John Derrick

The Power of Belief

Where did you get your beliefs from?  Did you pick them up along the beaten path of life, or were they given to you by your parents when you were still a child?

No matter where your beliefs are from, I challenge you to take a long hard honest look at them and see if they are serving you.

Since your beliefs are creating your personal world, it would seem wise to only hang on to beliefs that serve you.

For example, if you believe that life is tough, you will be creating a very tough life for yourself.  You might believe that to be true because your parents had a tough life and you have had a tough life too.

So what?

Who cares what your life has been like before today.   The past is simply the result of previous thinking.

If you do not like having a tough life I suggest you replace that belief!

I believe that things in life go easily and smoothly.  I also believe that I can have anything I put my mind to.

So when I want something, I simply pull out a Manifesting Card, and I focus on the end result of already possessing it.

Then I sit back and watch the universe re-align things in a way to make my wish come true.

How easy is that?

Yes, I sometimes have to take action, and when I see the events align in a way that leads me to believe that I need to take a small easy action I jump at the opportunity because the universe loves speed.

I USED to believe that life was tough.   I replaced that belief and now life is easy.

I USED to believe that “money was hard to come by”, and now money comes in steady and when I need more something suddenly happens to give me the more of what I need.

I USED to feel guilty when I went out spending money, but now I get home and usually find that I earned more than normal that day and like magic the “extra” money I spent is already replaced.

I USED to be unhealthy, and now (You Wont Believe This – Click Here For Details) my health is better than anytime in life, even though I am the oldest I have ever been.  (Of course, so are you at this very moment.)

I highly recommend you change your beliefs if they are working against you.  You can do this with the power of SUBLIMINAL VIDEOS, or SUBLIMINAL AUDIOS, or Daily Affirmations, but if you need someone to walk guide you every step of the way,  you will want to check out the SECRET COURSE.

Best wishes to you in all your future successes.

written by John Derrick

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“What made you think you could do that?”

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.

written by John Derrick \\ tags: accomplishments, Law of Attraction, Manifesting, secret course

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I can’t speak for everyone who reads this, but odds are you are richer than you think.

With all the negative news about the economy, and people losing their jobs, there is a lot of fear out there right now, which is why I choose to look at my life from a slightly different angle…

I will use myself as an example here, but odds are you can apply 90% of what I am about to say to yourself as well.

I am richer than all the Kings in centuries past.   King Solomon never had a heated house like I do.  With all his wealth and power he never had wall to wall carpet, like I do.

The mighty Merlin, if he indeed existed, would be amazed at the magic box I have in my front room.  With this box I can see events from around the world.  Yes, I sit in total comfort on my soft couch while I watch my magical box that let’s me see a million actors and brings me news from every corner of the globe.

Great Rome in all its glory was proud to have public baths which were heated, while I take hot baths or showers in my own home everyday.  In fact, water both hot and cold are piped right into my house, in several locations even, and with a flip of a switch I can have hot or cold water in an instant, day or night.

The richest men in history’s past would collect books from around the world and build private libraries with all their wealth…. yet they would blush at how small their collection of information is when compared to what I can access on the internet.

Any question I want answered is just a few keystrokes away on the internet.  For a few dollars I can have a new book immediately sent to me from anywhere around the world.

For a few cents I can have messengers deliver a paper message of mine to the furthest reaches of my country, or for free I could send an email message to the furthest reaches of the entire planet.

I am immune to Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertusis, Hepatitis A and B, Measles, Mumps and Rubella, Polio, Meningitis and more…  because I was given a few shots as a child.  In fact, everyone I know is immune to most of these, and these diseases have been nearly wiped out from my nation.

My children are strong and healthy, and none of my three children nor my wife died in child birth, as was so common before modern medicine.

I can travel further than any king in a fraction of the time.  Thousands of men have paved all the roads ahead of me, making long distance travel fast, smooth and easy.  I can travel many times the speed of a horse while remaining in luxury, no bouncing up and down and I am completely protected from the elements.

