The Secret of Me

A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne
Creator of The Secret

How can you make a big dream come true?

You need to have one secret element, and when you have that secret element, nothing will get in your way. That element is an intense desire! You must desire something with all of your heart to manifest it. Often the difference between those who manifest something and those who do not, is the element of desire. When you have a burning desire for something you ignite a fire within you that attracts with an incredible force. The law of attraction is magnetically drawn to that intense fire element in you, and it responds by gathering all universal forces to make your dream come true.

Very often we ask for things because we think our life will be better with those things, but inside of us we do not have an immense desire for those things. When you don't feel that immense desire within you, you are receiving guidance telling you that this is not something you really want. That is why it is so important to get clear on what it is that you really want with all of your heart, because what you really want with all of your heart is the very desire that you can manifest quickly.

When your heart is on fire with desire you will attract the right things to do, you will find visualizing so easy, and you will find it is effortless to think positive thoughts of your desire. You will attract all the qualities you need, such as strength, courage, belief, persistence, faith, and a powerful will. An intense desire lights up your being, producing a magnetic force that enables the law of attraction to cut through every physical obstacle for you and make your dream come true.

Go for your dreams! Don't cheat yourself in your life with petty desires because you don't think you can live your dream. THE DREAM inside you is the one thing that you have the greatest power to create, because you have an immense desire for it. Find the dream inside you - and make it come true!

Here is the story of an 18-year-old girl - her dream - and her intense desire to make her dream come true.

From Rachael in Indiana

When I was in third grade I told my mother that I wanted to go to the University of Notre Dame. I remember going to meetings at age 13 about what it took to get in - that's how bad I wanted it. I knew everything it took and used this knowledge to my advantage. Notre Dame will not accept someone merely because they get a good score on the SAT, it takes so much more.

I told everyone I talked to, new friends and old friends, that I would be attending the University of Notre Dame. The response was almost ALWAYS THE SAME: "Wow, isn't that school hard to get into? Don't you have to be really smart?" They would wish me good luck in a "you really need it" tone. I never let this sway me.

Before every football game, Notre Dame would play a commercial showing a girl taking "the letter" out of her mailbox. I CRIED EVERY TIME (because I could FEEL - with so much intensity - how I would feel when I came to that day).

When it came time to apply I was more stressed out than I had ever been in my life, but I still continued to tell people that I would be going there. Sometimes a thought would creep into my head saying, "What if I've been telling everyone that I'm going there and then I don't get in?" Every time I'd stop and say, "NO, I will not let myself think these thoughts." And I would continue to imagine and to feel the feelings of coming home and seeing the letter sitting on the table.

On March 28, 2008, I got a call from my step-father telling me that I had to come home, "RIGHT NOW". When I got home I saw the letter and felt every feeling that I had felt previously in my mind - only magnified. The letter said, "Welcome Home".

I have never wanted anything more in my entire life. I have never KNOWN something more intensely. I KNEW that Notre Dame was the place for me, was my home (I guess God, The Universe, knew too).

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This algorithm makes me crazy. I've tried to find out how is the approximation block of this algorithm, but until this time I still can't find it. And today I must make report for the approximation block of H-matrices algorithm, but I can't do my report without knowing how is it work. So, I'm hiding from my supervisor and move to other lab .

It's been 1 month that I haven't done my report yet. So make me feel shame with him. What would he thinks about me? I'm sorry, Sir... I'll try hard to make my report this week by email. Please forgive me
.....

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This is so sadness thing for me. I just lost my weight 5 kg... hiks...hiks...

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For children of mixed marriages:

Children automatically take the fathers' citizenship. However, based on the 1984 Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which has been ratified by Indonesia, the distinction between father and mother to determine children's citizenship should be eliminated.

An Indonesian mother must get special permits issued by related ministries to receive custody of underage children. Once issued, the permits must be picked up at an Indonesian Embassy in another country.

Stay permits for the children of Indonesian mothers are only valid for one year, and the children have to report to the police and administration offices at every level. The children also need a re-entry visa anytime they go abroad.

Children of expatriate fathers can only go to international schools, where the tuition is relatively expensive. And once they finish school, even if they want to stay in the country, they cannot work unless they have a work permit (expensive) from the manpower ministry and company sponsorship (unlikely as that usually requires work experience).

It is not clear whether expatriate mothers can become the guardians for their underage children if the fathers die.

It is not clear whether expatriate mothers married to civil servants are eligible to receive husbands' retirement money for their children's needs if the father dies.

