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Well, it seems like my new way of thinking is actually working out for me. It’s happening slower than I’d like, but it’s starting to happen. One of the things I’d been saying to myself is: “I like it when people think of me. I like it when people do nice things for me.” The other day, my friend Sharon emailed me and let me know that she was going to the River Walk in town this weekend. She had been thinking about not going, then she decided it was an opportunity that didn’t come along very often, and that she would go. She decided to contact me to see if there was a way that she could get some of my jewelry to sell while she was there. That’s definitely an example of someone thinking about me and doing something nice for me.

I got me to thinking though… I have a lot of people on my FaceBook page. I have more than 80 “friends” on there. The interesting thing is, the people who are talking to me, reading my blogs and saying good things to me, are not the people that I have been friends with for a long time in real life. The people that I have known for years barely acknowledge that I’m there. The people that have been the kindest and most uplifting and helpful to me are people that I have only known for a few years in person, or people that I have never met face to face at all. It’s kind of weird to me. I guess it shouldn’t be though. People change over the years, and they sometimes drift apart. I suppose I just need to be happy that there are people who are talking to me and looking out for me, even if they’re people I hardly know.

I’ve been trying to think about attracting better people into my life, and maybe that’s what I’m doing. Maybe the universe is telling me that some of the people I know aren’t the kind of friends I thought they were. Maybe I just need to make new friends.

I’m also still trying to change my way of thinking when it comes to other things. Eric was watching The Secret again last night, and I caught a line that hit me as part of my problem. Remember I said that I was wondering what the blockage was that was keeping the money from coming in? Well, the line I caught was that the more you think about not having enough, the more you continue to not have enough. I think that’s it. I’m always worried that there’s not enough money for the bills and other things. I’m worrying that they’re not going to get paid and that I can’t buy the things I need. Somehow I need to train myself to not think about the lack, and think of it some other way.

That’s actually one of the hardest things for me. How do you not think about and stress about the things you need but don’t have? How do you put yourself in a mindset that will allow the things you need to come to you? That’s what I need to figure out. I try to distract myself as much as possible. I try to work and make a path for money to come to me, and think about how good it will be when I get it. I know that’s a good start. Unfortunately, when the phone beeps with a text message from the phone company reminding me that it’s going to get shut off if I don’t pay, it brings that worry right back to the front of my mind.

I guess I need to just believe that the River Walk will be a success and it will bring enough money to pay a good chunk of the phone bill off. Then it will be easier to think of other, better things.

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