You know I’ve been writing about how all this law of attraction stuff has been working and how I believe you can make it happen in your life.  Well, for a long while my son, Dennis, had both feet in the waters of disbelief, mainly because like most, his thoughts attracted that.

Last Wednesday we all decided to get on our bikes and ride down to a place here in Naples, Florida called Venetian Village.  It’s a set of shops on the back waters here complete with a Ben and Jerry’s.  We went along with Anna our neighbor, and Dennis.

While there, I had time to talk with Anna about things happening, or not happening in her life.  And we both realized that the further you get away from listening and believing in the laws of the universe and God, the more doubt pops in your head and dominates.  I told her that it’s a slippery slope to depression.

When we came back, we made dinner, and Dennis (who lives right around the block) and Anna joined us.  I thought it would be a great time to show The Secret after dinner.  We all gathered around the TV set and watched the whole thing.

I knew Dennis had never seen it.  Later he asked some questions about it.  Parts of it made a lot of sense.  For the next few days he decided to filter his thoughts.  Stuff started happening.  His days were better.

Last night he intended to broadcast live (he’s a lifecaster on www.Justin.tv/kioken) from the Apple store close to his home, because today Apple launched their iPad.  He thought he’d get in line and simply have some fun and show everyone the new gadget.

Yet into the broadcast last night, he decided to put the law of attraction to the test. Arnaud Mueller, a fellow lifecaster and friend encouraged him and encouraged viewers to participate.  Dennis thought why not stay up ALL night and raise money to buy one of these things?  It was known that the stores would have around 5 or so allocated to the first people through the doors in the morning.

Dennis had a few dollars in his account and some cash.  How could this happen?  It would take a miracle, no?  The iPad is $500!

But Dennis stood on his belief that he thought it was possible to get one.  He didn’t care about the “how.”

Through the night he broadcast.  The donations started coming in to his PayPal account.  First $5, then $15, $20.  Soon, it was near $400. As the night went on, Dennis didn’t let the fact that he was $100 short affect his thoughts. And before sunrise some anonymous viewer put him over the top with a donation of $100.

Dennis had not been to sleep but it didn’t matter. The excitement was crazy. He had been up since about 11 AM that day. This began as just a thought. Here is Dennis in line waiting to be called for his iPad.

Later, he told me, the hardest part of his thought process was watching what he thought.  Yes…keeping positive.

Would there be enough donations?  What if he wasn’t in the front of the line?  What if this Apple store didn’t have any allocated?

STOP!!! He said…  He forced those thoughts out of his mind.  He just knew he would get one.  He felt it.

Around 5:30 AM he started for the store.  He started broadcasting at 6:00 AM. He waiting for a few hours while the line grew bigger and bigger. Apple provided Starbucks Coffee and Smart Water.

Viewers from around the globe got in on the experience, too. At one point there were over 300 live viewers. The money had materialized. The next step was getting the item.

At 9 AM they opened the doors. First, people who had reserved an iPad were allowed in and made their purchases. Then Dennis walked in and purchased his iPad.  Here it is.

I phoned him when I saw him getting it and told him to come to our house to have an “unwrapping” presentation. About 250 live viewers watched as Dennis unboxed his iPad.

Hours before it was just a thought. That thought and a seed of belief that it could be turned into a physical item. Immediately you might think this was coincidence.  He doesn’t.  He knew it and trusted in his thinking.  He thought more about getting the iPad than about not getting it.

He entertained dozens of people broadcasting live the night before and they became part of the experience.

I am happy for him and it turns a page in his life.  These things are possible, even for things like an iPad.

What are you thinking on today?

OK, we’re to the point in talking about this Law of Attraction stuff where the next part affects everyone and it was here that really convinced me that this stuff works.  There is science behind the thinking and I understand it, but this thing about “vibes” is something you must accept – because we have all experience it.

I see this happen daily, and always because of people.  What I mean is, whenever we feel a “vibe” from something, it is tied to a human force.  Think about that for a second.  When you’re in a lousy neighborhood, don’t you get “bad” vibes?  And when you’re standing next to one of your heros, don’t you get those “good” vibes?

I am the type of person who reads someone and immediately has an opinion about them.  I know that’s not always idea.  My wife says I should always give people the benefit of a doubt and a chance, but I don’t always.  She gets “vibes”, too.  Just wants to make double-sure she’s right.

You get these feelings, too.  And they equate to a mood or a feeling we get.  The word “vibe” comes from vibration.  If you’ve studied science at all, you know that vibrations are ever present in our world.  But did you know that there are only two types of vibrations?  Positive and negative.

So every mood or feeling we have causes us to emit a positive or negative vibration.  I mean even if we check out a list you come up with for words that describe our moods or feelings, we can immediately tell whether that is a negative or positive vibration.

We all send out these vibrations and that’s why some people make you feel real good just being around them – and others, make you feel creepy.

Well, time to get on with my day.  But take that thought with you and do your best to send out good vibrations!

Talk soon,
Dave 

There is a real cool thing in learning the law of attraction that is called giving yourself permission.  And this is something I really had a challenge with because I was brought up to believe that we weren’t really worthy of much.  I don’t blame my parents.  It was more of a cultural kind of thing.  Just the way people believed in that sphere of influence.

Maybe you don’t know what I’m talking about.  I probably should explain just what giving yourself permission means.

