Have you ever noticed that little voice in your mind? You know; the voice that right now is saying “what little voice?”… You probably know what I am talking about. Every one of us has some kind of internal dialog going on most of the day. Mine drives me nuts sometimes! To keep your thoughts and feelings positive it is very important to pro actively notice this voice and to keep track of what it is saying. In my view, there actually are two little voices… one positive and one negative. The positive one is the one that is supportive of all your ideas, beliefs in what you do and always expects the good in other people. The negative one is the whiner who always tries to put you and the rest of the world down, has no belief in what is possible and makes you feel doubtful and frustrated.

The positive voice is the one that creates the positive feelings and therefore will help you to attract the dreams and goals you have set for yourself by virtue of the Law of Attraction. It will help you to get ahead in life. The negative one creates negative feelings of jealousy, fear or frustration and will therefore sabotage your efforts to try and create the life of your dreams. It will only create more negativity in your life.

Key is: give more attention to the positive voice than to the negative one. In fact, try to give as little acknowledgment as possible to the negative voice. I suggest having a bit of fun with this. In your mind, create a mental image of your positive voice and your negative voice. Your positive voice could be represented by a fun little cheerleader, jumping around all happy and excited on your left shoulder. The negative voice could be a grumpy little old man, sitting cross armed on your shoulder with an angry little face. Now every time you hear yourself saying something negative to yourself or others, notice the little old grumpy dumpy sitting on your shoulder… That was him talking. On the other side is the fun cheerleader: what would she say? Would that be more constructive to say in this situation?

Just give it a try… by being and talking more positive to yourself and others, you will be able to apply the teachings of the Law of Attractions a lot more effective. Talking and speaking positive will attract more positive empowering things to you! If you are serious about attracting your dreams and goals in life, listen to your cheerleader and let the grumpy one crumble away…!

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Do you know the life of your dreams? Really know what it looks like and feels like on every level of your existence? We all set goals in different areas of our lives, such as health, relationships or careers, which is a great thing to do. Some of us also visualize these goals by creating images in our minds or physically on our wall or computer. This is even more effective, as this will assist in attracting these goals in to your reality. By visualizing them in detail, they become more and more real to yourself and particularly your subconscious mind. Especially when you really FEEL like you have already achieved this goal. You see, your mind works like a magnet; whatever energy vibrations you radiate and send out with your thoughts and feelings is what you will attract to your life with regards to events, people or circumstances that will assist you in reaching your goals. Therefore, the Law of Attraction is the Law of Creation. You create your entire life through your own thoughts!

I wanted to share with you a way to apply these principles in an extremely powerful way: by visualizing your dream life like being in a movie. A best seller hit movie called “My dream life”! Close your eyes, and start “acting” as the star in your own future! The time frame of your movie could be 5 years from now…

So image your life, 5 years from now. You have achieved the goals and dreams you had set for yourself and you are truly living the life you wish to manifest.

Describe as detailed as you can:

* Where do you live; at the beach, in the mountains?
* What does your house look like?
* What will you look like; healthier, fitter, and younger?
* Who will you be spending time with, how much time will you be able to dedicate to this person or these persons and what will you be doing?
* To whom or what will you be able to contribute today, how does that make you feel?
* What is your level of happiness, and your level of gratitude and excitement?

Really get into this. Give yourself permission to dream BIG! See yourself living a wonderful life of balance in health, wealth, spirituality and social activities. Really FEEL like you are living this amazing life and know you deserve it. My recommendation is to do this every night. Why not spend the last 5 minutes of your day in your future dream life…. If you do this every night, with power and belief, and you take the necessary actions: one day you will find yourself living this dream life for real!

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Since The secret came out so many more people are now “wakened” to the idea of being able to direct their destiny! I have come across a lot of people wanting to apply the Law of Attraction, particularly to attract more wealth and fortune into their lives. It is probably one of the most important areas for which people truly see a change to transform their reality. At the same time I have read numerous books and articles devoting at least one chapter to this topic. In this article I thought I’d share some of the techniques I came across and techniques I use myself.

