Abundance Challenge Diary by Ann

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AC 20 this morning - having my mum here and the TV on constantly means I am hearing more about scarcity when the news is on - having an open plan downstairs in a small cottage makes it a challenge to ignore the crap emanating from the TV. No wonder people are so miserable with the constant negative news.

PPC 20 - Oh and yes the family history stuff: I am still fascinated how my eldest brother is so good at manifesting money, yet I don't think he would have a clue what I was talking about if I asked him.

EEK I did it again: my back is killing me on the futon in my spare room, so on Saturday we went looking for beds. I found my perfect bed half price at £799 and then another £100 off that day. But a three week wait. They looked on the system and found a cancelled order of the identical bed for £499 to be delivered this week, as long as no one else had booked it out. Well this morning they called to say someone had beaten them to it, so I'm going to have to buy the new one. Sabotaged myself

Ooh the bed man just called me and has knocked £70 off the new bed, so I am only paying an extra £169 and the bed is being delivered a week earlier than planned on 1st August, so that is better. I still need to improve my manifestation skills and stop things going wrong, however minor. My view is that what price a good night's sleep? My lower back pain is awful so to me the bed is worth every penny

[Erika Awakening]

Ann, did you see my comment prior to this one about comfort zone?

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Ooh no I didn't - just read it. I've just done something that I have been putting off: I want to publish two novels I've written on Amazon Kindle. I need covers and one of my friends painted something a few years ago that would be perfect for one of them. I had asked her at the time if I got a publisher would she let me use it and she said she didn't think the author got to choose. So I have emailed her this evening and asked again (I offered to pay her or she can have a share of any of profits).

The second thing is to contact a friend who has the email address of Jamie Oliver's assistant as I have an idea I want to pitch to him. Now that really is a daunting prospect, but I feel now is the time to do it.

[Dianne Dougherty]

GO ANN!!! LOL I had to google Jamie Oliver.....dont have a TV...never heard of him.........! xo

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I love that you don't have a TV Dianne! I've just found an email I was copied in on three years ago to one of Jamie's PA's in one of his businesses, so will write and find out if she still works for him and take it from there.

Today I did AC 21 - I am lucky in so many ways and I always appreciate I have been very healthy. I was also lucky in that I still get my bed earlier than I thought too. Writing my gratitude journal every evening also helps.

PPC 21 too - shadow self. This one is always a challenge, yet also one of the most enlightening!

[elaineenlightening]

Thanks for the gratitude reminder, Ann...so glad you are making it a routine.

A good nights sleep really helps, so glad you got your bed. It reminded me of how important it is to remember we are not a body and that "to do nothing is to rest", thought of these passages:

To do anything involves the body. And if you recognize you need do nothing, you have withdrawn the body's value from your mind. Here is the quick and open door through which you slip past centuries of effort, and escape from time. This is the way in which sin loses all attraction right now. For here is time denied, and past and future gone. Who needs do nothing has no need for time. To do nothing is to rest, and make a place within you where the activity of the body ceases to demand attention. Into this place the Holy Spirit comes, and there abides. He will remain when you forget, and the body's activities return to occupy your conscious mind.
Yet there will always be this place of rest to which you can return. And you will be more aware of this quiet center of the storm than all its raging activity. This quiet center, in which you do nothing, will remain with you, giving you rest in the midst of every busy doing on which you are sent. For from this center will you be directed how to use the body sinlessly. It is this center, from which the body is absent, that will keep it so in your awareness of it.

[Annbros]

Thank you so much Elaine - I loved what you wrote and that bed is such a great investment - 13 days to go until its arrival!

Today did AC 21 - I certainly struck lucky in the health stakes as I rarely have to see my Dr. I was lucky in getting this bed and lucky that it looks as if we will still get our house - whoopee!

PPC 22 - Tough love is such a great complement to the AC. I have certainly increased that. I am no longer willing to do the work for others. I can send people articles and links, but ultimately they have to take the action and, if they don't I'm not going to carry on pointing them in the right direction: they can learn to find their own way.

My eldest brother came and looked after my mum today so I went out with friends and had a lovely time.

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Oops went wrong yesterday and tapped AC21 again so did 22 and, I now buy stuff that I really want, not because it is cheap: the bed is a great example, as I was willing to pay for it, I just got lucky that the chap in the shop gave me money off, when I didn't ask for it. I buy great food, not only for me but for my mum. In fact my body can't stand cheap food.

I'm going to take time to do more of the crown chakra challenge today.

Oh and I had an offer on my house: it was 35k below the asking price, so I rejected it. Then they upped it by 15k. I told my brothers who both immediately went into lack mode, 'you should take it, the economy could crash' etc. So I decided to stop updating them! Anyway, the offer was increased again and again so is now just 10k short of my asking price, which actually is good enough. I have not accepted it quite yet as there is another cash buyer viewing it tomorrow morning but the AC and PPC definitely helped me keep faith when I was being told to accept a much lower offer. I've listened to my intuition and I am going to keep on following it.

[Dianne Dougherty]

FAITH and INTUITION, BABY..........follow it!!!!

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AC day 23: I am still decluttering: when I get my new bed I will give my futon to charity as it has served its purpose and is in great condition. Doing PPC 23 about specialness was interesting: Bradley Wiggins won Le Tour de France yesterday and he is the most amazing cyclist, yet he has never had any media training and is refreshing in that he is who he is and there is nothing fake about him, which I love.

Oh and I did the bonus gold video on paying off a mortgage: very appropriate for me at present. Plus I accepted the offer on my house (and more people being negative and saying it might not go through, or what will I do if we don't get the one we want and will be homeless - I'm totally ignoring it all and focusing on what I want and knowing that it will all work out perfectly, it just shows me that hearing people talk like this is so draining and I am developing a kind of 'shield' around me so that their negativity just bounces off me).