Funny how right from start, instead of discussing the article itself, this thread turned into a big questioning about whether Steve's recent articles are useful or not, the real intentions behind what he's doing, blah blah blah... It seems to me that this thread got completely off topic. Why aren't we discussing the ideas in the article itself? Agree or disagree, doesn't matter, but the kind of discussion that is going on here belongs somewhere else - a separate thread for this purpose, if people want to discuss that. But since this is largely off topic already...:
While reading all posts/opinions, I thought about quoting many things that were said and commenting, until I got to
Bruce's post - which made it really easy for me to simply say "I sign below it, completely agree".
I also agree with this: to those of you who can't find value in what he's been writing, stop reading. Simple as that. If it bothers you so much that there is a possibility that he's in it just for the money, again, stop reading.
I have read articles at Steve's blog that were extremely useful and inspiring to me - and others not so much. I have read articles that didn't seem relevant to me at a certain point and at a different point they made perfect sense and started helping me a great deal - same articles, different life context = different perception. When I first stumbled apon the subjective reality and intention manifestation articles, I felt completely clueless and didn't quite understand what this was all about. I went to a very similar process to the one Bruce described. Meanwhile, these very same articles were being incredibly relevant and useful to other people. I guess this shows that what you extract from whatever you experience and/or read, not only at Steve's blog btw, largely depends on your current circumstances, beliefs, mindset, level of awareness, etc. This particular article was extremely useful to me. So much so that I will actually translate it to Portuguese and send it by email to my sister who doesn't speak English very well and will surely benefit from it as much as I did. The one thing I think it lacks, though, is contextualization - and by that I mean, to someone who comes to the blog the first time around and doesn't have a clue what this is all about, it can be hard to put it into context, so it could be useful to have more links pointing to other articles where people could read more about this. But then again, I'll have to agree that this is indicative that he's being more inclined to being loyal to long term readers than focused in gaining new ones. I also questioned the part that says "My external reputation is out of my control because it exists purely in other people’s minds..." But then
Reyv's explanation made sense to me. So, overall, to me, this article was very helpful and I can't wait to put his tips into practice.
Quote:
Originally Posted by treo  "I admit to myself, "OK, so more money will mean a more complicated tax situation. That's just a fact to be accepted, not something dreadful I need to fear. I can deal with it.""
That's just great, isn't it? Where'd one been without this wisdom. But, wait, there's more:
"Then I shift it over to an empowering belief by saying, "If I have more money, I can hire a good accountant to handle my taxes, so even though my situation may be more complicated, I'll be able to afford all the help I need.""
Pure brilliance! Simple and elegant. You'd never know to do that by yourself, would you? |
"Pure brilliance! Simple and elegant. You'd never know to do that by yourself, would you?" - that doesn't matter. These are just examples to explain the concept. He's not saying that people wouldn't be able to think that by themselves.
Thumbs up, Steve. Thanks for this article.
I'm sure many people having trouble manifesting their intentions will benefit from it.