My Secret

I have been carving out fifteen minutes a day every day for a visualization exercise. I am trying to picture where I see my life, my career, my finances as the future unfolds and becomes the present. It’s a great exercise and calls for living that fifteen minutes as if the future were already here today.

There has been so much written and said about creating our own realities and I have become a believer in that concept. I’ve never been one for destiny because it seems so unfair that everything is already decided and we just play our parts like actors on a stage without even so much as adlibbing. I think in terms of free choice and often wonder if we as humans over-complicate matters as we so often do. I mean, what if God’s plan is very simple: be happy, try new things, learn, grow. The rest is up to us. We have choices and the freedom to make those choices.

That said, my choice is to visualize a future I want to have unfold and one that I can create. My own reality built with my choices and then my actions. But I have learned that we need to be careful about what we wish for and where we place our thoughts and attention because that also creates our realities.

I learned about The Secret from a DVD and I was fascinated. I got on the mailing list and one of the newsletters was a blank check drawn on the Universe for whatever amount we thought was possible. I filled it in with a number I felt was realistic and I put the check on my desk where I could see it every day so that I could focus on it.

This I did at a time when my business was having difficulties just prior to the huge downturn in our economy that affected most all businesses. I guess you could say that my business was a leading indicator. As revenues diminished, I took on more debt to weather the storm and soon debt was where I focused my attention, paying this bill, moving money around, always struggling, always thinking about that debt.

You can probably see where this is going. The check I wrote was to be manifested in one year. At the end of that year, I recall telling someone that the only secret to The Secret was that there was that there was no secret. And that’s when my mouth dropped and I went back to my desk to get the check I had written a year prior. My debt level on the day I proclaimed there was no secret was exactly the amount I had written on the check. I had achieved my goal, only I concentrated on debt not revenues for an entire year. In fact, I seldom ever thought about revenues during that year, but I always thought about debt.

It was a lesson learned, I grew. I am writing a new check and I am concentrating on the revenue that will make that check a reality. A year from now, I hope to post a new story about the reality I am creating today to be manifested over the next 365 days.