It’s no Secret, the Theory of Directed Effort

strange was wrong and I was very confounded. I was ready to give up and felt I’d have to restore the operating system, something I didn’t want to do because it would mean she’d likely lose all her data. I decided that I would try a little trick I knew not because I thought it would work, in fact I believed it wouldn’t work, but it wouldn’t take long and I thought “what the hey.” To my surprise it worked and the computer was fixed. I was successful not because I envisioned a successful outcome, or because I asked the universe to give me an idea to help me with my task, but because I directed an effort toward finding a solution and it happened to work. All the thinking and envisioning in the world would have done nothing if I didn’t direct my effort properly. And should one of those adherents twist that around and suggest that I somehow did envision or think of a positive outcome, that tells me that now they believe they know my mind better than I do.

Truth be told, I believe that life is a mix of free will and fate. I believe that it is a mix of effort and circumstance. I believe it is a mix of luck and doing the best you can if dealt a bad hand. I don’t believe there is one all encompassing secret that will lead to success. Trying to maintain a positive attitude will likely make things more pleasant for you as you go through life, but I don’t think it will guarantee you will be a success, though it may make that outcome more likely. On the other side of the coin I don’t believe that one’s failures are always one’s own fault. Though negative thinking may contribute, sometimes more and sometimes less, I think there are other forces working in this world that one cannot always control. It seems to me that there are grains of truth to all

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