Pam Grout - Thank & Grow Rich : A 30-Day Experiment In Shameless Gratitude And Unabashed Joy

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Living Big: Embrace Your Passion and Leap into an Extraordinary Life

Kansas Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

Colorado Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

Girlfriend Getaways: You Go Girl! And Ill Go, Too

You Know Youre in Kansas When: 101 Quintessential Places, People, Events, Customs, Lingo, and Eats of the Sunflower State

Recycle This Book: And 72 Even Better Ways to Save Yo Momma Earth

God Doesnt Have Bad Hair Days: Ten Spiritual Experiments That Will Bring More Abundance, Joy, and Love to Your Life

The 100 Best Vacations to Enrich Your Life

The 100 Best Worldwide Vacations to Enrich Your Life

The 100 Best Volunteer Vacations to Enrich Your Life

E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality (also available as an audio book)*

E-Cubed: Nine More Energy Experiments That Prove Manifesting Magic and Miracles Is Your Full-Time Gig
(also available as an audio book)*

Card Deck

The Oracle of E: A 52-card Deck and Guidebook to Manifest Your Dreams (with Colette Baron-Reid)*

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Copyright 2016 by Pam Grout

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Tradepaper ISBN: 978-1-4019-4984-6

Digital ISBN: 978-1-4019-4985-3

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1st edition, August 2016

Printed in the United States of America

This book is for everyone who hears the dog whistle.

You know who you are.

CONTENTS

It is a sign of mediocrity to demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

ROBERTO BENIGNI, ACTOR, SCREENWRITER, AND DIRECTOR

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.

MARTIN H. FISCHER, PHYSICIAN AND AUTHOR

In 2013, my world was choke-slammed upside down. And I mean that in the best possible way. After 20-plus years of being a writer, sitting in my pajamas penning 15 books and countless magazine articles, I dropped the tracks for E-Squared. For whatever reason (luck, timing, planets aligning), that little black book with the funny title shot up into the stratosphere, capturing the number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list. It has since been translated into 30-some languages.

To this day, I cant open my in-box without finding e-mails that start with some version of You are never going to believe this.

Its like waking up every morning to my own self-help channel. Guess what? readers will write. I just won $500, or I just got my dream job on a horse farm. And I get to celebrate with them right here in Lawrence, Kansas. I get to add to their energy of excitement and joy.

I am deeply humbled to think my words might have helped even one person recognize a deeper truth. I am infinitely grateful that the do-it-yourself experiments in E-Squared cracked open a window to the unending beneficence of the universe.

In fact, if any serious researcher out there is looking for evidence that the world is limitless, abundant, and strangely accommodatingone of nine spiritual principles covered in E-SquaredIve got a whole folder full of lab report sheets Id be willing to share.

Occasionally, however, I get an e-mail from a reader whos pissed. They want to know who I think I am, claiming the world is a beautiful place. They want to know why all the good stuff happens to everybody else. They claim to have seen no evidence of what I call the field of infinite potentiality (the FP), and theyre going to, poor things, go out and eat worms.

This book is for them. And for that scared little place in all of us that still cant quite believe the universe actually likes us and works in cahoots with our highest aspirations.

When I can, I write back to these unhappy naysayers. I often send a blog post about my own days of worm cuisine. I encourage them to give it one more shot, to keep looking for the magic.

I started to notice a pattern within these anomalous Why me? letters. As I said, they sound a lot like my own crazy voices, the wild-haired loudmouths that still occasionally raise their hands in the back of my head.

Hey, you! they like to scream. Youre all alone. The world doesnt care about you. This is all bullshit.

Those voices are the popular kids. The ones who make the nightly news, the ones we discuss around the water-cooler, the ones we appoint commissions and launch websites to fight. In other words, the dominant paradigm.

But theyre not the truth. They will never be the truth.

Another theme I noticed is just how hard these readers are tryingrepeating affirmations, making vision boards, drawing focus wheels.

I have nothing against those practices. Ive been known to use some of them myself. But what happens when we fight and work and struggle, because we think nothing will change unless we do, is we put up roadblocks to all the good that wants to manifest right before our eyes.

The last thing I noticed about the life sucks e-mails is how deadly serious they all were. Oh! The gravitas! The sobriety!

I did everything exactly as you said, theyd accuse with a hint of feral anger.

And every time, I was tempted to tell a stupid joke or make a goofball face. Anything to get them to