MOLLIE PLAYER
FEATS OF GREAT STRENGTH
My husband knocked down a wall in our garage today. It was cool, if messy. Our plan is to make a woodshop in there and make custom shelving throughout the house. This development combines with my recently acquired love of gardening (free fruit? I’m in!) to mount a solid case for our advancing age.
Fortunately, as it turns out, being old is actually pretty awesome.
Is it a sign of my total lack of musical sophistication that I almost always agree with my one-year-old’s taste in music, as expressed in a modified Siskel-and-Ebert style with either a wail (no thumbs) a “more music!” (one thumb) or an “again!” (that coveted two-thumbs-up review)? Or is it just that he is a musical genius?
I’m just going to assume the latter and call it good.
I have always had a great passion for open-wheel race cars. Thankfully I’m finally in a financial position to be able to afford to participate on a purely armature, hobbyist level.
A few years ago, I purchased a vintage open-wheel road racing car and began competing locally. My wife, of course, thinks I’ve taken leave of my senses, but that’s another story. Then at the end of last season, I began thinking that I should upgrade to a better car. However, it was somewhat of a vague notion and not something I included in my affirmations or visualizations. I did put up an advertisement to sell my car in several of the classified sections of the enthusiast websites that I frequent.
As you can probably guess, I received zero responses from these ads. As I said, I liked my car and really didn’t want to sell it. I just thought that I probably should. Then about three weeks ago while I was at one of the local racing shops hanging out with my brother, I happened to mention to the owner of the shop that I might be looking for another car and mentioned the type, year, and model that I was looking for. He said “I have one just like that!” He walked me to the rear of the shop and pulled back a tarp covering the car in the corner. There it was! The exact car I had described. As I sat down in the seat I remember thinking, “I will have this car!” It was a very intense, emotional moment for me.
Now, the fact that the universe had materialized the perfect car, although pretty cool, is really not the point of this story. Here’s where it gets interesting. You see, my wife thinks I’ve gone around the bend anyway. If I came home and told her that I now own two race cars, you can imagine how that would go over.
All of a sudden, it became a very urgent need for me to sell my current car so that I could have the new one. I added this new car to my daily affirmations, and I constantly held it in my thoughts, visualizing how the seat felt, mentally holding the steering wheel in my hands, and feeling the exhilaration of driving the car. Then I got busy with writing and
everything else that I have going on, and although I didn’t forget about the situation, it got pushed to the back of my mind.
Then one day about a week ago, I opened my e-mail and had two, (That’s 2!) very serious responses to my online ads after eight months of nothing! A few days ago, I received a check for $2,500.00 in the mail as a deposit for the purchase of my current car.
Here’s the point of my story. (Yes, I do have one.) It wasn’t until I sat down to write this morning that I realized that the universe had materialized the sale of my car for me. I had attracted it, and because I was so busy with the ongoing details of my life, I had failed to fully realize what was going on. It just seemed like the natural turn of events
until I sat and reflected on everything that had transpired.
Pay attention to the small miracles and synchronicities that happen. Connect the dots. You’ll be amazed at what you notice.
Cary David Richards
This is me in a few years. I’m cool with it.
Got a great haircut today. I love it when that happens. It’s all super short and now I look all long-necked and cheek-bony. In a good way. I almost walked out when I saw the hairdresser, though, whose hair vaguely resembled a beehive. Also, his chairside manners left something to be desired. But then I remembered that I once got my haircut in a back alley in India, and realized it could hardly be worse than that. And this place cost like ten times as much.
And so, my hair is now worthy of my awesomeness.
Thanks, Abrupt Hairstylist. Keep doing your beehive thing.
You’re awesome.
Here’s something straight from the front flap of my new book, You’re Getting Closer: One Year of Finding God and a Few Good Friends:
“And so, I’ve decided: this is the year I am going to get friends. It is also the year I’m going to figure out how to pray without ceasing, to live in a state in which every action that I take, every word that I speak and every thought that I think comes from the Source inside myself far beyond my conscious mind.
I am going to communicate with the Divine, and not just occasionally—I’m going to do it all day long.
