The Attractor Factor: 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (or Anything Else) from the Inside Out [Hardcover]

Joe Vitale (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 14, 2005

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.

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

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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.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (March 14, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471706043
• ISBN-13: 978-0471706045
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (242 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #452,018 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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402 of 445 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This whole book could easily be scaled-down into a magazine article!, September 8, 2005

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Lee Say Keng "KNOWLEDGE ADVENTURER/TECHNOLOGY... (Ho Chi Minh City/Singapore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Attractor Factor: 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (or Anything Else) from the Inside Out (Hardcover)

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.

36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Page 31: "Do you want the good you say you seek or don't you?", July 14, 2007

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Mike (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Attractor Factor: 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (or Anything Else) from the Inside Out (Paperback)

Page 31 (hardcover edition): "People often write and ask me what one single product can they get that will transform their lives. When I tell them I so loved Dr. Robert Anthony's Beyond Positive Speaking CD set, they are sold. Yet some people complain. "It cost $99." Ah, of course it costs money. And that's incredibly low for a studio-quality life-changing set of six audios. Are you going to pay it and get what you want, or are you going to dismiss the greatest self-help material of all time? Do you want the good you say you seek, or don't you?"

This is the same logic some people use when they say that God won't listen to your prayers, let alone respond to them, if you do not regularly tithe 10% of your income.

For Vitale, his message is simple. All roads lead to buying more product. That little infomercial I quoted above is one of many in the book. Just think, the only thing between standing between what you want and what you have right now is your reluctance to go online and buy more Joe Vitale product.

58 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars part of the attraction genre, February 4, 2006

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Dr Cathy Goodwin (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Attractor Factor: 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (or Anything Else) from the Inside Out (Hardcover)

Attractor Factor was recommended by someone I respect, so I put aside my skepticism and began reading. Surprisingly, there's little new here - just another law of attraction book.

If you've been walking around feeling negative, this book may help. When you feel positive and in control, you're more likely to think clearly. That's psychology of mood. And if you always turn right instead of left, you can change your life. Natalie Goldberg made that point in her excellent book, Thunder and Lightning. And if you're not feeling desperate, you have more power and more confidence, which in turn brings clearer thinking.

Parts of Vitale's advice can be difficult for an ordinary person to follow. For instance, we're encouraged to be open to new ideas. As an example, Vitale says, he decided not to pursue a mail order advertisement for a self-improvement product. But he soon decided he was resisting a message, so he ordered the product. (pp. 31-32)

So how do we interpret this story? Do we order everything that's advertised? We need a discussion on how to use our intuition to discern the value of what we're offered.

And selling an e-book or e-course on the Internet can be a great way to make money ... if you've got a topic and a great marketing strategy. It also helps if you have a big mailing list and copywriting skills. So how do we get these advantages? Vitale acknowledges -- rightly, I think -- that most of us make excuses when we need to roll up our sleeves and go to work (p. 75), investing time, money and energy in our dream. It takes more than attraction to attract these rewards! Or just go straight to Tom Antion's book on electronic marketing.

I do believe that "intention" can be powerful. Once we set a firm goal, we often figure out ways to get there, if we genuinely want the goal. For instance, I've met many people who found jobs just as their unemployment payments were about to end. The combination of positive mood and clarity of goal can be very powerful. But you don't have to explain these effects as "law of attraction."

Parts of Vitale's book were quite disturbing. Twenty-two pages -- nearly ten percent of the book -- fall into a chapter labeled "The Proof," which is nothing but a list of testimonials for Joe Vitale and the first version of this book.

Second, Vitale acknowledges that his guru, Jonathan, molested a woman who was close to him at the time. On page 181, he writes that the "situation with Jonathan...was a gift of freedom." But the woman who was molested (p. 182) never recovered. Although "she tried to forgive him," writes Vitale, she "only found peace in death." And in the very next sentence, Vitale writes, "Meanwhile my adventures continue..."

Frankly, I don't get it. Some psychologists believe the human mind may be wired to explain negative events in terms of some greater good. But I would expect to see some evidence of the author's compassion for the woman and perhaps some revised thinking -- maybe even some activism to prevent other women from being harmed by gurus they trusted. I would encourage readers to look up Natalie Goldberg's memoir The Great Failure, where she describes honest feelings about being betrayed by her spiritual father and her birth father.

Finally, the notion that we're responsible for everything that happens to us can be traced to early New Age philosophies, including the "est" of the seventies. We're dealing with values that are nearly religious. Do you believe soldiers in Iraq attracted death and dismemberment? Do you believe the starving poor of Third World countries attracted poverty? Or that three-year-old children attract disease? Some Law of Attraction theorists say yes; others hedge.

Still, I wouldn't discourage anyone from trying Vitale's exercises in a spirit of playfulness. And if it's easier to take a message of "Work hard!" when it's couched in this language, no harm done.

If you're interested in this value-based system, I recommend Carolyn Myss's books. I'd also recommend Lynn Grabhorn's book, Excuse Me Your Life is Waiting. These authors are down to earth and realistic about what you can expect. Best of all, you can follow their advice even if you don't buy into their world views.