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I'm creating a thread solely dedicated to copying and pasting inspirational success stories from other areas of the forum. The first one is quite famous ....by the one and only Pure Positive Purple Goodness, Super Moderator, HITC!

(oh, I took the liberty of highlighting some of my favorite points...in addition to the highlights there were already there)

Originally Posted by **Hands in the Clay**

It's early morning here in France, but when I awoke (after going to sleep to Abe YouTube music/words videos), I felt a semi-clear idea that I just want to share, **one** way in which **I have created so much financial prosperity in such a short time** (gosh it STILL amazes me sometimes that I am writing that here already…it’s really weird, folks, and TOTALLY thrilling - we are **powerful** creators, really!!!).

The background to it is the quick mid-month calculation of income so far for June that I did yesterday, JUST FOR FUN and to bask (not out of worry). **Where I am mid-month now is what was a FULL month's income JUST SIX MONTHS AGO, which, two years ago, was TWO months' income**. Reading it is just words for anyone out there, so do the math for yourself, with your own figures. Take two months’ income, and imagine getting that as a paycheck or as client payments or gifts or whatever every two weeks, every time, all year. (It’s worth noting here that the huge shift in clientele and type of projects, which have been the path of least resistance to this new income, mean my business is now very streamlined – I don’t have to knock on doors, market myself, accept small jobs, go glad-handing to drum up business, spend time invoicing teensy projects, chasing payments, having long meetings about projects, buying stamps, etc. – huge, exciting, creative projects giving me hundreds of thousands of readers just **come** now, plop! in my inbox; single invoices now total weeks and weeks of income; clients are all responsible and fun and kind and accept emailed invoices and pay by wire transfer like clockwork…).

And I became very aware this morning of how I keep training myself to a new normal, generating thought paths that make it EASY for that new normal to come into being. **I constantly, and unabashedly, tell an even rosier mental story (and out-loud when I can get away with it)**. When I am technically (What Is) “well under” amount XX (a week, month, or year amount), I imagine that I am THERE already. Rounding up. Heavily. And when I get comfortable with that feeling, IT CATCHES UP!!! For example, instead of thinking, “I’m only making 27,000,” just round up and mentally tell the story that 30,000 is coming in. Not ALMOST 30. Thirty. Instead of 36, 40. Instead of 45, 50. Instead of 64, 70. Instead of 85, 100…. (I was a bit wobbly at first, sometimes getting disappointed when I did this, but I softly persisted, took the hit each time and smoothed and rationalized it out, and it quickly stabilized). New normals that are the “next logical step” and therefore “easy” to get to.

I’ll even change it into another currency to make it an even BIGGER number and tell myself THAT. Not worrying how or when or who. Just practicing the FEELING of being one who makes XXX. I even say it in my head, “Wow! I make XXX a year” until it feels so normal that I don’t even think to say it anymore…until I look a while later and see that it is now TRUE, and then I notch it up again. And I mean over a matter of MONTHS.

**I didn’t do this in the very beginning, because What Is wasn’t what I wanted. I had to prime the pump. I found other things to think about, vortexed on other things and made PEACE with my current money state, appreciated how the world was helping me with the tax issues, the payment schedules, the slow rent check, the “scary” things that come up when you live in a tight-money world. Gave flowers to my banker lady. Wrote thank you letters to Social Security. Imagined how great it would be someday to no longer have debt. But once the money part started actually shifting, I gave it all my attention and milked, milked, milked. And still do. Shamelessly.**

And now that I’m getting good at it, I’m going to shift it to just RECEIVING that much, instead of EARNING that much, you dig? Maybe getting it in interest on investments, dividends, annual gifts, regular winnings. Who knows? Today, for the first time, I understood Ted Turner’s words, “The world is awash in money.”

And when it starts to flow that strong and easily, that “eager,” panting, aching feeling for a lottery win goes away, because you realize tons of money can come to you because it is waiting for you already. Like ManifestMan’s house!

