Just a little update

This is just going to be a short update because things have been good, but nothing drastically different is going on in my life. I now have 15 pounds to lose before reaching my pre baby weight, which is awesome! I have been really busy reconnecting with old friends while still keeping my relationships strong with the friends I have. Putting forth that extra little effort has really enhanced my life. Friends are truly the spice of life. Although I am extremely busy at work I am enjoying my job and actually feel like I am a better therapist this year even though I am only working 4 days/week and my caseload is bigger than it's ever been. The thing I enjoy most is being a mom and I am so grateful for each day off I have that I get to hang out with my son. Nothing can beat that!
I still haven't added too much to my vision board. Getting down to my pre baby weight is my main goal right now, along with planning an awesome vow renewal ceremony and reception (which I have a vision for in my head, but cannot find pictures for my board) but I know two things I want to add are 1. a picture of an LCD Samsung HDTV, and 2. plans for a house that we will build within 5 years, when we decide where we want to settle down.

So since my last blog things have taken a turn for the better. Life is so crazy like that! Literally, two days after I wrote about money issues and my husband not being on the same page as me, he decided that he needed to start being more careful with our money and not go out as much. I did not even say a word to him about it, and he does not read my blog (at least I'm 99% sure he doesn't), so since he has made that decision we have been able to catch up on our bills and by the end of October we will be able to start saving again! We managed to pay another few thousand towards our ceremony in Puerto Rico too! I have no clue how we were able to do this, but things are slowly turning up.
Since I have been back to work for about a month and a half now I have not been putting as much time into practicing the law of attraction or praying, and I find that when I take the time to say a prayer, visualize, say affirmations, look at my vision board, be grateful for things, etc...life goes much better for me. Even though I am working, I need to make sure I do not lose my focus. Thanks for reading!

Ups and Downs

I've been debating posting this blog, because I really want to keep everything very positive on here, but at the same time I want this blog to be real and a true reflection of what I am going through. So I decided to go ahead and post about something I've been struggling with recently along with the good stuff that's been going on. Most is good, really. I would say that a majority of the time I feel like my life is wonderful, that I am getting everything I want, and it is easy for me to stay positive. The one area that needs improvement, that I'm sure most people can relate to is money. I was doing really well for a while (when my husband couldn't spend money because he was working 24/7 in the military). Now I definitely need more of it in my life, not even to do great, fun things, but just to pay the bills and maybe have a little extra. Well, I guess if I am being honest, my husband and I probably make enough money, we are just horrible at sticking to a budget (trying to be nice by putting "we"). When I figure out our budget for the next few months it honestly looks like we are going to be just making it, that is if we actually spend what we are supposed to in the allotted areas. Wondering how The Secret works when one partner is doing it and the other one isn't and is in his same old habits. So, I'm looking for a miracle here! That was my little negative blurb for the sake of honesty on this blog and now it's time to get positive again! I am financially secure. I have no debt! I am grateful that I get to talk to my husband everyday now and that he is safe. Everything else has been going well. Weight is still coming off, I got to reconnect with some great friends for a weekend, spending a lot of time doing the "small stuff" that makes me happy. Loving my baby boy! Life is still good!

A True Experiment

I am really going to be testing the Law of Attraction in these next few months. My husband and I are planning on having a vow renewal ceremony in Puerto Rico this February. We haven't been married long, but our first wedding was planned in less than a week and we didn't have all of our friends and family there. We always imagined having a destination wedding, so we decided to go ahead and do it. We have not had a honeymoon either, so this will be our chance to do that as well. Not that I want to be negative on here, but if I look at the reality of the situation, it is going to be difficult funding this. Now done with that negative thought. We are going to do it and I have an image in my mind about how I would like it to be, and I am going to trust that we will be able to afford it. I will focus a lot of positive energy and visualization towards this issue and see how it goes!

My life is good!

It has been a few weeks since i have written a blog and the reason being that so much has been happening, I don't even know where to start! I have numerous blogs that I started, but didn't post yet because I am still waiting to see how things turn out. Basically, I am just feeling so grateful and blessed in my life, I am finding it difficult to ask for 'more' on my vision board. I don't feel like in this moment I want much else, so I just have two things sitting on my lonely vision board: 1. I want to continue to lose weight and become more fit until I get to 10 pounds below my pre-pregnancy weight (50 down, 30 lbs to go) and I want this by January 31, 2010. 2. I want more money. Eventually I want enough to pay off my student loans, mortgage, and any other debt my husband and I may have. This time I am going to put a number out there and say that in a years time I want my husband and I to have made $175,000.

