After the Workshop, Things Are Happening Fast!

When I attended your workshop last week, I was at a very low point. I was having to take pain pills and muscle relaxants as a result of an accident a few weeks before. My doctor said I may need surgery, adding to my worries. I was counting on my friend to drive me to your workshop, but she was unable to come. I made it anyway and I’m glad I did. I was SO grateful! listening to your and everyone’s stories, I saw the many blocks and “not possibles” I was putting in my way of my success. I had just seen my financial planner and realized how I cannot afford my life or my retirement with the current job/trajectory which is physically too demanding for me anymore. I really want to do art, travel and help people one on one. I didn’t see how.The next two days after the workshop were spent cleaning and decluttering my house my mind. I was getting rid of the thoughts and limits that were in the way of allowing my clear movie to happen. As you described it in your book, I wanted this movie to be all I desired without self-imposed limits or those of others. Amazingly, many of the things I put into my movie began to happen right away. I could see the pieces falling into placeTuesday, I got a call from the international company I most want to work for. Turns out they are expanding into my area. They want to fly me to San Diego next week for an interview! If I get this job, it will create a lot of wonderful opportunities. I worked out some extra time to spend with my sister there, including extra time in her warm climate with a beach (part of my movie.)Should this job with my ideal company come to pass, there would be an increase in salary (movie.) I not only would be working with clients one on one (movie), but be able to afford fun art travel. Travel is built into the job, just as I want itI would get a car allowance that would allow me to get the perfect SUV vehicle (also part of the movie.) I could afford to go with my art and travel friend, Jeannie, to Spain!There is more… I’m finding I don’t need surgery and am getting good personal training instead. What a relief!I have a new manifesting partner as well. To be able to share this with others is such funWhen I came to Colorado in 1984, it was because of an experience I had getting lost in the wilderness. The workshop gave me the tools I needed to be centered and trusting, I not only got a clear sign of how to find my way back but a voice saying “This is how I want you to trust!Stuff got in the way, but thank you for bringing me back to trusting my Higher SelfNamaste,DebDeb figured out what she wanted and went to work on it.She was covered up in negative news but it didn’t stop her. She committed herself to change. Yes, the workshop and Manifesting 123 gave her important tools, but at the core of it all was her decision to clear out the clutter and figure out what would make her comfortable and happy. As it turns out, it wasn’t hard work… really. The results started to come in right away. Will she get that particular job? I certainly hope so, but if not, there will be others that will do very well or perhaps even better. Things are quickly starting to flow her way at lastI love the way this all came together. Suddenly all the major parts in here Movie are shown to be possible. Now Deb knows that elegant solutions are not only possible, but probable.Let’s get behind Deb’s intention for a successful job interview. Have fun at the beach too!KenDo you have a story of your own to share?  Send it to Ken      

