“The Secret” – Where is it Today?
December 13, 2008
Many people involved in network marketing, MLM, and other home based businesses have watched a movie called “The Secret”. The movie came out back in 2006. While it’s old news now, it still makes the rounds and gives a good dose of encouragement to those who view it.
“The Secret” is based on a principle called “the law of attraction”. Simply put, this means that what you’re thinking (both consciously and subconsciously) helps determine what happens in your life. If you have financial problems and focus on worrying about them, you will attract more financial problems.
On the other hand, if you focus and think about what you want (financial freedom), and take action to achieve it, you’ll attract prosperity and opportunity. This principle has been written about in many popular “how to achieve success” books over the years. It isn’t a new concept. What “The Secret” does is present a dramatic illustration of the “law of attraction” and makes the point very effectively.
The movie is inspiring and a good view for network marketers and other home based business people. The key to getting the most from the movie, however, is understanding that nothing comes to you without your own effort. You can’t just sit and visualize success and expect it to magically come to you. You must put in the work along with the mental imagery to make things happen.
To be successful in network marketing and home business enterprises, it’s necessary to have strong and well-defined goals and a solid unwavering belief that you can achieve those goals. You have to stay focused and not let negatives sidetrack your march to success.
To summarize, the basic principles presented in “The Secret” are not new. They have been written about and discussed for centuries. The movie says as much. What “The Secret” did was bring the “law of attraction” concept to the front and center and make it a hot topic.
It works. Do it right, expect success, and you’ll be delighted with the results!
You can see it “pay by view” or order the DVD at this web site:
The Secret is the latest and by far the worst example of a HIGHLY profitable trend where self-help gurus with fabricated new age titles and little relevant education, credentials or legitimate expertise brainwash us into believing that they know what is best for us, our marriages and our families.
Often their only contribution to society is introducing some exotic sounding, new age philosophy. However, they often cleverly form an incestuous group of like-minded “experts” who cross-promote each other by swearing their success is due to following the beliefs of another member of their “cult!” All the while, they ply the airwaves jockeying for an ever-larger audience by appearing in the national media to garner third-party endorsements.
The Self-Help Movement has become the Self-Destruct Movement by diminishing or destroying our critical thinking skills to choose and evolve on our own. We have given up the freedom to build healthy lives, marriages and families based on our unique history and life experience. Instead many victims, blinded to the value of their own life experiences, are attracted to the latest secret in self-help, in an attempt to find out what they should think, feel and how they should act… this is the definition of a cult.
The solution is a return to our (common) senses! The best way out of this learned “self-helplessness” is to go cold turkey. Stop following ALL self-help gurus now. Begin, instead, to reclaim your natural, God-given ability to think for yourself. The common sense that was once readily available to all of us is still there free of charge and waiting to be applied to just about any challenge we might face in life… all you have to do is use it.
Please, let’s all work together to stop the flock of “sheepeople” who blindly move from one UNPROVEN concept to the next, looking for the answers to life’s challenges that you already possess and that is the OBVIOUS!