The Secret Solution To Success

As a philosophy I reject what The Secret stands for. The esoteric that this book advances as a theory is based on false notion that dreams manifest mainly because we ask for it with our hearts; while actually the opposite is often true. Dreams are fulfilled because of hard work and perseverance. And sometimes even that is not sufficient. No one can put his / her finger on one thing or a set of things and declare that this gives you what you want. Here's where the philosophy of The Secret steps in - the gap is apparently fulfilled by: ask and the universe will bestow upon you unimaginable gifts; with lots of pseudo-science thrown in.

However, diamonds are found in deep, dark mines. Here's one such diamond that The Secret hold with in its folds. It is a statement that is so very true that it stands apart from the rest of the book, but you wouldn't even know. This quote is by Jack Canfield, the co-author of Chicken Soup For The Soul:

Think of a car driving through the night. The headlights only go a hundred to two hundred feet forward, and you can make it all the way from California to New York driving through the dark, because all you have to see is the next two hundred feet. And that's how life tends to unfold before us. If we just trust that the next two hundred feet feet will unfold after that, and the next two hundred feet will unfold after that, your life will keep unfolding. And it will eventually get you to the destination of whatever it is you truly want, because you want it.

A most practical solution. Won't you agree?

On a complete different issue, I think this is how the world economy will recover: 200 ft by 200 ft, give or take an Obama or a Manmohan Singh.

Picture Courtesy: Kristian Rasmussen