Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth Reviews

• Recreate Your Financial Self-Image

  
  By A99CILDQPTRTZ on 2005-03-23
  This is a great book, because it starts with allowing readers to explore their subconscious, childhood money messages that are sabotaging their chance of being wealthy.
  
  The theme is written from the premise of your worthiness thoughts lead to your actions which lead to your circumstances.
  
  "Wealthy." The meaning of "wealthy" indicates a great deal about who you are.
  
  The wealthy at country clubs talk about a person's net worth. The middle class at other environments talk about the raise. And the poor talk about making it.
  
  One of the most hilarious parts to this book is the example of what happens when someone says, "Oh! Money is not that important."
  
  T. Harv Eker's reaction is to tap the palm of his hand on his forehead as he say's, "Oh! I get it. You're broke!"
  
  To do this, without regard for whose around and what the social situation is, would definitely be life altering for the person who says that money is not important. (I actually can't imagine someone doing this in any situation other than if they are presenting a motivational workshop, where they are in charge.
  
  But, nonetheless, imagining this happening was funny.
  
  Beyond humor, this book compares the rich to the poor with these assertions:
  1. Rich people believe "I create my life." Poor people
  believe, "Life happens to me."
  2. Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people
  play the money game to not lose.
  3. Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people
  want to be rich.
  4. Rich people think big. Poor people think small.
  5. Rich people focus on opportunities. Poor people focus
  on obstacles.
  6. Rich people admire other rich and successful people.
  Poor people resent rich and successful people.
  7. Rich people associate with positive, successful
  people. Poor people associate with negative or
  unsuccessful people.
  8. Rich people are willing to promote themselves and their
  value. Poor people think negatively about selling and
  promotion.
  9. Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor
  people are smaller than their problems.
  10. Rich people are excellent receivers. Poor people are
  poor receivers.
  11. Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor
  people choose to get paid based on time.
  12. Rich people think "both." Poor people
  think "either/or."
  13. Rich people focus on their net worth. Poor people
  focus on their working income.
  14. Rich people manage their money well. Poor people
  mismanage their money well.
  15. Rich people have their money work hard for them. Poor
  people work hard for their money.
  16. Rich people act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear
  stop them.
  17. Rich people constantly learn and grow. Poor people
  think they already know.
  
  This is a great book because with each assertion T. Harv Eker gives excellent real life scenarios, as well as experiences that he has live through.
  
  
  

• How to Use This Book

  
  By A2QAOP52OEB5EV on 2006-10-03
  To really get the most of this book, I would just use it when I'm down or not feeling confident. This book is a real motivation booster. But it should just be that. The book basically consists of 3 parts. The first part is about the "Millionaire Blueprint". That is, what is limiting you may be a result of your past. But, by becoming AWARE of this part of the past and UNDERSTANDing how it is limiting you and by being willing to DISSOCIATE from it and then DECLARING the change, you can develop this "Millionaire Blueprint". Bascially, to make a long story short, millionaires walk the talk so take action. The second part of the book, which makes up the bulk of the book, consists of traits of millionaires. Whether it's true or not, we don't really know. The author doesn't give any evidence that millionaires possess any of these traits. There is nothing to support his claims even though he gives some compelling arguments. The traits are questionable but reasonable. If you want facts you are better off reading "The Prime Movers" or "The Millionaire Mind" - these books actually offer proof. The last part of the book contains more marketing for the author's seminars which is littered throughout the book. I mean if the title doesn't smell fishy, the constant marketing of his seminars in the book will really bring the smell home. Also he supports Kiyosaki and Robert Allen, authors of other so-called "Get Rich" books and it is no wonder why they praise this book. He also supports network marketing...run! You have to wonder about this. I have yet to know someone that became rich from network marketing. Also, network marketing companies love books like these because they inspire their workers to work harder and at the same time, help the author sell more books so this works out for everybody except for the poor suckers that buy into this (again, inspiration should be checked with reality). In case you don't know, Amway's backing of Kiyosaki's Rich Dad book is what made it into a best-seller. Again, I think this book is very inspirational and if that is what you want, that is what you are going to get. But it does not tell you specifically how to get rich (no such book) and you should not look for it to help you in any other way but to inspire you. It's better to read books by reputable authors to get a feel of what you really need to do to get rich. Better yet, read autobiographies or biographies of successful people. I read all of these and from them, I learned that it's not enough to take action as this book suggests. If you take action and it's totally the wrong action, that won't get you any closer to being rich. Action must be guided by a balance of reality and calculated risk. Blindly diving into something will probably cost you more than doing nothing. Drive that is powered by emotion only will not do the job. Anyway, it's hard to take this book seriously when I see names like Kiyosaki and Robert Allen. Good luck.
  
  
  

• Eker does good work

  
  By AIGUNB3M0UPT1 on 2005-02-24
  As you read through Eker's book, you realize that intuitively you might have "felt" some of these things all along but DIDn't follow through.
  
  I very much enjoyed this book. It's certainly one of the better books about building wealth and I think that everyone can benefit from it regardless of their current level of income.
  
  For $20 it's hard to ask for much more than the dozens of nuggets of wisdom you get and can use in real life. My rule of thumb is that if you get one idea from a book it's worth five stars and a thousand dollars. That puts this book up there pretty high.
  
  Enjoy.
  
