The Equivalent of Money
This is a reprise story and a very important one worth repeating. Financial solutions come in a lot of different forms, so don’t limit your thoughts to the ‘usual‘ solutions. Ken Emma in Sweden writes: For about a fortnight, I have been thinking how much I would like to have a car of my own. I don’t need one; the public transport here is fine and I’ve managed that perfectly. If I need a car, I ask to borrow Steven’s and he’s always very good and hands over the keys, but I feel bad about it. So after we moved to our house (which is another 123 story!!) I have been looking at cars on the road and wondering what, and how I could buy one. I said to Steven that it’s not enough to get enough money for the car, there is also insurance, petrol etc… so, how is that going to happen? We do our manifesting together every morning for 15 minutes. Mine begins with a new car. But I’ve had trouble with it! What kind of a car? Big? Small? Colour?? So it didn’t feel right. Then I opened your book and you mentioned something about that red car. Oh! That sounds good! I want a red car. So now I visualize my future where I roll into my driveway in a red car. Then I looked at red cars and didn’t like them! Noooo, not quite a red car……. hmmm…..We were driving this Monday and passed a car that caught my eye. That’s a nice car! Yes, agreed Steven. It’s a Nissan Note, that’s easy to remember, we laughed. When I got home, I looked on the internet for a Nissan Note for sale in my town. I found one. Red. Hmmm….. then I looked at the other pictures of it, inside and out and could not believe my eyes. I loved it. I called Steven and he looked at the pictures with me. Very nice car, he said. Good price. Impatiently I tugged at his sleeve and said: AND? Can’t you see it has my name on it? This is going to be my car! I can feel it in my gut, I just know it. But how? I pointed out one picture of the back side…. the license plate was EHS. My initials and S, for Steven – as he’s in my movie too!He really laughed with me! So, how was I going to get this car? I opened your book again and read about your conversation with the out of body author, William Buhlman. He discussed the thoughts forming like clouds in the non-physical realm and the more you think, the stronger the images get. OK, I’m going to bring out my secret weapon. Manifesting on Tuesday morning: I was now very clear about what kind of a car I was driving: the Red Nissan Note. In my mind I formed the image in the clouds, from a weak whisper to a stronger cloud. Once the outlines were there, I brought out my weapon. I imagined a long, white feather. I stroked the cloud shape and painted it red, so it was more solid, it looked like it was ready to be “born” and looked like my Nissan. Am I cheating??? The following day, Wednesday, I did it again. Later in the day Thursday I looked for it on the web, phew, it was still there of course, it was mine. I was supposed to start a new painting on Thursday but nothing was right, so I put my paints down and went for a walk. On the way back, I picked up my mail and there was a letter from the UK. I opened the letter and was lost for words. It was from the Pension Service in UK.They had agreed to pay my pension to Sweden backdated a year with a regular monthly sum. The amount was way over what I needed for the car and then the monthly payments would more than take care of the upkeep. I didn’t jump up and down and scream, I was dumbfounded! When Steven got home, he thought something terrible had happened as I was in shock. “I’m getting that car!” I said, just amazed. I called the car shop and made an appointment this morning, saw the car and I signed on the dotted line! I will get it next week, once I have sorted the transfers and they clean it, just for me. So there…. ha ha ha! Thank you! Now I’m using my weapon every morning!! All the best, Emma Henson, Sweden It’s not always about the money. Emma purchased one of the first 10 books sold, three of which sold overseas. It has been a thrill to hear all that she has been bringing into her life.In this story it focused on the car, a red one. (Yes, there have been other car successes recently.) The problem was how to pay and continue to maintain the car of her dreams. As it says in the book, she went to her future and imagined herself in precisely the car she wanted.Apparently it was waiting for her in the ads, but how to pay for it? Emma didn’t dwell on the how but she took her visualizing further, using a feather to shape and color it in. Did she cheat? Of course not – she was magnifying her intention and aiding her visualization. Brilliant, and she got results! The money for purchase AND maintenance just appeared unexpectedly as if by magic. She didn’t have to work the extra job or win a lottery. Call it the equivalent of money. It spends like money and comes every month, without any additional effort on Emma’s part. Let Manifesting 123 work for you! Ken Go to the Interviews Page to see and hear Ken talking about Manifesting 123 and you don’t need #3. There is new information here and you won’t hear it anywhere else. It is so simple. Make it work for you! Have a manifesting story to
From Failing to Fame!
