Need Something Done? Manifest with Big Bird!
From Dr Tamurah’s newsletter relaying a clients story, with their permissions: As a professional addictions counselor, Linda interacts with many, many people, often in seemingly hopeless situations. She recalls one client who had really turned his life around and was ready to start a new job. He had a car and the job, but he had no driver’s license. The frustrating part was that he could get the driver’s license if he only had $125! As a professional counselor, Linda is of course prohibited from financially assisting her clients. Repeatedly, she tried contacting various volunteer and charitable organizations. Her client was from a small town and had an infamous reputation, so as soon as they heard his name usually the phone would click off. Linda had run out of options for her client. So the morning before a long drive to meet with him, she said a prayer, asking for a Sign. Her request was for a Big Sign which would indicate that she herself should help him. She asked for a BIG BIRD to manifest in a most unusual way, something that she could not miss. If she saw the bird, she would go out on a limb and help the client herself; she did not wish to see him fail. She drove very slowly that morning, watching for unusual bird activity. Nothing. She even sat in her car in the parking lot to her office, still asking and hoping. Nothing. She decided it was not meant to be and went into her office and started working. After a short time, colleagues from the room next to her began calling to her, “Linda, you should see this. It’s really big!” What? She kept working, ignoring them. Again, “Really Linda, you should come look at this. It is so big!” Third time, “Linda—Come on! It’s huge!” This was enough to get her away from her desk and into the other room. What did she see? An enormous White Owl was seated on the window sill looking into the room! Now, this was midday in Texas during the summer heat where temperatures rarely go below 100 degrees. Such huge White Owls are nearly seen during daylight hours, especially during extreme heat. As soon as Linda entered the room, the Owl turned its head as though gazing directly at her, then slowly flew away… Well, that was the sign she had been waiting for! Linda anonymously sent the client $125 cash with a typed letter stating: ‘This is a Gift from Spirit…’ The next time the client came in, he said, “I got a letter from God!!” He did use the money for a Driver’s License, did start the job and continues doing well. Spirit / God /Consciousness does work in mysterious ways! …And is always listening… Just ask! Manifest it! …and it’s perfectly OK to start right now. Ken Photo credit: Left: Ignatian Spirituality and Manifesting 123 on Pinterest ________________________________ At last, creation itself is explained simply and convincingly. This is the book that changes everything! Ready to start now? (it’s a fun ride) Purchase the book or e-book. Want to share books with friends? They are discounted for qualities of 10 or more. Contact Ken. Testimonials and Amazon five-star reviews 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? This newsletter is published twice a month, on the 1st and 3rd Fridays. Your wonderful manifesting stories continue to come in, and thank you for those. Do you have a story? 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.
I Got a Glimpse That Manifesting Works, Then I Nailed It! (reprise)
This is a favorite story about money and fear…. and manifesting! Ken Alicia writes: Shortly after my husband died, I took out a personal loan with my bank to pay for some badly needed repairs on the house. The amount of the loan was $15,000. About that time I saw the movie The Secret, which was a totally new concept to me. Later a webinar on a similar topic came to my attention and I listened to several talks. One in particular caught my attention. The speaker was a woman who had written a book on how to manifest money really quickly. I decided to give her method a try so I could pay off my loan. I did the writing exercises as directed, specifying how much money I wanted and exactly what I would use it for. I practiced it daily for some time and then kind of forgot about it when nothing seemed to happen. I continued paying off my loan with monthly payments, as much as I could afford each month. Then I noticed something funny about my loan statement when I looked at it online. There were 2 payments totaling almost exactly $15,000 that I could not account for. I certainly didn’t make those payments. How could that happen? The bank could not track down the source of the $15,000. She sent me to another branch office where I had taken out the loan and I talked to the banker who originally had processed the loan for me. She could not explain the 2 mysterious payments either. So she called a third banker at the national headquarters in their loan department and got no explanation. So three bankers could not find the source of the $15,000 and they all said they had never seen anything like it before. The last banker said if they could not trace the payments, the money would be mine within a specified amount time (which I don’t recall now). Well, they must have found the error, because the money disappeared from my loan account. Ouch! I continued to make payments and about that time, I came across Manifesting 123. I began to think that maybe I had been too detailed and worrisome, so instead of visualizing the amount of $15,000, I began instead to imagine how I would feel when the loan was paid off, since that was what I really wanted. I was comforted by the fact that $15,000 did magically appear earlier so it diminished my worry and fear. I began to use the really easy techniques in Manifesting 123, particularly the #2 regarding worry and fear. There was another helpful thing I picked up in the book, I asked that all these things in my future come with an Ease and a Grace. It was a great comfort and helped to lessen the ‘unknowns.’ Within a few weeks I received a call from a neighbor who wanted to know if I would like to sell my husband’s truck. Long story short, I did sell the truck and the amount we agreed on was $15,000! Everything worked out perfectly. It seems that one way or another, when I manifested what I desired it happened – twice! I love the idea of using less detail unless it is absolutely necessary and being in the future with my successful result. Oh yes, I didn’t forget my gratitude every day! Manifesting 123 really works! Alicia From the newsletter archive, here is some good information on dealing with fear. Ken ________________________________ At last, creation itself is explained simply and convincingly. This is the book that changes everything! Ready to start now? (it’s a fun ride) Purchase the book or e-book. Want to share books with friends? They are discounted for qualities of 10 or more. Contact Ken. Testimonials and Amazon five-star reviews 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? This newsletter is published twice a month, on the 1st and 3rd Fridays. Your wonderful manifesting stories continue to come in, and thank you for those. Do you have a story? 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: unknown, and Manifesting 123 on Pinterest
It Bears Repeating… Add the NOW to Your Manifesting Practice
Earlier in May of this year, I went over how some of my fellow artists were discussing manifesting and how we could use the idea of the Now to eliminate the annoying gaps that are common between art sales. That May newsletter follows below so you can get all of the details on how to apply this idea. Now I want to bring you up to date on what happened in the last two weeks, a personal experience of the artist/author Nancy Rynes and myself. I had an internet radio interview with Richard Dugan coming up and my thought was to try using the Now idea to create a fast sale of one of my paintings and if the sale came through, I would discuss it during the interview. I wanted the experiment to have a very short window to better illustrate that thoughts can act quickly with the Now idea. So two days prior to the interview I repeated this simple thought, “A painting is selling NOW.” That was it. The morning of the interview with Richard arrived and there wasn’t any word of a sale, so I didn’t bring it up…heck. Ditto for the evening as well. The next morning, I had plenty to do and jumped right in. The day was going by quickly when I was interrupted by my gallery in Santa Fe, Dominique Boisjoli Fine Art. Dominique was calling to tell me about a very large sale to an out of town couple that was new to the gallery and was seeing my work for the first time. They quickly decided to make the purchase, left the gallery and I got the happy call. Ken’s art website That was a 36-hour result and yes, I was surprised and very grateful! And there is more… Nancy Rynes was passing through and during her time visiting and painting here, we discussed manifesting and my last sale. She is a manifesting expert, but for whatever reason, she didn’t have a daily regimen that addressed her art sales. Right on the spot, she declared the addition had been made – she is “now manifesting more art sales.” Under the heading of what took so long, she let me know early the next day that she had just sold an oil she posted on Facebook. That was exciting but the day wasn’t over yet…. Later that afternoon she was contacted by a new collector and they agreed upon a good-sized commission! Laughs and gratitude followed! Those are very fast manifesting results or remarkable coincidences. Either way, a needle was threaded inside those very tight time frames. Here’s an example of one of Nancy’s large oils, “My Eyes Turned Skyward.” 32 x 65 inches Now the follow up – the complete information from the earlier May newsletter repeated below. Important. Add the NOW to Your Manifesting Practice I have a lot of fellow artist friends and some of them steadily manifest things in their lives. Earlier in the year, I was talking with one of them about getting more sales and at the least, steady sales without the big gaps between purchases. We discussed how our thoughts create form and outcomes and all of the ideas in the book, when the topic of timing came into the conversation. That is, when do our thoughts typically make this happen and what would be the best approach? The timing is all over the place, by the way, but read on for an idea with positive outcomes regarding our thoughts and timing. That discussion took me back years before to a conversation with William Buhlman. He is the premier out-of-body author and the first person that described to me how he saw our thoughts take form in the non-physical realms. He observed that in his out-of-body travels, there is no time as we perceive it, that everything is in