For Indonesian women marrying expatriate men:

The Indonesian wife cannot sponsor her husband or grown up children for visas to stay in the country.

The Indonesian wife cannot bequeath her wealth to her children.

Many Indonesian wives have to leave their jobs and career if the husband loses his job in the country and has to leave.

For expatriate men married to Indonesian women:

Non-Indonesian men cannot become Indonesian citizens without giving up the citizenship of their country of origin.

For those who want to retire in Indonesia, the process is not easy and there are many complex requirements.

For expatriate women married to Indonesian men:

Expatriate women must be sponsored by their husbands to be able to stay in the country, with stay permits having to be renewed every year.

Re-entry visa is needed anytime they go abroad, and must be applied for with their husbands acting as sponsors.

To work in the country, expatriate women must be sponsored by a company.

Expatriate women do not have the right to inherit husband's property. The property must be sold within a year of the death of the husband.

-- Source: Inter-Nations Rainbow Alliance (APAB)

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A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne
Creator of The Secret

Ask, Believe, Receive - just three simple steps to create what you want. However, very often the second step, believe, can be the most difficult one. And yet it is the greatest step you will ever take. When you master believing, you have mastered your life.

To master believing, all you have to do is tip the balance of your thoughts, words, and actions, from 'not believing' to believing. The ONLY thing that can ever get in the way of manifesting what you want, is having more thoughts of 'not believing', speaking more words of 'not believing', and taking more actions of 'not believing', than you are of believing. Base the majority of your thoughts, words, and actions in believing, and the law of attraction must obey you.

Believing contains no doubt. Believing does not waiver. Believing is absolute faith. Believing remains steadfast despite what is happening in the outside world.

Here is a story of believing that will speak to you and inspire you......... to believe.

From SFB in the Philippines:- 'My Own Daily Reminder'

When you open my cell phone, the first word that you will see pop-up on my greeting screen is "BELIEVE". I have had that word tacked up onto my computer screen, my vanity mirror, my journal - almost anywhere that I can see it. However, I have never really taken what that word means to heart. This afternoon, I know what it is like to believe.

A few days ago, I got hold of the DVD of The Secret. I had already read the book some time ago, and I wanted to watch the film. I decided to take The Secret's message to heart.

Each morning, I had been waking up and dreading going to work - the company I work for has a very stressful environment, and being there takes a lot out of me. Despite this, I would tell myself and really feel that I was excited to go to work, that it was going to be a good day, that only good things were coming my way. Doing this helped me. I would get through my days tired, but still able to laugh and feel less stressed. I also developed a more compassionate view of the people in our office who made our lives hard. I started seeing them not as monsters, but as people who hurt inside like we do. I was happy with this result - it made me feel more serene and calm and less stressed. It also started making me more productive at work, as I no longer let the tense atmosphere affect me.

But I was in for a little surprise. The Universe wanted to show me just how this process works. :-)

Each Christmas season, Starbucks gives out daily planners to its loyal customers. The planners are usually covered in real leather and are quite striking and stylish. To get one, you have to fill up a small card with 24 stickers - each sticker represents one cup of coffee bought in Starbucks. In our country, a cup of Starbucks coffee costs an average of Philippine Peso 150.00 - about the cost of one lunch and transportation to and from work. In a country where wages aren't that high, this is quite a luxury, and although I get paid a bit more than the average worker, this is a bit much for someone who has a family like me. I have tried for three years to get the stickers required, but each year I stop about midway when I start computing the cost! This year, when they started the annual promo, I got a card and wondered if I could fill it up with the required stickers.

I had worked my way into getting 18 stickers onto the card - no mean feat considering that I started collecting the stickers the day the promo started, or almost two months ago! I had scrimped and saved to get at least two stickers a week - sometimes three if I had a little extra left over. I wanted to get that planner before Christmas - my gift to myself.

With only five days left till Christmas, I wasn't sure that I could fill up the card. I was beginning to think this was going to be one of those years when I'd just watch other people lug the Starbucks planner around and wish I had one.

This morning, as I was taking a shower and just enjoying the water splashing on my face, I told myself I was getting that Starbucks planner TODAY. I didn't really know how since I still had 6 stickers to fill up. When I got up from my desk to get my coffee after lunch, I told my staff I was going to get my Starbucks planner. All the while I was thinking: "Now, how is that possible? I can't afford to buy 6 cups of coffee today."