N. writes: My daughter Sunshyne is 13 and she is in the 7th grade. She has been struggling in two subjects, French and even more so in math. With her schools grading system, it takes 50% to pass and she is the 40s or less in math. Her teacher was concerned and told me she was failing in math. I decided to get her attention and create an incentive. She was becoming more obsessed with her outfits than grades, so I had to clear the distraction. I went to her closet, took her favorite top out along with a few other clothes items and threw them all in the trash. When she came home I told her that if she doesn’t get her grades up, I’ll dress her like a nun. She quickly responded and on her next math test she got a passing grade at 50%. I was OK with that grade but there was more room for improvement, so I enrolled her in summer school. It did cost money and it came out of an already tight budget, but this was important. Summer school is like tutoring and our goal was to get her to 60%. My daughter told me she was going to really focus and work on it. As we have done in the past in our family, every night before bed she prayed for help and continued motivation. She also used a manifesting technique, visualizing her future where she could see her grades going up, up, up into the 90s. Less than a year later, she came home from class with some very good news. The faculty told her that she is one of only three chosen for a statewide math competition because her math grades hit 95%. It all worked out because we celebrated her representing her school, and now she is so focused on her studies, she got new outfits courtesy of her big sister. My daughter wasn’t trying to manifest a Math Olympics competition, that is a new program, but she did hit her 90% mark and more in a very short time! Sunshyne is very happy and I feel fantastic. N. Go to the Interviews Page to see and hear Ken talking about Manifesting 123 and you don’t need #3. There is new information here and you won’t hear it anywhere else. It is so simple. Make it work for you! Have a manifesting story to share? Please email it in and if it is used for this newsletter I’ll send you a free, signed copy of the book as a thank you. Photo credit: left, endeavors.unc.ed and Manifesting123 on Pinterest
Romance?
E. writes: Some people just aren’t meant to be together. And some people are. I had a very contented life. And then I found painting. I’ve never been a half-way person. If I’m in, I’m in with all my thought, study-power, drive and effort. And so painting contorted my life, as just described. I’d get up early and paint for two hours before I went to work. I took workshops and classes. My paintings were getting much better but they weren’t feeding my soul. Then one day in my gallery, I heard that this amazing out-of-town painter was going to give a workshop where I lived. “I want what he has!” I said with pure enthusiasm while pointing to his work. The price of the workshop was high for me based on my sales, but I rationalized that I’d never get anywhere just wishing to be better. I’m from a small state, and it turned out that the workshop teacher was born 60 miles from where I’d been born. He didn’t claim that state as he moved away when he was just a year old. I still noticed that bridge. The workshop was fantastic. I had a huge breakthrough, and my painting has never been the same. I attended one or two further workshops at his studio. We became friends, but not close friends. Then he returned to give another workshop where I lived. He had allowed me to stay at his home for each workshop. I somewhat reluctantly returned the invitation. He accepted and stayed at the other end my house. One morning as we were about to leave for the class, he asked if he could kiss me. I said yes. It was the most electric kiss one could imagine. And then I almost accusingly but delightedly said, “Why did you do that?” “Because I wanted to,” he said and smiled, and then we left for class. I thought we really connected. After a few visits to see me, he told me in words that I didn’t like that he didn’t see us as a couple. I was mad and hurt. I told him he was wrong. He was. We were really good together. My healing from this hurt was slow. Life has its own timing and ways. Some months (years?) passed, and he wanted to come see me again. I figured I had my guard up and that it would be okay. I think my guard was asleep in the guardhouse. Six weeks later he called me early one morning and told me he loved me. Without meaning to be uppity, I