  Kevin Hogan
  Author of The Science of Influence
  and
  The Psychology of Persuasion
  
  

• T. Harv Eker is the Britney Spears of Getting Wealthy

  
  By AHCBWXOZ7S4KU on 2005-03-05
  Cute little book if you were born yesterday. Heavily hyped this book overpromises and underdelivers. The book is packed with rewordings of the usual suspects - Brian Tracy, Jim Rohn, Robert Kiyosaki, Robert Allen. T. Harv Eker's careful to not mention Kiyosaki too often since he copies a lot of material from him. There are several serious lapses in reasoning like "Everyone should own their own business...." and the chapter doesn't go any further into that. The book goes from serious lapses like that to gross oversimplifications like "it's the seeds and the roots that create those fruits". "It's what's under the ground that creates what's above the ground". Duhhh, really? I don't know about you but I learned that in grade school. Throughout the book are "wealth files" and they're like hidden treasure, where they say "Thoughts lead to feelings, feelings lead to actions, and actions lead to results" or "You can choose to think in ways that will support your happiness and success instead of ways that don't" Gee, fee fye foo fum, me gonna blow me debt down, I gonna but cds and be rich man me too me follow you. This book dumbs down any serious student of financial books. He rips off the usual suspects of Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Kiyosaki, and Robert Allen. He's a huge ripoff of Robert Kiyosaki's books, and you can't separate the two much of the time. This book is very shallow and mind numbing if you've read the others on the "get rich" circuit. Statistics and evidence shows that real millionaires live well below their means, but where does T. Harv Eker mention being frugal? Somehow the "universe" and his "seminars" and being a "wizard" and going to his "intensive seminars" and being trained in the art of "leverage" will "magically" bring the wealth into your bank accounts. This books ideal for seminar junkies, people who take no action, die hard millionaire circuit fans and people who were born yesterday. If you procastinate, are negative or are indecisive this book will probably seem like a "brilliant classic" to you too. It's hard to believe a book that contains a lot of common sense can be sold off as "secret" and "brilliant" with sentences like "the secret to success is not to try to avoid....problems....the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than any problems". Almost every page he pitches his "seminars" and "workshops" and "camps" and "intensives" that after you've read the book you feel as if you haven't attended the seminar, you're being left out and the book was a waste of money (which it is). If you insist on reading this trash, loiter where it's at and buy a coffee and sit it out. I've met T. Harv Eker personally. I attended his seminar. If he plans his portfolio as poorly as his seminars I woulden't trust his advice or his $1200 cd courses. He brought a small easel which most people coulden't see. Ever heard of an LCD projector and a laptop? Millionaires use those too. In the 45 minutes he said nothing new or interesting if you've read "The MIllionaire Next Door" and "Think and Grow Rich" - 2 books I recommend, and if you read the first 60 pages of this book, it's identical word for word to his free seminar.
  He really annoyed me by asking me - forcing 1200 people - to stand, sit, stand, sit, like we were school children, and repeat dumb platitudes he said. He started the night off by saying, "Don't believe a word I say". People spend half the night wrestling with this statement. The important insights and quotes in the book - Buckminster Fuller, W.H. Murray, etc. are almost completely overshadowed by ripoffs and rewordings of real mentors, whom he copied, lame duck stories, platitudes, weak pitches for his seminars and "courses" and "wizard training".
  The books stories usually go the course of "I was paycheck to paycheck for 40 years, I have the book knowledge of 10 men, I have an MBA, I've been to every seminar known to mankind, but after meeting you and spending 3 days in your seminar, I made more in 18 months then in the past 18 years." Names? Dates?
  Copies of financial statements? Specific methods, strategies, leverage techniques? Markets, sectors, his master mind group? Nothing. We're supposed to accept spood fed stories from the latest guru from the Gods on getting rich. The caveat here is these people get rich off you and me. They depend on our thoughtless "consume, consume, consume" consumer culture mindset without any critical appraisel of the content. The important insights that are in the book have to be separated from the hype.
  If anyone should fail financially or emotionally or in any other way T. Harv Eker can say - "Didn't I tell you not to believe anything I say?" Don't buy the book, skim it and keep whats good, go to the website take whats free. I give the book 1/4 of a star, but Amazon has a 1 star minimum. This book is *THAT* bad.
  
  (((Important Note march 5, 2005 > Hi, I'm Albert. Since posting my review someone has posted another review pretending to be me using my name "Albert" and he says that I apologize and retract my previous review - this review. I'm not retracting or apologizing for my review. I stand by it. Any reviews posted for this book other then this one are not written by me since this is the only review I've made and will make for this book. I'm the real Albert. Thanks.)))
  
  

• RIP OFF Artists

  
  By AWIJ4VFRCFDPF on 2005-03-01
  Great speaker and his book delievers quality information, all is spoiled by this act of DISHONESTY.
  
  Do not give your VISA information to Harv's crew b/c they will charge you for things you did NOT order or want.
  
  Intergrity and honesty in business is most valueable to me, is it to you?
  
  Why? Simply, if you scam people of their money they will NOT buy from you again and tell everyone else about it.
  
  Warmly,
  
  JP Richards
  
  
• Over Promises and Under Delivers
  By A2OUPXW6CO01NU on 2005-03-04
  This book is full of plattitudes and short on real solutions one can put into practice in his or her life.
  
  An example, is the advise to "Own your own business," which sounds good on the surface, but what about the 80% of new businesses that fail their first year? And no other direction is given regarding owning one's own business.
  
  More hyperbole and old "country saying" permeate the book. While these may make one "feel good" for a while and could provide some intrinsic motivation, any benefit is short-lived and quickly dies out once the "feel good" mentality wears off.
  
  The book reads like a commercial for the author's seminars and camps. If I could get people to pay me to read advertising for my business rather than me have to pay to advertise, I guess I would be a millionare also. Maybe that is the real genius of the book.
  
  My advise: Skip the book and spend the $25 on a steak dinner.
  
  
• A Must Read! It will turn your life around!
  By A3GR295BIBWBHO on 2005-03-03
  My wife and I bless T Harv Eker for turning our lives around in 2003.
  
  I am flabbergasted as to why a few bitter people post such venomous attacks on him. It seems that any talk of money brings out both the best and absolute worst in people.
  
  Perhaps the "negative nellies" are angry because they didn't have the strength to get off their butts and actually follow Harv's teaching? What other reason could there be for such attacks?
  
