Is it “BS” or is there merit?

After reading the secret, I thought to myself “shit” if this works for these aspiring high flyers or would be high flyers or renowned high flyers surely this could have the potential of working for me.

Hence the experiment commences on 17 September 2007, as I write this story aged 32, I am starting the application of the secret. Is this “BS” or does it have any merit?

Let me tell you about me, I find myself at a juncture in my life having done reasonably well in terms of my job level, success and personal well being. I am a director of a Consulting firm, I have 2 great sons and a phenomenal wife. I also own a property business (after reading Rich Dad Poor Dad). I am the managing director of a hotline company called the Vuvuzela (put in the pronunciation) Hotline. More importantly I am starting out with a company called Skylar – this will become a global brand. Reality or myth, we’ll see in a few years (2 to be exact). Crikey, now I am really feeling the pressure. Let me carry on, I have a personal motto which is “If it is to be it is up to me” courtesy of Lydia Jacobs (authors mom). I have set my goals early in my life and I am staying the course. My enneagram lists my personality as “The Helper” Type Two(see http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/) “the caring, interpersonal type. Twos are empathetic, sincere and warm hearted. They are friendly, generous, and self sacrificing, but they can also be sentimental, flattering and people pleasing. They are well-meaning and driven to be close to others, but can slip into doing things for others in order to be needed. They typically have problems with possessiveness and with acknowledging their own needs. At their best: unselfish and altruistic, they have unconditional love for others. “ Get the picture.

I own….sorry the bank owns a house in the suburbs where I live. I think of myself as an optimist, negativity and me are like oil and water. I tend to procrastinate at times, but starting to swing in the opposite direction ie not procrastinating. Am I starting to sound like you….. guess what I am probably your neighbour.

I find myself stuck in a situation of DEBT, the age old fairytale of suburban bliss. How this sneaks into your life without even noticing it….or…..maybe we tend not to notice, yes that’s more like it. Just the other day I was down an out no cash to pay workers, bills etc so I visualize winning at the casino (not a big gambler), praying, hoping, feeling the jubilation that I would win just R30 000.00. I needed this to square up some debt. So I head in with R40 to my name plus R10 for parking. I choose a machine where the payout was R51 000.00 thinking it was fairly close to my target. I was up R350 but then lost it all. I then made a personal vow that I would never ever go to the casino when I was ever down and out. Needless to say some or other way I managed to get through the DEBT.

So what have I done to deserve this, nothing in particular, I have merely been existing and not been living (think these words belong in some song). So this is why I think of myself as a perfect specimen in the application of the secret. My focus as we proceed would be to test the elements of the secret to the full, to test this unbreakable theory, to see whether I become a wealthy man in all sense of the word, to go where no man has gone before, to search the universe for the greater good, to get hugged by Oprah, to give 100,000 people jobs. Getting a bit carried away now.

I made a little space today for an attitude of gratitude (random act of kindness Kfm ), sounds lame, but I decided to take R1000 (overdraft at maximum) and give it to a lady working with children in a slum area in Cape Town – lets see what happens. I don’t leave any details, I want to see how the forces work.

So here we go, on your marks, set, GO.


Huh nothing yet, let me wait a day…. See you tomorrow.

Back again, just got a call from my attorneys to say my third bond on my house has been approved, yeah more DEBT bring it on. “Bullshit” triumphs on day one.