Tim Makes a Big Wish

  As I mentioned in an earlier newsletter, I ask people to make wishes from time to time. The point is to get people to ask for things large or small, just for themselves. Too often we neglect ourselves. Request good things for yourself. Here’s a marvelous example of what can happen. It was back in 2005 or 2006 when I was reacquainted with a wonderful artist, Tim Saska. I used to represent Tim’s work at Houston gallery many years before. At the time, I saw one of his paintings advertised in a national magazine. They were very appealing, so I called Tim and we began representing his works. We did very well with his paintings and he often said that phone call made a tremendous difference in his career. It was Tim that did the beautiful paintings. He made it easy for us to place them with our clients. After my time at the gallery we had lost contact with each other, but years later I called him when I began visiting Santa Fe on an infrequent basis. It was great to see Tim again. He lived in Santa Fe and was just the tour guide I needed. One evening after dinner we were standing out under the stars. Tim was about to drive back to the tiny place he was renting in Santa Fe. There wasn’t a lot of room for him or studio space for an artist given to making large works. He was doing okay but there was too much struggle and I could tell Tim wasn’t as happy as he could be. I was married to Linda at the time, a smart, attractive women who is also a marvelous hostess and great conversationalist. (No, we are not married now but we are good friends. For that, a lot of credit goes to her, thank you, Linda.) It was a great dinner with the three of us. As Tim was getting into his car afterwards, he made it clear that he had had a wonderful evening with Linda and I. He said, “Ken, you’re the luckiest guy in the world. I wish I had someone in my life like Linda.” I remember looking at the stars so sharp against the dark sky that night and proposing to Tim that he make a wish. Why not ask for that wonderful partner in his life? It was about 6 months later when I got a call from Tim. He was very excited and began to tell me about a lovely woman he had met, Joyce. She was a scientist working at a prestigious laboratory in the area. He was really smitten with her and he couldn’t believe his luck. Although he kept it light-hearted, he was quite serious when he described himself as something less than the Great Catch. He couldn’t figure out what Joyce saw in him, but she truly cared for him and he had moved in with her. He had found his wonderful companion and yes, she even had a better space for him to work in. Everything had had worked out beautifully. As I recall, it was about a year and a half later when Tim discovered he had a serious illness. It was tough, and in a time that was far too short, he was gone. Joyce was with him all the way and Tim could not have been more grateful for her. He had a wonderful funeral service with a gathering of good friends. They brought their tears and good cheer. During the service, some of us got up to speak. I was honored to tell Joyce this story, where she heard it for the first time. As it turns out, Joyce had been widowed before. I can’t imagine what was going on in her mind and what she felt in her beautiful heart, and bless her heart. I would speculate that she was the perfect person to love and care for Tim in the last part of his life. She truly made him very, very happy. She was his wish come true. Time is short, dear friends. Ask. Yes, be grateful for what you have but please give yourself permission to ask for more. Should you find yourself with more than enough, then you can share with others. Should your heart be filled to overflowing, then you can share that also. Enjoy this wonderful season and don’t forget to put yourself on the gift list too. Ken Do you have a story of your own to share? Send it to Ken  

Expect a Miracle!

