Before I start, I wanted to say that I read these stories often and I finally have the chance to share everything I’ve done with you. I recently turned 18, and I’m not your typical 18 year old. For starters, I don’t drink at all. I don’t party, I don’t go out with masses of friends, I just live my life.

In fact, I’ve known The Secret since I was in primary school and I’m off to University next year! I have a dream to go into Events Management and the music industry, even yesterday I spoke to someone my age who is doing my dream job and she spurred me on so much.

My first ever experience with The Secret was when I was about 12 years old. Ten people in my school were selected to do a week’s program at a highly regarded private school in London, and I spent every night visualizing myself there. Lo and behold, I was one I the chosen 10! Ever since that time, I have used the law of attraction to create everything in my life.

As with many teenagers these days, I’m pretty much in love with the band One Direction. I had dreamed of meeting them for so long, and I have manifested meeting celebrities so many times. I and my friends would go celeb hunting every time a celebrity was in town and they are some of the best experiences and memories of my life. You meet the most amazing friends and have the best times ever. But, for some reason, I couldn’t seem to meet One Direction! I had this mindset for so long that it was impossible to meet them because of their fame, and I knew I couldn’t think like that.

The Brit Awards were up and coming and I decided that this would be my time. Every night I visualized seeing them. Every detail from their height, smell, facial features, the way they walked, and I would sometimes even cry at how real it felt. As my favorite is Harry, I spent a lot of time visualizing my encounter with him and telling him how much he’s helped me and kept me positive and happy.

Lo and behold, after camping out for 37 hours and millions of fans watching all around the world, I was stood right in front of Harry Styles. He wasn’t taking pictures with any fans in our section and he began to walk away for interviews. I burst out crying and closed my eyes. At that moment, with the paparazzi cameras and the thousands of people around me, I repeated ‘thank you’ in my head over and over. I felt it and I felt his presence and the amount of joy I would feel once I had met them.

Next thing I knew, Harry turned around, saw me crying and came straight over to me. He held my hand and all I could get out was “I love you, I love you!”. Even whilst getting my picture, the only words going through my head were “thank you”. I also had Zayn come over to me and he took a picture with me in my section, despite all the other girls screaming his name.

To many, this may not seem like a lot. But I can’t even begin to tell you how much this changed my life and my way of thinking. I had forgotten The Secret for so long, and this experience opened up my eyes even more. I turned my thinking around completely and refused to ever let the negative thoughts take over my dreams.

It has been 7 months since then and I still get the same feeling I did that day. I’m still as grateful as I was 7 months ago. And you know what? That’s the best part about the law of attraction. When you accomplish something so amazing that you blow your mind, that gratitude you felt that day never deteriorates. You can still feel as grateful a year later or 10 years later.

That experience wasn’t just about meeting One Direction, it was about proving to myself that I can do anything I set my mind to. We may not all have the same hopes and dreams, but we attract them all the same way. I hope you can take three things from my story:

1. No matter how far fetched or impossible your dream seems, it is going to happen. If you feel yourself having it and you visualize so much that you can practically feel the feelings of having it now, you are on your way to a lifetime of happiness.

2. Do anything you want to do. Don’t let anyone tell you your dream is stupid or unrealistic. Everything is realistic, otherwise, we wouldn’t be dreaming about it. Get rid of any vocabulary that tries to deny you your dreams. When you visualize and start to manifest your dream, you have to feel it. Feel it in your heart and your chest. Visualize so much that it makes you cry. Visualize so much that your chest tightens. Anything that vibrates extreme happiness, do it!

3. Lastly, help other people achieve their dreams. You never know when that favor will be returned to you.

I love you and you’re amazing. Thank you to Rhonda and the team for giving me the opportunities I have had and I am yet to have. Thank you for giving me the knowledge to live a long and happy life. Thank you to everyone who is reading this because without everyone here reading and writing stories, we might not have the inspiration we have now.

Please go and make your dreams reality, don’t leave it until tomorrow, or next week, or next year. Just imagine how amazing you’re going to feel.