Constructing thoughtways (so heavily covered in the February 5th workshop of this year, when so many hotseaters got bounced) is like tracing a groove in the ground in front of a trickle of water to let the water flow more directly where you want it to go, instead of it spreading out and eventually getting absorbed. Like leaving a trace of honey along the driveway to lead the Universal Creation Ants to another place. Like leaving a path of breadcrumbs for materialization to flow toward your chosen creation. It’s just another mind-makes-matter technique, and just one that I now clearly see has been working for me. **Let your mind get comfortable with where you want to go, set a new place “ahead” of where you are, project yourself there fully, without “pushing,” and feel happy and excited and appreciative and NORMAL about that (and not sheepish and not ashamed and not like you are “lying” – because you HAVE created that reality already, so it IS true) and relax in the knowing that it will catch up through the path of least resistance. For it will. Every time. Fast.**

**treelotus**

**originally posted by Laughing Wolf Courageous Sun**

**How to fall in love, train your dragon and live a fabulous life**

Hello abeforum friends!

It’s been so long since I’ve been here regularly, but I had a really fun story that I wanted to share. The year of 2012 has been my best ever. Amazing. Delicious. Wow. So, so good. Grids filling in left and right. Absolutely empowering and better than I could have even imagined.

SO much has happened for me in the last 9 months I couldn’t even begin to write success stories for all of them! I’ll try and summarize briefly…

I’ve gone through a very vortexy divorce (which was finalized last week), I moved twice, quit every job that felt un-fun, I’ve explored myself, discovered *wonderful* lovers, amazing friends and found more fun and fulfillment and ease that I have probably experienced in the last 3 years.

Ok, read on for some details (it's long. Grab a cup of tea first, you won't want to put this down!)

Wow, where to even start!

Well, how about with a quick story about our Abe group? A few years ago our brilliant leader, Radiant Raven, wanted to do something special on 11/11/10, so we set up an event where everyone would come as they wanted to be in a year (ie; come as who you want to be on 11/11/11). I remember having a hard time with trying to see what I wanted to be in a year (this was before I could see any of these big changes I’ve been through this year on the horizon), but I went back to basics and imagined how I wanted to *feel*.

**I wanted to feel eager and fun and excited and to be enjoying myself all of the time. I wanted to be as happy as I possibly could be, and from personal experience I knew that tend to feel happiest when I get to have control of my schedule and be flexible, when I get to travel and experience new things, when I get to be outside often, when I am having some sort of an adventure, when I’m sharing my adventures and my happiness with others and *especially* when I am infecting other people with THE HAPPY BUG!**

So as I was feeling all of that, **an image started to materialize in my head**. I saw myself traveling around the country, exploring the outdoors with a partner and having pictures taken of me/us in various states of bliss! In my imagination, I was getting paid to travel and have fun. And through my pictures, I was infecting people with the happy bug. It was a lovely vision – but one that I had absolutely no inspiration to take action towards. **I enjoyed the virtual reality of it for the event and then totally forgot about it.**

Back to the more recent present … last February I realized that my marriage, while not actually BAD, just wasn’t where I wanted to be. I wanted to be really truly happy, to WANT to be there. **I wanted a FABULOUS relationship, not just an alright one. After three years of trying to focus wheel it back into place (which always worked, albeit temporarily) I asked for a divorce and had an amazingly smooth transition out of that marriage.**

Within a few months, I was feeling like a whole new person. **I felt clear, strong, empowered, eager, excited and completely unsure of what was going to happen next!**

At one point, I moved into a new place with no known way to pay for the extra expense of rent! I took out loans to pay for the 1st month’s rent and I had to make that up AND come up with the last month’s rent within 60 days. And I wasn’t actually making enough to cover rent and all of my other expenses.

But I felt my way around and **I knew that going back wasn’t an option, and that obviously the universe would have to find a way to work something out for me. So I made peace with the worst case scenario and went ahead, trusting that it would turn out better than that though not being quite sure how.** But then, the how’s aren’t my job, are they?

Sometime during those transition months, a very good friend of mine was looking to manifest a mate, and had found this very Abe-ish book with all kinds of exercises and processes for doing that. The title of the book was “Calling in the One”. I had just had the divorce talk with my now ex-husband and though I wasn’t really interested in having another relationship right away, the book sounded neat and I thought it would be fun to work through it together.

