Haunted by my own blog.

Sometimes I despair if I will ever catch up with those enlightened beings.

In my last post I was talking about peacefulness and for one reason or another that post haunted me.
I kept thinking about peacefulness and how it impacts on how I manifest dreams.
If peacefulness equals manifesting dreams gracefully and happily and lack of peacefulness equals fear, hard work and possible exhaustion I better start cracking this peacefulness thing.

So on Friday when John left early I stayed in bed to examine my level of peacefulness.
In bed is a perfect place as I cannot be distracted.
Everything needs to stay underneath the duvet otherwise my limbs freeze off.
That means no reading, no knitting or writing to distract me from this serious examination.
So I lie there totally still and check my peacefulness.
Well, checking I do – finding it, I do not.

My mind is racing and emotionally I don’t feel well either.
Would you when you have this going on inside you?
Lay down -no, get up.
Get up – no, lay down.
Lay down – no, get up.

“The get up” shouts become the loudest and defeated I get up, feeling that if I want to be successful I have to be in action and forget peacefulness.

But while I get up I have a stroke of genius.
I tell the Universe to stop hiding peacefulness and to stop playing pranks on me.

And I think it did…….

Normally I get up feeling a great urgency to get on with things.
So much to do, so little time.
But somehow this morning after my short fruitless lie in I thought; “bugger it, enough torture, I am going to have some fun time for me”.
So after my short lived lie in I took a leisurely shower and played with hair dye, potions and creams and thoroughly enjoyed it.

After this unusual indulgent morning routine I was ready to set myself down in front of the computer to finally commence this day’s serious manifesting of my dream with some honest hard work.
I am not looking forward to opening up my never ending tasklists and my pageflakes with all those hundreds of important blogs I absolutely must read.

But what happens?
I open Outlook and up comes the daily email from Mike Dooley or ‘The Universe’….as he signs himself off with..

As I like his emails I always open them and then I get on with the day.

But this time he offers a free book so I click through to the website and then the magic begins…….

I start to play around on his website and then I land on a page with this:

I use to work extremely hard, mostly driven by fear, I had to work hard in order for ME (based on my own beliefs) to feel worthy and deserving… but I could have thought otherwise, as MANY WEALTHY people do.

I have learned that the quantity of hours worked rarely correlates to the success of that work, or the dollars I earn.

If someone believes they must work 12 hours a day to be wealthy, than once they do, if no other beliefs conflict, they WILL be wealthy, BUT NOT because they worked 12 hours a day, but because they believed that wealth would come from it.
Could they have believed the same about working 1 hour a day… YES, though it would be far more challenging because society (and their peers) would frown on them, but IF THEY COULD BELIEVE IT ANWAY, they would succeed just as well.

In another quote Mike Dooley goes on saying;

“By looking closely at our successes and the trail we’ve tread I see that the end result we really sought wasn’t material at all, nor did it relate to the selling of our products; the end result had always been our own happiness and fulfillment; enjoying the journey; enjoying people; and enjoying ourselves.”

So when I read this I went; “Oh my!”

And that is why I think the Universe took mercy on me. It showed me this and a lightbulb went on.

I did have a wonderful day after the initial failure of my lie in.
After my indulging shower and the lovely Mike Dooley quotes I felt no need to work frantically in order to manifest.

The whole day I actually felt calm – dare I say ‘peaceful’. Arghhhh, soooo bliss!

Any thoughts been haunting you…………..