the NOW. The past, present and future is all now. This is commonly known and agreed upon by many others, including Judy Goodman who is much quoted in the book, all familiar visitors to the non-physical dimensions. I can’t wrap my head around it, since our physical experience is limited to three dimensions plus time, but to our non-physical consciousness, this is the norm. Moving forward, here are the basic manifesting instructions in the book: One imagines themselves in a future of their own making where the things they desire have already happened, and then they express their gratitude for that result. Your repetitive thoughts will begin to create that very outcome in the non-physical realm, which is also the place of NOW. Hmmm…. Understanding this now concept could advantage our potential for manifesting, so with that realization, we put a little something else into our plan for more and consistent art sales. First, we continued our manifesting regimen where each day we visualized a future where those sales and our artistic success had been achieved. Now for the new part. We allowed that when we happened to think about a painting sale, we would say to ourselves, “A painting just sold,” or “A painting is about to sell.” This is not an everyday regimen, as we allow it to come up organically and without pressure. It has a slight sense of casual mastery to it…”Oh yes, and a painting just sold today,” a simple observation. For myself, it felt like a small, psychic knowing on a few occasions but most of the time my mind would just stray to that idea and I would make the “sold or about to sell statement,’ in an almost unconcerned way. Much like picking up a common tool like a pencil to use, “Oh yes, I’ll get a pencil for that and it will work every time,” kind of light effort. So what happened? Sales happened and successfully most of the time. We would think to make the statement and we might think to repeat it 2-3 times in the course of a
So Much Has Changed! (reprise story)
Jane writes: It is AMAZING how this works. I’m on Day 7, and I cannot believe how many things have just manifested. The important part is the “AND I AM SO GRATEFUL!” It all began when I was finally got the book, then I began to formulate my “movies.” In one of my movies, I visualized my physical body as being healthy and strong. I wasn’t imagining my 50 year old body as “buff” or “ripped” and I didn’t have “buns of steel.” In my movie I was just standing straight and tall, smiling, healthy, strong, and fit. Standing next to me was my life partner feeling exactly the same. The image was so powerful, and I was SO grateful. I created a flash flood of gratitude for that vision of my future! That night I happened to mention to my partner that I wanted to be strong and fit again. In the past when I talked about getting healthy, he came up with a laundry list of excuses not to. I would get discouraged and agree with him, so we never took any action other than finding reasons not to. The next time I asked it was different. He agreed with me that he would like to be more fit too, but instead of just making excuses, he suggested that we go for a walk. Our previous walks consisted of a short stroll to the end of our short street and back again. It hardly counted as exercise. As before, we walked to the end of the street, but now we agreed that it was a fine night and we should walk a little further. We picked up our pace and walked almost a mile. Since then, we’ve headed outside every chance we get, usually every other day. We are exercising together for the first time in YEARS. No arguments, excuses, guilt, effort, plan, equipment, pep talks, struggle, pain, and no gym memberships! The next thing I knew, we just started getting healthier. It is nearly unbelievable how quickly and effortlessly this came about. Another thing I visualized was me creating new “giftable art” products for the holidays that were fast, fun, and easy to make. On my way home from work I stopped at the corner thrift shop and found 20 small journals that I paid only $6 for. I quickly figured out how to transform those 30 cent journals into $15 journals in two easy steps. They sold IMMEDIATELY. I made $294 for about an hour’s work! After using the techniques in Manifesting 1,2,3, I’ve seen lots of big and little changes, but the biggest change is in my attitude.Whenever I find myself running my old “poor me” scenarios, I switch over to a manifesting movie instead. It improves my outlook and confidence immediately. In small but significant ways, I am manifesting a healthier mindset, body, relationship, and bank account! Manifesting 1,2,3 has worked like nothing else I’ve tried before. My “movies” and my life are getting better and better. I cannot begin to tell you how grateful I am to you for bringing Manifesting 1,2,3 into being. Jane What the heck?? Jane just grabbed the book an jumped right in. She was using Manifesting #1 to visualize being in her future and she was grateful for what she was experiencing. It was just that simple. She imagined that in her future she was experiencing health for the two of them and successfully selling her new creations. It this instance, everything fell into place quickly. Her partner was swept into the movie as well, tipping over to the positive. What a difference! An important side effect is how Jane’s attitude changed and what a priceless result that was. Jane is creating more than just art. She has materialized a new life with a cherry on top. Amazing! You might want to give it a try yourself…what the heck! Ken _____________________________ Want more? (it’s a fun ride) Purchase the book or e-book. Want to share books with friends? They are discounted for qualities of 10 or more. Contact Ken. Testimonials and Amazon five-star reviews 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? This newsletter is published twice a month, on the 1st and 3rd Fridays. Your wonderful manifesting stories continue to come in, and thank you for those. Do you have a story? 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 credits: unknown and Manifesting 123 on Pinterest
