Only a few days left to get your entries in for this book giveaway.  We’re giving away 5 sets of 11 books for dad.

Dad loves to read, right?  Well, with father’s day coming up, we here at Long Days and Pleasant Nights thought we’d offer you a chance for a freebie.  If you are a dad, have a dad, know a dad or ever aspire to be a dad then you are eligible to win one copy of each of the books listed below.  Yes, the prize package is 11 books.

Hachette Book Group USA has graciously offered to supply the books.  Books that it specifically selected for dad’s everywhere.

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I’ve been listening to The Secret audiobook and thinking that this can so apply to keeping an organized, uncluttered home and life. If you’re not familiar with the secret, it’s a kind of self-help movie dealing in the idea of positive thinking, but with a seriously thought out strategic way to think and feel positive. I think I’m feeling a podcast brewing on applying the secret to our homes.

If you want to try it now, my best advice — short of watching the movie — is this. Ask for what you want. Ask the universe for a clean, uncluttered home. Ask only once and be specific about what you want. Use positive wording like “I want an organized basement” instead of negative wording like “I don’t want a messy basement.” Now, believe and feel that you already have a clean basement. Act as if it’s already come true, that you have a clean basement already, even if it’s still a mess.

The idea is that the universe acts as your genie, the “your wish is my command” guy, but the universe mirrors your thoughts and feelings exactly, giving you what you think and feel, but in the real physical world. It’s not up to you to figure out how your basement will get cleane, that’s the universe’s problem. Your job is just to think, feel and believe.

Yes, this process involves a leap of faith, but if you take that leap and believe it will work, then it will work.

Once I helped people de-clutter, people were phoning me, contacting me and saying, “Oh my God, a side effect is that I suddenly find I’m losing weight.”

I haven’t had the opportunity yet to read this book (it’s on my Audible Wish List I’ve now downloaded it) but it looks quite interesting. In the meantime, here’s a review by someone else.

If you’ve read it, please review it in the comments.