Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

The Secret to living the life of your dreams . . . know what you want.  Not what others want for you, or from you, but what you want for yourself.

Use Creative Visualization.  Ask questions to Access Your Inner Wisdom.  Listen to the answers.  For example:  Today’s your last day on Earth, what would you do? Who would you see?

It’s rather amazing how quickly our dreams manifest . . . once we know what we want and allow The Law of Attraction to work its magic.

In November 2008, while still living in Maryland, I envisioned how I would spend my last 24 hours on Earth (if I KNEW they would be my last):

Blurry-eyed, I sat down at my computer with a cup of coffee, noting the promise of another cloudy, wet, dreary, dismal winter day.  Ugh.

Before I jolted the computer awake, an e-mail flashed onto the screen:

URGENT!  REPEAT . . . URGENT!

You have only 24 hours to live.  Make the most of them!

See you soon, GOD

Shocked, but pleased to have 24 more hours, I ran down the hall, ”BFF, call Habitat and tell them you have a family emergency ~ we’re going to  celebrate my last day on Earth!”

To read the rest of the post . . .  Palm Trees and Capris 

Writing about palm trees and capris and a warm island breeze caused me to rethink our plans for the Holidays.

Instead of heading to New Jersey a month later, we migrated south, to Florida, for a 2 week vacation on Anna Maria Island.

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Two months after writing the initial post, I shared a few magical moments from our sun-dappled vacation with others:

We had a wonderful time, just as envisioned . . . palm trees, and capris, with a mild Gulf breeze.   Bliss! 

It was sunny and warm virtually every day and we had a blast with my sister and her family ~ Frisbee on the beach, boating on the Manatee River, checking out quaint shops and restaurants, playing games into the wee hours with my nieces (Rummy 500, Yahtzee, and Scram Scrabble), and hanging out at the pool.  

As our time all-too-quickly wound down, we did something quite daring for us . . . we decided to extend our stay for the rest of the Winter.  

We signed a short-term lease on a small one bedroom apartment and came home to collect “a few” belongings which will quickly consume all the space in the apartment and spill out into the parking lot.

Hope your New Year holds enough uncertainty to add some spice to your life, but not so much that you end up with heartburn.  Happy New Year 

A month after relocating to Florida, our waterfront home in Maryland, which had been sitting quietly on the market for 15 months . . . like a sailboat stuck in a Dead Calm . . . SOLD!

And here we are . . . under swaying palms . . . with a closet full of capris
With boldness of action . . . our dreams became . . . self-fulfilling prophesies

Quote:  Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.  ~ Helen Keller

To throw a bit more synchronicity into the mix:

I read a comment by Milk Fever this morning on The Weirdness of Life:  “One of the strangest side effects from being a writer is that many of the things I write about come to pass in some way.  Just wondering if I’m the only one to experience this?”  Her comment there inspired this post.

After posting this piece, I ran around to Milk Fever’s Blog (my first visit) to tell her.  As the page opened, I stopped dead in my tracks at the title (and graphics) of her last post:  If You Were Stranded On A Desert Island.

Her post, written in the wee hours of the morning, long before I considered writing this post, describes her desire to head someplace warm.  Although her post mirrors this post, nothing in the comment she left on The Weirdness of Life hinted at its subject matter.

One Mind, One Muse? 

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