mind, you may get a little giggle out of the story I am about to share.

Sunday I was running errands in town with my son Logan.  As you may have read last week, I am building a workshop and Saturday I got the roof boards on. (Thanks for the hand Ronnie).

So Sunday I am picking out paint colors and getting roofing paper, Shingles, Caulk, Latches, Peg Board,  a Work Bench and all the other fun stuff that goes along with this project.  In total, we spent 3 hours getting all the supplies we needed to make this a perfect workshop.

Three hours is an insanely long time to a 10 year old.  Of course, he was starving by the time we were done doing my shopping.  I didn’t want to use any more time in town than we had to, because I was in a hurry to get back home before the daylight was gone.

So I took Logan to a Wendy’s fast food restuarant.  Not something I normally do, as I try to avoid fast food for health reasons.

Earlier this week a friend of mine sent me an link to website all about the dangers of house flies.  It described how many germs flies carried and all sorts of other gross information that I wont scare you with here.

With that mind, I noticed several flies when ordering.  I ordered a salad and Logan ordered a chicken sandwich.  After we put our food on the table, I asked Logan to make sure a fly did not land on my salad while I went into the bathroom to wash my hands.  (Logan already washed his while I ordered)

I sat down and began eating my salad, but I couldn’t stop thinking about those darn flies.  There only appeared to be two in the restaurant, but wouldn’t you know it, they both kept coming to me.  They didn’t seem to be bothering Logan or any of the other people eating inside.

Whenever one of them would get anywhere near me I would take a swat to shoo them away.  I swear those darn flies just wouldn’t leave me alone.

Nearing the end of my salad, you can probably guess what I found in it.  Yes, as gross as can be, I found a dead fly in my salad.  It wasn’t a housefly either, but some kind of longer legged version, so it probably was shipped in the lettuce.

It was a terribly gross lesson, and one I really would rather never think about again, but it was a lesson nonetheless.

Ever since my pal sent me that link about how disgusting flies were, I have been thinking about that.  Thinking about how they are immune to various diseases, germs and pathogens that they carry on their legs.  It had been on my mind for days, and when I entered that Wendys the first thing I noticed was the flies.

As I sat there, continuing to think about them, I was attracting them into my personal reality.  Even though I certainly did not want them, I was attracting the flies to me.

I didn’t realize that I was wishing for flies at the time, but that is exactly what frequency I was vibrating it.  I had a fly vibe….   and so I got flies.

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What are you attracting?

If you are watching the news and you believe that the economy is bad, what will you be expecting to happen to you?  What are you creating for yourself?

I don’t watch the news, but I do know that people are running around with a big old negative vibe.  NOT ME.  My economy is great.  The people I am working with are doing great also.  We are not carrying around a doom and gloom vibe.

But as my story above clearly shows, it is easy to forget that what we focus on, we get.  Good or bad, we get it.

So please be sure to focus on what you want in life, and NOT what you DON’T want.

PS – If you would like to improve your personal economy, now is the time to check out the Secret Course.

It’s simple, just CLICK  HERE.

I have heard that question more than once in my life.  I heard it when I decided to write my first book.  I heard it when I decided to quit my job and work from home….  and now I am hearing it because I have decided to build a 10 foot tall building.

“What in the world has made you think you could build a 10 foot high work shop?”

To which I reply, “What in the world made you think I could not?”

Just because you have never done something before, does not mean that you can’t!  There is a first time for EVERYTHING.

There is a big difference between knowing the law of attraction, and living the law of attraction.

Knowing the law of attraction to many people means trying to feel good and keep a positive attitude.  They may even focus on manifesting something once and a while.

LIVING a life in harmony with the law of attraction, began with the teachings in the Secret Course.   I used manifesting Cards until they became a such an ingrained thing… a way of life for me…  that this is now how I live.

You see, it is true that I have no idea how to build a workshop, but I envisioned myself using this workshop.  Each night I used a manifesting card and FELT grateful for my new workshop.

(Using a manifesting card you work backwards, and begin at the end.  The beginning is being thankful for already having something that you do not yet have.  Feeling yourself having it, attracts or creates it into your life, to complete the circle)

Sooo…..   I buy the wood, and I have the plans, and even though I have NO WAY of knowing HOW this building will be constucted, I DO KNOW THAT IT WILL BE.  That certainty has a calming effect.

You see, the old me would have panicked over the details.  The old me would say “I can never do that”….  but I no longer allow such such limiting thoughts.

