Joe Vitale"s Weath Trigger
In 1980, I got a chance to pursue that dream and I ran after it. With two young girls in tow, a husband, a couple of chickens, a dog and a 1970s travel trailer, we moved to a mountain ridge top in the Sierra Nevada on the way to Yosemite. There I continued to dream, even though we lived on land bereft of running water for six years and electricity for two.
I drew out those house plans and constantly changed them, fitting the plan to my self-worth, a constantly moving target at that time. Even though I'd been using the precepts of the law of attraction since the mid-1970s to the best of my ability, having learned them under the term "create your own reality," I still couldn't manifest certain things. I'd experienced quite a bit of personal success in my career -- though the money never seemed to match it. What I didn't know then was the sabotage going on underneath the surface of my consciousness.
In 1995, I faced the bitter realization that I needed to leave that ridge top and leave that life behind. My heart broken and my life in tatters, I walked out that trailer door with nothing but what my car could carry, my young girls grown women and on their own. I left the man I'd known since he was a boy, who ended up being the kind of man even criminals despise. I went home to mother.
I left the beautiful mountain ridge top and my dreams and traveled nearly 600 miles south to San Diego, where I was born and where my mother still lived. Not one to dwell too much in the pain of the past, I made a commitment to myself that I would never experience that kind of pain and suffering again. I decided that it was time to be happy, not just in my job and with my children, but in my relationship with a significant other, if such were to be the case.
That year my first grandchild was born and my life changed overnight. It's amazing what can happen when you decide to commit to your own happiness above everything else and you follow through on that commitment. Within nine months of my arrival in San Diego, I'd met my soul mate and in a short year from the time I'd left that mountain ridge top, we moved in together. Two years after that we were married and two years after that, we were living on our own brand new ridge top on the Western Slope of the Sierra Nevada at the heart of California's gold country building the dream house that I designed.
It takes giving over our dreams to the Universe before we can realize them, but more importantly, to achieve your dreams, it takes a commitment to yourself and a commitment to rid yourself of what sabotages your dreams: your own subconscious.
What often stands in the way of our dreams and desires is deeply rooted beliefs about who we are and what we are worth. Most of us were conditioned or "programmed" to believe that we are not worth our dreams -- though we may not even know consciously know this -- and don't understand that most of the time instead of going with the flow, we're fighting the current.
I'm not going to tell you that "I'm lucky" to be where I am because that would be a lie. Where I am is the direct result of conscious creation, including my soul mate, my dream house - and this year, a new biggie - my dream job of working from home. I continue to check off the things that I've always wanted to do with surprising success and speed - and the more I follow the Universe's lead and go with the flow, the quicker things seem to happen.
Yes - I did get my dream - even after walking away from it. I've been living on my mountain ridge top for over 10 years now. A house I designed and my husband and I built ourselves - without any construction experience - or a lottery win to do so. We used the principles of the law of attraction there too - and every day something new shows up.
The trick is to find what blocks you, wipe it from your subconscious and place a "new" program in that beat-up hard drive of yours. The programs downloaded into us as children, more times than most, consist of the fears and failures of our caretakers, because the bad stuff is easy to program and easy to lock into belief. When this stuff goes into our subconscious, it takes some doing to get it out.