The Secret brought quite a bit of attention to the laws of attraction. But it didn’t tell the whole story. The Secret to the Secret is that it is just one of the laws of attraction. In the Secret it talks about the Law of Vibration. The Secret implies that all you have to do is ask, believe, and receive. In other words, think and things will happen; you will become thin, your relationships will improve, checks will unexpectedly arrive in the mail. You think and it happens. Well the thinking is important (really important), but you have to act as well.
You have to plant a thought seed and act as if it will happen. For instance, if I want to make more money I have to see myself having that money. But I can’t just sit on my duff and expect “the Universe” to deliver the money to me. I have to take some action – even if that action is searching on the internet for ways to make money, or sending 10 brochures to local businesses, or going to a Chamber of Commerce Meeting to talk to people about my business.
A good example of this is how I market my business. I am a writer and help people market their businesses with soft-sell advertising pieces. I’m not very good at promoting myself; but if someone asks me to evaluate a piece of marketing material, I’m usually full of ideas to help them market their business more effectively. So I have learned to ask people about what they do. We get talking and pretty soon I’m giving them suggestions (for free) and often they will hire me to carry out my own suggestions. If I visualized money coming in and didn’t get out and talk to people, that money wouldn’t come in