The Secret, Diet Soda, and $1,000,000
If you drink diet soft drinks, it means your overweight. I don’t want to offend anyone — that was just what I thought when I was a little girl. The people I saw drinking diet soft drinks were overweight — always. I was suspicious — I figured that the drink company put something in the drink to keep people overweight, so that they’d have to keep drinking it. To this day, I still don’t like the taste of diet soft drinks.
In fact, after watching The Secret
Despite all the people who do complain about the movie, The Secret
If you take anything away from the film, let it be this: You get more of what you focus on. If you complain about your co-workers, you get more things to complain about. If you focus on getting out of debt — you get more debt. You drink diet drinks — you get, well you know. (Try water.)
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I had a friend who told me, when I stopped breastfeeding to go back to work, that if I wanted to continue breastfeeding after going back to work, I could and that I was making the choice not to. I was so mad at her! How dare she say that! But over the years I have come to realize - yes, absolutely - almost everything in my life is a choice and like you said, once you realize that - you do feel a tremendous sense of power. It also is good because it gets me to quite whining about things that, yes, I have a choice about.
Don’t be so hard on yourself. Maybe then, that is what you wanted.