It’s no Secret, the Theory of Directed Effort

about my misgivings with this “law.” I can sum them up by saying I don’t like absolutes. I didn’t like them when President Bush would use them (as in you’re either with us, or you’re with the terrorists) and I don’t like them when they’re ensconced in spiritual dogma that can be neither proven nor disproven. But there are certain aspects about “The Law of Attraction” which I find intriguing and I’d like to examine them a little closer.

I think people are quick to believe that the universe works in this fashion because quite often it seems that we do attract things into our lives by our thoughts. Often times when one thinks positive thoughts positive things happen and when one thinks negative thoughts negative things happen. We used to call this the power of positive thinking. But the reasons for this likely vary, and it isn’t necessarily always true. There are billions of people in the world and billions of experiences and still the possible explanations and variations are not exhausted. In my experience there have been times when I’ve had a positive attitude and negative outcomes have occurred and visa-versa. Likewise, there have been times when I’ve envisioned positive outcomes that haven’t come to pass and visa-versa. Still, many people hold a firm belief that this attraction thing is the secret to their success. There are times when I believe there might be a little something to this attraction thing, and I believe I know why.

I like to think of it as a theory, since I don’t believe in spiritual absolutes which some would call laws. I call it the Theory of Directed Effort. I theorize that if one wants to achieve something in his life then one has to make an effort to do so. He can’t just sit about wishing it to be so and

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