I’m Over The Secret

A few months after my failed attempt at happily ever after, I found myself in a downward spiral, so I did what any smart, self-sufficient, logical woman would do… I watched “The Secret” and within a week the “Vision Board” was born.

It’s true that I love a project so on that gloomy January day, I channeled my inner Martha Stewart and set out to turn a corkboard and magazine clippings into a true work of art. I hastily began to rummage thru old magazines in search of images that conjure up emotion and depict where I would like my life to be. A few hours later, I proudly displayed my vision board behind my bedroom door where I could see it every night when I went to bed and early each morning as I got up to start my day. I was convinced it would only be a matter of time before the law of attraction would work its magic and my luck would begin to turn around.

NOTE: The law of attraction states that if you believe something will happen, it will. If you visualize your dreams, they will come true. The video advises you to use the vision board as a daily reminder of what you want so that the universe can deliver it to you. With that being said, I think I’m doing something wrong!

I have spent the last 6 months, believing, visualizing, imagining, dreaming and staring at my vision board to no avail. Not one single idealized vision on that board has manifested itself into my current reality. I have grown tired of waking up each morning to a vision board full of images I am nowhere closer to attaining than I was the day I created it. I have come to a self realization… I’m over “The secret”!

Don’t get me wrong, I still believe the video is powerful enough to motivate and inspire many individuals. And, I give the creator of it much credit for it is no secret that she (yes, she is a woman) has managed to manifest herself into a millionaire. I also still believe there is some truth behind the law of attraction (for how else do you explain certain friends always attracting the exact same type of men) but I think personally, gawking at a vision board serves more as a reminder of all that I DON’T have in my life rather than all of the wonderful things I DO have. So today, I shall send my Vision Board into early retirement and begin to focus on my life in the present tense. I shall no longer long for things I don’t have but rather submerge myself in the solace of all the wonderful things I already posses. I shall set out to discover my own secret to happily ever after and if I’m lucky, the universe just may be willing to lend me a hand.