Valerie Sauer Guest Blogger

From Valerie Sauer’s New Book of Clues: Focusing on the Positive Aspects of Things.  Snags happen. We go along thinking positive thoughts, being grateful, focusing on prosperity, expecting good things to happen, and then we hit a snag. Something happens that sets us back, and we get a chance to find out whether all of this positive-thinking stuff is really working for us. We’ve all heard the advice that we can’t control what happens, but we can control how we react to what happens. Today’s clue will provide a tool to use in helping to control our reaction to those inevitable snags. Continue reading →

I was thinking the other morning that am blessed to have my job.  I am blessed to have my life, that’s for sure.  Meaning: I’m blessed to know that how I think affects what comes to me, and that I can chose to exercise my free will to discipline myself to stay focused on things I like so that more things I like may come to me.

It sounds complicated, but it’s just me knowing my own power and knowing I have the power to choose to exercise it to move forward into a happy life.  It’s all just a matter of de-programming myself from faulty beliefs and re-programming my beliefs to be helpful and useful ones. Continue reading →

It’s been a good week.  I got the October issue of Horizons to the printer, and I’ve enjoyed participating in Valerie Saurer’s Prosperity Project.  Each morning and evening she makes a post on Facebook and I go read her blog and do the exercise.  It’s fun and motivating.  I’ve been playing with predicting lottery numbers and am having a good run of 2 and 3 numbers out of 5.  Two numbers gives me another free ticket, and I love getting a free ticket on a free ticket.  The Fantasy Five has been good to me this week.  This weekend we’ll begin delivering the October Horizons Magazine. I got it to the printer on time, despite a big cold that knocked me out for over a week. Yesterday I got to go to the farmer’s market and I bought scallions, garlic, ginger, grape tomatoes, romaine, parsley, a red pepper and yellow onions. Did you know that the secret to good tomato flavor is do not refrigerate the tomatoes?  I don’t know what scientific process goes on, but it makes them lose their flavor.  I find the best salad can be a simple romaine and tomato with sliced red onion, some olive oil, fresh lemon juice and salt. Continue reading →

I was walking around in the yard earlier this week and watched a bluejay land on a slim dead branch that then broke off underneath him.  He just sang his song as he dropped the branch and flew away. I thought, “I know I can do that, too, if my ground ever falls away; just drop it and fly elsewhere singing.” It made me think back to times in my life where it wasn’t easy to let go and I didn’t think I had anywhere else to fly to, much less be singing on the way there.  That was when I believed what the world told me was true; when I operated within their guidelines for how life works.  And that was when I learned that if I agree to play the game of how the world tells me that Life works, then I am bound by their rules and their guidelines, and must be satisfied with their results. Continue reading →

Today is the Autumnal Equinox, a time of celebration, reflection, grace and balance. It is also a good time to gather our energies and turn our attention inward.  So today, the first day of Fall 2009, allow yourself some rest, relaxation and a time for reflection.  No matter who we are or where our people came from, our ancestors had many ways of honoring the autumn equinox, when the day and night are of equal length and the world finds balance for a breath of time. After this equinox. the nights grow longer than the days, so it is traditionally a time to look inward, take stock, give thanks for the harvest, and prepare for the time of dreaming. Give some real time and thought to your own harvests over the past year. What did you learn? What did you do? How have you grown, deepened, or changed? What were the major events or accomplishments you would like to honor?  In a world that is often so terribly out of balance, it can be both healing and heartening to celebrate this special time. Taking time to honor your own inner harvests-all the things you have achieved and felt and learned from, over the past months-is a lovely way to connect with this time of year.  Here are three Autumnal Equinox rituals  http://www.horizonsmagazine.com/Horizons/Fall_Equinox.html

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Friday I posted on Facebook that the Fantasy Five numbers I’m playing for the weekend are 17-27-28-31-32 and 7-15-17-29-30. I bought my tickets and had the girls at the bank laughing when I told them I was there to lock my winning tickets in the safe box. I used the same numbers for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  I said, “We’ll see who’s laughing Monday, won’t we?”

So Sunday morning I check my tickets.  My numbers were
7-15-17-29-30 and the winning Lotto numbers were
7-15-17-29-35-45.

Except my numbers of course were for the Fantasy Five.

I used to always get a quick pick for the Lotto and Fantasy Five, but this time I filled out a card, choosing the numbers.

So while I did get 4 of the numbers, I bought them for the Fantasy Five and not the Lotto.

Hmmm, can I count that prediction as a hit?  Sorry, no, that would be making the info fit after the fact.

And that’s not how I roll.

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A friend has come up with a fun game that helps get you in the vibration of attracting more dollars.  The Prosperity Project can be found at Valerie Saurer’s blog The New Book of Clues.  The idea is to get used to having, spending, and enjoying money. Start small, and every day increase your allowance by $1000. Gradually, you will be able to easily picture yourself having larger and larger sums of money, and that idea won’t seem entirely ridiculous to you, because your dream grows incrementally over time. If you want to join in this game with all of us that are doing it, write your own dream checkbook entries at The New Book of Clues. Continue reading →