told him, “I know” then I told him I loved him, too. Within a month he began asking me to marry him. I said, “Yes, but not now.” In abductions, police want a “proof of life.” Now I wanted a proof of love. It wasn’t going to be easy. There were some tiffs and a lot of breakups. Overcoming doubt was difficult for me in this situation. I’m happy to tell you that through all the trials, my honey and I have grown by light years in mutual understanding. This is our own Hollywood-style story. You know that most Hollywood stories have a happy ending. Yesterday he presented me with the most gorgeous ring imaginable and asked me to marry him. It was time, and this go-around I said yes. The ring wasn’t necessary for me because I’d already loved him, even when he thought he didn’t love me. Nevertheless, it is a beautiful symbol of our love and an every-day reminder that dreams really can come true. E. Go to the Interviews Page to see and hear Ken talking about Manifesting 123 and you don’t need #3. There is new information here and you won’t hear it anywhere else. It is so simple. Make it work for you! Have a manifesting story to share? Please email it in and if it is used for this newsletter I’ll send you a free, signed copy of the book as a thank you. Photo credit: left, wheretoget.it and Manifesting123 on Pinterest
That’s a Lot of Money but I Made it Happen Anyway!
There was training session coming up that I was very interested in. It was expensive, $3000, but it would be important for the work I do and I could provide new services for my clients and increase my income. I was set on doing the training but this large amount was going to have to come from somewhere and pretty quick. The registration deadline was coming up soon, so I said, “Alright Universe, bring me the $3000.” That being done, I began to make some moves myself and not just sit around. I decided to call the person in charge of the training sessions and asked if I could pay $1500 over time and $1500 before the class. After a moment, the trainer accepted my offer. Great, I am almost there! There was another training class that was offered for an additional $1000. This increased knowledge would be good for my business as well as create a larger financial hurtle. I did have the $1000 on hand, but I was determined to manifest it from elsewhere instead. Every day I kept my thoughts focused on the $2500 balance required for both training sessions. I was clear in knowing the money would come through, even though I didn’t know the when or how. In a short time, I got a call from a conference organizer in Iowa inviting me to be a speaker and facilitator at their upcoming event. Not knowing exactly how it would turn out financially for me, I accepted. At the least, it would provide some additional income toward the training sessions I had signed up for. I went to Iowa where everything worked out beautifully and the timing was perfect. I made enough at their conference to cover that $2500! The training was important to me and even though it seemed out of reach financially, I didn’t admit to it. I asked for help and did my part by negotiating payments and saying yes to the Iowa speaking opportunity. All worked out nicely. I still have a balance to pay back but it is within my budget to do so and with the new tools from my training sessions, I will have the additional income to make it happen even quicker. Looking back, the money was never a problem because I didn’t think of it that way. D. Go to the Interviews Page to see and hear Ken talking about Manifesting 123 and you don’t need #3. There is new information here and you won’t hear it anywhere else. It is so simple. Make it work for you! Have a manifesting story to share? Please email it in and if it is used for this newsletter I’ll send you a free, signed copy of the book as a thank you. Photo credit: patch.com and Manifesting123 on Pinterest
After Asking, Remarkable Outcomes Followed