One way or another, it will be done.   It took me over a week to build the floor and foundation.  Each time a negative thought entered my mind, I would release it and let it leave as easily as it had come in.

I had no idea that my good friend John was going to stop in from out of town.   It turns out that his wife was out of state with family and he was more than happy to help me erect the walls.

What perfect timing too, because I had just finished the raised floor, and spent a great deal of time getting it level.

Sunday, we were able to erect all four walls.  It was amazing.  My neighbors couldn’t believe how fast we put this thing up.  In fact, we even had time to build the gable roof raters.

What was even more amazing was how much fun we had doing it.  We kept laughing like school kids and having a great time telling stories and catching up.  It didn’t even feel like work.  It all flowed perfectly.

I enjoyed my visit with John, and getting the building up was a great bonus!

Monday I have finished all of the project except for sheeting the roof.

Now I have to admit that the roof seems nearly impossible to nail on, since it is 12 feet in the air and I don’t feel that the rafters are strong enough for me to stand on (I am, and always have been, a large man).

Yes, I could hire someone….   I always could have hired someone, but I wanted the experience of doing it myself.  I am very happy having built the entire building, to hire someone just for the roof.

Here it is Tuesday, and I am set to hire someone when another friend of mine calls me up from down my street.  He offers to come over and help me with the roof today after he gets off work.

I had no idea how it was going to be built, only the certainty that it would.

When you manifest something, think of  it as destiny.  It is destined to be.  The universe will make it so, as long as you don’t hesitate (the universe loves speed) and as long as you are ready and willing to take some form of action.

Keep in mind that whenever you decide to do something new with your life, people will try to stop you.  They can’t see your new vision, and they will try to hold you back.  For various reasons, they like the old you and don’t like the idea of change.

When I decided to write my first book, my own mom said something along the lines of “Why would anyone read what you have to say?”.   She didn’t see me as a writer, and she wanted to keep me the way she saw me.

Don’t let anyone stop you.  I didn’t even allow myself to get angry at my mother for such an insensitive remark, because that would have taken me further off course.  Instead, I kept my vision of helping people and kept writing what eventually became one of the best selling Law of Attraction courses of all time.

Yes, I did have friends who believed in me, and some who even encouraged me to write the book(s) because they saw how much my the law of attraction had changed my life.

A good general rule, however, is NOT to tell others what you are manifesting until AFTER you have manifested it.  This way no one will be working against you .

You can do anything you wan to.
You can be anyone you want to be.

Decide what you want, and go for it.  It’s already yours.

You see, just because I wrote a best selling course on the Law of Attraction, doesn’t mean that I am immune from mistakes of my own!  I find it a bit funny though, since I covered this specific topic inside that course.

Here’s what happened,

Yesterday my family ran out of milk (soy milk of course, since I am still off dairy) so after getting my youngest son off to school I decided to ride my bike up to the grocery store.  The sky was clear and the sun was out and even though it was cool outside, the crisp cold of fall had not yet hit.

Everything went fine… I rode to the store and got the milk, put it in my backpack and rode back home.  It was a nice ride and it really got my heart pumping and the blood flowing.

So today, I decided I would ride even further and go to the City Hall where I can drop off my ballot at the official voting box.  But today’s ride went very different.

Today, I thought to myself “Boy, this is a long ride.  Imagine if you had to walk this far.  I wonder how long it would take?”

Now I KNOW that when you find yourself having thoughts that are not in alignment with what you desire, you need to COUNTER those thoughts with thoughts that ARE in alignment with what you desire.

But instead, with legs pumping and blood flowing, I continued to think about how long of a walk this would be.  “Boy, if your bike broke down I wonder how long it would take for you to walk back?  Couple of hours at least I bet.  Walking is good exercise though, but I don’t have time for a two or three hour walk.  Hmmm…  except for hiking in the mountains I bet I’ve never walked this far.”

Up ahead I see a bunch of glass on the road and get the thought “Oh no… What if you get a flat tire?”

Now this time, I recognized the negative thought and like I normally do, I countered it with thoughts that were in alignment with what I desired.

I thought “(1) There is no way I am going to get a flat tire.  (2) I avoided all the glass by riding around it.  (3) Besides, I have tire liners inside these tires and (4) that green slime that seals small leaks”

I inserted the numbers above to show you how I had 1 negative thought, which I countered with 4 thoughts that brought me back into alignment with what I really wanted… which is this case was having tires that were in perfect condition.