  My wife and I first took Harv's Millionaire Mind Intensive back in 2003. At that point we were in dire straights. I had lost my job as a Boeing engineer a few months earlier and my wife was struggling with cancer. Our health insurance was about to run out. We were in danger of losing everything. House. Cars. Retirement savings. Everything.
  
  To put it bluntly, our financial situation was critical.
  
  Then my brother-in-law paid for our admission to the Millionaire Mind Intensive because it had had a huge impact on his life.
  
  We were skeptical at first but decided very quickly to attend. What did we have to lose but a weekend?
  
  To make a long story short, the 3 day seminar turned our lives around. Harv went deep into our issues around money. He helped us to see how we sabotage ourselves financially. He helped us to heal our relationships with money so that we would attract and keep it instead of repelling it.
  
  It was like the difference between night and day.
  
  Very quickly we started taking action to correct our situation instead of just sitting on our behinds worrying and griping. Within a year things had turned around completely. By then I had started my own company and my wife had recovered enough to start a dream of hers about investing in rental properties.
  
  Today we both pull in a good income. Our bills are covered and we have lots of fun money too from using Harv's incredible money management system.
  
  So buy this book! Then take action and do what Harv says.
  
  At the seminar two other books were also highly recommended. We bought both and it paid off big time. One is How to Own Your Home Years Sooner by Harj Gill. My wife has used it to make big dollars in real estate. The other book is only available from www.antiventurecapital.com , and I used it to start a real business on only $500.
  
  Thank you Harv for your lessons and for sharing other people's lessons with us as well.
  
  Ignore the nasty people and gamble the $13. You will be forever grateful that you did.
  
  God bless!
  
  
  
  
• Would make Snake Oil salesman proud!
  By A1Z85DXGDT878M on 2005-11-11
  I went to T. Harvey Ecker's "free" seminars. He is a low grade con artist in my opinion that tends to attract some low grade groupies and offers low grade products/information. Russ Whitney move over, Harvey Ecker is in town and he offers even less than you do. Such a deal! Yup, Harvey Ecker is the last person I'd ask how to improve my financial circumstances. There are better books out there and much better methods.
  
  In one of his seminars about 4 years ago he claimed his book "Millionaire Mind" was a bestseller. I didn't believe him (a gut feeling) and investigated: NOT! I told the groupie who nagged me to go to his seminar, her response was that of a deer caught in a headlight and she rushed to the table in the back (at the second seminar I went with her out of curiosity) and spent $3000 maxing out her credit card (deep financial debt due to a divorce) to go to some "warrior" training camp which he contracts out to some outfit. Needless to say she was of the "needy personality". She went to every one of his "free" seminars that he had when in town and would hover around the stage like a dazed & confused school girl - it was surreal. He was supposed to make an appearance at his *paid* "warrior" training camp but was too busy "shaking the foundations" with his message. Yeah, right!
  
  Why did I go? I'm openminded and inquisitive but know a carnie when I see one. Been around lots of them. Folks, this guy is your typical purveyor of BS who I highly doubt has ever operated a business (we only have HIS 'word" on this) and does seminars and "workshops" but has never actually applied them to the real world. He operates mostly in Canada because he's too low grade to mingle with the big boys in the USA. You want to improve your life? Like I say there are better people out there to read and advise you. I'm just informing you that this guy ain't one of them. His goal, and his only goal, is to give you repackaged horsehooey disguised as profound wisdom and mark it up 1000% all the while making unsubstantiated claims to the truly desperate. If you're that stupid, after reading this heads up, to buy T. Harv Ecker's books and attend his "Sucker Born Every Minute" seminars, please be my guest.
  
  For the record I scanned this book and his Millionaire Mind one. As Dr, Phil would say, "Past behavior is a good indicator of future behavior." In this case, his books, like his seminars, are fluff packaging for the desperate and why I'm doing this review. I hate to see people being shafted bearing in the mind the above paragraph. In addition, I noticed some positive reviews from authors (i.e. Kevin Hogan) who actually are good and i'm disappointed but in a society of "let's endorse everyone so they'll endorse me", it isn't surprising. How anyone could legitimately endorse this guy and keep a straight face is beyond me. I guess standards keep on falling and Ecker's "products" will keep on rising.
  
  Let me reiterate, if you desire financial success look other places and read other books. Here you'll find deceptive methodology, expensive programs that are designed to open your wallet and give you as little as possible and books that are marginal at best, useless at worst. Obviously, I'm talking to those whom I have described. I have seen first hand the damage guys like this can do to thos ewho are desperate and gullible.
  
  
• It Should Be A Crime
  By A1MQT9DYCXXXK2 on 2006-06-06
  Eker has taken all the old tried-and-true information and created an industry. This book comes in every form imaginable, and Eker even created a deck of cards so we won't forgot his pearls of wisdom which amount to variations on the golden rule and other dirt-basic "reminders" (as if we need any more of that stuff floating around).
  
  Not only did Eker take old information, he even cashed in on an old title. Readers might remember the bestseller "The Millionaire Mind"? It wasn't written by Eker.
  
  In this book, Eker offers a lot of free goodies at his website. But to get into that website, you have to enter a registration number found at the back of the book. My book doesn't have one. Yesterday I went back to the book store and checked, and none of Eker's books have registration numbers. On the way home I stopped at another bookstore and found the same problem. I wrote to Eker via e-mail, and was told that "if" I still had my sales slip (I didn't), that I could enter a number from that. What's with the speakeasy attitude? What is this character trying to prove?
  
  The whole thing is just too slimy for me, from the littering of seminar ads throughout the book to the self-righteous "I've Changed Millions Of Lives" attitude. Eker is the kind of guy who gives rich people a bad name. Yes, I want to get it into my head that it's all right to have money, but I don't want Eker telling me how to do it. He should be selling used cars.
  
