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After watching The Secret, <\/em>I wrote all of my goals on a piece of paper and posted it above my desk. One of my seven major goals was to have my book of poems published by a major press. For two months after watching The Secret, <\/em>I did nothing but visualize and evoke the feelings of ecstatic empowerment that come with having a book published.<\/p>\n

Now, bear in mind that I didn\u2019t know how I would do this. I just knew that I would do it. Most established poets will tell you that you must have had at least the majority of the poems in your book published in well-known magazines before you have any hope of getting them published in book form.<\/p>\n

I refused to believe that. I simply believed that my book would be published and on the shelves of Barnes & Noble within a year.<\/p>\n

Two weeks after I started my visualization, I received an email from the editor of a well-known press saying that he was considering the manuscript I had submitted to him two months before and had totally forgotten about! I was floored.<\/p>\n

So, I printed out the painting that I wanted for my book cover and wrote the title on the front. I wrote my list of acknowledgments, and I wrote his acceptance email to me and posted it above my bed. I continuously visualized what I would do when I received the good news: going to class and uncorking a bottle of champagne; calling my parents. I designed invitations to the celebration I would have when I received the good news. I told a few of my students that I had published a book.<\/p>\n

Soon enough, I got a phone call from an unfamiliar area code. It was the editor of the press saying that he\u2019d like to publish my book of poems and would send me a contract and further information ASAP. This stuff works!!!!<\/p>\n

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