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Last week Kelly and I launched the Life Story visualization tool, a one page PDF download that you can cut and fold into a 16 page booklet. The tool is designed to help you create new thought patterns to help you reach your goals.
Not everyone has the time, desire, or resources to print, cut and fold these books themselves, so we created a sexy gift pack of Life Story books to share with our friends. We tucked five booklets into a resealable package (complete with QR code!), making a powerful introductory set for novices and advanced life designers alike.
Make a gift for a friend
If you purchased a Life Story PDF, these gift packs are a great way to take advantage of your PDF download. Print, cut and fold a set for your friend and design your own packaging to create an inspiring and inexpensive present (peep my Pinterest for more packaging ideas). It’s a great way to start conversations about life design too!
Buy a set from us!
We got so excited about these adorable packages that we had to offer some for sale. Save time and printer ink by having us do all the work. Each pack is $10, with FREE shipping (on international orders too)!
What others are saying
We’ve received such positive feedback about these story books–the best being that they actually work!
Used the life story books to manifest an easy, stress free time with a difficult assignment and I have to say it worked perfectly… ~Annie Goddard
LOA and origami all in the one package! LOVE the inventiveness of the design. It’s brilliant to turn a digital download into something physical. I think there’s also something in the physicality that adds to the intention that you bring in creating the story too. And it’s cute. ~James
Creative, playful and profound! ~ Kirsten Olson
Got mine, loving it so far! ~Adrienne O.
I just bought it! I love the layout of everything! So colorful and well designed. ~Sara Kate Ladybug Whittemore
Brill!!!! I love it!! This is like/reminds me of a super-version of those custom-made story books (like Cinderella, for example) where you can insert your child’s (or your) face into the story!! Awesome! What a great way to manifest! ~Betty Verbeke
Give the gift of a magickal 2012 to someone you love. Help them manifest what they truly want for the holidays!
One simple premise I live by is that thoughts create. If you believe that thoughts create, all you have to do to get what you want is think accordingly. But have you ever wondered how exactly to do that? What are the thoughts I should think to make my dream come true?
People into the law of attraction will tell you that it’s as easy as telling a new story about your life. But how the eff do you tell a new story? It can be overwhelming to organize your thoughts into new patterns.
Mental coach Jim Fannin teaches people to achieve their dreams by telling them one thing: “Play a movie in your head of you achieving your big goal.” But how do you come up with that movie?
Today I’m launching a solution that will help you craft the new story you want to live. It’s called Life Story, and it’s a one page 8.5 × 11″ PDF download that you cut and fold into a cute 16 page book.
The way Life Story works is quick and easy. First, you identify what you want. This could be anything from “I want to make a new friend today” to “I want to be self-employed in 2012.” Big or small, the goal doesn’t matter.
Begin by stating what you want in past tense, which starts installing the thought pattern you desire. “This is the story of how I became self-employed in 2012.”
Then you find one example of something that would make you believe you’re on your way to your dream. “The first sign the trick was working was when several people commissioned my work.”
Next, find an example manifestation that would pretty much seal the deal on your goal. “What truly tipped the scales and made me believe in my own power was the month I made more money from my own work than at my day job.”
Since the scales have been tipped, all you have to do is relax and let the manifestation come to you. You know you’ve reached your goal, and “the icing on the cake was singing joyfully on the way out of the office on my last day of work.”
Don’t forget the the most fun part—make a cover for your book too!
Why it works
The reason Life Story works so well is because it gives you a simple 3-part story to recall instead of whatever random negative thoughts you may have been having in the past. Having a basic framework for the story you want to live puts you in the feeling place of having what you want, and allows the universe to fill in the details.
What you are doing at the core with Life Story is sending the signal of already having what you want. Telling your story the way you want to hear it is a way to be it and then see it. When your dominant thought pattern is “I already live the life of my dreams,” your reality has no choice but to reflect that.
How do I get one?
