Have You Seen the Movie The Secret?

Tried to put the ‘Law of Attraction’ into practice but don’t believe you’re having any success. You’re not alone. It’s easy to lose faith in the process and to have doubt. Help in attempting to live your life by design often comes with a hefty price tag. Visions of others driving around in flashy cars and showcasing their dream home, all the while telling you how easy it is, can be disheartening to say the least. Especially if everything around you is pointing to the contrary. Complete lack of finances may prevent you from participation in a mentoring program on offer from one of ‘The Teachers’ and you don’t believe you’ll get it on your own. Even if you can afford it, you’re filled with excitement and enthusiasm for the first few weeks and then life deals you a blow and back down to reality you come. Or maybe you’ve spent your money, only to discover the course is more about MLM and making someone else rich.

If any of the above relates to you, don’t worry. You really are not alone. There are so many people that no matter how they try, can just not achieve the riches and successes promised, no matter how it’s presented. And I was one of them.

I first saw the movie ‘The Secret’ on November 14th 2006 and it’s not a moment I think I’ll forget.
My husband is suddenly gone. Debts from 20 years of married life did not leave with him. I am forced to sell the house and after all bills are paid, I have just under $2,000 in the bank.
I had run a small business selling gift and novelty craft items with my sister and I moved into the back of the shop premises.
The events of the preceding months had taken it’s toll and the doors of our business had long since closed. Surrounded by dead stock, a life less than perfect, the loss of my husband, no income, no transport in an isolated town and allowing in my own self pity, I was beaten.
My only life line was my computer and the internet.

Many people in their depths of despair pray to God. I was agnostic. I neither believed in God nor disbelieved.
However, I was smart enough to know that if he did exist he was in no way to blame for the mess I had found myself in.
Nope!
That was all my doing. But in my depth of despair I cried out. Not to a God I did not believe in. But to myself. Through sobbing tears I asked myself the question we all ask at some time. “Why am I here?” I asked over and over again. Desperately needing to know. I wasn’t suicidal, but in that moment, I could totally connect with their reasoning. I was seriously at my lowest point.

Within a matter of minutes I was distracted by the familiar sound of new email arriving. I didn’t recognise the sender.
It was spam. The address was simply a jumble of numbers at a hotmail account and I went to delete it immediately.
Until I saw the subject line! “Watch this. It will change your life forever.”
Were they kidding! I laughed so hard and so hysterically I actually thought I might be having a breakdown. It lifted my mood though. I could actually see the funny side. So as I’m a curious one by nature then yes, you guessed right, I opened the email.
There was no message, no further information, just a single link that simply said “The Secret”. Now I don’t know about you, but the mere mention of the word secret is good enough for me – Of course I clicked that link.…..

The moral of this part of my story?

Don’t judge all spammers too harshly. Some of them just might have some information that may just change your life.

My heartfelt gratitude to my Spammer!

FROM CRAPPY TO HAPPY PART 2 – coming soon