I used to work in a foreign land way back 1990’s. I worked as a computer programmer for a Department Store and construction company (a family business), then I transferred to a Hotels and Resorts Chain. I enjoyed my work in the former company although that was the time when I first experienced the pain of being away from my family and friends. But my employer was so kind enough to help me get over with my sorrow. I felt so lucky that they treated me as a member of their family. So, I enjoyed my work as well as my family life with them. I liked almost all the people in that family business. They liked me, too, I believe as I gained their respect in just a short span of time. It is not always easy to get along with new co-employees especially if you are a foreigner but with them, I never experienced any adversity. I found them very helpful and cooperative, projects were so easy to implement.

Regretfully, I had to terminate my employment contract with my employer after eight months when a better opportunity came into the picture. I received an offer from the Hotels and Resorts Chain. I thought that the offer was really better in terms of compensation, career path and professional development. It was not easy to make a decision though, but thinking ahead, I decided to accept the offer after a couple of weeks. Of course, my employer would not like the news when I talked to him together with the CEO, the first son. Expectedly, they made a counter offer to keep me but at that point I already had made up my mind. I knew it would be hard for them because nobody would take care of their computer systems when I leave. It would take them long before they could find a new one they can trust. Unfortunately I couldn’t wait that long until they found a replacement. So… I had to leave. I was feeling so guilty when I left them. I knew it wasn’t right to just leave them with short notice but the circumstance was forcing me to do so.

Then a problem started to crop up. It was a serious problem.
After terminating my employment, I had to leave the country and went back home while waiting for my papers from my new employer. After two months, I received a call from the hotel asking me to come over already as they needed my presence to finalize my contract. So, I flew back there. I signed my contract with the hotel chain right away but before I could be allowed to work, I had to get a working permit from the labor department. While working on my permit, that’s the time when I learned that I violated an employment contract not only with my former employer but with the government as well. The government would not allow me to work in their country after terminating my contract with my employer prematurely albeit my new employer had already hired me. I learned that I could only be given a new work permit after one year from the time of pre-termination of previous contract. I was advised then that I could only stay in the country for a maximum of 30 days, if I remember it right. I must voluntarily leave the country or I’d be deported.

I talked it out with my new employer. I was then advised by the HR department to exhaust all remedies and gave me at least 60 days to fix the problem. They could not do anything on their part but to support my board and lodging for the said period hoping against hope that the government would reverse its decision about my case. The generosity of the management gave me strength and new hope that perhaps, I could really do something like “magic” to make all things possible.

That night, I prayed so hard so that God would ease my burden. It would have been easier for me if I would just give it up and go back home, but I couldn’t just do it because I already fixed my mind on that employment even before I left my former employer and before I flew back from home. Besides, I would not be able to resolve this personal issue with my ego, not to mention the fact that everybody in my home town knew that I would be working with such a prestigious company. So I had to fight for it. But the question that bothered me that I had to ask myself for so many times was – “but how?”

But first thing’s first. I had to transfer to an apartment where all other expatriate employees of the hotel stay. I felt a bit special as I was given a single room which was far better than the others where 90% of them stayed together in one big room. This made me a bit isolated among others who were jealous about the treatment I was getting from the hotel management. I even asked myself many times why I was getting this kind of treatment from the management considering the fact that at the time I came in to the apartment I was not even an official employee. My angels were always with me and protecting me and my interests. I was able to make friends with some good men and women. They sustained my eagerness to fight for my cause.

After settling down in that house I had to face the reality of working on my permit. I didn’t know anybody in the place and it was so impossible for me to have it fixed. If only there’s someone in the government who could influence the labor department to reverse their decision on my case, it would not be a problem anymore. My former employer was a senator at that time but I knew he would not help me out because I left them alone in the dark.