But I made it clear to my journal, to myself and to my book study buddies that I wasn’t intending to ‘call in the one’. I was not looking for a life partner. I already had the one – *me*. What I wanted instead was to have a delicious abundance of light-hearted lovers who adored me, and yet to continue to have my own life and my own space to continue to grow into the even more wonderful and free person that I knew I was becoming. Rather than ‘calling in the one, I chose to ‘call in the many’ and ‘call in the fun!’

This was about the time Abraham was going on and on about grid building, and **I was loving the thrill of going general and feeling my way there.** Feeling my way there is always my favorite kind of process anyway! I kept going back to one grid in particular because it felt particularly powerful for me. It was a FUN grid that I had built with relationships in mind. On it were things like playful, adored, eager, sensual, amazing, easy, delicious, romance, intimacy. Notoriously absent were things like commitment, partnership, effort and compromise.

In the middle of all of this, I surprised myself one day by noticing that I was feeling ready and curious to get back into the world of dating. On a lark one evening I read some of the ads posted on Craigslist and decided it would be so much simpler to just post my own and let the Universal Search Engine weed out people for me – so I did.

Still not interested in anything serious, just fun and a good time, I wrote up an ad quickly and posted it at midnight. “Who knows,” I thought, “Maybe I will only get a couple of responses. I’m ok with that. I AM odd, after all! I’m just curious to see what happens.” My ad told a bit about me, including everything I thought might turn someone off, and invited them to email me if they wanted to walk around the park near my house and get to know each other a bit. That was it.

The ad was an astounding success! Here I was expecting 2-3 interesting responses - I ended up with somewhere around 25 and booked so many dates that week that I realized at some point I wouldn’t be able to keep walking the 3 mile loop I had proposed 3 times a day every day and had to take the ad down! Boy, did I attract ‘the many’!

I went on lots of dates, and everyone that I met with was interesting and enjoyable in one way or another. Some of these dates transformed into friendships, some into more dates, and a few into light-hearted lovers who I continue to see to this day. I have been taken to so many of the restaurants in town, out on overnight trips outside the city, to sweet bed & breakfast places on nearby islands, to hidden parks in parts of the city I didn’t even know existed! I have had three men this summer confess their love to me, two of them seriously and one marriage proposal. I have been treated like a queen and a goddess (and I still am!). I have fallen in love twice (three times if you count with myself!) and I get to have my cake and eat it too! It has *all* been extremely fun, intimate, romantic, delicious, amazing, sensual, playful and eager.

And I am continually amazed by how much that original relationship grid is still filling in! Each week I am discovering a new depth of awesomeness to this grid and it blows me away again. Wow, riding this wave is really, really exhilarating!!! (Is it any wonder I’ve been too busy to post? LOL)

But wait, there is more. Remember how I said that I had no idea how I was going to pay for my new place? And I was all worried about the extra expenses I was incurring this summer by moving? And I wasn’t earning enough at the time to even closely cover it all?

Well… it started with little things. A shift at work popped up and I was called in on it. Oh great, 5 days a week of pay instead of 2 will cover all my expenses!!! Whee! But after two months (which were lovely, btw) I started to notice that I couldn’t do enough focus wheels or grids to be fully enjoying myself while I was at this new shift. It was just not enough fun. But I needed the money. What to do? Quit that shift and hope against hope that I get something else quickly to cover the deficit? Or grit my teeth and bare it for the sake of being able to pay my bills?

In the past, that is what I would have done. But… it’s no longer good enough for me just to be able to hand over a check at the end of the month that’s not going to bounce. One of the things I discovered in my divorce was if I’m going to be here on this physical planet, then I might as well forget about ‘just getting by’. I am not willing to live a mediocre life. I’m in it for FABULOUS!!

I waited a few weeks to make sure I was truly aligned with this decision and not just frustrated… and then I gave my notice for that client and was back to only two days a week worth of pay. And needing to move again ASAP.

But I had made my decision. Fabulous was my goal. I need to enjoy myself, both off the clock and on. It’s important. **My intention was clear** and I had apparently been vibrating it pretty powerfully because not only did I start getting odd jobs here and there, and running into old friends at opportune times, but I was also swept off my old shift and onto another one (this one 3 days a week) which was light years better and more fun!

