I don’t know how magic works, but sometimes it does—sometimes we influence circumstances in a magical way. My wife wanted a house with a garden in the countryside. In April, I took an empty envelope and put ten dollars in it; I told my wife we ​​needed to make a start on her dream and that we would regularly set aside any spare cash in that envelope. I thought it would take us a few years to save up enough for an affordable house. But three months later, in July, something strange happened: I earned a good amount of money in a single week and bought the very house my wife and I had seen in a listing back in April.