I'd forgotten all about this particular manifestation until last night.  This one happened YEARS before I'd ever heard of the Law of Attraction.

It was the fall after I had graduated college.  I was working this sales job selling copiers and fax machines - and I hated it.  I loved some of the people I worked with - but the selling of copiers I did not so very much enjoy.

I'd actually found this book called "Psycho Power" and it was about being able to "control" people's thoughts and such.  Some sort of mental power of persuasion.  The book focused on doing good though.

Anyways, I felt really happy and upbeat after reading it.  I really couldn't tell you why.  I vaguely remember the thought going through my head of CHOOSING how I felt - that I could choose happiness.

Well, I go to work one morning and my main boss was there.  He actually worked out of another city two hours away so he wasn't there every day.

He asks to talk to me and proceeds to tell me that he knows I'm not really happy working there and they wish I would be but didn't want to force me to stay in a job where I was unhappy.  So if I wanted I could no longer work there (I wasn't being fired - if I wanted to keep working there I could have) AND he was going to let me take a few weeks off with pay.  In other words - I didn't have to do anymore work.

Wow!  I had actually been really toying with the idea of quitting so for him to make me that offer was fabulous.  It might have even been better than what I'm remembering. 

But it just so happened - I was feeling really happy and then I got something really great - two weeks off and being released with no hard feelings from a job that was making me sick to my stomach.

I can't remember if it was the same night or within a night or two of when I did the meditation on my dream job (see post below for that story).  However, I did a meditation on money.  I basically told the Universe that I would like a five figure sum of money.

Again I had NO strings attached (well, no I had one - I just said I didn't want it to be an inheritance - I didn't want someone to die for me to get that money).  I just put it out there and then let it go.

It was either the next day or a day or so after I'm talking to my mom on the phone.  She was living in Vegas at the time and I was going to be there at the end of that month. 

And that was about 2 months prior to my 30th birthday.  Anyhoo - mom said she wanted to tell me then (over the phone) what she was going to give me for my birthday.

Drum roll .... a savings bond with a FACE value of $10,000.  And in actuality it had been collecting interest and matured years before so its CASH value was over $15,000! 

My mom has never done anything like that before.  Some might say it was coincidence - but I am fully convinced I manifested that. 

And sure enough when I was in Vegas a couple weeks later she gave me that savings bond! 

Not too long after I first got into my "spiritual path" (but before I'd heard it termed The Law of Attraction) I was reading a great book by Wayne Dyer called "You'll See it When You Believe It".  In other words, you have to have the Faith that what you want will come even before you have had any physical evidence of it.

And that book inspired me to start meditating.  So I'd set up my guest bedroom into a nice, calming space to meditate.  One night I thought about what my dream job would be.  (I was currently doing temp work and bartending.)  I thought of elements that I'd like - though trying to not judge them as being not possible.  But I also tried to not be TOO specific as the Universe is so unlimted and creative you just never know what it will come up with.

A day or so later I had that "nudge"/that FEELING I should contact a certain person.  As it so happens I'd lost contact with this person, let's call them "B".  At that point I hadn't talked to them in probably 2 years or so.  And the last few times I'd calling the number I had for them I got one of those robotic sounding answering machines that give no information as to who you're actually calling.  I'd left messages and never heard back - so I had no idea if B still had that number.

But after that meditation on my dream job I felt I should try calling him.  I did and he actually answered.  And then went on to say how he was about to hunt me down because he'd started and company and thought I'd be perfect for working with them.

He explains what I will be doing and it sounds great.  Way, way outside the box (which goes to show why you shouldn't put too many restrictions and limitations on what you want.  I'd never have imagined doing this sort of work in a million years).  However, I wouldn't be able to start for about 2 months. 

So from the time of learning about this job (of which of course I never had to apply for or interview for - how easy was getting that job, huh?) until I started I really had to keep the Faith.  I admit I had quite a few moments of wondering if it would really work out and all that stuff.

But whenever I felt fearful I'd stop those thoughts and almost chant to myself how it was going to work out and was going to be great and that I had Faith.

Seemingly before I knew it I started my first project.  And I did make a lot of money from it.  It turned out wonderfully!  As good or better than I imagined.

Between my first two projects I think I made as much or more money than I had in an entire year of working my last full time job. 

And I worked WAY less.  I usually worked for two weeks (and getting to travel - which I love) and then I'd have a couple weeks off, doing just a bit of work from home.  So I had a ton of freedom, no boss looking over my shoulder, lots of time off, traveling with the job and making very good money.

So yes - believing and keeping that Faith truly brings in what you desire.  That job was positive proof of just that.