How many times have we asked for, or manifested outcomes that have exceeded our ideas or came to us in a form we would have never expected? Our thoughts and prayers are powerful, real things. Thank you C. for sharing your remarkable experience. Ken C. writes: I had been concerned about a relationship I had been in for some time and decided to ask my pastor about it. He recommended that we meet in front of the church altar and say a prayer for a good outcome. This felt a bit formal and uncomfortable to me but I really was looking for answers, so I agreed. There were also some concerns I was holding for the pastor regarding his personal life, but more on that later. A bit of time passed and my relationship had not improved despite my best efforts, so after calling the pastor a second time, I was with him again, before the altar in prayer. During those moments, I acted on my concerns for the pastor and visualized a column of pure light coming down to him from above, something like Grace and it would be the perfect thing for him. The following week, the most unusual things began to happen to me, things I had never experienced before. I received three messages of high clarity, each about 2 days apart and they were all very important. The first “clarity,” as I like to call them, came in the form of letters on a dark wall I was gazing at. The letters didn’t spell out words as we would know them, and some of them looked a bit like symbols, but regardless, when I looked at those letters I clearly understood their meaning to trust in God. It said, “In His time and in His way.“ That was a very profound message but looking back at that now, I have to chide and laugh at myself. Since I was praying to God, I fully expected God to reply back but instead someone else, perhaps an angelic personage replied. At the time, I could see the written symbols so clearly it confirmed to me that the words were exactly right. I had asked for help and I was given reassuring words in a miraculous way, but at the time I was a bit disappointed that the information came to me ‘second-hand’ rather than from God Himself. Ouch for that, but now I am fully grateful and in awe of how the message was delivered. Days later a second event came over me suddenly and I instantly knew that it was about my relationship. I can only describe it as a cry from the heart. It was a powerful feeling, very direct and it touched the core of me. I clearly knew that the pain I was feeling was not only mine but also that of my partner. It was important for me to know he was in the same pain but I also had the certain knowledge that he was manipulating me. Knowing this, I was able to gently leave the relationship without looking back. What a big relief that was. Back to my pastor. Sometimes in his sermons, he would express dark thoughts and that had created my concern for him. Apparently, it was the trigger for my third clarity in yet another form. I had a vision in the form of a vignette or small movie. My pastor was standing in dim light on the edge of a dangerous Darkness. I knew without a doubt that he wanted to step off into it. I saw a deadened place without light, sound or feeling. It was a complete void without the presence of God. I sensed that he wanted to give up and just step off, but he saw me and turned away from the awful void and turned back to what I knew to be his present life. He had decided to live and at that moment, I knew this was clearly a message to give to him. It was three months before I saw him at church again. He was giving a sermon and he talked about riding his motorcycle and how he had the idea of getting his speed up to 65 mph and then laying his bike down in the highway, a suicidal urge. I made a number of attempts to meet up with him, but he was always too busy. Nine months later, I finally got some time with him. During our conversation he was detached but I pressed on. I told him that I didn’t always agree with him, but that I felt he was a real connection to God for me. I continued and told him about my vision with him on the precipice. He listened carefully and said, “Perhaps my dark period is over.” As the two ‘clarities’ were for me, I feel hopeful that my pastor was given the exact assurances he needed. Yes, my prayers resulted in help for me, but also for both my former partner and the pastor in need. It all happened in a way that I would never have thought of and I was further directed to act, gently helping them as well. I am still amazed and grateful at how the information was imparted to me as well as the clarity of it. My simple and earnest prayers were heard and acted upon and I am very grateful. C. Go to the Interviews Page to see and hear Ken talking about Manifesting 123 and you don’t need #3. There is new information here and you won’t hear it anywhere else. It is so simple. Make it work for you! Have a manifesting story to share? Please email it in and if it is used for this newsletter I’ll send you a free, signed copy of the book as a thank you. Photo credit left, Disney’s Cinderella and Manifesting 123 on Pinterest
I Manifested the Big Money and Then….
