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nomi · 12-05-2007, 09:37 PM

Hi everyone,

I had a feeling I should join this forum, so here I am! I'm an American living in Madrid, Spain. I'm at a point in my life where I want to make positive changes and have recently become reflective enough to realize some the roadblocks I was constantly putting in my life before through negative thinking.

I'd always considered myself a pessimist. I would worry a lot about everything and suffered through depression for several years. I've also had a difficult problem with shyness for as long as I can remember.

Several things have been occurring the last year that make me think they are signals pointing me to take a different direction in my life. First of all, last year I decided I wanted to try to be positive. No major reason really except that I was tired of feeling upset and stressed out all of the time.

Then, earlier this year I read Getting Things Done by David Allen and couldn't help but think there was a spiritual underlining to it. It helped me immensely. Later, my husband and I had a friend recommend us The Law of Attraction by the Hicks. We thought the message was good, but felt critical about the authenticity of the authors, but that's another subject.

Later, we started watching Derren Brown and then after that The Dog Whisper. I also read Steve's post about Polyphasic Sleep a couple years ago when he first wrote it, but then never visited the site again. I can't remember how I found the site again, but I did and now here I am. I've been going through as many articles and the forum also the last few weeks and I find a lot of the information really makes sense to me.

So anyway, I might be nuts, but it just seems to me that all of these things are related somehow. Like if life is telling me, "You are the one behind the steering wheel". I'm starting to recognize that a lot of the bad situations I have been in and the lack of love I felt from my friends and family had a lot to do with myself. My constant stressing, worrying, and lack of confidence was really damaging to my life.

So, now it's all just starting to make sense to me. My husband and I have made some major changes in our lives and feel like we are starting over. We started walking every day and hiking on the weekends as well as eating better and trying to think more positively. We want to move to the U.S. next year and are working on manifesting the money to get there. I think we'll make it.

I've also been feeling lately like I would like to meet more positive people that are moving in the same direction and this just seemed like a nice place to start. So, hello all!

12-05-2007, 09:37 PM	#1 (permalink)
nomi Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 7	Hi from Spain! Hi everyone, I had a feeling I should join this forum, so here I am! I'm an American living in Madrid, Spain. I'm at a point in my life where I want to make positive changes and have recently become reflective enough to realize some the roadblocks I was constantly putting in my life before through negative thinking. I'd always considered myself a pessimist. I would worry a lot about everything and suffered through depression for several years. I've also had a difficult problem with shyness for as long as I can remember. Several things have been occurring the last year that make me think they are signals pointing me to take a different direction in my life. First of all, last year I decided I wanted to try to be positive. No major reason really except that I was tired of feeling upset and stressed out all of the time. Then, earlier this year I read Getting Things Done by David Allen and couldn't help but think there was a spiritual underlining to it. It helped me immensely. Later, my husband and I had a friend recommend us The Law of Attraction by the Hicks. We thought the message was good, but felt critical about the authenticity of the authors, but that's another subject. Later, we started watching Derren Brown and then after that The Dog Whisper. I also read Steve's post about Polyphasic Sleep a couple years ago when he first wrote it, but then never visited the site again. I can't remember how I found the site again, but I did and now here I am. I've been going through as many articles and the forum also the last few weeks and I find a lot of the information really makes sense to me. So anyway, I might be nuts, but it just seems to me that all of these things are related somehow. Like if life is telling me, "You are the one behind the steering wheel". I'm starting to recognize that a lot of the bad situations I have been in and the lack of love I felt from my friends and family had a lot to do with myself. My constant stressing, worrying, and lack of confidence was really damaging to my life. So, now it's all just starting to make sense to me. My husband and I have made some major changes in our lives and feel like we are starting over. We started walking every day and hiking on the weekends as well as eating better and trying to think more positively. We want to move to the U.S. next year and are working on manifesting the money to get there. I think we'll make it. I've also been feeling lately like I would like to meet more positive people that are moving in the same direction and this just seemed like a nice place to start. So, hello all!