“A ship in the harbor is safe, but after a while the bottom rots out.”

Anonymous

“That can happen if we stay too long in our safe zone. I begin to “rot.” Oh, just little indicators. A pound here or there goes on.  A negative way of thinking begins to take root in my brain. Getting the ship out of the harbor is HARD WORK!! (Just go to any major pier.) But the pay off is fantastic.”

Susan Lewis Lally

This weeks quote comes from a book I love by Joan Anderson. She has written several books about her journey of self discovery.

 

Such is my morning ritual, nothing terribly complicated unless I’ve forgotten to bring logs in from the woodpile the night before. I’m deep into my time-out season of life, where it seems best to be actively passive, involved in little, aware of much. Instinct told me to take myself away and look at all the unwrapped gifts nature has to offer. The natural world is hibernating and so am I.

Joan Anderson has written several books and she  holds weekend workshops on self discovery. Her latest book is The Second Journey. You can learn more about Joan Anderson at joanandersononline.com

“If you want to be loved, be loving.”

Dr. Norris Chumley

I’ve always been in the right place at the right time. Of course I steered myself there.

Bob Hope

Encourage others.  Believe in them.  Appreciate them.  See God in everyone.

Dr. Norris Chumley

Renaissance Island

 Renaissanace Island Aruba

“There are three components to the Law Of Dharma. The first component says that each of us is here to discover our true Self, to find out on our own that our true Self is spiritual, that essentially we are spiritual beings that have taken manifestation in physical form. We are not human beings having occasional spiritual experiences – it’s the other way around: we’re spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences.”

From the book “The Seven Spiritual Law’s of Success” Deepak Chopra

Happiness

is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mohandas Gandhi Indian Leader

If you’ve been following my posts of late you know I’m doing exercises and activities from “Ask and It’s Given” By Esther and Jerry Hicks and Abraham. This past week I saw one of my visualization box wishes become reality.  To help you understand lets go back about  six weeks.  Six weeks ago I was following the press trip of a writer I’ve come to enjoy.  Her website is Almostfearless.com  She gave up her corporate life and became a travel nomad writing and blogging her way around the world with her husband and dogs in tow.  I receive her travel updates via email and in early November she was headed out for a  six day press trip to write about Belieze, courtesy of Belieze Tourism.

When I saw her post about the trip I said aloud, ” I want to do that. I want to take a press trip like that.” Along with my statement were physical pictures and travel brochures of places in the caribbean I would like to visit.  All of this was inside my visualization box which I see daily on my living room stand. Let me also be clear,  I’ve spent the last two years blogging for a travel website and have spent ten years of my life traveling and working overseas. So it wasn’t just a whim that had me saying I want to take a press trip. I’ve done the ground work. I have the skills and I have the knowledge to write and travel alone. I was simply asking the universe to help me manifest an opportunity to put my skills in the forefront as a traveler and writer.

Just over one month later I was contacted by the writer whose travel website I write for. She offered me an opportunity to travel as part of  a press trip to the caribbean.  After thinking  10.5 seconds I said I’m 98% sure I can go, I will get back to you in the morning with a final answer. Of course that answer was YES! Are you kidding me?  No writer who loves to travel is going to say no to an opportunity to travel and write about their experience. So within six weeks of my desire to manifest a press trip I was preparing to head out on my own caribbean press trip. Life is pretty amazing!

I departed on Dec 16th for four amazing, adventurous days on the caribbean island of Aruba. I know it was a combination of belief, manifestation, divine support, years of writing, blogging and traveling that created this amazing opportunity. It was powerful and awe inspiring to see this moment manifest in my life. It is the realization of one dream and a start to a whole series of dreams. I am blessed, I am grateful and I am thrilled to be at this place in my life. It feels like a beautiful, spiritual gift. I see these exercises working in my life. I hope you will be inspired to use them in your own life.  Namaste

If you would like to follow my posts from Aruba you can find them @ wanderlustandlipstick.com/hammmockinparadise

My video, The Creation of a Dream.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v0NnH3jPY0

Namaste,

Lisa