Douglas Harper

Douglas Harper

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Money Talks

Alright, we all know the economy is bad now and people are searching over the internet on ways to make money from home. Some of us might have lost our jobs while others have just had our hours cut to a minimum that makes us not pay our bills. The stress is upon us.

Right before I moved, I was told my old job, Taco Bell, was slashing positions in order to save the company franchise from going under. I had already been contemplating selling my house and moving out of the area, but this drove my decision to finality. I packed up my things and moved. When I moved into the Chattanooga area, I found that jobs were as scarce here as they were up north. Nothing was available. I watched in horror as the money from the house dwindled to nothing. One of the most important changes I made happened right before I moved.

I began to change my thinking and attitude toward money. Some may say money is the root of all evil, but without money we can not live. I knew I had to do something. I began by watching, The Seven Decisions by Andy Andrews who spoke of successful people. He came up with seven principles to change in our life that would bring outcomes. I watched this every night and played it as I slept. I then picked up a book called, Excuse me your Life is Waiting, by Lynn Grabhorn. The book changed my life instantly. I know, I know, you are probably thinking yeah right, but it is true. The book taught me how to change the way I think. The theory is that our body vibrates just like the energy around us attracting like vibrating energy nearby. If we are vibrating at high frequencies (good feelings) we will attract good things (high frequencies) into our life. The opposite is true as well. How can our thinking change the way we vibrate? Well, the answer is simple. Do you like the feeling of being made, sad or upset? The answer is no and when we are in this mood usually everything seems to go wrong. We become victims of our negative thinking. However, if we change our thinking to make ourselves feel good, like dreaming about your goals in life and looking to where you want to be and imagine and feel yourself there, shiver will be sent throughout your body and you are now vibrating at a higher frequency! Trust me, it works, but it takes time.

So, I began watching the seven Decisions and reading this book daily. Both together made miraculous changes in my life. I then began researching meditation and found a partically great one right before I would go to bed at night. The meditation was to control our breath. Take several long deep breaths and exhale slowly. Lie on your back and feel the air push out of your body. While doing this imagine everything frustrating you leave your body. This is your time, not anyone elses! After you relax your body, tense up your toes and slowly release. Do this two more times. Next, tense up your feet and slowly release. Do this two more times. Feel your body and muscles relaxing through each body part. Now do your leg muscles. Thighs. Butt. Tense up your stomach and slowly release. Do this again two more times. Now your chest. Shoulders. Arms. Hands. Face and head. Now tense up your entire body and slowly release. Do this again two more times. Feel your body relxed. Can you tell the difference from a stressed body to a relxed state? Great now take several deep breaths and exhale while imagining how peaceful and relxed you feel. Now, let you mind wander to the beautiful dreams you might have. Imgaine a wonderful vacation with you family and feel the wind in your hair or the sun on your face. It is important to feel like you are there doing it. Get yourself excited and your heart raqcing. Feel how good it feels to be giving someone 10,000. It doesn't matter how you get it, just that you are able to do it and how good it feels to change someone elses life. Whatever your fanatsies or dreams, feel them like you are actually living them. Keep doing this until you drift to sleep and you will wake up feeling great and have more energy.

So, in the evening I read a chapter or two of the book, watched the seven decisions, meditated, and then put the movie on low volume as I thought about wonderful thoughts. One of the main points of the movie is I am a person of action. When I dreamt that night, I had dreams about doing things. I was a person of action. I am a person of action.

Not three weeks later, I sold my house in the bad economy. Moved to TN. I continued this method for a few months as I saw results in my day to day life. I never thought how....I only thought it is coming! Then, I had a financial backer from Australia pay me to continue to do my work. Within months I had several thousand dollars being sent to me. I have not hade a job since I quit Taco Bell, but have done more traveling in the last year. I have been on a vacation gifted to me by the financial backer in Austrailia for a friend and me to Disney World. This trip was not a small one either, we had ten days all tickets and meals paid for, travel expenses and a suite in the Grande Florridian Hotel. The vacation was one of the best I can remember.

I visited Tuscon, AZ and also traveled to New York City for the World Suicide Conference held at the United Nations (as a guest). All of this happened because I put action behind my dreams and goals, but I believe they all happened because I changed my way of thinking and how I viewed my life. I am now going back to school online and am looking forward to a new journey into the future. I have no idea where the next money will come from or how, but it isn't for me to decide how, it is only for me to put action behind what I do and continue toward my future. The rest will fall in place.

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