Not only that, I was beginning to see an unusual benefit of dating, one which I hadn’t even considered before: I hardly ever had to pay for my own dinner! LOL My weekly grocery list was whittled down to a quart of milk, some fruit and maybe scones or a loaf of bread. Not to mention some of my dates just happened to have extra furniture they wanted to get rid of that fit perfectly into my new place.

One of them even bought me a brand new bed because mine wouldn’t quite fit up the stairs while he was helping me move in! Many of those ‘unexpected expenses’ that I had expected to crop up and deplete my checking account NEVER DID because someone else footed the bill. How cool is THAT?!?

See, isn’t it a good thing I decided to leave “the how’s” up to the universe?

And then… I was asked for a favor by a friend who is a photographer. He needed someone who wasn’t shy to model for him so he could build up his portfolio. “Sure, why not,” I said. I had a blast and afterwards, he asked me to put up a free portfolio on some modeling website so that he could link to me. “Sure, why not,” I said. I did it and forgot about it.

Now, unbeknownst to me, that website is used by commercial photographers to connect with models they want to shoot with. I started getting emails every day from people who wanted me to come shoot with them. Some of them even were willing to pay me to do this. “Really? Me? Well, ok, if you are sure.” I kept expecting that I’d show up and they’d change their minds! But hey, if someone is willing to pay me to sit and act pretty, why not, right?

That was back in the middle of the summer. I have had on average two photo shoots per week since then, every single one of them paid shoots. I never set out to become a model, I just fell into it. I followed the inspirations and suddenly, without even trying, I’m getting paid to do something that apparently lots of people have to work really hard at? I’ve even had invitations to come out to LA, Las Vegas, Portland and Louisiana for shoots!

But wait, it gets better. ( You knew that was coming, didn't you?)

Last week both of my photo shoots were outside and in beautiful locations. The first one was on the beach about 2 hours north of my city and I enjoyed getting out of town immensely. It was the day after Labor Day, gorgeous and sunny, warm but not too hot and I’m prancing around the beach and the driftwood shelters and balancing on logs and listening to the tide going out and laughing at seagulls all day…

And as I’m kneeing down next to the waves drawing a heart in the sand with a beautiful, smooth rock, I was hit with this powerful emotional wave. **I suddenly remembered that one virtual reality from a few years ago of traveling the world, being outdoors, enjoying myself and having someone follow me around with a camera and take pictures of my vortexy moments. And at the same moment that I remember it, I notice that I am, right now, *living it.***

Wow. I really, really love this stuff! What a perfect moment! What exhilaration! Recognizing my own brilliance in the midst of it!

So, yes, 2012 has been FABULOUS! Yes, I ‘called in the many’. Yes, I ‘called in the fun’. Yes, I’m rolling in the dough now (did I tell you I get paid really well to sit around and just enjoy myself? Oh, and I’m booked on the Cancun Land Cruise now too! It’s official, and I’ve already paid for most of it, in addition to paying off a couple of credit cards, all of the short term moving debt plus I’m paying cash for everything these days!)

And I did it all smoothly, with ease & flow and with lots of cherries on top.

**Happiness is important, even if the changes we have to go through to get there are immense. It's easy to look at something we know we need to change to be happy and see it as impossible to conquer -- "dragons of contrast", if you will. Something we will just have to live with for now, or save and tackle for another day.**

**But even dragons can be trained to work for you rather than against you. It's easier than you think**, and **happiness is worth reaching for.** (Not that falling in love again & again, nor living a life of luxury and being treated like a goddess all the time is the key to my happiness, certainly not. But deliberately creating my experience and molding the clay of my life sure is thrilling!)

For me, it all started with deciding that ‘good enough’ was no longer good enough and then following the next best feeling thought. Because the next best feeling thought leads to another better feeling thought, and this is the breadcrumb trail that is the fastest path between where we are now and where our Inner Being is, where we want to be.

**Immense changes don't have to be painful ones. I should know.**

So there you go: How to fall in love, train your dragon and live a fabulous life.

You know, this is giving me a whole new grid idea... I have some more fabulousness to prepave! Gotta run. I'll be off molding the clay if anyone is looking for me!

Hugs, kisses and Fabulousness,

Radiant Rebecca