I’ve always been a big dreamer. When I was a kid, I would let my imagination run wild, and that has always stuck with me. I would sit and daydream of happy, ideal situations for hours and hours, but I never considered my thoughts to be powerful until I watched The Secret.

I knew early on that I wanted to become a professional singer ever since my mother encouraged me and put me through music lessons as a child. My very first concert was a junior high talent show. Hearing the audience cheering and screaming my name lit my fire—I was born to be on stage in front of a microphone!

After I graduated high school, I fell in love with rock music, particularly Marilyn Manson and Alice Cooper. I became overexcited and started my band, “Sweet Tooth,” with the biggest, most unrealistic dreams at heart. But slowly it began to dawn on me that the chances of “making it big” in the highly-competitive music industry were thin. I became negative and angry but chased the dream in hot pursuit. To my dismay, it seemed that nobody was interested in what I had to sing about, and the concerts that I booked ended up getting canceled, or Sweet Tooth was dropped from the bill.

I became so discouraged that I gave it all up. I told my band members I quit, and there was more of a chance of getting struck by lightning at high noon on a sunny day than getting a record deal.

About a year later, I discovered The Secret. That is when I met my mentors.

My mother gave me the DVD, and I felt a strange sense of affinity towards it before I even opened the case. I turned on my television, and that night changed everything. I watched it three times, and then twice again in the morning and every day after that for a solid month. I even played it in the background while I did my homework. I remember when the word “visualization” appeared on the screen, it felt as though the key to success I had been striving for finally clicked. I wasn’t getting anywhere in my young music career because I was doubting myself! As soon as I went from positive to negative, the tide began to turn in my favor.

As instructed, I diligently visualized the success I was craving, which previously I had kept under clouds of doubt and unworthiness. I imagined the crazed audience at my very first Jr. High talent show, and I felt like a kid again. I couldn’t stop talking about the law of attraction! I told all of my friends and family that I would succeed and prove that the law of attraction is real! I bought all of the Secret books and began devouring the inspiring works of Jack Canfield and Bob Proctor, to name a few. I couldn’t get enough!

Just a month later, my mother received an email from a talent agency looking for singers to audition for a new singing competition TV show called “The Kandi Factory.” She encouraged me to audition, so I worked all night on my 21st birthday, filling out the applications and filming the audition tape because the due date was the very next day! This opportunity was delivered to me not a moment too soon, so I truly knew it was divine, and I had attracted it!

A few months later, I got the phone call I had been visualizing for months. I had been selected out of the 2000 other aspiring musicians to star in the show! I walked around for three days, buzzing with positive energy. It worked! I felt truly grateful for the first time in my life.

The funny thing is, when I would visualize before bed, I kept picturing myself flying away on an airplane and meeting an agent who was holding a paper with my name on it at the airport gate. Sure enough, the network company flew me to Atlanta, Georgia, and I walked those same footsteps I had envisioned hundreds of times. There I was, shaking hands with the man holding the sign!

It was surreal to record in a professional studio for the first time, but it felt familiar because I had visualized every last detail. The winner of the singing contest would get their own music video. I held the image of already having won and filming the music video rather than just winning. I believed in the power of the law of attraction, knowing its forces are always present, even though they are invisible.

Sure enough, at the end of the week, I sang my heart out and gave the best performance I ever had. The crowd screamed my name once again, but this time, it was on national television. I won! I knew the law of attraction could never let me down, and this was just another deliverance!

I went home and celebrated, and a while later, I flew back to Atlanta and filmed my very first professional music video. Sweet Tooth was officially on the map thanks to The Secret and the law of attraction.

The music video was complete, the Kandi Factory aired, and Sweet Tooth appeared on national television in front of 400,000 viewers! But it doesn’t end there.

I knew I had to follow up. I got messages from fans all across the country about how I had inspired them and made them cry for happiness, and I began receiving fan mail. It was a dream come true, but I knew the law of attraction would continue guiding me to bigger and more exciting endeavors if I continued to practice it diligently. So, I went to a professional studio and got a quote. They told me a professional album of my original songs would cost $3,000.

I thought nothing of how much it would cost or how I would get the money. I put every thought towards acquiring the money I needed to record and produce. So, I turned it over to the Universe. For some reason, a $5,000 check got stuck in my mind, so I focused on that exact number with all my intention, and once again, just a month later, I got word that the Kandi Factory had changed the rules of the award system. Every winner would receive $5,000! I was on the dot accurate.

My producer and I took that extra money and traveled to Hollywood, where I even recorded with one of the drummers of my favorite band.

When I released my album, I named it “Create Your Fate” in honor of the law of attraction and a tribute to The Secret for revealing to me the greatest law of life. I even wrote a song about the law of attraction.

All of this happened in the course of one year. My whole life changed, and I can only dream of what is to come. But that is the key—dreaming. I want to personally thank Rhonda and The Secret team for uplifting me and virtually saving my music career because, without The Secret, I would have given up long ago. I am more grateful than ever, and I feel I owe it all to the law of attraction.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Logan “Sweet Tooth” Smith