What Stephen Pierce Really Thinks About The Law Of Attraction © By Gideon Shalwick

Does The Secret really work? Have you actually tried it long enough to see some real results manifesting in your life?

If you’re anything like me, you’d like to get results fast. And I’m taking about near instant results here. Not the kind where you have to wait months or even years before you start seeing something tangible.

You see, that’s the problem with The Secret. It creates the expectation that something will appear out of nothing in an instant. Ok, maybe not in an instant, but surely before you give up hope!

So what’s the cure?

I think that one of the major weaknesses of the movie The Secret (even though it is still one of my all time favorites) is that it leaves out the extreme importance of action.  You see, without action, nothing will ever happen. One of the teachers on The Secret talks about how “thoughts are things”, but I don’t quite agree with that. My latest motto is:

“Thoughts are only potential things. They become things only through specifically directed action.”

Now, of course the action may be on your own part or on the part of other people around you or anywhere else in the world. But the first step is that you aught to get off your backside and take some specifically directed action.

There are mainly two great benefits of adopting this new way of looking at thoughts becoming things:

1. First, you tend to see results much faster. Let’s compare two scenarios. In scenario 1, you are sitting on your backseat all day, and thinking about the stuff that you want to manifest in your life. In this scenario, your expectation is that something magically will happen outside of yourself and that your dreams will miraculously become a reality in your life.

Ok, granted, that might work, but there doesn’t actually seem to exist any real proof that something like this does happen in real life on a consistent enough basis. So, I’m not ruling out the possibility of miracles happening here. I’m merely saying that with this kind of approach, you are much more likely to loose hope before anything REAL manifests in your life – and this could be quite discouraging.

In scenario 2, instead of sitting on your backseat all day, you actually go out there, and take specifically directed action in the direction of the things that you want in your life. In my own (and many other people’s) experience, taking this specifically directed action can actually speed up the process of manifestation dramatically. What I’ve also noticed is that when I take specifically directed action, somehow a range of other things seem to happen “coincidentally” that never would have happened before if I didn’t take that action.

This naturally leads to my second point…

2. You have less of a chance of getting discouraged when you take action. Just think about it for a moment. Whenever you’re in a situation where you’re continuously trying to do something, but not getting any results, it becomes very easy to lose hope and to give up. If on the other hand, you actually get some good results, you’re much more likely to keep going. Even when your results are bad or not as good, it could still count as encouragement. In a way, taking action helps you stay on the right track. Sometimes it’s a  bit of trial and error, but as you get results, whether they are positive or negative, the results themselves give you a clue whether you are on the right track or not.

And as far as I know, this is a surefire way of success. But it takes time and you have to be patient.

Granted, it sure does not sound as romantic as just thinking about something and it magically appears in your life – it actually implies that you have to do some “work” (actually, I call it inspired work, which does not actually feel like real work).

But the point is that you get some results. Results that will help you decide whether you are on the track or whether you are on the wrong track to your ultimate goals. When you get negative results, it simply shows you that you are on the wrong track and that you need to do something else, or even do the same thing, but in a different way. When you get good results, it’s a great way of showing you that you are on the right track and that you need to keep on doing what you’re doing.

But how do you figure out what the right thing to do is in the first place? I could tell you now, but this post is already getting a bit too long. So, perhaps I’ll share that with you in one of my future posts.

To your specifically directed action to success!

Gideon Shalwick