Growing up, Labor Day was a big deal at our house. That’s partly because my mom’s mother, who lived with us, strongly identified with the labor movement.

My grandmother Libby was an independent woman for her time (she dyed her hair! she played cards for money!). She took the train to New York City every day to her job at Gimbels department store.

A staunch supporter of her labor union, Libby drilled into my brain never to cross a picket line.

And she told me stories about the early labor movement, teaching me  that workers in industrialized countries had historically been terribly oppressed. The labor movement was their means of claiming freedom and power.

Today as an entrepreneur I often feel like labor and management  rolled into one!

Maybe small business is just like that. Or maybe Continue Reading »

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When I first published this Law of Attraction article in 2006, it brought so many comments that I reprint it every other year…

When you order dessert at a restaurant, you always choose something that tastes good. While you might skip the whipped cream to save some calories, you’d never order the strawberry-rhubarb pie unless you like it.

Why, then, do you keep ordering what you don’t like from the Menu of the Universe? Continue Reading »

Affirmations work – when we believe them.  If you don’t believe your affirmations or goal statements, it’s time to replace them!

If you affirm “I now make $1,000,000 a  year from my business” – when you aren’t making anywhere near that – you may find yourself feeling frustrated as time goes by and you don’t see the evidence.

Napoleon Hill taught in Think and Grow Rich that we need a specific plan and goals that we must repeat to ourselves daily. But if you’re saying goals out loud while wondering if you’ll ever achieve them, you’re not attracting the results you want. I mean, look around you – are the goal statements working or not? Continue Reading »

It’s so easy to put the future off indefinitely. “I’ll buy that sailboat when I have the money.” “I’ll  learn to ballroom dance when I lose 10 pounds.”

The obvious problem with this thinking is it perpetuates your current vibration of “I don’t have the money” and “I’m too fat.”

The less obvious issue is it perpetuates your current assumption that” “doing” is the only route to your goals.

So if you can’t take the action to buy the $50,0oo sailboat  today, you live your days feeling dissatisfied and powerless in relation to your dreams.

Law of Attraction teaches us Continue Reading »

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Law of Attraction teaches that we create our own reality (whether on purpose or not).

So why not deliberately create a reality awash in luck, blessings and good fortune?

Here’s how to start.

Step 1  – CREATE YOUR PERSONAL HISTORY OF AMAZING LUCK. Think back on the times in your life when you received extraordinary good luck. You narrowly missed a serious car accident. You unexpectedly received a large sum of money. You got lost in a foreign city and “accidentally” met the love of your life.

Everyone has these experiences because, in truth, we are all the recipients of magnanimous blessings from spirit.

Step 1 in How To Create Luck is to remember your experiences – and make a list. This list is your Personal History of Amazing and Unlimited Luck.

Sure you can remember times when you were apparently unlucky. Everyone has those too. Because you’re not aiming to attract more unlucky experiences, just let them go. Focus on the lucky times and they will expand in your life.

Step 2 – MAKE “I AM” DECLARATIONS. Declare: “I am so lucky.” Say and think this often and with feeling! Abraham tells how Esther Hicks loves to say Continue Reading »