  
• Amazon, please add negative ratings!!
  By A55MRYPUAX4QU on 2005-03-06
  Right off the bat Eker gives bad advice. The best way to become wealthy is not to save or educate yourself or study the stock market. No, the easiest method is giving seminars to desperate folks and writing schlock like this. Degree, investments and skills are optional.
  
  This book is so bad it is almost good and if you are serious about literature or prose you are barking up the wrong tree. I have a deep aversion to tomes of this type, you know the ones that claim some "secret" pathway to wealth and then are purposely vague so as to avoid any legal ramifications. Yet someone lent me a copy and in my spare time I gave it a quick once over. I'll even admit, to my utmost humiliation, that a long time ago I attended one of those crappy seminars where a cheerleader got all the poor fools excited about swimming in cash.
  
  The author, probably president of his high school pep club, delivers the goods in that it is exactly like all the 19 zillion other books similar to this, only with an expanded group of "experts" cited. As one reviewer notes, they are cited endlessly, either with or without quotes. It goes without saying that there is nothing original here - no secret formula, hidden meaning or a jump start on the journey to success. The name says it all, the "Inner Game". People like this view wealth accumulation as a "game" (God save us from these endless sports metaphors) that must be played by rugged all-American men (and women they hastily add).
  
  There IS no mindset that leads to wealth except one that values hard work, discipline, education and the capacity to take risks. And despite protests, I can only think that this was one long advertisement for his seminars. It is amazing the money that Joe and Jane fork over for someone to tell them they need to save, cut expenses and make better investments. I am normally against forcing labels on products but in this case I will make an exception. "WARNING, THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS IS DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH".
  
  
• how to fool yourself and make someone else a millionaire
  By A3VT9JPB0TA5OF on 2005-04-26
  This book is a short read and clearly a sales pitch to something else . Ekers distorts facts to suit his thesis which even then amounts to little more than dross . My favorite example is the statistic about lottery winners . He claims that most winners who subsequently end up broke or at their pre-winning level of wealth has to do a mental state or attitude about wealth he likens to a thermostat . The fact is that of those who win lotteries or have large windfalls , people who have savings , regardless of their wealth level , tend to have their lives permanently enriched .People without savings generally loose large windfalls . This fact is known to me because I used it in a paper for college some years ago .
  Eker's does not even touch on the fact that self made wealthy people have a commitment to reality . They understand that you cannot consume more than you produce . They know that you CANNOT have your cake and eat it too . People with a commitment to reality would find very little of value in this book .
  While he does raise a valid point about attitudes towards money and wealth , he totally misses the point that these attitudes are steeped in irrationality in order to sell you his cure which is little more than half baked generalities . There is nothing of substance here other than a few modestly entertaining annecdotes . If you are in the process of building wealth , do not waste your time or money on this .
  If you are considering the training which this book is a sales pitch for , remember this fact ; you can only be trained by others to obey . The ability to think for yourself comes from within . Steer well clear of this dross .
  
  
  
• Buyer Beware!
  By A33D3EX9W5M89C on 2005-04-08
  The ideas expressed in this book are powerful, but beware: The author insists that to become wealthy, you must be 100 percent committed to making money and make that the single most important, primary objective of your life.
  
  If you are a Christian, red lights will go off because Jesus said, "You cannot serve God and money at the same time." He also said "What does it profit a man to gain the world but lose his soul."
  
  Eker is a smart and talented writer and, if you're not careful, he could lead you down a path that is detrimental to your spiritual life on this earth, and your eternal life beyond.
  
  My advice: If you buy this book, read it with some degree of caution, and balance what you learn from it with spending a few hours reading one or more of the Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. That way you can judge for yourself and make informed decisions. Please know: What I have to say is not important, but what Jesus said is ultimately important.
  
  Other dangerous thoughts expressed in this book are that you are completely, 100 percent responsible for everything that "manifests" itself in your life. However, if you are a Christian or practicing Jew, you believe God is ultimately in charge, and you want Him to be in charge. You pray, "Thy will be done."
  
  Also, Eker will counsel you to ignore and ultimately banish any voice inside your head that conveys thoughts and ideas counter to his message. He wants you to take stock and get rid of "negative programming" that makes you at all ambivalent about devoting yourself heart and soul to making money. My question: Does this include the voice of the Holy Spirit as it speaks to you, and "the still small voice" of God talked about by the prophets of the Jewish Bible or Old Testament?
  
  Again, please beware. I'll be the first to admit that this book has some good and practical ideas in it, and they are probably ideas that could make you more money. But like in the works of other powerful writers -- Nietzsche comes to mind -- Eker's truths are mixed with drops of poison, and I think you'll agree that we all have to be careful about what we take in. Ideas can be powerful things. They can change our destiny.
  
  My bottom line: if you buy and read this book, please spend a couple of hours reading the amazing and truthful ideas that Jesus expressed about the subject of money, and the important choice He said all of have to make about who is going to be Lord in our lives. When I was reading Eker's book, I also said a little prayer from time to time, asking God to help me discern truth from lie.
  
  May God abundantly bless you according to His plan for your life!
  
  
• Nothing New Here....
  By A2LWHZ8LKPZA1X on 2006-03-13
  I was disappointed in this book for a couple of reasons. The first reason is that there is nothing new here. Anyone who has read at least two self help books in their lives, realizes that change in one's life of any sort starts from within. Changing your inner world before your outer world can change is definately NOT a new concept. What is the big secret there?? Eker writes as though he believes that he created this concept, but "don't believe a word" he says!!.
  
  The second part of the book lists reasons how rich people differ from poor people i.e. "poor people work hard for their money while rich people have their money work hard for them".
  Oh please!!!
  
  The number one reason I do not recommend this book is all the hype and push to spend more of your hard earned dollars and attend one of his seminars.
  