Negative thoughts, or thoughts that are not in alignment with what you desire, ARE GOING to pop into your head.  There is nothing you can do about that.  It’s important to realize that you are not your thoughts.  You are in charge of choosing which thoughts to act on.

So when a negative thought enters you mind, simply counter it with thoughts that are in alignment with what you desire.  This is just one of the many tricks you have to master the law of attraction and keep your life going in the direction that you desire!

But somehow I allowed myself to go back to thinking about how long of a walk it would be as I got near City Hall.  I thought about how my wife, who is much more likely to go for a long walk than me, has not even walked beyond the grocery store.  She had never walked to city hall.

“I bet there are five or six bus stops on this main road alone, between our house and city hall.  Heck I even passed a park and ride along the way.  This would be a long walk indeed.” I thought as I pedaled my 21 speed.

I am sure you already know what happened next.

YES…  the bike broke JUST as I pulled into City Hall.  The way in which it broke was pretty dramatic.  The rear derailer (which shifts the gears) somehow managed to get stuck into the rear wheel, which not only brought me to screeching halt, but managed to bend the rear wheel, break out several spokes and completely rip off the derailer in the process.

So there I was…  standing in front of City Hall, only feet away from the official Vote Drop Box….  and I knew I was going to have to walk all the way home.

Now walking home I had plenty of time to reflect on how this was caused.  I knew I had thought about this long walk almost the entire ride.  Of course my bike broke… what did I expect?

Now to someone who does not understand the law of attraction, they would say “What a strange coincidence” and then go on with their day.  Not realizing that these “coincidences” are created by the thoughts.

So on my loooong walk back I thought to myself “Wouldn’t it be neat if someone I knew happened to see me and gave me a ride”.

Without my wanting it to, my mind answered back with “Almost everyone is at work at 1:30pm, so that is not very likely John.”…

But now I was back on my game.  I recognized that thought for what it was and I countered with “Yes… but wouldn’t that be strange.  Wouldn’t it be a strange coincidence if someone who lived on my very street saw me walking and offered me a ride”.

I wanted to walk a good ways just to see how it felt.  I could always use the exercise, and it was a nice day.  Still, I knew I had work that I wanted to do at my home office and I wanted to manifest a ride because I knew that I had manifested the crash in the first place, so it felt like a challenge.

I continued to imagine myself getting a ride from someone as I walked.  I wasn’t specific, I just imagined myself stepping up into the dark non-descript van and getting a ride.  I did this for at least another half hour when I suddenly heard someone shouting my name from a gas station that I was walking past.

“Hey John.  Hold on one minute and I’ll give you a lift” he said.

It was my neighbor Bob of all people.

The timing was perfect, because I had been walking for a long time and only had about a mile left to go, so I had gotten plenty of exercise already.

He was just entering the door to the convenience store at the gas station.  I walked up to the door and he came out and greeted me.

“Hey John,  How are you?”" asked Bob

“Doing well” I replied.  Which was true, I was doing well.  Exercise lifts my mood and always makes me feel better.  I was also having that great feeling you get when you see the law of attraction manifest something you have desired.

“Good timing seeing you on my way home,” Bob says.  “Gives me a chance to show you my new Van”.

Yes — Bob had just bought a new dark blue mini van.  I almost burst into laughter.  Instead I politely thanked him and his wife for the lift.

Here I had been visualizing myself stepping into a dark van, and yet I didn’t know anyone who even owned a dark van.    That detail never crossed my mind.

Bob had always driven a Mid Sized white car for all of the five years that I had known him. Today, he happens to be on his way home with his brand new dark van.   A dark van just like the one I had imagined coming to pick me up.

What a neat “coincidence”!

Let me explain with a real world example of something that is taking place right now.

I always receive a lot of emails from people who are on my Newsletter and who read this blog, but lately I see one question coming up more and more, so I thought I would address it publicly.

The question goes something like this:

“John, why aren’t you talking about the bad economy?  The stock market crash? What are you going to do?”

I don’t want to upset anyone or give the impression that I don’t care.  I do care!  In fact, it is because I care about all of you that I don’t write about negative things on this blog or in my weekly newsletter.

At first, when I began practicing the law of attraction I realized that what I thought (and FELT) about most, was what showed up the most in my life.  If I worried about lack of money, I would usually find a reason each month to end up with a lack of money.  Obviously the same principles apply to every other area of your life, but money is what seems to be on everyone’s mind lately.

