Let’s Make 2009 Our Best Year Ever!

What are you going to do this year? Are you going to make it a magical year? Or just another year? Another year older. More of the same.

You could begin designing your life and materializing your dreams. Or you could just keep doing what you’ve been doing.

This year you could get to know yourself better and jettison aspects of your personality that no longer serve you. Or you could be defensive and refuse to look at yourself for fear you won’t like what you see and remain the same person you’ve always been with the same results you’ve always gotten.

You could start a business, begin an important relationship, get a fulfilling job, release a harmful habit, develop and give to others the gift that lies dormant within you, pay off your debt and begin saving, develop your intuition and spirituality.

Or you could just plod on and let worry, fear, opinion of others or the economy dictate what you can and cannot do. You could be a victim of your times or circumstances.

This year is magical.

This year is powerful.

This is my year. And it could be your year, too.

This is the year you could grow the most and start moving your dreams from your mind to your life. All it takes is choice. You choose one way or the other. You choose to grow or you choose to remain as you are.

How’s it working so far?

Don’t think for a minute that circumstance makes the man. Man makes the circumstance! — U.S. Andersen

When you set off on a trip, you map out the roads you’re going to take, gather what you need and you go. You don’t second guess yourself and head back home because you hit a detour or roadblock. You find a way around it. You are confident in your map and your ability to follow it.

Why should life be any different? If you don’t have a map or a destination, you’re not really going anywhere, are you?

Last year was one of the hardest in my life. I was worried sick about my business and finances. I owed a lot of money and people were constantly calling asking for it. I was afraid of the phone! and changed my phone number because I couldn’t take the pressure anymore.

I had trouble sleeping and my health suffered from the stress. I lost my business, my home, my RV, my car, and my social support and moved across the country with ten cats. I went from a 2,900 square foot home with an 1,100 square foot finished shop on ten acres just outside Eugene, Oregon to a dumpy (but cheap) flat in Erie, Pennsylvania.

So don’t think I don’t know what some of you are going through.

Right now I have enough money to buy a couple hot mochas at Starbucks. I have enough cat litter and raw rabbit, turkey and chicken for my cats to last three weeks. I have food in my refrigerator for a week, a warm apartment, and a great coat and warm pair of boots for walking in the snow. I have access to a car should I need it. I have one friend in Erie and the rest can be counted on one hand.

But I have my laptop and I have you and I have my connection to Source. I have chosen as my target audience those who want to grow and improve their lives and are willing to do the work. No more victims or whiners for me. I don’t want to write to them or about them, and I don’t want them around me.

Since arriving here I’ve spent most of my time reading books on New Thought. I’ve written out my roadmap and started on my journey. I’ve had some amazing manifestations. I wrote about one of them yesterday.

I’ve made some major decisions about who I want to be. As a result, I’ve learned some very unpleasant things about myself that I needed to learn so I could let them go.

Now I could choose to be lonely. I could choose to worry about money. I could choose to feel sorry for myself and whine and mope. I could choose to think that losing everything was the worst thing that happened to me. I could play the role of victim.

But I am exactly where I’m supposed to be. And I am so grateful.

Yes, I get worried thoughts that jump into my head all the time, but I do my best to ignore them. They will eventually die the death of neglect. I choose which thoughts get to take up residence. This is the true law of attraction. And I’ll be teaching you how to do that as well.

When I was honorably discharged from the Army in 1983, a good friend gave me the picture below. Now, almost 26 years later, I finally know how to do it.

Who will join me on this wonderful adventure that is 2009?