How To Deal With Procrastination

Filed under: Self Improvement Hub — admin at 10:09 am on Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Procrastination - why is it that some of us seem to struggle with getting things accomplished while others appear to make light work of their to do lists?

I have a confession to make … I also have times (like most people) where I struggle with working on certain tasks that I know need to get done. While I do make a concerted effort to keep such moments to a minimum, there are still times when the procrastination monster is known to rear its ugly head.

However, I should say that I don’t consider the fact that at times procrastination finds its way into my life to be that big of a deal.

Why not you ask?

Because I understand that by simply being aware that I’m putting off doing something I can make the decision to replace what I am doing (procrastinating) with an action that will lead to my getting what I want to get done — hence removing procrastination.

It comes down to a simple choice. Either I can choose to continue doing what I’m doing — putting things off, or I can choose to take an active step that will get the positive results I desire.

So what I’m saying is that while we may not ever get to a point where we totally remove the desire to procrastinate, we can choose to take corrective measures to get ourselves on track.

You’ve got to remember that it is a choice that we make. Simply being aware isn’t enough we also have to actually do the identified step that we know will put us on the path to the desired result…

If it’s getting up earlier then you’ll have to set that alarm clock or do whatever it takes to get up and get going. Action … even the tiniest of steps leads to less resistance.

To illustrate my point I’d like to share an example with you…

Just before I decided to start writing what you’re reading now I was doing something entirely different. I was doing some reading when the thought popped in to my head that I should write a column on procrastination. The point to consider is this… I had several very real choices to make in that instance. Whatever choice I decided on would give me very different results.

On one hand I could have (and almost did) made the choice to continue with my reading and forgo writing. Secondly, I could have chosen to make a note of the thought I had and simply told myself that I’d begin writing when I felt like it, or after I finished reading. Finally, and fortunately because I understand how if I’m not careful procrastination can spiral out of control I decided to immediately stop my reading and begin writing this article.

So you see, I still had the initial feeling of procrastination — I still felt the feeling of wanting to put something off for later, but instead I opted to work on what I felt I should do.

Interestingly the further along I get on this article the less resistance to doing it I’m experiencing — and so it is with procrastination. We best overcome it when we take active steps towards accomplishing the task at hand.

Be it exercising, working on school work, a business project, or just about anything one can imagine. Do the thing you are resisting doing as quickly as humanly possible and you’ll drastically reduce the times where feelings of procrastination rob you of achievement in your given endeavors.

– Here’s to your success, Josh Hinds

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Josh Hinds specializes in helping people set and achieve their goals and live the life of their dreams. For expert advice on goal setting visit http://GoalsSuccess.com now!

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3 Keys to Managing Career Burnout

Filed under: Self Improvement Hub — admin at 1:20 am on Sunday, May 25, 2008

Copyright 2005 Ann Ronan

I recently gave a presentation on this topic at an Annual
Conference of Human Resource Professionals. The room was full!
So I thought the information might be timely for some of you.

What is burnout? What are the symptoms and causes? And if you’re
experiencing it, what can you do?

The dictionary states that burnout is “exhaustion of physical or
emotional strength or motivation usually as a result of
prolonged stress or frustration.” I put usually in italics
because even when you love your work like I do, you can overdo
and find yourself burned out.

Symptoms of burn out can be physical, behavioral and spiritual.
Here are some signs that you’re heading for burn out:

* fatigue * muscle tension * headaches * insomnia * not keeping
commitments * lack of effectiveness * irritability * anxiety *
sense of emptiness-nothing left to give * lack of joy * not able
to laugh

Causes of burnout can come from within ourselves or from our
organizations. Some common causes are high expectations of
ourselves, denial of our basic needs like food and sleep, poor
time management skills, inability to set boundaries or to say no.

Organizational causes can be a culture of competitiveness, or
one in which being constantly busy and overworked is prized with
email and phone calls taken along on “vacations.” Insufficient
training in new job roles or cramped, noisy environments can
also contribute to burnout.

