Shhhh....secrets

I am enthralled with the "new" quest for the meaning of life.

Everywhere you turn, someone is telling you they have the answer, and for just three easy installments of 24.99 you can know that secret too! I am NOT talking about religion. I am talking about that search for happiness and ultimate success.

Most of them (in my opinion) are a bunch of crap, but there are a few I find interesting, if not believable.

Many of you, I am sure, have heard, read or seen on TV, something about THE SECRET. Even Oprah has gotten on board with this one! (So it must be true! ;) ) It is a compilation of ideas from great thinkers through out history. The conclusion that the compiler (I hesitate to say "author") comes to is that the common thread in the thinking of these great men is that they truly believed they would be successful before they ever were.

At this point I would like to point out that I do not necessarily mean successful in the modern American meaning of the word. I mean fulfilling your dreams. If your dream is to be a janitor and you become the best damn janitor you can be, THAT is successful.

So, basically, these guys were visualizing. If you are a golfer, you know the whole "be the ball....see the ball going into the whole...." mantra. Maybe what they were visualizing was more impressive than what the rest of us schlubs in 9-5 jobs are visualizing, but evidently they do it very well!

Whether or not this theory is true, I could care less. However, just for the sake of argument, say it is true. All you have to do to be everything you want to be is visualize it happening hard enough and long enough. Ok, I could do that. Here is my question, the one I would LOVE to know the "secret" answer to.

HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO VISUALIZE TO MAKE ME FOREVER HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL?

Isn't that the real question? So many people think that wealth and success in their job equates success and happiness in their life. And while this might work for some people, we all know it doesn't work for everyone. There is a new feel-good movie every year that comes out and tells us that wealth does not equate happiness. Hell, Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie....prime examples....they are LOADED....but no one that skinny or that drugged out is truly happy.

Oops!

Guess they visualized the wrong thing!

Anyway, I will stop rambling now....but here is my question to you...how did you decide?

How did you decide what path you should follow? What path would take you to extreme happiness?

I know I can't decide....this is too big of a question for my fallible mind to answer....I need someone or something to decide for me...to push me in the right direction....

Hmmmm.....maybe this was about religion after all.......