I had no time to write lately, as we were busy moving to a new place. The guys from the moving company came on Monday, loaded everything on their truck and carried everything to our new place. We are now still unpacking the crates, so this post will be short. I hope to write again regularly for the blog in a few days.

The time for moving away is approaching very quickly. As I mentioned in an earlier post, we are moving to another town next week.
 
Packing everything takes quite a long time. You discover stuff you forgot about, books you have never read and clothes that you don’t need anymore. We are working quite hard to be ready in time, before the transportation guys arrive with their truck.

It is usually the packing that takes time. Unpacking I believe and hope is easier and faster.

Well, I don’t have time to write more now, because I need to continue packing. If you have sent me email, there will be some delay in responding, but I hope to get to it in a few days.

“The Secret”, and many other similar books or films are great for inspiration and for creating expectations. They also awaken the belief that one can change his/her life and achieve success, yet this is not enough. A beginner might create some minor success, but in order to make real changes and create greater success, more understanding, information and skills are required.

In order to use the law of attraction successfully, you need to know what to do and how, and not every book provides this information. You also need to know about the obstacles you might encounter, both inner and external, and how to deal with them. It is not enough just to feel elated after reading or watching a movie, and though these feelings are important, more is required for success. Too often, inspiration and elation wear out after a while, and then you either feel disappointed, forget about what you have read, or if you still desire to take advantage of the law of attraction, you might not know what to do next.

The law of attraction works everywhere in nature, and also in personal life, but one has to know how to use it correctly. Before achieving any kind of success, you have to be clear about what you want to do or achieve, and you have to acquire the necessary qualifications. It is also useful, especially with big goals, to develop some degree of concentration ability, visualization, perseverance, willpower and self discipline, but very few books speak about this and tell you how to do that.

Here are a few recommended books:

Mind Power: The Secret of Mental Magic by William Walker Atkinson

Practical Guide to Creative Visualization by Osborne Phillips

Manifesting Your Heart’s Desire by Fred Fengler and Todd Varnum
 
Visualize and Achieve, available at this website.

The term self improvement is a bit misleading and is sometimes erroneously interrupted. What do you really improve? You don’t improve your “self” and you don’t improve your “spirit”. You learn to develop certain skills that can help you go through life. You learn to look at things from a different, broader viewpoint, and you learn to forego limiting thoughts and habits.

You don’t improve something that does not exist in you. You improve and develop some skills that are already in you, but are weak, in a dormant state, or negatively expressed.

Self improvement is actually not “Improving yourself”, so much as changing your point of view, changing the way you look at yourself and the world, and strengthening and developing certain skills.

Self improvement is about developing:

• Stronger willpower.
• Better self discipline.
• Better concentration.
• Some degree of emotional and mental detachment.
• More patience.
• More tolerance.
• Getting rid of negative or weakening habits and developing new ones.
• Learning to think more positively.
• Learning to be more kind and loving.

This is a partial list of the aims of self improvement.

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I am now in the middle of packing everything, because we are moving to another town. It is strange how much stuff one collects and never uses, until one moves away and has to decide what to do with the stuff. Often, we just store in our drawers, wardrobe or storage room, all kind of stuff we don’t really need, but we which we don’t want to throw away. The time of moving is a great time to get rid of all this unnecessary stuff.

I once read somewhere that when you clean up your house of unnecessary or not so useful stuff, new stuff comes in. Even if you just clean up a drawer, sometimes, money or something else comes in. It might sound strange, but I have seen this work. By creating a physical vacuum, you make space for something new to come in. There is a mental explanation to this phenomena, but this should be the subject of a different article.

Anyway,in two weeks time we are moving to a different town and there is a lot of work to do, sorting out things, packing everything into crates, and then moving to the new address, unpacking and putting everything in place.