The first recommended technique is to really see yourself as a millionaire and feel yourself already being a millionaire. Focus on wearing clothes that make you feel prosperous and doing the things a millionaire does, such as looking at amazing houses and going out for lunch. Really focus on wealth and abundance instead of on lack or limitations, not having enough etc as that is what you will keep getting otherwise. If you think you “need” money, that is exactly what you will be attracting to your life: more “needing”! If you feel broke, guess what… you will attract more “brokeness” to your reality.

On the other hand, if you focus on an abundance of money flowing into your life and you really feel this abundance in every fiber of your body, you will create “money attracting vibes”! The interesting thing is, that the more you focus on abundance in your life, the more the “standard” in your mind shifts towards having money. Combined with the right action you will eventually attract that wealth into your reality. Your ideas and feelings shift from “I don’t have money” to “I am receiving more and more money” to eventually actually having it.

Another technique is to visualize your actual fortune. If your goal is to become a millionaire, then write out a a check made out to you for 1 million dollars and hang it somewhere in your house where you will see it often. Better still, make copies and hang them all around your house! Visualize a stream of money flowing into your life, like a river. Or visualize your bank account with a million dollars in it. You could even print out a bank statement, white out the amount and replace it with a huge number. See yourself with a full wallet, happily paying diner for a group of friends. Or anything else that you wish you could do if you had the money. Becoming a millionaire is great, but I assume you have this goal because you have some ideas as to how to spend it once earned. So really see yourself already wealthy! What you see in your imagination, is what you will eventually see for real with your eyes! This method is called “vivid visualization” and is extremely powerful. By practicing it, you will find that your self-image begins to conform to these new images in your mind. You are literally growing into the new successful person you intent to become.

A key factor here is to stop worrying about HOW it will come to you. The universe will take care of that, you just need to believe and focus on positive feelings and vibrations. This will attract the events, circumstances and people into your life to make your goal a reality. Look at your million dollar check and feel the feelings of having that money right now. How would you spend it? How would it feel to spend that kind of money?

A final important point to know, is that if you don’t have enough money right now, it means you are blocking the flow of money into your life, with your thoughts. Your wallet speaks very clearly about the vibrations you are sending out into the universe about money at this present moment. So have a really good look at your own beliefs about money. If your beliefs are limiting and scarce, you will need to address this before you can attract your true fortune. You can work on a more positive and abundant belief system by using affirmations. Use affirmations like “I am so happy and excited that I am now attracting a flow of money into my life” or “I easily attract money like a magnet”.

Combine the vivid visualization technique with empowering affirmations and the action steps you need to further your goals. This creates a powerful process, and gets you on your way to becoming a millionaire!

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I think it is really exciting to see a fast growing number of people creating a personal Vision Board, as this is such an effective way to apply “The Law of Attraction” as seen in “The Secret”.

A lot of people are new to the idea of creating a Vision Board and don’t know exactly how to create one, so I thought I’d give you my personal top tips as to how you can create a Vision Board that empowers you every day and that keeps you inspired for the long term.

Firstly, let me briefly explain what a Vision Board is. A Vision Board basically is a collage of images of all the things you would like to have, do or become. You either glue them on a paper cardboard or you can use computer software that is especially designed to assist in making your Vision Board. By using your Vision Board on a daily basis you will focus on your goals and dreams. This way you are feeding your subconscious mind with the goals you want to achieve. It is like the “orders” you wish to place with the Universe. Particularly important when you look at your Vision Board, is to really feel as if you have already achieved this goal. See and feel yourself in the position of having achieved those goals; notice how this feels. This feeling “as if” and the subsequent vibration that this causes is what actually attracts your goals into your reality, by virtue of “The Law of Attraction”. You can add power to your Vision Board by using inspiring affirmations or power words such as “Freedom” or “Dream car”. By using these positive self statements, we call affirmations; we can truly benefit from the positive energy that this generate and puts into the Universe.

