This is the handbook to the greatest power in the universe – The Power to have everything you want.
Without The Power, you would not have been born. Without The Power, there wouldn’t be a single human being on the planet. Every discovery, invention, and human creation comes from The Power. Perfect health, incredible relationships, a career you love, a life filled with happiness, and the money you need to be, do, and have everything you want, all come from The Power.
The life of your dreams has always been closer to you than you realized, because The Power – to have everything good in life – is inside you.
To create anything, to change anything, all it takes is just one thing . . .
THE POWER.
“It is the cause of all perfection of all things throughout the universe.”
The Emerald Tablet (circa 3000 BC)
Dedicated to you
Foreword
September 9, 2004, is a day I will never forget. It seemed like any other morning when I woke, but it would become the greatest day of my life.
Like most other people, I had struggled and worked hard to survive all my life, dealing with difficulties and obstacles as best I could. But 2004 had been an especially tough year for me, and the challenging circumstances literally brought me to my knees on September 9. My relationships, health, career, and finances appeared to be in an irretrievable state. I could see no way out of the mounting difficulties that surrounded me. And then it happened!
My daughter handed me a one-hundred-year-old book[1], and during the ninety minutes it took me to read the book, my entire life changed. I understood how everything had happened in my life, and I immediately knew what to do to change every circumstance into what I wanted. I had discovered a secret, a secret that had been passed on through centuries but had been known by very few people throughout history.
From that moment, the world I saw was not the same world. Everything I had believed about the way life worked was the very opposite of how it really was. I had lived decades believing that things in life just happen to us. But now, I could see the incredible truth.
I could also see that the majority of people did not know this secret, and so I set out to share it with the world. Against every imaginable obstacle I created the film The Secret, and it was released to the world in 2006. Later the same year I wrote the book The Secret, which enabled me to share more of what I had discovered.
When The Secret was released, it traveled at lightning speed and was passed from one person to another across the planet. Today tens of millions of people in every country in the world have changed their lives in the most incredible ways with its knowledge.
As people learned how to change their lives with The Secret, they shared thousands of amazing stories with me, and I received more insights into why people experience such difficulties in their lives. And with those insights came the knowledge of The Power – knowledge that can change lives instantly.
The Secret reveals the law of attraction – the most powerful law that governs our lives. The Power contains the essence of everything I have learned since The Secret was released in 2006. In The Power you will come to understand that all it takes is just one thing to change your relationships, money, health, happiness, career, and your entire life.
You don’t need to have read The Secret for The Power to change your life, because everything you need to know is contained in The Power. If you have read The Secret, then this book will add immeasurably to what you already know.
There is so much for you to know. There is so much for you to understand about yourself and your life. And it is all good. In fact it is beyond good, it is phenomenal!
[1] Wallace Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich. The book is available as a free download on The Secret website,
Acknowledgments
My deepest gratitude to the greatest human beings in history, who risked their lives to ensure the knowledge and truth of life was preserved for future generations.
For the creation of the book, The Power, I want to thank the following people for their invaluable assistance in making this book what it is: Skye Byrne for her phenomenal editing and, together with Jan Child, for their guidance, encouragement, expertise, and invaluable input; Josh Gold for his fastidious scientific and historical research; Shamus Hoare of Gozer Media and Nic George for the book design; and Nic George for his original artwork and graphics, and dedication in working to create a powerful and beautiful book that will touch every person’s life who holds it in their hands.
My deepest thanks to my publishers at Simon & Schuster: Carolyn Reidy and Judith Curr for their faith and willingness to open their minds and hearts to new ways so that together we can bring joy to billions; my editor Leslie Meredith who made the editing process of The Power a complete joy; copy editors Peg Haller, Kimberly Goldstein, and Isolde Sauer; and the rest of the team at Simon & Schuster – Dennis Eulau, Lisa Keim, Eileen Ahearn, Darlene DeLillo, Twisne Fan, Kitt Reckord, and Donna Loffredo – for their tireless ongoing work.
My love and thanks to my work colleagues and dear friends who make up The Secret team, for their courage to open their minds to all possibilities and overcome every challenge so that we can bring joy to the world: Paul Harrington, Jan Child, Donald Zyck, Andrea Keir, Glenda Bell, Mark O’Connor, Damian Corboy, Daniel Kerr, Tim Patterson, Hayley Byrne, Cameron Boyle, Kim Vernon, Chye Lee, Lori Sharapov, Skye Byrne, Josh Gold, Nic George, Laura Jensen and Peter Byrne.
