“The Secret” to your job search?
We try to keep things practical here on the blog, as you’ll note from scanning through our recent posts. In fact, even when we do the light-heated “Fun With a Purpose” posts, we make an impassioned effort to explain what useful purpose the information in those posts serves.
That said, I’m going to take a moment to write about The Secret. It started as a 90-minute movie you could watch online, then a DVD you could order, and then a book version. It’s been featured a few different times on the Oprah Winfrey show and lampooned on Saturday Night Live, so if you haven’t heard of it before, you can take my word for it that it’s got the trappings of a cultural phenomenon.
The “secret” behind The Secret is the Law of Attraction. According to the ever-helpful Wikipedia:
The phrase Law of Attraction, although used widely by esoteric writers, does not have an agreed-upon definition. However, the general consensus among New Age thinkers is that the Law of Attraction takes the principal “Like Attracts Like” and applies it to conscious desire. That is, 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, with or without the person taking action to attain such experiences. This process has been described as “harmonious vibrations of the law of attraction”, or “you get what you think about; your thoughts determine your experience.”
Put another way, your mother (or grandmother) probably once told you that you’d attract more bees with honey than vinegar. Same idea.
The one thing I would take exception with here is the possibility that you can bring the positive to you without taking action. I’ve never known anyone who could say, “I want X,” then sit back and have it magically appear.
I’ve spent multiple months unemployed in my lifetime, and I know it can be very challenging to maintain a positive attitude in the face of creeping time with no results. But what I have experienced is that, when I have a clear goal, stay focused, take action, and trust that the Universe is willing to meet me halfway, something good comes of it – and usually in the nick of time.
My wish for you today: Stay positive and grateful. Work at it if need be. It’ll pay itself back way more than being negative ever will.
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