I really don’t know if I will be successful but I do know this: if I’m not, it won’t be for lack of trying.”
So, my baby can talk now. I counted the number of words he knows and it’s well over two hundred. However, the only ones I hear with any frequency are: 1. “boo-boo” (boobie), and 2. “up.”
I guess this is what people mean by “the more things change, the more they stay the same.”
Well, I finally did it. After about ten years of considering the idea, last year I actually attempted, as the Apostle Paul advises in the Bible, to “pray without ceasing”–to communicate in an ongoing way throughout with the Divine. If an experiment like this interests you, you’ll probably enjoy my most recently published book about it, called You’re Getting Closer: One Year of Finding God and a Few Good Friends.
Thanks for your support throughout my writing journey. I look forward to reading your comments here, via email at mollie@mollieplayer.com, and in your Amazon.com reviews.
The other day I was reading over some affirmations I wrote in my journal about a year ago. Some of them were things that at the time I never thought would come true but since did. The most significant of these: “I am naturally thin.”
The short version of the story: Every year I give myself a present on my birthday–anything from an expensive pair of boots to a compliment. On my birthday last year (my thirtieth), that gift was that I would officially give up binge eating and dieting–after over ten straight years of it.
And I did.
To my surprise, I lost even more weight since then, so that now, for the first time since high school, I am naturally thin (thin without dieting).
If that was all I had accomplished all year, it would have been a great one.
Today I gave my phone to my toddler and predictably, the result was not good. However, when he asks for something, it is my habit to say “no” as infrequently as humanly possible. This is a fault of mine, but as is the case with most of my faults: it’s also just part of my charm.
(Have I mentioned recently that I am awesome?)
When I was in high school, TV was a needed friend, even though I was embarrassed to be around him so much.
When I was in college, TV was a hated enemy, one that I railed against at every opportunity.
When I got out of college, TV was again a very good friend, though one that I had finally learned to be proud of and deeply love.
Today, I don’t see TV often. When I do, though, we get along just fine.
Maturity has a way of removing all my strongest opinions.
What’s your best process for manifesting what you want?
We talked different ways to leverage law of attraction over here last month.
Have you experimented with different approaches to discover your favorite law of attraction routine?
Maybe it’s to …
There isn’t one right answer for all of us, all the time.
What works brilliantly for your friend may leave you scratching your head wondering why nothing’s happening.
Don’t let that get you discouraged about your creative powers, though. It just means your best process for achieving alignment may be different.
If you haven’t ever experimented with different manifesting approaches, now is a great time to get clear about your most effective formula.
You can engage your own customized LOA experiment to discover your best path to alignment.
I was reminded of this when Pam Grout invited E Squared readers to prove the existence of the Field of Infinite Potential by intending to receive an unusual blessing or gift of some sort within 48 hours.
I set an intention and noted the day and time it should be here by. My 48 hours came and went without any clear signs. (Does this dirty penny in the street count? Could it be that compliment someone emailed?) Well, if it wasn’t obvious, it doesn’t count, I decided.
Exactly one week later I was surprised to find a bouquet of flowers in my hair one afternoon.
Okay, that counts! (Surprise flowers in my hair?! You’re very cool, Universe!)
Was it a failure that it happened well after the 48 hour deadline? To me it was a sign that my best manifesting process doesn’t include time frames!
I remembered when I used to give my angels a written “to do” list each month. Invariably many of the items on the list would appear the following month. That used to frustrate me, but I learned to relax about the timing and that seemed to allow things to happen faster.
Which tells me I’m better off not engaging deadlines for my dreams and goals. For some of my clients, though, the magic doesn’t happen until they pick a date.
Another example of how different our best processes can be … My business partner was on fire for drawing in perfect clients with a new process she engaged. Once she started this practice, everywhere we turned there was another fabulous new client! I thought I’d follow her lead to turn up the juice even more …
Her twice daily routine included ten minutes of EFT, ten minutes of affirmations, followed by ten minutes of visualizing. But when I copied her process, which felt like a lot of freakin’ work, new signups came to a sudden and obvious halt.
That told me things work best (for me) when I don’t try too hard, whereas she does much better when she gets serious and committed to a routine.