Here are 3 ways to manage burnout: change the stressful
situation, reduce your vulnerability to stress and/or change the
way you react to stress that cannot be changed:

1. Change the stressful situation if you can. If there are some
high stress aspects of your job, see if you can rotate this task
with others. Limit the number of hours you are under stress.
Spend some time on career/life planning. Set your priorities and
live by them.

2. You can reduce your vulnerability to stress by taking care of
your physical self with good nutrition, exercise and enough
sleep. Avoid nicotine and don’t overdo caffeine and alcohol.
Surround yourself with supportive people, work with a coach who
will listen to you deeply and help you to create a good balance
of work and other aspects of your life.

3. Finally, change the way you react to stress. You can do this
by modifying your self-talk and self-criticism. Learn techniques
to calm yourself - a few deep breaths can bring you right back
to a centered place, able to face whatever stress is in front of
you. Become a self-care expert and have some fun.

The Solutions to Life’s 10 Biggest Problems!

Filed under: Self Improvement Hub — admin at 11:56 pm on Friday, May 2, 2008

Every day clients tell me about their problems, often in great detail, and I’ve noticed patterns that show up over and over. For many people, life’s problems are viewed as “not enough money” or “not enough time”. For couples, the problems are often around “communication” or “parenting” or sex. They think if they only had more money or more time or better sex or a better job, things would be wonderful.

But it doesn’t work that way, because these things are not the BIG PROBLEM. From my experience, I suggest life’s really big problems are:

1. Tunnel Vision. The tendency to focus only on the immediate crisis or sore spot. Under stress, things look worse or more complex than they really are. The solution: Perspective. Ask if it will matter in 6 months. Ask what else is going on? How did I create this situation and, in an ideal world, what would I like to do about it?

2. Fear. The anxiety or terror that things will go badly, that we will fail or be embarrassed. The solution: Humor and Curiosity. Modern life has very few saber-tooth tigers. The situation is rarely life or death. Ask, What’s the worst that can happen? What’s the best? What can I learn? What would I do if I had no fear?

3. Confusion. The sense of being lost or unclear about our direction. The sense that we don’t know our own priorities anymore. The solution: Responsible Choices. Choose your values and priorities and set your own path. Your life is yours. Check your moral compass, pick a direction and do something extraordinary!

4. Guilt. The belief that we have hurt or failed or sinned and deserve punishment. Guilt is either accurate, because sometimes we do behave badly, or it is false and simply an illusion. The solution: If we have transgressed, we must make restitution, ask forgiveness, learn from our error and move on. If it is false guilt, set it down as an unnecessary and irrational burden.

5. Shame. The belief that we are worth-less than others, that we have a terrible, incurable flaw. It is not that we have done something wrong (guilt), but that we are bad or wrong. The solution: Clear, rational thinking. Everyone has behaved badly, but no one was created badly! Any flaws only serve to make you stronger, more heroic or more compassionate toward others.

6. Loneliness. The belief that no one loves us, that no one cares and we must desperately cling to anyone who finds us attractive or acceptable. This creates dependency, not intimacy. The solution: Accurate Self-Assessment. Not everyone will love you, but many people will if they meet you, get to know you, and spend time working/playing along side you.

7. Resentment. Holding anger and refusing to move beyond real or imagined mistreatment in the past. Some people spend their whole lives as “victims”, nurturing a terrible event in their past. The solution: Let go! Life is not fair and people do not always behave well or kindly. Use your trauma to make you wise, kind, gentle, and strong. Holding anger will not work.

8. Self-Doubt. The repeated, endless questioning of your own abilities, opinions or actions. The inability to take a stand, to act boldly, or to follow-through. The solution: Action! Think clearly, then take action and follow-through. Start small, but do it! You are the world’s expert on your life! Use your wisdom to live well.

