During my drive to work this morning, I was listening to a local morning radio show and they were talking about "the secret". This is the first I heard about the controversial philosophy, which was recently made popular by an Australian woman, Rhonda Byrnes. And of course she has a book and a movie about it. She was also a guest on Oprah, so I read the story on Oprah's website to find out more and came across this paragraph:

Rhonda defines The Secret as the law of attraction, which is the principle that "like attracts like." Rhonda calls it "the most powerful law in the universe," and says it is working all the time. "What we do is we attract into our lives the things we want, and that is based on what we're thinking and feeling," Rhonda says. The principle explains that we create our own circumstances by the choices we make in life. And the choices we make are fueled by our thoughts—which means our thoughts are the most powerful things we have here on earth.

This philosophy makes valid points but do you believe it is as powerful as Rhonda claims? I don't fully subscribe to that self-help philosophy, but I do believe that positive thinking yields results.

The radio show also brought up a point that good things that happen in life require hard work and some luck. They said these quotes, which I believe in more than in "the secret":

"The harder you work, the luckier you get."

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."