I love to go to my mailbox and get a "real" card. You know -- the old fashion kind that comes in a stamped envelope and has somebody's actual handwritten signature at the bottom, a card that wasn't sent by pressing the enter key on a computer.

I have a habit of saving cards that are especially meaningful for me. Some go into my desk and are filed away for safekeeping. When I need a morale boost or some confidence-building before I try a new task, I open the file and read those cards. Even though I've read them before, it's as if I'm reading them for the first time and they cheer me up.

I've also bought cards for myself, written messages on them as if they were written by a future client, spouse, or departed loved one. Inside each card I write what I'd love to hear that person say to me. Then I sign the card with their name, put it into a stamped, self-addressed envelope and give friends a few of these cards. They have no idea what's in them. Their only instruction is to mail one of the cards whenever they think I might need or want a little pick-me-up or just when the time feels right. I never know who gets which card.

The fun comes when the card appears in my mailbox. I open each one and my mind really "thinks" the card is from somebody other that me. I find the cards to be very touching and I save them in that same file in my desk drawer that contains other motivational messages and/or cards.

Some of the cards I get are placed on bookshelves in my office and they serve as visual reminders of positive things. I thought I'd share one that a friend sent to me after I landed a new client after not being able to work for almost a year as the result of an accident. Just the colorful images on the cover of the card make me smile.

If you want to be successful, all you have to do is to follow the concepts that were on that card.

CHOOSING your own PATH

OPENING UP to new POSSIBILITIES

NEVER SETTLING for less

GIVING of yourself

RISING to the CHALLENGE

AIMING for SUCCESS

Taking RISKS

Staying FOCUSED

So whose day can you brighten by sending  a card or a handwritten note? No matter if it's a friend, family member or yourself, giving from your heart starts the "Law of Attraction" in motion and you'll feel great.

© 2007, Joanne (JP) Stein. www.jpstein.org, www.bestcoach4u.com. All rights reserved.