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New York Trip
Submitted by: Imelda
Bellflower, CAI had been wanting to take my daughter to New York for the longest time. She had been commenting to me that she really wanted to go. She even wrote me a letter when she was seven asking me to take her. Since she’s a good student in school, and also a good daughter, I figured she deserves it. For the past three years I had been planning to take her. I would say to myself, ‘This year I will take her,’ but because of circumstance in my life the plans never came through.
On Friday, April 25, 2008, my friend introduced me to The Secret. I went to her house and we watched the DVD. After we watched it we talked about life and how crazy all this can be. When I left from there I left very excited, and thinking more about my life, and about the New York trip. I had been saving some money since the beginning of the year but was to afraid to buy the tickets since I thought something might happen and I would either have to cancel my trip or I wouldn’t have enough money to pay for the hotel or even spending money. On Monday I called a friend that works at a travel agency and told her that I was going to New York and if she can find me some decent price tickets. On May 1st I bought the tickets to New York. The next thing was to look for a hotel. I only had $100 in my bank account at the time. But I was positive and believed I would have the money by the time I had to pay for the room. I shopped around and on May 20 I paid for the hotel. During all this time in the back of my mind I was thinking I wanted to have $1500 in my bank account before I would leave on my trip, which was on June 19. On June 1st I had $400 from money I had saved. On the day that I left I had $1555 in my bank account. I was full of joy. I received money from places I wasn’t expecting to receive. The checks came in the mail.
Now I’ve been working on my life, and I’ve seen changes in my life – not drastically, but little by little. It is an improvement from before. I’m happier with myself. I’m happier with the situations around me. Because I know that I can change everything in one second.
I’m learning to be grateful for my past experience and learning from it. Learning that everything I have received in the past and am now receiving is because of my own thinking. All I can say is that I’m in love with life.
Thank you, Rhonda Byrne, for sharing a glimpse of what can be and will be.