You have probably picked up this book because there is a voice inside you whispering that you are meant for more and because there’s a part of you that wants to be happier. Like really fucking happy. If we whittled down why we all do the things we do in life, the underlying reason is that we want to be and feel happy. We want to have jobs we love so we can be happy, a partner in life to make us happy, have a body we love so we can look in the mirror and feel happy, and experience things in the world that bring us happiness. Happiness makes us feel good, and feeling good is the goal for most humans.
Most people I speak to who aren’t feeling the level of happiness that I truly believe we all deserve feel that way because deep down they know they are destined for so much more. The thing is, I believe we were put on this planet to do extraordinary things, to be wildly abundant and to have all that we desire. We are all destined for a life living like a rock star in our own version of a Hollywood movie, where we are the star of the show. But somewhere between birth and adulthood, a lot of us got sold into a very different dream. If you’re working in a job that bores you senseless, are broke and continuously have more month than money, have physical ailments that won’t disappear, in a relationship that drains you emotionally or find yourself feeling like everything is a pointless waste of time, then let me tell you, my friend, you have bought into the wrong life and we need to change that – together.
All about me
So, who am I and why should you bother investing a few hours of your priceless time with me? I am a transformational mindset coach and my goal is to help people transform their lives personally and professionally so that they can become shamelessly happy by having it all. Yes, you can have it all. You can have a vocation that excites you, a relationship that fulfils you, a body that you feel amazing in and even the financial wealth you think is only for the ‘other half’. You can have your cake and eat it and my mission is to help people become more conscious, stop living life on autopilot, and go out there, bake the tastiest goddamn cake and devour it, slice by slice.
I am also just a normal girl and mum to three pretty awesome human beings who in fact hugely spurred my decision to make changes in my life. I love hanging out in my gym gear (even when I am nowhere near a gym or have any intention of going to one that day), am a meditation junkie, eat vegan and love travelling. I went to university to study Psychology and have a Postgraduate Certificate in Business & Executive Coaching and another in Coaching Psychology. I am obsessed with the inner workings of the human mind and the outer workings of our often crazy human behaviour.
I wrote this book with the intention of it being your wake-up call and to offer you a new perspective on how life can be limitless and wide open with possibility. I want to give you a chance to transform your thinking and to make you understand that, whatever situation you are in right now, you have the power at your fingertips to consciously change it on your own terms. This book is about helping you to do what you need to do to go for your dreams and finally get the stuff done that you have been dreaming about – the things that are ultimately going to make you feel … yes … happy.
That is why you bought this book – because either you know you are not living your full potential or because you look good on paper but inside you like feel like a fraud. Perhaps you are living a life that you know was not meant for you or you are not showing up as the 100 per cent authentic individual that you know you could be. Whatever the reason, you know that there is more out there, and you want to learn how to get it. I want this book to be the hug of support you have been waiting for and the metaphorical kick up the booty so you can go for it. It’s time to do whatever you need to do, to change whatever you need to change.
I get that there are truckloads of books out there on personal development – heck, I own a hell of a lot of them, but this book is different. My clients pay a lot of money to work with me directly, and I honestly know that’s not accessible for everyone, so these pages are your chance to have me hold your hand and to get you the success you want for the cost of a couple of coffees, minus the calories. This book isn’t just about theory; it’s about practice. It’s about habit-changing, booty-shaking, routine-making and digging deeper than you will ever feel comfortable about – but who said change was easy?
If we were to lay all the cards out on the table, I have massively taken one for the team for you in acquiring the evidence for this book! I have spent many, many hours of my life speaking with private coaches, have flown a ridiculous number of miles across the planet to attend seminars where I had to hug more strangers than has ever felt normal, and I’ve invested in more self-help audiobooks then my phone can handle, but I did it all in pursuit of the kind of change that I will share with you in this book. I solemnly promise to take you step by step through a mind-altering journey of self-discovery and personal transformation to help you be, do and have whatever you want. Can I hear an amen?
I know that what I will teach you is pretty impressive because I have been on that journey and still am. You may be wondering how a middle-class, Middle Eastern girl from an affluent part of London is qualified to talk about pain and happiness. After all, my siblings and I had a nice house, a private school education and parents both in good jobs. But internally my life felt very different.