You just can’t make these stories up, but you can manifest impossible things! Ken L. writes: Wow, did I just have an interesting few days. My son asked for a $200 loan so I went to check my bank and saw that there was only $600 in the account. Things were a bit tighter than I thought! I did an electronic draw for him and decided that the next day I would go to my bank and ask for a short-term, $20,000 loan, something that I could easily pay back. The very next day, I checked my balance again and it showed $6,049! How in the heck did that happen? I really didn’t know but it got me to thinking about more than just the money. Yes, I did want more money in my account and I thought of it a lot the day before. My thinking was, is that really my money and did I manifest that? The $20,000 loan was still on my mind, so I took a moment toward the end of the day to manifest the bigger amount. I said, “It would be really good to have $20,000.” That was it, a bit of a prayer and conscious manifesting, nothing more. You know what is going to happen but you can’t believe it, right? The next morning, I looked up my bank balance and it now stood at $26,049!! What Is Going On?? This is completely impossible since my self-employed business is not bringing in auto deposits in amounts like that. That certainly warranted a trip to my bank and I called Ken on the way with my story so far. We were both puzzled and laughing during my drive. Once I got to the bank and explained what had happened, they pulled up my account and printed out a receipt confirming the $26,049. It was in my account all right, but there wasn’t any deposit record to back up that balance. We all agreed that it was an amazing, weird glitch and I let it go. The next morning I checked my account again and things were back to normal, although I did make some additional deposits I made that brought my balance up from just a few hundred dollars. So what happened here? All I can put together is that I mildly thought about having more money in my account and the next day $6000 showed up. The second day I made a request for a specific amount, $20.000. “Wouldn’t it be nice…” I said, and like magic it was there the next day. I am very familiar with Manifesting 1,2,3 and you don’t need #3 and it mentions how we create with our thoughts and how those thoughts respond to our specific instructions. It was very nice to have the extra money show up but it was only for a couple of days, JUST as I asked for. I’m onto this and now I will ask for the money or the equivalent of money, something that is spendable or of equal value. I made the impossible happen once and I will do it again… and again. What an amazing demonstration of what our thoughts can do! L. Go to the Interviews Page to see and hear Ken talking about Manifesting 123 and you don’t need #3. There is new information here and you won’t hear it anywhere else. It is so simple. Make it work for you! Have a manifesting story to share? Please email it in and if it is used for this newsletter I’ll send you a free, signed copy of the book as a thank you. Photo credit: paymentweek.com and Manifesting123 on Pinterest
Find Yourself In Line for Something? Manifest Your Shortcut
Lately, I have heard from friends and people writing in about waiting for things. It prompted me to look up this earlier story and feature it again. Aren’t we all waiting for something at times? Rather than waiting, let’s take action as C.M. did. The results are often surprising! Taking action is the #2 of Manifesting 1,2,3. It’s about dealing with worry and fear and here’s an earlier newsletter articlethat may be helpful in that regard. Ken C.M. writes: Please let me share with you my adventure last week. I was flying standby from Tampa to Denver. I had a connection in DC. When I arrived, the flights were delayed due to a storm the night before. There were 33 people on standby, I was number 27. The first two flights were overbooked already and many people had been there since early morning. The possibly of staying the night was very real, so I decided to manifest a good outcome and say I am already on the plane. There was a third flight and I was #13 on the list with 20 seats open, but they had not placed the people from the previous flight that was overbooked.Many people stood waiting and hoping to get on this flight. I took action and saw myself sitting on the plane, thanking the Universe, relaxed and happy, never changing the thought.The plane boarded and now it was time to announce the standbys. The man at the gate called the first passenger 5 times, no show, then the next, no show. Then the man said, “What is going on? This has never happened. Where are all the people waiting for this flight?” He kept announcing, but no one came forward. Now the rest of us were getting excited and started saying we might get on this flight.Incredibly, all 12 passengers on standby failed to show. My name was the next called! I jumped up and said I am here! Everyone laughed. The wonderful thing was not only did I get on, but all the other people who had been there all day were able to board also. I had your book with me during the trip and read it several times and used what I had learned on this day.I was using the techniques in the book, playing my movie, creating my smoke! It was nice that in my movie everyone got home! Thank you, Ken for your wonderful, powerful book.It helped put the finishing touches on what I already knew. C.M. Go to the Interviews Page to see and hear Ken talking about Manifesting 123 and you don’t need #3. There is new information here and you won’t hear it anywhere else. It is so simple. Make it work for you! Have a manifesting story to share? Please email it in and if it is used for this newsletter I’ll send you a free, signed copy of the book as a thank you. Photo credit: sfgate,com and Manifesting123 on Pinterest
Are You Ready to Ask Yourself, “What Is Your Wish For the Future?”
