Here’s a great article from my friend Tony Dosanjh and the Mindmaster team who produces this really cool software I use on my desktop all the time:

ENJOY

Law of Attraction Tip #1
The Law of Attraction works just like tuning forks. If you ding a tuning fork in a room full of tuning forks, only the tuning forks on the same wave length as the one you dinged will vibrate. The vibrations created by your feelings work exactly the same way. If you feel positive feelings, positive things will be attracted to you. If you feel negative feelings, then you will attract negative things – guaranteed. Invest in MindMaster Today and Change your Vibration http://www.mindmaster.tv

Law of Attraction Tip #2
Using the Law of Attraction is like shopping in a catalogue that literally contains anything in the world that you could possibly want to have. Traditional thinking tells us that we can only have the things that we can afford, or that are appropriate for us to have, or that we deserve. The infinite power of the Universe does not recognize any of these human limitations. No matter how big something is, or how incredibly small, if you can imagine it, and you can feel what it would be like to have it, then the Universe will deliver it to you.

Law of Attraction Tip #3
You do not have to justify why you want something, or whether or not you deserve it! This is a limitation that has been imposed on us by our social upbringing, and it has absolutely nothing to do with what the Universe can deliver to you. The infinite power of the Universe does not recognize whether you think of yourself as a good person or a bad person. It also does not recognize what your friends, family, or your society think of you. When using the Law of Attraction to attain what you desire, if you feel that you don’t deserve something, or you think that you aren’t worthy of it, then it is guaranteed that you won’t get it!

Law of Attraction Tip #4
Most adults have forgotten how to dream about what they want, and they usually don’t believe that they can have their desires, even if they do remember to dream. When you truly embrace the fact that you can literally have anything that you want by using the Law of Attraction, then you start to experience the emotion connected with having that thing. THAT is when you truly start to create the high frequency emotional vibrations that will attract that thing into your life.

Law of Attraction Tip #5
Laughter is one of the most effective ways to create true positive vibrations that will attract great things into your life. Laugh and smile as often as possible, and positive things will start to happen for you!

Law of Attraction Tip #6
In order to create the powerful vibrations needed to attract the things into your life that you want, it is not enough to simply think about them. You must figure out the emotional reason WHY you want that thing, and experience the positive emotion of HAVING it while you think about the object of your desire. The more positive emotion that you create by feeling good about having that thing, and the longer you stay in that emotionally positive state, the faster your desires will come to you!

Law of Attraction Tip #7
Think of the Universal power that resides inside each and every human being as a water hose. Any kind of negative emotions that you experience will pinch that hose and slow down or stop the flow of that power from inside of you. Your ability to use that power to get what you want from life will also slow down or stop. On the other hand, when you experience positive, happy emotions, then your hose is full of high pressure Universal energy and you can use it to literally manifest anything in the world that you want!

Law of Attraction Tip #8
A simple and powerful way to use the Law of Attraction is called “Intending”. By making a conscious effort to “intend” to do something, you call upon the resources that will be required to make that thing happen. Start out small with this method to learn how it works. Say that you “intend” to make it to work on time today. “Intend” to have a smile for everyone that you see today. Say that you “intend” to be very productive today. By consistently “intending” to do things – even small things – you are constantly building up the positive emotional vibration of Self-confidence. As you get more and more proficient at this, you will be amazed at how much your confidence soars, and how you can literally “intend” for anything to happen – and it will!

Law of Attraction Tip #9
You have to stop focusing on the negative things in your life right now! Remember, the Law of Attraction works both ways. Whether you focus on something negative, or something positive, you will receive something out of that attraction – whether you want it or not. So, if you focus on something negative in your life – work, family, health, whatever – you are guaranteed to attract more of it!

Law of Attraction Tip #10
Our “reality” today is nothing more than the result of how we have been flowing our energy up to this point by using our feelings. Good, bad, or indifferent – YOU are the only one responsible for where your life is right now. The great news is that it doesn’t MATTER where your life is right now! By flowing your energy differently from now on and only feeling positive emotions, you can literally create your tomorrow to be whatever you want it to be!

Law of Attraction Tip #11
Focus on what you want in life as if you already had it. Do whatever it takes to create the positive emotional state that you will experience when you actually have whatever it is that you desire. Do this as opposed to focusing on what you DON’T want! For example: If you want to lose weight, don’t say “I want to lose weight”. All that does is remind you that you think you weigh too much! Instead, picture in your mind how you will look when you get to your goal weight, and imagine how great that will make you feel. This creates positive energy flow, rather than the habitual negative energy flow that automatically comes forth when you say “I want to lose weight”. No matter what it is that you desire, you must create the positive emotional energy associated with already having that thing, which will ultimately attract that thing right to you!