A couple of years back I got a call from a fellow artist and good friend, Mary. She had been talking to some of her colleagues and they wanted get together and discuss having a group art show. At the core of the discussion was how could we could come together as a group and further our careers. This meeting took place about a year before I had written the Manifesting 123 book. I had already been talking to a lot of people about the manifesting techniques and some of them were in this group. Before our meeting I had been steadily using the techniques to help my art career. So when this call came in I had to smile. This was an idea I would’ve never come up with myself. I had to say yes because it sounded like just one of those opportunities I had been looking for. We got together and kicked around some ideas. We didn’t want to do an exhibition together in a small way. It couldn’t be a coffee shop or library show but something that would have real meaning and would push us as artists. I went for the moon saying, “What I would like for us to do is a Museum show.” Well, what are the chances of that? But Mary came right back and said, “Hey, I know someone that works in a museum.” I was stunned, and then it hit me. I knew someone that worked in a museum too. It was the same person, so it was a arranged that Mary would give her a call the next morning. It didn’t take long. Mary came back with good news the following afternoon. It was all arranged, we would show together at the Madden Museum of Art in Denver. We even got the date that we hoped for, September of that year. Amazing that it happened in one day. Perfect! Our planning took place early in the year so we had months to prepare ourselves for the big show. We decided that we would do something beyond what we have been doing before, going larger and bolder. We used the title To Expand and set a high bar for ourselves. Everyone got right to work. We used social media to show our works in progress and promote the show in advance. I had some ideas in mind but I was having a lot of trouble getting into the studio. My fellow exhibitors were continually posting new works. They were on fire. For those of you that read my book, you’ll know that my manifesting priorities are first for perfect health and second, to do what I’m here to do. What follows on my personal list is everything that allows me to live comfortably and happily, including a successful art career. Countless times I’ve been working in the studio when the phone rings. In minutes I know it is something that I can help with. This conversation comes under the heading of what I’m here to do. So I drop the painting and give priority to the task at hand. It’s not just the phone calls. A lot of people come to lecture and teach here in Denver. There are many wonderful teachers and friends that stay at my home for a number of days. Of course a lot of friends also want to come by at that time to visit as well. It is impossible to paint during those events, but somehow my career gets taken care of, just as I specify it in my manifesting movie. I am amazed at how the lovely buyers find my work so the bills get paid. I am very thankful for all of my galleries and distributors. I couldn’t do this without them. What a busy year since that first meeting. A number of months have now gone by but if I really work hard, I can make up for lost time. I can still put together a large body of work, including those big canvases t’m driving for. I did get two very large oils blocked in, but man, I can’t get into the studio for any length of time to save my life! It seems I’ve got a brand-new career called “Ken is always doing what is here to do” and it became a full time job plus late nights. So now I’m in real trouble. With two months before the show, I have precious little art to put on those big Museum walls. The two big canvases are still were they were two months ago, works in progress that need a lot of time and energy. There is good news: exactly as I have manifested, my art sales are doing fine. I imagine that all my galleries are having steady sales and that all are happy. Then a tough call comes in from my California gallery. Business had been really tough for them. There is a depression going on although I haven’t felt it. The gallery is closing it’s doors and they are sending all of my artworks back. That’s really too bad. We were getting some traction there and it’s a great career market. If I wasn’t so busy with other things I would’ve been in a funk, but I didn’t have the time to care at the moment. Three big crates of artworks appeared in a weeks time. I opened those heavy crates at the end of the day and brought all the paintings and pastels into the house. Then the funk found me and I went to bed, it had been another long, busy day. I woke up the next morning with the usual first thought, “When am I going to get some painting time?” I had been involved in some good things that were helpful to many for months now, but it didn’t put paint on the canvases. I grabbed a coffee and slow walked it into the room were all the returned artworks were stacked.  Then it hit me. I was looking at the equivalent of three months of painting! It was

