The 30 Day Challenge

I have a new morning routine that I am just loving. After I get my son out the door to school, I make a cup of chai, grab my ipod, curl into my favorite chair in my office, face the sunshine and meditate for about 20 minutes. No huge epiphanies yet, but it has been a terrific way to center myself and start off my day.

I love it, and I feel like it is really beginning to make a difference. In any case. As I was poking around my computer and trying to organize my itunes, I came across this mp3 called the strangest secret. I had never noticed it before and was curious. After listening to it, I found out that it had come from Mark Victor Hansen. It was a recording of a speech that Earl Nightingale had given to his sales team. Talk about inspiring. It was awesome, and ended with some suggestions as well as a 30 day challenge that I am planning to incorporate into my morning routine.

The challenge includes writing down your goals on note cards and viewing them everyday. It occurred to me that the perfect time to do this would be just after I finish my meditation and right before I swing into full gear for the day. That should be the perfect, calm time to review them, set about some action steps and get my day rolling.

So, here are my goals for my 30 day challenge and will keep you posted with results:

30 Day Challenge Goals:
• I am making an additional $6,000 in income every month
• My family and I enjoy a peaceful, loving environment that is nurturing
and abundant
• I am meeting new people weekly who help me redefine myself, understand
the laws of the universe and achieve my personal and financial goals.
• My son and daughter have lovely, finished, organized bedrooms that give
them a fun and relaxing places to enjoy themselves and hang with their friends.
• I have paid off another $3,000 of debt.
• I have lost 8 lbs of fat and it is gone for good!

I'm sorry, please forgive me, I love you, thank you!!!
With excitement and anticipation,
Kristen

Hope abounds...

Today I remain in a state of hopefulness. I consider last weeks experiment to be a success. I know that I could just as easily talk myself out of it being a success as I can convince myself that it is, but I am choosing the latter. Afterall, hope seems to have the ability to propel you forward, and that is definitely the direction I want to be heading in.

This was the first email I read this morning, it is from Abraham-Hicks:
"Achieve, first, the vibrational essence of your desire—and then, through the crack of least resistance the manifestation will be delivered... work on the essence of the feeling of freedom; work on the essence of the feeling of empowerment— work on the essence of the feeling of Well-Being... And how do you do that? You can imagine it already having happened and pretend what it will feel like when it is that way. Or, you can look for things in your life that are already like that and beat the drum of that until they play a higher percentage of time in the vibrational signal that you are emanating."
--- Abraham

That seems to be the right tone to set the day into forward motion. So I am filling my day with hope - a sort of anxious and excited curiosity about what may lie ahead for me. I have got plenty of work to keep me busy this week, and that is very awesome. It is all creative, fun stuff and I am really looking forward to it.

As I reflect on the weekend, it is with amazement and awe for things outside of my $5,000 that I was able to manifest. For example, old friends. Three in fact popped up over the weekend. One (Dave D'Apice) I had just thought about on Friday, and boom, there he was at a baseball game on Sunday afternoon. I haven't seen him for almost 8 years, which is really strange because he and his family live about 5 minutes from my house in the very same town. I drive past his house all the time, but never see them. Anyway, it was great to catch up, share stories and talk about life. PLUS, on the way home I had a great idea that I think can make us both some money, so I am excited to take some action regarding that.

Later Sunday night, another old friend (Jimmy Chase) a friend of mine for 18 years now, called. Weird. Because I had just been thinking that my lawn was past the point of no return for me and there was no way that I would be able to mow it with my tiny little lawn mower. He is a landscaper and has the big machines. As luck would have it, he also had some time to fit me in on Tuesday morning. Yippie!!

And just now, another friend of 12 years or so, sent a friend request on Facebook. This friend I have mixed feelings about, so I haven't quite decided which way to go regarding that. (I'll keep you posted, afterall, you never know how the message will be delivered.)

I had a fabulous (albeit painful) massage on Sunday afternoon. Great experience. I carry most of my tension and stress in my neck and upper back, and I was really tight. But anyway, I worked on affirmations and Ho-oponopono while Scott worked to get the kinks out and I had some really interesting results (emotionally/spiritually). Physically, Scott told me that I had to come back next weekend because I would definitely need more work. Today I am exhausted, which seems like a good sign to me that my body is working on doing some healing.

That's about it for now. I am excited to get to work and get creative!!

Enjoy!
Kristen