The Wealth Beyond Reason Challenge

As most of you know, Alana and I were deeply impressed by "The Secret" and have adopted the law of attraction into our own lives. One of my boyhood friends was a cast member and is well known for his knowledge on this subject.

I wanted to let you know about something that is happening that you'll be interested in if there's anything in your life that you've been wanting to do or accomplish, but for whatever reason, been unable to do so.

This project is being facilitated by Bob Doyle, who you may know from the movie "The Secret", and more recently, "The Opus", or you may be familiar with his Wealth Beyond Reason program.

In any case, you need to know that Bob is a strong advocate for the power of personal transformation in all areas of life, and he has proven himself able to help thousands of people to do that over the years.

Bob has just announced what he's calling "The Boundless Living" challenge, and it's an extraordinary opportunity for you and anyone else you know to experience the kind of transformation I'm talking about in virtually any area of your life you can imagine.

I won't ramble on here about it because there is a short video that explains everything here:

Please realize that there is nothing to buy, and there is no fee to be a part of this challenge, and you will have an amazing support system should you decide to take this on.

Check it out. You're going to be hearing a lot more about it from people other than me in the coming days, I'm sure. :)

Planting Daffodils

Apologies for not writing for a while. We have been working feverishly on our Law of Attraction website and it has taken most of my mental energies.

However, I came across this story that I wanted to share with everyone. Like most people, I want the LOA to bring me my desires right now! I understand what Abraham-Hicks refers to as "the wonderful buffer of time", but sometime it seems a bit too slow in the coming. Then I read this story of how one lady accomplished so much by planting daffodil bulbs just a few at a time. Now every day I take a moment to reflect back and I notice the couple of things I accomplished that I now look at as "planting daffodils". These are things that might not have a tremendous impact today, or even tomorrow, but over time will return my efforts many times over.

I hope it is as inspiring to you as it is to me.


"Mother, you must come to see the daffodils before they are over."
I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead.
"I will come next Tuesday", I promised a little reluctantly on her third call.

Next Tuesday dawned cold and rainy. Still, I had promised, and reluctantly I drove there. When I finally walked into Carolyn's house I was welcomed by the joyful sounds of happy children. I delightedly hugged and greeted my grandchildren.

"Forget the daffodils, Carolyn! The road is invisible in these clouds and fog, and there is nothing in the world except you and these children that I want to see badly enough to drive another inch!"

My daughter smiled calmly and said, "We drive in this all the time, Mother." "Well, you won't get me back on the road until it clears, and then I'm heading for home!" I assured her.

"But first we're going to see the daffodils. It's just a few blocks," Carolyn said. "I'll drive. I'm used to this."

"Carolyn," I said sternly, "Please turn around."

"It's all right, Mother, I promise. You will never forgive yourself if you miss this experience."

After about twenty minutes, we turned onto a small gravel road and I saw a small church. On the far side of the church, I saw a hand lettered sign with an arrow that read, "Daffodil Garden." We got out of the car, each took a child's hand, and I followed Carolyn down the path Then, as we turned a corner, I looked up and gasped. Before me lay the most glorious sight.


It looked as though someone had taken a great vat of gold and poured it over the mountain peak and its surrounding slopes. The flowers were planted in majestic, swirling patterns, great ribbons and swaths of deep orange, creamy white, lemon yellow, salmon pink, and saffron and butter yellow. Each different
colored variety was planted in large groups so that it swirled and flowed like its own river with its own unique hue. There were five acres of flowers.


"Who did this?" I asked Carolyn. "Just one woman," Carolyn answered. "She lives on the property. That's her home." Carolyn pointed to a well-kept A-frame house, small and modestly sitting in the midst of all that glory. We walked up to the house.

On the patio, we saw a poster. "Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking", was the headline. The first answer was a simple one. "50,000 bulbs," it read. The second answer was, "One at a time, by one woman. Two hands, two feet, and one brain." The third answer was, "Began in 1958."

For me, that moment was a life-changing experience. I thought of this woman whom I had never met, who, more than forty years before, had begun, one bulb at a time, to bring her vision of beauty and joy to an obscure mountaintop. Planting one bulb at a time, year after year, this unknown woman had forever changed the world in which she lived. One day at a time, she had created something of extraordinary magnificence, beauty, and inspiration. The principle her daffodil garden taught is one of the greatest principles of celebration.



That is, learning to move toward our goals and desires one step at a time--often just one baby-step at time--and learning to love the doing, learning to use the accumulation of time. When we multiply tiny pieces of time with small increments of daily effort, we too will find we can accomplish magnificent things. We can change the world .