The Perfect Condo Solution

My daughter Louisa purchased a second condo, much more spacious, with a larger wrap-around balcony in Toronto this past May. She felt ‘lucky’ to have purchased it privately, tipped off of its availability before it formally listed on the market. This private sale did not involve a realtor, thereby saving both parties around fifteen thousand dollars.Shortly after, a tenant was booked to move into this second condo. All was looking perfect with the transaction, so in mid July my daughter left town for a European vacation beginning at the Isle of Capri. What could be more idyllic? All was not, in fact, what it appeared to be. It was not at all idyllic at the condo. Just as the new tenant was to move in, moving day in fact, the new tenants saw a sign that the condo building was experiencing problems which had not been evident at the time of leasing or disclosed before my daughter left town. The tenant then decided she couldn’t risk awaiting the resolution of this problem, and cancelled her move. She later asked for the return of all of her deposit, in this case both the first and last months rent. On arriving back from vacation, my daughter pondered what was the ethical/moral thing to do. She called the tenancy board for advice on the matter. She learned the board determination was that there was no reason the tenant couldn’t move in, given that immediate work was underway to remedy the problem. The board recommended that she was legally able to withhold two month’s rent as penalty for breaking a contract without due cause. Satisfied that it was morally ethical to withhold rent, but reluctant to withhold any more than one one month penalty, she returned the last months deposit while absorbing the loss of one months revenue herself. This condo is in a well-kept building as you can see from the photo. In addition, is is also in a nice location with all amenities and even recreational parkland close by–all you could want in the area where you wish to live. You would be able to secure a new tenant easily if not for for that ‘problem’. My daughter decided she would not try to rent until this situation was resolved. Having discussed the concepts in my copy of Manifesting 123, to her, she asked, “What’s it about?” I gave her a short synopsis. She is a quick study and ‘just the facts’ usually suffice. Learning about the movie technique gave her confidence, albeit a little jittery at times judging from some of her emails. Mortgage payments on two condos brought a heart jolting test of the principles outlined in Manifesting 123. It would have been all too easy to lament: “Oh, maybe shouldn’t have been so bold–should have just sold the unit.” But instead she held on. We continued to run the manifesting movie, visualizing perfect outcomes regarding the condo. I asked a few friends familiar with such issues to help. l explained that they picture a resolution of the issues and a new tenant arriving in a timely and easily obtained manner. The ‘problem’ didn’t get completely resolved until the end of August. This wasted a month of precious time when students come to the city looking for accommodations. Missing this prime time for rentals was definitely a blow. Many people, several a day for two weeks viewed the place but no luck. There were so many condos, including brand new ones flooding the market. However, we kept running our movie and by the middle of September ,a prospective tenant called from a city nearby, Ottawa. He and his partner were interviewed over Skype, cleared the credit and employment hurdle, then gasp – sent in the signed lease and deposit after viewing the condo online. In condo rentals, this particular couple was almost unheard of. It was easy as 1,2,3! He is a student at a college very close to this particular condo. It was a perfect fit. They moved in the last weekend of September. What a relief and a perfect resolution to a serious financial problem. Both my daughter and I credit Ken Elliott’s principles, as outlined in the book Manifesting 1,2,3 for the turnaround without a ruinous wait for a new tenant. Thanks for taking time out from those late night games of solitaire to write the book Ken. It was time well spent! From Louisa in Toronto and a pleased Mom. Nothing like a little stress during your vacation. Having two house payments was not the plan. I like Louisa’s forard-thinking style. She bought the second condo as a rental property at a very good price. She got the first tenant right away and booked her vacation to Europe. Nice! Then came the oops. Everything became complicated and real money was involved. Rather than panic and hold the money issue too tightly, she refunded half of the deposit when she could have held it all. She was generous with her financial view even during crunch time. Mom came to the rescue, recommending the simple manifesting methods in the book and they did the trick. Without physically seeing the condo, a new tenant appeared and signed the lease right on schedule. Nicely done! About the solitaire. As a full-time artist, I keep pretty busy. I was getting behind on projects, saying up too late and had no time for just me. Voila! Using the methods in the book, I visualized my future where all my time is perfectly synchronized. Shortly afterward, I found myself playing solitaire rather that working into the wee hours each night. I suddenly had personal time…it had been years. I soon shifted my schedule a bit and found the time to write this book The finished copy was in my hand in one month. It just wrote itself and all the assistance I needed appeared as if on cue. Now I have another career as an author, but my personal time is still intact. It is just the way I asked. Go figure.. Now go figure out what you would

