I sooo agree with you. I think the Secret was really meant to remind people to live with a direction… to really pay attention to what they want… but in the end, The Secret completely forgot about taking action.

I guess their idea of “align yourself with your intent” was their subtle ways of saying.. TAKE ACTION!

I remember something from sales training at Primerica… they always said: Life rewards action. That always stuck with me.

Take action

The reason that you should write things down is to down is to keep yourself on track when your attention goes astray. Sometimes, it’s difficult to stay in the present if the only things that you keep visualizing is all of the ways that things COULD go wrong when you haven’t even begun the next step of the journey. When some say that they don’t dwell on the past, they just move on – one has to wonder if they are actually moving forward or just moving in circles and THINKING that they are moving “on.”

Thinking positively is not about the good fairy, God, or the universe making it happen with no effort on your part – it’s about being open to the good things that may come your way and recognizing them when you see them (which you won’t if you’re always looking down). If you don’t see what you want around you, make certain that you are not looking through a negative lens and missing the beauty and wonder that is everywhere.

We all have excess baggage that we carry with us and stash until we “get around to it.” I can beat that 2.5 years with the unsorted box, g-rod, and I have more than one box but I have been using “tools” that I learned at work to finally address my unfinished business and it’s going well. Maybe I could have just moved on but I have learned a great deal in this time and now I have new “tools” in my toolbox to help me move forward and do better than before. It’s only a waste if you learned nothing from it. Anyone that I meet from now on is getting a much improved me.

There is this rumor going around with all of these spiritual books, “Write down what you want, and you will attract it.”

I love that shit. They’re offering you a shortcut! Do you remember that book The Secret? Write yourself a check for a million dollars, and it will just show up!

Not by working at McDonald’s, it won’t! That’s just not how it works.

So it’s not just about writing down what you want – that’s fucking lala-ville. That’s just airy-fairy shit. “I want a big dick” – you can’t just put that shit out into the universe and expect it just to come to you.

I agree and thats exactly what i say to myself when i read shit like that in books like “the secret” i will say writing down a to do list and putting in front of my pc which im at a lot helps me eventually accomplish shit i’ve been meaning to do, but shit like act like you have a million dollars and it will come, or write it down. idk… setting goals is great, but if your not taking some serious action to make it happen, its most likely not going to.

you know the older i get the more i realize it’s all me. what i mean here is no one is gonna do it for me. if i want something in life i gotta get off my ass and accomplish it myself…work for it myself….learn it myself. when your younger you don’t think about that shit as much, your just living day to day, then one day you wake up and ur like fuck…. its been two years i been wanting to drop 25lbs and here i still sit not doing it. fuck its been two years i’ve been wanting to start this business and haven’t. and so on and so on.

you know just the other day (and i still haven’t gotten to it) i really noticed and thought about this…but I have one of those plastic storage box things sitting here in my office that i’ve been meaning to sort thru and get out of this room…. and i thought to myself. holy fuck g, you’ve lived here 2.5 fuckin years now and still never got around to sorta thru that box of shit and getting that thing outta here. 2.5 years.

its amazing how time flies and you look back and say to yourself all the reasons and excuses you made, imagine if you hadn’t and just took action instead right then and there.

imagine how much you could have accomplished.

just think about that.

Here is the real law at work which everybody knows without having to watch a foolish new age movie:

YOU WILL REAP WHAT YOU SOW.

When difficult times come, how do you react? When a girl turns you down, how will you take that rejection? Do you learn from your mistakes and grow? That’s pretty much the gist of it. Nothing you don’t already know.

I relate this to Stephen Covey’s 2nd Habit (from 7 Habits of Highly Effective People): Begin with the End in Mind. I think that it takes both the goal and the visualization of the path to that goal.

The next step is doing whatever it takes to get to that goal, and that’s where this article comes into play. I found that I have to be willing to be the asshole in order to get what I want. I tend to sense what I need or needed to do – the next step for me is making it a habit to always do it instead of hesitating / over-thinking / etc.