The First Chapter

The book "The Law of Attraction" isn't divided into chapters. I didn't realize that when I made that goal yesterday of reading the first chapter. So I read a few pages.
It was mostly a review of the things I already know. No exercises to try so far.
However, on my way to the library yesterday I started reading a book I had checked out that I was returning but had never read. It was very interesting. So I didn't return it and continued reading it.
It's called The Second Circle and I think I'm going to have to buy it. It's full of exercises in learning to be present and live in the now. I believe it will fit right in with my POI, LOA experiment.
As I do the exercises I'll let you know how it goes.
Carol

Setting Goals

I hate setting goals. Because then I don't do them and have guilt.
To do lists are a bit better. They don't seem to have the same imperativeness to them.
I've decided to make daily to do lists. And set some goals.
Because I'm not going anywhere right now without some direction. From Alice in Wonderland, paraphrased--If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.
On my to do list today, re-read the first chapter in Law of Attraction and if there is an exercise, then do it.
I'll let you know how that goes.
Carol

Law of Attraction

That's actually the title of a book I bought at Costco close to a year ago. The Law of Attraction. It claims to take the ideas of The Secret and put them in a form, with exercises, to enable me to implement them in my life.

A practical form of The Secret, I guess you would call it.

It doesn't work if you don't read the book and then try the exercises. So that's the next big thing on my list of stuff to do.

Start the book. Do the exercises. Blog the results.
Carol

Slept All Day

Evidently my wants today and the life I'm creating has to do with sleeping most of the day. Well, I was tired and I did try to wake up and couldn't so decided to just surrender to it and sleep. I was up til 2:30, got up at 7:30, went back to bed around 9, slept til 11:30, then took a nap from around 5:30 pm to 7.
I've come to accept that I have weird days like this and just don't allow them to become the norm. My favorite schedule is to bed at midnight or before, up at 8, and a nap at 3 for an hour. When I'm not taking my vitamins and minerals my nap lasts til 4. and I sleep in til 9. I have much more energy and feel better when I take my supplements. The more I take the better I feel.
So back to Power of Intention and creating my life. Since I know if I take more of my supplements I feel better and have more energy and I don't take more or sometimes even enough then I must not want to feel better or have more energy.
Now I have to figure out why.
Carol

What do I want?

I want two million dollars in the bank so I can live quite well off the interest. I want to weigh 50 lbs less and be in better shape physically. I want a Jeep Grand Cherokee and a Honda Accord. I want a place in the foothills, house, cabin, manufactured home, not picky about that one. A place to take the kids and visit, not necessarily live. I want the health, money and time freedom to travel. I want to be a public speaker, specifically on the subject of health and/or essential oils. I want to write a book. Or lots of books.
The thing is I also want to take a nap everyday, eat junk food when I feel like it, not exercise, not talk to strangers, not leave the comfort of my home, and not have a car payment.
See where the problem comes in.
My mentor said, frequently, "Results, often harsh, never lie" or something like that. My results so far show what I want more.
If I created the life I'm living then the second paragraph of wants is what I've wanted more.
Now what?
Carol

Focus

One of my issues with POI, LOA is focus. I started going here, then was browsing Googles many services, went to maps for a second, decided to try notebook, couldn't sign in, had to redo my password, and finally ended up here.
In between all that I read a couple of blogs I like to read.
Two things required for Power of Intention to work. I have to know what I'm intending. And I have to focus on it. At least for more than two seconds at a time. Not easy for my ADD brain.
And I quote Dorrie from Finding Nemo, "oooh, something shiny."

Carol

Does the Law of Attraction work?

A couple of years ago I started a sex blog. I hadn't had any for three years and I wanted some but wasn't looking for a real relationship, or so I thought. Just good sex.
After a month or so of blogging a couple of fantasies I had sex. Then shortly after that I met the man I love more than I've ever loved any man.
Did that happen because of the law of attraction and I was blogging what I wanted? I think so.
Carol