Today Barry and I picked up some plastic storage boxes at Wal-Mart, and one of them had a small cardboard rectangle inside… I’m not sure what the purpose of it was, since it wasn’t cushioning anything, but it fit loosely within the perimeter of the container.

A low semi-box inside a box. Or rather, a low wall that didn’t separate anything.

Barry put the cardboard piece on the floor in the dining room… and Jupiter immediately decided that it was a good place to hang out.

She kept going in there again and again… sometimes just relaxing, and sometimes using it as a vantage point, hunting blind and launch pad to attack Mercury from whenever the latter happened to stroll by.

It seemed to me that she somehow felt this low box — this wall that doesn’t separate anything — was a place of safety and comfort.

And beyond that, she seemed to think that as long as she was INSIDE the box… nobody outside could see her, and hence Mercury wouldn’t suspect the upcoming pounce.

Of course, kids play these kinds of pretend games all the time… but when I saw my cat doing it, it made me think of how adult people remain in their comfort zones with a false sense of security.

What makes it worse when people do it is they don’t advance through life to their full potential because of this sense of security they have — whether associated with a JOB, a habit, or remaining with a life partner that is completely wrong for them because it’s “easier” and “safer” to do so.

>>> CONTINUE READING False Sense of Safety In The Box…

Yesterday Barry and I went to Medford… I had an appointment at the LASIK center (my eyes have now healed, but while the vision in my left is perfect, the vision in my right has gone back to where it used to be when I wore contacts — that’s good because it’s better than it has been the past month, and because I still have some contact lenses that I can wear while I wait another two months to get a LASIK touch-up!)

Then we met with a prospective new business associate, and afterwards stayed for our weekly “date night”.

Yes, every Friday night is date night… so no matter how busy, frustrated, or buried in work we get during the week, we always know that Friday night is our time to relax, get out of work mode, enjoy each others’ company and appreciate being together.

Nothing is better for a relationship than the time you dedicate to each other, and you can kick that up a few notches by feeling grateful and appreciative for every moment that it lasts.

This time we went to Red Lobster (one of my favorite restaurants — and the one in Medford happens to be the only one around), followed by a movie.

The movie was forgettable… it was called Vantage Point, and the description seemed like an almost metaphysical drama about different viewpoints surrounding a situation, but it played out more like a boring repeat of the same viewpoint with emphasis on different people each time.

Oh, well, it was time alone, side by side in the dark… who can ask for anything more?

And before it started we had some time to kill, so we played around in the arcade downstairs where they had our favorite toy — a photo booth!

This one only took black and white photos, but gave us the opportunity to be goofy and have some fun… as well as take home a reminder of what fun we have together.

And that’s really what life is all about!

After all, like my email signature says…

The meaning of life is to play the game, have fun, and learn along the way!

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Okay, it finally happened!

We manifested Barry (Bear) winning me a bear at the fair!

He actually first tried to win me a stuffed bear at a fair last summer, but didn’t end up getting the prize.

And Friday night he won me the purple Taz, which I appreciated a lot… but it wasn’t a bear, and I wanted Bear to win me a bear!

So yesterday afternoon we were playing roulette at the Circus Circus Reno casino when a girl walked up to the table with a big bear that she had won upstairs.

I pointed it out to Barry and said, “She won a bear!” with a little knowing grin.

I asked her where she won it, and she told us at the darts game… then I told Bear, “You could win me one of those!”

I thought about it, I felt it.

I was sure it was going to happen.

Then we went upstairs, strolled around a bit, and finally came across the same darts game.

“There’s my bear…” I said to Barry.

The object of the game was to get a dart in the middle of a little white star — essentially a bullseye. Now, Barry hadn’t played darts in years, and figured he’d need about 30 to get up to bullseye standard… but he didn’t tell me that.

The second dart missed by about 2 millimeters.

And the next one nailed it… just 2 millimeters above the first.

We manifested the bullseye — and the bear! (Shown in the picture with me above)

What were the keys to accomplishing it?

>>> CONTINUE READING Bear Won Me A Bear at the Fair!…

What does it take to make a life-long dog lover, who has always disliked cats, into a bona fide cat lover?

You have to shift his (or her) values… through the power of love.

Dr. John F. Demartini – who I interviewed for Masters of the Secret — says that everything we do, everything we notice, everything we excel at, everything we succeed at, is based on our value system.

And so is love… you can’t love what you don’t value.

But sometimes loving another person makes you look at their values in a different light. And that means a shift in values based on that love.

Earlier this week, Barry and I took Jupiter out to the park on a leash for her first journey outside. And in this picture, you can see that he has genuinely turned into a cat lover over the last six months or so… and not just our own cats, but he loves looking at cats in the pet store now, and will even take an unannounced side trip there if we happen to be driving remotely nearby.