Let me give you a little bit of background on my family and my childhood so that you can understand where I came from. My dad is Iraqi, religious and pretty traditional in terms of how we were brought up. He was very strict, had a terribly short fuse and desperately tried to shield us from the perils of the Western world, including sex, drugs and rock and roll. If he’d had his way, we wouldn’t have watched 12-rated films until we were 18 and he would have banned 18-rated ones until we were dead. God forbid that we saw two humans kissing – that would have been the end of the world!
My dad worked incredibly long hours as a lawyer, found it uncomfortably hard to show any affection to us children and had a turbulent marriage with my mum. She was the total opposite to him in every way. She would sneak us out to a get non-halal McDonald’s, let us secretly wear clothes my dad would have hated and let us watch films we weren’t allowed when he wasn’t around. She is an Iranian with a very Western attitude who called everyone and anyone ‘Darling!’ Even that pissed my dad off. This resulted in us living in a war zone as children and them eventually divorcing. I became estranged from my dad for many years after that and always felt the absence of a strong male role model in my life, though our relationship had been very fraught to begin with. I loved my dad but I just never understood him and the way he thought about how life should be.
It was at the age of four that I first realized I felt different – and it hurt. When I say different, I mean not totally white, and with a name that people could never pronounce. I was in the school playground, minding my own business, when a girl boldly walked up to me and asked me why my eyebrows were so bushy and why I was so ugly. Ouch! I didn’t have an answer but spent the rest of the day inspecting all the other children’s eyebrows in the school. Mine distinctly met in the middle and I realized in that moment that I was different. I went home, cried, blamed my parents and carried the burden of the bushy brow until I was 11, until the fated day I took a pair of tweezers and began what can only be described as an eyebrow massacre. Although thin eyebrows were in during the late 1990s, I looked horrific and my poor mother almost had a heart attack.
To add insult to brow injury, I spent most of my early teenage years getting bullied, feeling left out, and not knowing where I belonged. I wanted to change my hair colour, change my name, change my parents and just be ‘ordinary’. There was an internal pain that I couldn’t shift and by the age of 16 I was medicated on Prozac, drinking Malibu that I had stashed under my bed to make me feel normal and spending time trying to ever so gently self-harm (I didn’t really like the pain all that much). So, let me tell you, I know what it’s like to feel low, confused and to keep asking yourself on repeat ‘Is life meant to be this hard?’
By the age of 20, I had already experienced the gut-wrenching pain of several heartbreaks, the angst that came with navigating the emotional minefield of my parents’ divorce and then trying to settle into a university life that provided its own ups and downs. I had become well versed in the language of victimhood and my default state seemed to be set to ‘dramatic’. I battled with fitting into my family, fitting in with friends, fitting in with life and finding relationships that didn’t drive me crazy. When your expectation of what the world should look like is vastly different from what it is, you suffer from depression. When you continually battle with accepting who you are at the very core, you suffer from anxiety. When you don’t know what your purpose is and can’t accept yourself, it manifests in physical ailments. I was ashamed to be me because I wasn’t popular, skinny or academically clever. I felt different and I despised being different. Why couldn’t I just fit in?
To be honest, even after I got through some of my lowest points, I still spent most of my twenties confused as to what my purpose was and how to get my shit together so I could feel happy and become the heroine in my own Hollywood movie. If you could scroll through my old Facebook photos right now, you would see a girl who spent most of her time drinking, drunk or hungover. A girl who sought solace in class A drugs and a girl who rebelled against everything she was brought up to believe was right. You would see a girl on a never-ending journey to find Mr Right and yet disastrously re-enacting How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days over and over again. (I love that film!)
So, let me tell you, I may be ‘qualified’ academically to help you out, but I have also exuberantly attended every stage of the (sometimes rather painful) school of life and got ripped-up T-shirts to prove every step. The first thing I want to tell you is, wherever you are today, right now, is not where you have to be next week or next month or next year. I figured out a secret that dramatically changed things for me. This secret has helped me go from earning £138 a week on maternity pay to making multiple six figures a year, giving me the freedom to travel when I want, put my children in the best schools, invest in properties and even enable my husband to retire from his job. It has helped me have the body that I had always dreamed of, a marriage that makes my heart sing and relationships with my children that flourish every day. It has also helped me to form the most authentic and loving relationships with my parents so that they are totally accepting of me, my choices and my lifestyle. I never thought I’d be able to say this when I was younger, but today my dad is one of my best friends and loyal supporters, and I can be totally me. Basically, I am now a jammy so and so.