At the GVU monthly LOA treasure hunt I’ve learned manifestations appear more easily when the item has some sort of emotional significance for me.
What do you know about your own best manifesting process?
If you’re willing to play to discover it, you could pick 5 things of relatively equal believability value and engage a different manifesting approach for each one.
Results will reveal which approach serves you best. You can repeat the experiment for as many processes as you choose to test.
Or maybe you already know from past experience what sort of routine serves you best. (You can find lists of manifesting approaches here and here.)
Either way, I’d love to hear what you’ve learned from your LOA experiments!
Jeannette Maw
Even though the word itself is rather ugly, I do prefer, when referring to my personal spending habits, the term “frugal.” It’s stifled, yes, but it’s also . . . noble. Well–a little, anyway.
At least that is what I told myself today as I stopped at the bank for the free coffee.
Contributor: Anonymous
Last week, the house was a mess–a really big mess, and I had no time to clean. Since I’m a bit of a neat freak, I decided to say a little prayer.
“Thank you, God, that my house is entirely clean,” I said. Then I let it go, and trusted that something would work out.
An hour later I asked someone for a cleaning estimate and they offered to clean it the very next day–before seeing it first and without my even asking for the rush.
It was a very nice surprise.
One weekend last summer some friends and my husband and I rented a cabin. The water was too cold even for SCUBA diving and the cabin was crowded and small, and yet, we had a lot of fun. The best part was when I went to bed early, about an hour before everyone else, and lay in bed just listening to the others talk in the next room. It felt like being at home–a home, that is, that’s full of family.
This is what it means to be human.
Here’s a little story about Shayne and I …
One hot Monday afternoon in August 2005, my friend Shayne ran into an old school friend who mentioned that the Steve Miller Band was playing that Thursday about three hours away, and both of us being Steve Miller fans, wanted to go. So I called the venue and yes, they still had tickets and the show started at 8pm.
I run my own business which is open until 6pm so I had a slight problem. The concert was three hours away which meant I had to be on the road no later than 5pm. I don’t have any employees but every now and then my daughter will hold down the fort while I take off, but no luck there as she had to work her regular job. I called around and asked other friends and family but still no luck. So I sort of resigned myself to no Steve Miller concert.
Thursday evening about 4:58pm Shayne says it sure would be fun to go to the Steve Miller Band concert and if we left right then we could probably make it on time. Being the conscientious businesswoman I am, I never close early but I stopped for a moment and thought about it. What would matter most in ten years? If I had closed one hour early or had a fun time? So I decided right then to go. I looked at Shayne and said, “Let’s take the money and go.” At that very instant the radio began playing Steve Miller Band’s “Take the money and run.”
Shayne said “Do you hear that?”
I said, “It’s a sign.”
So we put a note on the door, took the money, and hopped in the car.
So we are driving down the road and realized we have no tickets. So I call the box office and all they have are lawn tickets. So I said “thanks” and hung up. When I go to a concert I want to be up close! Shayne asked if they were sold out and I said “No, but they only had lawn.” He said I should have bought them but I said “Maybe there will be someone out front selling front row seats.” Shayne said, “There’s not going to be anyone selling front row tickets, but I once knew a guy who got a third row ticket out front.” So I said, “I’ll take third row!”
We pull into a parking space at the venue at exactly 8 pm. As we are walking up the path toward the box office a man steps onto the path and asks “Do you need tickets?” I ask, “What do you have?” He said, and I kid you not, “Third row center.” Shayne’s jaw hit the ground, I laughed and asked how much. The tickets were cover price, no fees. I bought them. All the way to the gate Shayne kept asking me if I thought they were real. Of course I did.
At the gate, they scanned our tickets and usher us to the pit! They were third row pit seats! Steve Miller would practically be sweating on us! Shayne and I both agreed how lucky we were with these fantastic seats. Then I said all I needed now was a guitar pick from the band.
Well, the Steve Miller Band started playing about 8:30, it was a beautiful summer night, and there was a full moon too. The concert was fantastic! The band members threw out their picks but I didn’t get one. They came back for an encore, threw out more picks, still none, then Shayne turned to me and said “Well, I guess you didn’t get your pick” and just then a pick literally hit him on the side of the head and fell into his lap.