Manifesting and the Equivalents
First, let me begin with two points, simply stated. First, our coordinated thoughts with two people or larger have great power. Never underestimate what two or more people can create together. Peace in the family? World peace anyone? Also, we have another power and it is one that has the ability to improve how we feel in the worst of situations. It is gratitude. There is always something to be grateful for and when we are in a grateful place, not only do we feel better but by example, we can lift the spirits of others. Let me start by saying it is human nature to limit ourselves but our thoughts are not limited at all. Everything in our world, unless it occurred naturally, was likely formed first by the thought of someone or by a group working together. Also, we often fall into the tendency to have singular goals with only one way to achieve it. Let’s open things up, way up. Something that is often missed in our creative endeavors is the concept of equivalent outcomes. We will often score our manifesting success by the ability to buy the thing we are manifesting but there are far more positive possibilities beyond making a material purchase. In the stories archive there are numerous examples of people needing better cars and they do appear as gifts. There are also examples of a far better used car paid for by the insurance company after hail damage totaled out the much older one. Money is a concept and there are endless ways that money can appear unexpectedly and outside of earning wages. There are the unexpected checks in the mail for example and then there are the equivalents of money: better places to live for less money, reductions in costs, sales on needed items, charity, gifts, vacations at friend’s homes with little or no cost and much more. Sometime what appears to be bad news is not. Individuals are moved out or fired from undesirable jobs when a new one is wished for or manifested. This looks like the worst possible outcome, but leaving that job would have been difficult because financial security was required. What often occurs next is that more options are now available and a new job appears, slightly better perhaps, but at a minimum, a good place to land until the more ideal opportunity presents itself. There are physical frailties that can be improved or managed with medicines or assisting technologies from leg braces to cardiac pacemakers, providing the equivalent of well-being and good health. Many of my favorite stories sent in and available in the web story archive, are what I call the “internal” ones like more happiness and less stress, and as two examples, people are asking for and manifesting changes in their personal lives. It’s not as if they want the president of the company to retire so they can take that job, something that would require a lot of “moves” beyond their personal sphere. They are not asking for world peace as a prerequisite for their personal comfort. Regardless of their present position, they just wish to have a more contented and pleasurable life, happier and if that is the case, less anxious. Sometimes the life changing result has appeared the very next morning upon waking. “I haven’t been this happy since high school,” and in another experience, “Stress is not an issue for me anymore.” Also, these two individuals describe their miraculous experience from a deep knowing, both saying, “… and I know the change is permanent.” Equivalents allow for far more possibilities than the single target approach we so often take. We can’t know all the likelihoods; our view is too limited, but here’s a suggestion that uses a very broad net for good results. Ask “That your best and highest good be done,” And be sure and add your gratitude to this request. Your thoughts will begin from an unlimited starting point to form results, not just one and in the quickest and most efficient way. It may not happen overnight, but your thoughts are now on the job building away. Oh, and don’t forget, you are heard. Don’t miss out! Ken Photo credit: istock / Francscoach, and Manifesting 123 on Pinterest
Favorite Manifesting Stories from the Last Six Months
