Here is a story full of illustrations about the power of having a clear, open mind when it comes to attracting – and allowing – that which you desire. This power involves your focus on abundance and gratitude, and it applies to all things good, as you will see.

Today I was wishing I had a 2011 calendar, and just yesterday I was thinking how nice it would be to have more fresh flowers in my house…I mused about it as I languished in a beautiful, warm bath and felt overwhelmed with gratitude for my wonderful life. I remember looking around my bathroom and appreciating my pictures, my warm fuzzy bathmat, and the lights that illuminated the room with perfect warm light I love.

I had the thought that if I truly am ‘God, God-ing,’ as Neale Donald Walsch tells us in his books, then I shouold be enjoying every moment, every sensation, since that is what I have been put here to do; to experience all things physical as the manifestations of the spiritual that they are. Running my hands slowly through the water felt luxurious and brought me into acute awareness of the present moment.

This morning I woke up to a glorious sunny day. My sweetie-pie surprised me with a gift certificate for a spa day, which is a welcome treat in the middle of our cold Toronto winter. An early Valentine’s present, he said, although he doesn’t believe in Valentine’s Day! I noticed I felt a little guilty, having not gotten him a present, and did some intentional work on being willing to receive when the Universe is delivering, with gratitude and no other feelings to complicate things.

As I was sitting this afternoon in my beautiful home office, working at sharing some of my articles on social bookmark sites, I felt extremely happy and excited to be sharing things I’ve discovered. I was full of joy and the time was passing by without me even noticing it – a true sign of happiness. I glanced up to see a gentleman parking at an odd angle on my corner, and with a small curiosity wondered why…until a few minutes later he rang my doorbell and delivered to me a totally unexpected, beautiful orchid flower arrangement! What a lovely surprise, I thought, and thanked the gentleman profusely. Upon opening it, you will not be at all surprised to hear that I discovered a nice 2011 calendar rolled up inside, with pictures of more gorgeous flowers. Perfect!

Wow! I just remembered something else…while writing some articles today I was looking for a picture in my files of someone who was happy about money, and had a smile at a shot I love of a woman throwing money into the air. This afternoon, my honey brought me $300 in $20 bills and I playfully threw them up in the air, explaining to him that I wasn’t disrespecting them: I was respecting them! I had totally forgotten about the picture I had just looked at not two hours beforehand…but here I was fulfilling it. Fun!

(Here she is…I think I looked even happier!):

Here are some more wealth and prosperity articles that will help you get clear and move powerfully toward your dreams:

On Living Your Dreams

How to Achieve Financial Freedom

Law of Attraction: Are You in Harmony?

Wealth: Your Financial Education

Law of Attraction: The Art of Allowing

Abundance: Breathing for Wealth

As you have read here and elsewhere many times, it is your thought processes and patterns that create your outer world, and in order to change your circumstances, you must change your thoughts. This is a noticeable occurence, as things around you will begin to be perceived differently and the meaning or significance you attach to events will change. Your values will shift and your your alignment and comfort with certain situations and people will undergo change as well.

If all this talk about change makes you uncomfortable, that is the first challenge to tackle. When you hear that you must change your thougts, it literally means you must undergo change – you cannot stay the same and expect different results. You can choose to view this as an exciting challenge or as a scary prospect. In all likelihood, the people around you will seem to change as well, as they interpret and react to the changes in you; in fact most of the time they will not have changed at all, but will be responding to the change in you, and not always in a happy way. Change threatens many people, and if you are one of those people you need to hop on over to the other side of the fence, where change is acknowledged as the only healthy and natural constant, and start rolling with it…relish every little change you notice, and be open to new views. Otherwise, how can you create your dreams? To repeat, unless YOU change, your life cannot change.

Aaron at Today is That Day points us to a great couple of posts by Steve Pavlina that follow his progression through some financial changes, and his story is well-articulated and worth reading for the lessons in it, pertaining to this subject.

Thanks to Aaron, as always, for pointing us to this fantastic content, and I hope you enjoy as many insights from Steve’s writing as I did.