Nothing is impossible as long as you believe

A summary of "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne

We all want to be successful in our lives. Whether you are a man or a women, married or unmarried, employed or unemployed we all have the same dream that is success. Success cannot be defined. It’s a personal fact based on individual perspectives. Therefore it changes from one to another. For someone owning just an ordinary car can be a success but for another it is not enough. He needs to own a BMW or Mercedes to call himself as successful.

Many try to be successful in their whole life. But only a few accomplish their goals. The rest that fails often blames karma, bad luck, the government, the society or at some point on anything they can point their fingers to. In the end they believe that they cannot succeed in their lives and accept the defeat. These people may be at the brim of their success but because of their negative thoughts they may always remain defeated.

People have no idea that they themselves are the reason for their failure. They are not aware that the negative thoughts in the mind is the main reason for their unsuccessfulness. The main objective of “The Secret” is to show this truth to the audience. It shows how people can be successful just by having positive thoughts in their lives. As it mentions “Your life right now is a reflection of your past thoughts. There are no accidents or bad luck.”

The author Rhonda Byrne says that people themselves decides whether they want to become successful or not. According to her it all depends on the thoughts of your mind. Anything can be created from your thoughts. Good health, more wealth, happy relationships, fame all these can be achieved by having positive thoughts in your mind.

According to the author we create our own reality and we have the power to change that reality. As the author says “you are the master of the universe, you can have everything in the world, and you deserve everything in the world” so this shows that we deserves everything and we can get everything with the power of positive thoughts in our minds.

The author mainly talks about a concept called “The law of attraction”. Through this concept the author tries to show the mechanism of how positive thoughts leads to successful lives. And with this she introduces a three step process to success. She names this three steps as “Ask, Believe, and Receive”. Imagining what you desire and pretending that you already have it will eventually make it come true is what behind in this three steps.

The author also mentions not to focus on “how it is going to happen”. This is because it will sometimes discourage a person as he may be focusing too much on difficulties of the process. Instead she encourages to focus on the end result and the excitement you will enjoy upon that result. This will put everyone’s minds at ease and will help to look at things in a positive perspective. As the author say “Money doesn’t bring unhappiness. Believing wealth and happiness go hand in hand is the only way to achieve both.”

Focusing on positive things is the key to happiness and happiness is the key to a successful life. Therefore it is crucial to always look at our lives in a positive manner. Also to be happy we should maintain a healthy emotional state. This is also necessary because our emotions has a great impact in our life – health and again without a healthy life happiness is impossible. As the author says “Do not spend time on things that you don’t love. Instead focus your time and attention on activities that bring love and joy.”

And finally the author quotes from the famous psychiatrist Carl Jung “What you resist – persist”.  According to the author the bad things exist in life because we forcely resist it. If we could just focus on good things rather than trying to forcely resist bad things they will eventually disappear from our lives. After that our lives will be only remain with good things.

So in conclusion it is clear that everybody deserves to be successful in their lives. As the author says “Prosperity is everybody’s birthright”.  And all can be successful by having positive thoughts in their lives. The author has emphasized the power of the mind and thoughts and the great impact that it has on people’s lives. “Nothing is impossible as long as you believe” in other words If you want to be successful nobody can stop you. You yourself has the power to bring success to your life and everything can be achieved from the power of your mind.