It really sounds like a combination of "Creative Visualization" and anything Joel Osteen says or writes.

I read both books and Creative Visualization was pretty cool, Joel left me very disappointed.

But guys, before you shit all over this idea totally, Ari Chi3fs is a young rich man and he was on here spreading "The Secret" Gospel around, you might want to take heed

Anyone who watches, listens and takes the advice of Dr Phil, Oprah or anyone else on TV deserves to lose.

From Ophrah's website on The Secret:

"All of that affects how we feel, and the feelings actually send out a wave into the universe, and anything that's vibrating in a similar level gets attracted into our life," Jack says.

More money more problems. I don't even have time to play with the toys I have now.

1. Can't believe I clicked into an Oprah thread.
2. Can't believe I started to read that.
3. Can believe I lost interest 2 sentences in.

Why do you think the Self-Help/Improve your life with 7 secrets stuff is so big now? At least, it seems like it's big NOW. But I may have not noticed it before or was too young to know.

I think most of it is a cultural leftover from the 1960s. Now the children of the hippies are growing up, and they've been exposed to this sort of New Age thinking for a long time. Some of them are going on to found prosperity/success theories loosly based in the New Age philosophy from the 60s while others are just consumers primed for consumption by being raised in such an environment.

This sort of bullshit, pseudo-religious mysticism has all the depth of a kiddie pool and has always been one of my major pet peeves.

Deepak Chopra has been writing this sludge for years now; it's her turn I guess.

Oprah lies
Bitches cry

LOL! I believe this is wehre Ari/ali Chiefs philosophy on life came from...

I didn't make it very far into this article, but the writer is very biased and probably had a bad personal experience affect him and this "bad things only happen to people with bad thought" pisses him off. True, you can't will yourself against cancer, a natural disaster, or a ton of other things, but there are millions of poor Americans that end up in poverty situations because of their mentality. There are plenty of white trash kids that make their mind up at an early age that they will spend thier life living pay check to pay check at a dead end job and getting drunk on their days off. There are plenty of black inner city kids that give up and accept the fact that they will be poor ghetto trash their entire life.

You can't will yourself a million dollars, but coming from a lower income family I can guarantee you that you can will yourself a better life, and with proper decision and a good work ethic you don't have to give up and settle for a crappy life of being poor.

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That's what someone else said, too. Now I feel bad, because I like Ari..

Here's a secret Soccer moms.....

Stop taking advice on Marraige and children from a billionaire woman who isn't married and doesn't have Children.

Haters... the whole lot of you. heh.

The Secret is based on what you think about, you create in your life.

We are all energy, protons - neutron - electrons... E=MC2

If someone is negative and sending out negative vibrations, then you will only attract negative vibrations back.

Like attracts like.

There are parts of the Secret that are a bit hokey, but it brings me joy to know that finally a movie has come out to help people think and to stop placing blame on everything around them, and to take responsibility for their thoughts and actions.

You bring about what you think about. If you worry, you get more things to be worried about. If you focus on getting rid of debt, you get more debt.

If you focus on being prosperous... you get more prosperity.

Since I adopted the prosperity focus, I have earned more than 6 figures. From April 2006 - March 2007, I used to focus on my lack of money, not having enough to pay the bills.

You can be cynical and discard this stuff as mumbo jumbo, but in reality, all you will do is find more things to be cynical about.