JD LeJeune

Timely: Heading to Florida to learn about the power of the subconcious mind!

You may enjoy an abundant mind-set today, which could lead you to make expensive purchases. You might feel that you are deserving of rewards because of your recent hard work, or you may simply feel blessed by financial gains and want to splurge a little. You can also use this mind-set to call in greater abundance if you affirm that the money you spend today will multiply and return to you in like form. If you combine this affirmation with the power of visualization and imagine more money coming in than is going out, you can encourage the flow of limitless abundance into your life. At the same time, you may want to consider creating more openings for prosperity to enter by exploring investment options or even starting your own part-time business.

By believing in the limitless flow of universal abundance in our lives, we attract greater levels of prosperity. While moderation in our spending habits is usually a wise choice, we can also learn to use our money to attract more abundance into our lives. If we adopt the right mind-set while spending money and affirm that it will return to us multiplied, we send a clear message of faith to the universe. Since we are focusing on continued abundance rather than lack, the universe then begins to shift circumstances to more closely reflect our beliefs and we end up attracting greater levels of prosperity into our lives. With the right focus, your abundant mind-set can act as a magnet and attract your heart’s desires today.

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“I Wish You Enough” Taking a lesson from nature and ‘blooming where we are planted.’ By: Bob Perks, beliefnet [Original]

I must come from the dark ages. We didn’t have weed whackers when I was a kid. I had to dig the weeds out from the cracks in the sidewalk. Sometimes with a tool as crude as a screwdriver. Seeing this young guy brought back those memories.

I visited a local park today. I love to run away from telephones, faxes, and beepers just to reclaim my sanity. Sometimes it works.

I was sitting on a bench at the edge of the lake. A young man, a summer parks employee, walked up with a bucket filled with tools and a determined look on his face. The pavement that led to this spot was cracked and filled with weeds. It was his job to change that.

“I don’t know why I’m doing this. They’ll be back in a few days,” he said.

“Where’s your super-powered weed whacker?” I asked.

“We don’t have enough to go around,” he replied. “The older guys get to use them.”

“I still don’t understand why God made weeds to begin with,” I said. “They grow over all the beautiful stuff and choke out the flowers.”

“But they are beautiful. One man’s weeds are another man’s flowers,” he said with a smile. “And they should serve as an example to anyone who wants to get ahead in life.”

This college boy was trying to convince me that there’s a lesson in the life of a weed. I see a lot of possibilities in life, but this one is going to take some convincing.

He went on to explain: “Weeds adapt to wherever they are. Have you ever seen a single weed growing in the middle of a parking lot? What were the odds that this weed would find even the smallest crack, root itself, and grow. What about their ability to make a comeback? Did you ever pull a weed and days later it’s back again? That’s because its roots go deep. We chop it off at the head and it comes back. People don’t come back that quickly.”

I sat quietly for once. He was making sense.

He continued…”What about the side of a steep rocky mountain? I’ve seen trees growing from the most unlikely places. What purpose do they serve way up there? They can’t provide shade. But they become a home for birds. They prevent erosion.”

“Bloom where you are planted,” I said.

“What?”

“It’s based on something Paul said in the Bible. You’re right–we always want to be somewhere else. We cry and moan about our circumstance and fall between those same cracks that weeds flourish in,” I said.

“Where we are is where we should grow?” he asked.

“The difference between people and weeds is we have what I call the gift of choice. We can choose to grow, sow, or go. We can grow where we are, with what we have, or sow our gifts and talents for future growth, or go on to a better environment suitable for our needs,” I said.

“The weed is pretty incredible, isn’t it?” said the young man.

“Yes, and so are you, my friend. You taught me a great lesson today,” I said as I shook his hand.

“We both learned something. This helped me to decide what I want to do in college.”

“Let me guess. Something to do with the environment,” I said.

“Oh, no. I hate the outdoors. I’m going into finance. I want to make it big so I can hire someone to pull my weeds for me.”

He was kidding, right?

I turned 54 on July 18th. It’s a funny place to be at this point in my life. When I was a kid I learned from adults. Now when I am an adult I’m learning from kids.

Understanding All Sides Whenever we examine our lives, we examine them from a particular side or angle. Most of us tend to favor one side over the others. For example, we may tend to look at things from an emotional perspective rather than a financial perspective, or we may prefer to think in terms of details rather than the big picture, or vice versa. To a certain degree, this is not a problem, and these tendencies add color to our individual personalities. However, they can also make us one-sided, blind to the many other ways of looking at our situation. Even if we have decided that we are most happy when we focus on one particular side of things, it is always worth exploring the other sides. When we do, we become well rounded, more understanding of other viewpoints, and even more solid in our own.

Perhaps you are a person who tends to see your life in terms of your spiritual well-being. As a result, other concerns such as financial comfort or social standing may not be prominent in your mind as you make decisions. However, taking just a moment to consider those angles will help you in several ways. One, it will enable you to see more clearly what your priorities are and how they influence your life situation. Two, it will enhance your sense of confidence, because you will see your situation from all sides, even as you choose one. And three, it will help you communicate with others about who you are and what you are doing, because you will come from a place of understanding that your own biases and tendencies are unique as are theirs.

Most of us instinctively come at things from a particular angle, and in many cases this is the right way for us. Still, understanding the other angles only strengthens us. When we look at our lives from all sides, we shed light on the big picture, giving ourselves access to many points of view and highlighting more clearly the one we have chosen to take.

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