At Last, They Found Happiness, Part 2

From part one, a short review: Read the entire part one As I reported in part one last week, Kevin was in Florida on business and Cynthia was in Denver. They had met on Match.com and had only been e-mailing a week but it seemed like much longer. Cynthia and Kevin used the secure Match.com email system which didn’t disclose each other’s last names or personal contact information and they continued on that basis by mutual agreement. Nevertheless, their numerous and increasingly deep emails were bringing their hearts together fast and created a strong, mutual attraction and soul connection.On Thursday morning via Match.com email, Kevin invited Cynthia to dinner at a mutually admired restaurant in Denver, Pappadeaux, and set a time six days away. This would be the first time they would actually meet: Wednesday at 6 o’clock. Cynthia excitedly accepted and felt they would have plenty of time to exchange names, contact information and a world of other things that night with more to come. What a week it had been! When Cynthia printed out their combined emails, it ran to 68 pages. In a very short time, they shared much! They were falling in love. Part two: Cynthia could see through Match’s email system that Kevin read her response accepting his dinner invitation in the early afternoon, but surprisingly, Kevin’s e-mails stopped completely. Friday came and went without Cynthia hearing from Kevin for another day. This was the first time since they met that a day had passed without an email from him. Cynthia was confused by the silence, very worried and she could feel her heart begin to break. Perhaps the love she was feeling wasn’t shared. Perhaps he got cold feet, or it was all just some fantasy. She had no way to call him as she didn’t have his last name or telephone number. She wrote twice through Match asking him to please communicate with her so they could work through whatever his concerns were, but even those emails remained unread. Cynthia was baffled and crushed. Then four days later on Monday morning, Cynthia received an email through the dating service. It was from Kevin’s daughter, Amanda, who had prompted her father to join Match. He had shared his Match login information with his daughter when he and Cynthia first started to communicate. Kevin’s daughter had crushing news. Kevin suffered a heart attack and died that Thursday a few hours after reading Cynthia’s last email. The doctors said it was so massive he died almost instantly. This couldn’t be happening. After all the countless hours Kevin and Cynthia had shared and felt in one weeks time, after finally feeling the happiness and joy that both of them had dreamed of finally finding, it had suddenly ended without their ever meeting. Kevin’s daughter was extraordinarily gentle and kind. In her email she told Cynthia that her dad was her hero. He told her to face life head on, as that is the only way to truly live. She and her Dad talked every day about Cynthia. Kevin confided in his daughter about Cynthia and how excited and happy he was about finding her. The daughter said that she had not seen her father this happy in a very long time. Amanda was grateful that in the last week of his life, her dad found the happiness he had been looking for. It was so bittersweet. Cynthia’s tears couldn’t stop. She was crushed by the news, but her heart was filled knowing that she had made this dear man very happy. He had done the same for her. Kevin had shown her that she was able to bring a deep love and soul connection into her life. The daughter did not leave any contact information and although Cynthia wrote back to her immediately through Match, Amanda never logged in again and Kevin’s account was closed. She tried to find a way to contact both his daughters, students in Denver, but all her efforts were unsuccessful. A few days later Cynthia gave me a call. It was Wednesday, the day she and Kevin were to meet at the Denver restaurant. She was very hurt and her grief was deep. We both agreed there was a lot more to this story and we began to look at it in-depth. In the span of only one week, two people had become very close to each other. At the start, the daughter persuaded her father to sign up for the dating service. Kevin made a good intention to find his romantic partner. Cynthia did the same, meticulously putting together her profile, a very strong intention, and praying earnestly for her positive outcome. Cynthia saw Kevin’s profile and contacted him, something Cynthia rarely did. They quickly made a very strong connection and their hearts opened. How wonderful, their hearts worked! It’d been so long since they felt love, they had forgotten what it was like. What good news – their hearts opened naturally and someone cared for them. What was gained? Cynthia knows a relationship is possible and it can happen again. Kevin showed her the way and by the example of how he lived his life, she knew she had to keep her heart open to love again. Yes, she longed for Kevin but took his advice to face life head on. Cynthia knows with a great certainty that she is attractive and worthy of kind, loving attention. It had been a long time coming, but it is a precious knowledge she will not relinquish. During our call, Cynthia was overcome with the weight of this evening. It was the night they would meet. She felt she had to do something besides be at home alone, so she came up with a plan. It was a brave, good idea. She wanted to take a red rose to the restaurant and lay it somewhere outside the front door, possibly in a flowerbox. It was a great gesture and we discussed the idea of perhaps

