Laure Manaudou and nude photos scandal

I just saw an article come up on ninemsn about Laure Manaudou, the olympic swimming gold medalist.

The Daily Telegraph wrote this: "THE world's most glamourous swimmer, Olympic and world championship gold medallist Laure Manaudou, is today subject of a cruel internet extortion and her former boyfriend, Italian swimming heartthrob Luca Marin, is accused of posting nude photos of her on the net." the rest of the story

I'm constantly amazes how ignorant some people are ... I'm refering to the person who did this pathetic act of posting the photos on the net and probably thinks it funny is some sort of weird way. A lot of people just don't get it - it will come back big time!

Often we witness so much revenge because a man and a women fall in love and then fall out of love ... one person decides that they no longer want to be part of the relationship so the other person seeks revenge on the very person they love! They do anything to hurt them because they can no longer have them!!!

Revenge is a terrible negative emotion (Napolean Hill in Think & Grow Rich listed it as one of the 7 negative emotions to be avoided at all costs) that harms the giver far more then it ever harms the receiver. I have seen people attract cancer because of their revenge toward a loved one.

If you hold revenge, LET IT GO ... be grateful for the experience of love because love NEVER dies, it is infinite abundance.

If you need help with this awareness get hold of my DVD & CD set on "How To Apply The Secret - Step by Step" and go through the DVD sets on Worry & Doubt and Expectation & Gratitude.

A Attendees comment from Perth "How To Apply The Secret"

A really nice comment from a woman who attended our How To Apply The Secret event in Perth on Tuesday:

I attended you Seminar in Perth yesterday and I feel it may be a turning point in my life.

As you may be aware I was a late applicant due to the mind vs. the heart ( soul). In the end I went against all my “common sense” ( income and friends advice) and took the day of from work without pay and drove up to Perth to attend your seminar.

After listening to you I realized that I had definitely made the right decision and thank you very much for coming to Western Australia and sharing your knowledge. I will follow your advice and follow the three steps in my life and I look forward to a prosperous and fantastic life.

I was fortunate enough to have a 6 hour drive home where I could listen to your c.d. as well as “The Secret”. I then set my specific goals and went to bed feeling that I had achieved something in life.

... Many thanks again for you time and sharing your life story of how you become successful. I appreciate the encouragement and guidelines you gave all of us on the day.

Hi from Perth, Australia

We have just finished the "How To Apply The Secret" seminar in Perth. It has been an extremely successful tour, starting 4 weeks ago in Wellington, New Zealand and ending up in Perth, Australia.

I will post up some of the comments by attendees over the next few weeks. Here is one from Karen Kotze, a journalist in New Zealand:

"Recognising the poverty consciousness that we have inherited is old hat, but being given the tools to affect changes in our world is priceless!! What a great gift for ourselves, the economy – and our children’s children in all aspects!! Many thanks to all involved."

Today's thought: "What lies behind us and what lies before us pales in comparison to what lies within us". Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Secret

I thought it time to post another update and share my views.

We have been travelling around Australia presenting the one-day event "How To Apply The Secret" In this seminar I go through how the mind works, why we get the results in our lives, and a step-by-step process how to change our results.

Before we started the first seminar in Wellington, NZ we decided that our outcome was to change people's lives for the better. Everywhere we went that's exactly what happened. Did we have a few obstacles? You bet we did. Whenever you strive toward abundance and prosperity or seek to lift others up to abundance and prosperity people will try to attack you. They are called a temporary inconvenience.

When you are focused a vision of abundance and prosperity all obstacles MUST give way - it's universal (God's) law!

Sadly, many who attempted to attack us (via blog and media) call themselves Christians. Seems that they don't understand the basics of being 'Christ like'. "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her" and "Love your neighbour as you love yourself." ... hmmmm. These people sure don't love themselves very much.

We are so proud to say that after every event we had people tell us how the information transformed their lives. That even though they had attended many other events and read numerous books, they now understand for the first time how the Law Of Attraction works and how to really apply The Secret.

I will post up an mp3 of the event once we finish the tour so if you missed out you can at least listen. Have an abundant week.