So where do you start when creating a Vision Board? Well, firstly have a good think about what you wish to create for yourself in your life. What is important to you? Which goals do you want to achieve and will the achievement of these goals make you feel happy and fulfilled? Look into different areas of life such as relationships, health, wealth, family, spirituality. Be as specific as possible; if you wish to create more spare time with your family then what would you do? Would you go out to the park with your children, would you take them on a camping trip? How would that make you feel? What is wealth for you? Owning a new house, going on an exotic holiday or donating to charity? What makes you feel fulfilled? It is worth spending time to think your goals through as this is essence of your Vision Board.

Make a list of all your different goals. Then think about how you can translate this goal visually into an image. Do you have images yourself you could use? The more personal the image, the stronger the emotional feeling that is created when you look at the image. For instance, you could represent “more family time” with a nice picture of yourself and your family on a day out. Or make a picture of yourself on a spot that represents a goal like “developing my spirituality”. If you want to eat a more healthy diet, use a picture of yourself eating something healthy. Or you can choose to visualize this goal with a picture of some fruit and vegetables. You can also use a picture of yourself at your ideal size and weight or find a picture of someone at this ideal size and weight and put your face in place of theirs.

I recommend to first focus on 6-8 major goals and to therefore create a Vision Board of about 6-12 images. This will assist you in keeping the focus on different areas of your life, without loosing sight of your main goals.. This way you will use the Vision Board to it’s maximum effectiveness. Once you have achieved a goal, make sure to update your Vision Board with the image of another goal. This way your Vision Board keeps up to date and inspirational.

Another important suggestion is to create maximum exposure to your Vision Board. Make sure you display your Vision Board in different places, so you see it often, whether this is conscious or subconscious. Ideally, you hang your Vision Board all around your home and keep one in your diary as well. By using Vision Board software, you can display your Vision Board on your computer as your screen saver and wall paper. It also allows you to print off your Vision Board. In addition, make sure to share your Vision Board with the people in your life who can encourage you and will keep you accountable. You can show it to them when they visit your home, or -if you use Vision Board Software- you could send your Vision Board to them by email.

Finally, the key is to JUST GET STARTED. Hopefully these tips have made this a bit easier! Too many people just think about their Vision Board and plan to “someday” create one “when the time is right”…. The right time is NOW! Creating a Vision Board is an ongoing process. As your goals and dreams change so will your Vision Board. So just start the process NOW and learn along the way!

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Do you know the life of your dreams? Really know what it looks like and feels like on every level of your existence? We all set goals in different areas of our lives, such as health, relationships or careers, which is great. Some of us also visualize these goals by creating images in our minds or physically on our wall or computer using a Vision Board. This is even more effective, as this will assist in attracting these goals in to your reality. By visualizing them in detail, they become more and more real to yourself and particularly your subconscious mind. Especially when you really FEEL like you have already achieved this goal. You see, your mind works like a magnet; whatever energy vibrations you radiate and send out with your thoughts and feelings is what you will attract to your life with regards to events, people or circumstances that will assist you in reaching your goals. Therefore, the Law of Attraction is the Law of Creation. You create your entire life through your own thoughts!

I wanted to share with you a way to apply these principles in an extremely powerful way: by visualizing your dream life like being in a movie. A best seller hit movie called “My dream life”! Close your eyes, and start “acting” as the star in your own future! The time frame of your movie could be 5 years from now…

So image your life, 5 years from now. You have achieved the goals and dreams you had set for yourself and you are truly living the life you wish to manifest.

Describe as detailed as you can:

Where do you live; at the beach, in the mountains?
What does your house look like?
What will you look like; healthier, fitter, and younger?
Who will you be spending time with, how much time will you be able to dedicate to this person or these persons and what will you be doing?
To whom or what will you be able to contribute today, how does that make you feel?
What is your level of happiness, and your level of gratitude and excitement?

