Lynn Grabhorn - Each Day Your Life Begins: Inspired by Lynn Grabhorns New York Times Bestseller Excuse Me Your Life Is Waiting

This ebook edition first published in 2012 by Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc.

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Originally published as 365 Excuse Me... by Mina Parker. Charlottesville: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 2009.

eISBN: 978-1-61940-021-4

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Inspired by Lynn Grabhorn's New York Times Bestseller Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting

Lynn Grabhorn's landmark book Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting appeared on my doorstep one day, the gift of a friend of the family. I did not seek it out, I did not ask for it, but my vibrations must have been sending out the message that I needed this book. I picked it up not knowing what to expect. I had heard bits and pieces about the law of attraction: the idea that like attracts like in all aspects of the universe and that we can create our own destinies through acceptance and mastery of this concept. Some of this seemed to resonate for me and some of it seemed completely bogus. So with curiosity, excitement, and a degree of skepticism, I plunged in. Lynn's voice rings from each pageauthentic, worldly, and wiseand I quickly found myself wrapped up in the start of an amazing and challenging journey.

Soon after I opened Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting, stories started to pour into my lifestories of people's experiences with the law of attraction, whether they called it that or not. Some were thrilled that something they'd been wanting, hoping, and working for seemed to float into their lives on a cloud. Some were excited by the new directions their lives had taken as a result of some unexpected stroke of luck. But a recurring theme in many of the stories was the difficulty of living these principles day after day and finding the inspiration to reclaim that initial spark when the going got rough.

The law is simple: like attracts like. There are many straightforward ways to put the idea into practice. Sure, it all made sense while you were reading, and, yes, there were initial leaps and bounds and many saw results right away. But then old habits would resurface, sometimes in insidious ways. Lynn talks about finding ways to open our valve, that inner part of us that flows energy freely or stops it up completely. People would manage to pry it open a tiny bit and then after some success they would inexplicably begin to clamp down, judge themselves, and shut the valve they had just managed to pry open a tiny bit. I wondered why. Shouldn't this get easier as you go? If it's really such a simple concept, why is it so difficult to live by on a daily basis?

In my own experience, as I played around with some new ways of thinking and feeling, several amazing things came down the pikealong with some miserable ones. I thought, This isn't any better; it's just a life pushed to the extreme and the end result is about the same (or worse, given the exhaustion of going back and forth between good and bad). How was I going to find consistency and comfort in a whole new way of being?

I came up with the idea to make a book to help people, including myself, navigate the slumps and pitfalls of the daily practice of living through the law of attraction. It is essential to me (as it was for Lynn) to take all of this stuff with a grain of salt, to continuously find the joy and the levity in this ongoing life adventure, and to lighten up and take care of ourselves. To me, the law of attraction is about finding and holding on to the inspiration, passion, and connection to what you love that makes your life meaningful. There are all sorts of ways to do this, and I mean really do this, but our old habits and our fear will more often than not lead us to the least effective strategies. So these 365 meditations are meant to serve as a guidebook, a source of inspiration and encouragement throughout the year and again and again. The law of attraction is best learned through practice, and 365 times seems like a pretty good way to do that.

When my life is going along at a happy clip, I now attribute it largely to the fluidity and inspiration of the ideas in Lynn's books, as well as a special rule that correlates to the law of attraction. I call it the law of plenty. We operate on a model of scarcity all too often, worrying about what will come next and how we will struggle to get what we need. The law of plenty assures us that we already have anything we will ever need. Everything we need is at our fingertips, and the law of attraction is the information superhighway that brings it to us.

There is no concept more relevant to our lives than what Lynn calls the law of attraction. It goes far beyond the immediate, self-gratifying milestones of unblocking your energy and getting the stuff, jobs, and relationships that you want (though that's pretty great too!). This is about tapping into the energy that connects all of us, that defines the goals and the wisdom and the trajectory of the human race.

We are disconnected from our deepest selves in our daily lives. We are steeped in chaos and anxiety. It doesn't have to be this way. This book brings together ancient wisdom and new concepts in a way that applies to our hectic, overstuffed, frenetic liveslives in which we seem to be doing more than ever and getting less out of it all. The principles laid out in Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting and The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook are explored in this collection, month by month. If followed in an earnest and open way, these principles provide a complete reversal of what makes our modern lives crazy without taking the drastic steps of moving off the grid and into the hills to weave our own clothing and raise our own food (unless that is your lifelong dream, in which case go for it). This is simple, revolutionary, and completely suited to the lives we want to lead, the lives that will make us happy if we only let them.

Lynn dedicates her book to every one of us who finally... maybe... possibly... believes they have the right to perpetual happiness. What is perpetual happiness? How can I get a double order of it right away? Perpetual happiness doesn't mean you're never going to be sad or upset or frustrated again. If that's your goal, then you might want to consider a vegetative state, though I wouldn't recommend it. Perpetual happiness, to me, can best be defined as embracing the big picture of what makes you feel good, what feels important and vital to your concept of yourself in the world, and what challenges and renews you on a regular basis. There are happy janitors and happy bankers; it has been proven by scientists that one's individual circumstances make almost no difference. Through the daily meditations of this book, I hope you will find the courage to embrace that belief and find the strength and inspiration to open up to the possibility of that happiness saturating every part of your life.

I have picked up and used some of Lynn's phrases that may be unfamiliar to you. Even if you haven't read her work, most of these simple concepts will become clear through the meditations in this book. In addition to the inner valve I just mentioned, she talks about feeeeeling and getting into a feeeeeling placean alternate spelling to convey emotion that is the result of wonderful, positive, focused energy. She writes about flip-switching, which is a way she devised to turn off negative vibrations as you would a light switch, which enables you to quickly move into a better state. She talks about prepaving, which is a way to send out your positive energy so that instead of fretting about future events you can simply send your good vibes ahead of you to generate the best possible outcome. Some other vocabulary may be new to you, but I urge you to trust yourself and go with the flow and you'll soon come to your own, greater, understanding.