"What might I have accomplished if I had thought of a wonderful goal thirty-five or forty years ago and had worked away at it 'one bulb at a time' through all those years? Just think what I might have been able to achieve!"

My daughter summed up the message of the day in her usual direct way. "Start tomorrow," she said.

She was right. It's so pointless to think of the lost hours of yesterdays. The way to make learning a lesson of celebration instead of a cause for regret is to only ask, "How can I put this to use today?"

Use the Daffodil Principle. Stop waiting....
Until your car or home is paid off
Until you get a new car or home
Until your kids leave the house
Until you go back to school
Until you finish school
Until you clean the house
Until you organize the garage
Until you clean off your desk
Until you lose 10 lbs.
Until you gain 10 lbs.
Until you get married
Until you get a divorce
Until you have kids
Until the kids go to school
Until you retire
Until summer
Until spring
Until winter
Until fall
Until you die...

There is no better time than right now to be happy.
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
So work like you don't need money.
Love like you've never been hurt and,

Dance like no one's watching.

Wishing you a beautiful, daffodil day!

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin.

Emotions as Drugs

A rat that learns a maze or receives an electric shock while under the influence of a drug will remember how to solve the maze or avoid the shock if retested under the influence of the same drug. Since much neuroscience now suggests that emotions cause/are the result of chemical reactions at the molecular level, much the same as drugs, it should be noted that our emotional state at a certain point in our past has as much to do with how we remember it as the actual events. This partly explains why someone who has been through a traumatic experience (especially as a child), will behave in a predictable manner when faced with similar experiences. Their memory of the past experience literally starts a cascade of chemical reactions that puts them in the exact state they had experienced at that time.

Well, this is all very interesting John, but what does it have to do with me and the Law of Attraction? So glad you asked. Everything.

You see, the mind and the body are one. Interconnected in many ways but especially at the cellular level. If your conscious mind is saying it desires certain things, but on the subconcious level your body (emotions) are telling a different story, guess which one is going to win?

So how do we get past this? One word: Consciousness. By being aware of what is happening and deliberately setting out to change it. There are numerous examples from numerous sources that have proven that we have the ability to create new neural pathways in the brain. We can literally reprogram our physical brain by thinking new thoughts and expecting different results. There are ways to help you along with this including Gary Craig's EFT (emotional freedom technique), and Bill Harris' Holosync Solution. They both help to clear blockages that are keeping you in your own way. You can find them on my website if this is an area of concern for you.

I'll leave you with a story that illustrates this point very well.

There was a man visiting the circus and at the end of the day he got a guided tour of the behind the scenes world. As they passed the area where the elephants were kept, he noticed with some consternation that the elephants were held by nothing more than a wooden stake in the ground with a rope tethered to their legs. He of course pointed this out to his guide who quickly explained.

"You see," he said, "when they are very young we put an iron band around their legs with a steel chain that is anchored to a steel pole in a concrete floor. No matter how hard and long they try to escape, they are simply not strong enough to do so. Eventually they give up, as they now know that they can't break the chain.

"So even now when they've grown into these huge, poweful animals who could easily break free, they no longer even try."

So I ask you, dear reader, what emotional bonds do you have from your past that were forged before you became the powerful being you now are? What things do you know about yourself to be true? Do you now see how easily you could break free from those limiting thoughts simply by making the decision to become the person you've always known you could be?

Magical Thinking

All of my life I have always felt that my wanting something to happen had an affect on whether or not it did. There is an amusing book by Augesten Burroughs with the same title as this blog where he defines it as the ability to change the outcome of an event solely by by his desire for it to be different. He considered it an amusing personality characteristic.

Well guess what? According to quantum physicists this is actually true! Without getting too far into the science of it, they have conducted experiments on sub-atomic particles (electrons, photons, neurons) where the particles behave as wave patterns until observed by a measuring device, when they start to act like particles of matter. In other words, they are not fixed things, merely probabilities until they are observed.

Sorry if I lost you there. In a nutshell, when these particles are observed (measured), the assumptions and perceptions of the observer actually do affect the outcome of the experiment. And since everything (matter and energy) is made of atoms then that means our beliefs and expectations are very much involved in what makes up our "reality".

And this is the essence of the Law of Attraction. By consciously focusing our thoughts (energy) on what we desire, and truly believing in the outcome that we want, we are literally creating the world around us. And the more emotion we put into those thoughts, the more power they have, delivering our desires much more quickly.

In the words of Goethe: "Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid."