I watched The Secret a long time ago, and it resonated with me. I started reminding myself of positivity from time to time, but my partner at the time did not think that the magic was real and her negativity on the subject made me stop chasing my dream for the time.

Fast forward to about 5 years later, we had just gotten separated and I really started to analyze my life and the choices I made to get to where I was. Then I started to really take a deep dive into what the spiritual world had to offer. The power of people’s energies really resonated with me and I sought out to learn more. I started attending therapy as my self-worth was basically 0 and I only did things because of what I perceived other people would think about them. I was down on my luck, barely able to pay my mortgage and bills, and struggling to find meaning. I was having a conversation with someone about how I really wanted to be more open with myself and this is what she told me: Tomorrow you go buy a $2 journal at Dollarama and you start writing your thoughts down. That resonated with me.

After work the next day I rushed to Dollarama with a drive that I almost had never seen in myself before. I was so inspired to start loving myself and I didn’t even know at that time that this moment would change my life forever. Life is all about the choices you make and what you decide to do with the lessons you learn along the way.

So I got the journal home and the first thing I wrote about was all the feelings I had for this girl. I was a bit obsessed because I felt like I was overindulging her with compliments and I needed a space to get some of it out. It turns out I was overindulging her because shortly after she ghosted me, there was a conversation about how she really wanted a man who could provide for her so she didn’t have to work, and I knew I could never do that. That was just what I needed though. With all this passion I had for her, I decided to turn to myself. I looked inward and I said “How can I manifest wealth? How can I become successful?” I asked myself what really resonated with me. I challenged myself to start writing down things I loved about myself, my good qualities, the things I liked in the world, and most importantly, my goals. And I didn’t set my sights low. I made a goal to be independently wealthy within 5 years, but I also made a goal to write a positive affirmation every day.

At first, when I started to write positive things about myself, I couldn’t think of one single thing. I guess people think that I am attractive, I guess I am pretty nice, I thought. The self affirmations didn’t really come right away but when I really wanted to manifest my goals they sure did. My thoughts turned to the book my friend had been preaching about for years that I already knew I wholeheartedly believed in, I just had never fully applied it.

When I made the conscious decision to start actually applying the strategies of manifestation and wholeheartedly believing in The Secret it was like the world was actually changing right before my eyes. Within a few hours of realizing what I needed to do to achieve my goal of wealth, I called my friend who was in a business that I was interested in joining. It had a small startup fee but everyone I knew who went there and applied themselves and really bought into the system were happy and successful people. So I knew without a doubt that this was exactly what I needed to achieve my goals. I started to use positive “I am” statements about my goals, my new career, and most importantly about myself. I was also still working full-time at my other job.

From the second I called my buddy asking how to get started, I could hear the excitement in his voice that another person was buying into believing in themselves, and as I was meeting more and more successful people they basically had the same mantras on life. Set goals, make plans, carry out plans, and succeed. Every time I added more energy to my desire I got equal or more confirmation from the Universe that it was actually working.
Once you start really applying yourself and really believing in the process, once your desire starts to manifest, it is like the floodgates opened.

Things that I had asked for years ago, goals that I had made for myself subliminally, started to appear. Two girls that I had crushes on at different points in my life hit up my DM’s on the same day wanting to go for a drink. Like, I’m talking about my elementary school crush that I tried my hardest to get to like me as a child was just short of begging me to go for a drink with me. The craziest thing was I knew this was the Universe signaling me to keep believing. I also knew that if I wanted my dreams to be more than dreams then I had to not worry about falling in love and just worry about continuing to send positive energy into the Universe to attract more that I desired to myself.

I started a hashtag, #inspire1personperday. I decided that I should not keep The Secret to manifesting dreams to myself. I wanted to share it with the entire world and I wanted to start doing it now. I am so sure that my desire is working that I have begun to write a book detailing the events that are happening right now as my success story. I started to change my social media habits overnight from mostly comedy and entertaining content to strictly uplifting, positive business or spiritual healing content. The power we have at our fingertips is amazing, and people are using it to laugh at memes when they don’t even know they could be using it to educate themselves and really better their lives.