Two weeks later, my very good friend introduced me to someone who could help me. She was a former wife of a former senator and knew some officers in the Department Of Labor. I felt relieved because I had a new hope. We did everything we could to convince those people to re-consider my application for a working permit. That lady had to meet with them almost every night and treat them for dinner. My friend and I had to spend some fortune and since it was taking her too long already I felt that I was not playing it right. I was gambling for something that was not worth it. Especially so when the immigration ordered a crackdown for overstaying aliens. I had no choice but to hide. I could not believe myself I was being hunted. My friend and that lady would bring me to places like jungle and stayed there for a couple of days then transferred to another place, just to avoid being caught up by the police. It’s a routine that I had to do almost every day. This narrowed my chance to go back to work.
I felt so tired and guilty so I made a decision to just come out in the open. I needed a ride so I asked my friend to accompany me to my former employer so I could talk to him and ask for assistance hoping that he would grant my request. I was ready to swallow whatever words he would tell me. I knew it was risky as the police could easily identify me and pick me up and deport me right away.

Finally, I found myself talking to my former boss. I was ready to be humiliated. But to my astonishment, he was so concerned about what happened to me especially when he heard my story in the jungle. He immediately volunteered to bring me to the labor department and talk to the secretary of labor for me. I received some admonishing words from them but it’s ok, I deserved it anyway, I told myself, for as long as I would be granted a permit afterward. My former employer was so kind to me from the very beginning until the end. I left the department with a big smile on my face. I got my permit right that very moment. That smile was my first after almost two months of running away from the immigration. A week later I started working for the hotel. All is well that ends well.

This story of mine did not happen just for nothing. It happened to me not because of a very special reason. It did not happen because God punished me for making a mistake and wanted me to suffer, but because and simply because I made a wish when I was still working for the family business that I would be hired by that hotels and resorts chain. I took that wish seriously and held one and only one possibility in my mind and that is, working with the prestigious hotels and resorts chain. I tried my best to hold that scenario in my mental image continually, day and night, until one day the hiring news broke up right in front of my face. What was so special about it was the job was offered to me through a very good friend.

Mental picture vs. wishful thinking

Creating a mental picture of the outcome is a very important success factor in Manifesting Desire Process. When you employ the power of your imagination, it will release the latent forces within you that will bring you the desire of your heart.
When you imagine things for a purpose of making it happen you have to make sure that your imagination has its power to manifest what you think into actual form. Let us make a distinction between daydreaming and true mental picture. Daydreaming is an undirected wishful thinking that does not have power on its own. It has no capability to drive your thoughts, your spirit and your body to work on the physical aspect of your desire toward its manifestation. A true mental picture is a powerful imagination that lets you see yourself doing things that you must be doing and you go ahead and do it. It is the doing the things that brings your imagined picture of your desire into actual existence.

In my story, I made sure that I always believe in what I had imagined that it was already happening. It was so difficult to maintain a positive attitude during the time when all I was seeing was adversities. But when you are in a battle and was put in a situation where the only weapon left of you was your faith, you will never lose that battle no matter what if you were able to keep that in your heart from the very beginning even before the war broke up.

My faith helped me to keep the mental picture of my true desire in my mind and to hold it steadily despite the distractions coming my way left and right. I must say that my days in the places where I had described as “jungles” had made me more prayerful and hopeful, seeing only one purpose. I had always believed that the only reason why I was in that difficult situation was because of the consequences of the wish that I made. It had to happen that way so that I could hold that picture of my desire in my mind through my faith steadily for a longer period of time. It is with the holding of the mental picture that made everything possible. Continuous holding of the image in our mind strengthens our energy and concentration that pushes our mind and body to continue working until our goal is achieved. Like in the use of a magnifying glass- continuous focus gathers the light from the sun and concentrates it until the heat burns a hole in the object upon which the rays are focused. It must be held steadily before the heat power is developed.

Whatever we focus our imaginations upon is what we attract. I have proven it by myself alone, many people have proven that it works that way and to their own satisfaction. Let us not engage in wishful thinking, instead, let us use the power of our imagination by thinking of directed thoughts toward our desire.

