Last year I wasn’t the happiest girl ever. I discovered The Secret a year before and didn’t think much of it, but I had recently read the book, and grew to believe. Although I believed, and I knew my thoughts were attracting the very life I lived, I didn’t always put it to work. As a teenage girl it has always been hard to control my emotions. I had myself convinced I simply couldn’t do it, my situation and emotions were out of my hands.

Then it was released to the students that cheer leading tryouts were to be held and the season would last throughout basketball season. My friends and I grew excited and wanted to join the team and be together on the team. When tryouts started the first day I showed up with a good attitude. But when I saw how good the other girls who were trying out were, I began to feel discouraged. I’m simply not good enough, I thought to myself. I will never be as good as them.

I expressed my feeling to my mother and she was disappointed in me. “Remember what you kept telling me about The Secret? You were so adamant about it and how I should use it and how it works. What happened to your positive attitude? You can’t help others if you can’t help yourself. Practice what you preach.”

Her little pep talk reminded me how I decided I couldn’t control my situation. I read The Secret To Teen Power every night until tryouts were over. I wanted to be a cheerleader so much, I don’t think I had ever wanted anything so much in my life. I told myself I was already on the team. I focused on how I would feel when I found out I made it. I was only positive, and excited all the time. I no longer had any doubt in my mind, I knew I was on the team. Without a doubt.

On the day it was released who made the team I was ecstatic.

I was on the team!

Me and all of my friends made it, except for one. I shall leave her unnamed, but I know why she didn’t make it. She was so negative, said she couldn’t do it, and in the end that’s what she attracted to herself.

I never truly believed in The Secret until then. I had to want something so much that I would go to any extent to get it, even believe in something as silly as a little magic trick. But it’s not silly at all. Magic? Maybe. It just depends on how you use it. This is proof that anyone can do it. I was 13 when this happened. I am 14 now and I am doing great things in my life. I’ll be sure to post again when my Novel is published. (:

I hope this changes someone’s life. Anyone can use The Secret to their advantage.