Are you a writer? Well then, get ready for a new Game!

Update – October 18, 2011

I’ve been a member of SharedReviews.com for going on four (4) years,  and I’m

Changing the game of writing for writers and their audiences

really looking forward to the opening of a new program they will be offering. in April of 2010.   The site is currently undergoing a major revamp and is targeted to re-open to the community and new members sometime within the next month or so (end of Oct, beginning Nov, 2011).  It is presently open to the public in limited format so I highly recommend you visit  to get a taste of some of the things to come.

If you aren’t presently a member, I’d recommend that you sign up with them if you are interested in applying for a position with their new Bounties writing service.  you are going to want to check things out when the new site launches.  It is going to be AWESOME!!!

Why Join Shared Reviews?

First, it’s free!  Second, you will be an   as a consumer can have your say about products that you use and provide others with your insights on whether or not the manufacturers are living up to their claims.  Products that break, don’t perform as advertised or are just not worth the money are also an important part of the Shared Reviews  community.  That in itself is a huge plus!  No where else on the Internet will you find a more caring group of like-minded individuals willing to assist you and encourage you to be the best writer you can be.

Many consumers as well as members of SR check the reviews on Shared Reviews before going shopping for the products they are interested in.  With a reputation for quality reviews and opinions that can be depended upon to make your next purchase with confidence, check out SharedReviews.com or better yet why not join our great community!

The changes taking place are so original to the writing community, the owners of Shared Reviews have worked non-stop to put all the elements together, re-coding the way authors and the public will interact on the site,  with one another, their readers, and  internet traffic in general.  This is going to be a unique platform that offers writers a unique avenue and possibly,  more far-reaching awareness of your work.  You can still earn money but the ways in which you are able to do that, will be offered in refreshing and no doubt, addictive inducing, ways.

As soon as the new site is ready for visitors and new members, I’ll update here, including of course, many other reasons  to check things out for yourself.

Stay tuned!

Lex

Can you really manifest your desires with a box?

Here we are again although not quite as on time as I expected to be.  Life caught up with me, the internet was inaccessible for a few days while we set up a server and transferred the data to it so I had no access to files that I use for the net.  Just get that straightened out a dental issue had to be taken care of for my son so that turned into taking more than one child to the dentist to ensure cleaning got done too.  A big bill later which included two being sent to a dental surgeon in order to get estimates for wisdom teeth extraction…and then this morning I was called and given the news that my mother had passed away last evening.  She had been ill with pneumonia but had also suffered a broken hip and leg when she’d fallen recently.  So, it was sudden but she was a born again Christian and never feared death.  I’ve always had a tendency to believe in the fact that when someone of an elderly age passes away, it is a time to remember them with a smile and rather than being  grief stricken instead look upon their passing as their journey “home” where they are whole again, without pain or afflictions.  I also believe that my mother has already met up with the many relatives who have gone before her and she’s now chatting up a storm with them.  She outlived all of her immediate family and lived to an older age (78) than any of them had with most of them having passed away in their 50’s or 60’s.  So, I am doing fine with her death because I know that she is now with many, many loved ones.

Enough about the events in my life

It’s on to the topic, manifesting!!  I’ve been having a great deal of fun with this manifest tracking I’ve been doing and I have to say that when you pay attention to things around you and the thoughts you put out there, it’s pretty interesting how things come to you, sometimes pretty quickly, often as quickly as a second or two!  I ran across an interesting suggestion a few weeks back regarding a box, paper and belief.  I decided that I’d check this method out to determine if you can really manifest your desires using a box, a pen (pencil) and paper and your desires and if so, how well  it works?

I mentioned in my  last post that I was going to introduce a Manifestation Box for the month of March.  Finally, it’s here.  The images of the box I am using are shown here and also the two pads, a larger one and a smaller one (large one is for those intentions that take a bit to explain thoroughly while the smaller notebook is for the briefer one…yes, I really can be  brief believe it or not.)

For my box I simply went to Micheal’s Craft Store and picked up a box that was on sale…it had wording on it that works well with manifesting and it looks pretty nice too.  For your box, as I said before, it can be anything really…whatever you decide and whatever you wish to use.  The box I chose is just a guideline so I recommend that you go with a box that means something to you or is one that holds special meaning or seems to “speak” to you.

Manifesting box and supplies

Next, I picked up some note paper, again from Micheal’s (the longer pad) and it cost about $1.50.  I chose (from the limited selection) the one that seemed to please me the most. It has a saying on it as well about believing.  The smaller pad compliments the larger one and they both seem to go nicely with the box.  (I’m all about coordinating I guess.)

Next, because my box doesn’t have a locking mechanism or anything, I wanted to ensure that NOBODY including myself, snoops inside the box once I’ve placed my requests inside it.  So I decided to adorn the box with some ribbon (a personal choice and n0t necessary). Just wrapping the ribbon around the box one way the crossing the ribbon over and wrapping it around the other sides of the box finishing with a bow.

