In the business world, of course, we would never say that we encourage magical thinking. We simply “help people make difficult decisions.” We do it by reinforcing bad thinking, pouring half-a-trillion-dollars yearly into saturating people with ad messages:

Buy an iPod and you’ll be happy.
Buy male enhancement supplement and you’ll finally be attractive to women.
Stay in Trump Tower and you’ll be happy.
etc.

The last thing in the world commerce needs is for people to pay any attention to whether “having anything you want” is desirable–because the answer is likely, “no.”

The New Age Movement: Think and you’ll get what you want.
The Business World: Get what you want and you’ll be happy.

My experience is much simpler: Be happy. Then, once you’re happy, if you have any money, you can buy an iPod and you’ll still be happy. Isn’t life grand?

Another Tricky Day
by the Who

You can’t always get it
When you really want it
You can’t always get it at all
Just because there’s space
In your life it’s a waste
To spend your time why don’t you wait for the call

(Just gotta get used to it)
We all get it in the end
(Just gotta get used to it)
We go down and we come up again
(Just gotta get used to it)
You irritate me my friend
(This is no social crisis)
This is you having fun
(No crisis)
Getting burned by the sun
(This is true)
This is no social crisis
Just another tricky day for you

You can always get higher
Just because you aspire
You could expire even knowing.
Don’t push the hands
Just hang on to the band
You can dance while your knowledge is growing

(It could happen anytime)
You can’t expect to never cry
(Patience is priceless)
Not when you try to fly so high
(Just stay on that line)
Rock and roll will never die
(This is no social crisis)
{etc.}

Another tricky day
Another gently nagging pain
What the papers say
Just seems to bring down heavier rain
The world seems in a spiral
Life seems such a worthless title
But break out and start a fire y’all
It’s all here on the vinyl
(No crisis)
{etc.}

{Repeat verse 1.}

(Just gotta get used to it)
Gotta get used to waiting
(Just gotta get used to it)
You know how the ice is
(Just gotta get used to it)
It’s thin where you’re skating
(This is no social crisis)
{etc.}

Just another tricky day for you fellah

I have learned (mostly & usually) to appreciate that everything you say about how that nasty misconception called “manifesting” isn’t true. I’ve experienced bliss beyond belief when I turn that focus of clarity onto some additional area of my life where I haven’t yet noticed the truth. I love you for giving me this gift. This week, alone, I have found myself reviewing and updating my resume, getting lists of colleges & universities that might hire and/or teach me, and starting to list again what I own and what I owe. And checking monster.com for actual $50k jobs is on the to-do list, at least. So is designing a course for Colorado Free University.

I would love to see a blog about the gift that this really is.

I know, the emails are a drag, let alone the well-meaning friends who constantly say what a “great manifestor” I am when I did no such thing. It would be a joy to read about the part that you gave your next-to-the-last sentence to:

“I can only hope that in the end you can enjoy the truly magical thing about the universe, that it’s WAY beyond our ability to comprehend, let alone control.”

It is and I do.

Love,
Stacy