That was a good start for me, but years later I developed advanced law of attraction tools that allowed me to manifest changes in my life at tremendous speeds.  It’s amazing how fast things can change (weight can go up or down… money can rush in or rush out) using these tools, so it became even more important to try to focus my thoughts on what I wanted most and to mostly ignore that which I wanted to disappear.

But now I live the law of attraction even deeper.  I see the law of attraction as the ultimate freedom.  When you live your life through the law of attraction at the deepest level, you are living a life that CREATES.  Creation is the highest form of expression.

Let’s contrast that with how I used to live my life, and how many people are living today.

The stock market goes up, and you REACT to it.  You get happy.  The stock market goes down, and you get sad. IF the market continues down, you began to be scared.  You are fearful of what is to come.

Is that freedom?  I say NO!  Reacting to things around you and giving up all your power to create the world around you is slavery!  That is a life similar to a rat in a maze that reacts to the stimuli given to it by forces outside of the maze.

The choice is clear.  You can either:

1)  React to the world around you.  In this mindset you have no control over your own life.  You run around reacting to things happening outside of you.  How you feel and what you do with your life is completely chosen for you by other people.  You are emotionally and physically a slave to a world outside of your control.

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2) You create your day each morning before you even get out of bed.  You expect pleasent surprises during your day and you usually get them.  You create your own economy and KNOW that everything will always be fine.  You create the world around you and you are in control.

Most people are living choice number 1, and then they want to use the law of attraction to fix a problem in their world.  Most of the time, even though they chose to live choice number 1, they can use the law of attraction (once they understand how it really works) to fix the problem that they set their mind to.

So, for example they may focus on brining in an extra $1,500 a month.  Yep, they manifest that using the advanced law of attraction tools that they discovered in My Secret Course, but then they go on living a life of fear and low and behold they find a reason for that $1,500 a month to suddenly not be enough.

The specifics are always unique to the person, but if you use the law of attraction to manifest just one thing, and continue to live a reactive fear-based life, you will sabotage  yourself most of the time.

So if anyone is wondering why I don’t talk about bad things, it’s because I KNOW good things are always heading my way.  Not just because I am ignoring bad things, but because everyone has a seperate personal economy.

No matter what “bad” happens in the world, you can either react to it negatively, or create abundance from it.

For example:

When gas prices were soaring, most people focused on how much money they were spending on gas.  They became upset and started to worry about the future.

Instead, I thought to myself…. boy, I wonder how I can get better gas mileage so it doesn’t effect me.  Sure enough, I find out a LOT of ways to bring my gas bill WAAY down!  Next thing I know, I am spending less on gas after the prices went up than I was before, because I was now using a lot less gas.

Then I decide to share that information with all of you because I want you to save money on gas also.  I barely charge anything for the ebook collection so everyone can benefit.  (Increase Gas Mileage 11 Cent Sale Can Be Seen Here)

At the time there was only a few hundred people reading this blog and I had just began my newsletter (Now there are close to 1,300 people subscribed to my newsletter alone) so only 62 people benefited from my gas mileage books back then.   Today I am sure the number would be much higher, but I still got to help 62 people out, which is certainly better than none.  Helping people makes me feel good.

So gas prices went up, and instead of reacting negatively, I created money savings for myself and a feel good feeling from helping others save money also.

Oh yeah, I also made a little money from those sales also.

Do you see the difference?

I wish you the very best in all aspects of your life and I hope that you choose to be a creator instead of a reactor.  Don’t just use the law of attraction in one or two areas of your life.  Instead practice living in a state of positive creation, where you expect nothing but the best to come to you and those you love.

Best Wishes,

Take what just happened to me for example….

Last week I found myself in Lowe’s hardware store shopping for a new garden hose.  I didn’t want a flimsy 5/8 inch hose either, I wanted a 3/4 inch industrial quality hose.  One that I knew would stand the test of time and not burst under the immense water pressure that irrigation water can occasionally deliver.

While I was in the store, my son Logan wanted to look at the kitchen displays that they had set up.  I agreed and we walked through them looking at the newest model dishwashers and refrigerators, counter tops and of course new cabinets.

But none of those things caught my eye.  What did strike me were the faucets.  I don’t know why, but I spent a great deal of time looking at all the fancy sink faucets.   They had a wide assortment of different styles, but  I really liked the one that allows you to extend the main faucet itself out of the fixture and reach up to 15 feet in to your kitchen.  Why you would need that is beyond me, but I certainly wanted to have it.

I have no idea why I spent so much time looking at them, there was nothing wrong with the kitchen faucet I had.  I already had a nice double stainless steel sink, with a perfectly good working faucet.

