An update to my MacBook story!

This entry is intended to be a real quick update to the past weeks unfolding events, in my story of the universe scheming and plotting to get me a MacBook Pro.

(I know that its only a matter of time until this laptop is in my hands)

Since last time, I've thought about the custom-made tablet Mac... and I would rather wait for the official touch-screen MacBook that Apple will create one day. Until then, I'll pay a lot less money for a lot better computer.

I've researched it, and the Pro MacBook is, although more expensive than the regular, is totally worth it. With the Pro, I can also play dx10 games, have faster firewire, a bigger screen, more ram, bigger hard drive, and other better features here and there. Essentially, I'll feel like its really my computer, and that I'm not sacrificing just because my mind says "but how?" pfft.

So, I was sitting the other day and thought "Oh! I should contact my friend who used to work at Apple, see what she has to say about this stuff."

Come to find out, she still works there now, and offered me her 15% employee discount on my purchase. Aint it nice to have friends?

Oh but it gets even better. I continue to enjoy the laptop and become grateful for it... ah, I feel it even now... and then I find out that I can get not just 15% off, but 25% off! I can get a "refreshed" laptop with 10% + 15%...

So what does that mean? It means I can pay 1500$ instead of 2000$ for a brand new MacBook Pro. Abooya.

Oh, and I decided to see what my current Mac fetches for on eBay. A whopping 800$+ (some above 1000$!)... so, yah... I think thats a great tradeoff. Great thing is, my laptop is going to be better than my desktop in every way!

Currently, I can sell my Mac for near 1000$, I can save 500$ on the laptop final price... now where is the last 500$ to seal the deal? Tune in next time to hear another amazing entry into the saga of me obtaining my MacBook Pro...

Very strange stories...

I've gotta share a few stories here that will boggle your mind... can you explain these?

Story #1:
OK, last night @ 3:20am, I got back to my room from my friend Johns place.

When I came in, I put my stuff down, went to the kitchen to get water. While at the fridge, I had a completely random flashback of being in highschool, freshman year, sitting in homeroom class, beside AJ Walker, watching TV, and seeing Creed singing "Higher". It was a moment I remember vividly.

About 5 minutes later, I return to my room, sit in my chair, and decide to get on the computer for a few minutes to wind down. I had a link open in firefox that I had kept open, the link was to a forum where a game was being played. Someone posts an image, then says a word. The next person posts an image of that previous word, then posts a word for the next guy, and so on.

I am looking for about 2-3 minutes, and I get to a post someone said "higher", and the next image is Creed.

Whaaat...

Story #2:
The other day, I was laying in bed looking out my window before sleep. I noticed the light right outside my window was shining so brightly, I couldn't hardly see out. I thought "it'd be nice to not have that light outside..."

The next night, the light wasn't shining, weird. I go outside to look, and the light had fallen, hanging only by a cord.

Story #3:
A couple nights ago, at Johns place, doin' a deep chat. The main topics we hit on were family and reading books. Family wise, we touched on how I want to reconnect with my family again. Books wise, we touched on the fact that I gotta practice reading more to enjoy it.

The very next day, morning actually, I got a call from my dad sharing some touching words with me "you are my mentor, my guide post." And shortly after, I was talking to one of my friends from my LoA facebook group, an author of a book on the LoA, and she offered me a copy of her book for free.

Family... and books...

Story #3:
Want another story? OK, last week, I was surfing StumbleUpon videos, and randomly came across a video about a Savant that had amazing memory abilities (check this video out), and later into the video the main guy went to meet the Savant that the movie "Rain Man" was based upon. Very interesting.

Later that night, I decided to watch some Derren Brown TV show "Mind Control", and towards the end of the show, he did a trick, and the girl said "Whoa, its like he's the Rain Man or something!?"

Oh, and then the next day my friend mentions the movie to me.

Story #4:
Last story, short one. The other night, I was sitting before bed, thinking about how I would like to study more about how to change my beliefs in a more systematic way...

And the very next morning, I woke up, and someone from my LoA group messaged me about his new product that helps to systematically change beliefs in yourself.