Yes, I am so rich that I can board a plane and fly from one city to another at speeds no man in centuries past would dare to dream.

I am so rich that I have no shortage of food, in fact the problem I have is quite the opposite.  I have such an abundance of rich and tasty food flown in from around the world, but I must be careful to not to eat so much that I explode.

But even if I do eat so much that I become a rounder version of myself, I can still have people make me clothes that fit…  yes, I am truly rich.

Even the bed I sleep in would have made the richest men in history proud, it is soft and firm at the same time, and I sleep like a baby in it, on cotton sheets with a thread count higher than was ever possible in histories past.

I can pick up a phone and call anyone nearly anywhere in the world, and I can keep this magical phone in my pocket and use invisible waves in the air to make these magical calls whenever I desire.

The air in my home is warm in the winter and cool in the summer.  I have a device to take dust out of the air and make it crisp and clean.  I can cook in my house without the need for fire, and I have a hood with vent that removes any smoke to the outside if smoke should occur.

When I sleep at night I have devices which monitor the air for smoke, and in case of a fire they will wake me up and warn me.  Of course if fire should occur, men will come rushing to my aid, day or night, and use giant hoses to put the fire out.

Yes, I am truly rich….

Not just because I am happy and in love with my wife.  Not just because my children love me as much as I love them or because they look up to me.

No…  I am physically rich….    Rich beyond the great Caesar himself ever was…

I even do what most rich people in the past have done, I forget how rich that I am and take my wealth for granite.  I forget how magical my life is and sometimes think about how I could have more…..

Not today… not right now….   Right now I am thankful for my vast wealth.

So was I wrong?   Are you richer than you imagined too?

written by John Derrick

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Remember when you were young and everything in the world was fresh and new?

Life was more exciting and full of promise.  I believed I would change the world, and even though I have embarked on a career that has helped many people, when I was a child possibilities were limitless.

One of the amazing things about being a child is getting to do things for the first time.  The world was new and exciting.  Every experience had a first time and nothing compares to the excitement of doing something for the first time.

Remember your first kiss?

Even though I love my wife very much, a simple peck on the lips these days is common place and in fact is expected whenever we part each others company or when she comes home after being out all day.

Remember the first time you drove a car?

My nerves were screaming as I drove my parents car down the highway at night.  Sure, it was a straight stretch of road and today I drive without even noticing it, but the first time was a very different kind of experience.

Those first times make you feel alive.

The first time you vacation somewhere everything it new.  The first time I went to Las Vegas was far more exciting than the third time.  My first trip to Victoria, British Columbia was wonderful and more exciting and fun than any time I have visited since.

How long has it been since you felt alive?

Now that I am in my thirties I have to admit that most of what I do I have done many times before.  It may be comforting, but it doesn’t feel as exciting and vibrant as doing something for the first time.

It doesn’t take any money to do something new.  In fact, you can take something that you do regularly and change it up so that you are doing it in a way that is new and exciting.

Even something as mundane as taking a shower.  Sure, the first time you took a shower by yourself it was probably pretty exciting.  You were not sure how to get the water exactly right and didn’t know how long it would last.  There were new sights and smells and even the feel of the water falling onto your body was a new experience.

Tonight I decided to do something new.  It was on a whim.  Something that I had never done before.  I took a shower in the dark.

If you are anything like my wife, you probably think I am a bit off my rocker, but I assure you that taking a shower in the dark, at least for me, was an exciting new experience.

It was completely dark, so just moving in the bathroom was a new experience.  I noticed that I kept the water extra hot, probably because the blackness around me felt so cold.  Every noise in the house stood out.  Reaching for the shampoo was no problem, but I had to use my sense of smell to find the right bottle among the many bottles that belong to my wife.  Rinsing soap I could not see was an interesting experience.