At Last, They Found Happiness, Part 1

Part 1 Since this series of newsletters began, there have been amazing manifesting stories in a lot of categories. People have manifested jobs, cars, houses, income and more. There are a number of relationships that have been manifested but the participants feel that those stories are still unfolding so they haven’t been talked about here, at least until now. This is an important story about a wonderful relationship. To be gentle with your feelings, I’ll tell you at the beginning that it was all too short. Cynthia is a lawyer. She is bright, professional and girl next-door cute. Her practice is a busy one. She represents people who were harassed, discriminated against, or unjustly fired from their jobs. It is challenging work and at times not as lucrative as she deserves, but it is her heart’s work. She has been single for some years now and after considerable thought, she decided to join Match.com, the online dating service. Her intention was to find that really good man with whom she would have the great and lifetime love with. Her bar was set very high and she let that be known on her online profile. She put a lot of effort into putting her best foot forward with her profile and very importantly, deciding what it is that she required in a relationship. Cynthia was creating a very large intention towards one goal: the best, loving relationship she can imagine. Then she went further. She prayed for it to be given to her. She had been on the dating service six months when she was saw Kevin’s profile. She wrote a short note to him and he quickly responded. He cleared the first hurdles with an ease, humor and vulnerability that she found attractive. He felt very comfortable with her as well and a flurry of emails ensued. Since they were communicating through the dating service, their true emails, last names and phone numbers were not revealed. It’s a standard protocol that provides a level of security for all the parties involved. A rich dialogue followed and their communication only became easier, opening up to wide variety of subjects. They were quickly beginning to know each other very well and their hearts were opening. Over the next few days they were in continual contact and wrote at least three long emails to each other every day. Kevin even changed his schedule, getting up earlier in the day so he could read and respond to Cynthia’s latest emails before going to work. In a very short time, they had spent countless hours getting to know each other better and further opening their hearts. They were realizing that this new relationship had real potential. Their needs, expectations and kind hearts were a real match. Each day brought new surprises, delights and comfort with one email following the other. Something wonderful was happening. They both talked about their tendencies to withhold information, to be careful in relationships. But the two of them had reached a new level and they were revealing themselves without the usual restraints. This was love emerging. They were both feeling things that they hadn’t felt in years. Kevin made the comment that only the young could feel this way, but obviously, his emotions were telling him otherwise. His feelings for Cynthia were enriching his life and at last someone was bringing Cynthia the happiness that she had been asking for. He said it was more than chemistry for him. It was magic, natural and fun. During this time, Kevin was in Tampa, FL on business. It had only been a week but it seemed like much longer. By mutual design, they still didn’t know each other’s last names or personal contact information. On Thursday morning, Kevin invited Cynthia to dinner at a mutually admired restaurant in Denver, Pappadeaux, and set a time six days away, Wednesday at 6 o’clock. Cynthia excitedly accepted and felt they would have plenty of time to exchange names and numbers, as well as world of other things that night, and for many others to come. Cynthia’s story will continue next week… Two people simply asked to be in a good and loving relationship. To have that relationship you dream of, just put forward the prayer, the intention. Don’t forget, someone else is doing the same and by asking, you are more than halfway there. Make your intention known every day and continue on with your normal life. Strive to be better in small ways. Perhaps you can treat those you meet as if you are with your perfect partner. Be aware that your good intention is forming, so act in attractive ways: just be kind, smile and get out a bit. Say yes more often because you have become the focus of your loving creation. Be patient and be ready. More of this remarkable story will follow Thanksgiving week.Let’s be grateful, Ken read part 2 Do you have a story of your own to share? Send it to Ken

Manifesting a Multiple Result!

It was a few years ago during the worst of the recent depression. The housing market was horrible and that is a very bad thing because I sell homes for a living. I was in a very bad spot. Since I wasn’t getting commissions, I was going into my savings and I could clearly see the bottom of that well. Perhaps I would get lucky, perhaps I had a tool I could use. Before Ken wrote Manifesting 123, we often discussed the techniques that he later wrote about. I had some successes and now it was time to use the techniques to help my struggling real estate career. I kept it simple and visualized success in my future career. Shortly after, I got an amazing call. My speciality is selling homes in an exclusive, gated community. Only a select group of builders are allowed to construct homes here and I’m familiar with most of them. So it was odd that I got a call from a builder I didn’t know well. He knew that I was very successful selling in this community (well before the crash anyway) and he wanted to talk to me. Of course I agreed and we soon met. In this community, there are few lots left to build on and even fewer parcels with multiple lots. Regardless of the current state of the economy, he was moving forward to build 50 new homes on a remaining parcel. The meeting was about my being the sales agent for all 50 homes! Details were worked out between us and many months after all the building permits, etc cleared it all came to pass. Building has begun and the first home has already sold! I simply worked to manifest success in my career, never dreaming that 50 homes would fall in my lap. Wow! W. Keep it simple and express you desire in unlimited terms. W. could have asked for a lot of house sales, but she just specified that her career was a success. Imagine selling 50 homes, all to different buyers with different circumstances. That would be great, but how about 50 homes over a period of time in a very efficient way.? Who would have thought of that? Since she didn’t limit the outcome she got a great result – more than she would have conceived of. By the way, she did weather the tough times. It wasn’t great, but she survived to enjoy the housing sales boom that followed. All is well and besides, she has 49 more homes beginning construction – a nice rainbow for months to come. Ken Do you have a story to pass on? Send it to Ken

