Subconscious Invention
By Peter LloydWhen Chuck Francis was down to his last six cents, he decided to become a millionaire. And he did. Sound familiar? Well, you won't find full-page newspaper ads asking you to send money to Mr. Francis.
In fact, his book, Beyond the Subconscious: The Ultimate Mind Game, is dedicated to everybody who's ever been ripped off by any kind of get-rich-quick or self-improvement scam.
"I got ripped off, and that's why I wrote this book. So there's no misunderstanding about what you need to do to be successful. This is direct and to the point. And if somebody uses it, they will have what they want," Francis says.
Okay, my skeptic sense is tingling! I learned to doubt claims after I begged my mother to buy a submarine I saw advertised on a kids' TV show. In the commercial, the sub loomed over my head, deep in the ocean. The announcer promised this could happen in my sink! She relented and a few days later, a box no bigger than a stack of 50 business cards arrived addressed to me.
"What is it?" I asked my mother.
"It's your submarine," she replied. The sub was no bigger than my pinkie. I got ripped off. That's why I wrote this Workout.
Now I have to tell you about Marilyn. One of Chuck's seven, get-what-you-want exercises demonstrates how to get a Lincoln Continental by simply ordering one from your subconscious. Well, Marilyn had more important things to ask for when she read Chuck's book, but she decided to warm up with the Lincoln Continental exercise.
Soon she was driving a Lincoln Continental. Coincidence? Of course. But the series of events that brought her Lincoln to her is the sort of thing that wants to make your hair stand on end. Until you turn off the magical-thinking part of your brain and understand the real "secret" contained in Beyond the Subconscious.
Here it is, according to Chuck, "everybody's searching for this great secret. There is no secret. You just place your order and wait for it to show up. It's that simple."
Well, if it were that simple, we'd all have everything we want. I'd have invented the cure for cancer by now. But Chuck's "secret" simply describes what you'd call "taking the first step." It's absolutely essential to any undertaking, yet so many would-be successes fail for lack of it.
Peter Lloyd is co-creator with Stephen Grossman of Animal Crackers, the breakthrough problem-solving tool designed to crack your toughest problems.