Law of Attraction Tip #12
Never ever worry about HOW you are going to get what you want! This one misconception is responsible for a large portion of the failure that exists in our society today. The idea behind the Law of Attraction is that you flow positive energy out into the Universe by having feelings of success, happiness, and fulfillment when you visualize the things that you want to get out of life. The Universe will provide the things that you “feel” about, but it will not work if you worry about how it is all going to happen, or even IF it is going to happen. Doubt breeds insecurity and lack of focus. KNOW that you will get what you want, and leave the details of HOW it is going to happen to the power of the Universe!

Law of Attraction Tip #13
Don’t be afraid to “tender talk” yourself. By telling yourself in a soothing manner that everything is going to be okay, you immediately start producing positive energy. Talking out loud radically increases the effectiveness of this technique and you will be amazed at how quickly you start to feel better.

Law of Attraction Tip #14
Always remember that negative energy is created by your reaction to something. No matter how justified you may be in getting angry or upset about something, your justification means nothing to the Universe. You will create damaging negativity that directly affects you in a negative manner – no matter how justified you were for getting upset in the first place.

Law of Attraction Tip #15
Feel good even when you don’t FEEL like feeling good. In fact, the more you don’t want to be positive, the greater the need for you to BE positive! When life has you down and all you want to do is curl into a ball and hide – that is when you need positive energy the most. Even if you have to take baby steps to work your way back into the light – DO IT!

Law of Attraction Tip #16
Focus intense emotional happiness and positive vibrations on your true desires in life as often as you can. The Law of Attraction works on a cumulative scale. The more you vibrate in a truly positive manner, the faster you get what you want. There are no “rules” that say how often or for how long you should undertake these activities, but it is clear that the more often you do it, the better. It is not possible to feel positive TOO often! At least 15 continuous, uninterrupted minutes per day is recommended, and more than that is even better.

Law of Attraction Tip #17
Don’t jump to “take action” every time something doesn’t go your way in life. Our habits have been formed in such a way that we think the only way to “fix” something is to take massive action against it. Not true! By taking massive action, all we are doing is continuing to convince ourselves that the problem must be huge. Instead, focus on the positive opposite of that problem, and a solution will present itself – without you continuing to create negative energy by taking massive action against that thing.

Law of Attraction Tip #18
One of the simplest and most effective ways to turn a negative situation around is to simply SMILE. We’re not talking about smiling at the situation, although that may also be appropriate. Instead, we are talking about putting together a list of things for you to think about that simply bring a true heartfelt smile to your face. Whenever you are feeling down or unable to control your negative feelings, just consult your list and smile when you think of one or more of the things on the list. You can choose things like envisioning two kittens tumbling all over each other as they play; maybe a puppy barking at the TV because he sees another animal there; perhaps a cherished memory of a child, a family member, or a loved one. The better the vision or the memory, the more powerful the smile will be!

Law of Attraction Tip #19
A simple and silly – but very effective – way to get positive energy flowing when you least feel like it is to simply focus on flowing positive energy. Choose a person, an inanimate object, a tree – anything. Just stare at the thing you have chosen and simply imagine overflowing it with love! Picture waves of goodness and positive vibrations emanating from you and being swallowed up by the object of your attention. Not only does this have the affect of stopping your negative energy flow simply because you have something else to focus on, but you get the humor factor going, too. If concentrating on how much you love a street sign, a dust bunny, or your shoelace doesn’t bring a silly grin to your face, then nothing will!

Law of Attraction Tip #20
Dance & Sing! Every one of us has songs that simply make us feel good. In fact, sometimes when we are relishing in a bath of (seemingly) well-deserved negativity, we WON’T listen to that song because we are enjoying the chance to wallow in self-pity. Rubbish! Negativity will get you nowhere, so turn that song on and sing! If you are not driving, then dance, too! The worse your singing voice is and the more you can’t dance, the better you will feel for belting out the effort anyway!

Law of Attraction Tip #21
When your “Inner Self” sends you a message, listen to it! The more we vibrate positive emotions, the closer we become to who we TRULY are. Flashes of intuition and inspired ideas are a direct result of us gaining a closer relationship with our all-powerful inner selves. Human instincts teach us to survive. Human intuition, on the other hand, teaches us to be happy. If you want to be happy, then learn how to respond when clues and answers are given to you.

Law of Attraction Tip #22
Focus intense emotional happiness and positive vibrations on your true desires in life as often as you can. The Law of Attraction works on a cumulative scale. The more you vibrate in a truly positive manner, the faster you get what you want. There are no “rules” that say how often or for how long you should undertake these activities, but it is clear that the more often you do it, the better. It is not possible to feel positive TOO often! At least 15 continuous, uninterrupted minutes per day is recommended, and more than that is even better.

Law of Attraction Tip #23
If you and another person are both focusing on the same positive outcome, then you amplify the effects of the Law of Attraction. If a group of people can focus on the same thing, then the effect is even greater. The uses for this type of amplification at home or in the workplace are truly staggering.

