Beating the Drum

If you've read my blog for very long, by now you surely realize I love going to concerts. Yes!  I love it!

Earlier this week I had a really fun time attending a Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 concert. Seun Kuti is the son of legendary Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, and Egypt 80 is Fela Kuti's former band.

It was definitely one of my ideal concert experiences and made me realize I am getting really practiced at beating the drum of my "ideal concert experience".

I arrived at the venue about ten minutes before showtime, found free parking within the block, picked up my front row center tickets, which cost me only $25, (the only thing better than $25 front row center seats is free, front row center seats), and still had a few minutes to spare before the show started.   

So my Sweetie and I stroll up to the merchandise table and as we are looking at the LPs, the man behind the table offers to take us backstage to meet Seun Kuti,and get an autograph after the show.

So we enjoyed a fabulous, very high energy concert, then we were escorted backstage to meet them. How does it get better than that? I loved the fact we didn't have to ask. 

Seun Kuti and Lucky Lady

People tell me I'm just lucky.  

While I admit that I do feel lucky, it's really that I have practiced beating the drum of my ideal concert experience.  I set my intentions to have a great time, enjoy a wonderful concert, get to meet the performers, get autographs, take home a special souvenir like a setlist, guitar pick or drumstick, and for it all to be easy and fun. 

My autographed concert poster.

As Abraham says, I beat the drum!  I talk about it to my friends, I blog about it, I keep a scrapbook of all my tickets, photos, and souvenirs. 

The truth is we are always beating the drum of something, wanted or not wanted, so why not make sure it is something you want to manifest. 

Love and Luck,
Lucky Lady

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I'll have $252.00, Please.

This week I thought I would share another one of my magical manifestations.

Early one Saturday morning years ago, I was counting up my bills for the week and found myself desperately needing $252. 

Now $252. is not a huge sum of money but it can sure feel like it when you need it and don't have it, and that was my situation.  I needed it.  

I had been reading and studying various books about prosperity principles written by Catherine Ponder, Ernest Holmes, and Joseph Murphy, to name a few.  I love all things metaphysical and what is referred to as "new thought" principles.  Most of these authors don't talk about the Law of Attraction, as such, but refer to source, God source, the Universe, and Infinite source.

But here I was, adding up my bills, and coming up short $252.00.

I don't know about you, but my first trained reaction is usually anxiety and worry when I don't have enough money to pay the bills and that morning was no exception.  

However, remembering what I was reading and learning, that we live in an abundant universe and that there is always an infinite supply of whatever we need or desire, I declared to the Universe, right then and there, that I believed in all possibilities.  That I believed the Universe could bring me $252. 

This made me feel much better so I decided to go out and get in a run before I showered and headed to work.

While out running, I happened to look down and noticed a bank envelope.  Without further thought, I picked it up, stuck it in my pocket, and kept on running.  

When I got back to my apartment and reached for my key, I felt the envelope.  I pulled it out, opened it up, and there was exactly $252.00 inside.

No name, no receipts, no number, just $252.00.

I was so excited.  I felt like the Universe had given me exact amount I had asked for.  I immediately went to write it down in my journal and as I did, I recalled the time I had been out running and found all the pennies.

I looked back through my journal to reread the entry and the hair stood up on the back of my neck.  I had found the pennies on the same exact day, one year before.  Wow, how's that for a magical manifestation?

I love it!

Love and Luck,

Lucky Lady

California Dreaming...Does anyone really win sweepstakes?

Does anyone really win sweepstakes? Yes, they really do! 

I am one of the lucky grand prize winners and here is how it all started for me.

Early one morning in 2006 as I was getting some new tires put on my car, I sat in the waiting room glancing through a magazine, when an article about a lady that had won a lot of sweepstakes caught my eye.  My first thought was, does anyone really win those things?

The article talked about a lady that called herself the "Contest Queen" that had won lots of great prizes like a shopping spree, a new automobile, and lots of great trips.  Sounded interesting, so I ordered a copy of her book and read it.  

I was so inspired, that I decided to subscribe to a sweepstakes newsletter.

When my newsletter arrived I was amazed at all the wonderful prizes being given away.  

I immediately set my goal to win a trip to California.  I have always wanted to go to California. 

A caricature I drew.

I immediately started entering sweepstakes every week and it wasn't long before I was winning smaller prizes like gift cards, running shoes, t-shirts, etc. 

