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Over the past couple of weeks on FinerMinds we’ve introduced you to a remarkable woman: Helene Hadsell. She’s the 83-year-old “Winning Sage” from Alvarado, Texas who literally wins everything she wants in life through contests. Helene is the Law of Attraction in action, and she’s been doing it for 50 years.
In our last piece about Helene we guided you through her life-long winning streak. Today, we want to share with you the story of Carolyn Wilman, “The Contest Queen”, who has learned a tremendous amount from Helene Hadsell.
Carolyn’s approach to entering contests changed radically after she met Helene, and so did her ability to win! Right now Carolyn just got back from enjoying a romantic trip in London with her husband (which she won in a contest, of course!).
Here is Carolyn Wilman’s story, in her own words, of meeting Helene and the how this meeting changed her life:
Hi,
I have studied many motivational, inspirational and spiritual teachers over the past 20 years. I first read about Helene Hadsell, author of The Name It & Claim It Game on Joe Vitale’s blog in the summer of 2007. He talked about how she used her mind to focus her energy and win every contest she ever entered. WOW! As a fellow contest hobbyist and author of You Can’t Win If You Don’t Enter, I wanted to know exactly how she did that. I win a lot, but not every promotion I enter. I began writing an email to her, but for some reason it sat in my Drafts folder for months. While cleaning out my email in June of 2008 I finally completed it and sent that email to Helene. She immediately wrote me back and included her phone number. I rang her. We spoke for over an hour. I felt as if I had met a kindred soul.
During our conversation Helene agreed to be a guest on my online radio show. She was my guest on the August 4th 2008 edition of “From the Contest Queen.” (I include the date as it shows how fast you can manifest your goals, dreams, desires, and wishes into your life if you focus enough energy on them.)
During the show we talked about her entry method versus mine. She would select a prize, find a contest giving away that prize, enter, focus on it, and win. I focused on winning, but entered hundreds of contests on a daily basis. I asked her why I had not yet won a car yet. Helene said, “Dear, why do you disperse your energy over so many contests? Focus on what you really want to win and you will.”
The next day I created a new vision board, wrote up 3x5s with my new goals that I could focus on (I even hung one on the shower door) and changed my entire contest entering system.
The things I decided I wanted most in my life were:
- To own a very profitable business
- To be a guest on the Ellen DeGeneres Show
- To win a new car
- To win a week long romantic trip for two to London UK
- To win a week long family trip for four to Walt Disney World
- To win a home makeover
- To win a backyard makeover
- To win an big screen LCD HDTV
- To win a Wii
- To win a BlackBerry
I focused on each of these goals several times a day for a few weeks. For the month of September, I still won my usual 5-15 prizes that month (apparently, I cannot, not win), but they were very small prizes in both size and dollar value. Where were the big prizes that Helene spoke of? Little Miss Impatient (me) gave up. I missed entering heaps of contests. The hobby wasn’t as fun for me anymore. So I went back to entering heaps of contests every day. I began to have fun again. At the same time, I reassessed my goals. I was entering a lot of contests that offered trips as prizes, so I changed my goal of a trip to London to a romantic trip anywhere. I figured if the Universe saw fit to send me to the Caribbean, who am I to argue? I also stopped focusing on my goals every day.
On November 7th, almost three months to the day of setting my goals, I was notified I was the Grand Prize winner of the Smart Set “Meet Duffy in London” Contest!! I was ecstatic.
The prize included:
- A chance to meet Duffy and two tickets to her show
- $500 spending money
- Roundtrip airfare for two
- 4 nights hotel accommodation
- $500 Smart Set gift card
- A copy of Duffy’s Rockferry CD
Two thoughts also went through my head: 1) WOW! This stuff really works and 2) Oh My Gosh, all the other goals I set for myself are on their way!
Hold on! Didn’t I ask for a weeklong trip? This was only 4 nights/5 days. I thought, “Close enough!”, and merrily made travel plans. Well, while making all the travel arrangements with the contest sponsors, Universal Music and Transat Holidays, I was informed we would be flying out December 4th and returning on December 11th. Wait, wasn’t that 6 nights/7 days? Yes. They chose to extend the trip by 2 days. So I got my week after all. I was amazed how well Helene’s SPEC Method (Select it, Project it, Expect it, and Collect it) actually worked! (Also, did you notice? I asked the Universe for what I wanted and it arrived via Universal. COOL!)
The adventure isn’t over yet!
As the information for the trip went back and forth, I realized we were not flying into Heathrow airport, but into Gatwick. (If you have never been to London, Heathrow is close to the city connected by the Underground. Gatwick is fairly far and one must take the train into the city, then changing to the Underground.) I thought OH NO! Not that I minded flying to an airport further out of the city, or even having to take the train, but our luggage is old (I bought it in 1990) and it wouldn’t be very easy to haul on and off trains. I said to my husband, we need new luggage. He started to shop around. In the meantime, I got the final travel documents. I realized Transat Holidays had included transfers to and from the airport to our hotel by car. I told my husband, since we are being chauffeured and with Christmas just around the corner, I thought we could manage another trip with our old luggage and purchase a new set in the New Year. He agreed.
Then on November 30th I got a call from Zellers. I had entered a contest way back in May and I had won. Could I come down to the store today and pick-up my brand new set of luggage? They apologized for taking so long to call me, but they had to wait for the two smaller pieces of luggage to arrive from the other contest sponsor. Incredible! That goal wasn’t even on the original list. The wish for new luggage was an afterthought and it manifested almost immediately.
I have since begun focusing on all the other goals again several times a day. Now, I wonder when my new car will arrive.
As you can well imagine, I highly recommend Helene’s book The Name It & Claim It Game to anyone who is interested in achieving their goals quickly and easily. Although the subject of the book may be based on contests, Helene’s techniques can be applied to any goal you may have: health, wealth, love, etc.
Enjoy!
Carolyn Wilman
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