There are a lot of times that we feel we could enjoy life more if we had this or that – mainly more money so we could do grand things – but even non-money related things, such as when someone gives us a gift, or we are chosen as a leader, or an honor is bestowed on us.  And we don’t know how to accept it initially – or sometimes not at all.  We don’t “allow” ourselves to have.

When I was growing up, the part about being humble was taken to the extreme and sometimes we thought we had to act like rugs and let people walk all over and take advantage of us.  I guess this comes from misinterpreting “turn the other cheek.”  I no longer believe this way.

It’s sort of like wanting to take grandma to see your kid’s sports game but they don’t want to go because it will be too much trouble.  And so they miss out on all the joy and happiness of watching their grandchild simply because they thought (mistakenly) that they’d be a burden to someone.

And this doesn’t mean going to the other extreme and taking advantage of people by making yourself a nuisance out of selfishness.  It means accepting when something is sent your way – for you – you take it in and it is yours.  Rejecting it causes these things to no longer come.  When you open yourself up, give yourself permission to have, then these things begin to flow into your life.

You rob joy by not giving yourself permission.  You rob the giver and you rob your blessing.

So what I want you to do today is to let yourself have what is dutifully yours.  It belongs to you and has your name on it.  Think of it as part of what David was talking about in Psalm 23.  The goodness and mercy following you.  Don’t reject that when it appears – just because you feel you don’t deserve.  You DO deserve.

Do you like learning about this?  If so, do me the kindness of leaving me a comment below.  I really get juiced to see what you think of these things and it helps me to better help you.

Talk soon,
Dave

We were in one of my very favorite places here in Naples, Florida – the local Costco and after having made a run of the dozens of samples around the store, we got in line to check out with the things we were going to purchase.  Normal line, smiling faces.  That is… until the gal making purchases ahead stopped to find some coupons.

This went on for a minute or so and we simply break into chat when in line, or text, or something productive.  I mean, ya can’t go anywhere – but the fellow ahead of us couldn’t take it anymore.  He turned around and professed, “This happens to me every time I get in line!”

And I couldn’t hold it either – well, almost.  I just wrapped up a brand new study on the Law of Attraction and this was so much fuel for my fire.  I smiled and started to say – “Yes!  That’s because you say that!”

My words trailed off and Adriana poked me, but I wanted him to hear what he was saying.

OK, don’t most of us hear what we are saying?

NO!  Well, we “hear” it, but we don’t understand it.  If we really did, we’d stop saying it.  You know that words, the words we think and say are SO powerful.  I didn’t know how powerful they were – I mean, I’ve written to you many times before on how critical it is to choose your words.  But there are some scientific studies that I researched and have found dramatic information.

What I want you to do today after reading this is to try your hardest to just listen to what you are saying – to others.  And what you are thinking for yourself.  If you have kids, this is a real eye-opener.  But even if you don’t – you’ll catch yourself being negative without even knowing it.

Have you ever done an exercise like this?

Instead of saying, “Don’t put that glass there or it will fall off the counter!”  Say, “Put the glass in the middle of the counter so it will be safe.”

See the difference?

OK.  Try it.  It is HARD!

(Oops!  Shouldn’t have said that!)

I have discovered some GREAT ways for you to change your talk and attract the things in your life that you need and want.   And I’ll share that with you, soon.

Talk later,
Dave

This morning was a little strange.  The south sky was clear, but there were gusts coming off the Everglades with a tinge of misty rain.  I knew we were seeing the effects of Hurricane Ike, which a week ago had me planning to spend tonight and Wednesday inland.  The beach on the Gulf of Mexico is a few minutes walk from the front door.  And I don’t own hurricane shutters.  So far, they haven’t been necessary.

But since God decided Ike should head further west, we were once again blessed.  And so tomorrow will be another great day in paradise with our beautiful home and wonderful daughter and pets.  By the way, Rachel has a few fun videos up at YouTube.  You can look for them here.

Now our dog, Ginger, (who stars in one of the videos), has become finicky lately.  And it’s all our fault.  We fall into the trap of looking into those begging eyes and know what we are eating just has to be better than dog food (even Life Abundance).  So every once in a while there goes an “accidental” scrap on the floor which Ginger quickly takes care of.

If we could get her to eat dust… well, that’s another story.

The dog food bowl in the kitchen that sits just to the left of the dishwasher is half full.  She doesn’t scoot it, or even visit it unless she is really hungry.  I wish I could go that long without food – and see it and not want it.  But we’re made differently.

So now it’s rough – we see the eyes, but know we’re not really doing the dog any good by giving her our food.  Sure she wants what tastes good, but the food created for her is designed to give her exactly what she needs.

But who wants exactly what they need?  The Isrealites had a tough time with it in the wilderness.  Many times in nature we find things are both good for us and taste good.  We think it’s rare, but what has really happened is that we’ve allowed ourselves to become accustomed to other tastes.  I’m sure you’ve run into this when you visit someone from another culture.  They have foods that they love and you can hardly gag it down.  Why is that?

It’s because they have developed a taste for those things.  I think back to the Garden of Eden and what it must have been like there.  But I also believe there is an evil side in this world who wants us to taste different things and get off the wagon.

Well, I could go on and on about what we really should be eating, and wouldn’t that create a healthy debate?  But I have planned a session on the Law of Attraction that I want you to have and I am anxious to get that to you.

Have a great day – remember to stay with things that are “long-term” good for you.  Stay away from the short term.  It can be a killer – long term.

Talk soon,
Dave