The success industry has turned into a huge machine, creating a growing number of books, videos, audios and workshops, all promising big and quick success, without any effort. All these products create a sense of euphoria, great expectations, and often, also frustration. The producers of many of these products make great promises, and tell you that all you need to succeed is just a little of your time. Sometimes all you have to do is just repeat a few affirmations or visualize a goal a few minutes a day, and you will soon enjoy great success and the fulfillment of your dreams.

Can this be true? Does everyone who reads the book, listens to the video or participates in the workshop become a great success? In spite of all these products and promises, how many really succeed? How many really successful people are, in relation to the entire population?

Don’t misunderstand me. I believe in the power of the mind. I have written articles and books on this subject, but I also believe in common sense and in being practical. Creative visualization and the law of attraction are useful tools that work when used correctly, and there are good and useful books and other products available. I am speaking here about the growing tendency of making great promises and the tendency to oversimplify things.

I am sure you have bought and read more than one book, audio or video about achieving success. How many have read the book, listened to the audio or watching the video they have bought, and more important, how many have followed and implemented the instructions? There is a great distance between experiencing a feeling of elation, which people often experience when they are first introduced to these subjects, to actually using the techniques, persevering and then gaining results.

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Some time ago I asked visitors to SuccessConsciousness.com forum about their experiences with creative visualization and the law attraction. There weren’t many responses, but the post was viewed by over 800 visitors. You are invited to join the forum and share your knowledge and experience.

Here is the address of this post, entitled “Your experiences with creative visualization and the law of attraction”:
http://www.successconsciousness.com/cgi-bin/forum/sc/Blah.pl?b-3/m-1198407491/

Here is what I wrote:

We all learn from other people experiences, from good experiences and from not so good ones. It will therefore be a good idea, if you share here your experiences with creative visualization and the law attraction. In this way you can help others and help yourself. You will motivate others and get motivated. You will get wiser and help other people get wiser. By sharing your experiences you help other people, and benefit from other people’s experiences.

Please write about:

# What did you manifest and what did you do?

# How long did it take you to manifest your goal?

# What did you visualize?

# How many times a day did you visualize, and for how long?

# Did you visualize clear or hazy mental images?

# Did you use affirmations too?

# What steps did you take to manifest your desire?

# How did your desire or goal manifest?

The more people share their experiences the more success everyone would attain.

We hear so much about self-acceptance from people who follow or teach personal growth and spiritual growth. What is self-acceptance? Does it mean accepting your weaknesses or negative habits and doing nothing about them? Does this mean accepting your behavior, attitude and life style, and doing nothing to change and improve? This can be an easy way to give in to laziness, and to having good excuses for leaving everything as it is.

This kind of self-acceptance might make you feel a little better and alleviate feelings of guilt, but it is not enough to contribute to real progress and improvement.

Self-acceptance seems to be not well explained and well understood. Accepting yourself as you are is only the first step. It helps you realize your good and not so good points. It could help you stop the war inside you, and alleviate the lack of satisfaction and the sense of unhappiness. It could develop some inner detachment that will prevent you from sinking into self-pity, negative thinking and other negative states of mind.

Self-acceptance does not mean that you accept what you are and do nothing to change and improve. It does not mean accepting your fate and loving it.

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