Story #5:
Wait wait, as an update I have another. This type of story happens so frequently, I'm almost over the novelty feeling....... noooo way, it still freaks me out.

I was walking on campus today, and I randomly had a thought of my friend Jennifer Bluffington, whom has a LoA group on Facebook like mine. I thought about how long it has been since we talked.

Then, a couple hours later, she sends out a message to all of her group members, which I haven't seen happen in a long time.

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If you want another story, check out the blog directly below this one, called "A developing LoA story!"

Other, more common, situations that occur is thinking about a person, or seeing their profile on Facebook after not seeing or talking to them for a while... and then within a week I see them on campus, when I NEVER do...

Oh, and I think its worth mentioning. All the above stories occurred within 1.5 weeks...

I cannot explain any of this at all... but stuff like this happens to me all the time! Sometimes, I wonder if its some type of latent psychic ability I have... other times I just think certain thoughts I have are shockwaves of a powerful manifestation about to occur... even other times I just think my mind has this very powerful ability to create my reality, but mostly on random things... maybe its packets of energy I have stored in my mind/body, and when I think about them, they burst into a manifestation instantly... I sometimes just think that it was "meant to be", I was supposed to experience that for some type of purpose or meaning in my life...

Whatever it is... I sure would like to be able to harness it. What do you think?

A developing LoA story!

Alright, I have a huge success story of the Law of Attraction to share here. Follow along with me:

A short back story... I have both a Mac and a PC. The other night, I was sitting at the computers, realizing how frustrating having both the PC and Mac desktops, in such a small living space. Additionally, the Mac is very stable, yet my PC is always always ALWAYS giving me problems. 2 nights ago, I was installing Leopard on the Mac, and on the PC I was "putting out fires" with the constant crashes I'm having. Back-and-forth frustration...

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As a technology aside: I realize that Mac is so superior to PC. Apple makes their own software, and in doing so, they make their own hardware precisely for the software they make. Yes, custom-made. Whereas PC is a culmination of many many manufacturers making hardware at industry standards to fit one another, and windows XP is simply an operating system that builds on top of these standards... and barely gets by in doing so.

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Custom made hardware and software by one company > problematic pieces trying to fit together by hundreds of companies
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So, anyway, as I sat looking at my computers with frustration, I said to myself "This has got to end." I also continued to think about, when I go abroad in a year, I cant take these desktops with me, they are too big and heavy... Man, I need a laptop...

Well, it just so happens that Apple makes MacBooks with the Intel CPU now, which means windows can run natively on them. Thats right, not that slow emulation crap, now Windows runs on a Mac like its a PC.

(13" MacBook running Leopard OSX on left, Windows XP on right)

So, I went to the apple site to look at the laptops they offer, just to feel good about having such an amazing opportunity possible to me. I really liked all of them, and mostly I enjoyed the 17" top-of-the-line model.

Then, instantly, I felt this negative, retracting feeling of, "I cant afford that. I might as well quit now..."

WHOA! Where did that come from??

Thats completely useless thinking. OK sure, I don't know how I could afford that yet ($1100 min), but it doesn't mean that I cant have it!

Of course, I know this by watching The Secret... but more importantly, by developing my own ideas on the law of attraction (LoA). It makes me cringe to think about using The Secret as an LoA bible... I think its useful watching/reading The Secret to spark ideas, but then you should delve into yourself to find the real answers to your own life.

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Self-discovered purpose, Self-created reality > Following one set standardized way of acting and believing in life. (Not straying from a 'bible' of a topic)
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So, after I assessed that negative thought of "I cant afford that laptop"... I dropped that useless feeling, and immediately I thought... "Hmm, I could just sit and appreciate it as it is now, and just enjoy having it in my lap, being free of all computer problems... forever."

(For those of you who haven't truly experienced an awakening like this, if you continue to practice the LoA and, more importantly, develop it within yourself for yourself (instead of sticking to the book as the unified way of how-to)... you'll experience this spontaneously.)


Immediately, once I started experiencing all this, I tapped into some deep feelings. I had done this before, so I knew how to do it without using my mind. For more information on removing your mind, reference my blog on "Presence".