Continue to the Life Story website to learn more, or click the button below to purchase.
I was turned onto the Law of Attraction (by my friend Jessie!) around the same time I began experimenting with a vegan raw food diet. And after eating totally raw for over a month, I found Abraham-Hicks, the philosophers who popularized the Law of Attraction. Over the next few months I met several others who went raw and got into Abraham around the same time too. What’s the connection?
Diet isn’t the key to happiness
When I was in grad school, I spent a LOT of time thinking about my diet, learning to cook, and eliminating foods. I was convinced that if I could just find a system of eating that was sustainable, healthy, and kept me skinny I could be happy forever. But after going as far as I could down the “healthy diet” spectrum, I still wasn’t satisfied. Sure, I felt super healthy and looked great, but it still didn’t solve that underlying “why is diet so complicated?!” feeling.
Enter Abraham, who cleared up the mystery. What you think about, you bring about, and if you think diet is complicated, it will be. If you think a raw food diet will make you feel good, it will. If you think donuts will make you fat, they will. I thought that what I ate greatly influenced my reality, so it did.
Thought is the core, not food
Addressing the basic activities in your life (diet, sleep, exercise) means you care about how you feel. But while tweaking and refining those activities will make you feel good, it won’t “fix” your life, because you are still looking outside of yourself for peace. You choose your diet based on your beliefs, but your beliefs are only thoughts you think a lot. If you can take control over the seed of your experience, your thoughts, then you can eat whatever you want.
Is this a trick?!
Sounds pretty great right? Change your thoughts and be able to eat whatever you want, whenever you want. Well, after a whole year of trying to change my thoughts about food, I can’t say it’s any easier for me to believe I can eat a whole pizza and not feel sick. But I have reached an equilibrium in my diet, and a way to think about food that brings me peace.
Food doesn’t make you fat. It’s resistant thoughts about the food. When I eat, all I have to do is question whether I’m truly hungry, or whether I’m being lazy and looking to something outside of myself to make me feel good. If I’m truly hungry, my thoughts are of gratitude and relief. If I just want something to make me feel good, my thoughts go crazy, trying to figure out how much I should eat, can I get away with eating that, oh let’s just eat everything in the fridge if it’ll feel good.
If you look towards something outside of yourself to feel good, when it is gone it will make you feel bad. The only peace can come from within, and that peace is just a straight up choice. Choose to feel good first, and the rest will work itself out.
Thank you Neon23!
We got some magick tricks up in here for y’all! Today we’ll discuss how to stop sending a signal of lack so you can finally receive all the booty you want.
The law of attraction works in this manner (see Abraham-Hicks for more on this philosophy):
- Ask for what you want.
- Believe the universe will bring it to you.
- Receive what you want by not caring if you get it or not and finding a way to feel good without it.
The third step trips me up all the time. How am I supposed to stop wanting what I want? Why would I want to? I want to because the universe can’t bring me something if I’m projecting a signal of “I want this and I don’t have it.” The universe will keep sending me experiences that reflect my signal of lack. If I can stop projecting “I don’t have this but I want it,” and feel good anyway, I know what I want is on the way.
So how does one stop projecting the signal of “I don’t have this”? The answer is much simpler than I expected. All it takes is a single thought: “I want a reason to stop caring if I receive this manifestation.” You may find, as I did, that you have much less resistance to that desire, and the universe will bring you some reason to stop caring about getting what you want.
For example, say you want a specific amount of money. You want this money for a good reason, I’m sure. If you really need money to pay bills, it might be hard to stop wanting this money – how else will your bills get paid?! But if you ask for a reason to stop caring if you get the money, you’ll be so surprised about what comes. You might get a new employment opportunity, or a check in the mail. You might find you don’t have to pay your bills anymore. Anything can happen!
Thanks Shawn!
Everyone has her own way of explaining how the law of attraction works. Here’s mine.