Law of Attraction Tip #24
Do whatever you can to understand what it will feel like to possess the things that you are working to manifest with the Law of Attraction. Go visit the type of house that you want to live in. Test-drive the car that you want to buy. Vacation on the island that you want to retire on. Remember, though – the point of this exercise is NOT to remind yourself that you don’t already have these things, but rather to FEEL what it is like to have them. The more intensely and the more often you focus on that feeling afterwards, the sooner the object of your desire will come into your life!

Law of Attraction Tip #25
Before you enter into a potentially negative situation, put up your own emotional shields by sending positive vibrations in advance of you actually getting there. Envision the best possible outcome, and think of how easy the whole thing will be because you have such a great attitude about it. By sending positive vibrations in ahead of you, then at the very least, YOUR head will be in the right place, and it is possible that you will displace some other negative energy as well.

Law of Attraction Tip #26
Practice the life that you want before you get it! No matter if your goals are health, wealth, personal happiness, or whatever else you want to attain – pretend you already have it. Visualize going out and spending your money, or strutting around in your picture-perfect body, or curling up in a perpetually happy ball of contentment. It doesn’t matter what you want. All that matters is that you see the life that you want as if you already have it, and you FEEL accordingly!

Law of Attraction Tip #27
Allow no excuses! If you think that you can’t get what you want because you don’t have enough time or education, or because some “circumstance” just won’t allow you to have it, then that is the energy that you will flow, and that EXACTLY what you will get!

Law of Attraction Tip #28
If you feel that your personal or family relationships are in trouble – or worse, are completely hopeless – then you are absolutely right! By feeling that way, you are absolutely guaranteeing that what you feel will happen is going to come to pass. It is imperative that you remember that you can only control your feelings and your reactions to the people in your life. If those feelings and reactions are angry, hostile, or hopeless, then those relationships are doomed by your own hand. Also, remember that just because you manage to keep up a positive energy flow, that does not guarantee that the people you care about will do the same. Some people are doomed to misery because they can’t break free from their negative ways. All you can do is remain positive, visualize the best possible outcome, and trust that the Universe – your Inner Self – will guide YOU down the right path.

[These are an amazing set of books by Sasha Xarrian to help you get pretty much anything you want in your life]

Law of Attraction Tip #29
Never blame anyone for anything. Even if they were 100% in the wrong, by blaming them, all you do is create more negative energy. Instead, appreciate whatever it is that is good about that person or the situation, and flow positive energy instead.

Law of Attraction Tip #30
Forgiveness is something that we do for ourselves. By continuing to be upset about something that someone has done in the past, all we are doing is continually recreating the negative energy associated with that memory. In order to forgive, you truly must forget. Otherwise, your “forgiveness” is just a show, and neither you nor the other person is going to receive any positive energy from it.

Law of Attraction Tip #31
If you truly want to help someone in your life who is going through a rough time, then stop focusing on their issues! Whether you are talking about medical conditions, financial woes, or personal problems, you must not dwell on the negative aspects of their lives. By focusing on that person’s problems, or talking about those problems, you are reinforcing the negative strength of their issues. Instead, just focus on the positive opposite of their negative issue, and encourage them to do the same.

Law of Attraction Tip #32
When a relationship does not go your way, the only way that you can expect to attract a better relationship – or to fix the one that you are in – is to let go of the negative feelings that you have about that person or that relationship. Instead, focus on a positive mental picture of the type of relationship that you want, or on the positive aspects of the relationship that you are in.

Law of Attraction Tip #33
If your family life is in turmoil, you must remember that it is up to YOU to create the positive environment that will fix it. By continuing to do nothing but respond in a negative manner to whatever the problems are, you will do nothing but perpetuate the problems, and they will never go away!

Law of Attraction Tip #34
Your mind and your body are linked on every conceivable level, so it stands to reason that if you think you are sick and you focus on that, then you most certainly will be. On the flip side, if you focus on being healthy and strong, then your body will respond by BEING healthy and strong. You can literally heal your body of injury and illness by flowing positive energy. However, if you focus on any illness – from the common cold all the way up through cancer – you are guaranteed to make that condition worse!

Law of Attraction Tip #35
Your natural state is one of happiness, health, and unlimited power! The less you believe that, the less happiness, health, and power you will have. On the other hand, when you truly believe that you are both the creator and the recipient of a truly fulfilling existence, then the sky is the limit as far as what you can have, what you can become, and what you can experience!

Law of Attraction Tip #36
The past is exactly that – the past! You do not have to “deal with it”, “come to terms with it”, or any similar nonsense. You are the architect of your future, and your future has not been written yet! It has absolutely nothing to do with who you used to be, what you think you have done wrong in the past, or how you were raised. Every day – indeed, every MOMENT – is another chance for you to make your life whatever you want it to be. Make it a good one!

