Last night while watch­ing TV, my wife and I had an inter­est­ing debate on the whole “The Secret” phe­nom­ena. And we came to the very same conclusions.

I believe in the law of attrac­tion. I also like the premise behind the book, which is largely influ­enced by Wally Wat­tles’ 1910 book, The Sci­ence of Get­ting Rich.

But with all the “new-​​wage” gurus out there giv­ing it a bad rap, the law of attrac­tion is get­ting an unde­served rep­u­ta­tion. Some peo­ple even call it the “flaw of attrac­tion.” How­ever, the real flaw isn’t with the secret in itself, as some suggested.

It’s with how some peo­ple have bas­tardized it for their own self­ish greed.

Here’s the problem…

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If you’ve spent much time at all here, you’ll know Michel’s a fanat­i­cal tester. But he’s not alone in his pas­sion for quan­tifi­able results.

For instance our friend Alex Man­doss­ian preaches to any­one with ears to hear that, “Noth­ing is true or false, but test­ing makes it so.”

(Hope I got that right, Alex.)

That’s so impor­tant. Because while copy always has been and always will be indis­pens­able in sell­ing — espe­cially on the web — any copy­writer who thinks words alone are enough is doing his clients a huge disservice.

At Suc­cess Doc­tor we’re pas­sion­ate about copy, but we also rec­og­nize words have lim­i­ta­tions. When you tune your copywriter’s radar into mar­kets that value test­ing, you’ll quickly dis­cover — it’s the most com­pet­i­tive mar­kets that place the great­est pre­mium on test­ing over “gut” feeling.

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Drop Your Goals (And Man­age Your Life) by Michel Fortin is a book writ­ten over a decade ago as the author was going through some tough times.

The result is a pow­er­ful look at how to stop set­ting goals and to start look­ing at your pri­or­i­ties and val­ues instead — called “guides” rather than “goals.”

It’s a bit spir­i­tual and meta­phys­i­cal in nature, so please read with an open mind. How­ever, the strate­gies it offers are real and practical.

I highly rec­om­mend that your read this book, which is brought to you free, and start using the G.O.A.L. method out­lined in the book, with tem­plates at the end.

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What I have said in the last chap­ter applies as well to the pro­fes­sional per­son and the wage-​​earner as to the per­son who is engaged in sell­ing or any other form of business.

No mat­ter whether you are a physi­cian, a teacher, or a cler­gy­man, if you can give increase of life to oth­ers and make them sen­si­ble of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich. The physi­cian who holds the vision of him­self as a great and suc­cess­ful healer, and who works toward the com­plete real­iza­tion of that vision with faith and pur­pose, as described in for­mer chap­ters, will come into such close touch with the source of life that he will be phe­nom­e­nally suc­cess­ful; patients will come to him in throngs.

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To set about get­ting rich in a sci­en­tific way, you do not try to apply your will power to any­thing out­side of your­self. You have no right to do so, any­way. It is wrong to apply your will to other men and women in order to get them to do what you wish done.

It is as fla­grantly wrong to coerce peo­ple by men­tal power as it is to coerce them by phys­i­cal power. If com­pelling peo­ple by phys­i­cal force to do things for you reduces them to slav­ery, com­pelling them by men­tal means accom­plishes exactly the same thing; the only dif­fer­ence is in meth­ods. If tak­ing things from peo­ple by phys­i­cal force is rob­bery, them tak­ing things by men­tal force is rob­bery also. There is no dif­fer­ence in principle.

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You must get rid of the last ves­tige of the old idea that there is a deity whose will it is that you should be poor or whose pur­poses may be served by keep­ing you in poverty.

The intel­li­gent sub­stance which is all, and in all, and which lives in all and lives in you, is a con­sciously liv­ing sub­stance. Being a con­sciously liv­ing sub­stance, it must have the nature and inher­ent desire of every liv­ing intel­li­gence for increase of life. Every liv­ing thing must con­tin­u­ally seek for the enlarge­ment of its life, because life, in the mere act of liv­ing, must increase itself.

A seed, dropped into the ground, springs into activ­ity, and in the act of liv­ing pro­duces a hun­dred more seeds; life, by liv­ing, mul­ti­plies itself. It is for­ever becom­ing more. It must do so, if it con­tin­ues to be at all.

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Thought is the only power which can pro­duce tan­gi­ble riches from the form­less sub­stance. The stuff from which all things are made is a sub­stance which thinks, and a thought of form in this sub­stance pro­duces the form.

Orig­i­nal sub­stance moves accord­ing to its thoughts; every form and process you see in nature is the vis­i­ble expres­sion of a thought in orig­i­nal sub­stance. As the form­less stuff thinks of a form, it takes that form; as it thinks of a motion, it makes that motion. That is the way all things were created.

We live in a thought world, which is part of a thought uni­verse. The thought of a mov­ing uni­verse extended through­out form­less sub­stance, and the think­ing stuff — mov­ing accord­ing to that thought — took the form of sys­tems of plan­ets, and main­tains that form. Think­ing sub­stance takes the form of its thought, and moves accord­ing to the thought.

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