My thanks to lawyers Michael Gardiner and Susan Seah of Gardiner Seah; my deepest thanks to lawyers Brad Brian and Luis Li at Munger Tolles, for their guidance and expertise, for being a living example of integrity and truth, and for bringing positivity into my life.
To my dearest friends who continually inspire me to greatness: Elaine Bate, Bridget Murphy, Paul Suding, Mark Weaver, Fred Nalder, Dani Hahn, Bobby Webb, James Sinclair, George Vernon, Carmen Vasquez, Helmer Largaespada, and last but not least, Angel Martin Velayos, whose spiritual light and faith causes me to lift myself to new levels so that I can fulfill my dream of bringing joy to billions.
To my daughters Hayley and Skye, who are my greatest teachers, and who light up my life every single day with their presence, and to my sisters Pauline, Glenda, Jan, and Kaye, for their never-ending love and support through the good times and through the challenging times. The sudden death and loss of our father in 2004 led me to the discovery of The Secret; during the process of writing The Power, our mother – our best friend – passed away, leaving us to continue on without her and be the best that we can be, and to love unconditionally so that we can make a difference in the world. From the bottom of my heart, thank you Mum, for everything.
You are meant to have an amazing life!
You are meant to have everything you love and desire. Your work is meant to be exciting, and you are meant to accomplish all the things you would love to accomplish. Your relationships with your family and friends are meant to be filled with happiness. You are meant to have all the money you need to live a full, wonderful life. You are meant to be living your dreams – all of them! If you want to travel, you are meant to travel. If you would love to start a business, you are meant to start a business. If you would love to learn to dance or learn how to sail a yacht or study Italian, you are meant to do those things. If you would love to be a musician, a scientist, a business owner, an inventor, a performer, a parent, or whatever it is you would love to be, you are meant to be it!
When you wake up each day, you should be filled with excitement because you know the day is going to be full of great things. You are meant to be laughing and full of joy. You are meant to feel strong and safe. You are meant to feel good about yourself and know you’re invaluable. Of course there will be challenges in your life, and you are meant to have them too, because they help you to grow, but you are meant to know how to overcome problems and challenges. You are meant to be victorious! You are meant to be happy! You are meant to have an amazing life!
You were not born to struggle. You were not born to live a life where the moments of joy are few and far between. You were not born to toil in your work five days a week, with fleeting moments of happiness on weekends. You were not born to live with limited energy, feeling exhausted at the end of each day. You were not born to worry or be afraid. You were not born to suffer. What would be the point of your life? You are meant to experience life to its fullest and have everything you want and, at the same time, be filled with joy, health, vitality, excitement, and love, because that is an amazing life!
The life of your dreams, everything you would love to be, do, or have, has always been closer to you than you knew, because the power to everything you want is inside you!
“There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power.”
Prentice Mulford (1834-1891)
NEW THOUGHT AUTHOR
NEW THOUGHT AUTHOR
In this book I want to show you the way to an amazing life. You will discover something incredible about yourself, your life, and the universe. Life is so much easier than you think it is, and as you come to understand the way life works, and the power you have inside you, you will experience the magic of life in its fullness – and then you will have an amazing life!
Now let the magic of your life begin.
WHAT IS THE POWER?
“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists.”
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
INVENTOR OF THE TELEPHONE
INVENTOR OF THE TELEPHONE
Life is simple. Your life is made up of only two kinds of things – positive things and negative things. Each area of your life, whether it’s your health, money, relationships, work, or happiness, is either positive or negative to you. You have plenty of money or you lack money. You are brimming with health or you lack health. Your relationships are happy or difficult. Your work is exciting and successful or dissatisfying and unsuccessful. You are filled with happiness or you don’t feel good a lot of the time. You have good years or bad years, good times or bad times, good days or bad days.
If you have more negative things than positive things in your life, then something is very wrong and you know it. You see other people who are happy and fulfilled and whose lives are full of great things, and something tells you that you deserve all that too. And you’re right; you do deserve a life overflowing with good things.
Most people who have a great life don’t realize exactly what it was that they did to get it. But they did do something. They used the power that is the cause of everything good in life . . .
Without exception, every person who has a great life used love to achieve it. The power to have all the positive and good things in life is love!
Love has been talked about and written about since the beginning of time, in every religion, and by every great thinker, philosopher, prophet, and leader. But many of us have not truly understood their wise words. Even though their teachings were specifically for people in their time, their one truth and message to the world is still the same today: love, because when you love you are using the greatest power in the universe.