1. Think about what you want, just like ordering from a menu. Sometimes it’s more effective to think about the feeling you want instead of the physical manifestation.
2. Don’t negate your desire with resistant thoughts. (I want this, BUT… I don’t deserve it… people would judge me for wanting it… I don’t know how to get it…) Resistant thoughts literally cancel your order.
3. Totally FORGET about your desire by finding another way to feel good (writing, exercising, meditating, creating, socializing, playing, etc). This is another way to say “let go” or “don’t care if you get it or not.”
Think about what you want, then forget about it by distracting yourself with other things that feel good. The faster you forget, the faster it will come. Could it be any easier?
Why you don’t have to feel self-conscious about being positive
2011 February 13
thanks John Tracy!
Do you ever feel self-conscious about “being positive”? Do you fear others will judge you for “being happy for no reason”? Do you worry that if you fully commit to releasing negative thought, it won’t pay off and people will say “I told you so”?
Worrying about what other people think means you don’t love yourself enough to trust your inner guidance. If you are concerned people will think you’re foolish for choosing thoughts that feel good, then it’s only because you think you are foolish. And if you think you’re being foolish for choosing to feel good over feeling bad, then you’re not loving yourself – because following what you know feels good to you is how you love yourself.
Start feeling good about choosing to feel good!
Life is a mirror. The more positive you are, the more positive your interactions are. The more you give, the more you receive. The more you love yourself, the more you are loved. It’s the law of attraction.
You lead by your powerful example. When you choose to feel good above all else, no one will judge you. They will want to be around you more because you make them feel so good! Positive vibrations are contagious, and when the people around you feel how happy you are, they’ll want to know your secret.
Whatever you believe is true. If you believe thinking positively just isn’t going to help you, then you’re right. If you think it is going to help, then it will! All you have to do is make the leap of faith and believe that your higher self will guide you. Believe in yourself and release all the magick you’ve pent up inside! It’s there if you look, I promise!
By committing to a life of joy, you are choosing to feel happy before you get the “things” that you think will make you happy. Isn’t that a good deal? Think about how fucked up it is for others to think you’re silly for deciding to be happy right now, as you are. Why shouldn’t you be? You’re a beautiful, perfect human being and you deserve nothing but love and happiness. Choosing to feel good right now, instead of waiting until just that one thing changes, is how to start living a life you love now.
I was listening to a Jerry & Esther mp3 today, from the Vortex of Creation Workshop Series in 2010. Abraham suggested a sweet process to get you in the vortex mood: asking “wouldn’t it be nice if…” at every “segment” in your daily experience. Asking “wouldn’t it be nice if…” puts you in a position of allowing, and in a mood with little negative resistance. It would be pretty hard to think negative thoughts if you started your thought with “wouldn’t it be nice if…”
Wouldn’t it be nice if I remembered to think this thought more frequently? Wouldn’t it be nice if I remained inspired the rest of the evening? Wouldn’t it be nice if Pwny stayed cute the rest of her life? Wouldn’t it be nice if Kelly won $18k playing poker tonight? Wouldn’t it be nice if I never had to think about money again? Wouldn’t it be nice if I got inspired to start the next life design lesson now? Wouldn’t it be nice if I got to meet Jerry & Esther and chill with them in their monster bus?
Wouldn’t it be nice if I remembered to think like this before every segment in my life? I think I will!
Thinking is weird.
I’m trying this game out, beginning today! I just paid $1000 towards my student loans.
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Aligning with your veritable fortune:
To truly experience the benefits of positive thinking, you have to practice it all the time. Watching (& re-watching!) inspirational films like The Secret is a great way to keep positive thoughts in the front of your mind. Last weekend, Kelly & I watched Esther & Jerry Hicks: Law of Attraction:
Discover how the power of positive thinking applies to common, real-life situations as Esther and Jerry Hicks look at the commanding law of attraction and the teachings of Abraham, the collective consciousness channeled through Esther.
