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A great gift for yourself or someone else, March 31, 2001
The author also wrote Put Your Heart On Paper and Writing On Both Sides of The Brain. Saw the book and picked it up because in looking thru it I saw straight forward, easy to read suggestions that I could actually use.
There are 20 Chapters which cover everything from Knowing what you want and setting goals, Gathering ideas and suggestions, Being prepared to receive what you seek, Getting unstuck, Changing ones environment, what Resistance means, Letting go and creating balance, Giving thanks and Handling a breakdown, on to Raising the bar and really going for the gold in our goals and dreams. She challenges the reader to think BIG. On page 26 she lists questions we need to ask ourselves i.e. Can I have more than on goal? On page 33 she reminds the reader that writing down our dreams is like a message we send to our brain that we are ready or as she says "Open for business." On page 53 she suggests a Tidbit Journal where we simply jot down ideas and thoughts that come to mind as we go about our daily life. This is really helpful as is her overall suggestions about journals or diaries, since we can often read what we wrote a week, month even a year ago and some gem of wisdom will jump out at us or we will simply be reminded that we are making progress and succeeding. She is also wise because she drives home the point that we have to make the effort and NOT give up. This was really important to me because I had begun to get really depressed and wanted to give up, until reading her words about not allowing the negative to defeat me. Using my computer I also took her suggestion but changed it a bit, and made a File where everyday I try to write a letter to God or Self and state what I seek need want and desire. It is like a private conversation. This has really helped me focus better. I think my friend Mark must have read her book as well because he shared with me that he writes a letter to God everyday as well, rather than pray. This may be an odd notation, but I also loved the fact that the books cover has a fountain pen writing the words "knowing what you want and getting it." I find using a nice fountain pen and keeping a journal is a soothing and classical gift I give myself. In fact I would suggest that this book would make a GREAT gift along with a nice fountain pen for a Graduate or anyone seeking a positive change in their life. Now I wanted to share some more of how she helped me focus and obtain some desires and needs. Bought a new Marjolein Bastin journal on April 2-01 after reading Write it Down, Make it Happen: Knowing What You Want and Getting It! by Henriette Anne Klauser. So here is what I wrote: We want and need a small two bedroom cottage with hardwood floors, lots of windows, near a lake, river, creek or ocean. With fruit trees and an area for a big garden as well as chickens and maybe some goats. With good water pressure, two phone lines and cable. And a lilac bush, and shade trees. All at a good price we can afford. Six months to the day we got a call from our friend Cindy up in the Mother Lode (Sierras of CA) telling us that her neighbor a real estate lady had a colleague who had a woman friend who had a cottage that she wanted to know if we would like to look at. The woman wanted to move to Mexico and was looking to "unload" the cottage fast. We said we would love to look at it and within a few days we drove up, saw it and said yes. And it has ALL the things we were focusing on when I wrote in my journal what we wanted. So we moved in 11-01 and in March of 2001 we spoke of how we really needed a better car, since the one we had would overheat when we drove and it was an older '87 car, and one we still own and love. November we got some unexpected funds and were able to buy a brand new Toyota and paid for it in full. Lest you think this is all about Give Me, Give Me, Give Me, it isn't that at all. Simply have with the aid of this book, been able to rid myself of the fear of want or the fear I am not going to find what we need. NEED is the key word. It isn't about wanting more "stuff" than someone else. It is all about learning how to focus and really know what one wants. In knowing this our real needs become known and the process begins to take shape. It also has opened me up to being more generous with all I have, so that others are blessed as well. You cannot keep the blessings that come to you, just for yourself and this is something the book tries to share. And yes I still keep a journal and re-read Write It Down and Make It Happen over and over a lot and still glean wisdom galore!
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111 of 118 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Powerful book, February 1, 2001
This is an excellent book that motivates you to examine what you want from life. Each chapter ends with an assignment that helps you formalize your ideas. Her thought is, not only do we motivate ourselves and our subconscious by writing our thoughts and plans and dreams down, but in turn the energy of the outside world becomes more focused for us as well. I really do believe this. I haven't done all of the assignments yet, but I intend to. Ironically some of the examples and assignments she suggests, I have done in ignorance of this book and the results are just what she predicted, so I know it works. What I particularly like is that this book is not a "Rah, Rah", happy yuppie book, like some of the ones out there but a more thoughtful approach for a person to carve out the life they want. This could work for many walks of life and is just not applicable for the middle to upper class income. We all have dreams, when we put them on paper we are quite a bit closer to realizing them they we ever thought. The table of contents is below so you have an idea what is covered. Introduction Write it down make it happen Knowing what you want: Setting Goals Gathering ideas: A suggestion box for the brain Getting ready to receive Addressing Fears and Feelings Getting Unstuck: Writing through to resolution Doing it easy: Listing Focusing on the Outcome Changing your Environment: Get near water to write Scripting your daily life Becomming Committed Stacking Goals: Raising the Bar Starting a Group: What by When Taking the Initiative Writing letters to God Resistance has Meaning Creating a Ritual Letting Go, Creating Balance Giving Thanks Handling Breakdown Epilogue Thanks and ever thanks Bibliography About the Author
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62 of 66 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book for your library, June 17, 2001
This review is from: Write It Down, Make It Happen: Knowing What You Want And Getting It (Paperback)
This is a very well written book, with many thoughts/exercises that prove much thought and action on your part to move you forward on your goals. Here is one specific exert that I found was incredible. "Writing about the outcome helps you to stay focused, even when you're not focused - or think you're not. The written word keeps the image steady, unwavering, like a lighthouse beam, steady on. It keeps the goal, the intended consequence in mind. When you focus on the outcome, write in the present tense, as though you were describing something that is already happening. It call it "writing as reality". Be sure to date your description, because when you read it back later, you will have an eerie sense that you wrote it after it took place rather than before. Now dig deeper. Not just the outcome, but the outcome of the outcome. Don't just write about what you want, but include why you want it. Why does it make a difference whether you have this or not? And then keep going deeper - why do you want that? And then deeper still, the outcome of that second outcome and so forth, until you hit the core of it." Very good book for going deep within yourself for the answers that you already have.
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