Several weeks after making that firm decision, Monique was working
with her last client of the day. This woman, who had grown up in France,
reminisced how every month, her parents had purchased a ticket in the
French lottery, a tradition that she had continued.
As Monique drove home that evening, she wasn’t thinking about the
lottery. She’d never played it, believing that with her limited financial
resources, such an expenditure was frivolous. Stopping for gas, she went
inside to pay, and there on the counter were lottery cards for various games.
On impulse, recognizing that the new Monique who lived in abundance
could afford to take a chance on winning, she purchased a ticket.
By the time Monique had stopped at a local pizzeria for a carryout dinner
and arrived home, the lottery had slipped her mind. Grabbing the pizza, she
discovered that some grease had soaked through the box, stuck to the lottery
card, and stained the passenger seat. She set the box on the dining table,
with the ticket alongside it. She told her family to start eating without her
and that she’d be in the garage tending to the grease stain. While she was
scrubbing away, her husband came running out.
“You won’t believe it! Your lottery ticket was a winner!”
Now, you’ll recall that when the quantum field responds, it does so in a
way that one couldn’t predict. Perhaps you are thinking, Of course she won
millions and lived happily ever after.
Not exactly.
Monique won $53,000. Was she happy? Astounded is more like it. The
couple owed exactly $53,000 in credit-card and auto-loan debt.
Monique relayed her excitement in telling us that story, but she slyly
admitted that next time, instead of holding the intention that all her needs
were met, she’d choose to imagine they were met—and then some.
What Monique’s story illustrates is the power of creating a new state of
being. She couldn’t do that just by imagining that she was a new person;
she had to put that new self into action. The old Monique wouldn’t have
bought a lottery ticket; her new personality aligned her behavior to match
her objective, and the field responded in an entirely unexpected yet
perfectly appropriate way.