“Secret Weight Loss Technique” – don’t eat
“Secret Way to Wealth” - Make a lot more than you spend
“The Secret Society” – well, is it still secret once you know it exists?

My point in all this is that the word “Secret” has a lot more power usually than the actual secret it imparts to us once discovered.  And nowhere has this power word been more leveraged (abused?) than with a video & book called “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrnes.

Millions of “The Secret” books and videos have been sold during the last few years.  The big secret in the book is simply a new presentation of the “Law of Attraction”.  While I am a believer in the power of your beliefs and affecting your life through positive thinking… there are also a great many flaws in this philosophy.

Just one example?  Okay, how about the recent election of Barack Obama over John McCain.  Both men were positive thinkers.  Both of them BELIEVED whole-heartedly they were going to win up until the very end.  Why didn’t John McCain win?  If you believe in the “Law of Attraction” then John McCain was personally at fault.  Perhaps he didn’t believe hard enough, or visualize himself winning often enough.  He didn’t attract the WIN to himself!   (Sounds kinda silly).

I personally believe a much better philosophy to mold your life after is found in the Holy Bible.  Who better to learn secrets from than our Creator.  And who better to gain wisdom from than Solomon himself.  He left us many secrets in Proverbs alone.  We should strive to study what the Bible says and then measure other philosophies against the truths we find there.

One person who I highly respect is doing just that.  Reading a chapter of Proverbs everyday, and commenting on what he finds.  You can read his daily wisdom post at his blog:

SecretForLife.com.

This person is my Dad.  Just one of his thoughts was the McCain vs. Obama comparison I alluded to earlier.  Why not join us in studying Proverbs.  There is a chapter a day for an entire month.  And when you reach the end… start over.  Do that for a few months and see how the ultimate SECRETS play out in your business & personal life.

It is interesting to note how this movie compares with a more recent movie release called “Religulous”.  Expelled was thoroughly blasted in the reviews and shamed, being called a one-sided, partisan and offensive movie.  Meanwhile, Religulous is being praised as funny, insightful, etc. even though it is at least as one-sided, offensive and partisan for many people.

I’ll need to do a more thorough article on Religulous soon, and will post my thoughts on Bible Science TV.