I continued entering each week and finally, it happened!  Just two days before my birthday, on July 9th, 2009, a FedEx envelope arrived.  My entry had been chosen as a Grand Prize Winner! 

It was the Smucker's Stars On Ice Sweepstakes and I could choose a trip to any city on the tour, and take up to five people with me.

 

I chose to go to Los Angeles.  Woo hoo!  California, here we come!

Smucker's put us up in the Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Blvd. My daughter and I have always been ice skating fans, and we were so excited to meet Olympic Gold Medalist Evan Lysacek.

At the Griffith Observatory with the famous Hollywood sign in the background.

We all loved California so much that we didn't want to leave.  In fact, we all decided we wanted to live there.  

 “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

In August 2012, my daughter actually realized that goal. You can read her story here.  California Move

It's always amazing to me, how one decision, one small action, leads to another, and another, and can eventually lead to huge change.

Back then I was new to the law of attraction and didn't really know how to vibrationally align with my goals.  

It was three years from the time I set my goal to win a trip to California, until I won.  It only took me three months when I won the trip to Las Vegas.

There is a three step process for manifesting I've learned, and it is:

• Intention (set the intention for what you want)
• Attention (give the goal focused attention)
• No tension (let it go, feel as good now as if you already had it, trust the Universe to bring it about)

I was really good at the first two steps, the third step,  "no tension" is where my manifestation got held up, but as you can see in my second win, I am learning.
 

Are you ready to manifest your goals? As your coach, I can assist and support you in setting your Intention, giving it Attention, then focusing on No tension, and finding ways to feel good now.


Have you ever used this process?  What did you manifest? Share your manifestation in the comments below.

Until next time,
Love and Luck,
Lucky Lady

Blue Rocks, and the Scale of Justice...Say What?

Have you ever tried to deliberately conjure up something? 

You know, "call up, or bring about by, or as if by, magic" according to the Webster Handy College Dictionary. 

In Law of Attraction terms, we call that Deliberate Creation. 

"Within 17 seconds of focusing on something, a matching vibration becomes activated...And if you manage to stay purely focused upon any thought for as little as 68 seconds, the vibration is powerful enough that its manifestation begins."

                                   Ask and It Is Given
                                   Esther and Jerry Hicks

Have you ever tried to deliberately create something? I'm not talking drama here, just physical objects.  I know this sounds kind of woowoo, and I am not into witchcraft or anything like that.  I am talking about the power we have to deliberately create our lives, and how we do that with the power of our pure, focused thought.

One day, I was talking with my cousin on the phone about how much fun it is to experiment with our power to deliberately create, and we decided to make a game of it and give each other an object to "conjure up".

We wanted it to be something a little out of the ordinary, something you may not see every day.  We thought about it for a few moments and she gave me a BLUE ROCK, and I gave her BALANCING SCALES.

My cousin immediately asks, "What are balancing scales?"  They're a pair of old fashioned scales, with a beam in the middle and two suspended plates. I call them the scales of justice because they are usually seen being held in one hand by Lady Justice. 

In my explanation and description of what the scales were, I obviously gave them some pure focused thought because several hours later I saw my first set. My Sweetie and I were watching an episode of 'The Streets of San Francisco', (70's TV show), when all of a sudden I said, "BINGO!, there they are! Please pause the DVD while I get a pic of that."  Right there on the desk of Lt Mike Stone (Karl Malden), sat a pair of the scales. 

Can you believe it? I asked, and I wasn't even trying to manifest them, I was just trying to explain to her what they were.

The next morning I am making myself some breakfast, pull a plate out of the cabinet to put it on, and as I'm eating my eggs I notice it.  The scales are depicted on my plate!  Holy cow! I never noticed that before.

Hey, what about my BLUE ROCK?

After giving her the description of the scales, we agreed to alert each other as soon as it appeared.

As I hung up the phone, I thought about my object.  A blue rock.  How in the world, am I going to see a blue rock?  (Oops, I forgot that we should always forget the how's, they slow down manifestation)  The only times I could ever remember seeing a blue rock, and I'm not sure you would call it a rock, was when I was getting some gravel for my fish aquarium at the age of 13.  I also briefly had a turquoise ring when I was about 8. 

I must say I had my doubts but I was willing to give it a go, so I closed my eyes and focus my thought on imagining a blue rock for at least 17 seconds.