But more than that, this secret has helped me to become happy. Not ‘social media show’ happy but actually happy. Like lying in bed with unabashed gratitude that I feel so damn happy kind of happy. I stopped worrying about what everyone wanted from me. I stopped wanting to please everyone and fit in. I stopped focusing on what everyone else had and what I didn’t and started to create a life that was arguably, quite selfishly, all about me. And I have used that secret to help my clients across the world dramatically change their lives.
And now I am going to share it all with you in this book.
All about you
As a recovering depressive, anxiety-sufferer, life-plodder and self-confessed drama queen, I am in a unique position to show you that there is a way to transform your life, and I am going to help you take those steps. I know it’s a big job, but I am willing to take it on because, if I can change my story, then so can you. You have the power. If you don’t like your story, then it’s bloody time you rewrote it. I also want to let you know that you don’t need to wait until your life chokeslams the shit out of you and you are on the floor drowning in your own tears before making a change. Now is your time.
So, let me tell you my secret: changing your life starts with changing your mind. Maybe you have had heard this a gazillion times before and thought it was a load of hogwash, or perhaps you have never heard this until now. But whichever camp you’re in, you need to listen to it (again).
But here is the caveat: it isn’t simple or easy changing your mind. In fact, I would go as far as to say it is one of the hardest things for most humans to do, which is why we have ended up with a planet full of way too many people who feel stuck and even hopeless. From the moment we are born, we are thrust into a world where we have thoughts, ideas and experiences imposed upon us that lead us to form a set of beliefs about the world. Beliefs are essentially the guiding principles that provide direction and meaning in life. Beliefs are the pre-set filters to our perceptions of the world. Beliefs are like ‘internal commands’ to the brain as to how to represent what is happening, when we believe something to be true.
From childhood, we become like sponges that soak everything up – the great, the good, the bad and the really fucking ugly. If our parents are broke and worrying about money, we start to form beliefs about that. If our parents show us love and we come from fun and loving households, we will develop beliefs about that. If your parents argue all the time, you will form a view of your world because of that. We become conditioned to see the world in a certain way based on what our childhood experience was like. This all creates and determines our outlook on the world.
Our brains are made up of many parts, but there are two things we need to fully comprehend. We have a conscious mind and a subconscious mind, and for the most part, our subconscious mind runs the show, based on all the stuff that happens when we are kids, as explained above. This forms the template rooted in our brain that guides our thoughts and governs our actions as adults. From a psychological perspective, we need to change the template to make sure that it serves us in getting success and happiness in all areas of our lives. And changing our unconscious takes some work and can, quite frankly, be as painful as getting your privates waxed.
Most of us feel we have no control over our destiny because we are living by a template that has been manufactured by our parents, teachers, culture, government and media. At birth we are given the gift of a whole palette of beautiful colours enabling us to paint the most incredibly vibrant life. Yet, as each year passes, we become conditioned to believe that life is an endless chain of eat, sleep, work, repeat. Most of us end up believing that life is limited and restricted. Tragically, instead of believing that we are the powerful artists we are, and behaving accordingly, we become a victim of our own story. Every time we buy into a belief of fear and scarcity, we give away a colour from our palette and our potential to paint an incredible picture of what our life should be like is diminished. That’s why so many people are not fulfilled, and life feels so … beige. In essence, we have forgotten who we truly are.
Most people I speak to sing the same tune. They feel unfulfilled, as if they are failing and lost about what their path should be. For the most part, their life lacks passion, purpose and a sprinkling of va-va-voom because their paint palette now lacks the resources for them to paint a truly beautiful picture. Many of us buy into the story that making money is hard, that we should strive for a ‘comfortable’ life, that we should be grateful for what we have and not want more. We are sold into the idea that life is for working and that dreaming is for idiots. We believe that there is only so much love and success to go around so we had better whip out our boxing gloves and fight for it. We buy into self-sabotaging beliefs that say, ‘Who am I to have it all?’
People work hard five out of seven days to be able to afford the material objects that they think will bring them happiness and that they believe represent success. Once they attain the object, they realize that it hasn’t filled them up, so they get into debt trying to buy more things to fill the void just to wake up every morning and still feel unhappy … and even more broke. The cycle goes on and on.
A great example of this are the countless celebrities who end up as alcoholics and drug addicts. I remember always thinking ‘How can they be depressed, they are loaded?!’ As Russell Brand poignantly says in his book Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions: ‘We have been taught that freedom is the freedom to pursue our petty, trivial desires. Real freedom is freedom from our petty, trivial desires.’ As I went on my journey of personal development, I realized that success and happiness are not just about the acquiring of money or material objects – it runs so much deeper than most of us care to explore in our busy modern Western world.
