Everyone visualizes whether he knows it or not. Visualizing is the great secret of success.”– Rhonda Byrne, The Secret Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it. Believe it’s possible for you.”– Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

Hi everyone. It’s really great to be with you. I want to talk to you about gratitude today because we are coming into holiday time. It’s a really wonderful time of the year. But I have to say to you that any time of the year, every single day of the year, every month of the year is the perfect time to practice gratitude, because nothing, and I promise you, nothing will change your life faster than gratitude. So if you do some gratitude today, your life will be different by the weekend I promise you. Quantum Physicists will tell you the universe was created from thought!” Really? Truly? Okay, NAME ONE. Seriously, just one published quantum physicist who is taken seriously by the scientific community. You will live in a different reality, a different life. And people will look at you and say, "What do you do different from me?" Well, the only thing that is different is that you work with The Secret. Esther is a pleasant-looking, middle-aged woman. She has a serene presence, almost comforting. She also has the most attractive voice I've ever heard—very earthy, very sexy. I find it difficult to reconcile that voice with anything close to its putative paranormal personae. In hindsight, I feel I was too kind with this book, it makes far more sense simply to describe it as evil.

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However, the main concept: The Secret - it's where all the controversy would probably start. If you have read Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, or Power of your subconscious mind by Murphy, or Peale's Power of Positive Thinking, and found them helpful, you'll feel right at home from the start. Byrne proceeds along the same set of principles - or a combination of them - but the emphasis on the 'unforeseeable force' is lot stronger. But if you have not read anything similar, or hated aforementioned books, this book is not for you in my opinion. The inherent limitation to The Secret is that, there's no way to logically explain the mechanism. Books like Think and Grow Rich, or Power of Your Subconscious Mind do attempt to shift the reader's pre-conceived opinions profoundly (which was the case with me) - either with logic or strong examples - but The Secret relies entirely on reader's acceptance of the principles without argument. This is going to be a deal-breaker for a lot of rational readers. There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love. The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit. If you could wrap every thought in love, if you could love everything and everyone, your life would be transformed.

I have retained at least one copy of the Story, and I release TS from any and all liability for loss or other damage to the copies of the Story submitted to TS hereunder. Any action we take must be preceded by a thought. Thoughts create the words we speak, the feelings we feel, and our actions. Actions are particularly powerful, because they are thoughts that have caused us to act. If you turn it over to the Universe, you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered to you. This is where magic and miracles happen. The secret is powerful and if one were to incorporate these ideas into everyday life it would indeed be an unstoppable force. The reality is obvious; if you’re feeling happy you are thinking happy thoughts. What is exciting is to realize that one can use one’s feelings to understand what one is thinking. Further, one can use ones more readily controllable thoughts to affect ones feelings.

Today's coffee was served with the journal "The Secret Gratitude Book" by Rhonda Byrne which is a wonderful guide for practising gratitude in our daily lives. This book contains a series of prompts and exercises that help readers cultivate an attitude of gratitude and appreciation, leading to a happier, more fulfilling life. You are now receiving the knowledge that will enable you to create the most magnificent version of You. The possibility of that version of you already exists on the frequency of "the most magnificent version of You." Decide what you want to be, do, and have, think the thoughts of it, emit the frequency, and your vision will become your life.