@ Dot, I have a section in the ebook about what’s wrong with The Secret, and the very first point is that The Secret wasn’t a secret!

However, I don’t understand this: “I’ve never been able to make myself believe something that I don’t already believe.” Surely there were things you didn’t believe at birth that you do now, like gravity.

Everyone talks about The Secret, but before that there was Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking (i.e., it was never a secret). Not something that works for me, though. I’ve never been able to make myself beileve something that I don’t already believe.

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For a long time, I had very few male commenters and I didn’t know why. And I also get very few comments relative to my subscriber count. I can’t explain either of those! One “secret” I’ve discovered recently is Twitter. Once I started becoming active on Twitter, it quickly became one of my top traffic sources.

I am immersed in three tutorials right now attempting to be a successful writer and blogger so I think that is all that I can handle right now…

But I am wondering why only about 3 men have made any comments on my blog over the 8 months I have been blogging? and am wondering if that is a Secret to more success as a blogger? I seem to be getting a lot of traffic yet still only a few comments, which is fine, but I am wondering if nothing I write appeals to men?

Hope that is clarifying? I think I do need a Genie or two …or my guardian angels are on vacation?

@ Alex, I think the biggest problem with The Secret is that if you take it too literally, you’ll think that action isn’t needed. I think some things can happen without action, such as improving your mood, but most things require tons of action.

@ Susanne, exactly. It’s a step in the right direction, but it doesn’t take things far enough. Vision boards are great, but sorry, you gotta work to make them come true!

@ Cath, I believe in a lot of hard to swallow things too. Or maybe I don’t necessarily believe something, but I don’t disbelieve it either. I’m pretty open-minded since I figure that there’s so much we just don’t know. But I can certainly understand that not everyone is comfortable with genies.

And I suppose I do believe in a lot of things that many people would find difficult to swallow. But as you say – why should these people miss out, when they can still get the things they want, without believing in genies? I think you’re giving them a wonderful opportunity to improve their lives.

Although I think The Secret was a step in the right direction for many people, I’m afraid it left a lot of them staring at their vision boards with butts planted firmly on the couch, waiting for said Genie to make them rich.

Not gonna happen.

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