If you are clear about what you want, you need to start telling other people about your aspirations. When you do this, you will find that others will conspire to help make your dream a reality.

I've personally had countless experiences of people going out of their way to help me once I had let them know what I wanted.

3. Expect to receive what you want.

It is also very important that you start to develop mindset where you just expect to get everything you ask for. When you set your brain a task or embed an expectation, it will naturally seek a favourable resolution.

To extend our restaurant example, once you've placed your order you create expectation within your mind that you will get exactly what you want. If waiter didn't bring meal you ordered, you'd naturally send it back and wait till they brought you what you asked for. Why not put this concept into practice in other areas of your life? You'll be pleasantly surprised by results!

Success always has a price!

Once you have decided upon what you want, asked for it and established expectation of receiving it, only thing left for you to do is pay price. Despite what many self-help gurus might have you believe, success will not come to you without sacrifice. Be very aware of what you are prepared to 'pay' in order to get what you want.

After all that, if your life still isn't serving you banquet that you want and deserve, just keep sending it back to kitchen until it does!

Copyright Damien Senn 2005. All rights reserved.

* Divorce was not as widespread

The odds of staying married for a long time then were much greater than it is now. Couples seemed to work out their problems much better in those days. Today it is not as shameful to get a divorce. I do not remember hearing phrase "single Mom" back then. If you did it was most likely because husband was deceased then mother being divorced.

* Most people seemed to be more polite and courteous

One thing that was drilled in my head back then was to say "thank you" whenever someone either gave you something or paid you a compliment. And I had better not forget to say it, either.Men were expected to open doors for "opposite sex". Even to pull out chair at table and push it back after she was seated was also normal thing to do. I hate to say it but I do not see much of that practice happening as much today as back then, do you ladies? These are just a few things that I remember in those early years that made "good ole days good"

Now I admit those times were tough, and we did not have all modern conveniences that we have today. No TV in those early days, no computers, videos, cell phones, dial up phones (you called operator and she rang number for you) And phone number was usually a short one. The phone number at our florist shop is one that I will never forget as long as I live, it was "5" Yes, a simple number "5" Can you believe that?

My children today cannot believe that "big thing" for our family to do then was to sit in living room at night and listen to radio. Yes, R-A-D-I-O. (you seniors remember that, don't you) And we listened to our favorite programs. "Fibber McGee & Mollie" "The Lone Ranger" "The Shadow Knows" "The Great Gildersleeve", "Amos & Andy", "Abbott & Costello", and many others. Those are ones I remember most.

The radio we had then was a beautiful floor model. It stood about 31/2 feet tall and about 20 inches wide with large speakers in front. When we got our first TV it was mind-boggling. We could not believe it. There were pictures that talked, WOW!

Now listen! I am not sure I want to return to those days even though there were many pleasurable moments to remember. Life did seem to be simpler and I wish we could restore some of those same conditions and moments today that we experienced then. Don't you?

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Sonny Julius is a retired sales supervisor. His interest in the Internet eventually led him to write an ebook geared to senior citizens. The ebook Absolutely Senior is a guide for living the senior lifestyle. In addition he publishes a weekly newsletter, offers a Free no - obligation phone personal coaching session and is an expert author of several articles. For more information go to: http://www.absolutelysenior.com