I wanted to buy one right there on the spot…  and even though I had the money I just couldn’t justify it in my mind.  Especially since the one I was interested in was  a couple hundred dollars.

In all honesty I almost bought one…. I mean what’s the point of attracting wealth if you can’t spend it on what you desire.  But it felt like a waste of money to replace something that worked perfectly.  Probably my blue collar upbringing.

My desire had been broadcast.  The Law of Attraction was already in action, even though I was not aware of it.

Tuesday night, less than a week later, Logan calls for me from the kitchen.  I was busy at the moment, but he assured me it was an emergency.

Logan had been rinsing his plate like a good boy, after and without warning the faucet began spraying water all over the place when it was turned on.  He was pretty upset and worried that he had done something wrong somehow (he is nine years old).

I had to laugh.

Logan was busy telling me how all he did was turn the water on to rinse his plate when it started shooting water across the kitchen.  I assured Logan he was not in any trouble…  and I shook my head and laughed.

There is no doubt in my mind that my desire to purchase a new faucet was what attracted this so-called problem.  The fact that our faucet had been working perfectly was the only thing holding me back from purchasing a new one.

That little problem has been solved.  I now have every reason to purchase a new faucet.

The LAW OF ATTRACTION Can Surprise Even Me In The Strange Ways It Delivers To Us What We Desire Most.

In fact,  while the kids are in school today I am going to the hardware store to shop for a new kitchen faucet.  Just like I wanted to.

Thank you universe.

Thank You.

Once you discover how easy it is to attract what you want into your life, you will be constantly surprised by the strange ways you are given exactly what you want.  Discover my Secret Method To Easily Obtain What You Want Most…  Right Now!

As a parent, I have learned a lot about life from my three children.  This Saturday, my nine year old son, Logan, showed me the difference in thinking between children and adults.

It was a HUGE lesson for me… and aside from being a cute story, I offer it up to reveal this hidden truth for you as well!

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Logan and I were out running various errands together.  Our last stop took us to Subway for a nice healthy sub sandwich.

It had been a good day and all of our stops had gone smoothly, just as I had envisioned.

I ordered my sandwich first, with every vegetable they had, and a drink.  Logan then ordered a foot long sandwich for the first time, with chips and a drink.  He was pretty hungry that day and excited about the possibility of having some left over for lunch the next day.

When the person making the sandwiches rang up our order, it came to $13.87 which coincidently was the EXACT amount of cash I had left in my wallet.  Sure, I had my debit card with me and several credit cards, so if it had been more it wouldn’t have mattered because I had access to all of my money.   That’s not the point….  It was the fact that the total was the exact amount of money… TO THE PENNY that I had on me.

We both were talking about how neat that was as we carried our meals to our table.  Logan’s little smile was ear to ear.

Then for a moment, he looked sad.  I asked him what was wrong, and he said “Oh Nothing” which is usually code for “ask me again dad”.  So I asked him again if there was anything on his mind.

“I just realized that I wanted a cookie and I know you won’t use one of your cards for a one dollar cookie”

He was correct.  I don’t like to use my debit cards for such a small amount.  Being a business owner I know first hand that the fees the bank charges per sale means that the store would actually loose money on a one dollar item.

The only employee there was now sweeping the floor because he was getting ready to close early.  He had already pulled the chips rack.  We were the only customers in the place.  Maybe he had already shut down the ATM/Credit Card machine?

“But that’s okay.  I am going to think positive and I know that a cookie will show up”

My first thought was how in the world is he going to do that?  I sat there thinking about logical things such as nearby ATM’s or making a larger purchase.  Then I was thinking about how he probably doesn’t even need a sugar laden cookie anyway.

“It’s okay Dad.  I’m using the law of attraction” he said with a grin.

Ha Ha Ha.  I burst out laughing.  Of course this required an explanation on my part because Logan could not see anything funny about this.

Leave it to a child to show an adult what living in the moment is all about.  As an adult, I use the Law of Attraction in big ways on what I think are important things.  Such as keeping myself healthy… and attracting wealth to me.  I’ve used it for a house and for a car…  but never for a cookie.

At that moment in time, Logan wanted a cookie.  Not a thousand dollars…. Not a mansion… not a new car… he wanted a cookie and he had faith that he would get one.

I explained to him why I had laughed and how proud of him I was.

He told me “I learned it all from you Dad… and from reading your book”

Which is true….  I had taught him about the Law of Attraction. In fact, Logan was one of the first people in the world to read the  Manifesting Cards eBook.