In the spirit of making everything in this book super clear, I want to break down a few things and what I mean by them and why I feel they are crucial. I will give you definitions of what I mean when I ‘speak psychology’ so that you can grasp important concepts. I will explain those concepts and why they are relevant to you making changes in your life. I will illustrate my ideas with stories about people just like you, because I can guarantee one thing – there may be billions of people in the world, but our patterns of behaviour are almost always very predictable and the things that hold us back are virtually all the same. I will also be giving you ‘Just Fucking Do It!’ (JFDI!) exercises and practical actions so that you can consolidate what I am teaching you in order for you to actually get results. Finally, I want you to shamelessly just fucking do it.
To get us started, I want to give you a few examples of what non-serving conditioning looks like and the effect our childhood experiences can have on our future. Perhaps these will resonate with you.
LUCY’S STORY
Lucy grew up in a ‘working-class’ household where her parents both worked full time so had little quality time with their kids. They still struggled to make ends meet and argued a lot because of this. When Lucy had a family of her own, she was always fearful about not having enough money. She and her husband worked, and although they were better off financially than her parents, Lucy would argue with her husband about money. Lucy also never pushed herself to get a better job because she didn’t see the point, as she thought it would involve even more hours away from her family. Lucy’s ‘templates’ were sabotaging her potential to create a life of abundance for her family.
RICHARD’S STORY
Richard had come from a family of high-achieving academics and so followed in their footsteps to become a teacher. He worked his way up to become head teacher. His family was proud of him, but he didn’t feel fulfilled. He had simply followed his parents’ path. He then decided to quit and start his own business. Throughout his business, he felt uneasy that people were judging him as he was no longer in the teaching world. He had a belief that he wasn’t doing a ‘proper job’ even though he was making up to five times his previous salary. Richard’s template was interfering with his success and happiness.
Examining these examples through the lens of psychology gives us immediate insights into the way we all behave; we respond to our experiences with responses formed under our unique circumstances. To understand why we respond the way we do, we can use psychological principles to shed light on our behaviour.
Those are just two examples, but you can already see that psychology is essential to understanding what is holding us back and making us unfulfilled and unhappy. It forms the basis for all the principles that I will share in this book – principles which will help you examine and rewrite that template which is an overriding factor in preventing you from reaching your full potential. It’s like owning a gorgeous brand-new Ferrari. You sit in it knowing that it could take you on a wonderful journey but when you start the engine and rev it up, it doesn’t move. You take it to the garage and the engineer informs you that it’s been badly programmed.
You are that Ferrari. You have all the potential, beauty and power to go on any journey and yet you are struggling to move because of faulty programming. It’s time to reprogram you, baby.
Your secret weapon
Let me be clear, this is not just another book on psychology and mindset because I have seen people read such books and yet still not feel as though they have the success in life they want. In fact, I was one of them. I had read some mindset books, created my first business, and was even earning great money. I was looking like a success on the outside – but something inside didn’t feel right. I realized that, although improving your mindset is undeniably important, there is also another vital factor in transforming your life and achieving a rounded sense of success. And it is something that so many people fail to understand is their secret weapon, at their disposal at any given time.
I want to get something clear from the outset: success doesn’t simply mean financial wealth. Nor is success ever defined in the same way for every person. Success for one person may be a loving relationship and for another a healthy, fit and toned body. My idea of an extraordinary life will be totally different from yours and yours totally different from another reader’s. We will define what your own extraordinary life looks like shortly and you will have free rein to pull out a brand-new paint palette full of whichever colours you like and paint that picture however you want. You are not a robot. This is your life, and it’s time to live it. You do not need to buy into the idea that you can only have success in one part of your life. To feel true happiness is to have success across all areas of your life, and that is exactly what I want for you – this secret weapon is here to help you.
In the interests of total transparency, when I first heard about this secret weapon, I didn’t believe in it because, after years of having religion shoved down my throat, I had decided to become an atheist. But as my life has unfolded into something better than my dreams, I can now sincerely and wholeheartedly tell you this way of thinking can boost your success and happiness ten times. All I ask is that when I share this with you, you make no judgement for now. You just read this book and follow the steps I give you, and once you have finished, you can make your judgement then. Is that a deal?
OK. Here it is. Enter the Universe.
