We all know the old saying about too many cooks being a problem in the kitchen.   This is especially true when the cooks have very different ideas about what the dish should taste like.  If one cook is adding Cajun seasoning and another is adding Chinese spices and a third is adding Indian curry flavor who knows what the stew will end up being.  
    This saying is often invoked in a business environment to indicate that, while everyone can discuss and give suggestions, there has to be one boss or recognized authority to make the final decision.  The same is true of spiritual matters and the world we live in.  I have said before that the world exists as it is largely because of our thoughts, beliefs and emotions.  Many self-help gurus today believe that also, but they teach their followers that they can therefore fix the world by consciously controlling what they think about and believe about the world changing it in anyway they desire.  They seem to thin that is is just fine if you mess up in doing so because you are just creating thought-forms that are temporary so easily fixed.  If you just think a little, you will realize that this philosophy is just the same as the too-many-cooks thing.  With everybody trying to change the world into his own personal idea of a perfect world, we get just as much of a confused mish-mosh as that stew with all the different types of spices.  That is just exchanging one confused mess for another one.  So, like the business people who have to accept a final authority to make the decisions, we need to rely on the ultimate authority of God to know what the world shold be and what we should be doing and thinking to change it.  That is why we need to obey the will of God.  Not because he is a bossy parent who gets angry when we don't do as we're told, but because we all need to be heading in the same direction if we want to accomplish anything.