DISQUS

I'm a college dropout and certainly unfamiliar with the corporate scene in any sense.

So for me, The Secret is written for anyone limited by their own brain. This can be teenagers that work at oil change places or corporate people who work in suits every day.

I once accepted that I was dumb because my best friend was "smart". I once thought that I couldn't draw or be artistic because that's what my sister did.

These are the limitations that Joe Vitale is talking about. People limit their true potential each and every day. I've never read his book, but I know what it's based off of. "Think and Grow Rich" was written by Napoleon Hill back during the great depression and it carries with it the exact same points.

You determine your life. If you're satisfied with the 9 to 5 grind and working till you die, go for it.

But if you want a more satisfying life, you can get it. If you want to let go of the social norms that say you need two SUVs, a plasma screen TV, and new clothes every month, you can.

All this crap is just crap. It always was and it always will be.

I work at home on a business I've built from the ground up. I didn't need my college degree, so I quit. I feel a lot smarter, and am a lot happier without it.

The problem is not that people don't know what they want. It's that they have absolutely no idea how to get it and are too afraid to think outside the box.

More than anything else in all the world is being happy with what you have and thankful every day that you have it.

For months after having my son I couldn't watch a movie or read a book where someone died. I cried when commercials were especially sentimental. My heart was so full from having my son that I couldn't stand the reminder that people grow up to kill one another as adults.

I've balanced back out again, but my respect for life is still enormous. I, like you, cannot listen to stories or even watch the news because it is too much.

But I'm not blind to what Americans are doing. I understand that one day we will pay for what we have done in Iraq and Afghanistan. I appreciate every day that I have and am thankful, but I do not forget that one day we will get what we deserve. Everything comes around eventually.