I found out about The Secret from The Oprah Winfrey Show. I truly believed every single word written in the book and spoken on the video. Then I received an email from The Secret giving me a link to download a check from the Bank of the Universe. So I downloaded the check and wrote an amount of one hundred thousand ringgit [Malaysian currency equaling about $25,000 U.S.] on it just for fun, and I pinned it to the small vision board near my dressing table.

Then I took a one-ringgit bill and added zeros with a marker. I wanted to write 100,000.00, but the space was so small that I managed to add just five zeros. It ended up looking like 1,000.00, but I didn’t want to throw it away, so I just put it up there on my vision board with the check.

I looked at it every day and told myself that I believed it would happen. I didn’t really know whether my visualization exercise was correct, but I just did it every once in a while. And to be frank, as time went by, I kind of forgot about it.

Then, in early October, when I was paying my credit card bill at the service counter, I saw a pamphlet about a contest called “RM100,000.00 Dream Catcher SMS contest” that the credit card company was running. It started on July 5 and ended on October 15, but this was the first I’d heard about it. Then I thought, Well, I still have two weeks to send my entry; better late than never. So I did.

Then, at the end of the month, I received a call from the credit card company telling me that I had won second prize for the month of October. For that, I would get a cash prize of RM1,000.00. I was thrilled, because I’ve never really had much luck in big contests. I told my husband, and we were jumping with joy.

Two months after that, I received another call from the company, saying that I had been selected as one of eleven finalists to compete for the grand prize of RM100,000.00 and that the winner would be decided the following week.

That night I was sitting at my dressing table when I noticed my vision board. There was the RM100,000.00 check I had written three months before. My heart was beating fast as I noticed the one-ringgit bill that looked like RM1,000 rather than RM100,000.00.

I took the note and the check into the living room to show my husband. I said, “Sweetheart, I think I know why I won second prize for RM1,000. It’s the RM1 bill! Even though I ordered it by accident, God still delivered it to me! It’s The Secret in action!”

Then I was crying tears of happiness. The little voice inside of me kept saying I’d be the winner of the grand prize, that God (the Universe) had arranged the event, people, and circumstances to deliver my RM100,000.00 check to me.

Then I read the chapter on The Secret to Money and watched the video again. Every time I had a doubt that the prize was mine, I quickly replaced it with the image of me on the stage, smiling and holding the big mock check for RM100,000.00.

Before we left the house on the morning of the grand finale, my husband said to me, “Take the RM100,000.00 check that you wrote; you’re going to claim the real one today.” So I did.

Before entering the room, I took a last look at that check, visualized winning, and tried to cast off doubt. Then I noticed the remittance advice on top of the check: FEEL GOOD. I quickly grabbed my husband’s iPhone and opened the photo albums of my beautiful two-year-old daughter. Seeing her sweet smile made me feel so happy inside that I knew I was on the right track. Throughout the whole event, I just thought about my daughter’s smile and visualized winning.

And YES I DID!

I won the grand prize of RM100,000.00. When they announced my name, I felt as if I were having a déjà vu experience, because I’d had the same pictures rolling in my mind so many times before.

After delivering the mock check, the judge said to me, “When you walked into this room with the other ten finalists, you looked the happiest of all. Maybe that’s because you knew that you were going to win.”

So it really is a miracle. I wrote a bill for RM1,000.00 by accident and a check for RM100,000.00 on August 18, and on December 12, they both came true.

When I told my friends and family what had happened, those with doubts became believers.