Today's Thought:

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law." Gal 5:23-24

An amazing week

What an amazing week this last 7 days has been.

I have seen and felt an incredible surge of energy and confidence in and around me. Even an ABSOLUTE KNOWING more than I have felt before. I know with absolutely certainty if one remains focused on their vision, ALL obstacles MUST give way or totally disappear. That is universal law (and God's law), regardless of what or who tries to stop you.

Over the past few days I have received more emails of love and support then ever before, not just from students and past seminar attendees, but from people right across the world. The ACA exposure has really blessed us and I am truely grateful for what they have done. I don't think those people who accused me of some wrong doing or the journalists who continue to lie, not present the truth they have been provided and attempt to deceive the masses with their propaganda could have possibly forseen the huge benefits that would flow on to me and us.

Initially I felt a range of emotions that often one would normally experience when wrongly accused, lied to and cheated on. With the support of family, friends, students, strangers and my understanding of The Secret and The Law of Attraction I remained focused just on that massive positive benefits that must come from such adversity and did my best to lay all negative thoughts aside.

My wife and I had dinner at a beautiful restaurant tonight with my son Matthew and his friend Kristen (cause Kristen is heading back home to Canada tomorrow!) Matthew looks after our websites and he asked me if anything unusal happened last week (he didn't know about another attempt by ACA to discredit me). When I asked why he said that our websites experienced over 1,000% increase in traffic each day since Thursday! WOOHOO!

This flowed directly through to more online enquiries, more clients and more sales. A BIG thank you to ALL who have helped!!

David Schirmer on ACA and Close Up ... again

I found out recently that the gutter journalists are at it again. Yes, I'm going to be on national TV ... again.

This has now become quite a joke. Imagine me, an ex-farmer from North Queensland being so important that I get on national TV four times ... well ... international TV now as well, as the gutter journalist got his friend involved from New Zealand.

Either The Secret must be a huge threat to these people or I must be, or they are bound up in hatred and revenge for reasons only known to themselves ... to spend so much prime time on me in simply amazing.

And I'm not complaining either ... I'm actually pretty excited.

When ACA first ran their gutter journalism story based on a scandalous revengeful attack from a journalist who never did proper research and was only interested in negative stories, we saw the hits on our websites skyrocket ... and sales increase.

We got emails from around the world supporting and encouraging me to keep sharing the message of abundance, transforming people's lives and giving them hope. Thankfully there are a lot of people who don't believe the trash on current affair type shows.

Each attack only increases my resolve to be the best I can be, to stand up for what is the truth, and the tell individuals around the world how the Law of Attraction works.

Zig Ziglar, a world renowned speaker and author once said, "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you." I have learnt how true that is from a small group of people who can only criticise.

I asked the journalist in the first interview had he ever watched The Secret ... he hadn't ... yet he was so willing to rubbish it and pull it down. Imagine what amazing good could be done in Australia, New Zealand and around the world if shows like Current Affair and Close Up where to actually promote The Secret ... what would happen if an entire country understood and believed in abundance and The Law of Attraction rather then poverty and lack?

As for the effect the journalists and interviewees are bringing upon themselves, I wouldn't want to be one of them, especially the woman who is phoning up people to try to get them to go on the show for her own anger and revenge. Napoleon Hill said in his classic "Think and Grow Rich" that there are 7 major negative emotions to be avoided:

Fear
Jealously
Hatred
Revenge
Greed
Superstition
Anger

"Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time." And we ALWAYS attract the thing we focus on with emotion. Having hatred, jealously, revenge and anger against someone else, regardless of the reason, is like throwing a handful of dry sand into the wind blowing towards you.

I'm looking forward to lots more hits on our websites ... I love these guys.

Go to http://www.theabcofgettingrich.com/ shortly to download FREE a full copy on MP3 of my world famous seminar The Science Of Getting Rich ... recorded live in Sydney November 9-11, 2007. It was life changing ... you will love it.

In September 1960

Today I received this from one of our Inner Circle MasterMinds, David & Carol Hurst from near Toowoomba in Australia. A wonderful message:

In September 1960, I woke up one morning with six hungry babies and just 75 cents in my pocket.

Their father was gone.

