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Profound Changes – Life’s New Paths

Submitted by: Barbara Steel Peschl

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida USA

I am a 55 year old Floridian, and together with my husband run a small cabinet and furniture restoration business. We work primarily with the insurance companies on losses to restore and repair damages. We believe we are helping to keep insurance costs down by what we do, and also to provide people with a way of keeping treasured belongings. We've got two children and for the most part over our 23 year relationship have been at odds with one another. Mostly because my husband was an unhappy man. Unhappy with himself, with work, with life, and with everyone around him. This resulted in those around him, myself, our children, extended family members, also being affected in negative ways... which had far reaching impacts. Notice the use of the word "had" - as in past tense. I am now caring for an elderly father, my only remaining parent, having lost my mother ten years ago and a sister nearly twenty years ago. He is an unhappy man and now that he has to go into assisted living is even more unhappy. We've tried to instill in him the principles of The Secret, but have been unsuccessful so far... but we will keep trying because the rewards are so incredible, powerful, and life altering that we are bound to keep trying....

Wow, where to start? I “found” The Secret online while looking for something else entirely – the short version of this part is that I first read the site, then the book, then the video. I was SO floored by the simplicity that I found myself changing overnight.

My prayer (I am a devout Christian and find those who “oppose” the tenets of The Secret rather silly, as the foundations are basic Christian principles anyway) has been for more than 22 years that my husband be a kinder, more compassionate, more loving person. Things had frequently gotten so bad, I had mapped my strategy out of this union countless times over the years. My husband was an angry, self defeating, and stressed man, with no joy in life or work.

On a thought/belief – I left the video sitting on the dining room table one day. The short version is that he not only watched it, but within DAYS was a completely different man! Impossible – yet true! He is now, a little more than a year later, my best friend, my partner – my life. He wakes up happy and sends me loving texts every day. He has expanded our business (which up to The Secret, hated) and is now still somewhat stressed over the growth of the business, but on those days he pops in the audio of The Secret and re-centers himself! This is nothing less than a miracle… but it doesn’t stop there.

My brother was another man in my life who had grown listless and angry at the way his life had turned out. At 64, he was retired, but without direction in his life. I gave him my video and book, and within days he too had become a changed man – more upbeat, happy, and also certain, as I was, that this was most definitely a sign for him to take hold of his own life and his own attitude.

Shortly after, his son was expecting their first child, my brother’s second grandchild. When I asked about the name, my nephew told me they were thinking of a name my brother had given to his son on birth, after his best friend from high school. I asked whatever happened to that person, and my brother shrugged and said that he lost contact forty plus years ago.

Something made me ‘Google’ this person and I found out that not only was he close, but he had, together with his son, opened an aviation school and jet charter service. The part I haven’t told you is that my brother was a fighter pilot with the Navy during Viet Nam years, and after he left the Navy tried to enter commercial aviation, but in those days you had to be a certain height and my brother was rejected. That began his spiral down, as all he EVER wanted to do was fly!

A few short emails back and forth with my brother’s high school friend and I discovered that he needed a jet pilot and asked me what my brother was doing these days! A few weeks after that, my brother had bought a house and moved and had begun recertification as a commercial jet pilot – but not just flying the buses of a commercial airline, but now flying the most advanced and beautiful of private jets, carrying clients to exotic locations all over the globe at AGE 65!!!

My brother worked hard to achieve all the licenses and certifications needed for this, but all the while knew it was his belief and mine that brought these two high school best friends back together to fulfill destinies only determined by belief and faith in what was most wanted – for both of them!

There are others, but these two are the most impacting to date. My husband and I are now in the system of belief that the sudden growth and expansion of our business will result in greater financial security not only for ourselves, but also for the wonderful and loving team we’ve assembled!

Thank you so much for producing what the world has needed – a way, a means, and a system to BELIEVE in greater things. I believe, because of my faith, that when Rhonda uses the word “universe” – to me, it means God. God needs for us to be happy, productive, and positive – there really is no other way to be a faithful person… without faith in oneself and the knowledge that God really wants us to be happy and rewarded!

Thank you for changing my life and the lives of my family in amazing and profound ways.

The Secret is now a part of our daily operations – our daily thoughts and our means of keeping balance and outlook in our lives!

Barbara Steel Peschl

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