the secret

WOW!

Just published on November 28, 2006 and number one on Amazon with millions in print. I am of course talking about "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne.

I was unaware of this new best seller until this weekend but such success cannot remain hidden for long and the media has jumped all over the story. In their time tested formula of presenting opposing views the media are trotting out 'experts' on both sides. We have the believers who have been promoting some or all of the ideas found in the book for a long time and we have the debunkers who are confusing the whole thing with Positive Thinking.

Well I find all of this very interesting. I have written a lot about self improvement on this blog and like seeing a best seller in this genre, flaws and all.

I have not read the book so will not comment on it. Seems to be enough of that going around already. I will just reprint something I wrote here on May 15, 2005. Says it all.

one thing

Self improvement boils down to one thing, thinking.

All the self improvement, personal transformation and business inspiration books on the shelves spend all their time telling you that you just need to learn to think in a new way. This idea may be new to us but it is not a new idea.

Hearing it like this it might seem so simplistic as to be worthless. It's not.

The steps to success have worn a path through the world yet most people cannot find them.

Set goals, learn about your mind, train your mind and act upon your plan. It can be as simple as focusing on these four steps.

Choose to control your thinking, that's it, that's the one thing.

failure to see

AMERICA GOES BLIND!

Since I have lifted my personal ban on politics on this blog I started to do a little online research on our politics.

I thought I would start with that most basic of information, the values of the liberals and of the conservatives.

Unfortunately I was not able to nail these down because all I found were rants from one side against the other.

In the few places where I found anything it was always spoiled by an opinion of what the other side believed. I say spoiled because I could not believe what I read.

When one side writes about the other in this country they carry on as if they were talking about hated enemies instead of friends and neighbors. The vocal members of each group despise the other side and inspire their readers to do the same. There is no room for either discussion or compromise between these two sides. If they could get away with it they would kill each other.

Why this is I cannot say.

What I can say is that Americans today are blind. They cannot see who the real enemy is.

The real enemy wants to kill all of us and rule the world.

The real enemy wants everything now and to hell with the future.

We need to see the real enemies for what they are and start talking about what we as a nation are going to do about them.