The first thing he did was to manifest himself a brand new bicycle that was nearly identical to mine (18 speeds, chrome and purple, etc)…  a bike that I had no idea that was even made….  But that’s a story for another time.

We both went back to eating our sandwiches.  I couldn’t have been happier with my son than at that moment.  We sat there smiling at each other enjoying our food, when suddenly Logan saw the sticker on the wrapper of my sandwich.

It was a SubWay Scrabble game piece that said “More ways to win”.  I peeled it off and it said “Sorry, not an instant winner”  Logan found his an peeled it and it said the same.

For a moment I sat surprised.  I thought wow… that seemed like the perfect way to win a free cookie.  Of course I wasn’t even sure that cookies were offered as a prize.

He didn’t look sad though.  He still had faith that he was going to get a cookie somehow… some way.  The how was not his job.  His job was the absolute unwavering faith…  and he had it.

That’s when I noticed that there were game pieces on our cups also.

He peeled his back and it said “You’ve won a 12 oz fountain drink”.  That’s pretty neat… but not what we were hoping for.

Logan said “You must have the cookie then!” referring to the game piece I had not peeled off of my cup yet.

I peeled the game piece from my cup and sure enough I had won a free cookie.

YES! – Logan and I celebrated.

“I knew it,” Logan said.

A month from now Logan may not remember this incident, but this is a prime example of how the Law of Attraction can be used in the moment.  It’s a great lesson to all of us to live in the moment.

You may not have a million dollars at this moment, but maybe what you really want is a cookie.

PS – It’s a great idea to keep a journal of all the times you have used the law of attraction.  This way you can look back over all your past successes if you ever find your faith wavering.

I hope you enjoyed this story as much as I did.

But I have been a milk drinking, cheese eating dairy lover since I was a small child. I grew up drinking milk every single day in my breakfast cereal and as a snack after school and the drink served with dinner.

A while ago I cut out most of my milk drinking and replaced it with Soy milk. Of course now I am told that soy milk MIGHT be bad… mostly it’s one famous doctor who says soy milk is bad, and even though I have not seen any concrete evidence, the anti-soymilk campaign moves onward. That’s okay, because Almond milk tastes great and so does Oat milk… but I’m sure someone is already writing me an email to tell me the evils of these milks also.

WARNING: Don’t try to detox on your own…

What I want to tell you is shocking…

I had no idea. Honestly. And I like to think that I am “in the know” about a lot of things.

Yes… I did know that dairy is loaded with fat and cholesterol. That is why I limited my intake of it, reasonably.

About a week ago my wife said she had been talking to a friend of her’s and that the two of them had decided to go a week off of dairy. They wanted to know if I would join them.

She had some printed pages that touted all the health benefits, but without a moments hesitation I agreed to join them.

I grabbed the best dairy free cookbook I could find (I love this book) and I was ready to begin.  Of course I ate a good deal of dairy on the weekend leading up to the Monday we began the 7 days of no dairy.

I wondered how great would I feel after a week of no dairy? Or perhaps nothing would seem different and 8 days later I would be enjoying a piece of cheese.

Mmmmm  Cheese….

BOY WAS I WRONG

Giving up dairy was about as hard as I expected for the first couple of days. By the end of day two I was feeling pretty ill, which is out of the norm for me. Honestly, ever since I flipped my life upside down with the law of attraction I have become a high energy and healthy kind of guy.  The kind of guy who always feels great.

Day three, instead of rolling out of bed with enthusiasm and excitement for the day ahead, I woke up feeling more tired than I was when I went to bed.

In fact, I felt groggy and brain foggy all day.

I’ll skip the day-to-day play-by-play, and tell you that for seven days straight I have felt terrible, in different ways. I can’t concentrate… I am experiencing headaches, which is something I never have.

I don’t have the deep down energy, and I tire easily. My stomach is bloated and I am retaining water.

My skin has broken out in three different kinds of rashes in three different places on my body. In general I am itchy… and honestly I am cranky. Strange emotions are coming up… anxiety and anger, which I have not felt in many… many years.

I am even late on the 11 cent sale I promised all of you…. because of this brain fog and lack of energy.

Long story short, going off dairy cold turkey causes the body to go into a detox. When I search online I find claims that going off dairy for one week will cause an entire gallon of mucus to exit your body. Obviously, things are not always pretty.

Today it is 10 days later, and I don’t have any desire to go back. Food tastes great without dairy. It seems that at the 10 day mark, for me at least, the cravings have mostly subsided.