I sat... soaking up feelings of appreciation, liberation, joy, excitement, gratitude, amazement, productivity, happiness... to use anymore words to describe it... will just be saying the same thing.

It was an intense feeling of WOW! I have it here, NOW!

When I say that... I literally felt like all my problems surrounding me literally melted away, and the answer was laying in my lap right now.

SO INTENSE!

OK, so I did this for at least 15-20 minutes... it felt timeless though...

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Now, as a philosophical aside, I want to address a discovery I have made. To those of you who have read/watched The Secret, you'll know that they often suggest "Sit and imagine you are in that brand new car right now. Feel happiness for having it. Appreciate having it. Change gears, hear the engine roaring, feel the wind through your hair."

The problem: I think its too easy to get caught up in the materialistic side of these imaginations. Enjoying "what you get from them" is what I mean by materialistic.

The solution: The exercise of imagining being in the car, itself, has the main goal of stirring up positive, gratitude-based emotions/feelings within yourself. In effect of sitting and imagining, you then begin to feel good. This is the "what you are because of it" side of things.

What I ultimately mean here is... instead of just sitting and imagining the car SO THAT you feel good, just use the exercise to stir up the positive emotions, and BE the good feeling itself.

For clarity sake, because this is very essential to my message here: When I sat, imagining the laptop in my lap, right now, feeling happy and grateful for it... I imagined enough to spark the feelings, and once they became a snow-ball rolling down a mountain of snow, I focused all my energies onto the emotion itself, and let go of the visions of the laptop.

Infact, I let go of all physical attachments to the laptop. Whether or not I had it, could have it, was going to have it, had enough money to get it, everything... dissolved. Now, I'm literally basking in the energy...

Feelings you get from focus > Materialistic gains of your thoughts.
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Back to the story!

A recap: So, I'm sitting here, feeling powerful emotions about the laptop.

Eventually, my day continued and it was time to move on to other things. I stored these feelings away with the idea of the laptop, so that all I had to do was think about the laptop and I would feel great!

This was about 2 days ago...

Now, this is where things get really crazy!

Last night, I was on my PC working on OneNote. I'm really into digital file organization, so OneNote serves a great purpose here for me. I felt the intense urge to search google for "better than onenote", so I did, and I found a few cool hits.

I followed a hit, then within that page, I followed a link to a Mac program called "Stickybrain", that claims to be better than onenote (or at least people reviewing it said this).

I went to its main website to check it out. I found out it was now called SOHO notes. So, I downloaded the trial, and went to my favorite Mac community to find more information about it.

In searching, there was this random thread in the search results. Nothing about this search result could ever logically seem connected to what was about to happen...

But I clicked it anyway.

I scrolled down, reading along the way...

Eventually, I saw the mention of SOHO notes, and kept reading...

At this point, I could have just closed the browser and moved on from here, to starting to use the program...

... but something kept me scrolling down this forum.

Then... I stumbled upon a message that said "Man, it would be great to have a mac tablet laptop..." This guy was clearly just dreaming out loud.

And in response to this message, the next person posted a link to an amazing discovery...

(13" MacBook, modded to have tablet-PC-esque features)

This is an amazing development in technology. For some reason, Apple doesn't make tablet Mac's officially... yet. Until then, this company, Axiotron, mods current MacBooks to emulate the features of a tablet PC, on a Mac.

As soon as I saw it, I felt the intense rush of energy like I did from 2 nights ago... WHOA!

You mean I can have both a tablet PC and a tablet Mac, in one small package?! This is what my dreams are made of!

Oh, not to mention I just found my new favorite digital-note-organizer program to go along with it...

And Leopard just came out, which makes this even more possible...
And it just so happens I need a tablet computer to take all of my notes on, to go...
And that this solves all of my computer problems...
And I can take this with me abroad...

Need I continue? 'Cuz I can definitely make the list bigger... You sure? Alright then.

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Thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed my story thus far. Ah, but this is not the end! I will be updating the status of this story as breakthroughs occur... and they will, so stay tuned!