As I stood in line, I kept staring at the planner displayed on the counter. I could feel the leather cover between my fingers and I could imagine writing on its sepia colored pages. All of a sudden I heard the barista ask the girls ahead of me if they wanted to give me their stickers, since they already had their planners and didn't want their stickers anymore. The girls said YES. I almost jumped - I had three free stickers, plus the one for the coffee I was getting made four, which meant that I only needed two more to get the planner. At that point, I was already sooooo thankful and I expressed my thanks to the three young girls who graciously gave me their stickers. (They were my three magi -- only in female form, don't you think?)

But that wasn't the end of it. It so happened that as part of Starbucks Manila's 10th year anniversary, they were giving away double stickers between the hours of 12:30 noon and 2:30 p.m. till December 25. It was 1:00 p.m. so I was getting double stickers!!!! That meant I was getting SIX stickers in all - the number I needed to get my planner!!!!! I walked out of the shop with my planner in the brown Starbucks bag, still in shock, but convinced that I had tapped into the Secret.. even if it was just for a short moment.

I instantly knew why I kept the word BELIEVE tacked in all those places. The Secret had been trying to get to me all these years through that word - I just wasn't really listening.

I have my planner on my desk now. The leather cover feels just as it did when I was imagining how it would feel when I touched it. I have told my co-workers how I got it - I told them I simply believed I was going to get it and I did.

This planner will be with me all through next year. It will be my daily reminder to BELIEVE.

(And oh - I'm already seeing the 2009 planner on a bigger desk in a corner office with a view!)

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May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne
The Secret... bringing joy to billions

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24 February 2008

It’s been a long time that I never go to the traditional market. At Sunday morning, I am accompanying my mother to go to the traditional market. When I arrived there, I feel the flashback of my life, the first time when I go to the traditional market in Depok with my mom. The seller, the people, the driver, the smell, the festivity, and anything about traditional market make me exciting. A lot of people with their importance are going to the traditional market.

Then there is something in my heart that I don’t know the name of this feeling make me happy. When I enter the traditional market, I can smell “traditional market smell”. Mmmm… how can I explain it, let me think… the wind brings that smell through our nose. It likes the smell of the fishes, vegetables, beans; bad smells, good smells, and weird smells mix become one. The crowded of the people, voice of the seller every where, voice of the buyer, young people, old people, the children, so amazing. I feel that going to the traditional market is an exciting journey.

Some sellers know me and my mother very well, because we have bought fish, vegetable, chicken, or anything with the same seller. And now after 3 years they still in there become old. Of course they still with the same smile, a beautiful smile, and their kindness are more than anything in this world. People like them are the best people that I ever had. And of course only Allah can make them like that, I’m thankful to Allah for everything.

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My friends send me a beautiful SMS that talking about friendship. How lucky I am to have friends like them. First SMS came at January 31^st 2008 at 20:21. Here her SMS:

“LOVE and FRIEND”

One day LOVE and FRIEND are walking through the uptown

Then suddenly LOVE fall in to the deep lake

Why?

Because LOVE is blind

Then FRIEND dived in to that deep lake

Why?

Because FRIEND will do anything for LOVE

In the lake, LOVE gone

Why?

Because LOVE is soft and it is easy lost it if we don’t care about it. It will hard to find it, especially when it falls in to the deep darkness lake.

But FRIEND still faithful to search LOVE and will always wait for LOVE

Why?

Because FRIEND can’t life without LOVE

FRIEND will always eternal as a faithful friend

So that, respect your friend even though you have had couple, FRIEND always faithful

Even we have had a lot of money, FRIEND is more important than anything in the world

Because FRIEND never leave us alone

Friendship Forever

This SMS so make me touch. I was sad before and try to handle it by myself. Maybe my best friend Inha felt that at that time I was very sad. And when I received her SMS and read it, it was so make me feel amazing. She has charged my spirit with her SMS. Thanks my friend, you are my eternal best friend that I ever had.

She has had a husband and will born their child and she still has time for me as a truly friend. She really makes me touch with her truly care for me.

The second touched SMS came at 20 February 2008 at 18:13. This SMS was came from my abroad friend.

When you win, I will proudly tell to the world “Hey, that’s my friend!”

But if you lose, I will sit by your side, hold your hand and say “Hey, I’m you friend”

Allah must be really loved me, because Allah always send me a good friends in my side. From that I can feel that Allah always in beside me whole of my life. Alhamdulillah.