After Two Negative Years, Manifesting the Opposite! M. writes: Sometime back, my sister, K. was working at a compounding pharmacy in Texas but it didn’t work out. I talked with her and asked, “Why don’t you look for a good paying, full time job doing something you would like to do?” That’s when I talked to her about manifesting. I was manifesting for her daily. She has a tendency to be negative so I jumped in and said, “Look, when you speak it, you’re bringing it to you. So you need to turn that around and you need to say that this is the job I want. Imagine yourself working in that large hospital you like that is 20 minutes away, not something with a one hour commute each way.” It’s remarkable to see how the sister’s manifesting brought it all together and better than she had asked for. Lost, in Trouble and Reaching Out with a Prayer Mikaela writes: I was living in Nashville, Tennessee, making a living as a singer. I was on the road at 6:30pm and it was dark during the rush hour and I’m crying. I’m lost. I have no idea what I’m doing with my life or my career, and all of a sudden, my back left tire pops and goes flat. I got to an underpass and pulled over on the left side of the road near the fast lane. I sat there, feeling very depleted, very beaten and really, really lost. I grabbed my keys, kept them in my hands, and decided just to walk up the highway and find a place to run across five lanes of rush hour traffic to get home. I quickly realized that would be impossible, a death wish and there were no helpful cell phones during those years. My walking path on the side of the highway was very narrow and spooky. It was then I realized that I was trapped in a bad situation. So I just kept walking and I remember thinking, “Alright, that’s it. Either take me out now or give me some kind of a sign because I can’t do this anymore. Give me a sign. I need a sign that I’m supposed to still be here.” She got a surprising result! There Are Ups and Downs But There Are Also Gratitudes, Prayers and Manifesting L. writes: Every morning I write down the things that I am thankful and grateful for in my life when I have my morning coffee and oatmeal. I am very big on gratitude and manifesting! Each day I write down what I am thankful for on a large monthly calendar book called the Smart Daily Planner. Things began to get difficult for L. and her husband. The first event was the loss of her beloved horse, a long-term companion for over 20 years and then they lost their great rental home. With prayer and manifesting, it all came back together better than she could have imagined. The Little Cafe That Could with Impeccable Timing on the Menu Stu writes: I recently opened a café in Santa Fe on Canyon Road, a well-known street lined with galleries. It has been a dream of mine to do just this and in this very location for a very long time. This café came together in a magical way. After reading the book, Stu realized he had been manifesting his dream cafe in a textbook way. Take note! More Like Deal Making Rather Than Manifesting, But… J. writes: Last October my dad passed away. Apart from grieving becomes this feeling of what have I done in my life? What do I need to get accomplished? I am thinking it’s time for me to be somebody different, perhaps that is the key but I’m still processing a lot of feelings, generally just feeling blue and affecting my husband too. Looking to shift things, I remember that we used to watch Storage Wars together and we sometimes bid on a unit every couple of years or so. For whatever the reason, a person abandons a rental storage unit and the general public can bid on the contents. They gave it a go but it is a complicated project and because of potential downsides, J. kept asking for guidance and used manifesting for an outcome. It went incredibly well and in a completely unexpected way. I hope you enjoy the inspirational stories. Your thoughts DO create reality, so use your birthright, this gift to create a better life for yourself and the world! Here’s a bonus from a previous newsletter: Wanna Know a Real Secret? Your Thoughts Are Creating Now: Here are the Facts and What to Do Ken Photo credit: CLOCR and Manifesting 123 on Pinterest
Getting a Hunch May be an Opportunity to Ask. Why Not?
L. F. writes: My son was going to a on a weekend bachelor / bachelorette party, weekend fest and there would be fun with drinking and swimming. He is not a strong swimmer and I was worried about him. I sent him a text saying that if at any point you want to come home, I’ll get you because he’s without a car. He texted me back saying that he felt like there was something behind my text. “What are you not telling me?” he asked. I got stuck trying to give him an answer. I had a bad feeling about the trip but as a mom you just have to get out of the way sometimes. So I just said that I wanted him to have a great time. I couldn’t pinpoint, it but I felt he was in danger. After our texting, I called out for help, “Please, protect my son, protect them all this weekend.” I felt so strongly that he was in danger and sure enough, he was. I was hoping that when he saw the speed of the river with the spring runoff, they might pass on the idea. Well, they went ahead and got in the raft anyway and the trip went fine until the very end. The raft capsized on a small, smooth rock, causing it to immediately flip over. Two of the girls got stuck under the raft but they managed to get out and get to the river bank. My son was thrown into the middle of the river and it carried him away. The river was running so fast he couldn’t get to the sides. He said, “I did all the things they told me. I tried keeping my feet forward but that didn’t work. I thought at some point I’ll try putting my feet down on the river bottom rocks but they were banging me up too much.” He told me that he kept going further and further down the river and started taking in water until he got to a point where he thought, “If I don’t get saved soon, this