Do you want to know what the mystery behind these men (showing photos on power point) who lived meaningful lives and made millions? You want to know (call participant)? Come over here and I’ll tell you. How about the others? Do you want to know what the mystery behind their millions? If I tell you then that wouldn’t be a secret anymore, is it? Tonight it is a great privilege for me to share with you one of the books I read that truly gave my life a new meaning and a new balance on my bank account. It is The Secret.
I was introduced to this book by a friend from a networking company. I read the entire thing in less than seven days. Aside from that I watched the video version of it almost once a week back in 2008 when my life leaped from what I think was meant for me to do to what is really meant for me to do.
I was a clerk (for those of you who doesn’t know a clerk in medical world is the lowest form of a doctor, that was our first year internship) in a hospital working 36 hours shifts, no social life, no love life no life at all. Everyday seems like a haze. I don’t even remember how my days, my weeks and months were spent. Then one morning I woke up and my niece was there. She was sitting on the edge of my bed waiting for me to wake up. She said “Tita I want to paint. It’s been a long time since we last did some painting.” There she was and I couldn’t believe my eyes on how tall and big she is compared to the last time I saw her. Then boom! It hit me. I then asked myself “Is this really how I want to live my life?”
Maybe at some point in your life you’ve asked yourself the same question. I don’t know what you did to overcome that stage of your life. But I’d like to share you my own story. After deciding to leave my could-have-been profitable career as a doctor, the book the secret opened doors of countless opportunities for me. It gave me a new mindset and belief that whatever we think about comes about. It is all about the law of attraction. In my mind all I want to do is to get out of that state of failure and earn a lot to cover all the expenses my mom spent for my medical education. I soon ventured to a business selling items for summer season. It included some flip flops, sarong, shirts and accessories. I earn pretty decent amount of money until someone from a network marketing industry called me up. There I was sitting down in one of their business opportunity meetings and listened to the presentation. I guess the saying “Ignorance is bliss” worked for me. Not knowing the negative reputation of networking businesses in the Philippines, I signed up right then and there. I paid Php12, 600.00 for products that I would be selling. My mom went berserk after knowing that I threw a couple of thousands in that business orientation. I just told her I WILL MAKE THIS WORK.
As soon as I finished reading the book and learned the business in 2 months time I earned my first 6 digit commission at age 24. I was in total euphoria. And everything in the mall seemed so cheap. It was a great feeling. Then I bought my mom a designer bag something that she really wanted to have for a long time but will never buy for herself. The bag meant nothing, but it symbolized something, something very concrete when the secret is applied. And I told her “I told you I will make this work.”
So what do we do knowing this? Very simple, instead of saying things like “I can’t, I won’t, this is not possible, I can’t do this, I can’t do that” say “you can, you will” and the universe will respond to you. The universe is like the genie in Aladdin’s lamp. Whatever you say you can do or not do. The universe will respond to you and say “your wish is my command.” Focus your energy on the things you do like. When I was in medicine being away from my family was a negative emotion that triggered more negative things to happen to me. I became depressed and sick because of too much worry and stress. There are numerous things I was unhappy to do but I have to. It was not an easy thing to accept that being a doctor was not meant for me. After all the sleepless nights and gazillion pages of books read and the embarrassment of failing to survive medical school on your last year was not easy.
But, the wealth in finance, relationships and career I have now is a true manifestation of applying the secret. I will soon have my millions but that is nothing compared to the meaning of my life today. I now have time for family and friends, the people who really matter. And I am happy. The secret was now revealed to me. The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is and all that will ever be. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step in faith.
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