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Just About To Give Up
Submitted by: John P
Clearwater, Florida44yr old married with 2 children, from New Jersey now living in Clearwater, Florida.
This is my experience using The Secret to get me where I am today.
It starts in Boca Raton, Florida 2011 on April 22nd, the day before my 43rd birthday. I a poker dealer in Hallandale Beach living in a 2300 sq ft home and pretty comfortable earning about 800 per week. About a week prior to April 22nd I was on my way to work and my van broke down. After having it looked at, it was going to cost more to fix it than the van was worth, so I had a co-worker pick me up for work for that week.
Just a few days after the van broke down, I got a notice in the mail that the home we were renting was sold at auction and was now owned by the bank and we had 30 days to move. Then on April 22nd, I showed up to work only to find out I was being fired because I had been trying to earn extra income on my days off building poker tables. So I’m on the BUS going home in complete shock, wondering how we’re gonna make it now. Lets review this week … MY VAN BROKE DOWN, OUR HOME WAS SOLD AT AUCTION, AND I WAS FIRED!!!!! Just 1 of those happenings is enough to put a family in a big time hole, yet alone all 3 of those.
So needless to say we scraped and clawed for every dollar, doing odd jobs for the next 5 months until we decided to move back to the west coast of Florida to the Clearwater area where we had lived years prior. In Sept of 2011, we found a place to live and struggled for a good 6 months to get by. We even wound up in eviction court 2 months behind on the rent, not to mention all the other bills. At this point it had caused so much stress between my wife and children that things were really bad and it looked as if we wouldn’t make it and were ready to just give up.
I had bought the book The Secret about a year before all this and had only dabbled in it and not put it to full use. Just like a lot of others, I didn’t know how to use it properly. I allowed my negative thoughts to overpower my positive ones, therefore that’s what I manifested (negativity). My only real skill/trade is dealing poker since I’m from New Jersey and had 15 years experience, so this is the field I needed to be in.. So I tried for 6 months to get into a card room nearby without any luck. It was at this point I figured lead me start engaging myself in this book The Secret. I guess you can say I had nothing to lose.
So I read it every day trying to instill positive energy as much as I could. After a week or 2 of this, I get a call out of the clear blue from the Hard Rock casino in Tampa where I had applied online like a year before that. They said they are hiring 11 dealers for poker and they’d like to give me an audition. Needless to say I was elated.
So I go to my audition and I slam it to the point that the players were clapping for me after I dealt.. Great, I’m feeling real good about myself, then I sit down with the director and they tell me whats required for me to be hired. First I have to pass a drug test, ok no problem, then I have to pass a background check, ok no problem, and 3rd I have to pass a credit check and be in good standing??? OMG my heart almost fell through the floor. My credit absolutely sucks because like most, I was a stupid careless young man and got into credit issues and owed everyone. I’m thinking this is it, I’M DONE. This is going to be a chance of a lifetime and I’m doomed by my bad credit. I actually almost got up from the table and walked out telling them not to waste their time because my credit is horrible, but I didn’t, I bit my lip and went with it.
After the shock and negativity of that experience I started reading The Secret everyday and more importantly than reading it, I was applying it. I started saying things like, I’m gonna get this job, it’s mine, I’m a poker dealer, I’m gonna make $1000 a week again, my bills are paid, my marriage is saved, my kids have confidence in me again.
After 2 agonising weeks of them doing my background check, I get a call from the investigator, I knew it was her, and I knew she was calling to give me the news yay or nay. Needless to say my heart was pounding and I was shaking as I was about to be given an answer that would affect not only my life, but my wife and 2 children’s lives for the present and future. She said “This is such and such from seminole Hard Rock in Tampa calling to let you know everything has been approved and we’d like to offer you a position as a poker dealer..” At the time of this call my wife and I had just pulled up to the park to take a walk and de-stress so she was with me when I got the news. As soon as I hit end on my phone to end the call, I burst into tears as I held my wife. The weight that was just lifted off of our shoulders was enormous and I immediately looked to the sky and said thank you. I was saying thank you to god, to the universe, and to The Secret, in that order.
Now anyone can read this story and say well you had 15 years of experience and that’s why they hired you not because of The Secret. My answer to that is anyone that knows this company knows that it’s one of the hardest establishments to get into and someone pretty much has to die for a position to open. I know for sure that my credit is horrible and had no business landing that job. This is why I believe in divine intervention, the power of positive thinking, and the power of the universe to bring it all to you if you ask and believe.
For everyone that says this book is a fraud my comment to them would be, it’s only a fraud to you because you’re negative and don’t know how to use it. If I buy a hammer and don’t know how to use it, I’m gonna ruin whatever I’m building. The same holds true for The Secret – learn how to use it and build your life and don’t ask for a million dollars tomorrow, that’s silly. Start small and work your way up. Once those smaller things start appearing, you’ll start to believe it and you’ll have the power and belief needed to manifest bigger and better things.