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The reason for The Secret’s popularity is undoubtedly the dream it is selling of doing next to nothing to attract what you want.

This is not something that I subscribe to in any way. All of my success has come through taking consistent action (often long and arduous work) to achieve things that I wanted in life. There were times where I hardly saw my family but through the drive that I had to achieve a desire I was aiming for I pushed on regardless.

People that know me are aware that my success formula is all based around taking specific action. I do not believe in instant cures, or any of the “become a millionaire overnight” crap that plagues the Internet but I DO believe that anybody can change their situation. They just have to want to do this badly enough. It’s a lot more than just dreaming and wishful thinking.

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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!