Customer Reviews
A good book for vision and goals - By: DG, 24 Nov 2008 
This teaches you to focus your mind on what you wantin life & not on what you don't want. The idea is that when you are focused exclusively on what you want you naturally gravitate toward that goal. There is a bit of the universal energyin it all however & it literally claims you can have anything at all - but I found it very good for motivation & focusing the mind on my goals. Another book which is good for focusing the mind on future life plans is the VISION `Life Diary 2009' . 'The Key' & this daily planner will help to motivate & inspire you towards what you wantin life.
Author contradicts himself and 'The Secret' - By: mica, 10 Oct 2008 
This book added nothing extra to the message that wasin 'The Secret'.
Joe Vitale seems to contradict himself when he tells the reader not to focus on money. But watch 'The Secret' & listen to some of Joe Vitale's interviews & then listen to 'Bob Proctor' & 'Jack Canfield' And you will see a pattern; money money money.
Joe tells usin part three of 'The key' that we shouldn't focus on money, that money is worthless. Money is just paper with wonderful art on it. Yet Joe, Bob & Jack seem to worship this worthless material:
*Joe Vitale was broke & homeless a few years ago, he had no particular talents or dream career. Today Joe is rich because he found a way of making money by writing books about making money. Joe tells usin 'The key' not to focus on money, instead focus on passion & having fun.
Joe uses 'Richard Branson' & 'Donald Trump' as examples of two billionaires who are having fun doing what they love & not focusing on money.
Come on Joe is not writing & producing books & cds & seminars about making money to have fun, he is doing it to make money.
*Bob Proctor wasin debt & miserable & had few qualifications & owed more money than he earned. Today Bob Proctor is a rich man telling people how to become rich themselves, with the help of Wallace D Wattles book 'The science of getting rich'. Listen to Bob Proctors interviews & all you'll here him talk about is money & becoming a millionaire.
*Jack Canfield defaced a $10 bill & added some zeros ($100,000) & stuck it on his ceiling & stared at it everymorning imagining that he had that moneyin his life. He claims he received over $80,000 within months. Now he is a very rich man travelling around the world.
The Chicken soup for the soul books are inspirational but Jack had a desire to make money first & foremost.
Joe's clearing methods were interesting at times & pure Psycho babblein places. I find it hard to take advise on how to clear mental & emotional problems from someone who has no visible qualifications & comes across as a used car salesman.
Joe used this book to promote his websites & other books. The book could have been shorter, Joe fills it with segments from his teleseminars & quotes from other authors or self help gurus. There is little substance.
I closed the book unfortunately missing the missing secret.
I got little from 'The Secret' & less from 'The Key'.
Padded or a cushion to save our fall ... you decide - By: Marshmallow, 04 Oct 2008 
I have not read any of the other books by this author, so to me it was all new stuff. I do get the feeling from other reviewers that the author could have tired a little harder, & perhaps was riding on the back of `The Secret'. I agree with one of the other reviews that goes on to detail our own desire & that, perhaps, it is this that makes us unhappy, due to it leaving us unsatisfied. The text herein gives exercises & tips on overcoming blocks that limit our feelings & beliefs. I am well on my way to reading through a lot of these `self help' books, & this one by Joe Vitale does seem at odds with itself at times. I guess as I go through more of this author's collection of books I will get the message he is sending out.
"Quick money" device - By: Benedictus, 26 Jul 2008 This books contains some useful insights.
Still, it is very clear that it is just meant to be a quick way of multiplying the sales channels of what the author has already saidin other books; it comes so far as to partially consist of transcriptions of seminaries with much blabla & nothing that is not a repetition of what was already said.
Also not pleasing is the constant self advertising of the author & promotion of his other books, internet sites etc. A bit would still go if made with class & decency, butin my eyes this was not the case here.
Allin all, I would not spend the money again for this book & do not consider it a good investment.
useful to a degree - By: Janie, 07 Jul 2008 I liked aspects of this book butin the end I found its central message too ego-based. It's clear that many of us put limits on ourselves & that it can be beneficial for us to transcend those limits, but that needs to be balanced by an awareness of how desire is part of the problem, & how we can actually find contentment by stopping wanting things like success & wealth. Desire makes us unhappy because it makes us dissatisfied. So to some degree, we need to overcome desire. For a more edifying read, try Making Time by Steve Taylor Making Time: Why Time Seems to Pass at Different Speeds & How to Control It, which shows how you can control & expand time by filling your life with new experience & by livingin the present.