  Do yourself a favor and read "Start Late Finish Rich" instead. This book gives you REAL advice about how you can begin growing your money. I highly recommend it.
  
  
• Please Do Not Buy this Book!
  By ACB2OIGO8RCI9 on 2005-05-30
  Please don't buy this book! Save your money for better ones such as David Bach's series of books on achieving financial wealth and stability. Right from the start it looked as though the book was just a lead-up and sales pitch for his seminars which go for thousands of dollars and my suspicions were confirmed. This book could have been summarized in less than a chapter but Eker dragged it on into a full book. It is now clear to me how he made his millions - by charging an arm and a leg on hot air versus substance. I was very disappointed because at the end of it there were no clear instructions or strategies on how to improve my finances, just promises that the real information and life-changing material would be disclosed at his seminars. He quoted a lot of sayings (most of which were his own) that were more like cliches than sound financial advice. I regret wasting my time and money on this book. I've never written a review for a book but felt compelled to because I didn't want anyone else to waste their time or money on such tripe.
  
  
• The Worst Advice for the Intended Readership
  By A4ZY5G1ENDAT7 on 2005-09-27
  I can't remember ever reading a book so full of contradiction and nonsense. This author is so typical of what our society deifies today. He is also a product of deception, taking advantage of those who are less fortunate, offering magical chants and thoughts that are supposed to turn things around financially for everyone.
  
  I was aghast at how, through the pages, the author essentially calls his readers idiots unless they heed his advice, which is followed every few pages by an ad for his rather expensive seminars. I was amused at the author's advice for his readers to start saving their loose change, telling them that if they do this, eventually they will become rich. At one point, the author advises saving just a dollar a month, and tells his readers that they will have $2,048 in one year. I read this section twice, trying to figure out what kind of math formulas the author was using to figure this out.
  
  The author creates his own religion throughout the book, asking his readers every few pages to place their hands on their hearts and then their heads, and start chanting.
  
  Misleading and deceptive throughout, the author tells his readers that by simply establishing a state of mind, they can become rich. Later, he contradicts himself by telling his readers that they need to work toward this goal. At one point, he simply says that if one wants to be rich, he or she should buy real estate. He gives no plan for someone who has no money to do this, but suggests that everyone do it as much as they can.
  
  The author tells his readers that in order to get rich, they need to invest their money, but doesn't seem to consider those who, as he labels them, are "broke." How does someone with no money invest money? He insults poor people by writing that the only thing they are is "poor!"
  
  In the later pages, the author invites his readers to come to a seminar for free along with a companion by bringing the invitation on the page and the proof of purchase for the book. Again, the author doesn't take into consideration here his primary readership: the poor, who might be buying the book at a discount on Amazon, eBay or Yahoo or from some other source second-hand. With no proof-of-purchase at the full price, these readers will not be able to gain access to the seminar. But here's the main point to observe: If the author's primary objective is to help poor people get rich, why is he charging them the $19.95 for the book in the first place? The answer to that is obvious: To make himself richer by taking advantage of the very people he claims he wants to make rich.
  
  Personally, I didn't pay a cent for this book, and never would! The ironic thing is that the book was recommended to me in early 2005 by a security guard, who, in late 2005, is still a security guard.
  
  I can go on and on about this author, but we have seen him recycled so many times over, it would be a waste of time. If you want to be rich, work hard, save your money, and invest wisely. Reading the words of some charlatan won't do a thing for you except amuse you slightly.
  
  
• I Have Done This and Succeeded!
  By AFBZTYI2DZCXM on 2005-03-04
  I know alot of people have different opinions about this book; however, I know several techniques that the author mentions that really work. It is all about attitude. My "adopted" mom once told me about how your subconscious mind must be trained to believe that you can be anything you want to be. I kept telling myself that I was going to change my thinking about how my life was to turn out. It worked within a year. I mapped out a plan that I would be a successful author and a business owner. I now have a very successful business and my latest novel, "Leaving Lancaster County", sold more books that any other for my publishing house for November, 2004. I am going on a two-week tour in Indiana and Illinois this month. So, believe me, if you only learn a couple of the techinques noted in this book, it will be well worth your buck. People who don't believe-go ahead and laugh. Those that want to dream- buy the book. For dreams do come true!
  
  Teresa Phillips
  
  Author of, "Leaving Lancaster County", and, "From Wall Street to
  
  Paradise: Finding the Simple Life."
  
  
  
• Don't Review it if You Haven't Read it!
  By A3NFBGR92FCUTV on 2005-02-24
  Fruitloop, you amaze me! You are so off the mark here that it boggles the mind.
  
  How on earth does one become a Top Rated Reviewer on Amazon by reviewing books that he hasn't even read?
  
  I ask this because you obviously haven't read this book.
  
  Harv's message is that positive thinking doesn't work. I repeat: it doesn't work. The entire book is meant to drill into readers the fact that if you want to succeed, you need to get off your butt and take action. You need to start a business and begin making things happen in the real world.
  
  If you had bothered to actually read the book, you'd recall the page where he talks about meditating and visualizing wealth but never having it drop into his lap.
  
  His entire message is that thinking about wealth won't do it. To make it happen in your life you need to get off your butt, roll up your sleeves, and "just do it".
  
  After reading the book, I see it as a tool for overcoming the bad habits and beliefs that fuel endless procrastination.
  
  Seriously, Fruitloop, next time try reading a book before writing a "review".
  
  
• This book is makes get-rich-quickers foam at the mouth
  By A19M54OME1QT5 on 2005-03-07
  I got a good chuckle out of reading the venomous rants below from our two deeply dissapointed get-rich-quickers.
  
  These poor deluded lazy bones read a book like this, go to bed, and expect to wake up "stinking rich". However, when their bank balances are still the same the following morning, they become outraged and come back to Amazon to post extremely negative 1-star reviews.
  
