Write it down, make it happen! Yeah!

I went through a stage in my twenties when I read a lot of quackery. One book I read was called, "Write It Down, Make It Happen". Don't bother reading it. The gist of it is, write things down that you want to happen, and these things will actually happen. I think I got it for a penny from the Book of the Month Club.

It was there, so I read it. I thought I would write something down and make it happen. My dream at the time was to be a published author. So, quite modestly, I wrote down,

"I will win the Nobel Prize for Literature."

I waited a few weeks. It didn't happen. I thought I might try a goal more readily within reach, and so I wrote,

"I will make money from my writings."

Years passed. Nothing happened. I forgot all about it- until just recently, when something made me remember.

You may have noticed recently that I've sold out. I have a little Google Advertisement box over there to the right☞ and up☝.This advertisement actually pays me for my writings here. And so, what I wrote down has finally happened! I'm being paid "money" for "my writings"! I've actually been paid 61 cents for two weeks of writings!!!

Hm... In retrospect, I should have been more specific:

"I will make $10,000 per month, post taxes, from writing ten minutes per day, for the rest of my life."

Ah, me. Hindsight is golden.

5 comments:

  1. RosesSeptember 26, 2009 at 4:03 PM

    Crossing my fingers that typing it down is the same as writing it down. ;-)

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  2. Cellar DoorSeptember 26, 2009 at 7:51 PM

    The book specifically stated that you had to write things down in your own handwriting, no typing allowed. But, you know, whatever floats your boat. I could write another book that says that the answer to life, love and happiness is to write a blog about nothing, and I might be just as correct!

    BTW, Roses, I LOVE your blog!

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  3. b0bSeptember 26, 2009 at 11:36 PM

    You have to draw a line around it to bind the forces. That's the part you forgot, and why you didn't win the Nobel Prize.

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  4. Glory von HathorSeptember 27, 2009 at 2:50 PM

    I once had to do an exercise in learning to separate thoughts from actions where we had to write 'I hope that (insert loved one of choice) dies horribly tonight'. I was one of the few who had no trouble with it. I'm not sure what to make of that - rationalist or psychopath.

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  5. Cellar DoorSeptember 27, 2009 at 8:58 PM

    OH, Dad! You must have circled it when you wrote, "I will be the best steel guitar player in the world." That way, you didn't have to practice, even!

    Christina, you don't have to click. I don't think it matters. It's just counting how many people visit the site.

    Glory, fy fan, that is one messed up exercise!

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