In essence, I took an otherwise mundane experience and made it into something completely new.

Another option is to take a cold shower, where you only turn on the cold water.  WOW…  that is completely different from what I am used to also.  I guarantee you will feel awake after one of those…  if you can stand it for the length of a full shower.

I just rearranged the furniture in my house and now every room has that new exciting feeling.  My front room is so different that every day when I walk out into it I am surprised.  Sure, the effect will only last for a week or two at tops….  that’s because I will soon be used to it this way.

The other day I bought a new piece of software for editing videos.  The first hour I thought to myself “wow, this is nothing like I’ve ever used before”.  Now, a just a couple days later it has already lost it’s excitement and is just another tool that I enjoy using.

How many gadgets have you bought and were excited to use it for the first time?  New cell phones are a great example of this.  It’s exciting to open the box and play with the new phone discovering all the features, but a month or two later it’s just a phone.

Here are some ideas of ways you can feel young again,

1. Go to a new restaurant

Try to pick somewhere with a new kind of food that you have never tried. Mexican, Greek, Indian, Russian, Middle Eastern, Tai, Chinese, Mongolian, Cajun, Sushi, or something you have never tried before.

2. Try a new sport you’ve never tried.

3. Try using your non-dominant hand for a day.
It’s amazing how strange it feels to do something with my left hand.  Even something as simple as signing my own name.

4. Take part in an activity new to you…
Try your hand at bingo or a play a game of pool or use a batting cage.  The world is full of activities that most of us have not tried.  You don’t have to be good at it in order to enjoy doing something new.

5. Get involved with a charity or community service.
Volunteering is a great way to interact with others and give back to the community at the same time. And sharing your time is not just good for your mental health. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University, found that as older adults participated in Experience Corps, they showed both mental and physical improvements, including increased strength and endurance. By choosing activities that are personally rewarding, you may discover similar benefits.

6. Be a tourist in your own town!
You’ll be surprised how much there is to do right where you live!  Contact your local chamber of commerce or look your city or area up in Google.com  and you’ll be amazed at what you find to do and sights to see you probably never seen in your own area.

7.  Join a Local Group.
You can check out the website:  http://www.meetup.com/ and see what is going on where you live.  There are thousands of groups of people getting together for everything you can imagine and more.

8. Explore a new area.
It doesn’t have to be anywhere in specific, you could drive to a city that you have never been to before and spend the day exploring all the neat sights, sounds and local shops.  If you prefer the outdoors, when not hike a new trail or visit a lake or camp grounds you’ve never been to.

9. Explore New Romance, or Re-Kindle An Existing Romance.
It doesn’t matter how long you have been together with your spouse, you can rekindle that spark and find brand new excitement.  Share a candlelit dinner, create a thoughtful gift or take your partner out dancing.  Suprise him or her with something brand new and you may just find yourself pleasantly surprised with a new romantic excitement…  just like in the “good ole days”.

If your single, try dating someone unique or unusual and explore outside your normal comfort zone.

Of course, if you really want to spice things up in the bedroom….  you may want to explore 500 Love Making Secrets. It’s even Oprah approved!  Okay… nuff said on that.

10.  One of the best ways to feel young, and keep your mind young…  is to challenge your mind with something brand new.
Learning a new language is one of the surest ways to keep your mind young.  Rocket Spanish, is supposed to be the fastest way to begin speaking Spanish.  No only does it keep your mind young, but it opens the door to a whole new world of conversation and eaves dropping.  You’d be amazed at what Spanish speaking people will say to each other in front of you because they presume you can’t understand what they are saying.  That alone makes for great fun.

If you have any additional ideas on how to feel mentally young again, please leave your comments below!

written by John Derrick \\ tags: alive again, feeling young

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I have to admit, the law of attraction stung me today and it’s all my fault.

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”!

written by John Derrick \\ tags: Law of Attraction, law of attraction story, loa

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