Manifesting the New House and No Debt: part 2

Continued from November 8 L writes:Okay, so it was time for a brand new movie and I was ready for the challenge! But this time it was going to be about our house selling at full asking price. Since this was more of a “concept” than a visual image for my movie, I just pictured the phone ringing and our realtor calling to tell us our house was sold. But I also did something else in addition to that movie. Something I didn’t realize was extremely powerful until much later. I started talking about it…and talking about it. I went to work on Monday and told every single one of my co-workers that a for-sale sign was going out in my yard this upcoming Thursday and that my house would be SOLD by the end of the weekend. I practically bounced around the office singing it. My co-workers looked at me like I was completely nuts. One person went so far as to say to me, “don’t you think you have unrealistic expectations given the current economy?” But I didn’t care what that person thought. It wasn’t going to stop me. This was fun! I got $10k from the last movie in under two weeks so why not a couple hundred thousand for the house! I was all fired up to get this house sold right away and get the full asking price – so bring on the showings. And bring it on is exactly what happened. That for sale sign went up on Thursday and from Friday morning through Sunday evening we had a total of 26 showings! Our realtor told us she was in shock – she had never seen so many showings in such a short time. We would come back to the house in the evening and hubby and I would have fun looking at all the realtor cards left behind on the kitchen table, imagining which one would be “attached” to our buyer. There was one card left on Saturday that stood out to us as being the single most unimpressive business card of the lot. It was not the typical fancy gloss paper card with prominent realtor photo, and prominent realty company. Instead it was basically a homemade business card on plain white card stock with a giant picture of an eagle on it and the name of the realtor, and not a fancy realty company either. Okay, I thought at the time, that one was probably not going anywhere. Monday morning came around and no call from our realtor. Tuesday and Wednesday and still no call from the realtor. Hmmm…I was supposed to have this house sold this weekend. Be patient, I thought, maybe our “buyers” are just thinking about it. We had several more showings over these three days including the coveted “second showing” on Wednesday night. This could be the one, I thought. When we got back in our house that evening there was that crazy looking “eagle” card lying on the kitchen table. I didn’t know what to think at this point. Was this a joke or a serious buyer? This guy certainly didn’t “look” very professional from his card. I thought if we are going to get an over-market, full asking price offer I anticipated it would most likely be from a full price kind of realtor, not the eagle card guy. Maybe I needed to be more “serious” about my movie and stop having so much fun. I had no idea. I kept on with my movie every evening undaunted, but “leave the doubt out” I thought. Then Thursday afternoon we got a call from our realtor. We had an offer. And, drum roll please…it was for full asking price! We asked who the buyer’s realtor was and if you haven’t already guessed it, it was the guy with the eagle card! We learned the buyers were a young couple that just moved here 3 months ago from another state and their realtor was a friend who knew the city. They were renting a house two streets over from ours and wanted to stay in the neighborhood because it was close to work. Our realtor told us they fell in love with our kitchen and master bath, and the icing on the cake for them was the pink painted room with the name “Gabrielle” painted over the bed. Their daughter was the same age as our, with the EXACT same name and a fondness for the color pink too. We also found out they had decided to buy the house on Saturday but needed a few days to get some of their finances in order. Wow. We really did “sell” our house in a weekend. And not only did we get what we wanted, our buyers got what they wanted too.What an amazing feeling of gratitude I felt. Now it was time to find our next home…and that of course meant a brand new movie. Once again I kept it very specific and very simple. In my movie we had a house on a cul-de-sac, nice neighbors with kids our kids could play with, no interior painting necessary (we were still exhausted from all the painting we did in our current house), a great view out the back with no homes behind us and lots of yard between us and our neighbors. I also added that we would find this house in three day’s time. I figured it took two weeks on the first movie, one week on the second movie, what the heck? Let’s go for three days on the third movie We looked at about a dozen houses in two days and none of them panned out. Some we just drove by and ruled out if they were even remotely similar to our current home. On the third day our realtor called early in the morning and excitedly told us she found us our house. It had been on the market for almost six months