9. Stubbornness. The refusal or inability to re-assess a situation, change your mind, or admit you were wrong. The solution: Wisdom and Humility. Only a fool stays on a course that is headed for disaster! Search for new and better information, remain flexible, open and creative. When the situation changes, adjust accordingly and set a new course.

10. Addiction. Humans become addicted to drugs, but we also become addicted to our jobs, our opinions or our lifestyle. We can be addicted to people and need them rather than love them. The solution: Take a vacation! Periodically, walk in someone else’s shoes. Break your habits, re-arrange your schedule, delegate those things that only you can do “right”. Use habits and traditions to set you free, don’t let habits enslave you!

© Copyright 2003 by Philip E. Humbert. All Rights Reserved. This article may be copied and used in your own newsletter or on your website as long as you include the following information: “Written by Dr. Philip E. Humbert, writer, speaker and success coach. Dr. Humbert has over 300 free articles, tools and resources for your success, including a great newsletter! It’s all on his website at: http://www.philiphumbert.com

What Motivates You?

Filed under: Self Improvement Hub — admin at 1:48 am on Wednesday, April 30, 2008

As a life-long student of personal development, I’ve attended dozens of motivational seminars, listened to hundreds of tapes, and read untold books on the subject of motivation . I’ve presented motivational seminars. And yet there is one elemental truth that seems often overlooked. That is: no one can motivate you, because you have to do it to yourself. It’s an inside job. And frankly it’s less a function of “doing” than it is of discovering what your natural motivators are. So the key to getting and staying motivated is finding out what excites you. What makes you want to jump out of bed in the morning? What speaks to your heart as well as your head?

Is it the thought of being able to call your own shots as an independent business owner? Perhaps you get excited about the idea of helping people design systems of whatever kind to help them work more effectively and effortlessly. Maybe you hunger for an opportunity to speak to others in a way that inspires and lights their internal fires. Or perhaps being part of a team of people, working together to make great things happen, is what makes your heart beat faster. It could be that you love variety and any environment that generates it.

If your basic needs were met and your mind could freely roam where it chose, what subjects would naturally bubble to the surface? What things naturally generate a sense of energy and ease? What is as natural to you as “falling off a log?” These are questions that begin to tap the root of what motivates you.

In a recent conversation with a prospective client she told me she was thinking of getting out of her current profession as a self-employed professional organizer. As we talked she discovered that what she was really looking for was the opportunity to team up and partner with others to stimulate her creative juices and generate more business. It didn’t mean going back to work for someone else, although that was one option. Rather it was about transforming her idea of the ideal business environment for her. By the end of the call she had a renewed sense of possibility about her career. And she had definitely decided that going back to work for someone else, although “simple” in some respects, would not actually lead her where she wanted to go.

In this day and age when jobs and businesses are changing faster than ever before, when they “keep moving the cheese” (read Who Moved My Cheese? for the full explanation), those who create success for themselves will be those who find out what motivates them and follow that path. It may not mean being your own boss, but even if you work for someone else, it means finding that place where you can most readily apply your innate gifts and talents and use your internal motivational fire to serve others. Once you know what motivates you, your career options are infinitely clearer.

There are many tools and assessments in the marketplace today that can assist you in discovering where your natural motivations lie. Contact me if you’d like more information on those I offer. Or simply begin to pay attention to what gets you excited. Make a list of the things you most love doing and the environments you most enjoy working in. As you connect the dots, a new picture of your own motivators will emerge. And along with them, a renewed sense of the possibilities of “following your bliss”. This week, sit with the question, “What motivates me?” And listen closely for what comes up. You may be surprised.

