Product Description

In The Attractor Factor, Joe Vitale combines principles of spiritual self-discovery with proven marketing concepts to show how anyone can live a happy life in and outside of business. He shares his own quest for wealth and success while leading you through the five simple steps that will make all your aspirations, professional and personal, a reality.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #93424 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

Review
"...it might just change your life." (The Reading Chronicle, 25^th August 2005)

From the Inside Flap
Do you work hard, do everything right, and yet rarely achieve the results you had hoped for? As you struggle to make ends meet, do you sometimes wish you could be one of those lucky people who seem to smile their way through life and have success handed to them? Actually, you can.

In The Attractor Factor, renowned author, Internet marketing pioneer, and spiritual guide Joe Vitale reveals that success of any kind doesn't depend on what you're doing, it depends on what you're being! Building on the phenomenal success of his two-time #1 Amazon bestselling e-book Spiritual Marketing, Joe combines time-honored practices of spiritual self-discovery with proven marketing principles into an extra- ordinary how-to manual for happy living both in and out of business.

This mind- and heart-opening primer features anecdotes from the remarkable true saga of Joe's quest for wealth and moving stories from many of the people he has guided to inner peace and outer affluence. It leads you gently through five simple steps that will make all of your dreams come true. With quiet humor and tender encouragement, Joe Vitale shows you how easy it is to let yourself love, heal, prosper, and grow.

After helping you determine your Prosperity IQ, Joe shows you how to find the springboard that will help you rise above the negativity that surrounds you and lift yourself into the realm of miracles. You'll learn how to dare something worthy and how to seek and uncover the missing secret to your own personal happiness. And you'll discover how to look at your life goals, and those of others, in a new, positive, and energizing way.

When you reach step five, you'll be ready to receive and understand The Ultimate Secret—the state of being in which the universe quickly brings you together with the things that you desire most.

Whether you yearn for wealth, love, prestige, great accomplishments, or all of the above, they are already yours, and they always have been. They are your birthright. Read The Attractor Factor and reunite yourself with your legacy.

From the Back Cover
The ATTRACTOR FACTOR

"To manifest success in any endeavor, there is always a spiritual component—a part of our success that isn't always obvious to the casual observer. Joe Vitale clearly demonstrates how he has effectively recognized and used this spiritual component with amazing success and how you can easily adapt it to your life as well—all in five easy steps. I can personally attest to this process and its effectiveness."
—Joe Sugarman, Chairman, BluBlocker Corporation

"The Attractor Factor is the missing 'owner's manual' for your mind. By using Dr. Vitale's five simple steps, you can regain control of your beliefs and learn to focus your intentions to create the life you really want."
—Pat O'Bryan, Director, The Milagro Research Institute

" Anyone reading this book will receive a key, a key they only need to turn, and doors begin opening quietly, mysteriously, magically. A couple of months ago, I wanted a several thousand dollar bump in income. Four days later, on a seemingly unrelated phone call, I was offered a deal that brought me the exact amount I'd requested. These things happen all the time now, thanks to The Attractor Factor."
—Charles Burke, author, How to Prime Your Cosmic Cash Pump

"A radical and wonderful new way to achieve any goal. I can't wait to put it into practice."
—Shel Horowitz, author Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First

Customer Reviews

This whole book could easily be scaled-down into a magazine article!
This whole book could easily be scaled-down into a magazine article. It is packed with too many personal anecdotes & other people's stories, the quantum of which seems to be an over-kill. To use the exact words of one reviewer, "a lot of irrelevant filler information".

A close-up scrutiny of the `5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth' reveals no big secrets. These are the summary of the 5 Easy Steps (extracted from Page 176):

- Know what you don't want;
- Select what you do want;
- Clear all negative or limiting beliefs;
- Feel what it would be like to have, do, or be what you want;
- Let go as you act on your intuitive impulses, & allow the results to manifest.

Yes, that's it.

In comparison, Napoleon Hill, in the 'Laws of Success', which outlined seventeen success principles, had already revealed them a long time ago. The 'Laws of Success' was based on the author's personal quest that spreaded over twenty years to study the most successful people around his time. It has even been highly acknowledged by Anthony Robbins & Stephen Covey, whose respective works adapted many of the author's original ideas.

Forget it
Someone showed me this which I read through pretty quick...If you actually want to read something that does bring results check out How To Get Everything You Ever Wanted: Complete Guide to Using Your Psychic Common Sense Its far far better and actually does bring results. I have read other books by the so called *Dr* Joe Vitale and most of them are just cheap ebooks that are sold on ebay with resell rights. His website hosts a ton of these marketing and 'how to become a millionaire' ebooks which are totally a waste of 'e-time'
He is also linked to the secret book and dvd which in itself is a total joke given that recently in Australia contributors to this 'fad movie and book' are now under investigation for fraud. Google 'The Secret and Channel 9' on youtube to check it out...very very positive influences huh?

