Over the last three years my life has been absolutely unbearable, miserable, and rapidly deteriorating in what appeared to be a permanent downward spiral. Over the last two years I had suffered through one devastating catastrophe after another and I could not understand why. All I knew was that these catastrophes continued to occur. So that you will understand the power of �The Secret� I will present a synopsis of the catastrophes I endured until recently. In July of 2004, the business I had spent over 10 years working long hard hours to build, started to collapse. The ringing phones of the past 10 years had slowed down to a barely a trickle, ringing less than 10 times per week almost overnight. I had to let most of the employees go, as I did that the business calls became even fewer. I started cutting expenses drastically in an effort to save my only livelihood, the business continued to fall off. I let go of all but one employee and moved from the 5000 sq ft office space the business had been in over the past to renting a two car garage and from an old friend. Working feverishly everyday late into the night, often through 3 or 4 am to retain what little business was left, capture new business, and come up with new fresh ideas for additional services, opening the business earlier and keeping it open later almost everyday in order to capture enough business to keep the business viable. It seemed as though no matter what I had done, nothing had helped and the situation continued to worsen.

Seeing the writing on the proverbial wall, knowing I did not have a degree, I enrolled in college, adding yet more work to my already overworked schedule. Attending classes at night, studying in what little spare time I had during the week. Between saving a dying business, attending classes and studying I slept very little. I got up very early every weekend and stayed up late studying and doing homework.

Then on December 1st, 2004 I received a call early in the morning that my oldest son had been in a terrible automobile accident, I raced to the scene and arrived as they were loading him into the ambulance to take him to the hospital by helicopter. I drove at an incredible speed get to the hospital, beating the helicopter, so that I would be there when he arrived. I saw him as they transported him from the helicopter into the hospital. Right away I knew it didn�t look good. There must have been 10 doctors, several more nurses and paramedics come to the private waiting room where I had been waiting, what seemed like an eternity, to talk to me. They had told me they had done everything possible to save my first born son and they were truly sorry; he passed away only a few short hours after arriving.

This traumatic event devastated me, soon after, I lost the business I spent over 10 years building. Unable to keep the business alive no matter how hard I worked or what I did left me owing hundreds of thousands of dollars of business debt. I also lost all of my investments and retirement fund was dwindling rapidly while trying to revive the business. By the spring of 2005 I was facing a divorce where I lost a home, my tools and furnishings etc. I ended up in even more debt due to divorce lawyers and suffering through extenuating circumstances, undue stress and frustration due to legal harassment tactics typical of a nasty divorce. During the separation period, my ex refused to file joint income tax returns which caused me to owe the IRS and State Revenue departments thousands of dollars, forcing me deeper into debt.

By the summer of 2005, since I no longer had a business to earn a livelihood, I was unemployed and unemployable. I was unemployable because I did not have a Bachelors degree and had discovered that businesses preferred not to hire older people and especially those who had been self employed. Through out the remainder of 2005 and all of 2006, I lived on what very few dollars I could scrape up and what little I had left in my IRA while I attended college and applied for jobs. I often went days without eating because I could not afford food, I could barely afford to keep the lights on and they were often turned off by the electric company. Studying by candle light during these times while I continued pursuing my degree.

I withdrew small amounts of money from the IRA to sustain a meager existence which would end up costing me even more in income taxes that I could not pay, so I accepted the fact I would fall even further in debt. I sent out thousands of resumes, every month expanding my search area adding more states to the resume mailing list. Despite the fact I had built a fairly large business from a shoestring which gave me, in addition to many years� experience I had in my field, an excellent background and experience in business. Still, not even an interview was offered. I had decided that perhaps my resume was lacking so I hired a few consulting firms and resume writing consultants to review and rewrite my resume� they all agreed that my resume looked very good, but they would see if they could improve on it. After receiving the new resume I again sent out hundreds of resumes�. All to no avail.

Then the phone started ringing but this time it was creditors and they were calling incessantly from 8:00am until 9:00 seven7 days a week, but I had no money to pay them. By the summer of 2006 I began receiving lawsuits almost every day for what seemed like an eternity. I could not even afford to file bankruptcy. So I pressed on, enduring the incessant harassing calls from creditors and continuing to submit resumes from which not even interviews were offered. By the end of October of 2006 I used the last of my funds, which were only enough funds to pay the electric and gas bill. I tried advertising for roommates to help with the expenses, but also to no avail.

