I read The Secret back in 2009, and within three months, my life had totally changed. I went from getting entry level pay to getting a promotion that doubled my salary. I upgraded from living in a one hundred year old home to a new home in a great neighborhood. I also became really good at attracting bonuses, raises, and promotions in my job.

But on my 30th birthday, the stress and anxiety from my job reached a peak, and I just knew I had to follow a new path.

I had spent my twenties so completely focused on my job and being a mom that I had lost myself. I did not have an identity outside of my corporate job title and my mom title. I didn’t have any hobbies, make time for friends, or anything outside of work and mom life.

I knew I could not continue on like this for ten more years, let alone thirty years, so I decided to forge a new path.

While throwing myself into a self-pity spiral, I was embraced by this feeling of pure love and calmness that washed over me. All of a sudden, I had this inner knowing that everything would be ok and that I was going to write a book that would help people all over the world.

I had no idea how to write a book or what the book would even be about, but I knew with certainty it would happen someday.

I began trusting these little intuitive nudges I would get and ended up posting about the law of attraction on Instagram. It opened me up to this entire world of people just like me who were hungry for knowledge and wanted to follow their hearts, too.

Eventually, I met some authors and told them about my plan to write a book someday. Their response was not what I was expecting. They told me it was impossible to get a book deal unless you were a celebrity, and publishers just take all the money anyway. They did a great job of completely turning me off from the idea, and I’m ashamed to admit it, I let them.

I put the idea of my book in the back of my mind and pretty soon forgot all about my dreams of writing a book.

A couple of years later, I was hosting a vision board party, and I pulled out my old boards to use as examples. One of the boards was filled with my goals of writing a book, and all the feelings of excitement and certainty filled me as I looked at that board. At that moment, I once again decided I would write a book. I believed with certainty it would happen, but I did not feel the need to do anything other than wait for the opportunity to present itself. I simply added it to my new vision board.

One month later, I was contacted by a publisher who asked me if I would be interested in writing a book on manifestation! I could not believe it! My vision board was coming true!

That book became a bestseller and turned into five more books! I know the Universe was sending me a message to believe in myself and not let others talk me out of my goals. It was the most extraordinary series of events, but everything I dreamt about on my 30th birthday has come true. And, if I had not known about the law of attraction, I would still be working in my miserable corporate job filled with stress and anxiety.