The Power of Manifestation, the Makings of Abundance are EVERYWHERE!

**If you took my challenge in my last post, you're well on your way to establishing gratitude as a way of life. **

*Congratulations, if you didn't, it's never too late. So, now that you've flipped the switch and started practicing some intentional thoughts, let's take a look at opportunity is, and how we can be more open to it. *

Every day, I start my day with a thank you for the things that have happened in my life. I try to say thank you as many times each day as I can, and still mean it, and it makes a huge difference.

When it comes to manifesting more of what you want in your life, learning to look for opportunity is one of the next key elements to success.

First, let's start with this. When we face limitations in life, they are always finite and definable. But, as much as we like to give them more power limitations are never a hard no. They say, you cannot do this now, in this place, in this way. All of the universes multitude of other options are still open to be explored.

On the other hand, there an infinite number of ways to achieve almost any end in life. Not all of them are practical, affordable or even smart, but there's nearly always more than one good option, if we learn to see the opportunity that lies right in front of us.

Let me give you a few examples of what I mean.

I recommend a little book called Acres of Diamonds, featuring a speech given by a nineteenth century minister as he recounted people who had opportunity staring them in the face, who traveled half way round the world just to miss the very thing they wanted.

The modern world is also filled with people who looked for and found opportunity, not just knocking on their door, but literally waiting outside of it.

Raffi Stepanian worked in the diamond district in New York. As he noticed how much gold and scrap was swept from the floors every day, an idea occurred to him. While he couldn't take what was inside, since it still belonged to the business owner, once a scrap had been tracked outside, it was his for the taking.

So, he started mining the street. Literally digging mud from the sidewalk cracks, and filtering it out, like a prospector in a gold laden stream, to find gold, platinum, gem stones and even cut and polished diamonds that fall to the ground as people walk by.

In six days, Stepanian makes about $800 in sales to various places, in both loose stones and jewelry he creates with his finds! That's $40k a year, to pick up trash off the sidewalk!

Jesus Leonardo makes about $45,000.00 a year, and he has no boss! He doesn't have clients, doesn't punch a clock and it cost him nothing to get into his business. He is a "stooper".

In horse race betting parlance, a stooper is someone who picks up tickets thrown down by other visitors who have made paid bets, something Leonardo never does. He then feeds thousands of these tickets through the scanning machines, looking for winners.

Over the course of ten years, Jesus has collected more than a half million dollars in winning tickets, that were too small for others to bother with, or never even checked!

White collar manager, Matt Malone has a dirty little secret. He makes more money in an average hour of dumpster diving, than he does in his day job, which pays six figures a year.

Searching through commercial dumpsters has netted him electronics, power tools and more. Some day he may become a full time "trash collector" and that could mean up to $250,000.00 a year by his estimates.

So, as you can see, opportunity is where you find it. These are just a few examples, but I know that in my wife's family, her great grandfather left behind over $100,000.00 just from collecting pop cans as he walked ever day for over twenty five years.

When we think there is no opportunity in this world, we are not paying attention. In every economic downturn and even depression, there are those that make their fortunes. In our day and age, new industries are popping up all the time.

The man who invented the Super Soaker water gun, of all things, is worth hundreds of millions and the simple chicken sandwich served at Chick Fil A, made the owner a billionaire six times over before he died in 2014.

Why am I sharing all of this? It is a continued attempt to bust your bubble of "lack" or scarcity. Yes, there are a finite number of atoms in our world. But, when you look at the endless number of combinations, and how those can be reused, over and over, you quickly see that there is no real end to the possibilities, at least not in this lifetime.

More on how you can become open to these ideas in my next post.

Remember, ask yourself, "What's the best that could happen?" you never know what might come out of it!