[wolfgang]

"That's the point, that there's nothing to talk about and nothing to take away. I do not know for how long you have been reading Steve, but his articles used to be different."

OK, it took a lot of words for Steve to say some simple things that hangs in the IM/LoA world and makes people hopeful and maybe they spend money on products to get it. But, there's plenty to talk about fear and how it effects getting things done. Even with the older style of Steve's stuff without all the LoA wording fear is a big issue for self improvement. Can anyone honestly say they don't have any fears and that hearing about how Steve is dealing with it and the IM experiment doesn't make you think about your own personal trials? Maybe these aren't grand thoughts but isn't it useful to think about where fear may be keeping a goal from working out? Or maybe there's no fear around goals and that would be something to talk about too. I appriciate the banter on it just for the fact that I'm now wanting to say that I found value in it. It may have been more bland if everyone was happy go lucky and all IM/LoA about it.

That said, I also think it's all been said before in spritual writings, so there is some rehash that way. Like one poster mentioning Buhdda. So here I am talking about what Buhddists go on about because Steve wrote an article and reminded me of those ideas. That is that attachment to desires lead to suffering. And fear is a sign of attachment. Fear of your goal not working out, which (duh) gets in your way, you are less confident. What about a fear that Steve's writings are deteriating and not providing thought provoking material (joking)?