Creating mental picture

Make it a habit of creating a mental picture of the outcome of your desire by employing the power of your imagination. Do not concern yourself about how the result will come about. Leave it to the Universe and to your subconscious mind. They have their own way of putting things together and making things happen. Doors and avenues will open beyond your imagination, that you have never thought of. They will make contact for you. You will receive assistance from unexpected resources. You will be presented with ideas you will find useful for the accomplishment of your goal. People that you know and may not know will come into the picture relaying to you important message in relation to your desire. You will suddenly see things where you can get ideas. You will see signs that the Universe is working on your desire. And many more.

Before I was able to start working on my website (Manifesting Desire, The Science Of Having What You Truly Want), I had many concerns in my mind like the usual “hows” and the “whens”. I really wanted to build this site, so that I can pursue my dream where I can offer my services and provide FREE assistance to tens of thousands to even millions of people all over the world. I always believe that internet is one vehicle I can use to make it happen. But how can I do that if I don’t have the appropriate personal resources like time, money, skills, network. One day, I just told myself- I have no idea!. So how can I even start thinking about it? I may not even have the right to think about it. I may be wrong with my assumptions that I can make use of the internet technology to tell the world that “hey, don’t you know that I exist?” These are my obstacles, my stumbling blocks. I told myself, if I really am serious about my dream, I have to employ the power of my imagination by creating a mental picture of what I wanted to accomplish. I realized that it was just a matter of making a decision whether to pursue your goal no matter what or not. Of course, I had an affirmative decision. Upon making that important decision, I wrote down my intentions in my prayer book and began to make an outline of my plans. I gathered my mind and list down all of my weakness or limitations after I recognize them one by one. I list down all of my strengths upon realizing that I have them and thank God I have them. I capitalized on my strength which helped me a lot in the conceptualization of the site, I did a lot of research and while I was doing that, I came across many ideas. I used visualization as one of my strengths to hold the mental picture of my desire in my mind steadily to ensure that I keep walking on the right track. As days went by, I made sure that I worked on my weaknesses and limitations by turning them into strengths. Like, forcing myself to do blogging and do it as often as I can. Writing is not really my strength, I am better off when I just talk because I can easily extract juices from my imagination and convert that into an inspiring thought. I can easily convince people when I talk rather than when I put my ideas in writing. But because this is required in my content based website, I have to cultivate my writing skills. I started with writing short article with less than 400 words. I am telling you, believe me, I find writing like an excruciating pain in my stomach but because that is required, I have to convince myself that I can write. At first, the number of words that I can write was always dependent on the topic that I can eloquently expound. So, you can imagine that when I write article as fewer as 400 words or even less, it means that I am not too familiar with the subject matter. But imagining a mental picture and holding that picture in your mind steadily works wonders like a powerful magic. Now I can write longer articles. In fact, when I started this website, I was able to write a manifesting desire e-course which is included in my website in less than two weeks. The e-course has around 84,000 to 90,000 words. And my other new articles range between more than 400 to less than 2,000 words. That’s the power of imagination when you learn how to hold it steadily in your mind.

Now, I have to drive traffic to my website aside from writing contents and publish it within maximum of two days. Traffic is what makes every site a success. Without it, it is useless. Having that in mind, the Universe presented me all the vehicles and avenues that I may need to make it work. What I really appreciate is the fact that because budget is one of my concerns, I was given all FREE resources that I never thought would work. I never believed those FREE ads saying that they could generate traffic for your site. They have other hidden agenda. There’s always a catch there that you have to be careful about. So, you don’t just give out your personal information to them. But the Universe was so kind enough to give me only the trusted ones. They were able to provide help no matter how small but it was really a good start. In the long run, they will be able to generate traffic for my site more than I can expect. Other than those little help, I was also given practical ideas on how to promote the site without even spending a single cent. And they work, again it’s not that of big help but in the long run it will. And many more. The thing is, as I write this article, in my less than 2 months of operation, my website has been viewed more than 10,000 times with an average of 5 pages per visit and with a number of unique visitors totaling to 700 and has been visited 1,000 plus times. This is quite significant when you run a website without spending a fortune every month for ads and promotions. It’s just amazing. When traffic becomes stable and visitors come back to obtain more information from this website, that’s the time when income would start to come in.

