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Hello,

Just got started with the Abundance for Life course. Great work. I have been a "Positive Thinking" junkie since reading Peale in the 6th grade. I've lost count on how many success/money making books and courses I've spent time and money on so I'm well versed in what should be productive thinking and visualization. In light of this what went wrong this past year? I started a lifelong dream business and it flopped leaving me about 100k in debt, my wife informed me that she had commited adultery with 4, yes I said 4 different men including two former friends. Pretty much every thing and every one I come in contact with turns to baad trouble. The deal is I set goals, I visualized the result, I did all the stuff. Granted this course is a cut above and I am giving it a try but this past year has been a wreck that has left me shaking.

I also have been buying courses/reading books for about 15 years. Your logic is alittle off. Positive visualization is not an exact science. I'm been visualizing winning the lottery for 10 years and I haven't won yet. If it was an exact science, everyone who plays the lottery would all visualize and win, every time! You can visualize a good marriage, but the picture in your mind can't control someone else's behavior. If that were the case, I would just visualize my teenagers cleaning their rooms or doing their homework and they would do it! I sympathize with you. During my first marriage, my spouse cheated with several of my friends and co-workers. We have kids and it has been a nightmare ever since I found out. Your goal should be to move on and try to recover as best you can. I would recommend a book to you "Getting the Love You Want" by Harville Hendrix. It is the best book on relationships that I have ever read. It will give you some insights about how and why your relationships work. When I look back, I've often wondered how much time and money I may have wasted on courses and book that haven't really worked. Then I think that maybe my life would have been worse if I didn't take the course! Keep at it and the best of luck to you!

I am really sorry to hear you've been through all that.

I wish you the best of luck with your debt. It takes a lot of bravery to start a business. Isn't it true that most attempted businesses fail several times before reaching success? And then after reaching success it is an up and down thing until stablization occurrs? I know nothing about the topic, but from anecdotes that seems to be what happens with people who keep at it.

Are you still with your wife? You didn't say ex-wife.

You know, the good thing about this course is that it doesn't necessarily have to be about goals and positive thinking. It can be about appreciating what you do have and living in the moment.

It sounds like you really have had a tough year. Positive thinking may not be giving you the full picture alone, but since we know you are working with Abundance for Life I think you are on your way to finding some other aspects of learning how to manifest.

The thing to remember always is that we are already masters of manifestation. The way you are using your powers of manifestation right now are giving you the results that you are seeing. Keep experimenting and working with it.

There are two sides to creativity, to making anything in fact, there is both a constructive and destructive action. It sounds like you may have been doing the right constructive things, but not following through on the destructive phase - removing or changing those things from your life, work, business process that aren't working.

Until we fully exhale we can't really draw in a full new fresh breath.

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I once took a course with him at the Learning Annex, when I lived in Los Angeles, and while some of his ideas are O.K.,(it's what everyone else says - your beliefs create your reality) he struck me as a hustler and decidedly non-spiritual. Don't mean to offend anyone, but that was my opinion. If prosperity is an issue for you - one thing I've done which had a definite impact is, I listen to a prosperity tape by Stephen Halpern. It's just background music with subliminals on it. Nothing earthshattering, but he does list the subliminals he uses - which I like, a lot of other companies don't. Within three days of listening to the CD for about an hour a day - I got my tax refund, (I was expecting it anyway, but the timing was interesting), I got a $25.00 gift certificate from a company I order from often, (completely unexpected) and a refund from my car insurance company (also completely unexpected.) Hope this is helpful.

Thanks for your kind words and encouragement. It has been very tough to hang in there in light of all the bad. I agree that our thought processes make our lives what they are, to an extent. The thing I have learned is how vital it is to use the power in me to overcome uncontrollable actions/decisions.

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