A few weeks ago I wrote about setting my intention to take swimming classes and within a couple of weeks I took an incredible week-long swimming class. It's pretty darn cool to see the law of attraction at work.
I promised to write about my previous experience with the law of attraction, the one that brought Hudson to me, so here goes.
Two-and-a-half years ago I was single and I had just quit my job at a top law firm to pursue my passion as a life coach, and to have more freedom in my life, something I pretty much gave up once I started practicing law. Practicing law at a top law firm and being single without kids seems to goes hand-in-hand.
After I left the firm I started my life coach training program with Martha Beck and one of our exercises was to write an 'end game'. Start at the end, where you want to be, describe your ideal life, set your intentions and you will attract more of what you want into your life. It happens. Usually without even thinking about it. This isn't like "The Secret" where you essentially make a dream board with a picture of that new Mercedes you've always wanted along with the fifteen-bedroom house on the ocean and then expect that they'll just appear in your life. No, that's not what this is about. This is about really getting clear about what it is that you want from your life, setting your intention on having that and then acting as if you already have it.
When I wrote out my end game in Martha's training I happened to be on a 10-day-mini 'Eat, Pray, Love' retreat that I gave myself on the big island of Hawaii. I was single at the time, but I had a pretty clear picture of what I wanted. We were told to write it as if it were three years later, or April 11, 2011. Here's a snipit from my end game:
"On April 11, 2011 I am 38 years old. On this day, as with all days to come, I will wake up whenever the sun rises and shines into my bedroom window. I will start each “work” day at 10:00 after I’ve exercised, meditated, had a nice breakfast and have given myself 15 minutes of doing nothing.
My workspace is attached to my home, which is on the ocean in Encinitas, California. My workspace is on the top floor with floor to ceiling windows looking out over the ocean. The windows open slightly to faintly hear the sounds of the ocean. There are pictures of all of the places I’ve traveled in the frames, as well as family pictures, including pictures of my husband and one-year old baby."
Now, for those of you who don't know me ... next April 2011 my baby Hudson will be just over one-year-old. I now live in a condo overlooking the bay, with floor-to-ceiling windows and the sun shines in each morning waking me up. My office is in my home and it's overlooking the bay. Granted, it's not the ocean, but the bay feeds into the ocean and it's pretty darn close. I am not married, but I guess April is still five months away, right?! ; )
While the universe was busy shifting around to create my reality I had completely forgotten about my end game. I hadn't looked at it since I wrote it out until two years later, after Hudson was born. My jaw dropped. I had to re-read it a few times. It was sort of like the moment the pregnancy test said "Pregnant". I was in disbelief. I have the life I wrote about. Wow, that was easy. And ... I became a believer. A believer in setting intentions and the law of attraction.
So what are you waiting for? Go write your end game - compose your life. Pick a date in the future, one year, three years, five years, whatever and write your ideal day as if it were already that date. Describe your life in as much detail and take it one step further than I did - print it out and tape it to your bathroom mirror. Or above your bed on your ceiling, I don't care. Just paste it somewhere where you will see it every day. Or, if you're brave enough, copy it into a comment right below this post! REALLY put it out to the universe. What do you have to lose? C'mon, click copy and paste. And presto - see what happens.
I promised to write about my previous experience with the law of attraction, the one that brought Hudson to me, so here goes.
Two-and-a-half years ago I was single and I had just quit my job at a top law firm to pursue my passion as a life coach, and to have more freedom in my life, something I pretty much gave up once I started practicing law. Practicing law at a top law firm and being single without kids seems to goes hand-in-hand.
After I left the firm I started my life coach training program with Martha Beck and one of our exercises was to write an 'end game'. Start at the end, where you want to be, describe your ideal life, set your intentions and you will attract more of what you want into your life. It happens. Usually without even thinking about it. This isn't like "The Secret" where you essentially make a dream board with a picture of that new Mercedes you've always wanted along with the fifteen-bedroom house on the ocean and then expect that they'll just appear in your life. No, that's not what this is about. This is about really getting clear about what it is that you want from your life, setting your intention on having that and then acting as if you already have it.
When I wrote out my end game in Martha's training I happened to be on a 10-day-mini 'Eat, Pray, Love' retreat that I gave myself on the big island of Hawaii. I was single at the time, but I had a pretty clear picture of what I wanted. We were told to write it as if it were three years later, or April 11, 2011. Here's a snipit from my end game:
"On April 11, 2011 I am 38 years old. On this day, as with all days to come, I will wake up whenever the sun rises and shines into my bedroom window. I will start each “work” day at 10:00 after I’ve exercised, meditated, had a nice breakfast and have given myself 15 minutes of doing nothing.
My workspace is attached to my home, which is on the ocean in Encinitas, California. My workspace is on the top floor with floor to ceiling windows looking out over the ocean. The windows open slightly to faintly hear the sounds of the ocean. There are pictures of all of the places I’ve traveled in the frames, as well as family pictures, including pictures of my husband and one-year old baby."
Now, for those of you who don't know me ... next April 2011 my baby Hudson will be just over one-year-old. I now live in a condo overlooking the bay, with floor-to-ceiling windows and the sun shines in each morning waking me up. My office is in my home and it's overlooking the bay. Granted, it's not the ocean, but the bay feeds into the ocean and it's pretty darn close. I am not married, but I guess April is still five months away, right?! ; )
While the universe was busy shifting around to create my reality I had completely forgotten about my end game. I hadn't looked at it since I wrote it out until two years later, after Hudson was born. My jaw dropped. I had to re-read it a few times. It was sort of like the moment the pregnancy test said "Pregnant". I was in disbelief. I have the life I wrote about. Wow, that was easy. And ... I became a believer. A believer in setting intentions and the law of attraction.
So what are you waiting for? Go write your end game - compose your life. Pick a date in the future, one year, three years, five years, whatever and write your ideal day as if it were already that date. Describe your life in as much detail and take it one step further than I did - print it out and tape it to your bathroom mirror. Or above your bed on your ceiling, I don't care. Just paste it somewhere where you will see it every day. Or, if you're brave enough, copy it into a comment right below this post! REALLY put it out to the universe. What do you have to lose? C'mon, click copy and paste. And presto - see what happens.
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