Day Eleven - A Secret of THE SECRET

There are 2 essential beginning posts to read to understand what this blog is about:
Prelude to 90-day Case History of Mr.Faith and
A Brief Description of COnCEPT Q

I don't believe in the Law of Attraction the way too many people are presenting it especially after the hit movie The Secret. It seems that everyone wants to jump on that bandwagon. As I watched the movie for the first time I was appalled, my jaw drops and I couldn't believe what I was hearing and more so what I was seeing. Oh yes it was very professionally done and with all the expert guru's backing it up who could doubt? So how can anyone go up against that? But do you notice how many of those gurus are doing a lot of back pedaling? Trying to rectify some of the things said in the movie? So why endorse something that you have to change your opinion later? In The Secret's way of thinking with just directed thought, all of a sudden 'poof' your desire appears. Or in many cases, think about the things you don't want and 'viola' you get that too. If I could just think my way to all of my goals without any effort on my part that would probably do more harm than good. Attracting our desires just by the thought of it would create a world of many more lazy people than already exist. It would actually create chaos.

So by writing my opposing view do I get banned, and booed, and criticized for not following the big crowd? Well I certainly hope there are enough smart people to realize how accomplishment really happens. More that that, If I were to follow the crowd...I would have to take everything that I have learned and written about for the last 20 plus years and throw it out the window! That means I just trash more than half of my life, if I include the study that I put into it before I received the inspiration that comprises COnCEPT Q.

John Masters, an Australian oil man said, "You have to recognize that every "out-front" maneuver is going to be lonely. But if you feel entirely comfortable, then you're not far enough ahead to do any good. That warm sense of everything going well is usually the body temperature at the center of the herd. Only if you're far enough ahead to be at risk do you have a chance for large rewards."

Writing my opposition to The Secret makes me feel a bit lonely except for the fact that there are one or two people that also oppose it, Kevin Hogan being one of them. Now you see, Kevin is also a person that had the opportunity to be one of the experts, but he turned it down because he WILL NOT compromise his integrity. Nor will I compromise my integrity. By the way, Kevin has written the foreword to my book There Is No Power In Chaos and he does state that, "Some of the concepts in the book are so new that you’ll have to read the chapters twice. But then, it starts to sink in and you really do find yourself reading one of the finest personal development books ever written."

For a very long time I have actively pursued the ideas that compose the COnCEPT Q Philosophy. After much thought and even more effort many of the pieces of the puzzle are coming together. Events are now happening that facilitate its reality, but that only comes after I have done my part. Oh yes, I believe that I am attracting those things that are necessary for its success, but not without my own trials of my faith in what I am doing. But hey!, that is a Q3 event! And what does that mean? It means as long as I continue to pursue my objectives, Quarter 4 (or the accomplishment) is just around the corner!

Oh by the way, since I was young I have never like to be in the middle of the crowd, I liked being out front. When I was 3, (yes three years old) I still can vividly remember being in the Gem County Kid's Parade, on my little red plastic motorcycle. And I was put in line to proceed with the parade. For whatever reason, I figured it was a race or I wanted to be out in front, so I pulled out of line and as fast as I could make my little legs push I started passing everyone. I was lucky that dad was running along beside next to the crowd on the side of the street, cause when I got to the point that the parade made a turn I would have kept going straight on out of town!
Who knows where I would have ended up.

My point is that you don't have to follow the crowd either and I can guarantee that I won't let you get off track either. There Is No Power In Chaos is a guide that WILL keep you on track without you waking up one day and finding out that a few miss guiding 'gurus' told you things that really got you nowhere.

Day Two - Defining Desires

Recently I sent an e-mail to one of my mentors of which he agreed to do a teleconference interview with me during this 90-day Case History, his only concern: to fill the lines with listeners. Our topic will be Desire, A Double-Edged Sword, How to Keep from Getting Side-tracked on What You Really Want To Do, Be or Have. This teleconference I can guarantee will be excellent simply because he always over-delivers. He gives more than you expect and as my mentor I cannot do any less than he so that is my objective also.

Today there is a HUGE bandwagon that is traveling around and I just cannot believe how many people are jumping on it no matter which path it travels or the direction in which it is headed. The label on the side is "Law of Attraction." It seems that once the Secret got out everybody became an expert on this law. Now I don't want to be critical about what is being said unless of course the claims are so absurd that they cause more harm than good.

I will not go into a big spill here and try to defend or try to defeat the principle as taught. I do want to emphasize though that the way it is being presented it does not have the long term benefit of society in mind. It is designed to make more people lazy and a non-industrious nation will fall sooner or later. No, I am NOT just ranting. Four influence experts evaluated the information that is being pushed by The Secret and, "see real and grave danger in this virus that is spreading through the English-speaking world...and they say, enough is enough."

Ok, so what is the alternative you ask? Well there will be many that won't like the answer because it is not easy and I am not supporting the philosophy that you can think your way to whatever it is that you want, not without effort. Thought requires planning and planning requires effort. Effort is essential in accomplishment. Blind effort though leads you down the wrong paths, so all efforts must be guided. That requires faith. Faith is a principle of action and faith precedes any form of achievement. In scripture we see 5 words that are just as valid today as they were 2000 years ago. Faith without works is dead. And this IS NOT something that is ONLY applicable to to spiritual stuff.

Accomplishment, achievement, attainment, completion, fulfillment, realization, or succeeding pick your own word, they all have something in common. There is a pattern which they all follow and that pattern is the same EVERY time. One of the first steps in this pattern is defining your desires. Know where you want to end up, because if you don't know ANY PLACE WILL DO until you get there.

My Desire for the next 90 days, (well 88 now) is to finish There Is No Power In Chaos, grow a crowd of people that are willing to learn the pattern of accomplishment, have a few fun and info-packed teleseminars along the way and make the book a best-seller on October 8th. Yup, its going to take a LOT of faith and effort to do it, and it CAN be done but I need help. So please stay tuned for tomorrow's post and in the mean time share this with a friend, please.