is it.” And then he said it was like an angel appeared. It was their river guide. He just appeared and pulled him out of the water. My son said, “I had nothing left, no energy left when the guide pulled me out of the water. I couldn’t move to lift my body and I was throwing up water.” He was near to drowning. He said, “When the rest of the people caught up to me, the girls were hysterical and crying.” Out of all the people, it’s my kiddo who’s not the strong swimmer of the group that ended up falling into the river. After the accident we all got together and another guy in my son’s group said to me, “There’s no God, this was awful.” My son looked at me, shaking his head. He goes mom, “This has changed my life. I want to meet somebody and to start doing things. I’m not even afraid to go river rafting anymore. I’m going to do things to better prepare myself, like becoming a better swimmer.” I explained that I wanted to tell him before he left on the trip that I was very afraid about it but I couldn’t put that on him. We were thinking back on this and realized that somehow the river guide got out in front of them or perhaps it was a guide from a different raft that pulled him out. It’s pretty strange because my son’s river guide was thrown out of the boat as well. My son asked, “How could he have even gotten to me? I don’t even know.” How the guide managed to get that far ahead and pull him my son out is nothing short of a miracle, or for that matter, any guide showing up at just the right time. Regardless of who and how, it was like it was an angel showed up and it was just the timely help he needed. Oh, and also, the river guides told him that he was rescued right before the most dangerous rapids were coming up. Much was learned on that trip. I didn’t hesitate to request help for my son and he told me his life was changed. It is much to think about, to be grateful for and to pass on to others. L. F. ________________________________ Want more? (it’s a fun ride) Purchase the book or e-book. Want to share books with friends? They are discounted for qualities of 10 or more. Contact Ken. Testimonials and Amazon five-star reviews 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? This newsletter is published twice a month, on the 1st and 3rd Fridays. Your wonderful manifesting stories continue to come in, and thank you for those. Do you have a story? 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: Satu at Pexels.com; and Manifesting 123 on Pinterest
More Like Deal Making Rather Than Manifesting, But…
J. writes: Last October my dad passed away. Apart from grieving becomes this feeling of what have I done in my life? What do I need to get accomplished? I am thinking it’s time for me to be somebody different, perhaps that is the key but I’m still processing a lot of feelings, generally just feeling blue and affecting my husband too. Looking to shift things, I remember that we used to watch Storage Wars together and we sometimes bid on a unit every couple of years or so. For whatever the reason, a person abandons a rental storage unit and the general public can bid on the contents. I brought it up and my husband said, “Hey, why don’t why don’t we bid on one of these?” I agreed because it would be fun. Now, this is a big deal for me because I don’t want to buy someone else’s sorrow. So when I am bidding, I will usually call and try to find out any back story that they’re willing to tell me because I just don’t want to buy something from a super sad situation. So I called the storage company and they said, “Oh no, this person walked away, never made an effort to keep up the rent. There’s nothing to worry about here.” So I got the green light to go forward but I’m still thinking, I don’t know if I should do this. So I decided to say, “Okay, God, do you think should I should I go for this?” I’m looking for some advice. I want to manifest this and have it come out successfully, but I’m bouncing it out to the universe and asking,”What do you think?” I need to be told. I’m just in that headspace and need reassurances. Going further with this idea I said, “Okay. I don’t mean to tempt you God, but you know, I sell inexpensive, vintage items on Etsy. If you want me to bid on this storage unit, then give me an Etsy sale today.” Boom, I get a sale. I’m like, no, wait a second, I can easily get a sale on my own, right? I I shouldn’t put it that way, but I needed a clearer confirmation. So here I go again, “God, I really don’t want to tempt you here, but if you give me two sales today then I’ll know it’s OK to bid on that unit.” I haven’t had two, day sales in years so I would consider this a big signal. I put it out there. For almost an hour I’m still thinking about what I had done when Etsy notified me of a second sale. So I go over to the storage company where they had some interior photos of the contents to view and I looked at them carefully. I’m seeing some things that would be really useful for me as an artist but the photos don’t show everything in the unit. OK, this kind of has my name on it and I’m getting the green light to go, so I’m going to do it. I went back to God again and said,“This will be my only bid. This is a lot of money and we’re trying to plan for our family vacations. So if you want this to really be mine, and I know I may have upset you earlier because, you know, this isn’t how I’m supposed to talk to you, but if you want me