It always amazes me how things just show up out of seemingly nowhere to reaffirm your cause, your mission, or your purpose. While finishing up a meal at a Japanese restaurant on Father’s Day with my family, the waitress placed a plate of fortune cookies on our table. Each person took a fortune cookie from the plate. When there was only one left I picked it up, broke it open, and pulled out the slip of paper. “He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak” were the words written in blue ink. This small quote was a strong affirmation towards the foundation of my teachings regarding transforming your dreams and goals into reality. Those things that we envision for our lives or those things that our heart long to manifest in our lives will only come about if we believe that it’s possible. Faith only works for he who believes. So, I encourage you to engrave the following words into your mind: “faith works when you work it,” “block doubt out,” and “believe and not doubt.”

As I write this newsletter, my twin sons who graduated from high school on May 27th are in Alaska living out one of their dreams. During our family visioning day back in January, they both voiced their desire to travel to Alaska with a couple of friends as their high school senior trip. At first, my thoughts were “I haven’t even been to Alaska, you all must be kidding!” and “That’s an expensive request.” But, I had to immediately shift my thoughts to agree with them. After all, it was me who taught them to dream BIG. Now I had to dream big with them and for them. I couldn’t allow any doubts to get in their way. Regardless of all the other expenses that came along with them being seniors in high school and the cost for college that shortly followed, we had to believe that their Alaska trip would manifest. We made Alaska a big focus on our Family Tote-a-Vision (TAV) Vision Board this year, which is shown below, and they each place images and word Alaska on their personal TAV vision boards. Their dream trip to Alaska became a reality, and they will have those moments to cherish forever. Lastly, to top everything off, starting this fall the twins will be attending the college of their dreams