Which is true as long as one of your options is "want something else."

Hun. When you put it that way, it doesn't sound all that much different from The Secret.

Nor too different from Dale Carnegie.

I really like this interpretation, but to take it at face value would be to assume that other approaches do not offer actionable steps? or at the very least do not suggest that their steps actually work? Naturally it's correct that no matter what you do you don't always suceed, but does the fact that people eat this up suggest that for most people there are no actions they can take to be successful?