Everyone Wants the Results, But Who Will Walk the Path ??

AS I see it, the overriding message of The Secret is that our lives can be so much more than what they are today. Especially for those who are stuck in the middle class Rat Race, and who perceive their lives to be mediocre.

So we see the results that some others have obtained, and quite naturally we want those same results for ourselves. This is not a bad thing. All positive change begins with the desire for something better. This desire should be cultivated, not ignored.

And yet we do not have to go too far down the path to our dreams before we realize that it ultimately must start with us building or buying some kind of business, or creating something else, because true financial freedom does not come until we can be paid some on other people's efforts, or off of royalties, or until we have amassed enough of a stockpile ourselves to just live off the interest. The problem with the latter is that it takes 40 years or so, and you may have been wanting something a little quicker.

And soon after that, we find out that building that business or marketing that book is not as easy to do as it seemed like at first, and we also find that out there in the business world with the big bears and the gorillas and the sharks that the market is very unforgiving of mistakes that we make along the way. Some people find that this puts them in piles and piles of debt, ruins their credit, threatens their home and generally messes with their life.

Does the movie The Secret say that you can just focus on the end result, visualize it, be grateful for it in advance, and then by doing all of that you can just skip the pesky part where you actually have to make mistakes and learn something? I think not.

What it does say, is that if you keep your focus on the end result, if you do not get so caught up in the mistakes along the way, as in just learn from them and move on, that you will with this focus finally get to the end result.

But who is willing to do it?

If I guaranteed you that you could be a millionaire, and that the only price was that you had to be homeless for some undetermined amount of time first, would you be willing to do it? You might ask Neale Donald Walsch that question, because this is pretty much what happened to him.

But here is the real kicker. . . He went into being homeless as a displaced worker who had been living a quiet middle class life.

He came out of it with the inspiration that turned him into a millionaire; namely the Conversations With God books.

Would he have ever received that inspiration if he had not been homeless? Who knows? But my guess is probably not, because he would have not perceived the great and dire need for something better.

If we only sorta want something better, is that enough to get us along the crooked and difficult path to fame and fortune? I think not. We must have a gut renching feeling that something has to change, or we will not do anything different, and as such we will not get any different results.

And to any who would argue that it does not have to be a crooked and difficult path to fame and fortune, I would allow that most of the work is within your head as opposed to without, but if the path were easy then everybody would already be there . . .

And it would not mean as much.

So I do not wish to sound harsh here, but rising to fame and fortune is not for the timid. We will make mistakes along the way, and those mistakes will be costly. Knowing this beforehand helps a little . . .

But not much.

But it's even worse to go into any kind of new venture thinking that we have all the answers and that we are smarter than all of that. We just set ourselves up to fail (which is going to happen a number of times regardless), and we are not able to deal with the failure because we think we were too smart to have had one. So we quit. The only way to ultimately fail in this life is to quit. Those who do not quit eventually get there.

100% of the time.

And that should not be a Secret to anyone.

So I say show your mettle. Everyone and that means everyone should be trying to build some kind of business or create some kind of a new thing in their after work time. We seek to get rich through Creation, not competition. What are you good at? Write that book! Start that home based business!

And understand that when you meet failures, that you see them for what they really are . . .

Signposts that prove that you are on the right road to fame and fortune.

Because there is one and only one group of people who never fail, and you know exactly who they are . . .

Yep. The ones who never try.

Don't be one of them.

Joseph