Hi Karen,
I took your thread title as a silly jab at "The Secret" and not at the idea of positive thinking! And some times a little hokiness can be fun as long as you don't take it too seriously.

I plan to post more on SuperDave's thread about my opinion of "The Secret" but here is a link to an excerpt of her book if anyone is curious to read her exact words. The Secret Excerpt
This direct reading of an excerpt is why I find "The Secret" to be useless compared to Carnegie, Ziglar and many others. (Lillie, "The Art of Possibility" by Benjamin and Rosalind Zander is one you might enjoy also. He is a conductor and she is a psychologist.)

Much more interesting to me is this study that I heard about years ago. Scientific American Article on Study of Lucky and Unlucky People

In a nutshell the scientist took people and had them classify themselves as lucky, unlucky or neither. He then gave the lucky and unlucky people money to buy lottery tickets. No difference in winning in the groups. THEN he tested each person by giving them a newspaper and asking them to count the number of pictures in the newspaper. On the second or third page he placed an ad that read "Stop counting. There are XX pictures." Yep, you guessed it. Somehow the lucky people were much more likely to see this ad. Now the FACTS are that that ad was there for EVERYONE to see. There was no LUCK involved only whether you pay attention.

Of course not all the lucky people saw the ad and not all the unlucky people missed it (which seems counterintuitive to Rhonda Byrne's "Law" of attraction but I digress \:\) )


So Karen - what are your internal and external sexiness ratings today??

I'm heading home tonight to see Raven and mine are moving up quickly \:\)



But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ~Albert Camus