Anna writes: Before Christmas last year I was down and soul-tired. How could I change things? What could I do? I began with gratitude. I felt I was not being nurtured by others. It was not completely true but it was how I felt. I had many things to be grateful for. Seeming to lack other options, I started with gratitude. I began taking better care of myself and decided to be more compassionate, nurturing and responsible to me. I know about manifesting but being in this low place (not the first time) I didn’t have the energy to visualize better solutions… that’s pretty low. I do have very good friends, so I surrounded myself with those thoughts and sometimes I felt a soothing feeling of calm. Out of the blue, a good friend to the north called me and invited me to up for an extended visit. I would have never asked her, so I jumped at the opportunity. I had a lot to do before leaving and I was happy to focus on the work at hand. It was a rainbow beyond my gloom. Before my trip, I got a call from my adorable sister-in-law. She wanted to meet for lunch and I must admit, it was an effort to accept and break out of my past patterns of being withdrawn. Happily, I did go and we spent a delightful three hours at a little restaurant. Toward the end of our time, she asked me if I had checked into Social Security widow’s benefits. Her brother and my husband, had passed years ago and there wasn’t anything that came to me from his estate. Within a year, a second tragedy struck with the death of one of my two daughters from cancer. I hadn’t been the same since and closed the door on revisiting those difficult days. But my sister-in-law gave me hope, it would all come down to how long I was married in order to be eligible for the benefits. I was going to have to get the marriage license and divorce papers from my storage locker, a big job given all the boxes in there. I went to the storage locker, opened the door and it was more intimidating than I remembered, wall-to-wall boxes. Well you have to start somewhere, so I picked a box from the top and opened it. To my surprise, all the paperwork I need was in the first place I looked. Grateful!! Looking at the records, I was married for 10 years and 4 months. My flight was the next day, so I put off the Social Security inquiry for the moment and traveled north. I had a marvelous time there even though I had a fall I had during my visit. As it turns out, the fall was a blessing because I was getting treatments of steady massages and acupuncture with some very good side-effects. I was certainly being pampered and cared for, but more importantly, I could feel the release of those pains from my past. I was becoming more whole and happier. Apparently I was ready for an important question asked by a friend, “What is your wish for the future?” I really didn’t know what to ask for, but recent events made me think that a way forward was being made for me. In my recent past, I would wake up late, work some, and then later, read and nap. It was how I coped with the empty me day after day, but now I wanted to go back to being the artist I was before. In a short time, the artworks began to flow out of me. It was a wonderful feeling and they were selling! That is always a good thing because I had been living a very minimal existence financially. Now I was fulfilled doing artworks for people that appreciated them. Yes, a way forward was definitely developing for me and at last, I was taking the first steps along that path. It made me feel joyous, empowered and secure. On my flight back home, I had a conversation with a woman that was in the fashion business. I realized that I was not in that place… yet. I noticed that as we were talking on the plane, the pain from my recent fall disappeared! So many good things are continuing to come my way! I felt compelled to take action and write down an intention, that I will be living in the town I just visited. I was clear on that, but actually writing it down surprised and empowered me. Well then, OK on making a move. I am taking charge! Now that I was back home, I felt good about exploring the possible survivors’ benefits. I called ahead, but I was told that I had to appear personally, without an appointment, and to get to the Social Security office early. Once in the office, I had to take a number and wait. When it was my turn, I met a most wonderful man at a counter behind a glass separator. Looking at my records he said, “Well dear, it looks like you will qualify for benefits, but just barely.” There is an advantage to being older because people often use endearing names for you and today it was very nice to hear. I was stunned that I might qualify and said to myself that $300 a month would be great. Immediately I corrected myself, taking the limits off of what would be possible. He asked me about my loss and I told him that my daughter had also passed about the same time. He looked at me with his caring eyes and moved his hand under the glass barrier to me. I touched his hand and immediately felt like I had plugged into an electrical outlet, the feeling was so strong, a pure and caring connection. “We will take care of you,” he said, and then he went off to talk to a colleague. In the interim, I felt my deceased husband and daughter around me and I thanked them both. The man
Where Do You Want to Go? Manifest It!