Law of Attraction Tip #37
You can never have anything if you have an energetic “resistance” to attracting that thing into your life. If you don’t BELIEVE you can have it, you never will have it!

Sincerely, Tony Dosanjh and The MindMaster Team

http://www.mindmaster.tv

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Sarah Palin resigned 2 hours ago as governor of Alaska. She will work for 3 more weeks and then give it over the vice governor.
Holy Moly!
Many Alaskans feel like she just got the wind knocked out of her after the presidential elections and has never been the same since.
I’ve been listening to comments on the radio out of Wasilla, and many feel that she is never here anymore. She travels a lot to promote the GOP. Not too many were surprised.
Too bad. She started out really well.
It is said by those close to her that she is tired of spending money defending herself against dozens of ethics complaints that end up being false, and she’s sick of politics and just wants to spend time with her family.
Can’t blame her on that one.

[These are an amazing set of books by Sasha Xarrian to help you get pretty much anything you want in your life]

I wrote this short story just before I walked out of the corporate world and then shortly after that – came to Alaska. Thought you would find it inspiring in your own life.
–Lynne

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Whispers In The Dark
by Lynne Schlumpf

Molly suddenly realized she was sitting up in bed with her long, dark hair spilling over the front of her nightgown. The digital clock glowing on the nightstand burned her eyes. She blinked a few times to make sure she was seeing it clearly.

“3:33 am?” she whispered to no one in the darkness.

It was one of those nights when her body would suddenly sit up in bed without any conscious effort on her part, leaving her trembling in confusion and fear.

“Burr, it’s cold in here,” she murmured as she gripped her shoulders and rocked back and forth.

She stopped rocking when she became aware of someone sitting on the edge of her bed. He wasn’t a person really – at least not quite. The nightlight across the room shone through him.

She whispered, “Is that really you?”

The figure simply smiled and melted away.

“Oh, my G….,” she started to say.

Suddenly, the alarm was shrieking. She slammed her hand down on the button. Three hours had passed somehow, and the sun was peeking over her windowsill.

She turned on the radio next to her bed to try a dose of reality.

“It’s 6:38 a.m. Time to get out of bed!” the announcer squawked.

She rushed to get to the commuter platform on time. This erased the memory of her visitor only briefly.

She found her seat on the train, feeling the rumble of its wheels on the tracks beneath her as it sped towards the city.

The whole morning had scrambled her sense of time. She tapped her watch violently, but the second hand would not move. She looked up and asked another passenger for the time, but he appeared to look right through her and turned back to his newspaper.

She stared out a window as the slums of Chicago slid by. Their crumbling staircases and sagging apartment landings gave her a feeling of deep sadness.

As she turned away from the window, she began to feel a warm sensation all over.

“You know why I’m here.”

There was no mistaking the voice. She knew it so well, but she still shrank back from this man sitting next to her. She dropped the day’s newspaper all over the floor at her feet. It was only then she fully realized who he was.

He looked just as he had in that old high school picture back in 1953. He was wearing the same suit, and his hair had that same swirl of dark curls around his face. His warm eyes smiled at her.

“Why do I keep seeing you?” she finally whispered. “I watched you die eleven years ago.”

“It’s time,” he said. “You’re running out of time.”

She knew exactly what he meant. He disappeared from the seat next to her just as suddenly as he had faded from her bedroom that morning. She didn’t see him again during the train ride to work.

Molly had been an advertising executive in a firm downtown on Wabash Avenue for 9 years. The work paid insanely well, making it hard to think of going anywhere else.

While other executives were eating their power lunches, she spent her hour and a half in a tiny, dimly lit room she’d found in the basement. With the help of a small book light, she’d sit at a card table with wobbly legs, eating potted meat and canned fruit from her lunch bag. She’d scribble furiously in a tattered notebook, letting her mind fly to faraway places where the ocean touched the sand and the trees fluttered in salty breezes.

She always came back from her lunch break feeling refreshed, but it also felt as if she were working in another time dimension. Her cubicle completed the feeling of being cut off from the world, but she did not mind. It gave her some satisfaction to know they knew nothing about her.

A feeling of something missing burned inside of her constantly. She could never satisfy it completely. The urge to bolt was there in every fiber of her being.

After arriving at the office on this particular day, her walk down the long hallway of cubicles seemed like an eternity. There were some greetings.

“Hello.”

“Good morning.”

“Hey Mol.”

She saw the office zombies as she passed their cubicles. They were doing the usual worthless things like surfing the Internet, picking up their voice mail, or just staring at the piles of paper on their desks.

Walking over to the cubicle that had been her prison for nine years, she quietly put a small date book and picture of a dog she once had into her purse. She took a mental inventory of the rest of the contents on her desk. There was nothing else here that indicated anyone named Molly Jenson had ever existed. They would forget her very quickly.

She turned without looking at anyone and strode back down the hallway and out the front door.

