Quite true. I don't really _mind_ agendas; I just like being
   aware of them. I learn something new every day in that regard.

   Having an agenda doesn't make it wrong either. The guy could be
   spot on, totally right and everything. But it has all the
   earmarks of a religious movement, deity-of-a-different-kind.

   Play "spot the deity" - usually there are several, and the world
   looks much different. At the same time, that's _my thing_. My
   agenda. I've been fooled a couple of times in my life, not
   terribly so, but enough where I went, WAIT A SECOND here...
   after spending months or years being the voicebox of someone
   else's ideas.

   I must've preached Tony Robbins stuff for 2-3 years. I still
   hang on to some of it in my belief system as there was lots of
   good stuff in there. But, like most things like this, you can
   have some good stuff and then... there's the BS that goes with
   it... and picking apart the two can be messy. Keep the good
   parts while squishing the bad. That's my agenda The worst part
   for me is... I know HOW to do what the guy is doing. I figured
   it out while I was into Anthony Robbins... and many others since
   then. The business model is a good one and it works well. I have
   plans laid out where I *could* get rich off of it. I could teach
   others how to!

   But I can't... it sucks. Even if I'm 100% honest and true to
   myself .. I know that, in the end, I'm running a T-Shirt and
   book business, marketing, advertising, getting on news media,
   etc...