Really get into this. Give yourself permission to dream BIG! Visualize yourself living a wonderful life of balance in health, wealth, spirituality and social activities. Really FEEL like you are living this amazing life and know you deserve it. My recommendation is to do this every night. Why not spend the last 5 minutes of your day in your future dream life…. If you do this every night, with power and belief, and you take the necessary actions: one day you will find yourself living this dream life for real!

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Since The secret came out so many more people are now “wakened” to the idea of being able to direct their destiny! I have come across a lot of people wanting to apply the Law of Attraction, particularly to attract more wealth and fortune into their lives. It is probably one of the most important areas for which people truly see a change to transform their reality. At the same time I have read numerous books and articles devoting at least one chapter to this topic.

In this article I thought I’d share some of the techniques I came across and techniques I use myself.

The first recommended technique is to really see yourself as a millionaire and feel yourself already being a millionaire. Focus on wearing clothes that make you feel prosperous and doing the things a millionaire does, such as looking at amazing houses and going out for lunch. Really focus on wealth and abundance instead of on lack or limitations, not having enough etc as that is what you will keep getting otherwise. If you think you “need” money, that is exactly what you will be attracting to your life: more “needing”! If you feel broke, guess what… you will attract more “broke-ness” to your reality.

On the other hand, if you focus on an abundance of money flowing into your life and you really feel this abundance in every fiber of your body, you will create “money attracting vibes”! The interesting thing is, that the more you focus on abundance in your life, the more the “standard” in your mind shifts towards having money. Combined with the right action you will eventually attract that wealth into your reality. Your ideas and feelings shift from “I don’t have money” to “I am receiving more and more money” to eventually actually having it.

Another technique is to visualize your actual fortune. If your goal is to become a millionaire, then write out a a check made out to you for 1 million dollars and hang it somewhere in your house where you will see it often. Better still, make copies and hang them all around your house! Visualize a stream of money flowing into your life, like a river. Or visualize your bank account with a million dollars in it. You could even print out a bank statement, white out the amount and replace it with a huge number. See yourself with a full wallet, happily paying diner for a group of friends. Or anything else that you wish you could do if you had the money. Becoming a millionaire is great, but I assume you have this goal because you have some ideas as to how to spend it once earned. So really see yourself already wealthy! What you see in your imagination, is what you will eventually see for real with your eyes! This method is called “vivid visualization” and is extremely powerful. By practicing it, you will find that your self-image begins to conform to these new images in your mind. You are literally growing into the new successful person you intent to become. Another very valuable tool to visualize your life, is by creating a Vision Board. Create a collage of images and affirmations visualizing your life as a millionaire. Very powerful is to use Vision Board software, as it keeps you accountable and creates a high exposure to your Vision.

A key factor here is to stop worrying about HOW it will come to you. The universe will take care of that, you just need to believe and focus on positive feelings and vibrations. This will attract the events, circumstances and people into your life to make your goal a reality. Look at your million dollar check and feel the feelings of having that money right now. How would you spend it? How would it feel to spend that kind of money?

A final important point to know, is that if you don’t have enough money right now, it means you are blocking the flow of money into your life, with your thoughts. Your wallet speaks very clearly about the vibrations you are sending out into the universe about money at this present moment. So have a really good look at your own beliefs about money. If your beliefs are limiting and scarce, you will need to address this before you can attract your true fortune. You can work on a more positive and abundant belief system by using affirmations. Use affirmations like “I am so happy and excited that I am now attracting a flow of money into my life” or ”I easily attract money like a magnet”.

Combine the vivid visualization technique with empowering affirmations and the action steps you need to further your goals. This creates a powerful process, and gets you on your way to becoming a millionaire!

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Happy New year to you from the team at OrangePeel!

