In 2020, during the challenging times of the pandemic, Rhonda Byrne’s book The Secret gained immense popularity in Serbia. At 25, I was on a journey of spiritual growth and self-improvement, so I decided to buy and read the book. One of the practices that stood out to me was the idea of manifesting abundance by writing myself a check for a desired amount and a future date, then letting it go and trusting the law of attraction.

On April 9, 2020, I printed out the check and filled it in for the amount of $100,000, an ambitious sum for me, coming from a very humble background. I set the date five years into the future: April 9, 2025. I placed this check in a small box on a shelf I like to call my “altar,” along with a bay leaf on which I wrote the word “home,” symbolizing my deepest desire to one day own a place of my own.

As the years went by, life unfolded: I experienced love, heartbreak, career growth, and even adopted a puppy named Ralph. In late 2024, during a particularly stressful period filled with personal and societal challenges, I suddenly felt inspired to start looking at real estate in another city. Within just two months, I found the perfect property and had saved enough for the down payment I had been diligently setting aside over the past five years.

I purchased my apartment in April 2025, and the price was exactly €100,000. On June 22, 2025, while doing a deep cleaning of my room, I stumbled upon that little box and discovered the check I had written five years earlier. To my astonishment, the date on the check, April 9, matched the exact date I signed the purchase agreement for my new home.

The universe truly works in mysterious ways!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!