All of this happens because I made sure that I create a mental picture of my desire and hold it steadily in my mind. Remember not to abandon the picture unless you are not interested in manifesting it anymore. Otherwise, if you do it on an occasional basis, you will never achieve any amount of success.

So, how are you going to apply this? If you are:

• a salesman, create a mental picture by imagining your sales going up everyday
• a store owner, create a mental picture of customers coming into your store to buy more goods
• a student, create a mental picture that you are passing all the subjects and submitting completed projects/assignments on time and that you are actively participating in the discussion/ recitation
• a cab driver, create a mental picture of your safety and increased daily income
• looking for a partner, create a mental picture of his/her presence in your life
• dreaming to have a wonderful family of your own in the future, create a mental picture of a loving and happy family
• a teacher, create a mental picture of your students liking you, inspired and motivated by you, (they will help keep you longer in your school)
No matter what you do, make it a habit to create true mental picture of what you want to achieve. Make sure you will hold it in your mind for as long as you can and as steadily as you possibly can.

Believe in what you create

Believe in what you create in your mind. Believe in your product and services, in your capability, in yourself, in your talent, skills, in what you can do. To become a writer, I had to believe that I can write, so I was able to write and I became a writer and a content provider. Believe that what you imagine is possible no matter how difficult your situation is.

While I was staying in the “jungle” for several days, I never lost my faith. I’d always believe that the reason why I was in that most difficult situation was because the Universe was working on my desire already. My faith saved me.

Back to that same country, the time came when my wife and I had to decide to go home and settle down back home. (I was already married that time). The decision was immediate for a very personal and some sort of professional reasons. This means I had to sell some of my properties in just a very short period of time, like in less than a week. I had to sell my car, stereo, some big items which we would not want to bring home because of shipping charges considerations. It would cost us a fortune to bring them home. When we announced the rush sale of some properties, a few people came to our house, mostly were friends to buy the items. We’re able to sell almost all of them except for the car. The buyer who checked it out changed his mind when we did not agree on the price. He said he found some problems on the wheel like camber alignment. His deal was to let him test it for a week before paying me so that he could return it in case the car breaks down. What a silly thing, he knew that my wife and I would have to leave in less than a week. So the deal was off. I was down for a couple of hours and thinking of just leaving it to my friend so he could sell it and send me the money later. But I knew it was not going to be a good deal as it was not easy to entrust that car to somebody. Anything can happen to the car. So my other option was to just bring it home regardless of the freight charges. But I did not have time do it already.

Other than the car, I also had problem with the other many personal things that we need to bring home. It’s like bringing home the entire apartment with us. It was so impossible to bring them without spending large amount of money.

After a couple of hours being depressed, I tried to remember the lesson I learned from the “jungle”. I was in this situation because I made a wish and the Universe and my subconscious mind are working together to make it happen. Why then should I be anxious about the turn of events. That’s the only time I was able to let go of my negative feelings. So, I sit down quietly and did my best to imagine the good things that are happening. Problems were no longer visible in my imagination. So I slept soundly leaving everything to the Universe and to my subconscious mind.
I never heard from any interested buyers 3 days from that night. It was okay because I knew that the only ammunition that I had in my possession was my faith so I should not lose the battle no matter what.

It was our last day and I still never gave up. I only had a few hours left before our way to the airport. Then what a surprise! Our friends and some co-employees came over to bid us goodbye. One of them was the buyer of my car. He took it at a good price. The other one was the cousin of an officer of the airlines where our flight was booked. He offered assistance to bring our extra baggages FREE of charge in a couple of days. We just made an arrangement for pick up when they arrived back home.

Oh, I can never forget those miracles. Even up to now, I couldn’t believe it myself. Anything is possible if you let the Universe and your subconscious mind work together, without you intervening. Learn to let go and keep your faith alive. Believe in what you create and they will manifest.