"The Secret" isn't one. Anyone can do it.

Tony's posted his thoughts on "The Secret," the topic on Oprah Winfrey's show yesterday, and apparently quite the upcoming trend in the spiritual world.

"The Secret" is based mainly on the Laws of Attraction, which were outlined in the little red book"It Works!" that I mentioned in a post last month. If you do some poking around on Amazon or Google, you'll find material about the Laws of Attraction (LOA) that date way back. It's not new information.

(Boy, there are a lot of links in those two paragraphs!)

It is simple, but it is not easy. It takes work to keep yourself focused on the positive, on the joy and gratitude of what you're asking for and envisioning. It takes work not to slip into negative thinking or attitudes. And while I wholeheartedly believe that it works, it doesn't appear on a silver platter, either. You have to do the homework, the leg work, the right speech and right action to stay on that path, even when wonderful things happen to help you along. And it can be a little scary when you slip out of your comfort zone.

As i wrote previously, it was the LOA practice that brought us here, built our house, found us a new business, and created for us the kind of life we wanted. We asked: the universe gave.

I've been doing this practice for years, but didn't know that it had a name! And I am deeply, deeply grateful for what I've been given: my daughter, my husband, this life. There are stories behind each of those -- but the bottom line is that I asked for them, I believed I deserved them and visualized them and worked for them, and I have been blessed with them!

Hard, sorrowful things will happen to us as we go along life's path -- people die, jobs go away, health deteriorates, for instance. What matters is how we react to these events. In everything that happens to us there is a lesson that will help us. There is a reason for every relationship: we either need to learn something from that person, or we need to teach something to that person. There are no coincidences. Everything -- EVERY thing -- happens for a reason. WE create our own destinies.

In it all, there is joy and gratitude. You move ahead from within that surrounding feeling of joy and gratitude and love. And it works. For anyone who wants to make it work.