  These types of people never succeed at anything in life because they are oblivious to the fact that success in anything takes time, patience, and a lot of work.
  
  This is Harv's message.
  
  Anyone reading this book honestly will see great repitition by Harv on these points about success: action, self-discipline, total commitment, and hard work over a prolonged period of time.
  
  I question whether anyone who has missed this has actually bothered to read the book.
  
  You don't get rich overnight by merely reading his or any other book.
  
  If you are thinking of buying this book please read all of the reviews. You will notice that they come in two basic flavors:
  
  1. Mature
  
  I read Harv's book, applied his teachings to my life, worked at succeeding, and after a 6 months started seeing real changes in my life and net worth.
  
  2. Immature
  I read the book and nothing had changed by the following day. Therefore, this book sucks. I rate it a "1".
  
  My adice is for you to ignore and avoid the immature bashers like the plague.
  
  
• Rich people learn and grow, poor people already know.
  By A2WCEVFUY5RQ0G on 2005-03-11
  After reading some of the negative reviews, a quote from the book - "rich people constatnly learn and grow, poor people already know" - seems to fit perfectly. I would bet that most of the critics don't have two nickles to rub togehter. How could they? They are too busy wirting so called book reviews to have time to actually make a contribution to the world. If you already know everything there is to know about everything there is, then of course you don't need this book. If, however, you're the kind of person who likes to constantly learn and grow, you'll find more than your money's worth in this book. Is it profoundly original? Not the premise. But I think the way the ideas are presented is fresh. It's like the book says; If you're doing it (living the life of your dreams and being the person you were born to be) then you know it. Otherwise you've just "heard" about it. I'll bet the critics who claim to already "know" all this stuff don't really "know" it at all, they've just "heard" about it before.
  
  
• Get rich by (supposedly) telling others how to get rich
  By A3GA09FYFKL4EY on 2005-02-23
  Eker's book is really nothing new or different - "strategies" for getting rich, "blueprints" for business, and "the power of positive thinking" and how it works/doesn't work that have been covered over and over by other writers, proving that the "secret" to getting rich is to take the same ideas and reword them so that they have a fresh sound. If thinking about being rich made it so, we'd all live next door to Donald Trump. Start your path to making my money by saving the dollars you'd spend on this book. I had to struggle through it in order to review it, because I felt I had read the same thing umpteen times before (I have) and heard it over and over again in seminars(I have). Nothing new or different. Ask people around the world who work themselves to death but still didn't get rich. We should write books about it instead. I do highly recommend "The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke" by Suze Orman. It's an excellent book with sound advice.
  
  
  
  
• This book rocks!
  By A1WGW97AQTHECW on 2005-02-25
  This is a great book on how to start moving towards creating wealth instead of wasting time sitting around on your keester just thinking about it.
  
  My only quibbles with the book are:
  
  1. Harv needs to realize that even Donald Trump could use his help. Trump is a perfect example of the person who goes from boom to bust to boom in a never-ending cycle. I have lost count of how many times The Donald has teetered on bankruptcy or fallen into it--as he has currently.
  
  So, Harv, please stop using this trustafarian as an example of a successful person. He's not!
  
  2. Harv should be more honest about mlms or so-called network marketing schemes. Now I am a big boy and understand that he knows that these people will buy a lot of his books, so he doesn't want to drive them away.
  
  But Harv, be honest, pyramids are an abomination. There's no faster way to lose your money and friends and have everyone snickering behind your back at your gullibility than by joining one.
  
  Other than that, kudoes to the Harvmeister!
  
  
• A Re-hash of the Same Old Stuff
  By AU5KAVOHVADPU on 2006-06-06
  If you've read Life 101, anything by Stuart Wilde, David Bach's recent bestseller, Rich Dad Poor Dad, or Think And Grow Rich, you already know everything in this book. Eker took other people's information and compiled it into this book (and on CD, and made little affirmation cards, ad nauseum). The book is a rip off of real thinkers, littered every couple of pages with an ad for Eker's seminar.
  
  I'm returning my copy. Don't bother with this one.
  
  
• Same old thing only with guilt.....
  By A24PWVA04UCRI9 on 2005-05-17
  I was deeply disturbed by this book and the guilt based ideas. It appears to be a very long commercial for upgrading to his next big seminar or class. It is just like being stuck in his seminar, you can hardly wait to get out. Very poorly written and too much fluff.
  
  
• What to expect from Harv Eker's Peak Potentials and the book
  By A1PM71JGKYMBOA on 2005-12-06
  I typically will start with the lowest review for the book, and then read up. What I found interesting is that typical complaints and bad reviews are similar, and will often times conflict. This being said, I will go on here, explain my experience with the material, and expectations. The main focus of this will be the weekend seminar, which is given away for free (and yes, laced with a sales pitches, which no one should complain about, because they are BRILLIANT sales pitches worth studying).
  
  I managed to get ahold of the book from someone who gave me a copy of it. I went to the evening, bought copies of the CDs of the Intensive, and other copies of the book (that came with it to give others, who took it and did nothing with it by the way). I found the material interesting, and found Harv's focus to be different than others normally done that I am familar with. I recently also got back from the free weekend seminar.
  