May you attract the health, prosperity and happiness you set to achieve for yourself in 2007. By now you probably have set some goals and are working on keeping your New Years resolutions alive. How is that going…? Are you powerfully taking the actions necessary to achieve your dreams and do you manage to stay inspired? I truly hope you do. Because while a lot of people create fantastic goals and resolutions during their Christmas holidays, only a few unfortunately manage to actually keep them alive. For most people, challenges get in the way of their desires and their resolutions fade away as fast as their New Years eve hang over disappears… But why settle for less than you deserve?….

What strikes me most is that this is almost normal procedure for many. When they are asked “how are you going with your plan to loose weight?” and respond “uh, to be honest, not that good. I should be going to the gym, BUT…..” the other acknowledges their failure with an “understanding” nod. “I know, it is hard…”.

So what if you could keep inspired this year instead?! What if you could keep focused on your goals in the most powerful way, and keep motivated to really reach the goals and dreams you truly deserve in life? Maybe you want to achieve massive success in your business, create a better balance in your life or reach a certain level in sports. Our fantastic new product “Vision Board” can make this a reality for you! We created this unique visualization tool especially for people like yourself: winners who have big goals and are prepared to do what it takes to achieve them, but need an “inspiring hand” in the process! Learn more about Vision Board here and your can create a Vision Board in a few minutes.

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What an exciting time do we live in right now! It used to be regarded as “weird” or “airy fairy” to talk about vibrational energy, Law of Attraction and your thoughts becoming things. But this is rapidly changing due to movies like “what the bleep…” and “The Secret”. Although it will still take some time for these ideas to become truly mainstream we are absolutely getting there. I just feel like things are changing… even my most down to earth, skeptical friend who would previously just have laughed at me for even just suggesting to watch a movie like “The Secret”, actually really enjoyed it! Although he still had some remarks he accepted the general idea.

One thing he mentioned was absolutely spot on. He said “yes, it is all good thinking of certain things, wanting these things to happen en really feeling as if you have them… but you still need to actually DO something, right? It is not just going to happen by sitting on the couch thinking of it”.
I completely agree with him. You might know this saying: “God gave us the light, but we still need to switch on the light switch…”. Meaning that by having positive thoughts, visualizing your goals and feeling really good about them, you create a clearing for your dreams to become reality; it is crucial you do that fits and then you need to take certain actions towards achieving those dreams.
It is like setting up the decor, switching on the lights, turning on the music for a play….but you still need the actors to actually perform the play! So it is certainly not enough to just spend all day visualizing your goals being achieved and feeling wonderful about them. A certain level of action in the direction of your goals is required. More importantly, these actions need to be the actions you would take as if you have already achieved your goals.

James Ray (of “The Secret”) says: “Step forward, taking action in the direction … not where you are currently, but moving forward and saying, ‘Okay, if this is who I’m becoming, then what action would I take right now if I were already there?’”

So BE the person you wish to become, take the actions that fit that person and you will eventually HAVE what that person has. This equates to “Be, Do, Have”. For instance, your goal might be to make a certain amount of money with your business. For example, you could put an image of a cheque for that amount on your Vision Board combines with images and affirmations relating to how your life will be when you have that income. By doing this you might for example attract some amazing customers who ring you to place an order. In the most basic of basics, you will still need to take that order, process it and make sure your customers get their products. And you will do this in the most professional way, just like someone who makes that kind of money would! So, if you Be the person that earns that kind of money (for instance: someone who makes that kind of money is someone who is being “prompt and professional in their dealings”), you Do like that person would do (so you would process their orders fast and correct), and you will then eventually Have that income.

Another example: you might get an email with an invitation for a certain networking event. The action would be to go to this event in order to for example meet another company that turns out to be looking for someone just like you to work with. Now, attending the event might normally scare you because you think you are a shy person. But when you realize that the person you wish to become is confident, you will go and will therefore reap the rewards by meeting that person.

