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Submitted by: Amy C.
Mpls, MNI am a happily married mother of 2 beautiful children.
I want to tell my story, and say thank you to the entire Secret team. When I read The Secret I was a happy stay at home mom, I really had nothing to complain about in life. I had a nice home, great family and friends and a wonderful husband. My kids were in their early years of school and we loved their school, their teachers and their friends.
As many schools are having budget cuts, ours were as well. The district ended up moving our children to another school that we were very unhappy with, it was not a good situation. My husband and I looked at every option. Do we go to another school in the district, send them to a private school or sell our house and move to a different city?
After months of weighing our options, we knew that the best one was to move to a neighboring city that was known for having the best schools in the state. The problem was, we were in the middle of the housing slump and my husband had started his own company the year before. We didn’t know if we could sell our house, and if we could, how could we get a new mortgage without much of an income, since we had only been in business for a year?
I didn’t care, my kids education was all that mattered, and I knew what had to be done. Reading The Secret gave me the confidence to go for it.
The next problem, I had always said that the next time we moved we would build a home. It is so difficult to move and I had planned my dream home in my head for so many years that I didn’t want to settle for any home but the dream one in my head. Of course the area we wanted to move was very expensive in part because of the great schools. I searched for new homes and nothing was in our budget.
One day, I was online and saw an ad for a new development exactly where I wanted to be. The cheapest home in the neighborhood was exactly the price we needed to be at. When we went to visit the model home I could not believe my eyes. It was perfect. When we walked out of the home I told my realtor “I created this neighborhood”. I knew that the Universe made this spot for me and my family, it was everything I wanted and more! We sold our home in a couple of months and were lucky to break even on it when many people were losing a fortune on their homes in the market.
Unfortunately, by the time we sold our home, the few homes in the neighborhood that we could afford had been sold. Now what? I had to live there!
The school year was about to start so we decided to rent a home in the district to get the kids at the new school. I didn’t want to rush into another house, I knew what I wanted. The home was small but nice and we settled in. Nothing seemed to matter, I was thankful for where we were. Every day I gave thanks for my childrens amazing new school and teachers and their safety.
We spent months looking for a home without finding what we wanted. I was starting to doubt we could build our house because none of the signs looked good. On a long drive with my husband I told him, I want to live in that neighborhood! I know it looks impossible but let’s do it, let’s play, imagine, visualize.
I have an amazing husband who went along with my dream. We made a vision board with our home on it, I took long walks in the neighborhood I wanted to live in, I even sent a letter to myself welcoming me to my new home and mailed it to an address of a home-not-built, yet in the neighborhood. 3 months later we knew we had to get out of the rental. In one last ditch effort I e-mailed the builder I had met with the year before. I told him that we had been searching but I only wanted to live in a house he built in that neighborhood. He asked us to come over and see him. My heart sank when he said that they had poured the last foundation for the last house in my neighborhood. It was on one of the best lots! He then said, I know how badly you guys want to live here let’s see if we can make this work.
We spent weeks taking extras out of the plan and he even let us do a lot of the work ourselves to make this house affordable for us. He had no reason in the world to do this for us, but he did.
We moved into my dream home before Christmas this year. It is amazing. The home is bigger and better than I imagined and we ended up on a better lot than we thought we could. I can truly see how the Universe rearranged everything for me to be where I am.
I sit in this beautiful home, my kids are at school where they are excelling in every way possible. I am truly grateful and amazed! There were some tricky times along the way but The Secret kept me focused and helped me to believe. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!