It took me some time to accept the idea that Esther was channeling “Abraham”, but if you can get past that bit there is much to be learned!
1. Wouldn’t it be nice if…
If you’re having trouble figuring out how to make a situation better, try playing the “wouldn’t it be nice if…” game. When I’m bored or depressed, I can always imagine better circumstances. Once you start visualizing what would make you feel better, you actually do start feeling better.
2. Stop caring about what others think!
According to Abraham, this is the most important thing you can do when trying to achieve joy. The only responsibility you have is to match your emotional state to the person you want to become. If you want to be wealthy, you can get there by feeling like a wealthy person. (“Act as if.” “Fake it til you make it.”) When you start worrying about what other people think about what you want, then you dilute your desire. If you feel guilty about what you want, you’re worrying about what other people think. All that matters is how YOU feel. Don’t compare yourself to others. Remove fear from your decision-making. If you worry about being judged, or looking stupid, you’ll never take the leap towards your true joy!
3. Teaching is about soothing disbelief
One of the most striking conversations in the film is between Abraham & a man who does motivational speaking. The man wants to know how he can teach, motivate, inspire & heal all at once. As a teacher myself, I often wonder what my students want from me, & how I can best help them. Abraham explains that all there is to teaching is soothing disbelief. A teacher must simply help her student believe that he is capable. A teacher must inspire a reduction of resistance in her student, by helping him remove anything in the way of believing he already has what he wants.
When teaching web design & development, I often have students who are so intimidated by code that they convince themselves they just can’t understand it. Changing this mindset is what teaching is all about.
Abraham continues with some practical tips on how to have the right attitude as a teacher. Before approaching your students, believe that they will summon from you what they want to hear. Think of yourself as a catalyst to open them up to receiving. Believe that you’re ready for them & they are ready for you. Above all, teach for the fun of it!
4. Practice the art of allowing
The art of allowing is this: you gain control of your reality by letting go of control. Decide what you want, then leave it up to the universe to figure out how to get it to you. Let go of your plans, stop working towards goals, & allow the universe to bring you the things you desire & deserve.
5. Follow your impulses!
Part of the art of allowing is following your impulses. The universe constantly gives you feedback on your proximity to joy. When you feel bad, you are far from joy. When you start feeling excitement & passion, you are much closer to joy. You were born with intuition. Use it! Whenever you get a feeling that you should do something out of the ordinary, indulge yourself! You will be surprised at what joy can come from it. Trust yourself!
6. I’m doing everything right
Abraham says that most people walk around life beating a drum, saying over & over to themselves “What am I doing wrong? What am I doing wrong? What am I doing wrong?” Not surprisingly, those people have a whole lot of wrong in their lives. The other day I came up with a trick to combat this negative thought pattern: consciously walk around saying “I’m dong everything right! I’m doing everything right!” Before you know it, you will start to FEEL like you are doing everything right! That mindset is enough to change the course of your entire life.
I recently tried EFT to address my issues with emotional overeating. I wanted to manifest a reality where I could eat whatever I want & never gain weight. The other day, I realized that IT WORKED.
The first thing I had to do was give up intoxicating substances, because they interfere with my ability to find joy. How can you find joy when you’re taking depressants? Without clouded emotions, I don’t need to have such a restrictive diet. I don’t need to weigh myself, & I certainly don’t need to count calories!
The most important thing I learned is that there is a time delay when using the law of attraction. Even if it seems like it isn’t working, just keep thinking positive thoughts & searching for your joy! Keep believing the things you want to be your reality, & they will come to you.
I have had eating issues for TWENTY YEARS, & now I am over them. I have so much free time to manifest things like winning the lottery!
If you are unhappy or trying to manifest change in your life, the simplest thing you can do is start searching for joy in every moment. I’ve found walking is the most joyful thing I can do lately, because it leads me to adventure, friends, & delicious vegan food everywhere!
What you want you already have. Start believing it!
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