Gratitude, Prosperity & Positive Overload?

When I first became aware that what I thought seemed to materialize in my life,  I was quite nonchalant about it.  In my way of thinking it was just something I had chosen for myself and eventually, whether with my action or not, it seemed to always show up and usually just when I was able to accept it into my life with ease and gratefulness.  It never occurred to me that this didn't seem to happen to everyone.  I didn't realize that perhaps I was a bit more unique (odd?) than my friends who neither believed in what I believed in and didn't believe that what they thought could impact their lives in both negative and positive ways.

Believe and it can be

My very first experience with the "Believe, Conceive, Achieve" experience of today was way back when I was about 16.  While walking along a road with my cousin one day, we happened to pass a house where a bunch of guys were outside working.  One guy had his shirt off and was nicely tanned, with blondish brown hair.  I'd never met the guy before and knew nothing about him but I pointed to him and said to my cousin, "Someday, I'm going to marry that guy!"  She laughed of course, not taking me seriously and actually I don't think I was serious either...but a year later I met this fellow at a New Years Eve party and we hit it off.  Of course I think the long hair and John Lennon glasses may have had something to do with my attraction to him. Two weeks later though he seemed to lose interest so as I always did, I said goodbye, see you around, let's still be friends.  Two years later he met me at a dance  and two years after that, we were married.

After we had been married for about 6 years we decided on a spur of the moment to move to another city that was about 2 hours from where we had built our home.  With no job prospects in that city and no idea why we were really moving we went to the city for a trip to visit relatives.  While there we drove by a set of octagon high rise buildings and I pointed to one of the buildings and said, "One day we're going to live there."  Just prior to our moving to the city, we saw a job advertised in the paper.  We applied for it and ended up getting it.  It was for a couple to take over the Resident Manager duties at the very high rise I had pointed to and said we would live in.  We lived on the 18th floor of that building and boy was the view fabulous!

Then, several months later, as we drove by a building that housed a local Cable company, I pointed to the building and told my husband, "Someday I'm going to work there!" Of course he laughed, as did I.  Oddly enough within 4 weeks I was indeed working there.  I remained there for a few years until one day I decided I wanted to get hired by a local Embassy.  Of course, by now you know how that went...yes, I was hired by the Embassy of my choice and remained with them for several years.

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Are you willing to take Detours?

"A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it."                                                                                                                ~Cullen Hightower

Someone asked me this past weekend "How can you be so positive about everything?" to which I responded as I always do, "How can you not be!"  The conversation went silent but not awkwardly so, as my sister-in-law mulled this over for a bit.


We were headed to the Casino which was over 2 hours from our home and in another Province.  Neither of us had traveled the road before and so for good measure, we brought along two GPS systems and we both had cell phones.  Mine being a smart phone also had access to Google's Latitude and was also equipped with a GPS system.  Overkill?  Yes, perhaps, but you have to understand that when I and my sister-in-law do things together, more often than not, even without trying, we can get ourselves into some pretty interesting, if not laughable situations.  We decided we didn't want to take any chances getting lost and wandering around for ridiculous amounts of time trying to figure our way to or from  a location we'd never been to before.

The drive to the Casino, which is  located in a beautiful, scenic area of the Laurentian Mountains, was breathtaking.  Quaint, very Swiss looking and the people were quite friendly and very accommodating.  We had a fabulous time, won a little money, had a great meal at a Buffet and just before it began to get dark we decided it was time to head back home.


Not even 20 minutes into the trip back we realized we weren't headed in the same direction we'd taken to arrive at our destination.  As the road grew less even and  began to narrow considerably our "oh, oh" meters were trying to process whether or not we should turn around and go back to the ski village we'd just left and try our departure again.  My sister-in-law's GPS was apparently malfunctioning and although I asked if she wanted to use mine she declined.

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