The Attractor Factor

5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (or Anything Else) From the Inside Out

Joe Vitale

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9780470286425
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9780470440704
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Small Business
• Index: Business

Discover the secret to lifelong wealth and happiness!

Now in an expanded paperback second edition that includes an Attractor Factor IQ test, exercises for putting lessons into practice, new stories, and more, Dr. Joe Vitale presents his even more powerful and effective five-step plan for attracting wealth, happiness, and success to your life.

"Whatever you want to attract to your life, Joe Vitale has the secret to make it happen. I highly recommend you get this book and get started today."
-Morris Goodman, author of The Miracle Man

"I got enough by the end of chapter one to create a major energy shift in my life! Joe's easy, direct, and knowledgeable presentation allowed me to embrace important principles effortlessly."
-Dee Wallace, actress and star of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

"Joe Vitale not only appeared in The Secret, he is one of the few who knows and lives attraction! Contained in the five steps that Joe maps out in The Attractor Factor are the keys to endless abundance. This book instructs on how to take control of your beliefs and focus, ultimately attracting the life of your dreams. If you just do what Joe tells you, you will create an abundance far beyond what you can currently imagine. The Attractor Factor is the secret that The Secret doesn't tell you."
-David Schirmer, wealth coach and star of The Secret

"Just when you think you understand how the world works, Joe Vitale comes along and takes you to a whole new place. He's engaging, entertaining, enlightening, and, oh boy, does he ever stretch your thinking."
-Ian Percy, registered psychiatrist and member of the U.S. and Canadian public speakers halls of fame

"This book has the potential to change humanity."
-Dr. Rick Barrett, author of Healed by Morning

CHAPTER 1

Miracles Never Stop

More miracles have happened to me since writing the little booklet in 1997 that evolved into what you are now holding. Here are a few of them:

• When I first wrote this book and described the car of my dreams, the car of my dreams at that time was a Saturn. I still love Saturns, but I’ve upgraded my dream and my car several times since then. I went on to manifest a BMW Z3 2.8 Roadster. It was showcased in an early James Bond movie. I have never in my life had so much fun driving. But as I grew in my life and became bolder about going for my dreams, I also naturally wanted a different vehicle. I was then led to Francine, my beloved 2005 Panoz Esperante GTLM exotic sports car. Whew! What a ride it is! I then went on and attracted a rare 1998 Panoz AIV Roadster. It was once owned by Steven Tyler of the rock band Aerosmith. While attracting cars isn’t what this book is about, these new cars symbolize major changes in my life. It’s also a message for you: You truly can have anything you can imagine.

• When I first wrote this book, I was still married to Marian, whom I had been with for more than 20 years. Since then we decided we had grown apart. There was nothing negative about the experience or the decision. Marian decided she preferred being alone. I decided to look for another partner. I found one, too, in Nerissa, who I am deeply in love with. I remained friends with Marian right till her death in 2004, and I miss her even now. Still, I’m a lucky man. Major changes in life can truly be easy and effortless.

• When I first wrote this book, I set a goal to generate a passive income stream. I wanted money to come to me easily and effortlessly, always, consistently—no matter where I was or what I was doing. I was then led to meet Mark Joyner, then CEO of Aesop Marketing, who asked if he could put one of my books online as an e-book. I was skeptical. But I gave him Hypnotic Writing, a manuscript I wrote many years ago. Mark put it online, marketed it, and the sales blew my socks off. Even now, years after the book went online at www.HypnoticWriting.com, orders keep coming in. Since there is no book to print, stock, or mail, all the money is passive income. Every month I receive a check, sometimes for staggering amounts. And since I now have over three dozen e-books out there, including the best-seller How to Create Your Own E-book in Only 7 Days at www.7dayebook.com, the checks are even bigger. I also have many audios online for instant download, including Money Beyond Belief with Brad Yates at www.moneybeyondbelief.com and of course How to Attract a New Car at www.attractanewcar.com. These sites, and many more, bring me large checks on a regular basis. It’s all passive income. Now I smile a lot. I know that when you set an intention, you set the forces of life to bring it to you, and you to it.

• When I first wrote this book, I was living in Houston, Texas. After I met Nerissa, I moved to Austin. I then began the process of attracting our dream home. After a few months, we found a beautiful two-acre, two-story, Hill Country property with wandering wild deer and rabbit, and an outside pool, between Austin and San Antonio, in a small spiritual-artistic community called Wimberley, Texas. Finding this home was a matter of having a clear image of what I wanted while following every intuitive impulse I had. The result was a miracle. We’re now looking at buying 377 acres near here and building our own city on it. I’m kidding about the city part, but you get the idea. Think big and big things happen.