I’ve made it clear that I’m not religious. But I do believe in a Universal Intelligence and what in some hoods is referred to as G-DOG or God. OK, nobody calls it G-DOG but hey, sue me, sometimes a girl likes to channel her inner gangster. In fact, I love to see myself as a bit of a spiritual badass breaking all the rules of what I once thought a spiritual person had to be. I’m like 50 per cent Deepak and 50 per cent Tupac.
When I was little, I distinctly remember feeling confused and asking my mother a perplexing question. What was inside me that could see out of my eyes? I knew there was something inside my body that was looking outward but as a child I could not comprehend it. I knew that if I closed my eyes I could still hear a voice inside my head.
As humans we exist in multiple dimensions at the same time. There is a physical part of us: the part you see in the mirror and that interacts with other physical forms such as humans, objects and so on. This part is of us is tangible and takes physical action in the physical world. There is also another part to us. Our non-physical, inner essence that fuels and gives life to our physical being, which is made up of our thoughts, feelings and beliefs. Both the physical and non-physical realms of our existence are inseparable, like the top and the bottom of our foot.
Spirituality is the practice of connection with that non-physical part of you. As humans, we have been accustomed to an ‘outside-in’ approach to judging how happy we are, which then sets the tone for the journey of our life towards a destination that will never really fulfil us. For me, spirituality is remembering what you are: a motherfucking superstar. It’s the sacred practice of going inward to realize your own potential. It’s also the unwavering faith that there is something out there that truly does have your back on this journey of life and will be there to hold your hand every step of the way, if you let it.
Let me clear up some myths about what it means to be a spiritual person. I don’t wear bamboo trousers; I don’t own a lotus leaf; I’m most likely to be found chanting ‘fuck’ instead of ‘Om’, and yes, I shave my armpits. I used to believe that being spiritual was for people who weren’t normal. After years of being bullied and ever so desperately trying to fit in (so much so that I begged my mum to change my name by deed poll), I felt like anything ‘out there’ was not even something I would contemplate and would hugely interfere with my perpetual quest to be totally average. And while I’m being entirely candid here, even the word ‘spiritual’ made me cringe … a lot! But my life needed to change, and quite frankly I was willing to be open to anything because what I had been doing wasn’t working.
If you can understand and harness the power of the Universe in your quest for transformation, you will find the journey ten times easier and bucket-loads more joyful. You can read all the success books on mindset in the world, but the secret is to utilize the incredible energy source right at your fingertips to make those dreams a reality.
I am going to talk in a lot more depth in the following chapter about how and why the Universe can amplify your success, but I need you to just trust me here. When we bring psychology and spirituality together, it creates a marriage like no other and opens the floodgates for magic in your life. My life radically upgraded when I started on my journey of personal development but even more so when I began my spiritual journey and became obsessed with creating the life of my dreams by understanding and implementing the fundamentals I teach in this book. The reason why I believe this is not only because I have experienced it myself but also because I have seen it in hundreds of clients and colleagues. If you can tap into this invisible, sweet, loving Universal Intelligence that makes shit happen in the world, you will make your success stratospheric. This is what spirituality is all about. Scout’s honour. Guide’s honour. Cross my heart and hope to die.
I want this book to be your spiritual and psychological washing machine. I want it to cleanse you of all the bullshit that you have had emblazoned on to your brain. I want it to help you pull out the paint palette, refill it with every freaking colour and guide you to paint the most fantastical picture that would make even Picasso look like an amateur. Look, it’s no easy feat to battle against decades of conditioning and I need you to promise me something.
You must make an absolute and utter commitment to do a few things:
• Make a daily commitment to your personal development.
• Read every last bit of this book and everything I teach.
• Implement the tasks in each chapter. They will create change beyond your beliefs.
• Send me a bottle of Prosecco.
OK, I’m kidding about the last one but just checking you are still with me. Above all, I categorically need you to be open to a new perspective.
Changing lives
Books have radically changed my life, and I want this book to change yours. I remember sitting in a coffee shop back in 2012 in the middle of winter, freezing cold and heavily pregnant. I had just thrown up again after another bout of morning sickness, and after deciding to skip work, I found solace in the warmth of a hot chocolate. I opened up a book that I had found on my mother’s bookshelf. The book was called Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, and never in a million years (until that moment) did I think that a book could change the trajectory of my life.