Those are the two big things that I'm sure many people are also asking for. I'm not putting traveling on my vision board again quite yet because I could actually use a break from it for a little while. It's hard to travel with a baby! What I do want is to continue to build relationships with my friends who are very supportive and really positive in my life. It seems that as life happens sometimes I don't put a focus on keeping in touch with friends who may live in other states, I'm more into the here and now. I am going to start putting forth more effort into keeping in touch because they are worth it! These are great friends who I love and who make me happy. My life will only be better with them in it more. I haven't figured out how I am going to put that on my vision board, but I just put it out there, so universe, work for me!

One last thing I thought I should mention is that I have thus far only watched the movie The Secret, and that is what has started me on this journey, but this week I plan on purchasing the book to learn more and give me a physical reference to look at (to me flipping to find a page is much easier than finding a spot on a DVD). As I read I am sure I will find new inspiring information, and I will be sure to update any new findings. Thank you for reading and keep the positive thoughts flowing!

Losing the Weight

Although I have not yet reached my goal weight, I am writing about my weight loss because I am so surprised at how easily it has come off since I began to use the law of attraction. I have lost approximately 30 pounds since I started using The Secret. That is on top of the 25 pounds that I lost right after I had my baby. I still have about 20 pounds to go, but the weight seems to be coming off without much effort. Although I have been moving more in my daily life, I have not been on a regular exercise regimen for this loss.
Here is the story of my weight loss: I had a baby at the end of January of this year (2009) I lost 25 pounds within the 2 weeks after delivery, but then I stopped losing weight for about 2 months. Maybe I lost 5 pounds in the next 2 months, but the weight was not coming of nearly as fast as I had hoped. I kept looking in the mirror, feeling horrible about my body, wondering if I would ever feel confident and be able to fit into my pre-pregnancy clothes again. Around that time I watched the movie The Secret. I made my vision board, and waited. On my vision board I didn't put up girls who I wanted to look like because I just wanted to look like myself, just a thinner version. So, I put up pictures of girls who I felt exuded a trait that I felt when I was thinner. I wanted to feel confident, healthy, sexy.
After I placed the vision board in my bedroom I didn't quite know what else to do. I wasn't ready to start a diet or exercising a lot, so I just visualized a thinner version of myself, the clothes I would wear and how I would feel. For about a week nothing happened, but then a thought process began. I soon realized that I would eat the most when I was just bored at home, especially when my son was napping. Once that was realized, I thought about what I could do during that time instead of eat. I really wanted more sleep. I felt a little strange taking a nap, but I told myself I would just try it for the week and see how I felt. Once I was open to let myself try this, the rest of my life kind of fell into place around that. I found that after my nap I would have enough energy to take him out somewhere or go on a walk in the afternoon. So, not only was I not eating during his morning nap time, but I was gaining more sleep and consequently have enough energy to do something active in the afternoon which was helping me achieve weight loss. That has been the start of my new lifestyle. I have been doing more of what I love such as going on walks around my neighborhood, on hiking trails, biking, swimming, etc... and less eating out of boredom. That's about it so far. I plan on starting to exercise more frequently and a little bit harder to try to get off these last 20 pounds. I really want to be able to run 3 miles without being exhausted. So this fall I am going to accomplish that.
I feel that I am beginning to really grasp the concept of the law of attraction. Just do what you love and live the life you want. Everything else just falls into place.
Check out this website if you are looking to lose weight using The Secret: http://www.ehow.com/how_4773015_weight-secret-law-of-attraction.html

The Secret got my Friend a Good Man

I have a friend who I absolutely adore, but when it comes to relationships she is a bit of a pessimist. She always assumes that she is going to be alone forever and never find "The One". Most of her relationships are pretty short and have ended badly. I was talking to her about two months ago, telling her that she should make a vision board or a journal entry writing exactly what she wants in a man and then look at it every day. Not being sure if she would really do this, I had her tell me on the phone exactly what she wanted in a boyfriend.
Now fast forward to last night(approximately 2 months later), I get a phone call from her. She says she has been dating someone for a few weeks now and it is going great! Her exact words were "It's so nice to be with someone who you know is into you. No games." Turns out this is someone she has known and has been friends with for 4 years, but never looked at in a romantic way until recently. She said they have always had a great time together, but never thought about dating because neither of them wanted to date someone from work. I guess at the same time they let their guard down and decided to forget their silly rules and be open to what could be. Isn't it amazing! This person has been there the whole time, but just now her eyes opened to it. Goes to show you, never close any doors.
I told her how awesome I thought it was and how last time we talked, she was saying how she really wanted a nice boyfriend. She preceded to tell me that she did decide to implement The Secret, and she asked the universe to send her a man with these certain qualities. She wrote it all on a piece of paper, tried really hard to be positive and grateful, and she waited patiently. After about a month, her eyes opened to this man. She said that just being aware of what she wanted in a man helped her to see that this person had all those qualities. Good luck to them!
It's so nice to hear stories of how gratitude, positive thinking, and straight out asking for what you want is working in real people's lives!