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A Job And An Exciting New Life!
Submitted by: Kate
Long Island, New York, USAAfter I graduated from college, I struggled for many months to get a job. I read The Secret many times and watched the movie, and while it totally changed my way of thinking and gave me a better outlook on life, I was still having trouble getting myself to believe that I already had a job, which was what I wanted most from the Universe.
One day, after a week of applying for countless jobs without getting a response, I had an epiphany. I was trying to remain very optimistic and writing in my journal every day that I was grateful for the job I had, but I truly wasn’t acting or thinking as if I already had a job. I realized that sitting at home, just applying for jobs, and hoping that one would come my way wasn’t getting me anywhere, because I was telling myself through my thoughts and actions that I would always be looking for a job! I figured out that I had to live as though I were already employed.
I began to get up extra early, as I would if I had to go to work in the morning, and instead of searching for jobs every day and writing in my journal about being grateful that a job was coming, I would write how grateful I was that each day at work was successful and that I loved where I was working and the people I worked with. I planned out outfits to wear for the workweek and set up a savings account for my paychecks. I hung out with friends who had jobs after they got home from work and listened to them talk about their jobs without having the feelings of jealousy or inadequacy I used to have, because I knew that I too had a job and, therefore, had no reason to feel any resentment. I also brushed up on my typing and computer skills.
Pretty soon I really did believe and feel as though I had a job and a schedule to adhere to.
About two weeks after I started “pretending” that I had a job, someone told me about a position that would be perfect for me. Even before I went for the interview, I knew I would get the job, and I did! The most amazing part is that things at my new job are going almost exactly as I had written about them in my journal. Now I write about how I want things to go every day, and it always works out.
I am so grateful to The Secret, because if I had never studied its teachings, I would never have known that things have to be believed before they can happen, and I would never be living as I do now.