So how did that happen, when less than a year ago he said he hated cats?

>>> CONTINUE READING Cat-egorically Shifting Love and Values…

I just posted an article on the LWLWorldwide blog about Hollywood relationships, and what they mean (or don’t mean) to you…

And it also includes a video from me, and another chance to attend a free tele-call on relationship magic with me and relationship expert Zen DeBrucke this week.

Read, watch, discover, and laugh (or cringe) here.

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Barry just created our third “Love Without Limits” video to celebrate our love and life (personal and business, since the two often overlap) together… but this time he used a cool whiz-bang automatic video montage creator.

You can get it for free — or upgrade to premium for only $40 a year — and it’s so ridiculously easy that absolutely anyone can create impressive videos and photo montages set to music, in just a few minutes.

Here’s our latest video:

Make video montages at www.LWLMedia.com

And you can create your own at LWLMedia.com…Part 1 and Part 2 were created the “old-fashioned” way of using proper video editing software… but this new service is faster and easier, and comes with cool effects, transitions and templates you can add automatically.As for where we host the videos we create from scratch, we like to use OurVideoHub… the “how to” info there is unsurpassed, too.

So if you missed them… here’s Part 1:

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Last night Barry and I went out for Valentine’s Day dinner.

We didn’t know where we were going to go, because by the time Barry called for reservations, everywhere was booked up (in a town of allegedly only 35,000 people — go figure!)

So we just dropped by one place that we’ve been to a few times before, and where we spent part of our New Year’s Eve too…

And wouldn’t you know it, we get the only table in town with hamsters painted on it!

This is interesting because one of the pet names that Barry calls me is Hamster… and because I gave him a silver necklace for Valentine’s Day that has a dog tag on it, engraved with a message — and part of that message is “Bear & Hamster”.

(Okay, I know these are probably supposed to be field mice and not hamsters… but they are truly the only ones in town, AND… come on, they look like hamsters!)

So not only did we manifest a nice dinner at a nice restaurant, with no reservations and when every restaurant was booked solid for weeks… but we also manifested it at a table with some symbolic meaning for us.

Never underestimate the power of thought… or what you might feel is a “coincidence”.

The word is synchronicty.

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A week ago, I was getting ready for LASIK surgery the next day. And I did it — something I had been wanting to do for a long time — but my eyes aren’t healing as quickly as normal, so as a result my vision is still a bit fuzzy. That’s why I haven’t blogged in a week, but I’ll post an update as soon as I’ve got my X-ray vision operating in full power!

In the meantime, it’s Valentine’s Day… and of course I have to write about that!

Love is the most powerful manifesting emotion there is. Love allows us to overcome all adversity, and wind up in a better, more secure, and happier place as a result.

And as you know, Valentine’s Day is all about love.

This morning Bear gave me a stuffed Monkster… Funny, I usually call him “Barry” when I write about him, but it’s always just “Bear” when we’re talking.

My latest nickname, Monkster, came about because if he was Bear, I needed a fuzzy animal name, and that became Hamster since it’s closest to Heather (and I love rodents)…

Then Hamster evolved into Monkster because I’m a Monkey (by Chinese Astrology, but also just because I get into mischeif)… but I’m still a Hamster too.

(Monkey + Hamster = Monkster)

And in looking for a stuffed Monkster, Bear found this little red guy…

The face is all monkey, but the head is pretty hamster-ish… and there’s no tail, so that’s more hamster than monkey too.

To seal the deal, he’s holding a heart that says “Our First Valentine”.

Cute, and appropriate!

Little tokens of love like this are great reminders of the bigger picture — and they allow you to conjure up those loving feelings that allow you to manifest more of what you desire.

Speaking of loving feelings… Bear just finished editing our second in a 2-part series of videos we call “Love Without Limits” (you can watch Part 1 by clicking here…)

And Part 2 by clicking the link below:

>>> CONTINUE READING Monksters, and Valentines, and Bears… Oh, My!…

What does February have to do with soul mates?

Okay, you probably already know the answer.

What about self-esteem?

Find out how the two tie together — and into February — on my latest blog post at LWL Worldwide.

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On Friday I wrote about a metaphorically “rainy” day in my life…

“Everyone wants happiness, no one wants pain, but you can’t make a rainbow without a little rain.”

So since you have to experience the downs before the ups — the rain before the rainbow — now, here’s the rainbow!

It’s a video that Barry made of just a bit of our life together… working, playing, loving and living (thanks to Lifehouse for the music that seems to fit so well!)

Everybody deserves a soul mate that can be their partner on this journey through life, whether it rains or shines.

If you’re looking for your own soul mate, you might also want to pay attention to the website at the end of the video… LoveUnwrapped.com

And now… Lights, Camera… Action!

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