For most of my adult like I have been an avid student of whatever lessons life had to teach. But more recently, I have taken an ever more active stance towards, self empowerment. I spend a part of each day reading and learning from leaders in the field of personal growth.
I am always looking for evidence of the things that I have learned and made a part of my life. An example presented itself recently that I will be sharing here.
In The Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace Wattles, a concept was introduced that says you should be grateful for the things that you are working towards, even before you achieve the results. Have faith that they will come to you and be thankful for them.
To a logical reasoning person that may seem strange, and it should. Faith is not logical. For a time, I had some trouble with this concept. However, I decided to put my thoughts on the matter aside until I had given it a chance. And over time I have seen that having that faith and gratitude made easy many circumstances that had been difficult before. Resistances seemed to melt away and results appeared where none had been before. Doorways which before were closed and locked seemed to open on their own. So I made this way of being a part of my way of being.
It was also stated that you should not get upset at your failures. If you have faith that the things you are working towards will happen and are grateful for them, even before you receive them, any seeming failure will only be temporary and a thing much greater than that which you were working towards will be the eventual result.
Again, I was skeptical of this, but open minded and in the past few months there have been a couple of large examples of this, both involving our home. First, we knew that Bank of America was charging us way too much for lender placed insurance and we wanted to fix that. But when we called our own insurance company there were numerous delays and obstacles preventing us from getting the insurance handled. For months we were getting nowhere. Then this principle of faith and gratitude was applied and headway began to occur.
Several times though, when it seemed like we might be at the end of the process, something would come up and halt our progress. It seemed almost as though some force were actively working to prevent what we were working towards.
Initially we were expecting to pay about $5,000 per year for our insurance and every cent out of our pocket. After multiple obstacles came up to drag things out over time, what actually ended up happening is we paid $3,500. Also, BOA had recently sold our home to another mortgage company and cancelled our insurance. The escrow had not been adjusted after the sale. So money for insurance was going into it every month but not coming out of it. Due to the exact timing of things there was enough money in the escrow so that we did not have to pay a cent up front.
The second example of this is that we have for a long time also known that BOA was treating us unfairly and unethically. We wanted to find a way to sue them for our home note. We did some research and found that it was possible and even likely that we would win if we sued them.
So, we got a lawyer and began the process. At first things seemed to be going well. Then another lawyer took over our case and it began to look like all the problems we had been having with our insurance were magically being applied to this instead. The new lawyer has been difficult to contact. He almost never has any useful information and just recently told us he does not have any of the dozens of documents that we sent.
Just yesterday, I was talking with one of my roommates and saying how I wasn't going to get upset about this and that things are taking exactly as long as they need to take in order to get the results we want. By moving on with faith and gratitude, accepting and believing in the eventual result we received some good news today.
The first lawyer called us to do a follow up and see how things are going. When she heard that we had paid more than twice the retainer that she had told us he was going to charge and that in the past several months no progress at all has been made, that he has in fact not even started to work on our case, she took our case back. Someone else in her office will be taking it over and not charging us, as her way of compensating for the treatment we have received from the lawyer she advised us to work with.
So,unlike many, I didn't jump on board and just accept this faith and gratitude concept right away. I tested it with an open mind and found it to be true and very powerful. I encourage you to make it a part of your life as well.
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