David Schirmer

David Schirmer is presented in The Secret as an investment trainer, teacher, wealth specialist, successful share trader, investor, and investment trainer whose central message is that wealth begins as a mindset. His testimony gives the book’s claims about the law of attraction a sequence of concrete financial images: a deliberately visualized parking space, a bank statement altered in imagination, checks appearing where bills had dominated attention, and a pile of obligations transformed through gratitude into a symbolic sign of abundance. He is not merely listed among the book’s featured teachers; he functions as one of its principal witnesses for the proposition that thought, expectation, and feeling shape the life a person experiences.

Identity and Professional Background

David Schirmer is identified among the featured co-authors of The Secret and later receives a biographical entry describing him as a highly successful share trader, investor, and investment trainer. He conducts workshops, seminars, and courses, while his company, Trading Edge, teaches people to create unlimited income by developing a mindset conducive to wealth. The biography adds that his analysis of Australian and overseas share and commodity markets is held in high regard because of his regular accuracy. His authority in the book therefore rests on a combination of financial practice, teaching, and personal testimony rather than on abstract exposition alone.

His role is also connected to the wider network through which The Secret presents its ideas. He appears beside other featured teachers whose wisdom is gathered into the book and film, while the production, website, and forum teams extend those teachings beyond an individual speaker. Within that structure, Schirmer supplies a recognizable bridge between spiritualized language about attraction and everyday financial behavior: he speaks about parking spaces, bank balances, bills, checks, expectations, and the emotional experience of money.

Demonstrations of Intention and Expectation

Schirmer’s first practical illustration concerns parking. He explains that he visualizes a parking space exactly where he wants it before arriving. According to his account, the space is available about 95 percent of the time, allowing him to pull straight in; on the remaining occasions, he waits only a minute or two for another driver to leave. The anecdote presents visualization as an ordinary, repeatable habit rather than a one-time miracle. Its small scale is important: the law is introduced through a mundane inconvenience that can supposedly be anticipated and managed through mental focus.

He uses the same example to explain why people who say they always find parking, or who describe themselves as lucky and expect to win, appear to receive repeated confirmation of those identities. In his account, expectation is not a passive afterthought. It becomes a way of creating life in advance, because a person’s habitual assumption about what will happen directs attention toward the result already imagined. The parking space thus becomes a miniature model for the book’s larger promise that prosperity can be rehearsed internally before it is visible externally.

Schirmer also describes a more deliberate experiment involving a feather. He formed a mental picture of a feather and gave it distinctive markings so that he could recognize it without doubt if it appeared. Two days later, while entering a high-rise building on a street in New York City, he happened to look down and saw the exact feather he had imagined, including its unique markings. He interpreted the coincidence as unmistakable evidence that the law of attraction had responded to his intentional use of the mind. The experience strengthened his sense of personal power and encouraged him to move from attracting a small, clearly defined object toward creating larger things.

Reframing Debt and Financial Scarcity

Schirmer’s financial teaching appears within The Secret’s broader claim that money is blocked not by the Universe but by thoughts, feelings, and emotions organized around lack. The book argues that all required money already exists in the invisible and that a person must shift the balance of attention from insufficient money to more-than-enough money. Schirmer gives that principle a personal and visual form by describing how he confronted a stream of bills after first understanding The Secret.

When bills arrived each day, he took a bank statement, covered the existing total with white correction fluid, and wrote the amount he wanted to see in the account. He then visualized checks arriving in the mail. The narrative reports that within one month circumstances began to change and that he came to receive checks in the mail, with more checks than bills. The altered statement is a particularly revealing object in his story: it does not simply record a financial condition but becomes a surface on which a desired condition is mentally installed. The method turns an intimidating balance into an image of the outcome he wants to inhabit.

The book connects Schirmer’s account to hundreds of letters from viewers who said that, after watching The Secret, they too received unexpected checks. Those reports are presented as evidence that attention to Schirmer’s story helped readers and viewers reproduce its financial expectation. His testimony consequently operates on two levels: it is a story about his own changing relationship with money, and it is also a model that the book says can be imitated by an audience.

The Bills-as-Checks Exercise

Schirmer develops the same principle through a game designed to alter his emotional response to debt. Rather than opening bills while feeling dread, he first imagined that each bill was actually a check. He would greet the envelopes with joy and gratitude, treating the amount printed on each bill as though it represented money received. He wrote “I have received” at the top of a notepad, listed each amount with an added zero, wrote “Thank you” beside the figures, and tried to feel grateful enough to bring tears to his eyes. He then paid the bills with gratitude, regarding the amount owed as small beside the imagined amount received.

The sequence emphasizes emotional preparation. Schirmer says that opening bills before creating the feeling that they were checks made his stomach churn, and he understood that this reaction would attract more bills within the logic of the book’s teaching. He therefore sought to erase the churning sensation and replace it with joy. Make-believe, in this account, is not escapism but a technique for changing the emotional frequency associated with money; the promised result is that circumstances will respond quickly when the internal response changes.

This method stands beside the book’s more practical instruction to establish an automatic debt-repayment program and then focus on prosperity rather than continually thinking about debt. Schirmer’s exercise supplies the imaginative and emotional counterpart to that administrative step. The text does not portray him as ignoring bills altogether: he pays them, but only after attempting to change the meaning and feeling attached to them. His example therefore gives the prosperity teaching its clearest combination of concrete financial action, symbolic substitution, and emotional self-management.

Wealth as a Mental Orientation

Schirmer states directly that creating wealth is a matter of mindset and that it is all about how a person thinks. In the book’s formulation, the wealthy are people whose predominant thoughts concern wealth rather than scarcity, whether their attraction of wealth was conscious or unconscious. The Universe is said to move people, circumstances, and events to deliver what those thoughts call forth. Schirmer’s testimony gives this general claim an experiential vocabulary: the desired bank balance is pictured, checks are imagined, and gratitude is practiced until the emotional atmosphere of money changes.

His message is reinforced by the book’s recommended affirmations, including statements that money is abundant and on its way, that the speaker is a money magnet, that money is loved and welcomed, and that money is received every day. The wider teaching also presents giving as a declaration of having plenty: when people give, the Universe is said to return wealth in multiplied form. Schirmer’s contribution is less about philanthropy than about the mental posture that supposedly makes such abundance possible, but his examples help establish the book’s recurring contrast between scarcity as a self-reinforcing focus and prosperity as an expectation actively cultivated.

As a character-like witness rather than a plotted protagonist, Schirmer has little conventional dramatic arc. His development is represented through a change in financial attention: bills cease to be the dominant image, the bank statement is rewritten, checks replace the imagined procession of obligations, and small demonstrations such as parking and the feather become foundations for larger ambitions. The narrative significance of David Schirmer lies in this progression from anecdote to method. He makes The Secret’s abstract law visible through repeated acts of visualization and emotional reframing, while his professional biography positions those acts within the book’s promise that a wealth-oriented mind can be taught, practiced, and shared.