Here is a classic story around a singular thought that was repeated and reinforced constantly. Does it sound easy or too good to be true? You would be correct, but that’s how manifesting works. It should be noted that Melissa never doubted or labeled her intention as impossible. She never got in the way of the dream she was building. Think it, repeat it and be grateful in advance for your wonderful outcome. That’s the basis of Manifesting 1,2,3 and you don’t need #3. We are all equally capable of creating marvelous things in our lives, just ask Melissa. Ken Melissa writes: Random moments change lives. Mine arrived in the form of a Sunday afternoon phone call from a professional colleague asking whether I would like to join her on a ski trip to Banff, British Columbia. A childhood in Florida left me with a lot of experience with water sports – but the closest we got to winter was the rare night when the temp dropped below 32 degrees. That’s when my father left the sprinkler system going overnight so that when we woke, the orange trees in our yard were coated in ice. Pretty cool. But not exactly winter. Six months after that phone call, I arrived in Banff, British Columbia as a member of the Atlanta Ski Club. The more experienced skiers in the group helped guide me through renting boots and skis and recommended booking a lesson for the following morning. As my colleague had assured me, the Ski Club had a wide span of abilities and two other women joined in for a group lesson. We met our instructor, a young 20-something woman named Keilty. The four of us stood side-by-side in our newly, but-not-so-comfortable gear, just at the edge of the slope, waiting for our first instruction. I looked around and in a single moment, it happened. Something inside shifted. Somehow I knew this place. I would discover later on that my genetic heritage is almost 30% Norwegian and Swedish so perhaps it was some ancient limbic system memory awakening. I loved everything that I saw that day: the bright, white monochromatic landscape and the pleasing geometry of snow-covered spruce trees; the bite of the cold air in my lungs. The slight edginess and primal fear of losing control during a fast run down the slopes. The heart-pounding athleticism of skiing. I was home. After our morning lesson we re-grouped for lunch and something else dawned on me. As I looked around the restaurant, I saw that that the majority of the skiers having lunch were 65 or older; there was a lot of gray hair! This meant to me that here was a sport in which I could invest time, money, effort and enjoy it the rest of my life. I was in. I wanted this. No matter how long it took. For the next 15 years I continued my annual ski weeks with the Atlanta Ski Club. But in between that yearly trip, I kept the vision always in front of my mind: of becoming a great skier, living close to a mountain where I could ski everyday, not just once a year and living in an idyllic, picture postcard snowy place year-round. On each ski trip I bought decals, refrigerator magnets, t-shirts, sweat shirts and wool caps that sported the logo of whatever ski town I had visited. The magnets lived on my refrigerator door and were in front of me every time I opened the fridge. The decals lived on notebooks, computer covers and a ski helmet. My vision for the future was present for me every single day. Gradually, as my professional life evolved into a consulting schedule, my once-a-year ski trip turned into two weeks a year. Then I met my husband, who was a life-long skier, and loved it as much as I did. Our trips became three weeks at a time. When we began researching possibilities for a ‘forever’ home in retirement, there was no question that a ski town would be the right fit. It took twenty years from that first encounter in Banff to where I am today, but I made it happen. Now I live one mile from one of the best ski mountains in the country…maybe in the world. My daily view has evolved from a refrigerator door of ski town magnets to the Steamboat Springs gondola, which I see from my living room window. The power of intent. It works! Melissa Go to the Interviews Page to see and hear Ken talking about Manifesting 123 and you don’t need #3. There is new information here and you won’t hear it anywhere else. It is so simple. Make it work for you! Have a manifesting story to share? Please email it in and if it is used for this newsletter I’ll send you a free, signed copy of the book as a thank you. Photo credit: moumtainyahoos.com, and Manifesting123 on Pinterest