  What I can about Harv and his material is this:
  1. He will try to upsell you (here is a hint: anytime a program is free, there will usually be upselling in it. People do need to pay their bills and make a living). If you don't like this, then don't go, don't buy the book, and don't do anything with your life. It is your responsibility to say no. And if you can't, then you won't get far in life. It is your life, and your job to manage it. Take what you can and leave the rest. I found the weekend to be very well worthwhile. Through the prior CDs I managed to get a budget/money management system (that I am still doing for months) in place, which I hadn't done. This goes right into the next point.
  1a. The book is one step in a process of a lot of other programs. If you don't like this, then don't go. There is no rule to say that you can't just do A or B and leave it at that. And it is YOUR job to decide these things. It is your life. To max out your credit card in hope of some miracle, going to one of the seminars, ends up violating the principles of the money management system in the book, and expanded upon at the weekend seminar. The weekend seminars at this point and time have gotten further away from the book as far as repeating it. It still maps though. It is more activity driven. And it is your job to decide when you can do something, no matter how appealing.
  1b. On the note of miracles, they say to expect miracles in your life if you implement this stuff (they don't say force, or put a timetable, just expect it). Well, I was asked to make a committment to put into an investment fund account at the event, for when I got back. I made a committment to a certain amount, and then when I got home, I had a check waiting for me that came in for over twice the amount.
  2. Material doesn't work unless you work it. You can go to a dozen of these programs, buy dozens of the books, but if you change, life won't change.
  3. Harv's material isn't completely new. If stuff works, why would you expect something different? He adds his own spin and emphasis to material. Harv uses a bunch of techniques from NLP, to RET, to anything else he can get his hands on that works.
  4. The material does fit into the Bible and the teaching of Jesus. Tweak a few things (his challenging "it is better to give than receive" is one). It is your job to do this. But, there is an abundance of other material there that is of benefit AND Biblical (this comment is in reference to the person or blasted Harv's material and saying "all you need is the Bible and trust in God").
  
  So, what can I say about the book. Is it the best one ever? No (book gets 4 stars here for that). Will it by itself magically change your life? No (you need to change for your life to change), but it is a start. Will Harv try to upsell you like crazy? Yes (but so what, you need to sell no and manage your life). But, do I recommend the book? YES. And do I recommend taking up the offer on the free weekend in the book? YES (if you can manage to get to one of the locations).
  
  Simply put, Harv has something that works, that makes him a lot of money, and helps a bunch of people. It is worth studying this to see how it works (he is going to build a company that will work beyond him, because he is training and growing to have others do the presentations for the weekend). To me, it makes a lot of sense. In a nutshell, it is his job with this basic material, to get you working better as a person, so then you can do other programs. The weekend provides useful exercises for people to do there, and there are networking opportunities for a business you have. And Harv puts his own mystical spin on this. It ends up being entertaining, moving and life-changing.
  
  All and all 4 stars for the book. It is a solid effort, and worth checking out. The free weekend seminar is the big bonus of it, just to simply go and see how he works, and taking lessons from that, plus networking for your business with people there.
  
  A simple lesson in life here. Be open to new things, and do NOT worship one program or another as THE TRUTH and the END ALL AND BE ALL. People involved in Rich Dad do this (Kiyosaki has great material), and even with Harv Eker. Throw out what doesn't work for you, keep what does, and be thankful for that which does. But the basics of having a positive focus in life, doing a budget (money management system), and growing as a person don't harm anyone, and would fix a life. Harv at least provides these things... and a lot more in my book (but you decide this or that on it).
  
  Myself, I am looking forward to dropping the bucks for future programs, when it is in my budget to do so.
  
  
• This book is gold
  By A2ZZHMT58ZMVCZ on 2005-09-28
  If you are thinking about buying this book, then you obviously would like to be a millionaire.
  
  Do you actually like millionaires and respect what they have achieved, or do you resent them for what they have, or think rich people are bad?
  
  If you resent them then you may have have a poor person's attitude to wealth, and think that by becoming wealthy you may turn into that very thing you despise, and accordingly sabotage yourself subconsciously.
  
  Make no mistake, this is a very good book, with proven formulas that work. For example, thoughts, feeling, actions = results. Rich people focus on opportunities, poor people focus on obstacles.
  
  As you read this book, you will discover many interesting insights into how to become wealthy. You will also discover the mindsets of rich people compared to poor people. It is very illuminating to see the connection between how people think and how they do.
  
  For example, I have a friend who is quite spiritual, yet his attitude towards money is if I win the lottery, I would give most of it away, as I would feel guilty having all that money. What a limiting belief to have.
  
  I highly recommend Think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill, which as far as I am concerned is the ultimate work on this subject.
  
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• Live within your means Only worth borrowing from library
  By A3N9RO5QKIDNH3 on 2006-06-12
  This book is garbage, and I have read it several times, and guess what, I am not broke, and never have been. Live within your means. Save consistently, and do not run up your credit cards, always pay them off monthly. I also attended the full three day event, and found if very boring as I never thought negatively about money.
  
  Eker has refers to himself as a financial evangelist as someone may have once. If you disagree with him, he shouts you are broke. I was hoping to hear him talk about the financial market, stocks, bonds, options,and futures. All he rages on about is getting you to sign up for his "discounted" courses so that you feel good about yourself. A true financial course would be 100 times more helpful to anyone that has attended his courses.
  
  Now, if you are in debt, it is a wake up call for those it applies to, but to put down anyone if you do not agree with his way, is crude of him. Thankfully, I am attending college for a MBA, and could fully live without a job for a year off of my hard earned and saved cash reserve.
  
  Not everyone attending his MMI course is negative about money, and I have proven myself by living what he states. Get a financial education. I suggest the WSJ or NY Times. I have passive income, and surround myself with educated business people and others to look up to. Eker is not one of them.
  Please save your money, and do not buy this book. You can get get a basic budget from sources online if you do not have one yourself.
  I suggest The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley as it has more practical advice. It is very simple, do not overspend, do not live a life you cannot afford to pay for.
  
  
• At first I was angry at Harv too
  By A2POF35UNLHFOB on 2005-03-08
  Then I reread the book and realized that I needed to take action and make things happen. That's when I started seeing results.
  
  If you just read the book and then go watch TV nothing will happen, folks.
  
  
• In some ways, this book is a rip off
  By A36FFIYCYSQY5K on 2007-02-24
  This book is OK, has some good ideas but I feel like the author is ripping people off.
  
