My Secret

I just watched the movie "The Secret." My sister has been trying to convince me to read the book and explore the concept and I was opposed to it for quite a while. I decided to give it a shot....and I actually loved it. The basic concept is that if you think it, feel it and believe it, it will be yours. Your thoughts and feelings create your destiny. If you always think negatively, negative things will happy to you. If you embrace joy and good fortune, you will live your life with abundance.

It's a very interesting concept and I encourage you to check it out, even if you're skeptical. They give you basic tips on how to start living your life this way as well. You should keep a list of your gratitudes. You should make a list of your wants, but make the list in the present tense. One of the speakers in the movie made vision boards. He would put pictures of all the things he wanted: a specific car, house, job, etc. He would look at the board and visualize that he already had these things. He had packed up the vision board in a box and moved a few times without unpacking it. When his son asked what was in the box, he took out the vision board and realized that the house pictured on his vision board was the house they just moved into.

It teaches you to focus on what you want. For example, if you focus on the fact that you want to get out of debt, you won't get out of debt. The energy of the universe just feels that you're focusing on debt, not that fact that you want it or you don't want it. Instead, it teaches you to focus on wealth and abundance, and these are things that will come to your life.

It sounds kind of hokey...but I believe that the power of positive thinking has a bigger impact on our lives than we choose to believe. I'm sure all of us knows a person that always thinks bad things are going to happen to them and in fact...they usually do.

Asking the universe for what I want is something that I'm going to make a conscious effort to do. I will no longer focus on what I don't want. For example: I want love. I've decided that writing blogs about how I've failed in love or about people that I've dated that have failed to live up to my expectations are not helping my situation. My plan...write my love story in the present tense. I'll keep you posted on the outcomes of my change in attitude. I'm sure it won't be easy, but I think it's important to try and I think I can do it.

"Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right." Henry Ford