Once outside, the cold air brushed against her face, making her smile.

“Thirty-eight years old, and it took me this long to remember what he told me every single day,” she said to no one in particular.

She knew this day would come. She had not been completely sure when.

He had prepared her almost every day of her life in his gentle voice while he was setting her morning toast in front of her.

“Mol, remember why you’re alive on this earth. If I have to, when I’m dead and gone someday, I’ll come back and remind you,” he had said.

His words were always with her. She had never wanted to do anything but write. She would awaken from strange dreams almost every night, scribbling into the notebook next to her bed. Her notebook was always somewhere close during the day.

His death came on a gray, February day. She leaned over him to hear his last words. Those last words turned out to be the “now I lay me down to sleep” prayer of childhood, as she said it with him in unison.

She had tried to get on with her life after losing him, getting jobs and hating them. After years of struggling, she had finally gotten the advertising job, but she realized she had no idea what to spend that kind of money on. She did not dress expensively, and she lived in a modest house in the western suburbs. The rest of what she earned was stuffed in a old mayonnaise jar under her kitchen sink.

On this December day eleven years after his death, she stepped off the curb along Wabash Avenue and turned in the direction of the train ride home. Her fingers played with a worn pencil in her pocket as she tucked the notebook under her arm.

“Thanks Dad,“ she whispered. “I won’t forget. I promise.”

“The Real Secret! What you think about, talk about, and get off your ass and do something about comes about.”
–Larry Winget “You’re Broke Because You Want To Be.”

I’ve been really enjoying Larry’s book today. Thought you would, too.

You can watch a bunch of video clips of Larry by going to his website and clicking the link that says Video Vault:

http://www.larrywinget.com/

There’s also a LOT more to the Law of Attraction than just wishing money will come to you. I love seeing these morons all over the Net that tested the Secret by “wishing” for a million dollars and ended up with nothing.

There’s much more to this than just wanting money and asking for it. I posted some on this earlier, but there is a lot more to it than this. When you want more money, you are looking for a certain way of feeling. You want the freedom to choose whether you stay in bed this morning or go on vacation. It is difficult to feel really good (part of the requirement for attracting something you want) about just a bunch of money, which is a piece of paper that actually represents something.
What makes more sense and works much better is to visualize yourself and feel the emotion of the kinds of things you would be doing if you had plenty of money. Feeling the feelings and seeing the visions is what you are striving for. By putting your thoughts on the same frequency as those things you really really want, you make them happen.
Not..oh, I just want a lot of money. Give it to me. You don’t really want the money itself, unless you want to roll around on it on your bed and kiss it or something. You want the life it would give you. That’s what you visualize.

Just thought I ought to clear it up.

Lynne

I show you something to try to explain how much daylight we get on the longest day of the year (Summer Solstice) in south central Alaska. I get a little sad on this day because I know we are turning around and going the other way (our daylight starts getting shorter by about 5 minutes each day).

There are a lot of summer solstice celebrations going on this weekend all over Alaska. The sun is a very big thing to Alaskans, and it has been really kind to us this year.

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This is really cool:

Here are the instructions on how to use it:

To use this tool, bring to mind a desire; something you are wanting to manifest in your life experience. Imagine that desire is contained in the indigo circle and just focus on it until it fades.Every 17 seconds the dot will grow a little larger. This represents the increase in attraction power you are giving your desire by focusing on it for each 17 second increment.***NOTES***It is of importance to note the word “pure” in this context. In order for your thought regarding your desire to be pure, there must not be resistance to it. In other words, your feeling towards the desire must hold the vibration of the desire as if it were already achieved, and not the vibration of the lack of your desire.For example, let’s say that your intention is to attract a lover. To do this, you would want to focus on the ecstatic feeling of making love to this fortunate person—not on a feeling of longing for that person. If your desire is to find a missing chess piece, you would focus on the elation of putting your opponent in check with that chess piece—not on the vacant slot on the chess board.. . .The color, indigo, is the color of the Ajna Chakra—also known as the Third Eye. This energy center is good for focus. The music was composed to help focus as well, using frequencies that correspond to both the Ajna and Throat Chakras. The clouds, well, they just looked cool and made it more interesting to look at—though it could be supposed that they help put the desire in a more beautiful context—thus a higher vibration.

And here is how to use the focus wheel as explained by Abraham Hicks:

There are so many things that can turn bad on an RV camping trip. So many things to remember, but these tips we’ve learned will save you a lot of headaches.

Spend a really long time (a week, if you have time) reading all the manuals for your RV if you’ve just bought it. Walk around the RV and test everything you read about. Most RVs are pretty complex machines, and one mistake could be costly.

Cabinets tend to fly open, making the contents inside dangerous projectile missiles.

Solution: Buy one of those packages of all different sizes of bungie cords. Hook a bungie from one cabinet knob to another. Tight enough to keep things in, but not so tight you mess up the alignment of your cabinet doors.