The Process

Although I’ve gone over this in my previous post (last week), I’ll put the info here again just so you don’t have to wander around 🙂

• Gather yourself up a box, any kind of box is fine but I’d suggest one that has some kind of “draw” for you…in other words one that you  feel is a good one to house your intentions inside and that might give you a little added confidence that this process can and will work for you.
• Next, decide whether or not you wish to create a “vision board” inside or outside the box by pasting or decoupaging various images that you have gathered from magazines, books, online etc., that depict your goals.  This isn’t necessary but it may assist you in being more specific with your notes.
• Choose your note paper, nothing huge as it needs to be folded and placed inside the box along with several other notes  perhaps (depends on how many intentions you wish to include).  This paper can be colorful, inspiring, include a favorite image or words, etc.  Or it can simply be lined notebook paper…you decide.
• After you have your box and paper, you might also wish to choose a pen that is used solely for the purpose of writing down your goals (intentions).  Again, this is really up to you but I’d suggest choosing a pen that is comfortable to write with and in an ink color that you enjoy using.
• Finally…sit down quietly and contemplate exactly what you would like to achieve/receive.  Work on one thing at a time and be very precise and specific.  Write your goal/intention as though you were going to hand this note over to someone who would be responsible for carrying out the steps necessary for your intention or goal to become a reality.  Also, once the note is written and placed in the box…you won’t go back and change it…consider the note already passed to the person who will carry out the intention/goal and you are no longer able to communicate with them, or them with you.
• After writing the note in a way that you are confident someone else reading it could easily carry out the work necessary to bring about the intention, fold it into a square as small as necessary to fit into the box (my paper is folded in half  then in half again)  but don’t place it inside the box just yet.  Set it aside, again in a quiet place to leave it undisturbed and then walk away from it for about  8-12 hours.  Then return to the note, re-read it,  change what might be necessary or add to it to make it more specific.  When you are satisfied place the folded note  into the box, close the lid, place the box in an area of your home where it won’t be disturbed and then go about your business. If your intentions are related to money, career, family, etc., I’ll be providing some information on how to go about making those intentions more powerful in another post.
• As you move through your week attempt to make note mentally (or by jotting them down or better yet recording them if your cell has an app for this or you have a voice recorder small enough to carry with you) those things happening that you believe are helping moving you closer toward your goal.  As they happen give thanks for their appearance as soon as you notice them.  Continue this process for a week (7 days) and then visit your box and review your notes.  Remove any notes that have come to pass noting on the reverse side of the note what came toward you and if possible when things manifested.  The notes that match the manifestations that have taken place could be kept filed away if you’d like and collected over the year.  It would be sort of fun to see the amount of progress made since starting this process wouldn’t it? Notes that have not yet been fulfilled are once again returned to the box.
• Continue this process (I recommend no more than 4 notes per week but you can have as few or as many as you believe is right for you) and remove the notes that have come to pass (your desire has been received)  replacing them by the procedure indicated in the steps above with new notes but always keeping 4 notes in the box at all times unless you’ve decided on fewer or more.

That’s about it.  As I mentioned, in another post I’ll be providing additional information that can offer you additional assistance in achieving your intentions.  Whether or not you choose to implement them is totally up to you.

I began my manifesting box later than I had wanted to, this past Sunday (Mar 7),  so I’ll report on my progress the following Monday.

Good luck with your manifesting  and perhaps you’d like to share your results with me.  Comments are always welcome.

Enjoy the remainder of your week…catch you again on Monday.

Take care,

Lex

Ok I’m not very good with my HTC Magic…

…and thus the reason that my Manifesting Box post seems to have taken far longer to get up here than it should.  My youngest changes her phone like she changes …er..you know…anyway, I often get the one she no longer wants.  This change over happens every few months or so with the last change over taking place only 2 days after she obtained a Blackberry Bold.  She didn’t like the keyboard so exchanged it for a Blackberry Storm.  Believe it or not, she’s actually happy with it (yay!).  Long story short, at the same time she was doing all this changing, I was able to obtain a new HTC Magic…my very first never touched before by family hands…phone!  So, enter learning curve.  All was great, no big deal as I’d had an HTC Dream prior to this one.  Until it came to downloading my images!

Everybody’s Busy

In a family as large as ours you’d think I could find someone who wasn’t “busy”, but alas, this was not the case. Worse than that was the fact that only one of my children (the oldest) knows anything about the HTC’s.  Finally, we actually met up in the kitchen and I nabbed him to show me how to work the transfer between phone and computer because for whatever reason I just wasn’t getting it!

Color me slow

I’m a geek when it comes to computers…if I don’t know how to do something I find out and I more often than not, succeed at whatever it is I need done.  Heck, people come to ME for help.  Enter my HTC Magic…transferring files from my phone to my computer…just seemed a little too complicated.  Until my son showed me how.  If I had a RED emoticon to use, it would appear HERE!  Select,  drag and drop!  That’s it.  I can’t believe I failed to even think of that especially since that’s the only way I work with files on my computer!  Lesson – as with computers, always consider the simplest solution first!

Images on their way

Now that I have confessed, I’ll just mention that the post regarding the manifesting box is on its way!  Not sure what the interest is in this at the moment but whether there’s interest or not, I figure at some point someone will traverse to this blog and discover it and never know, the posts here just might help to encourage others to give these things a try.  Imagine if they changed lives?  That’s one reason I am never afraid to try something … you just never know how amazing a new idea, skill or challenge will be unless you give it a go!  At the very least you learn when something isn’t for you…and at the best end of the scale, you’ve enhanced your life and perhaps even changed it in amazing ways!

Ok, enough chat…on to getting the Manifesting box post up and out!

Take care and for anyone who was waiting for it…thanks for your patience!

Lex