  The book promotes itself by offering a "free" class that it says is worth $2590 but they charge a $97 materials fee to go to the class.
  
  I made the mistake of going to that class. Save your time and money. That class isn't worth $97. In fact don't go to the class unless somebody pays you for your wasted time to go to the class.
  
  The class isn't much more than reviewing the points made in the book and there isn't much more info other than what was in the book. If you read the book, you don't need to waste time or money going to the class.
  
  The speaker repeats what was in the book and a lot of time is wasted on stuff that has nothing to do with learning or education. About every 10 to 15 minutes the speaker asks you to shake the hands of everyone around you, tell each other "you have a millionaire mind", hug each other, stand up and do stretch excercises, etc. The class is also a big sales pitch trying to get you to buy coaching time, other books, materials, etc.
  
  The new stuff mentioned in the class could have been given out in maybe 2 hours of time. It didn't require a waste of 3 days of time. The additional stuff isn't worth wasting 3 days of time and $97 of money.
  
  The class basically feels like you are in kindergarten. The teacher tells you what he wants you to say, tells you to repeat what he says, and a lot of fake enthusiasm.
  
  Save your time and money and don't go to the class. The book is OK, but the misleading marketing gimick he uses to waste your time and money so that he can try to sell you more stuff makes this book, and the author someone to be cautious of.
  
  
• Just "Manic" platitudes - better off with Rich Dad Poor Dad!
  By A2MG8DHACXH5MS on 2005-02-21
  SAVE YOUR MONEY! If you are looking for tangible, do-able, actual strategies around money management ... avoid this book by the newest guru on the scene. RUN to Rich Dad Poor Dad (Robert Kiyoshi), Suze Orman, Deborah L. Price, and Richard Bach (his books come in Canadian and US editions) for some real action items. T. Harv Eker's book is the written format of his introduction presentation to coerce people to do is Millionaire Mind Intensive. His strategy of giving away two free tickets to purchasers is his game of being on the #1 spot of The New York Times bestselling list. The tactic worked and Eker joins Pamela Anderson and Paris Hilton as a best-selling author. However, Kiyoshi, Orman, Price, and Bach are the authors whose program are deep and detailed with investment strategies and financial planning formats one can really use right away. If you don't want platitudes, then do not buy this book.
  
  I purchased my copy at a Millionaire Mind Information session only because I wanted the two free complementary tickets to an intensive weekend in Toronto. heck - I am curious if Mr. Eker can really predict my financial future in five minutes and if he really does "have the power to help me change my financial blueprint". Mr. Eker presents the material in a digestable format that distills self-talk morivation, case stories, and lots of psycho-spiritual talk on the metaphysics of wealth. He also introduces a quick and easy money-management system for those who don't know where to begin with their finances.
  
  The book focuses ALOT on inner issues related to wealth. It touches the surface of how our core issues are formed in childhood and manifest in money. This is a great book for those who want to get inspired and believe in creating a passive income from multiple sources. It fails to tell the reader how. The entire book is a distillation of what material is covered in Eker's 3-day Millionaire Mind Intensive seminars. So it's prepratory reading for those who plan to attend or a review for graduates who would like a refresher tool.
  
  Eker's style is very dynamic, high- energy, intense, and dramatic to keep the audience stimulated. But all the peak Potentials courses (Eker's company) make me wonder how much of this is just about attracting followers to the newest self-growth guru on the scene? Richard Branson, Donald Trump, Oprah, Madonna, and many other self-made multi-millionaires NEVER attend a Tony Robbins or T. Harv Eker course and they still amde it. How many more of these trainings do we need? My sense is that the Millionaire Mind Intensive is a great experience but if you want to be rich, just do that and not soend endless money on all sort of follow-up courses that will only make Eker richer and you lighter int he pocket book.
  
  If you're familiar with EST and Landmark Forum ... Eker's approach smacks of Werner Erhard reincarnated and offering money manifestation rather than enlightenment in a weekend. During Eker's presentation in Toronto he made sure to honor how great Toronto and Canada was as he claims to be from here. I found it very manipulative because if he really believed that The Great Canadian Inferirotiy Complex was bogus ... why is he living it up in Southern California and in the United States - land of opportunity so to speak? The whole tactic was a put-on and unneccesary.
  
  Perhaps my opinion will change after my free intensive but otherwise, my advice is, go to someone whose a multi-millionnaire whose manking money in a business instead of giving advice for profit. Too many gurus means a lot less inner direction. In fact, Richard Branson's autobiography is a better start than this. Eker would predict that I was broke for saying this but he also tells us in his own word to not believe a word he says. Double speak, mantras, and manic presentation styles ... we've seen this before .... and don't be fooled. No one has a magic formula to riches,. What they do have is a committment to being wealthy that takes center stage. When someone is offering a salvation to your financial future ... ask yourself why? Something is in it for them.
  
  
• Highly Recommended
  By A2L39XJL2X16YE on 2005-03-08
  This is a fabulous book for showing you how to begin your journey to wealth. As others have stated below, a simple read through will not transform you instantly into a millionaire. But no where does the author suggest that.
  
  The book most certainly will help you to develop the proper mindset for success. After reading it you will be able to discard the self-sabotaging thoughts that have kept you from success in the past.
  
  It amazes me how some people have to trash Harv and his book either directly and indirectly. I suspect professional jealousy has a great deal to do with their dark motivations. A few short years ago, Harv was a nobody himself. But he put his principles into practise and rapidly built up a huge organization which helps hundreds of thousands of people. Meanwhile those left behind are stewing with envy. Rather than working on themselves and their businesses they instead choose to come here and sling mud at Harv.
  
  Well, the market has spoken. Harv serves 200,000 people; they serve a dozen.
  
  He who has the last laugh laughs best, as the saying goes.
  
  

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