Skip this book and check out also 'Creative visualization by shakti gawain also sold on amazon

It Might Just Change Your Life...
...or it might not.

I wrote a review for this book some months ago (see below for the original) promising to come back and give the book a full 5 stars if after trying the techniques described in it I found them to be effective.

I have not found them to be effective.

In fact, nothing that I used the "5 Easy Steps" for has manifested. Given the range of things I tested it on--from material objects (large and small), to money, to health, to (don't laugh) the weather--this defies probability, since I would have expected at least *one* small success. Vitale is a good promoter, and I honestly expected some results--from a heightened level of positive thinking, if nothing else--but given my experience with this, the author's tales of "miracles" seem to me now little more than wild hype.

In any case, there are better books on the same subject: Shortcut to a Miracle, and Professional Dreamer are two (no, I have not enjoyed significant results with those techniques, either, but I think they are better book neverthless).


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This is the second review I wrote for this book. The last one mysteriously disappeared shortly after I posted it. There was nothing inappropriate in it--no foul language, no references to other reviews--but I did take strong umbrage at the author's persistent and transparent marketing of his cronies' goods and services.

I haven't change my opinion in that regard at all. It is extremely annoying to read a book--not a free book, either--and realize you are still being pitched. Okay, these aren't exactly pitches, more like plugs. But they occur repeatedly. And there is a list of e-mail addresses and URLs for these same people at the end of the book. I would hazard that in return they plug Dr. Joe and each other in *their* publications, and that this is in fact a marketing network, for when I signed up to Dr. Joe's newsletter, I promptly received an advertisement for one of cronies who wrote a blurb for Attractor Factor.

Still, as annoying as that is, and despite some other disturbing qualities of this book, I have softened my view somewhat. I won't go so far as to say that what Vitale proposes actually works, because for me it has not. In fact, in one place he cites "research" he says demonstrates that people who make a list of things they want--actually write these things down--and then come back to the list in a year find that they have acquired 80% of the things on the list. I guess this is why writing things down remains so important to these "intentional desire" sorts of self-improvement/success books. For the record, though, I recently came across a list I made a little over a year ago. The percentage of things I wanted then and wrote down and have since acquired is: zero. Zilch. The things on this list were by no means outrageous. Vitale might say my "energies are blocked." Perhaps.

I also have a problem with the basic philosophy in this book. Vitale says that we are the causes of everything that happens to us. This is a far cry, it seems to me, from saying that we are masters of our own destiny, at least in the sense that the cliche is usually offered. He seems literally to believe that when bad things happen to us, it is because we somehow cause them to happen. If this is true, then pediatric cancer wards are filled with children who brought it on themselves. Somehow, though, this just doesn't seem right....And it doesn't tally with how I see the world, or with my experience of it. Nor does it mesh with the New-Agey claptrap that fills the book. It doesn't seem necessary to believe it to succeed in your pursuits.

Perversely amusing is that the healer and mentor that Vitale refers to with much glowing praise throughout the bulk of the text turns out to be a molestor and rapist. At the end of the book, Dr. Joe reveals that this so-called healer had relations with female clients, one of whom went on to off herself. According to Dr. Joe, the guy fell from grace because of "ego." (I wonder how that floats as a legal defense....)

The use of these New Age healers figures prominently in Vitale's 5-Step model--in fact, they are vital. Dr. Joe urges readers to use these healers (and provides contact information in the back of the book for at least some of those he considers "dear" friends) to "get clear" of "issues" and blocked "energies." The word "energy" is tossed around in its vague, New Age sense more in this book than it would be at a power company board meeting, I think. It becomes tedious and silly. Mercifully, though, Vitale does provide an exercise that we can do in lieu of the New-Age-Healer thing--two in fact, one of which involves the use of what certainly looks like hypnosis scripts, even though he doesn't call them that.

Another alternative offered by Dr. Joe: You can hire a Hindu priest to perform a "yagya" on your behalf, or you can do one yourself. (A yagya is a formal Hindu religious ritual.) There are no directions for performing them yourself. Many years ago, I had one performed for me, and--you guessed it--it didn't achieve any results whatsoever. (Either my energies are blocked to the point of immedicable constipation, or this New Age stuff is precisely the nonsense it seems to be.)

About halfway into the book, Vitale begins to deliver some substance when he starts discussing his 5 steps. Yes, there are still pitches, and much talk of "energy," but he seems to be sincere in his conviction that these things work, and he is adequately thorough in his discussion of them for the reader to pursue his method. And sincerity and effort do count for something...not everything, but something.

The ultimate test of the book's worth, of course, is whether or not applying its techniques helps a reader turn his or her life around. If it does, then in my opinion the book could be 7/8 marketing and NewAgeSpeak and still be well worth the purchase price. If following Vitale's guidelines in this book helps me to create significant changes in my life, I will be happy to come back here and give the book another 3 stars.