Seriously….

My body never went through this kind of hell when I quit smoking. Sure, I have cravings… and it was difficult… but I didn’t get bad breath, skin rashes, headaches, lack of energy, bloating, water retention, and a host of other not-so-pleasant physical problems.

The only craving I have is for cheese. I LOVED CHEESE. Now I know why…

THIS IS GOING TO BLOW YOU AWAY

Cheese is actually physically addictive… no kidding. I must have missed the Surgeon Generals Warning label on the block of cheese.

YOU WONT BELIEVE WHAT DRUG IS INSIDE CHEESE!!!

Check this out:

So here is an excerpt from an article in the Orlando Sentinel July 13 2003:

Of all the potentially addicting foods, cheese may be the most complex. In research studies using vegan and vegetarian diets to control cholesterol or reduce body weight, most participants soon forget the lure of ice cream, sour cream, and even burgers and chicken. But for many people, the taste for cheese lingers on and on. Yes, 70 percent of its calories may come from waist-augmenting fat, and, ounce for ounce, it may harbor more cholesterol than a steak. But that cheese habit is tough to break.Why is cheese so addicting? Certainly not because of its aroma, which is perilously close to old socks. The first hint of a biochemical explanation came in 1981, when scientists at Wellcome Research Laboratories in Research Triangle Park, N.C., found a substance in dairy products that looked remarkably like morphine. After a complex series of tests, they determined that, surprisingly enough, it actually was morphine. By a fluke of nature, the enzymes that produce opiates are not confined to poppies — they also hide inside cows’ livers. So traces of morphine can pass into the animal’s bloodstream and end up in milk and milk products. The amounts are far too small to explain cheese’s appeal. But nonetheless, the discovery led scientists on their search for opiate compounds in dairy products.

And they found them. Opiates hide inside casein, the main dairy protein. As casein molecules are digested, they break apart to release tiny opiate molecules, called casomorphins. One of these compounds has about one-tenth the opiate strength of morphine. The especially addicting power of cheese may be due to the fact that the process of cheese-making removes water,lactose and whey proteins so that casein is concentrated. Scientists are now trying to tease out whether these opiate molecules work strictly within the digestive tract or whether they pass into the bloodstream and reach the brain directly.

(some paragraphs about chocolate addiction snipped)

The cheese industry is miles ahead of them, having gone to great lengths to identify people who are most vulnerable to addiction. It dubs them “cheese cravers,” and tracks their age, educational level and other demographics so as to target them with marketing strategies that are tough to ignore. With a $200 million annual research and marketing budget, the dairy industry is not content to have you just sprinkling a little mozzarella on your salad. It is looking for those Americans who will eat it straight out of the package, whatever the cost to their waistlines or cholesterol levels.

At a “Cheese Forum” held Dec. 5, 2000, Dick Cooper, the vice president of Cheese Marketing for Dairy Management Inc., laid out the industry’s scheme for identifying potential addicts and keeping them hooked. In his slide presentation, which was released to our organization under the Freedom of Information Act, he asked the question, “What do we want our marketing program to do?” and then gave the answer: “Trigger the cheese craving.” He described how, in a partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the dairy industry launched Wendy’s Cheddar Lover’s Bacon Cheeseburger, which single-handedly pushed 2.25 million pounds of cheese during the promotion period. That works out to 380 tons of fat and 1.2 tons of pure cholesterol in the cheese alone. A similar promotion with Pizza Hut launched the “Ultimate Cheese Pizza,” which added an entire pound of cheese to a single pizza and sold five million pounds of it during a six-week promotion in 2000. The presentation concluded with a cartoon of a playground slide with a large spider web woven to trap children as they reached the bottom. The caption had one spider saying to another, “If we pull this off, we’ll eat like kings.”

I am sharing this with you because I care. I wish someone had told me how harsh detoxing could be.

I wish someone had told me how addictive Cheese can by.  Or even mentioned the morphine compound found inside.

I’m the kind of guy who turns down pain pills, even after a surgery…

I never knew I was ingesting Morphine with my cheese and crackers.

So if you decide to clean your body up… and want to cleanse yourself without all the horrible side-effects that I have had… you really need to READ THIS NOW.

Overwhelmingly I support the Master Cleanse if you want to purify your body.

