The Secret that everyone knew!

‘The Secret’ What Secret? – Self Help Myths Part1

There are a lot of self help gurus, motivational speakers and products online and off selling their ‘secret of life formulas’ for the millions of people seeking solutions to life’s myriad of personal, financial, social, spiritual challenges and obstacles. The book and DVD ‘the secret’ has sold millions of copies worldwide offering another ‘secret to success formula’ to a hungry audience seeking answers to the many questions life poses. Yet, in reality it is simply another contribution to the self help hippie movement in which authors make millions teaching theories which are either incomplete or don’t work. The age old coveted secret it claims to have revealed to the world is that ‘Thoughts create things & what you focus on becomes reality’!

The idea that what you focus on in your mind can become reality is no great secret! The DVD and book ‘the secret’ haven’t revealed anything that popular religions and philosophies such as Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Mystic schools have taught to their devotees for centuries! The difference is that these ancient systems teach what ‘the secret’ seems to miss, is that ‘positive focus coupled with continuous action and devotion’ is the secret to success. Even children unconsciously understand that the secret to success is to ‘start, learn from mistakes, and continue until they achieve their goal. Take walking or talking for example; children will make thousands of mistakes and face thousands of obstacles and continue to learn and perfect until they master how to walk or talk. They do not simply sit and will to walk or talk in the hope that one day they may get up a walk or talk miraculously! They act continuously, diligently with the confidence that they can achieve. Now, the children’s success secret works! The billions of people around the world who speak and walk include you and are proof of the efficacy of this ancient formula. What is a greater source of reference than our own experience! However, most of spent so much time looking for solutions from motivational speakers, self help gurus and others that we forget that many of the solutions that we are seeking are already within us. If we simply take the time to focus on our successes and not some one else’s sensationalised secrets then perhaps many of others would not end up being disappointed by another self help myth/secret. The only real secret in life is your inner self power! Study your own successes and see what the key ingredients were that made you successful at that point in time. If you can do that you will have your own personal proven model of success which is greater than any self help gurus ‘secret’. Find your inner power and the real secret of your success!

H Aitoro
Author of Get off your xxxx, Stay off your & Elevate
Motivational Poetry to Make You Move