Write It Down, Make It Happen by Henriette Klauser
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- Knowing what you want—and getting it
- Introduction
- If you know what you want, you can have it
- Setting your intent, focusing on the outcome, being clear about what you want in life can make your dreams come true
- The first step is to write down your goal
- Write first, then polish your words, rather than doing both at the same time
- The only rule is date whatever you write down
- Good things happen and life is a narrative you have a hand in writing
- Chapter 1: Write it down, make it happen
- Compose your own list of goals
- “One of the saddest lines in the world is ‘oh, come now, be realistic’” - Richard Bolles
- Money is no object, and time is not a factor
- Chapter 2: Knowing what you want
- “Your playing small does not serve the world, who are you not to be great?” - Nelson Mandela
- Chapter 3: Gathering ideas
- Gather your ideas immediately as they come to you
- Having a place to record your impressions keeps all of your senses alert
- “It’s not a question of getting the opportunities. It’s a question it noticing that opportunities are there.” - John Sexton
- Leadership depends on spelling out for others the opportunities that are there, and on asking the questions
- The job of the leader is to force the community to ask the right questions
- Compliments are like money in the bank. They both give you a sense of security and they build up your nest egg you can draw upon in times of need
- Chapter 4: Getting Ready to Receive
- “There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it.” - Napoleon Hill
- “No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief, no mere hope or wish.” - Napoleon Hill
- If you know what you want you can have it
- Chapter 5: Addressing Fears and Feelings
- At any point in your life, you can decide to act one way in spite of feeling urging you to go in the other direction
- Chapter 6: Getting unstuck: writing through the resolution
- Keep on writing. The best stuff, the aha, is often right past where you think you have run out of ideas or solutions
- Chapter 7: Doing it easy: listing
- A short and simple list of items, as specific as possible, will clarify your intentions as surely as an elaborate description
- Chapter 8: Focusing on the outcome
- We need to have faith that we will reach our goals; to bolster faith when it flags, write it down as a reality
- Don’t just write about what you want. Write about why you want it
- The more you concentrate on the effects your goal will have, in your life and in the world, the more dedicated you can be in your mission to achieve it
- Chapter 9: Changing your environment: get near water to write
- Chapter 10: Scripting your daily life
- I write out how I want to approach my life that day
- I monitor and observe my thoughts, directing them whenever possible
- I talk less and listen more now, allowing my actions to speak louder than words
- I treat every person I meet as the most important person in the world
- I feel the power of the universe flowing through me now. People love to give me love and money
- Every dollar I spend enriched the universe and returns to me multiplied
- Guilt is in the past
- Having the intention makes things more likely to happen
- Chapter 11: Becoming committed
- The first step of commitment is to be willing to write down what you want
- “Leap, and the net will appear.” - Julia Cameron
- Chapter 12: Stacking goals: raising the bar
- What does the computer think you asked it to do?
- Chapter 13: Starting a group: what by when
- What will you do by when?
- These things take time
- Chapter 14: Taking the initiative
- You can’t have what you want until you know what it is
- Chapter 15: Writing Letters to God
- Chapter 16: Resistance has meaning
- What is it about you that resists taking this next step?
- Chapter 17: Creating a Ritual
- What do you want in and out of your life?
- It’s not the particulars, it’s the motive that matters
- Chapter 18: Letting go, creating balance
- The Native-American tradition included not only asking for what you want of life, but also relinquishing what you do not want, what you are ready to give up
- Becoming a master means willingness to let go of whatever isn’t working in your life. Letting go of the familiar is hard
- Sometimes the thing we need to let go of is the very thing we want
- Chapter 19: Give thanks
- If you have a dream, follow it. If you catch a dream, nurture it. If your dream comes true, celebrate
- Why should God give you more if you are not grateful for what you have?
- Make the world a more pleasant place one thank you note at a time
- When you remember to say thanks, when you live your life in a spirit of gratefulness, life will present you with even more things for which to be grateful
- Chapter 20: Handling breakdown
- I guess I need a little more patience
- “One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.” - Napoleon Hill
- Chaos often comes close to completion
- All you need to do is keep on walking—and keep on writing it down to make it happen
- Epilogue
- Henriette Anne Klauser, Ph.D Writing resources
P.O. Box 1555
Edmonds, WA 98020
- Henriette@aol.com
- Www.HenrietteKlauser.com