I saw The Secret movie several years ago, before I ever read the book but the minute I saw it, I instinctively knew it to be the truth. I thought back to all the times in my life when I got things I wanted after giving them my attention. It rang true to my core.

I saw the movie not long after ending a difficult, 27 year marriage. I was struggling financially to make payments on my own. One extra doctor bill meant I didn’t have enough to pay another bill. One morning, after doctor bills left me $245 short in making my mortgage payment, I was stressing on my way to work about how I was going to come up with that money. While that may not seem like much to some, when you are living paycheck to paycheck, it is huge.

Then I remembered The Secret. I decided right then and there that I was no longer going to focus on my problem, only the solution. I gave it up and said out loud, “I don’t know how or when this is going to happen, but I’m going to have faith that it will”, and promptly stopped worrying about it. I thanked the Universe in advance for solving my problem and went on to work.

About 3 hours after I got to work, one of my coworkers came and asked me if I wanted to come to a gold party at her house after work. I didn’t know this woman very well so I was surprised she would ask me. I also had no idea what a gold party was, so I asked her. She said if you have any gold jewelry that you don’t wear, bring it to the party and a friend of hers who is a gold buyer would buy it from you.

Right after work, I went in my safe and gathered up all my old, broken gold jewelry that I no longer wore, including my wide wedding band that I had lost the 1/3 carat diamond out of a few months earlier, and went to the party. When it was my turn, I dumped out the baggie on the table and the buyer started looking through it all. I kept out the wedding band as I wasn’t entirely sure I was ready to give that one up yet. She finished weighing and measuring everything and said she would give me $150 for everything.

I threw the wedding band on the table and asked how much more that would bring. She assessed it and said she’d give me $120 for the wedding band, making the total $270. I said “sold”, and I have never looked back.

Not only did I now have enough to make my house payment, I had $25 more!

I knew right then that this was the beginning of a new, great chapter in my life and it truly was. I have since changed my attitude and outlook on everything and life just keeps getting better and better. It has led to leaving a job of 17 years for a much better paying job, relief from financial stress, and so much more.

I share The Secret to anyone who will listen. When people tell me that I look better than I ever have and ask me what my “secret” is, I share The Secret with them. It’s no longer a Secret! I’ve also learned that, unfortunately, not everyone is ready for the information. But I am grateful for the opportunity to share it with everyone and hope that one day, the light bulb will click for them too.

I think as a society, we’ve been brainwashed into believing that life is all about hard work and struggle if you want to have anything and I’ve learned that couldn’t be farther from the truth. I am so enjoying life these days and start each day with a prayer of gratitude for all my many blessings and also for the blessings that I know are still to come. If I am wanting something specific, I go ahead and give thanks for that too as I know it will come. I still occasionally fall back on old habits and find myself stressing about something. I then remind myself that I don’t want more of whatever is stressing me out, and change my tune quickly!

Thank you in advance for letting me share my story.