The Universe’s idea of a perfect job was better than mine!

Firstly, thank you so very much to Rhonda. Wow! She is changing lives all over the world every day!! Thank you, thank you, thank you for bringing this into my life!

I have been wanting to write my story for a long time because I read inspiring stories every day and I hope that mine can inspire others too.

Almost four years ago, I moved to a new state, to a city that was way bigger than where I came from. I changed jobs constantly, sometimes after a year, sometimes within months, and a couple even within days. I hated everywhere I was working. I hated working in the city, spending hours a week sitting on a cramped train and making no real friends.

I had discovered The Secret when it first came out, but like many of us, I used it, loved it, forgot to practice it, and just let life happen to me.

So in July of last year, I had been working at a job in the city. It was a three month contract with the potential to go permanent, which was what I needed. But I hated the job! I hated the people I worked with. I hated the hours, I hated everything. I had a teammate who thought young people were “stupid”. She was in her 50s, and I was 27. I had a manager who was too scared to stick up for her staff when they were hassled. I’d have days when I would catch the train all the way into the city, then get straight back onto the next one and go home because I just couldn’t face them some days.

Then I started reading the stories on this site every day during my lunch break at work. The stories would help me get through my days. So I went out and bought The Secret Gratitude Journal. I wrote down exactly what I wanted in it. A family-based business, the kind of work hours I wanted, the kind of people I worked with, and a workplace in the suburbs that I could drive myself to instead of catching transport.

I downloaded The Secret movie to my iPhone and watched it every single day on my train ride to and from work. Every day I would say thank you. Every step I took walking to and from the train station, every step around the office, I would say “thank you”. I would say thank you for the amazing job I had. I started applying for jobs in desperation to get out of where I was but I was not getting any callbacks. As disappointed as I was, I just had to tell myself that the Universe must have been planning something better for me.

The last week of my contract came, and on Monday, my manager offered me a permanent role. I rejected it. I had no other job to go to, but I knew I could not stay there any longer. The very next day, I received a call from a job agency that I did not even know I had sent my CV to. They had the perfect job for me and asked if I would be interested. In my most professional way, I said “Hell yeah!” He said he would get back to me if they wanted to interview me. He called me back later that day and said, “Can you start tomorrow?” I said, “Um, don’t they want to interview me and meet me first?” His reply was just, “No, they think you will be perfect.”

OMG!! Could this really be happening? Something like this had never happened to me before. So I turned up at the job, and it was every bit as amazing as I had dreamed, and even more! The work hours were exactly what I had written down. The workplace was in the suburbs. The business was family owned. There were other young people to work with. It was exactly like the list I’d written down. But with so much more! The people are amazing. My teammates are my actual best friends now.

This works, people! This really, really does work. I know how hard it is to try and be positive, to see positives when you are absolutely hating parts of your life. I realized how powerful my mind was by all the negatives I had brought into my life, so I knew I could bring positives in, and when I really practiced it, it worked.

Please believe, people! All of you out there hating your job, there is an amazing place out there for you. Tell yourself what you have to. When I wouldn’t get a callback for a job, I would tell myself the Universe was still “building” my request, and once completed and perfect, it would be shown to me. And it was. The timing is always perfect. Believe that. As stressed out and worried as you get, turn that energy into thinking positively and just “know, like you know, like you know, that it’s on its way!”

I love each and every one of you for reading this and everyone who has posted their stories, which encouraged me to believe I could create what they were creating. Thank you, Rhonda. You are definitely a gift from the Universe to all of us!

Love to you all! XXX