As a child, I remember entering a competition in You Magazine and the prize was a SEGA Megadrive (remember them!). As I was filling out the postcard entry I remember being overcome with a feeling that I WAS going to be the first prize winner. I sent off the postcard and the following Sunday when going through the same Magazine, saw my name as the main winner. I knew what had happened but it overwhelmed me a little. Was I psychic or had I brought this to myself? I was only about 10 years old.

Fast forward 8 or 9 years, and I was in the back of a car with my sister and her fiance and we pulled up to his house and I met his brother for the first time. I was quite shy and stayed in the back of the car, and even though I was going out with someone at the time, the following thought came into my head from nowhere: “Not yet, but someday I will be with him, I’m too young now.” I had the feeling that he was the one. No I’m not a crazy stalker lady.

We met again a few times before my sister’s wedding and the day of the wedding, but I was still with the same boyfriend from before and shrugged off the previous thought and didn’t dwell on it. A year later, at a family event, the vibes between us were electric, and 10 years later we are still together and planning to get married soon. I always knew it would be this way.

A few years ago, I heard about a house that was going to be sold. As soon as I heard I had a feeling and a thought: “That will be my home.” I really had to work on Joey to approach the bank, he didn’t think it was possible. We are 6 years in this beautiful home, in a great area, and every day I leave to go to work, I look back and say: “I love my home and Joe.” I am so grateful for the happiness and love within it (neither of us came from happy childhoods). I am so lucky.

I think when you are younger, you have more belief and greater confidence in your beliefs, and that confidence is what is required. I ask for a lot of things and don’t always receive, but I am sure that it is down to a lot of the negativity that is out there nowadays regarding employment, finances, etc., and that I am not as confident in my thoughts as before, and the fact that I am probably letting outside doubts enter my thoughts inadvertently.

I have always believed that I will always have enough money, and sure enough whenever unexpected bills crop up, I do always have enough to pay for them even though I never have surplus money on other months from my pay. I have always believed that I will always land on my feet and that things will always work out, so there is no point worrying about them, because the outcome will always be the same.

I read The Secret about a year ago, and all sorts of memories came to me, including the way in which I came across the book! (In a garden shop! Too difficult to explain!) I had been using this method without realising it, both positively and negatively! And I am now working on focusing my thoughts and not negating the positive ones with other thoughts.