Me… I just made a split second decision to join my wife and her friend…  I decided to make myself the subject of an experiment if you will…

For those of you wondering about my wife and her friend. YES… they had a rough ride also, including migraine headaches (much worse than mine), irritability, skin breakouts (body acne), and emotional instability (although don’t tell my wife I pointed that out… at least not until she is over the detoxing)

And that is what they cared to share… most people are not as forthcoming with their dirty details like I am. What can I say… I try to live my life like an open book… for all to see, observe and hopefully learn from my mistakes.

Oh yes… there has been a positive thing about this diary detox so far…. I have lost 5 pounds even though I feel like I am eating more than usual, and my wife has lost 4 pounds.. her friend didn’t offer up any weight related conversation.

SO… if you want to go off dairy please don’t let this scare you. Instead, just do it slowly. If I had known then what I know now, I would have simply cut my intake of dairy items down over a 2 – 3 week period and went off it slowly.

Knowing what I know now… I just can’t bring myself to ingest anything dairy.

Wishing you the best day,

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Simply click here to see my special Quantum Cookbook offer.

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Sounds a little vague right?  But it’s true, and I’ll explain it to you very specifically.

If you think that something is harder for you to achieve, it will take longer for you to get.  It is YOU that is forcing the delay.  It is your belief.

That is why I suggest people start with something they consider small.  Whatever it is that you consider small and easy, that is the best place for you to begin.  IF you perceive it as easy and quick, you will be able to manifest it much quicker and that will build your confidence and allow you to advance.

You also want to make sure that you are putting more in than you are taking out.

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The Following Taken From inside the Manifesting Cards Ebook
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The Metaphorical Water Model

Allow me to illustrate these three factors for you in a manner that may make this concept clearer, using a metaphorical model.

We have no way of measuring how much vibrational energy it takes to manifest something, but for the sake of our metaphorical model, we will have to assign a number value.  The number is not meant to be an absolute; it is merely a representation for the purpose of this model.

You already know that you vibrate at many different frequencies, and this vibrational energy is what is sent out to the universe.  In our metaphor, we will use water to represent vibrational energy and a large container to represent the universe.

Say a man named Fred desired to manifest himself a new car.  Using our water metaphor, we assign the amount of water it will take to manifest Fred’s new car as 50 gallons of water.

Our hypothetical Fred believes that he can manifest this car and he feels grateful for already owning his new car.  Each time he uses the Manifesting with Gratitude Cards method, he is sending a cup of water out to the universe.

Again, these numbers are merely representational for the vibrational energy and they should not be taken literally.

Using this model, Fred will need to use the Manifesting Cards 800 times to fill our model 50-gallon barrel to the top, and thus manifest his dream car into reality.

If Fred uses the cards twice per day, once in the morning and once before bed, it will take him 400 days, or a little over a year, to manifest his new car.

Fred has taken our course and he knows that if he uses the Gratitude Cards more often, he will speed up the amount of time it takes to manifest his dream car.  Our friend Fred decides he is going to use the cards five times a day and now it will only take 160 days, or a little over 5 months to manifest.

As Fred goes along in life, he sees more and more proof that this manifesting stuff really works.  He has been manifesting smaller things for himself and so his belief has doubled.  He is sure his car is on the way and he imagines himself driving it every time he uses the Manifesting Cards.

Because Fred’s belief has doubled, he is now putting two cups of water into the barrel each time he uses the Manifesting cards, and he has now cut the amount of time required in half!  Using his cards five times a day it will now take our friend just 80 days, or a tad over two and a half months to manifest his dream car.

What if Fred develops doubts about his ability to manifest?  What if he begins to think that this isn’t going to work?  On those days, Fred would actually be taking water out of the 50-gallon barrel and he would be increasing the amount of time it takes to fill the barrel and manifest his new car.

If Fred had doubts everyday or a belief that he did not deserve a new car, he would be putting holes into the 50-gallon barrel and draining it as fast as or faster than he is able to fill it and thus making it nearly impossible to ever manifest his dream car.

I hope that this metaphorical model is able to give you an idea of how the process really works.  Although we have no way of measuring vibrational energy in exact numbers in real life, we do know that the more often you use the method, the quicker the results come.  Stronger feelings and beliefs also speeds up the manifesting process.

On the other hand, we know that if you have doubts or conflicting beliefs, then it will take longer for you to manifest your desires.  If your negativity, doubts and conflicting beliefs actually overpower your positive belief in manifesting, you will not be able to manifest what you desire at all.

In summary, the stronger the feeling and the more often you visit the feeling, the quicker you will manifest what you are feeling.

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The Preceding Was Taken From inside the Manifesting Cards Ebook
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