I thought about holding it in my hand.  How it would feel, how it would look, and then I imagined excitedly telling my cousin a blue rock had shown up!  I could really get into the excitement of that, so I did.  (Anytime we can feel the emotions of having whatever it is we desire to manifest, that is the real key to bringing it about.)

I must admit, I still had some doubts but every time I thought of the blue rock I immediately went to the excitement of telling her it showed up.

The next day at my shop, I was organizing some comic books, when a friend came in that deals in antiques.  He had just been to the post office and wanted to show me his latest acquisition. He held out his hand and there in his palm was a piece of blue jade, from Big Sur, California.  

"It's a blue rock!"  I almost fell over. Even though I am aware of our power to create, it always amazes and delights me. I've been looking for a blue rock since yesterday, I told him. (I'm sure he thought I was nuts)  Can I take a photo? It appears a little more blue-green in the photo than it actually is.

Since I liked his piece of blue jade so much, he brought me one of my own.  So not only did I see a "blue rock", I have one on my shelf as a reminder that 68 seconds of pure focused thought, really does begin the physical manifestation.  I've also received a blue turquoise ring, and a bracelet, as gifts from two different people.

The point I am making here is that our thoughts are creating all the time.  Whether we create deliberately, or by default. Whether it is wanted, or not wanted.  I wanted to see the blue rock, I didn't care whether I saw the scales or not.  But, each one, I gave pure focused thought to, and they both came into my reality.

So what would you like to conjure up? 

What would like to deliberately create?

Have you ever deliberately manifested something?  If so, comment below.

Love and luck,
Lucky Lady

How Fast Can the Universe Deliver?

There is a national sandwich chain that claims their delivery is Freaky Fast. 
I won't name any names here but I'm sure you know to whom I am referring, and yes, I have tried them, and yes, they delivered my sub pretty Freaky Fast!  8 whole minutes after I hit the place order button on my laptop, I was sitting at my desk unwrapping my freshly made sandwich in amazement. That's Freaky Fast if you ask me!

Now I am asking, how fast can the UNIVERSE deliver?

A few weeks ago, my Sweetie and I were having an evening out shopping, not something we do very often, but we had a list of things we needed to buy, so after work we headed out, and we were on our last stop, which was Target.  After finding what we came for, we stopped to browse in the DVD section. 

My Sweetie and I enjoy watching movies, especially ones that make us laugh.

While browsing, I noticed a movie that had several actors we really like, and a pretty well known director, so I asked my Sweetie if he had seen it, or heard of it.  He said, "no, he hadn't", but we both agreed it looked like it might be fun to watch.   

Seeing as we had already spent all the moolah we had intended to spend for the evening and the DVD cost $15, I wondered if perhaps our local library might have a copy. So I asked my Sweetie, "Why don't you go to the library tomorrow and see if they have it? That way, we can just check it out and watch it for free."  He said, "OK, write down the title." (It was already late in the evening and the library was closed for the day).

So I get out my phone, look it up on Amazon, and bookmark it, so I can remember the title.

We go on about our shopping, checkout, and then head home.  He drops me off at my house and about ten minutes later I get a text message from him that says,  "I am totally freaked out!"

Fearing the worst, I call him up and ask "OMG, what's wrong?"

 
When he had arrived home, in his mailbox was a letter from the library notifying him that his DVD was on hold for him and was available for him to pick up. The very DVD we had just looked at, and hadn't even known existed before going into Target.

He was so freaked out that he said, "How did they put it on hold?  I never knew this movie existed?  I never called there or went there, this just came in my mail! I am definitely going there tomorrow to find out how this happened!"

I just laughed and answered, "I love it!  I know exactly how it happened, we asked, and the Universe delivered!"

I don't know about you, but that's the way I like my desires to manifest, FREAKY FAST.

Sometimes it seems like the Universe takes forever, so why did this manifest so fast?

Here's my thoughts on the matter.

• First of all, we just had a clear desire to see it.  We figured it would be fun and make us laugh. (We knew what we wanted and why we wanted it.)

• We focused a little attention on it.  (I'd say about three minutes worth, Abraham suggests 68 seconds)

• We decided and intended to see it.

• We decided on our inspired action step to take. (Check at the library the next morning to see if they had it)

• Then, we just let it go and went on about our shopping, trusting and believing we would, never giving it another thought. (We turned it over to the Universe without even realizing it)

So how fast can the Universe deliver? I call that Freaky Fast!

Until next time,

Lucky Lady


How fast has something manifested for you?  Comment below.