Pets become projectile missiles if they’re allowed to run loose in an RV while you’re driving. They get under your gas pedal, fall all over the place, or just basically scare the crap out of you.

Solution: One word: KENNEL. If they cry, cover the kennel with a sheet or blanket so they can’t see you. Eventually they’ll get the idea. Kennel two of them together if they get along, so they can comfort one another.

Outside Cargo doors will sometimes unlatch and fly open while driving, leaving you with a lot less “stuff” when you get to your destination.

Solution: Latch and lock all doors AFTER you drop your RV off the leveling jacks (if you have them)

Rattling items in cabinets! Items inside cabinets tend to clang and tinkle and literally drive you batty while you’re driving.

Solution: We put a paper towel between plates, remove the glass dish from the microwave and wrap in a kitchen towel, and wrap cups with paper towels. When we get to our destination, we use the paper towels for cleanups.

We see a lot of RVs driving down the road with the vents on top flapping and flying, and cargo bay doors unlatched.

Solution: Have two people do a “walkaround” before leaving. We learned this from watching pilots in the military do the walkaround for their aircraft, and it really does work. What one person misses, the other one always catches. This can prevent you from having to pay thousands of dollars in costly repairs.

Checking and filling up tires on an RV can be very tough on your hands.

Solution: Before you leave the showroom with your new RV, make SURE they put extenders on your tire valves so you can reach the inner duelies. There’s nothing like being stuck in Denali National Park with a low tire and having to struggle to fill up an inner tire.

Running your RV generator can sometimes cost you a lot with gas prices the way they are.

Solution: Turn off your generator if you’re just using your TV or radio or heating system or air conditioning if your RV has an inverter that lets those things run off the cabin batteries. Every once in awhile, do a check of your cabin batteries. If they need a charge, run the generator for a little while until they’re charged up again.

If you don’t have an RV with an inverter, a small Honda or Yamaha generator gets about 15 hours of use from one gallon of gas. This is what campground hosts in Alaska use, and it saves them a bundle of money.

Hint: We turn ours on just to make coffee or cook in the microwave. Otherwise, it stays off most of the time. If you sleep with a CPAP machine, buy a DC to AC converter that is designed for sensitive electronics (like cameras) and hook that into the DC outlets in your RV.

Carrying things from the house to the RV is a BIG hassle.

Solution: When you can, try to buy two of each thing (like antacids or shampoo or things like that). That way, it’s already there.

Hint: We use those canvas bags you get at the grocery store to carry things back and forth. They hold a lot, and no plastic bags that tear.

We tended to pack too much stuff when we first became RVers.

Solution: Think of everything in terms of days. How many days will we be gone. How much underwear or socks does that equal? How many meals? (always pack an extra meal or two in case something goes wrong with a meal you planned). Thinking of camping in terms of compartmentalized days helps a WHOLE LOT.

Some stuff like pet supplies get forgotten.

Solution: Keep a small, extra bag of pet food and a bowl in the RV for those times you forgot their food or containers.

The weather is a constant surprise.

Solution: Bring all types of clothing (especially if you’re camping in Alaska or someplace in the mountains). We camp in 20 degree weather at night, pouring rain, sleet and snow in May. You never know what you’re going to run up against. Bring lots of extra blankets, too.

Keep getting eaten by mosquitos.

Solution: Avon Skin-so-Soft shower gel (original scent) in the shower, and the spray when you get out. Also wash your hair with the shower gel so they don’t bite your head. We also take Super B complex vitamins (from Walmart) and wear a B2 vitamin mosquito patch made by Agraco. It comes in a yellow package of 2 patches and does not contain Deet. These patches last 36 hours, and you put them on 2 hours before going outside. More info: AgraCo.com or 1-800-337-4169.

Hint: If you’re vacationing in Alaska and need some Avon, visit the Saturday (and Sunday) market in downtown Anchorage. The Avon lady is always at her booth.

Washing dishes will sometimes use up a lot of the fresh water in your RV.

Solution: If you’re just going away for the weekend, put dirty dishes in a garbage bag and stuff under the RV in one of the cargo bay doors. Throw in the dishwasher when you get home. Use recycled paper plates (paper from paper and not trees). If you’re going to be on a long vacation, save up your dishes until you get to a campground and wash them in the water hose or someplace you’re allowed.

I used to marvel at people who were dumping their septic while we were because they would have always have a sink full of dirty dishes. Now I understand why!

Don’t sit in your RV for the whole trip, refusing to socialize with the rest of the campers around you.

Solution: Best conversation opener: “Where ya from?” RV campers LOVE to tell you where they came from – in great detail! RV campgrounds are for socializing and relaxing, not being a hermit!

Don’t leave any food outside in bear-infested campgrounds. (or in any campgrounds)

Solution: There are hundreds of variations of bear-safe containers available at your local sportsman’s store.

