Like a Gladiator focused on his enemy with the intent of annihilating him, I am focused on changing my life and any negative patterns to get things wonderfully on track with my vision for the future.

My dear friend Mary from Northern Cali sent me a copy of The Secret I got it in the mail earlier this week. It’s funny how I’ve gotten it because I haven’t checked my mail in weeks. I pay everything online. But My mailbox was full so the postman brought it to my patio and left the bundle there.

Mary had read a blog I wrote a week or so earlier about my penchant to have little patience for people with “poor me, woe is me” attitudes. She not only suggested I watch it, she sent me her copy. Thankfully she had two.

I’d planned to watch The Secret this weekend but with slight change in plans on Thursday night I decided to finish my cheap wine and watch it that night. I didn’t know what to expect. Previously some folks had mentioned The Secret to me and I’d heard all about this week-long thing Oprah did about it on her show. Still, I didn’t know what to expect.

I was transformed. It was amazing. It was dead on. It was me. Some of the philosophies I’d already incorporated into my life, I just didn’t know the full power of those things. But the thing that had the most impact was the Law of Attraction and the notion that whatever I have in my life at this point (good or bad) I have attracted with my thoughts, beliefs and my energies. That made me sit back and take stock of my life.

Naturally I thought of my family and relationships, then I thought about my career at work, my personal endeavors in film and my relationships with friends and colleagues. Good or bad, drama or drama-free, up or down, chaotic or orderly, inspiring or depressing I had attracted it all. I compared – in a sense – relationships. Why do I get along so well with some but not others? Why do I feel attracted to some (on a platonic level) but repelled by others? Why do I have great and inspiring conversations with some people, some of the time and then horribly depressing conversations later. Note: I’m not a person who gets depressed easily.

In the first 24 hours of watching, The Secret I studied myself, my life and my actions. I examined everything: health, spirituality, money, family, relationships, love, and career. Ultimately I decided to put “The Secret’ into action. I was going to give it 100%. And that’s when things got interesting.

First I decided to claim my success NOW. My film, “Broken Hearts Club” will sell for $1.5 million within the next six months. That’s what I’m putting out there. That’s what I am focusing on. I am going to sell at least one script during that same time and I am going to be presented with an opportunity to meet all the major studio’s acquisitions executives. I felt renewed and empowered with the belief that if I put it out there into the Universe, the Universe will handle it and figure out the “how.” I didn’t have to worry about that.

Then I looked at my dog Buster who’s been sick. Every morning I’ve been waking up to his bout with a stomach virus and having to clean up and bathe him. Last night I looked at Buster and said, “Your stomach problems are over. You are going to feel much better by morning and you will not have any accidents tonight.”

This morning I woke up, grabbed some shorts and went to take him out. As I walked down the steps I lifted my nose to the air to see if I could smell anything. Nothing, I turned the corner and there was Buster sitting by the patio door wagging his tail. No mess. Now whining. No fuss.

Amazing, this thing called The Secret