THE "SECRET" IS OUT - DON'T READ THIS ARTICLE AT YOUR OWN PERIL

                I NEVER THOUGHT ATTAINING SUCCESS COULD BE THIS EASY

Just as I was beginning to think that my efforts in composing what I have felt were good articles to share with my fellow Gatherers was approaching futile comes a revelation of potentially life defining importance.

Before I let you in on what may be the most important revelation of this century more context is called for.

When I write an article to be posted for Gather I naturally enjoy many others reading and commenting. It would be hard to believe that any other Gatherer would not share my expectation. However I am also realistic. Not everyone is going to be attracted to the same titles. This means there will be over time a distribution of interest ranging from none at all to a large amount of readers. So be it.

On the other had I have recently noted that article I have written that I would have expected to attract a wide readership (let's say 20 plus) have actually resulted in less than 5. So be this too. You win some, you lose some. No accounting for taste. But still has persisted the thought that if there was a way to greatly increase a steady readership that would suit me just fine.

In trying to figure out what it is that attracts people to one another's articles I would have thought that the answer is obvious. People are attracted or not to the specific content as conveyed by the specific words in the titles of the articles. So if this principle is true then the key to success is to always find those just right words to capture the interest of a broad group of potential readers.

No great revelation is it. The trouble is that I think I am doing it every time I post an article. Still - despite what I think - my magic often fails to do the 'trick'.

Thus it is in this pressing need for something more to be added to the attraction formula that the following 'secret' has come to be as a lightning bolt. The secret is out! Maureen Dowd - an editorial writer for the New York Times has revealed it to the thus far unelightened like me.

Her article is called: A GIANT DOOM MAGNET. She starts: " So I was sitting arround watching "Oprah" yesterday afternoon when I realized how I could stop W. and Crazy Dick from blowing up any more stuff. All I needed to do was Unleash my Unfathonable Magnetic Power into the Universe!

She goes on: "Energy flows where intention goes. Or maybe its the other way around. Anyhow, Oprah taught me how to stop abusing myself and learn The Secret. I finally get it: because the Law of Attraction dictates that like attracts like, my negativity toward the president and vice president is attracting their negativity and multiplying the negative vibrations in the cosmos, creating some sort of giant doom magnet."

Dowd goes on to discuss the content of a best seller sweeping the counrty called: The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, a an Australian reality TV producer. "We create our own circumstances by the choices that we make, and the choices we make are fueld by our thoughts," Oprah explained in her first show. So our thoughts are the most powerful thing that we have here on earth. And based upon what we think - and [what] we think determines who we are - we attract who we are into our lives."

VOILA!

So Rudolf Stiener, Annie Besant, and the rest of the Theosophists have been right after all. All I have had to do to attract the kind of readership numbers here on Typepad is to create and send out into the ether the most appropriate 'thought forms" I can create.

All I have to do is project my strong intentions for great numbers of readers and commentators to get with my program - tune me in on your psychic radio station - attune yourself to my positive vibrations.

So now that the Secret is out I can hardly wait until I finish the last few paragraphs of this article so I can sit back and watch the comments numbers rapidly and steadly increase. Who knows if  this formula is the key to marketing success then I can look forward to being selected very soon as a featured article producer. And according to the hype associated with "The Secret" I think I can hardly miss out.

Isn't it strange how revelations such as the Secret can transform your life in a split second. And here I had been thinking that Spinoza's conclusion to the Ethics was really the formula for success. Spinoza says: All things worth accomplishing are as difficult as they are rare. And, expanding on Spinoza: success is a natrual by product of struggling with struggle."

Now I see that I have probably been duped. To think all I have had to do to gain the large readership I have desired was - is to just project my strong deisres into the ether - Oh well you live and you unlearn.

I would like to continue as I have much more to say about this subject but I am so excited about viewing the hoards of  anticipated numbers of people who are sure to read this article that I am going to end now.

And if nothing else this will have been an interesting sociological experiment. Good lord - what if  no one reads this article. For shame! I refuse to be negative. That would be self defeating. I will remain positive at all costs.

Isn't being  lazily creative', working with a minumum of effort and a guarantee of predictable success fun?