to have this, and I do see the art supplies inside, then alright, fine, let’s go with the one-time bid. That’s going to be the deal.” There was never another bid and I got all the contents. Inside there was every art supply I could ever need and more. My mind was blown. After surviving my car accident years ago and this gift of so many art supplies, I can’t be shaken from knowing that God is listening and helping. My dad’s death sent me into something unexpected, making me feel kind of lost and not painting as much as before. Now I’m the one that has been tempted and I’m putting the gift of those art supplies to work making more paintings! J. Apparently, God wasn’t upset with J. earnestly asking for guidance! Ken ________________________________ Want more? (it’s a fun ride) Purchase the book or e-book. Want to share books with friends? They are discounted for qualities of 10 or more. Contact Ken. Testimonials and Amazon five-star reviews 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? This newsletter is published twice a month, on the 1st and 3rd Fridays. Your wonderful manifesting stories continue to come in, and thank you for those. Do you have a story? 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: Junk Boss and Manifesting 123 on Pinterest
The Little Cafe That Could with Impeccable Timing on the Menu
I recently opened a café in Santa Fe on Canyon Road, a well-known street lined with galleries. It has been a dream of mine to do just this and in this very location for a very long time. The Café Canyon is down below the street level, a real respite under the trees and umbrellas, away from the cars and pedestrians but no one had ever used this little, vacant space. I walked by it for 23 years always thinking, well what if I … It was in Santa Fe where I met my wife, Dominique in 2000. We married and I took her away for a time, and in some of those years, Dominique was running her gallery on Canyon Rd. I was commuting back and forth to Santa Fe while running some very big restaurants during those years in Florida: Miami, Naples, Sarasota and another near Dallas, Texas. These were big operations, $8 – $10 million a year restaurants. I every time I was back with Dominique on Canyon Road I always thought about that small, unused spot that could be perfect for a small cafe but I never was ready… until recently. A few years ago, Dominique closed her gallery and we lived together in Florida for a time, but Santa Fe called us back. We came back two years ago and not long after, the little location for my café dream came available. I began to seriously look the space over and believe it or not, one guy got it zoned for a coffee shop 15 years ago but he never acted on it. Now it was meant to be, as if it had been waiting for me all those years, undeveloped. This café came together in a magical way. All those many years I envisioned it in my head. I saw it. ..I saw exactly what this place was. I saw the evolution of it. I saw getting the tables and chairs, selecting the menu and a bar with beer and wine and now, everything has remarkably fallen into place. The café has exactly what people going up and down Canyon are looking for. Just really good wholesome food, little drinks, little menu, you know and everything’s quality and relaxing, a little oasis below the street level. I don’t see my retirement yet, so this is the perfect spot until then. I love this business and it has to be that way because if you don’t, it’ll drive you insane. I’m happy meeting the customers that come in from all over the country and I’m fine with waiting tables, talking orders, cleaning, the whole bit. I’m enjoying myself. I have your manifesting book and all those years before I was aware of it, I think that’s what I was clearly doing, manifesting. I kept thinking about this café idea, not being able to keep my mind off of it. It wasn’t a formal manifesting thing, but I was often visualizing the café concept and saw what could happen, just like the book recommends. And there is more but that’s for another time. I’ll just say for now that my little cafe came with a very nice bonus. On the same day last week, my daughter and son-in-law, Claudia and Tim, opened a new gallery next door to Canyon Cafe and my wife Dominique had her gallery grand opening directly across the street on the same day! She had kept a gallery presence on Canyon Road for many years and she is now back in a large gallery space that she was in 30 years ago. How could all of that come about this way? What timing to bring us all together like that. Oh, and there are also the 3 very young grandkids that we often carry between our three businesses, all of us nestled right together on Canyon Road, and on it goes…. We are all visualizing and creating more dreams to come true. Stu Please visit us! Café Canyon Dominique Boisjoli Fine Art Loudhorse Gallery ________________________________ Want more? (it’s a fun ride) Purchase the book or e-book. Want to share books with friends? They are discounted for qualities of 10 or more. Contact Ken. Testimonials and Amazon five-star reviews 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? This newsletter is published twice a month, on the 1st and 3rd Fridays. Your wonderful manifesting stories continue to come in, and thank you for those. Do you have a story? 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: Canyon Cafe and Manifesting 123 on Pinterest