I listened to the audio book version of The Secret for the first time a couple of weeks ago. As with other things in my life, I was intrigued by The Secret, but afraid I wouldn’t be able to actually apply it’s principles to my life. I’ve been re-listening to the audio book version a few times and each time I keep picking up new details, new things to try. But I’m a perfectionist, I feel like I have to do it perfectly and this IDEA of The Secret is so huge, it was a bit overwhelming for me– where do I start?

Today, I remembered the guy and his feather from the book. He started small. I will too!

I hadn’t felt well and my plan was to pick up an Oreo cookie ice cream cake yesterday for my son’s birthday, which is today. This is his favorite! I didn’t get to Dairy Queen in time (we all know they have the best ice cream cakes!). And so today, I loaded up my birthday boy and we drove to DQ. Got there, and it was closed. Of course! It’s a holiday, many places are closed. I told him we’ll go to the grocery store, they also have wonderful ice cream cakes. In my mind, I started to think “Uh oh, this could be bad, they may not have any. And if they do, they may not have an Oreo cookie one”….. RIGHT as I started thinking those thoughts, I stopped myself. I thought, this is it… this is the moment I can change my frequency! So I did. I felt good about it. I imagined going to the freezer section and finding the exact ice cream cake my son wanted. As we got out of the car, we talked about getting the one he wanted. And I kept envisioning it, over and over as we walked into the store and to the freezer section. I kept thinking to myself, we’ll get the exact cake he wants. We will find it here.

We got to the cake section. We saw vanilla ice cream cakes & chocolate ice cream cakes. Those would do, at least they had something.

THEN, I looked up one shelf and…. there it was. An Oreo cookie ice-cream cake. Sitting alone, just waiting for us! There aren’t words to explain the feeling I had at that moment! I have been smiling ever since! And of course, my son’s pretty happy too.

I’m realizing, in the past, what I’ve done is just prepared for the worst…. never really expecting the best. Maybe hoping for the best but not expecting it. This way, when what I’ve hoped for doesn’t manifest, I’m not disappointed. And that’s normally what I would’ve done today, just prepared for the grocery store to not have the ice cream cake we wanted, and been ready to get a regular cake for my son.

I will be expecting better things from now on! I will be asking, believing, and receiving! It will be a good year.

Thank you!