Is there anything to this whole “Secret” thing? :: Career-Resumes®

Is there anything to this whole “Secret” thing?

We have a relative who’s a declared atheist. (I promise I’m going somewhere with this – hang in there.) And because we can joke with this relative, my wife once said to him something like this:

If you’re an atheist and you die, and you’re right, it’s not like you can say “I told you so” to anyone. And if you’re wrong, and you meet God and have to tell him you didn’t believe in him, then you’re in trouble. So you might as well just believe, right?

Ignoring for a moment all those minor little questions of faith and religion and so on, this is a pretty good way of describing how I feel about the recent mainstream boom being made by the Law of Attraction and The Secret.

For those of you not hip to it yet, check out The Secret on Amazon, and an episode recap of Secret author Rhonda Byrne on Oprah. I’ll spoil it for you, though – the “secret” in The Secret is the Law of Attraction, which my favorite website, Wikipedia, partly defines thus:

a person’s thoughts (conscious and unconscious), emotions, and beliefs cause a change in the physical world that attracts positive or negative experiences that correspond to the aforementioned thoughts

Now, there’s a considerably strong negative reaction to The Secret out there, one that refers to the Law of Attraction as pseudoscience, among other, stronger, denunciations. Hey, everyone’s entitled to their opinion.

So here’s my thinking on this whole Law of Attraction thing as it relates to job searches. As my wife said to our atheist relative, you might as well just believe, right? It’s not like going negative has every helped your job search, has it?

Not that this is easy for everyone in every situation – the comments we’ve received on our “Depression and Job Search” blog post attest to that.

I’m treating this whole topic very lightly, but I’d really like you to consider strongly the possibility that maintaining a positive attitude and faith in the success of your job search will lead to you landing the job faster. That’s all.

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