This book taught me something that I’d never been shown before. I was trying not to splutter my hot chocolate everywhere in shock as I frantically turned the pages, devouring every word with an utter passion as it taught me about the power of my mind. Could this be real? They had clearly forgotten to teach this stuff to me in the private school that my mum had been duped into paying thousands for so that I could learn about Henry VIII’s wives and how rain was made in clouds.
I mean those things are good to know, but they were never going to change my life. The words inside this book would.
I felt a mixture of anger and excitement. Anger that in 15 years of education no one had felt the need to mention an approach that could change my whole life. I started googling away and became a fully-fledged Universe Junkie. I remember that day in the coffee shop like it was yesterday. I remember the sense of possibility that I had never felt before in my life and I can honestly say, when I cast my mind back in time, I barely recognize myself as I was then – hopeless, lost and desperate for a way out of her sucky life.
Perhaps you are that person in the coffee shop. Or perhaps you’re not her at all, and you have got your shit together, but you know there’s more shit to get done. Or maybe you’re the person who doesn’t have a clue what they want to do with their life. Or perhaps you have success outwardly but feel bankrupt internally and don’t understand why, because you’ve realized that Jimmy Choo and Range Rover haven’t brought you the joy you thought they would. Whatever your story, this book will show you where things have been going wrong and how you can systematically change them.
When I look back on the past few years of my life and then cast my mind back to the decade before, it is pretty incredible. I think back to the girl who suffered anxiety, yoyoed with depression, spent most of her days judging herself and others, and felt lost. The scary thing was that on the outside my life looked good and I was having fun, but inside, I was a chronic giver-upper and well-trained life escape artist. I was just good at putting on a show.
So …
• It’s time to move past the fear of failure and the fear of the unknown.
• It’s time to stop living life with a comparison hangover.
• It’s time to step into your power as the incredible and amazing person that you were born to be.
• It’s time to start loving yourself and believing in yourself in a way you never thought possible.
• It’s time to say goodbye to the excuses about not having enough time and/or energy.
If it was possible for me, I believe it’s possible for you, too! I’m just a regular girl who learned how to turn the impossible into the possible, and I did this all with the help of the principles in this book and my BFF, the Universe. Sometimes it takes a decade to get to the one year that really changes your life. Are you ready to make this your year?
So, let’s start this journey.
TOP TAKEAWAYS
• Where you are now is not where you can be in a week, month or year.
• Psychology is incredibly vital in changing your life, and it all starts with your mind.
• When you bring the Universe into the equation, you can skyrocket your success. Making the Universe your BFF is your secret weapon.
• Don’t judge until you have got through the whole book and implemented all the tasks and actions.
• You need to commit to your transformation for this all to work.
JFDI!
Trust the Universe
Let’s get to your first task, which I did after reading Pam Grout’s book E-Squared (2013). In order for you to trust me, you need to see proof. After all, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. So, let’s test the Universe. The rules are simple, but you absolutely must abide by them. You promised me earlier, remember, that you would come with an open mind and leave judgement at the door until the end of the book.
The rules:
1 For the next 24 hours, I need you to put aside any doubt, any second-guessing and to FULLY BELIEVE that the Universe is your BFF and will help you to co-create. I am only asking you to commit to 24 hours (for now).
2 I want you to find a quiet spot and repeat this after me OUT LOUD. You can adapt, but you get the idea.
‘Hi Universe, I need to believe that you have my back, like really believe in you, so I need you to do me a favour. I need you to show me that you are listening. I need you to give me a gift within the next 24 hours. You choose, but let it be a surprise. And also tell me that it’s you with a nudge of knowing, so I really know it is from YOU.’
3 OK, now your job is to LOOK for the gift. Yep, don’t forget you asked the Universe, and you need to EXPECT it is coming. You need to KNOW – 100 per cent with all your belief – that it is happening. When you go to a restaurant and order your meal, you have confidence and expectation that your food will arrive. You are ordering a gift from the Universe, and you must exercise this exact expectation.
4 Sit back and wait for the gift.
Follow these rules explicitly and watch how the Universe delivers. The gift may only be small, but remember something that comes as a surprise within 24 hours is the gift you have been waiting for. I even got my husband to do this task once. He reluctantly participated in asking for a gift. The next day he was tidying up and he was excited to find a remote that had been missing for weeks. He was so happy and said that he just couldn’t believe it – he thought it was gone for good. I looked at him and reminded him of the task we had done the day before. I smiled, and he became a total believer.
Now it’s your turn. Follow the rules and watch the magic unfold.