Don't Let The Secret Be A Secret

This past summer my friend Lauri kept buzzing about the book The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. She talked about it so much that it popped out at me while killing time in the Minneapolis airport in July. I bought it and during my vacation started reading it. It was so powerful that I kept putting it down to absorb the information and contemplate how it related to my own life. Then, I absentmindedly left it at the my friend's house I was visiting and he brought it back to me when he returned home at the end of the summer.

Then Liz's husband was going through a rough patch so I gave it him to read. He was even more affected by the knowledge he gained which made me think I needed to get back to my point of departure and read more. But before I could snatch it back, Liz was having a hell-of-a-week-end so her husband told her to take a look at it. She too became immersed in the teachings of The Secret. At this point, I was watching them change before my eyes in a way that you can only understand if you too, read The Secret. I was jealous of their new optimism. It is hard to explain how but The Secret is so transforming that it is impossible not to change your outlook on life. Like anything, it takes work to incorporate a change of approach or thinking given the fact that by the time we reach middle age we are set in our rigid ways. I have read many, many self-help type books over the years and none has had the lasting power of this one. But here is the most important hint: BUY THE CD SERIES SO YOU CAN LISTEN TO IT REPEATEDLY IN THE CAR OR WHERE EVER. The change is just much easier when it is reinforced with repeated listening. And here is the very best part...my kids (9 and 12)....ssshhhh....don't tell them I told....are getting the message as well. It creates incredible discussion opportunities and the part they seem to really understand and can so easily implement is visualizing what they want. If I had grasped this concept as a child, I would have lived a more fulfilling life up to this point. But here is a plus for getting older....you can always learn new tricks.

Funny thing is I was talking to Lauri the other day and thanked her for passing on the tip. I asked her how it had changed her life and she said, 'Oh, I never read it, I just heard it was good'. Glad I didn't know that before or I would have never bought it!