How People Screw Up "The Secret"
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I can't help notice how many "Secret" fans are still broke. They're probably a happier broke, but still broke. And I can't help thinking that they just don't get it.
Here's an example: recently I was talking to a die hard "The Secret" fan about a challenge in our business. His advice was to sit and visualize the problem gone, and feeling happy and fulfilled. He gave me a passionate lecture about it. But he didn't like my response. I told him to image being in a room with a smelly pair of shoes in the middle. He has two choices: visualize a wonderful, fresh, clean smelling room, or chuck the shoes out the window. Nothing against visualization, but it's just a lot easier to chuck the source of the problem than to play mind tricks.
"Gasp!" You say. Are you criticizing "The Secret!"- Infidel!
Well, hold on just a minute. All I'm saying is that I see a lot of people who treat The Secret like some sort of feel good drug. It makes them feel better, it's like a religion, but they aren't willing to change their behavior.
One more analogy. I have a vegetable garden. I don't know why. I'm a lousy gardener. But that's beside the point. The fact is, I can plant, hoe, water and till with a lousy attitude, but the plants all grow anyway. As a matter of fact, whether I have a good attitude or not, those dang plants just follow the laws of nature and seem to grow with or without my visualization, attitude, or skill. Pesky things.
So I guess given the choice between practical action with a lousy attitude, and wonderful visualization exercises without action, I'll take the action path any day. It's been said that if everybody waited until conditions were right to get to work, none of the great literature would ever have been created.
So, while I'm not endorsing a bad attitude, I feel sorry for that group of Secret fans that feel good, and are convinced that they are on a higher plane, but are wasting time sitting beside their garden visualizing when they should be out there sweating and working to get a crop.
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The Secret
Finally! I thought I was the only one who thought anything like this.
I personally did not like "The Secret" at all. It takes something profound and turns it into a fantasy. They even stole the title from Earl Nightingale. If you want to know the real secret, check out his "The Strangest Secret". I could have gotten the title a bit wrong, but you can find it. Compare the original to the hyped copy. You'll find the real "secret".
Spot On Dave. Spot On...
You hit the nail on the f@%$*&n head Dave! Great writing. I love the gardening with a bad attitude analogy!
'The Secret' does in fact deliver just enough info for "sheep" to anesthize themselves with, just like people do with most religions.
But are you surprised? This remind me a lot of the truism I like to spout which has come to be nicknamed 'The Ajala Principle': "Only 1% of any group of people involved in any endeavour will be willing to do what is necessary to achieve extraordinary results."
I actually talk in detail how this one, single phenomenon has changed the game of network marketing in the interview I did with Brian Tracy earlier this year (if you wanna check it out, you should be able to still google it, or go over and sign up to listen to it streamed at www.MLMLoserVooDoo.com)
What they left out of the video is that with thought we attract what we want, but with ACTION we receive it.
Very well written. I'll be keepin' an eye out for more of your stuff.
As always... Live Luxe Or Die!
- Harkon Ajala