The Secret, Hero, The Secret Daily Teachings Book, and The Magic truly changed my life as I began to witness the incredible power of the Universe orchestrating the most mind-blowing events—time after time after time.
In 2007, I was working as a part-time gymnastics coach and nanny to a young boy while earning my Master’s degree in creative writing when the boy’s mom told me one afternoon about a new movie called The Secret.

Floored by what the film taught about the law of attraction – that we can attract things into our lives through our thoughts and feelings, I began to see life in a new way. I’d always felt a pull toward the concept of destiny, that certain people, places, and experiences are truly meant to come into our lives, no matter what. But the idea that we could create our lives more intentionally through our thoughts and emotions set me free. Especially since I’d always been very emotional with both highs and lows on the emotional spectrum.

Okay, law of attraction, if you’re really real, then my path is leading me right to the man of my dreams, I thought. I’d spent so much of my young life discouraged by “love” that it never seemed to work out. But after watching The Secret, glimmers of hope peeked through the clouds of heartbreak that once made me feel like I’d spend the rest of my life alone.

Sure enough, about a year after putting it out into the Universe, just as I was finishing grad school, I indeed met the man who would later become my husband, and he was almost exactly as I’d imagined him to be!
As summer transformed into fall, three-and-a-half years after meeting, we got married overlooking the bay in San Diego, the city lit up behind us. No one would believe the event had cost far, far less than most people paid for a waterfront wedding, or any typical wedding at all for that matter. I’d even found my dream wedding dress, which was brand new, on Craigslist for only $150.

But it did not end there. Attempting to manifest all of my student loans being paid off in full, one day, I was out running the creek trail near our condo when I saw a baby blue hybrid car. The thought moved through my mind spontaneously: My next car is going to be a hybrid. I was obsessed with the color baby blue but had no idea why the thought popped into my head since I’d just bought a used Honda Civic to replace my old Escort. I quickly pushed the thought away, reinstating the idea that my current car was going to last me over 200,000 miles with ease!

After my run that day, I was going to visit my friend who’d told me she had something for me. I didn’t think much of it until she instructed me to close my eyes and put out my hand. I looked down at the weird thing she’d given me, unsure of what it was. Apparently, it was a key.

“I bought you a car,” she said. “What!” I cried out in shock, unable to fully process what she was telling me. “I don’t need a car, I just got one! It’s going to last over 200,000 miles!” A part of me felt so incredibly amazed and grateful. The other part didn’t really believe it.

I will never forget her son’s words from across the room. “No, it’s a better car. It’s a hybrid.” After putting some miles on my car and helping to drive her son around, she’d gotten me a new car, a hybrid, as I had thought about a few hours before, and just like that, I was able to sell my current car to pay off the rest of my student loans.

The magic continued, literally. I was perusing a bookstore around the time of this experience when I discovered two signed copies of Rhonda’s books Hero and The Secret Gratitude Book. I knew immediately that I had to get them, especially after how the first book and movie had helped me so much. Setting my gratitude intentions in the journal, I wrote down information about the major endorsements I was getting for the books I published, as well as the birth of my future daughter and our house on a hill with a view somewhere in San Diego.

I found out I was pregnant with our daughter not long after, and just a month before her due date, I experienced the most amazing miracle: My self-published children’s book “randomly” appeared in Us Weekly Magazine and People.com, endorsed by a celebrity without any solicitation. The story was picked up by many news outlets and my book was out of stock on Amazon for much of that time. My heart was doing backflips, and it blew my mind that the celebrity loved manifestation and all things spiritual as much as I did. I imagined meeting her, reading my book to her daughter, and becoming friends.

Then, after I heard about the book The Magic several times from different sources, I knew it was a sign that I needed it. I got an even bigger sign when I found the book in a very synchronistic way. One of my future gratitude statements for the ‘Make All Your Wishes Come True’ exercise involved manifesting a connection to that celebrity. It was like a dream come true when I got to meet her at a book launch party she did. But I left feeling sad and dejected, like we were truly meant to be friends. I continued to use The Secret Gratitude Book to complete The Magic. I even used other manifesting techniques, like a money formula from Napoleon Hill’s ‘Think and Grow Rich’ to manifest 200K for my novel being made into a movie.

While things did not manifest exactly as I’d written them down, or at least they haven’t yet, my husband received a lawsuit check from his former company for a little over the exact amount I’d written down in my journal. The lawsuit money even helped us move from our beloved condo after welcoming our second daughter into a house on a hill overlooking part of San Diego – again, similar to what I’d written down.

After that, I also met a new friend whose former co-worker was engaged to the celebrity’s uncle. After she connected me with her, we gushed over the stories of the crazy synchronicities we had both experienced in our lives. Not only that, but she, too, was a writer, and some work we were submitting led me to manifest and reconnect with a friend I’d lost touch with and had been thinking about trying to find.

As time went on and the miracles never really ceased, it eventually hit me that the fear, doubt, and worry attempting to creep back into my consciousness after my daughters were born did not need to be there. I came to realize how truly powerful I am and, really, how powerful we all are – not just at manifesting but manifesting our destiny, creating miracles, and living the life of our dreams. Thank you!