Betty Mahalik has been coaching small business owners, independent professionals and leaders who want to achieve more but stress less, since 1996. Her background includes several years in the broadcasting and public relations fields prior to starting her own firm in 1987. She is an accomplished public speaker and corporate trainer specializing in communications, goal-setting and leveraging your strengths. Since 2001, she has written a weekly motivational message, free to subscribers, titled Monday Morning Coach. To subscribe or learn more about Betty’s coaching and training services, visit http://www.dynamic-coaching.com

Radical Recovery

Filed under: Self Improvement Hub — admin at 11:13 pm on Tuesday, April 8, 2008

I’m sure I am not alone. Others have, no doubt, experienced a
fate similar to mine at some point in their lives. Here’s what
happened: My husband and I had traveled to one of our favorite
cities with my sister and her husband to spend two days painting
the town a rather striking shade of red, which I have dubbed
“crimson with brick undertones.” We were concluding our stay
with a fabulous evening out–dinner and a trip to the theater.

The previous evening’s festivities had ended at around 3:00
a.m., understandably compromising the potential for a good
night’s sleep. And, as is often the case during town-painting
marathons, none of us had been adhering to a healthy diet by any
stretch of the imagination. Likewise, we were having way too
much fun to take a break for our accustomed workouts. But, life
is short and so are weekends away. So, we valiantly charged
ahead with the evening’s plans, lacking a certain amount of
energy and focus.

We felt exhausted and it showed. Truth be told, we looked like
something the cat had only considered dragging in, but after
careful deliberation, had decided to leave in a distasteful and
unflattering pile out on the lawn. I guarantee you that my
sister and her husband will be calling me as they read this,
objecting to this unfair representation of their appearance that
night. That is why I’m not answering my cell phone now or ever
again. But I know the truth of the situation, and now, so do
you.

Despite our ragged appearance, we had committed to our final
tour through the night life, so we set out on our journey. We
started at an artsy little Italian restaurant, where we consumed
what I can only describe as a bakery case full of artisan
breads, which we washed down with heaps and heaps of pasta. We
left for the theater full, happy, and a bit tipsy on
carbohydrates.

Since it was our last night together, we shared a toast to one
another and headed in to see the show. We were awestruck by the
theater itself–ornately decorated and a sight to behold. We
eagerly anticipated what we knew would be a memorable
performance. And indeed, the first fifteen minutes of it was
extremely memorable. Great music, dancing, and special effects.
I was intrigued, then impressed. And then, I was unconscious. In
fact, we all were.

Well, maybe not totally unconscious. We had all entered that
state you might recall from middle school when your history
class was held right after lunch and you had the frequent
privilege of watching dry black and white films in a warm, dark
classroom. Such situations are no friend to alertness or
attentiveness. We bravely, and collectively, fought off sleep.
After all, the show was great, and this was our last big hurrah
in the big city. Even more motivating was the fact that we had
nearly required a co-signor to afford the tickets in the first
place.

That being said, just think for a moment about the math equation
here. Four exhausted people minus sleep, healthy food, and
workouts, plus six thousand tons of carbohydrates (more or
less). Add to that one glass of good cheer each, subtract every
molecule of light in a dark, warm, cocoon-like theater, and what
is your result? It equals four reluctantly slumbering
show-goers. We had effectively emerged as the world champion
head-bobbing team.

You know what I’m talking about here. It was one of those times
when you think you’re awake but you actually keep hopelessly
sinking into mini-coma states, much to your dismay. So, we would
begrudgingly alternate between what felt like an REM sleep cycle
and a startled state of semi-consciousness. For all I know,
Beethoven’s Fifth could have been booming in the background,
with each of our heads taking part in an intricately, if not
disturbingly, choreographed ballet. One that no one would really
want to see.

When the show was over, we stumbled from the theater in a mass
of yawns and blinks. Through drowsy eyes, we looked at each
other saying, “That was good. I think.” That night, we learned a
valuable and rather unfortunate lesson. Both the body and the
brain require recovery time, whether you’re working hard or
playing hard. And, if you don’t provide them the necessary rest
and rejuvenation they need, they will seek these things out at
the most inopportune times, like during a highly anticipated
evening out.

Building adequate recovery time into your life is one great
technique for supporting peak performance and yielding better
results in your life. It is just one of the many topics covered
in Chapter four of Living With Intention. Here are a few ideas
for building more recovery time into your life:

1) Time-outs

Time outs, or regular breaks throughout your day, are one of the
most basic forms of recovery. They help you calm your mind and
relax your body. You may have heard of the term “circadian
rhythms,” which are the body’s natural system for regulating
your sleep and wake cycles. You are probably less familiar with
the term “ultradian rhythms,” which are the energy and focus
cycles you experience throughout the day. Research shows that
your body experiences about 90 to 120 minutes of strong focus
and high energy, followed by a 20-minute low point where you may
feel less motivated, less energetic, and have difficulty
concentrating. These rhythms are built in to prompt us to take a
quick break from whatever we are doing to refresh ourselves both
mentally and physically so that we can continue to perform well
and yield positive results.

Start taking “time outs” every 90 to 120 minutes throughout the
day, even if they are brief, seemingly insignificant amounts of
time. Take a walk around the office. Practice deep breathing for
a minute or two. Step outside and chat with a co-worker.
Actually take your lunch break. Tell a joke. Read a quick
article. Make a phone call to someone you care about. Whatever
you can do to separate yourself from your work and your stress
even for a few minutes will help refresh you, recharge your
batteries, and reorient your mind to what needs to be done.

2) Reset Buttons

It’s true that sometimes you will be absolutely be under the gun
with a deadline, a crisis, or an overwhelming volume of
deliverables. That is what can make life both exciting and
challenging at times. What do you do then, when it’s not
practical to take structured recovery time? First, you need to
evaluate whether this is truly one of those circumstances, or
whether you are just falling into old patterns by thinking,
“there’s no rest for the weary.” If you truly have to push
through a period of time without significant recovery time, and
you have made a conscious decision to keep going while the going
is tough, it’s time to turn to rituals or habits that provide
built-in recovery time for your brain and your body.

To do this, just identify one or two positive, energy-enhancing
rituals that you can perform without thinking or needing to
exercise any free will. These will be your reset buttons. Then,
over the course of three or four weeks, practice your reset
several times a day to make sure that you have mastered it and
that you can utilize it any time you need a focus or energy
“pick me up.” Your ritual might be stretching or breathing in a
certain way, saying a calming phrase to yourself several times,
or performing a simple movement. You can choose any action that
will work for you as a reset button. In general, reset buttons
take less than a minute. Let’s get real–if you can’t find a
minute to recharge your batteries, you are really in trouble.

I have had clients whose reset buttons involve lying on the
floor for one minute with their feet on their chair, running in
place for 15 seconds when they feel like…well…like they’re
running in place, or saying a mantra or singing a few bars of a
motivating song in their mind. Whatever it is that serves as a
reset button for you, choose one or two rituals that can help
you use that reset today. Within a couple of weeks, with regular
practice, your reset button will be both automatic and renewing.

3) Work-free Zones

The final practice of building recovery time into your life is
setting iron-clad times and spaces that are work-free zones. You
get to decide what that means to you but, in general, everyone
needs to be able to look forward to periods of time and places
where they can relish in the rest and rejuvenation that comes
from a significant time out. To do this, you will choose a
combination of evenings, weekends, holidays, vacations, or other
key times to designate as work-free zones.

Accomplished success coaches and peak performance experts
advocate the need for rest or recovery time as a key practice
for achieving great outcomes in all areas of your life. What
these practitioners have found, over many years of work with
their clients, is that increased time off leads to greater
productivity, better results, and often even more income. What a
concept! This suggests that the more effectively you use your
time away from work to truly rest and recover, the better the
results you will have while you are there. You need rest
opportunities to disconnect and disengage from work in order to
effectively navigate the demands of work and life, and to feel
good in the process. Give it a try and notice the tremendous
benefits this practice will yield for you.