Keep a close eye on your gray water contents. If you let it get too full, it will fill up your shower with yucky water. Gray water is the water you’ve drained down your kitchen sink or bathroom sink or shower. Make it a habit to always push the buttons to check to see if your gray water is getting to the 2/3rds mark. We once had to drive to a dumping station (there aren’t many in Alaska) with a shower full of water, hoping it didn’t leak out onto the floor!

Dump your black water (toilet water) only after it gets fairly full (2/3rds or more). It’s best to have it jostle around on your way home so that things like toilet paper don’t get stuck to the sides. That way, everything empties out when you empty the septic just before going home.

Be sure to wear those nylon or other type of disposable gloves when emptying the septic. This is important, even if your system is like ours and is completely self-contained. Wash your hands afterwards and use some of that disinfectant for your hands, like Purel.

Be courteous at the septic dump sites you go to. Many of them are offered free by gas stations. Throw away your disposable gloves after using in a receptacle instead of throwing them on the ground. Use the water hose always supplied to wash up around the area you just used. No one likes to look at other people’s yucky mess after they’ve dumped their septic.

When it is getting close to the end of the season, empty your septic, then take a garden hose and run fresh water into your toilet or attach one to the flush valve if one is supplied with your RV. Pour a couple of drops of Palmolive or Dawn dishwashing soap down the toilet while flushing. (not too much, or it will foam up) Leave it really clean like this while it sits over the winter, or you will have a septic whose indicators don’t work correctly when Spring comes for the next season.

Empty your black and gray water just before going home after every trip. Leaving it in there for a couple of weeks before you go again is not a good habit to get into. When you go to dump it, the smell will knock you over! I’ve been next to other RVs while they were dumping that do this, and I swear someone died in there!

When you start getting a couple of nights in the 40s, it is time to take your RV in to get it winterized by the dealer or other authorized RV repair shop. They flush out the lines and put RV antifreeze in the lines to keep them from cracking. Just before taking it to get it winterized, make sure you did Step 20 above. Once you get your RV back home to park for the winter, make sure you turn off the cabin batteries. (most RVs have a battery bypass switch for this) You might also want to disconnect your batteries and take them into your garage for the winter.
One winter, our dealer had our RV for a few months to fix some items, and one of their techs left the batteries on in Dec and Jan. They literally blew up inside the battery compartment and threw acid EVERYWHERE. They spent a long time cleaning up the compartment.

Tips & Warnings
You’re always going to forget something on every trip. Don’t get upset about it! Flexibility while camping is the name of the game!

When raising or lowering automatic jacks, have someone outside the RV to make sure they’re all down correctly or that they retract safely.

Fatalities have occurred when passengers in RVs seated on couches didn’t wear their seatbelts. They often die, while those strapped in survive.

Hi everyone,
I know that many of you come to this blog to read my journal. I get these flashes of things that I want to share with you, and they have all grown into my journal here. I’ve been writing a journal since about 1998, and this blog is the end result after many years.

I read a lot of books, and I study a lot of techniques that are related to Eckhart Tolle’s work, and the Secret. I still don’t understand what problem religious people have with the Secret, but that is a conversation for another day.

I think that most of the problems that people have with the Secret is just sitting down and saying, “OK, Universe…give me….blah blah blah …whatever it is.”

It doesn’t work that way. The way it works is:

Visualization first. You have to really see yourself in possession or doing whatever it is you really really really want to do.

You have to be clear on exactly what it is you want. It can’t be just a vague notion. It has to have details. Just like the Secret House video. I’ll post it again in this entry.

You have to rid yourself of all kinds of doubts. All those things you were told growing up about how you couldn’t do something. All those bad messages you get from other people and the news and so on.

Recently, I learned the EFT technique for ridding yourself of resistance or doubt. Wow…what a great tool this is. You don’t even have to believe it works at first. It is based on the age old techniques of acupuncture, but it is not painful. It is a series of tapping you do to rid yourself of resistance to things you would like to be or do. I’ll provide you with a link at the bottom of this post.

I’ve seen some stuff on the Internet where people who already doubted the power of themselves and the Law of Attraction gave themselves 30 days to get a million bucks or whatever. Ok. They don’t get it. They already doubt, and they already expect to lose.

I’ve just recently been reading something that I think is one of the very best books I’ve ever read on Manifestation of things you want, the person you want to be, and so on. It’s a book by a woman named Sasha, and I really just COULD NOT PUT THE BOOK DOWN.

She really filled in a lot of gaps for me when it comes to the Law of Attraction. And the book is not one of those ginormous courses that you have to pay $2,000 for in order to change your life. It is just $17, and it could be the best 17 bucks you ever spent. It certainly was for me.

