OK so it’s hype headline. I know. But have you read the
book “the secret”?
Now this seems to have become the holy grail in the
ML.M / home business world. After 10 YEARS of personal
experience and 9 business attempts and using the principles of
the “secret” for a decade (7 years without knowing and 3 years fully aware)
I have come to the following real conclusion.
As Catherine Tates grandmother character would say
“what a load of old ***” (excuse the french but I am from Essex don’t you know).
Now I am really going to dig deeper on this subject
over the coming months but after 10 years of always believing
it would be ok and watching hundreds of other people
pinning all their financial hopes a so called law of attraction
will deliver success I am left with only one conclusion to draw.
There is no connection between ones thoughts and a physical result.
None. Zip, Nadda. Nowt. You see what we are being sold
is a theory that by thinking and feeling something enough it will materialise.
Wrong!
My 10 years of experiences are mixed with great learning, hard work,
huge belief and even when I did everything right it still failed.
In fact my best friend, whom I taught a property strategy to, ended
up with 3 houses and I lost £15k?? How? Was I not thinking
positively enough? Did I not believe it enough?
My best friend’s attitude is actually very wary and he was less than convinced it would work but work it did – for him.
Now this is just one of 9 different experiences that I can use
plus hundreds of others from other people.
So lets get to whats what. There is a law and its not the law of attraction its the law of averages. So if you continue to learn and grow and improve and develope and improve and grow and learn and try and try and try then you will at some point get some success. The law of averages says that when you do enough eventually something will work for you.
When? I Don’t know.
But you need to be in action and the real secret is
persistance on a huge scale.
Even my favourite Internet marketer in the whole world
has launched 78 internet businesses and 38 of them failed.
(but they gave him huge lessons that led to improvements that led to success)
Now I could ramble on more and I probably will
in the coming weeks but when I turned the corner
and started to make real money was when I decided
to learn, grow, develope, and persist.
The secret is there is no secret and my sincere advice
for anyone using this principle and thinking it will actually bring
something to you is stop.
But you know something, the real unfortunate thing is when
someone uses the “secret” and some success comes fast
as they then wrongly believe it was the secret that did it for them!
Wrong again. How could this possibly be true unless “it” chooses who
to deliver to. You see in order for this to be the ultimate truth it must
work all the time for all who use it and it most certainly does not.
“The Secret” does not choose who to deliver to just as “it” does not deliver anything.
For the few who have had the “coincidence” of success when they
applied principles from the secret I have words of caution. To
promote this way of thinking without action and persistence is
playing with fire. I have a decade of real life experience to argue
with even the most avid supporter of this new world cult (and it is a cult).
It is the action and growth and persistance that will deliver and nothing else.
I leave you with this thought. Who financed “The Secret” and who got very rich from it’s sales? Answer that and you have answered the whole marketing story and it’s true purpose.
What are your thoughts? Comments welcome below.
Jay Roberts
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August 2nd, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Shortly after the Secret was published we went on a seminar of Jan Ruhe, and she said there was one thing never mentioned and that was ACTION. If you think that the secret a number of famous golfers have said “The funny thing is, the more I practice, the lucker I get”
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:23 pm
It is strange that I read that you had brought this subject up again today as I was only thinking the same thing this morning. There you go, the law of attraction. I had to comment as you have exactly the same ideas about The Secret as I have.
To me it is basically determination, not letting go of your goal whatever happens and not giving up. Not all of us are able to do this all the time, we have ups and downs, but if we are determined to at least better ourselves then we have a good chance to do so. Sometimes though, life takes over and whatever we do someone or something can interfere.
What does amaze me is as you say, when luck or coincidence comes into it and people say, I was following the Secret and then won the Lottery. Sorry that can only be rubbish.
It is all about hard work and as Michael said, practice until you get it right.
August 3rd, 2010 at 10:57 am
I completely agreee Rachael. But there are many people fooled into thinking it was The Secret that is responsible. Alas….NO!