From Lisa Nichols, teacher of “The Secret” in the well-known book, CDs & film. She is one of the featured speakers on January 17th at the San Diego Sports Arena during “Make 2009 Your Best Year Ever.”

As I said in "The Secret," anytime your thoughts are flowing, the law of attraction is working. When you're thinking about the past, the law of attraction's working. When you're thinking about the present or the future, the law of attraction is working. It's an ongoing process.

You don't press pause, you don't press stop. It is forever in action, as your thoughts are. When you want to change your circumstances, you must first change your thinking. There is no reason to have lack in any part of your life.

When you focus on lack and scarcity and what you don't have, you fuss about it with your family, you discuss it with your friends, you tell your children that you don't have enough, you'll never be able to afford it, because you begin to attract more of what you don't have.

If you want abundance, if you want prosperity, then focus on abundance. The Universe is a masterpiece of abundance. When you open yourself to feel the abundance of the universe, you'll experience the wonder, joy, bliss, and all the great things that the Universe has for you: good health, good wealth, good nature.

But when you shut yourself off with negative thoughts, you'll feel the discomfort, you'll feel the aches, you'll feel the pain, and you'll feel as if every day is painful to get through. Release the pain, and bring in the joy. Turn your life into a magnificent life.

Everything that you want – all the joy, love, abundance, prosperity, bliss – it's there, ready for you to grab ahold of it. And you've got to get hungry for it. You've got to be intentional.

And when you've become intentional and on fire for what you want, the Universe will deliver every single thing that you've been wanting. Recognize the beautiful and wonderful things around you, and bless and praise them. And on the other side, the things that aren't currently working the way you want them to work, don't spend your energy faulting or complaining. Embrace everything that you want so you can get more of it.

Every single thing you've been through, every single moment that you've come through, were all to prepare you for this moment right now. Imagine what you can do from this day forward with what you now know.

Now you get that you are the creator of your destiny. So how much more do you get to do? How much more do you get to be? How many more people do you get to bless, simply by your mere existence? What will you do with the moment? How will you seize the moment?

No one else can dance your dance, no one else can sing your song, no one else can write your story. Who you are, what you do, begins right now!

You are the designer of your destiny. You are the author. You write the story. The pen is in your hand, and the outcome is whatever you choose.