Here’s the link for Sasha’s book, if you’d like to read it. It is really amazing:
Outrageous Mastery Book

In order to make the Secret and the Law of Attraction work for you, you really have to understand it and study it and truly truly believe in the power you have to make things happen for you. Sasha’s book accomplishes that very well.

Another thing I believe will help you understand the Law of Attraction is to listen to the unabridged audio version of the book The Secret. The book is narrated by the author, Rhonda Byrnes. It is WAY more detailed and informative about this process than the movie was. I got 100 times more out of listening to the audio version of the book than I did the movie, and the book just didn’t do it for me. Personal preference. And if you can just put aside all the crap you’ve heard about how it is just to sell a book or that it is just a fairy tale and just listen- I believe that you’ll discover truths about yourself you never knew.

I never knew just how powerful I was in making things happen in my life, especially the ones I DIDN’T WANT. I was attracting things to myself that were ruining my dreams. Maybe you are, too?

It’s nothing new. I promise you. Napoleon Hill spent 20 years studying over 500 people and found that this was the one thing that helped them get where they wanted to be. Thoughts truly ARE things. If you can think it, you can do it. Don’t believe that? Well, then..maybe that is the problem. Most of us don’t believe we deserve to have great things in our lives. And that keeps us from having great things in our lives.

Are you a religious person who thinks the Secret and the Law of Attraction are the work of the devil? I can’t help you. I feel sorry for you. That’s all I can say there.

I’ve actually been told by a religious person that they could no longer speak to me or have people associate us together as friends because I believe in the Secret. And that is going to probably happen to you a couple of times.

Don’t worry about it. Life is all about loss and gain anyway. We go through tough times where we feel like we’ve lost everything, only to find that we’ve gained ourselves. That is what enlightenment is all about.

And if the Law of Attraction doesn’t work for you at first, DON’T GIVE UP!!! You probably have some doubt floating around in there. Keep visualizing yourself in possession of whatever you want. Perhaps you want a happy relationship or want to live in a certain kind of house or whatever. Every night when you lie down to go to sleep, let yourself dream like you used to as a child. Every single thing we’ve ever wanted together as a couple (my husband and me) was something we put a picture of on the ceiling over our bed. Try that, if you want. Look at the picture. See yourself there. Imagine it and really FEEL yourself in that situation you want so much. Don’t give up! Giving up just means you’ve given in to a mediocre existence, just like other people you may know.

So, I’ve already recommended Sasha’s book and the audio version of the Secret. Here’s one more book that has truly ended many miserable moments for me:

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. I recommend the audio version of this as well, because it was one night when I was desperate and sad that I heard his voice talking about how we are here in order that the Universe can fulfill its destiny. Wow. No one ever told me that before. And the rest of the book is amazing, too.

Here’s the story of the Secret House I posted awhile back: (just to show you it really does work)

Don’t believe any of this? I feel sorry for you. The world must’ve gotten to you. Because, as Eckhart says, the world is insane. Think of all the killings and the problems due to everyone feeling like they must be right. Who needs to be right? Not your true self. It’s a waste of time trying to fight with everyone and prove everyone else wrong. It only makes you miserable. Notice the people around you – perhaps at work or wherever. Notice how they struggle with this.

We truly do Think ourselves into our situations. Listen to what your mind is telling you right now. “She’s full of crap. Don’t listen to her. Law of Attraction? Hogwash. It doesn’t exist…”

I’ve made it work in my own life many times. And sometimes I failed, but I knew it was because I doubted my ability to make it happen. I saw myself in this house. I saw myself in Alaska. They both came true. But they took work and thought and unique methods of getting here.

On and on. But here’s a thought you might’ve never thought before. What if I am right? What if your mind is wrong. What if the world really is a magical place where you can feel good about yourself and believe in yourself? It could be true. And even if you don’t believe it just yet, try putting aside all those thoughts you’ve been handed down from your family and friends and coworkers. Try thinking for yourself for once.

You never know what you’ll discover until you keep an open mind and try.

Much love and happiness coming your way,
Lynne

Here is the link to free information about EFT:
EFT Technique Free Resources

Everything on the site is free, unless you want to buy the course. There’s a small .pdf booklet that shows you exactly how to use EFT in your life. Just follow the instructions on the site to receive the link to it in an email.

Governor Palin recently became the only Governor in the United States to turn down federal stimulus funds. Duh. What an idiot.

Here’s a list of Alaska’s corrupt bastards you might like to read about:

Alaska’s Corrupt Bastards

And here’s a story by Bob Poe about Governor Palin’s turn down of stimulus funds for energy efficiency:

Alaska should be your highest priority

And I usually try to mention things that are positive amongst the negative…so here goes.

The weather in the Anchorage area is still amazing. 60 to 70 in the daytime. High 30s and 40s at night. Sunny, few clouds. The flowers are happy, and everything is really beautiful. Very little rain. A great place to be right now. And very few mosquitoes. Yay.

“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”
– Ferdinand Foch, military strategist