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that are consistent with that image. If you visualize a positive outcome ... you begin to exert a powerful magnetic force that brings the desired goal or outcome into reality.”

    26 Bruce I. Doyle III, Before You Think Another Thought (Winter Park, FL: Rare 24 Hernacki, The Ultimate Secret, pp. 90, 95.
    Shares Ltd., 1994), pp. 18, 19, 48.

    Among other things, these books explain the importance of Hernacki, Doyle, and Knowles—pummeling them, knocking the "winning attitude" I have been urged to adopt: a positive them to the ground, all the while accusing them of unconsciously attitude "attracts" or "fulfills," depending on which author's bringing this assault on themselves. Because how else could anything weird science you go with, positive results, with little or no action happen to these fellows, except through their own will and desire?
    on your part required. Herein, too, lies the answer to the question I But from the point of view of the economic "winners"—once posed to Kimberly: would it be enough to just fake a those who occupy powerful and high-paying jobs—the view that winning attitude? No way, according to Doyle:
    one's fate depends entirely on oneself must be remarkably convenient.
    It explains the winners' success in the most flattering terms while People who just pretend to have a positive attitude may be more invalidating the complaints of the losers. Patrick's clients, for acceptable, but they will still attract according to how they are really vibrating—the energy they are emanating will attract their example, came to the boot camp prepared to blame their circumstances. 27
    predicament on the economy, or the real estate market, or the inhuman corporate demands on their time. But these culprits were The obvious liberal rejoinders come to mind: What about the summarily dismissed in favor of alleged individual failings: child whose home is hit by a bomb? Did she have some bomb-depression, hesitation, lack of focus. It's not the world that needs shaped thoughtform that brought ruin down on her head?
    changing, is the message, it's you. No need, then, to band And did my boot-camp mates cause the layoffs that drove together to work for a saner economy or a more human-friendly them out of their jobs by "vibrating" at a layoff-related frequency? It corporate environment, or to band together at all. As one of my seems inexcusably cruel to tell people who have reached some kind fellow campers put it, we are our own enemies.
    of personal nadir that their problem is entirely of their own But it's all too easy for me to sneer at the EST-minded gurus.
    making. I find my thoughtforms massing for an attack on When I get past my revulsion, the boot-camp experience and subsequent reading have one clear lesson for me in my role as a job 27 Ibid., p.67.

    seeker, and that is that I may not be doing enough. If I don't find that it's freezing cold with icy patches on the sidewalks and a five-a job, and that is the goal I set for myself, it may in fact be my block walk between the Metro station and my hotel, I go in own fault. I resolve to try harder, do more, put those slacks and sneakers, though the upper body is, I think, respectably thoughtforms to work! I need to get out more, network more, put together.
    and network with people who have more to offer me than the Ah, sweet luxury! The get-together takes place in an uppermiddle-unhappy crew assembled by Knowles.
    type hotel, at least S100 a night beyond the Hampton Inn, in a spacious conference room where an entire buffet awaits us: fruit and cheese, egg rolls, satay sticks, coffee, andsoda. All we are SEARCHING FOR NETWORKING opportunities closer to home and missing, one of my fellow job seekers observes, is the wine. Before hopefully closer to the people who do the actual hiring—I come the program begins, we have half an hour to network, which is easy across a conveniently timed ExecuNet meeting in Richmond, enough to do since there are only five—not the promised

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