• As my career evolved, I ended up in many movies, including the staggering hit, The Secret, as well as The Opus and The Leap. This led to appearances on Larry King’s television show, Donny Deutsch’s CNBC TV show The Big Idea, and much more. This also led to my writing more books, including The Key and Zero Limits, and recording more audio programs, such as The Missing Secret. Obviously, when you do what you love, wealth and fame follow.

 

I could go on. For example, a man I studied some 20 years ago was Dr. Robert Anthony. His famous books and tapes changed my life. After I came out with an early version of this material, he read it and contacted me. Now the man who was once one of my gurus is now one of my business partners. I ended up producing, recording, and marketing his terrific audio program, Beyond Positive Thinking. I think it’s the greatest self-improvement material of all time, and I am involved with it! And, if you didn’t notice, Dr. Anthony wrote the introduction to the book you are holding.

But wait. There’s more. Now people in Hollywood want me to have my own television show. I’ve gone from homeless to having my own weekly TV show? Talk about mind-blowing. But this is the wild, wonderful life you get when you tune into the ideas in this book.

Just think what wonders are ahead for you!

Attraction Works

I just sat down with Nerissa and talked to her about the ongoing miracles in my life. “It happens to you all the time,” she said.

She mentioned that just the other day I wanted to book us a flight to Ohio to see my family. Tickets were nearly $1,000. I simply expected to get a better deal while being willing to accept the going fare. When I called the airline back, they told me I had enough frequent flyer miles to get both tickets for just over $100. Way cool.

And Nerissa reminded me of the time I wanted to complete my collection of rare books by P. T. Barnum, a marketing genius and religious man I had studied and written a book about (There’s a Customer Born Every Minute). I found the last book I needed. But my intuition said not to pay the high price the bookseller was asking. I let it go. I waited. A few days later, the bookseller lowered his price. That’s almost unheard of. And, yes, I bought the book.

And she reminded me of the time I looked for one book for nearly seven years and couldn’t find it. I gave up. But I decided I would attract it, somehow, some way. Then, out of the blue, an e-mail friend in Canada wrote me that he had the book. I begged to buy it. He declined. But a few days later, he suddenly decided to just send me the book—at no charge!

And she remembered that a year or so ago, when I couldn’t find a friend of mine that I loved and missed, I gave up and hired a private investigator. He couldn’t find my friend, either. I quit looking. But I made a decision to attract her back into my life. Then one day, simply following my intuition, I walked right up to my friend at a yoga class. I found her without breaking a sweat.

Nerissa also reminded me to tell you what happened just yesterday, while writing this very preface.

I have been practicing the Sedona Method for months now. It’s a very simple method for releasing any emotion or negative experience in the way of your being happy right now. I like the method and have told many people about it through my monthly e-newsletter.

I was reading a book by Lester Levenson, the founder of the Sedona Method, just yesterday morning. I sat in my easy chair, reading, feeling happy, wondering how I might learn more about Sedona and Lester. I remember thinking, “Gee, it sure would be nice to meet some Sedona people and learn more about what they do.”

That same day I checked my e-mail and to my delighted surprise, there was a message from the director of the Sedona Institute. He had heard about me through the grapevine and wanted to talk to me about how I could help promote their web site at www.sedona.com. Wow!

And then there are the countless times when I want more money for something or other, and I get a brainstorm that pulls in an abundance of money fast.

One time when I needed to raise $20,000, I almost created a seminar on “Spiritual Marketing” to get it. Instead, I felt inspired to see if anyone would sign up for the same class online. This was unheard of at the time I thought of it. But boldness brings magic. And money. I announced that the class would only be conducted by e-mail, would last five weeks, and would cost $1,500 per person. Fifteen people signed up, bringing me a whopping sum of money in one day. Very nice. I have since taught my e-class system to others. They have made upwards of a quarter of a million dollars per year with it. In most cases, I received almost half as payment for my consulting. You know I like that.

Another time I donated $15,000 to the mother of a child who had had a pediatric stroke. She needed the money for a machine to help her child learn how to move his little body. I didn’t know her or her child. I gave her a check for the full amount. It was the largest donation I had ever made up to that time. Later the same day I received a check for twice the amount from an unexpected source. Miracles like this are not rare or impossible once you soak up these principles.

“You have miracles happen all the time,” Nerissa repeated.