These three strategies–Time-outs, Reset Buttons, and Work-free
Zones–are powerful tools for experiencing radical recovery on a
regular basis.

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Copyright 2005 Deanna R. Davis, PhD

Be Happy! Happiness is Just a Matter of Mind

Filed under: Self Improvement Hub — admin at 12:21 pm on Sunday, April 6, 2008

Though one could be infinitely happy by just enjoying the nature and family and all the human-made things, there are still millions of people who are unhappy. In the developed countries there is very fortunate circumstance of having both God-given and man-made things. Still majority of people there are unhappy. In the developing countries, where for millions there is a real scarcity of even basic needs, people seem to be happy. There are some people who are engaged in difficult tasks and in warfare, and even incarcerated in prisons, and are still happy! We have just discussed the factors of happiness. Millions of people have them, still they are unhappy. There are millions of others who don’t have them, yet they are happy!

You would realize that the mere availability and abundance of God given and human-made things is not enough. There is something else which should be right to be happy. Of course, it is our mind that must have right attitude towards and capacity to be happy.

Milton in Paradise Lost says,

‘The mind is its own place, and in itself

Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.’

One can give various examples of how mind can influence our body::

• Pavlov’s dog starts salivating at the sound of the bell without any food in sight.

• If we are tense we often get headache, backache, and spondylitis, etc.

• Heart attacks are directly linked to worry and tension.

• Right mental attitude helps in curing many bodily maladies.

• By self-talk, motivation, and positive attitude we can become happy and successful.

• Through hypnosis one can have command over another person’s mind and body.

• Through meditation one can have a healthy body and extra sensory abilities.

Mind has extra-ordinary powers and as far as happiness is concerned it has the ultimate power. We should, therefore, have a positive attitude towards life. Instead of concentrating on bad things in life and people, we should concentrate on redeeming features in them. We should not keep on thinking about past failures and bad experiences but be encouraged by our past success and good experiences. Similarly, we should not be unduly anxious about future as our anxiety is not going to have a positive effect, but we should plan and work hard for the future.

In whatever circumstances you are, you can never have total lack of God-given and man-made happiness. You cannot completely take away nature from somebody; you cannot take away all man-made things from somebody. Even if everything is taken, one’s family and friends are there. One’s precious body is there. And, even if you chain somebody securely in a dungeon, one’s mind is free. One is free to be happy in one’s mind! Mind is difficult to be mastered by oneself, but it is impossible to be vanquished by anybody, any authority, or whatever conditions or situations.

Abraham Lincoln has beautifully expressed it: “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

BE HAPPY!

The author, and his wife, work in the field of Happiness, Success, and Health, including Yoga and Naturopathy. They have visited various countries of the world and hence in their writings there is a good synergy of East and West.

Newton said, “I don’t know what I may seem to the world; but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

For exploring the great ocean of happiness lying undiscovered before you, consult complete Guide to Be Happy!

Be Happy! Happiness is just a Matter of Mind © P. S. Gusain; visit The Life Beautiful.

This article can be reproduced freely in part or full provided due credit is given.

An Example of “Allowing” a Desire to Arrive on Its Own

Filed under: Self Improvement Hub — admin at 11:22 pm on Wednesday, April 2, 2008

I don’t know why, but it seems we trip over the “allowing” part of the Deliberate Attraction formula more often than the other two parts. The Deliberate Attraction formula gives us a simple description of how to leverage the Law of Attraction so we can attract more of what we DO want and enjoy. The three steps are simply:

1) Become very clear about what you DO want.

2) Raise your internal vibration, through removing doubts and fears, so you are a vibrational match for your desire.

3) Allow your desire to come to you.

Much has been written already about the first two steps. You’ll find lots of personal stories and succinct teaching in my articles at YouCanHaveItAll.com. But how do we “allow”–what do we need to do to actually receive what we so clearly desire, yet do not have?

Recently, I had a nice experience of what it feels like to “allow.” I’ve been noticing that my office wastebasket is inadequately spilling over too often. It is just a little eight-inch sea-grass basket and it hardly holds two days worth of opened envelopes and crumpled paper. After months of mentally complaining about its lack of capacity, I finally asked myself, “So, what kind of wastebasket would I like?”

I began to imagine a sleek, black, matte finish wastebasket–about 15 inches high with a 12 inch diameter top, and tapered at the bottom. Yes, that would be adequate for a week’s worth of trash from my office and it would look professional alongside my other black office accessories.

Next I collected data on possible wastebaskets. For about a week, every time I entered a building that might have my ideal wastebasket, I looked for it. I found step-on aluminum cans–no, I don’t want to step on anything. I found black plastic trash bins with swivel lids–no, I don’t want a swivel lid–I want an open receptacle so I can toss paper into it. I found black trash cans on wheels–too industrial looking. I found ceramic pots that were almost right–too heavy to empty out. I was noticing the price range went from $18.99 to $49.99.

Finally, I let it go. I told myself, “The right one will show up.” And it did.

I was at the Hudson Bay Store, here in Victoria, BC, making a purchase when I decided to cash-in some of my “Reward Points” for a gift certificate. I had NEVER thought about cashing-in Reward Points before–it had never occurred to me to do so. I took the elevator to the fifth floor and while a delightful young lady at the Reward Counter prepared my gift certificate, my eye scanned across the isle. There I noticed A BLACK WASTEBASKET–just the size and shape I had pictured in my imagination. With gift card in hand, I swiftly crossed the isle and lifted the basket. “Ah, it is made of felt-board–very lightweight. Matte black finish with nail-head trim. About 14 inches high and 12 inches in diameter–tapered at the bottom. Very professional looking.” I turned the basket upside-down to read the price: “$16.99.” Very good! With my gift certificate in hand I proceeded to the checkout stand. When the clerk scanned the price, she gasped and asked me, “How much do you think this costs?”

“Well, the sticker says ‘$16.99′.”

She was shaking her head in disbelief as she replied, “It’s on sale for $5.00.”

“Five dollars?” I asked, in complete surprise.

“Five dollars,” she repeated.

“I’ll pay cash and save my gift certificate!”

Can you imagine the joy I felt at that moment? Not only was the price right, but the manner in which my exact desire had come to me was absolutely delicious!

“Allowing” is simply the old adage: “Let go, and let God.” It’s “Detachment from the outcome.” More like “Detachment from forcing something to happen.”

Allowing is truly letting the Law of Attraction bring your desire into your sphere in its own time, place and manner. Allowing doesn’t mean getting second best–it means allowing the Law of Attraction to bring your exact desire–in the BEST way possible.

Is there something you are not allowing through trying to make it happen or by wanting it a certain way or at a certain time? Let it go. Believe that the Law of Attraction WILL bring it to you in the perfect time and the perfect way. Believe it because that IS the law.

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EzineArticles Expert Author Rebecca Hanson

Rebecca Hanson, Law of Attraction Coach and Practitioner, is living her lifelong dream. “Six years ago, I was living on the prairies in central Canada just dreaming of living near the ocean. Actually, as far back as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to live near the Pacific Ocean. I grew up in Southern California, where I enjoyed the Santa Monica Beach as a child and teenager, but moved to Saskatchewan when I married a Canadian. That was 40 years ago. In 2000 I moved to beautiful Victoria, BC, and now I live near the ocean.”

How did it all happen? You may be wondering, “Can it happen to me?” If you want to experience prosperity, abundance and the fulfillment of your dreams you’ll be glad to know that the attainment of wealth is possible for anyone who learns how to apply the Universal Law of Attraction to all their affairs. It CAN happen to you. Read Rebecca’s story to learn how she did it and how you too can have success in every area of your life.

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