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Surprise, Surprise
Submitted by: Jenni K
Melbourne, AustraliaI am 45, Single and live alone with my 5yr old Border Collie, and Catand a very noisy cockerteal. I come from a large close knit family of 5 brothers and 2 sisters. I am an avid animal lover and have been since birth. I work full time as a mobile vet nurse and part time as a dog trainer.
After recently ordering The Secret book and DVD through my book club and after watching the DVD and half way through the book (I read it in short spurts so I can take it all in), I came to the sudden realisation that throughout my life I have been using The Secret with out realising what I was doing.
There is the time I walked towards the ATM machine and I said to my self, wouldn’t it be nice if the ATM spat out an extra $50. It was just a passing thought and surprise surprise it did just that. I didn’t realise at the time what I had done.
A few years ago I was working for myself as a mobile dog groomer and I had a pretty good reputation, I was always booked out up to 3 weeks ahead at normal times and up to 6 weeks ahead leading up to Christmas. I was working with an elderly retriever who was owned by an elderly lady – the dog was timid, and as I gently tried to turn him on the grooming table my back cracked and I was unable to move for a few moments without severe pain. I couldn’t put my left foot to the ground. To cut a long story short I had three bulging discs in my lower back pressing on my spinal cord. I was unable to work for approximately 5 months, which meant no income, lots of debt, and my insurance company refused to pay me. I was in deep water, but I kept telling myself something would come up.
I returned to work trying to reclaim as many of my previous clients as possible, business was a bit slow and just as it started to pick up along came I job offer I couldn’t refuse – paying more than I was in my own business without the overheads of phones, insurances etc, etc.
Last Tuesday evening I went to a large electrical store that was having a big sale, to buy a new fridge. I found the fridge I wanted but it didn’t have the bottle rack inside like all the similar fridges (but were too large to fit in my kitchen. I asked the salesman if there was any possibility he could throw one in. He said no but I could purchase one as a spare part, so I left it at that and decided to look into that later, but I wanted that bottle rack.
My new fridge arrived on Thursday morning and was installed by the delivery guys. After they left I opened my new fridge only to find the bottle rack I wanted sitting inside.
So today and every day I will walk to my letter box expecting to find cheques. I have also set my younger sister, mother and 2 of my closest friends on the path of The Secret – it is something I want to share with all who I care about. I also had a call the other day from my dogs’ agent of yet another TV job. I am expecting a long term highly paid contract for her next.
Thank you universe, Genie – I know we will have a long and lasting relationship for the the rest of my life.