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Submitted by: Emily
Toronto, CanadaI had watched the movie several times before it actually occurred to me to try it out for myself. I am generally pretty skeptical, but I thought I had nothing to lose. I was just getting out of a terribly destructive relationship, I had hit bottom with self confidence issues. Then I started taking a course and started crushing on my instructor. I thought, “There is no way a guy like this would ever fall for a nutcase like me.” But I was so compelled by him. He was everything I was not – successful, beautiful, motivated.
One day I was daydreaming away, and let myself try The Secret for the first time. I drew a small picture of the two of us, arms entwined, with a little heart over us. I had to giggle at myself, since I was long out of grade school and hadn’t done anything so silly in ages. But I kept it, and would look at it from time to time and imagine it as reality.
We got together soon after, much to my surprise, are blissfully in love many years later and just got engaged.
The second time The Secret worked for me, I was having many dental issues which added up to a small car, and I could never afford the work. I hated myself for years, and spent many of them in pain and self loathing. Finally I decided, this has to change NOW! I cut out a picture of the most gorgeous smile and put it up on a board. I had NO idea how I was going to get the $15,000 to fix my teeth, I just knew it would happen.
Yes, there were many moments of self doubt, but I kept it up. Then I came across an ad for auditions for a makeover show. Then I got the show, and the new smile I had longed for, for so long.
I still have many things to fix in my life, but I am more hopeful than ever. I try to remind myself often of the lessons learned from The Secret – it’s easy to let them slip from memory or give in to self doubt. But I can not doubt the impact it has had on my life, or the beautiful results.