He said “What’s this?”
I said, “My pick!”
So now my motto is “Take the money and run.”
Here’s a photo of my ticket, the pick, and the note that we put on the door that day.
This year on the sixth anniversary of this event, the guy who had told Shayne about the concert came by about 4:58 pm, and I was telling him that this was the moment I decided to go and at just that moment the radio began playing as if on cue, “Take The Money and Run” by the Steve Miller Band. It gave me chills.
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Contributor: Dr. Dave Smiley, clinical psychologist and creator of the film “The Inner Weigh“
Let me tell you a little bit about myself … Seven years ago, I found myself at a crossroads. The previous year, I had gone through a bankruptcy and divorce. At the time, I was a clinical psychologist working in a prison. I was also taking antidepressants … and weighed almost 300 lbs.
I was miserable.
One day, I saw a film about the law of attraction. From it I learned that we create our lives with our thoughts and beliefs; we attract to ourselves those things that we think about most of the time, whether they are things that we want or things that we don’t want.
When I watched that film, I had an epiphany. Suddenly, I understood that I had created this miserable life. I began to wonder what my life would be like if I started paying attention to my thoughts and my beliefs. What could I create if I started living my life on purpose? I quit my job, and set out to find a way to lose weight that wasn’t so agonizing, without following some regimented plan of diet and exercise–without weighing and measuring and slicing and dicing my life into little pieces. I knew that there had to be another way, one that was more natural, more peaceful, and more spiritual.
I began to seek out the people that knew this path and who could teach it to me. Not only did I want to find these teachers and learn how to do this for myself, I wanted to bring their message to the world. So I created a film called “The Inner Weigh,” a documentary to inspire people who are sick and tired of living their lives in a body that they hate–people who know the old way just isn’t working anymore
As a clinical psychologist and as someone who has struggled for years with my weight, I knew one thing for sure: the choices we’ve made in the past created the bodies we are in right now … And the choices we make today will create the bodies we will inhabit in the future.
I’m so grateful that I learned about the law of attraction and the importance of choosing my thoughts carefully to create the life that I want.
– Dr. Dave Smiley, clinical psychologist and creator of the film “The Inner Weigh“
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Also: Happy Birthday Allie!
This week I gave some books to some of my (in-person) friends, and it was so much fun that I got inspired to do the same for you my awesome readers. And so, starting Tuesday, May 6 (in honor of my sister’s birthday) and ending May 10, I’m giving away the following eBooks on Amazon.com:
I could’ve just marked the books down to 99 cents, but that didn’t sound like nearly as much fun.
Free books are just cool.
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Is it possible to magically manifest zero balances on big bills? Can you use law of attraction to erase or eliminate existing debt? Absolutely!
Earlier this year I got an attorney’s bill for nearly a thousand dollars that I wasn’t expecting. I thought my account was paid in full, but this invoice showed time documented that I hadn’t paid for yet. Sigh.
It irked me that I would be out of pocket on another chunk of change that I already didn’t appreciate spending.
Frankly, I didn’t want to pay it. I thought about the consequences of that … collections, credit downgrade, creditor calls … ugh.
I let myself be mad about it for a minute (more like a day and a half) before I tried to shift the vibe.
When I was ready to start moving the energy, I used Olivia Pope’s “It’s handled” affirmation to practice the feeling of a happy ending.
Then I emailed the attorney asking for clarification. He wrote back the next day with an explanation, and it didn’t sound like he was budging.
I let myself be mad again, then that night wrote out some “I am worthy” statements, including a few about being worthy of good service, good support, and attorney bills that worked out perfectly.
The next morning I remembered Easy World, and said, “I choose to live in Easy World where everything is easy, including perfect resolution of attorney’s bills.”
Four hours later I got an email from the attorney saying “Don’t pay me anything.” Apparently there was a problem with his billing system that he was going to investigate.
A few weeks later I got a zero balance (“paid in full”) statement in the mail.
Jeannette Maw