How I got started

My experience thus far using The Secret: I heard about this on Oprah maybe a year or so ago and thought Wow! How amazing that all these people just thought positively, said what they wanted, and got it all. I knew this would never happen for me, so I just dismissed it.
About two months ago I started hearing people talk about the secret again and this time I decided to watch the movie online. After paying my $3.99 on itunes and watching the movie I decided to give it a shot. What did I have to lose?
I went through the magazines I had around the house and cut out pictures of things I wanted: To be thinner, Go the the spa more, Travel, Romance, Money, etc... I grabbed a piece of cardboard out of the recycling box and glued my pictures on it. I wrote words next to the pictures so I would remember what the picture represented for me. I wrote "confident" and "sexy" next to a woman who exuded these traits, "travel more" next to pictures of tropical islands, and "more me time" next to a girl at the spa. Then, I placed that piece of cardboard on my dresser in my bedroom so that I could look at it everyday and "get" all these things.
I didn't stop there. I started a gratitude journal so I could look at the positive in my life. If you have seen the movie you know this is also a very important part. So I began, I am grateful for my son, my husband, my cats, that I can breath, and it went on and on. I did this about 3 times a week and waited. Each day I was hoping would be the day that something would happen, and finally it did!
I was going through my mail one day and I came across an envelope sent from the spa that I occasionally go to (like twice a year). In this envelope was a gift certificate saying Happy Birthday we would like to treat you to a free nights stay at our spa all taxes and everything taken care of. Every time I go to the spa I say, "I wish I could stay the night" and it finally happened. It was my birthday, but i have never received this in the past. It was so great! Of course, I immediately start thanking God and writing in my gratitude journal, waiting for the next thing to happen.
Since then, I have been traveling more, but not in the way I expected. My husband is currently stationed in Texas so I have had a chance to visit there twice which was fun since I have never been there, so I will be grateful for that, but I was picturing more of tropical island traveling. Hey, I guess I have to take what I can get!
I have also lost 11 pounds! I haven't been doing anything really different than before, but I think it's just more in my mind now, so i subconsciously make better decisions.
That brings me to now. It's been about 2 and half months since I started using The Secret and that is what has happened. I will say that I am a Christian and also pray a lot for these same things. To me The Secret is more about being positive and grateful than anything spiritual. When I was researching about The Secret I didn't find much information about if it has actually worked for a "normal" person, like not on Oprah, so I decided to start this blog to document my journey.