Feel the need to write a post today. Firstly since I’m still up (twelve days and counting – a record considering my rapid cycling over the past few months) and secondly because if I don’t post something you might disappear and never come back. And that would be a shame.

I see from my logs that more people are reading, and also, funnily enough that I make more money if you click an ad on this site than you do if you click an ad over at my other site, RoomEasy. Thank you to the mystery visitor who clicked the other day and added 10p to my account. I figured I should be creating more controversial content: so here goes.

How about some ‘Universal Law of Attraction’ stuff. You have probably heard of ‘The Secret’. I’ve known of the DVD for sometime, and now the book is available. No doubt the ads will show a link or two so I won’t bother with my own. I flicked through it in Tesco’s a couple of weeks ago. I quickly found one of the experts summing the whole book up by saying that it was essentially ‘The Law of Attraction.’ Nothing new here then. Just a different wrapper. I’m not condoning it. I’m all for recycling. Actually, I happen to believe in it myself.

‘Cosmic Ordering’ takes it one stage further. The Universal Law of Attraction states that you attract into your life whatever you think about wether you want it or not. So if you want something, why not go ahead and place an order for it? You’ll get it. Providing of course you actually believe you are going to get it. Ordering something and then saying to yourself you won’t get it is the same as ordering not to receive it. In essence, you will get what you order, and if your belief of not getting it is stronger than your belief of getting it, then you will not get it, thus giving you what you ordered, the negative not the positive. Basically proving itself. Since you are asking for it not to work, it doesn’t, which basically means it does. Get it?

OK so I’ve blown your mind. Good. Gotta make you think now and again. An example, then. Real life. My life…

I placed an order with the universe couple of weeks ago. It was a small order and actually part of a much larger one. I couldn’t order the biggie since I wanted to prove this stuff works and then use what I asked for in the small order to facilitate the big one, if you see what I mean. Sort of like walking before you can run. Also about confidence too. If you place, believe in and get the small order, then you’ll have the confidence to order bigger things, without resorting to the disbelief. Have I lost you yet?

My order? Well I ordered a pound coin. “Dear Universe,” I said with utter sincerity. “Please can I find a pound coin on the pavement.” Now, I’m not religious in any way, shape or form, but I suppose this must be akin to praying. You see, I’d been asking to find money since the beginning of June. No specific amount, mind you. I have found a few odd coins here and there. A penny, a 2p, and in the shower in hospital at the beginning of July a five pence piece. Rich has found a 5p and 2p, and today another 2p. A total of 17p. The truth is, although I longed to find a 10p or 20p or even a 50 pence piece, I sort of knew I wouldn’t. It was almost as if I was limiting myself to small denominations. What I soon realised is, a coin is a coin, and its denomination is not relevant unless you think it is.

Anyway, fed up with my 5p maximum I decided to blow the budget and ask for, at that time in my thinking, the impossible. At first it was just out of curiosity, and then I decided I really was going to test this cosmic ordering stuff. I set about coming up with a plan. A simple plan for the universe to work on for me. But first, in order to build my confidence in it, to walk before I could run, so to speak, I ordered it to deliver me a one pound coin. After all, a coin is a coin, and a one pound coin is a hundred times better than one penny coin.

The following day I kept thinking about the £1 coin, and I admit, I broke the golden rule. I kept looking for it. Kept thinking that I would find it by looking for it, in a sense, not trusting that the universe would deliver it for me. I’m much better at this now since my confidence in this phenomenon has improved greatly. It takes practice. I kept scouring the pavement, looking longingly. Of course I never found it. The more I looked the more I said to myself: This is hopeless. Who is going to lose a £1 coin? I’ll never find one.

And then I stopped myself. I realised I was asking not to find one. I was contradicting my original order and now asking not to find one. Since I was believing that I wouldn’t find one, I was, exactly as the universal law of attraction states, getting what I was thinking about regardless of whether I wanted it or not. Basically I was getting the result of not finding the a pound coin since I believed I wouldn’t. And if the universal law was working that way, which it so obviously was, then I saw at that point no reason why it shouldn’t give me what I really wanted.

Eventually, after a few frantic and frustrating days, I vowed to trust the universe, accept that it would deliver my order in its own good time and spent the next few days, deliberately not looking and instead concentrating on what exactly I was going to do with the coin when I found it.

Any d’you know what happened? After a few days, I completely forgot all about my order for the pound coin…

Until yesterday. I was walking to the bank to pay a cheque in for Richard. As I passed a hardware store in the middle of the village there on the pavement directly in front of me shining it’s little heart out in the sunshine, not more than a couple of feet from a young shop assistant busy arranging the wares on the pavement was a lovely £1 coin. Naturally, I picked it up and quietly thanked the universe.

OK, by now, you are probably in one of three camps:

1) You don’t believe any of this stuff, my finding the £1 coin was simply coincidence; an apparently chance or unlikely event which creates an unexpected and significant situation. Any other explanation spoils your world view. That’s OK I respect your view, but to be honest, you probably won’t get much out of my blog, so I’d go and read something else if I were you.

2) You normally wouldn’t believe me, but are curious, and you are happy to see things from a different perspective. You may even give it go, ask the universe for a penny, believe it will give you one, and then see if one pops up out of the blue. That’s great, welcome aboard. Think about finding a penny on the pavement. Don’t look for it, you won’t find it. Just think about the penny, not the ‘how’, ‘when’ or ‘where’, or even the ‘why’ for that matter. Suddenly in the not too distant future a penny will appear. Pick it up and say thank you. I’ve deliberately chosen a penny since, in your mind, a penny isn’t much and therefore finding one shouldn’t be too difficult. You will think it much less likely to find a pound coin, and as such wouldn’t be able to believe in it enough. Start with a penny and when you mysteriously quite by chance come across one (notice I said ‘when’ and not ‘if’) pick it up and thank the universe. Start a collection. The more you think about them, the more they will pop up all over the place. Then like me you can move on to bigger things. (Like parking spaces!)

or 3) You know exactly what I’m talking about and want to know what will happen next. Well I’ll keep you posted. You see, finding that pound coin has given me a huge boost of confidence so now I’m ordering something bigger…