In November of 2006 my girlfriend stepped in and insisted on paying my living expenses, I had refused her offers to help in the past but now had no choice. In late November of 2006 the registrar�s office of university I was attending had lost my academic records and moved me into a different degree plan, which was going to cost me not only time, but also more courses and money in order to complete the degree I had come within 6 courses of completing. Yet another disaster I had to face. As I got this cleared up, with much effort and duress I had thought, how much worse can it possible get! I was about to find out! Upon approaching semester finals week I found I was not allowed in my classes because now the financial aid office had lost my financial records and had barred me from attending classes. This created an even bigger disaster, because, as everyone knows, college finals account for a large percentage of your grades. Now, after almost four years of working hard to maintain an �A� average I was bared from classes, which also meant from taking the finals. If I could not take the finals I would earn an �F� in all of my courses which would destroy my cumulative grade point average preventing me from graduating which would also prevent me from securing employment or continuing on to law school as I had planned. No one at the university would answer the phone, return phones calls, or return e-mails I had sent over the next couple of weeks in efforts to clear this catastrophe up.

I felt beaten, destroyed in total despair and became very depressed and accepted that my life was now officially over, no matter what I was doing or had done, or how hard I was trying to change the situation I was in was met with resistance and even more catastrophes. It seemed as though the universe had aligned itself against me and there was nothing I could do. Now with no hope in sight, I took several pain killers so I would not feel the cuts as I sat quietly in my garage with an Exacto knife seriously contemplating slitting my wrists. My girlfriend tried to help me but I was beyond any help she could offer, she went to the computer and got on Google�s web site to search for help for me. She clicked on something unwittingly and ran to the garage dragging me back to the computer with her. She stumbled upon the 15 minute trailer of �The Secret� movie which started playing automatically. She sat me down and made me watch it. She then went to the web site found, downloaded and played the SecretToYou.mov while she continued to keep me at the computer to watch this 2 minute 35 second clip. This beautiful clip literally brought tears to my eyes, it touched me so deeply, because I know fate or some strong power had caused this web site to be introduced into my life. As I watched the clip I began to understand, I watched it over and over, I was enthralled by the clip. She then found a link to the full length movie, and we watched it together. She saved the SecretToYou clip to the desktop and I continued watching that and the full length movie �The Secret� throughout the weekend several times.
I began to practice what little I had learned in such a short time since my exposure to the movie. I watched it throughout the weekend to build upon my understanding. I practiced even more of the concepts presented in �The Secret� movie. I had to travel into town a few days later so I began practicing with little things like visualizing the traffic moving smooth and orderly, entering the interstate effortlessly as holes in the dense traffic opened up and allowed me free access to the interstate, traffic is normally total chaos. Throwing down the gauntlet, I decided to get into the traffic at the time I knew from past experience would have the most cars on the road and even left later than I should have to arrive downtown on time. That morning, the traffic flowed smooth and orderly, as I approached the end of entrance ramp to the interstate a large gap in the traffic appeared and I entered the interstate effortlessly as I had visualized, the trip into town was just as I had visualized it would be. When I arrived back home later that day, I ran to the computer to watch the movie and SecretToYou clip again and practiced these concepts more, but now asking for much more. The next day I received a call from the university informing me that they had cleared up the problem and I would be allowed to attend classes again so I wouldn�t have to forfeit my finals after all. Within two to three days, I received calls for interviews, and a letter from a prospective employer offering $50.00 per hour.

I now started to understand, I was getting just what I was asking for, just as I always had before watching the movie, but I just didn�t realize I was asking for what I had been receiving. I know these concepts work, they certainly brought me all of the bad things I unknowingly had asked for over the last two years and now that I have become enlightened I understand that thoughts become reality, and that I can control that reality. I am conscious of how the universe works now, all I need to do is continue to practice the concepts taught until they become second nature to me. The concepts are beautiful and have literally saved my life and given me the insight to turn it around. Sharing these concepts is a very generous act, no human I can think of in the past or present has ever shared such important life altering knowledge.

Thank you Rhonda!!!!!!