By first visualizing your goals you send a message to the universe, which in turn will orchestrate the right events and people to show up in your life to make those goals happen. You then need to turn up and take the right action in the direction of your goal and be the person you want to become. I trust you get the idea.

Have a look at he goals you have set for yourself and think about which actions you can take to make those goals happen. What actions can you take today, to get closer to your goals? Think about who you need to be being in order for these goals to manifest into your life. When you visualize you having achieved them and open your mind, the right action steps will come to you. Just trust what is happening and take the action.

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Did you watch Oprah when The Secret was featured on the show? How amazing to have this incredibly powerful movie brought to the world like this. Thousands of people had already seen and benefited from the teachings of The Secret, but I think these were mostly the early adopters of this phenomenon. People who already have been learning about The law of Attraction through other sources and for whom it was more like a confirmation and clarification of knowledge they already had. Why I think it is so great to have the movie on Oprah, is that it could help to get The Law of Attraction more mainstream. Millions of people watch Oprah and really adopt and take on what she is endorsing. Imagine what wave of prosperity this can generate!

One thing that struck home for me personally was something Jack Canfield said “although thoughts are powerful, the feelings that the thoughts generate are what actually attract things into our lives”. When I look for myself in this respect, I know I have focused a lot on “positive thinking” and keeping a positive attitude, even when things don’t go as smooth as you expect… I also have taken a lot of positive actions, such as starting my own business focused on inspiring others. The one thing I know I can improve on though is “positive feeling”. I have made it a habit in my life to consciously focus my thoughts on positive things and goals for instance by reading my affirmations or imagining my dream life. But from time to time I notice I do it because I think I should do them, I do it more as a chore than as something to enjoy and be empowered by. You know, when you really want to just crash and sleep, but you still “need to” read your affirmations and goals? But I realized by what Jack mentions, is that this “Just get it over with” attitude doesn’t make me really FEEL my affirmations at all! Bottom line is…. I am not attracting them when I do it this way! So the message I wanted to share with you is: When you want to attract things into your life, focus your thoughts on your dreams, really FEEL your dreams and then take positive action to help the universe to bring it into your life!

One powerful way of really “feeling” my dreams is by visualizing them on a daily basis using a Vision Board, both in my mind and especially by placing my dream images right in front of me. As James Ray mentions in The Secret “Visualizing your future life can help to hone your thoughts and feelings toward the things you want”. By looking at the representations of your future life on a consistent basis, and really feel having achieved those dreams you create the energy field around you that will attract these dreams to your reality. To add another powerful quote, of Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith: “an individual can actually begin to generate a certain feeling of gratitude, of love, of peace and of harmony, and the universe will begin to match that feeling tone—and what will flow into your life will match the feeling that you’re holding,” he says. “It means that everyone…can release themselves from being a victim and begin to take control of their life’s destiny.”

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Did you watch Oprah when The Secret was featured on the show? How amazing to have this incredibly powerful movie brought to the world like that. Thousands of people had already seen and benefited from the teachings of The Secret, but I think these were mostly the early adopters of this phenomenon. People who already have been learning about The law of of Attraction through other sources. Why I think it is so great to have the movie being discussed on Oprah, is that it could help for The Law of Attraction to become more mainstream. Millions of people watch Oprah and really adopt and take on what she is endorsing. Imagine what wave of prosperity this can generate!

For us at OrangePeel Vision Boards this also means that more and more people will start understanding the potential of applying The Law of Attraction and consequently the power of our product Vision Board. As Jack Canfield said “although thoughts are powerful, the feelings that the thoughts generate are what actually attract things into our lives”. Vision Board keeps your dreams and goals right in front of you, so you can feel them all the time and therefore will attract them to your life if you take the right actions! As James Ray also stated “Visualizing your future life can help to hone your thoughts and feelings toward the things you want”.

We can’t wait for the movie “Pass It On” to be released, to shine another light on creating wealth and happiness into your life. We will keep you posted!

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