“Why do you think that is?” I asked her. “It certainly wasn’t always like that.”

“Because you now practice the Attractor Factor,” she explained. “You make yourself a magnet for whatever you want. Once you decide you want something, you get it, often almost instantly.”

There’s no question about it. If I tried to document all the miracles that keep occurring in just my life alone because of the Attractor Factor, I’d never stop writing this book and never get around to releasing it to the public.

My point is this: The five-step formula you are about to discover works.

And because it works, I want you to have it.

I once told Nerissa that there is an easy path through life and a hard path. When I first met her, she was crawling up the rocky side of the mountain. I pointed out that there is an escalator through life, too. You can take the hard path or the easy path. It’s all your choice.

When I first met Nerissa, she was unhappy, battling a lawsuit against construction workers who messed up her roof, fighting with her mother almost every day, hating her job, and more. Within a few months of discovering the Attractor Factor, she ended the lawsuit, found common ground with her mother, quit her job, and now has two e-books out and a growing Internet business. And she lives with me in our country estate. She says she is happier now than at any other time in her life, ever.

Again, there is a rocky road through life, and then there’s an escalator. Which do you prefer? The Attractor Factor shows you the way to glide through life. Why not step up and enjoy the ride?

 

 

Remember that things are symbols, and that the thing symbolized is more important than the symbol itself.

—JUDGE THOMAS TROWARD, QUOTED IN
ATTAINING YOUR DESIRES BY GENEVIEVE BEHREND.

CHAPTER 2

What’s Your Attractor Factor IQ?

“If you would like the world to be happier, healthier, and wealthier, begin by contributing one happy, healthy, and wealthy person to it: You.”

—DR. JOE VITALE, STAR OF THE MOVIES THE SECRET AND THE OPUS

Let’s begin by checking your IQ when it comes to attracting what you want. The following quiz was created by Ann-Marie Caffrey and used here with her kind permission. Just taking this test will illuminate areas you may want to focus on as you read this book. To see your results, go online and take the test at www.smart-attractor.com.

1. The Target

Q1. When you think about what you would like to manifest in your life, is it something you could easily and without hesitation put down in writing?

a. Yes. I know exactly what it is that I want. I have given it a lot of thought and could describe it clearly in writing.

b. I have a pretty strong vision of what would make me happy but it would probably take me a little while to put the specifics into writing.

c. Well, I know that I want more money because I want to drive a luxury car and live in a fabulous house. I can’t say I have spent a lot of time working that out—I haven’t thought about specifics much.

Q2. Are the dreams and goals that you have today very different from those you had a few years ago?

a. No. I’ve had the same dreams and goals for as long as I can remember.

b. They have evolved over the years, but in essence I still want the same things.

c. Yes. I’ve changed a lot over the years and so have my dreams and goals.

Q3. Think for a moment about achieving something that you believe you really want. Say it to yourself in the present tense—for example, I am earning $200,000 per year in a job I love. Now, become aware of your body’s physical responses. Which below best describes the sensation?

a. Relaxed, good, positive feeling totally desiring this outcome with all my being.

b. When I focus on my physical sensations, I get a vague feeling of headache/chest pressure/tightened abdomen/and so forth.

c. Anytime I imagi...

Table of contents

• Praise
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• PREFACE
• CHAPTER 1 - Miracles Never Stop
• CHAPTER 2 - What’s Your Attractor Factor IQ?
• CHAPTER 3 - An Attractor Factor Case Study
• CHAPTER 4 - The Truth about the Law of Attraction
• CHAPTER 5 - The Proof
• CHAPTER 6 - What Are You Dismissing?
• CHAPTER 7 - How to Attract Money
• CHAPTER 8 - It Can Be Another Way
• CHAPTER 9 - A Shortcut to Attracting Whatever You Want
• CHAPTER 10 - An Introduction to the Attractor Factor
• CHAPTER 11 - What’s Your Prosperity IQ?
• CHAPTER 12 - Step One: The Springboard
• CHAPTER 13 - Step Two: Dare Something Worthy
• CHAPTER 14 - Step Three: The Missing Secret
• CHAPTER 15 - Step Four: Nevillize Your Goal
• CHAPTER 16 - Step Five: The Ultimate Secret
• CHAPTER 17 - The Million Dollar Secret Formula
• CHAPTER 18 - The Shocking True Story of Jonathan
• CHAPTER 19 - The Experiment: Intentional Meditation Foundation
• CHAPTER 20 - Common Questions (with Answers)
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR