If you expect miracles in your life, then release any attachment to the outcome.
You flip through it and say, 'I'd like to have that product and I'd like to have a person like that. It is You placing your order with the Universe. It's really that easy.
Don't lean on the past, learn from it and move on.
Thoughts are sending out that magnetic signal that is drawing the parallel back to you
Smile. It is sunshine to others.
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they) are angry.