Well, like everyone else I guess, I did lose my cloud at some point although I couldn't cite a specific event or time when that happened.   And since I didn't know how I created the feeling of my silver cloud in the first place, I couldn't resurrect it.   As a result, over the course of my life I have gone through years of turbulence and years of elation never once analyzing why I was having good times or bad times but simply accepting that every life has its ups and downs. 

When The Secret was released my daughter told me about it and sent me the online link to the video.  I was all over it.  I found myself saying aloud, "I knew that!" more times than I can count.   I watched the video over and over and over and tried to absorb every instruction offered to make feeling good and its corresponding gift of abundance come alive for me.  With limited success.

Once again my daughter arrived as the messenger of how to bring back my long lost silver cloud, although I received the key long before I actually inserted it into the lock .  She gave me Excuse Me Your Life is Waiting for Christmas in 2005, which pre-dated The Secret.  I read it shortly after receiving it but, as the expression goes, it went in one ear and out the other.

A few weeks ago, when I was once again feeling adrift, I picked up the book and re-read it.  This time I really read it.  I took out a yellow hi-liter and underlined sentences and passages that made, for the first time, understanding how to use the Law of Attraction so simple and straight forward. 

I already had a vision board (that feeling tool isn't mentioned in this book but it is discussed in The Secret) and I cleaned that up and made it reflective of what I really want (not what I wanted to say I wanted) a month or so ago.  After reading the book this time I coupled my list of wants with my vision board and every day I have been following Lynn's advice and spending time re-writing my list of wants and spending even more time feeling the feelings of having those wants fulfilled. 

Lynn reminds us to listen and pay attention to signs that our wants are in progress as the universe finds just the right way to fullfill them.

I have had some successes big and small already and that makes me feel good which, of course, will only continue to bring more successes. 

One of my wants was to reconnect with or enlarge my list of "interesting" friends who stretch me to see things in new ways.  My life has changed dramatically over the years and the accumulation of friends I've made along the way don't all fit into my current state.  As an example, when I was a pretty high up muckety muck in the corporate world wearing silk suits and talking about raises and bonuses and staying at the job that I hated because it paid a pretty penny, I surrounded myself with friends who were all in the same soup.  Lots of those friends are still there but they don't fit into my world now.   I am not interested in what they are interested in and it is time to move on.  However, I want friends.  I want a group of friends that I want to be around a lot because they are so interesting to me in the life I am currently living.   

I have been focusing on that want and have been feeling the feelings of having that want fulfilled.  I often visualize myself at the modern day equivalent of the Algonquin Round Table.  Seeing me there with my group of vibrant friends makes me smile and feel so good. 

The universe has responded to that want already.  Two days ago I got an email from one very witty, smart, so-fun-to-be-around friend I hadn't heard from for seven years.  The email said "You know how I tend to go under the radar and then reappear?  I am reappearing."  I shouted "woohoo" when I read that.  

Another want was fulfilled this morning.   For a long time I have hated our coffee maker and questioned if I was in my right mind the day I bought it.  About a week ago, without conscious effort, I saw the coffee maker differently.  I saw it being replaced with something very pleasing to look at.  This morning the coffee maker simply died.  It refused to cough up one last pot for old time's sake and I will be out the door shortly to replace it with something that makes me feel happy when I look at it.  

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Absolutely!  In fact this very week two of my friends are receiving it as a gift from me.  Another person very near and dear to me is carrying my copy of the book around with him right now as he learns how to change his thinking from dark and scary to bright and happy.  

The book isn't for everyone though.   In fact, I am sure that there are people thinking I have totally gone off the deep end with my devotion to practicing attraction.  Different viewpoints are what make the world go round and I will honor your right to scoff but I will not be swayed to change my ways as long as I am fulfilling my wants and happily living my life.  If you are not doing the same, allow me to suggest that you give Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting a go.  Couldn't hurt.