[MrBig]

Originally Posted by jerome

I haven't seen The Center Court. Is it a movie that just came out?

It is not a movie; it was like a documentary on the Discovery channel in which Coack K have explained how he has lead Duke’s men’s basketball team to winning an incredible number of times, in situations that seemed impossible.

In that program, they said that many sport “experts” called the coach lucky and explained away his wins as luck. Most of what Coach K said in that program sounded very “The Secret”-like. He is clearly one of those people that was born with knowing “the secret.”

With the right mindset and with a lot of work I think miracles can happen.

What does “lots of hard work” mean? Why does it have to be hard? Are you working hard when you are watching a movie that you like or reading such a great book that you can’t put it down?

When one acts from inspiration, it is not hard work, it is fun! You actually want to do the “work” because you are having fun doing it.

Now, while you are working towards your goal, you may get get some "freebies" along the way in the form of new ideas or opportunities, but these little bonuses shouldn't change our battle plan.

What battle plans are you talking about? Did Bill Gates have battle plans and thought that it would be hard to create one the most successful corporations in the world and become one of the richest people in the world in the process?

No. He had no idea what he was doing. So why and how did he do it? He simply had fun doing it. He was just being himself, acting on his inspiration to do something simply because that is what he wanted to do.

Have you read Accidental Empires or watched Triumph of the Nerds? None of the top companies of Silicon Valley were created with “battle plans” or by people that thought it was hard to do what they did.

They did what they did because they wanted to do it and had fun doing it.

It seems that people want to use the LOA in order to have their way to success already paved in front of them.

What is wrong with that? Don’t we all use tools that make our life easier? What’s wrong with using a remote control to change the channels and adjust the volume?

The faster and the more people become successful, the better for all of us. “Luck” favors those who act in a certain way. Did Bill Gates use the LoA to have success paved in front of him? He sure did. How? He knew what he wanted and he acted on it. That is what The Secret teaches.

Any person who has become successful uses "the secret," there are no exceptions. It just that to some people it comes naturally and others need to learn it.