Manifesting the New House and No Debt: part 1

From L :  Ken had just recently introduced me to the process of creating my “movie” and I was excited to begin.  Something I had been hoping for was a new house – bigger, and friendly neighbors that had kids the same age as my kids.  I had a real simple goal without much detail or any specific expectations other than to just to be in a home anywhere other than where we were now.  The timing couldn’t have been worse. We were right in the middle of the real estate market meltdown and our neighborhood, a planned suburban community of high-density, tract style homes had been really hard hit. Foreclosed homes were everywhere in our neighborhood. Once abandoned, it didn’t take long for those homes to show visible signs of decay and disrepair which in turn brought down the value of all the homes in the community. To add insult to injury, it seemed like all of our surrounding neighbors had succumbed to being “mentally foreclosed upon.” Lawns started looking shabby, garages were being turned into storage units for piles and piles of stationary junk, and driveways and curbs were overflowing with cars creating more of a parking lot look than a nice family neighborhood with wide open streets.  It was like a train wreck in slow motion that you just couldn’t avoid watching, and we were stuck in it. Then one night my husband came home from work and announced, “Honey, it’s time to sell the house.” He learned the city would be funding a project to widen the road behind our home to four lanes. Then they would erect an 8 foot high sound proof barrier wall made of concrete! This of course was to help mitigate the excessive traffic noise we would begin to experience, but once the road was widened, but it would also make our backyard look very different. Okay, I was definitely in full panic mode as I had no idea, given all of these circumstances, how in the heck were we going to sell our home in a depressed market and get enough equity out of it to buy something bigger. We sat down with pen, paper and calculator to “run the numbers.” The long and short of it was we needed to first pay off the $10,000 debt we accrued in order to upgrade and remodel our kitchen and master bath. So that night after putting my four year old to bed, I laid beside him while he nodded off and in the quiet peacefulness of the moment, I began to create my very first manifesting movie. In my movie I envisioned myself sitting at my computer at work, and as I often do, opening up my bank’s webpage to check our bank balance. There on the page under the “actual balance” column I pictured the nice round sum of $10,000. That was it. Nothing fancy and nothing complicated. Now in retrospect, I probably should have added another couple thousand to my balance so there would be some money left over after the debt was paid, but hey, I was new to this whole manifesting movie thing. $10k was just a nice round number, pleasant to look at and easy to visualize. So I did this every night without fail and I often found myself smiling as a huge sense of relief would wash over me that we could pay off our debt. I was really in that movie – heart and soul – and it felt good to be there too! On a Thursday evening about 12 days into my $10k bank balance movie, as I like to call it, my husband handed me one of those bank deposit receipts. With a big smile on his face he told me he had finally closed the client he had been working on for almost a year. The commission from the sale had been much more than he originally anticipated. I looked at the deposit slip and it said $9,150. Woo Hoo! Now we only needed $850 to pay off our debt. The next day at work was a Friday pay day and the first week of the month. That’s when about a half a dozen bills hit our account, including the mortgage, I opened up my bank account’s web page to check our bank balance and there it was. Under the column for actual balance it read: $10,000.52.  I just about fell out of my chair!  We had the amount we needed to pay off the debt and that was BEFORE my paycheck was to be deposited later that day. I jumped up out of my chair and leapt for joy. It worked…it really worked! The realtor we contracted with told us our home was the best looking one on the block, and given the improvements we had done to the kitchen and the master bath, she said we would draw a lot of foot traffic. However, given the current market/economy, it was doubtful we would get our full asking price: $15,000 higher than what other homes in our neighborhood were currently being appraised for. Okay, so it was time for a brand new movie and I was ready for the challenge! In the next newsletter: How they sold their house for full price in a bad market and buying the new home at below market price. This is a long story so it will continue next week. It clearly illustrates how a seemingly impossible situation can come together perfectly. So far, so good! Ken Got a story to pass on? We’d love to hear more!   Notes:Next Denver workshop: Saturday, Nov 30, 10-4 in Ken’s home.  RegisterRecent radio interviews: Come at Get it Radio with hosts Wayne and Kelly November 2013 Two hours of Manifesting 123 in detail. Ken discusses how he learned thought is real. Each time he sent something in thought, his gifted friends would see it form up on the other side – in spirit. From this amazing start