I am back at Panera Bread on Franklin Street this afternoon (see photo to the right). I was debating on whether to spend another $3 on a cup of coffee this afternoon, but it is Friday, so I relented… They did not have any Splenda available on the place where you get your coffee, so I talked to the lady at the counter about it and she checked out back. Well, they did not have any out back either. This brought up a discussion about why there was none out back… I am not sure if they are taking my questions in the spirit in which it is offered or not. I am not trying to criticize them as I see this everywhere these days… Something is broken in the system when the customer does not have what they want and pay for. I am sure that there are customers who will not take anything but Splenda in their coffee, and if companies take your money, there should be Splenda there for them. If they pay $3 for a cup of coffee, and then go to get it, and it is not there, they are leaving dissatisfied. In some respects, you are robbing them of what they paid for. I did not mention this to the lady, but if I were this lady, I would take this nugget of truth and figure out a way in which to resolve this problem and make sure it never happens again. But it would appear that I am quite unique in this respect.
If you look at the photo you will see the words “What Are Your Dreams.” This is the topic of the day, and I should add that I think I’m finally “getting it” in terms of what the Secret is. I felt this the past few days, but today in particular. The idea that you are manifesting into your life what you think about. Maybe not consciously, but subconsciously. Is it perhaps that I have been subconsciously thinking that I’m a victim, like my dad, and that this feeling of being a victim was what made my time in Halifax with the Church and “the fainting” and such a miserable one. Even worse, is it possible that this feeling of being a victim is what brought the even worse experience of LF into my life?
So, is it possible by thinking about being a real success in life I can bring that into my life as well? This is what the Secret seems to be saying, and for some reason I am “clicking on all cylinders” today, or at least it seems so…
So, what if I write down in detail, as is relayed on page #24, “Sit down with a computer or pen and paper and make a list of what you really want in every area of your life”. For some reason I feel today that if I do this, I will bring it into my life. As an example, I feel certain that if I pick out the exact house in Courtenay, BC that I want, I will get it. This is the exact same feeling I had when I got the job at Pentax, or when we had our son. A feeling of hopelessness and that it was impossible, but that it would be mine regardless of the facts.
So, I drove home and told my wife, and then our daughter. Let us look at all the listings on Zillow this evening and figure out what house we want. Money is no object; location is no object. Just pick out the house and it will be ours!
What does this mean? Does this mean that we will have the house tonight? Or that it will be ours when we do go to Courtenay, BC next year? Or that we will have a better house than this? Or that it will sell and will be back on the market next year when we do arrive in Courtenay? I’m not sure as I’m new to this complete process. But what I do know is the feeling. The feeling that I have as I write this is the exact same feeling I had about the job at Pentax, and about having our son, so I am going to go with it. Tonight, my wife and my daughter and I are going to pick out the house we want on Zillow!
So, I got together with the family this evening and we went through all the listings in Zillow in Courtenay and figured out which house we wanted with price being no object. We took factors such as the number of rooms, the amount of land, the age of the house, the distance from schools and such, and this is the house we all liked (see photo to the right).
You can see our dream house in the photo to the right. The property is listed in Courtenay, and it actually has two houses, with 7 bedrooms and 4 baths between them. It also has 5.01 acres (about twice the area of a Manhattan city block) of land. All this for $1,794,000 (Canadian $). It is also 74 meters (244 feet above sea level).
Here is another shot of the house and the property (see photo to the left) from a wide-angle view. This is looking eastward towards the mountains and away from the downtown Courtenay area.
I am not exactly sure how this whole visualization thing works right now, but my wife, daughter, and I all agree that this is a perfect house for us, so I am going to start visualizing it. Does this mean we will get this exact house, or something better? It just might be that this specific house will be sold and up on the market again next year when we move? Time will tell!