The boys ranged from three months to seven years; their sister was two. Their Dad had never been much more than a presence they feared. Whenever they heard his tires crunch on the gravel driveway they would scramble to hide under their beds. He did manage to leave $15 a week to buy groceries.

Now that he had decided to leave, there would be no more beatings, but no food either.

If there was a welfare system in effect in southern Indiana at that time, I certainly knew nothing about it. I scrubbed the kids until they looked brand new and then put on my best homemade dress, loaded them into the rusty old 51 Chevy and drove off to find a job.

The seven of us went to every factory, store and restaurant in our small town. No luck.

The kids stayed crammed into the car and tried to be quiet while I tried to convince who ever would listen that I was willing to learn or do anything. I had to have a job. Still no luck.

The last place we went to, just a few miles out of town, was an old Root Beer Barrel drive-in that had been converted to a truck stop. It was called the Big Wheel. An old lady named Granny owned the place and she peeked out of the window from time to time at all those kids.

She needed someone on the graveyard shift, 11 at night until seven in the morning. She paid 65 cents an hour, and I could start that night.

I raced home and called the teenager down the street that baby-sat for people. I bargained with her to come and sleep on my sofa for a dollar a night. She could arrive with her pajamas on and the kids would already be asleep. This seemed like a good arrangement to her, so we made a deal.

That night when the little ones and I knelt to say our prayers, we all thanked God for finding Mommy a job. And so I started at the Big Wheel. When I got home in the mornings I woke the baby-sitter up and sent her home with one dollar of my tip money - fully half of what I averaged every night.

As the weeks went by, heating bills added a strain to my meager wage. The tires on the old Chevy had the consistency of penny balloons and began to leak. I had to fill them with air on the way to work and again every morning before I could go home.

One bleak fall morning, I dragged myself to the car to go home and found four tires in the back seat. New tires!

There was no note, no nothing, just those beautiful brand new tires. Had angels taken up residence in Indiana? I wondered.

I made a deal with the local service station. In exchange for his mounting the new tires, I would clean up his office. I remember it took me a lot longer to scrub his floor than it did for him to do the tires.

I was now working six nights instead of five and it still wasn't enough. Christmas was coming and I knew there would be no money for toys for the kids. I found a can of red paint and started repairing and painting some old toys. Then I hid them in the basement so there would be something for Santa to deliver on Christmas morning.

Clothes were a worry too. I was sewing patches on top of patches on the boys pants and soon they would be too far gone to repair.

On Christmas Eve the usual customers were drinking coffee in the Big Wheel. There were the truckers, Les, Frank, and Jim, and a state trooper named Joe. A few musicians were hanging around after a gig at the Legion and were dropping nickels in the pinball machine. The regulars all just sat around and talked through the wee hours of the morning and then left to get home before the sun came up.

When it was time for me to go home at seven o'clock on Christmas morning, to my amazement, my old battered Chevy was filled full to the top with boxes of all shapes and sizes. I quickly opened the driver's side door, crawled inside and kneeled in the front facing the back seat.

Reaching back, I pulled off the lid of the top box. Inside was whole case of little blue jeans, sizes 2-10! I looked inside another box: It was full of shirts to go with the jeans. Then I peeked inside some of the other boxes. There was candy and nuts and bananas and bags of groceries. There was an enormous ham for baking, and canned vegetables and potatoes. There was pudding and Jell-O and cookies, pie filling and flour. There was whole bag of laundry supplies and cleaning items. And there were five toy trucks and one beautiful little doll.

As I drove back through empty streets as the sun slowly rose on the most amazing Christmas Day of my life, I was sobbing with gratitude. And I will never forget the joy on the faces of my little ones that precious morning.

Yes, there were angels in Indiana that long-ago December. And they all hung out at the Big Wheel truck stop.... THE POWER OF PRAYER.

I believe that God only gives three answers to prayer:

1. "Yes!"
2. "Not yet."
3. "I have something better in mind."

God still sits on the throne, the devil is a liar.

You maybe going through a tough time right now but God is getting ready to bless you in a way that you cannot imagine.

Thank you to all who have shared this message to make sure it got to me.