The Force of Love
“Love is an element which though physically unseen is as real as air or water. It is an acting, living, moving force . . . it moves in waves and currents like those of the ocean.”
Prentice Mulford (1834-1891)
NEW THOUGHT AUTHOR
NEW THOUGHT AUTHOR
The kind of love that the greatest thinkers and saviors of the world talked about is very different from what most people understand love to be. It is much more than loving your family, friends, and favorite things, because love is not just a feeling: love is a positive force. Love is not weak, feeble, or soft. Love is the positive force of life! Love is the cause of everything positive and good. There are not a hundred different positive forces in life; there is only one.
Nature’s great powers, like gravity and electromagnetism, are invisible to our senses, but their power is indisputable. Likewise, the force of love is invisible to us, but its power is in fact far greater than any of nature’s powers. The evidence of its power can be seen everywhere in the world: without love, there is no life.
Take a moment to think about it: What would the world be without love? First of all, you wouldn’t even exist; without love you couldn’t have been born. None of your family and friends would have been born either. In fact, there wouldn’t be a single human being on the planet. If the force of love ceased today, the entire human race would decrease and eventually die out.
Every single invention, discovery, and human creation came from the love in a human heart. If it were not for the love of the Wright Brothers, we could not fly in an airplane. If it were not for the love of scientists, inventors, and discoverers, we would not have electricity, heating, or light; nor would we be able to drive a car or use a phone, appliance, or any of the technology that makes life easier and more comfortable. Without the love of architects and builders, there would be no homes, buildings, or cities. Without love, there would be no medicines, doctors, or emergency facilities. No teachers, schools, or education. There would be no books, no paintings, and no music, because all of these things are created from the positive force of love. Take a look around you right now. Whatever you see that is a human creation would not be there without love.
“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.”
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
POET
POET
Love Is the Force That Moves You
Everything you want to be, do, or have comes from love. Without love, you wouldn’t move. There would be no positive force to propel you to get up in the morning, to work, play, dance, talk, learn, listen to music, or do anything at all. You’d be like a stone statue. It is the positive force of love that inspires you to move and gives you the desire to be, do, or have anything. The positive force of love can create anything good, increase the good things, and change anything negative in your life. You have the power over your health, your wealth, your career, your relationships, and every area of your life. And that power – love – is inside you!
But if you have the power over your life, and that power is inside you, why isn’t your life amazing? Why isn’t every area of your life magnificent? Why don’t you have everything you want? Why haven’t you been able to do everything you want to do? Why aren’t you filled with joy every day?
The answer is: because you have a choice. You have a choice whether to love and harness the positive force – or not. And whether you realize it or not, every day of your life – every moment of your life – you have been making this choice. Without exception, every single time you experienced something good in your life, you loved and harnessed love’s positive force. And every single time you experienced something not good, you didn’t love, and the result was negativity. Love is the cause of all the good things in your life, and a lack of love is the cause of all the negative things and all the pain and suffering. Tragically, a lack of knowledge and understanding of the power of love is clear in people’s lives across the planet today – and in the entire history of humanity.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS THE POWER?
THE POWER OF FEELINGS
FEELING FREQUENCIES
THE POWER AND CREATION
FEELING IS CREATION
LIFE FOLLOWS YOU . . .
KEYS TO POWER
THE POWER AND MONEY
THE POWER AND RELATIONSHIPS
THE POWER AND HEALTH
THE POWER AND YOU
THE POWER AND LIFE
EXCERPT FROM THE SECRET
EXCERPT FROM THE MAGIC
100 Quotes from "The Secret" Movie
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- We all work with one infinite power.
- The Secret is the Law of Attraction (LOA).
- Whatever is going on in your mind is what you are attracting.
- We are like magnets - like attract like. You become AND attract what you think.
- Every thought has a frequency. Thoughts send out a magnetic energy.
- People think about what they don’t want and attract more of the same.
- Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation.
- You attract your dominant thoughts.
- Those who speak most of illness have illness, those who speak most of prosperity have it..etc..
- It’s not “wishful” thinking.
- You can’t have a universe without the mind entering into it.
- Choose your thoughts carefully .. you are a masterpiece of your life.
- It’s OK that thoughts don’t manifest into reality immediately (if we saw a picture of an elephant and it instantly appeared, that would be too soon).
- EVERYTHING in your life you have attracted .. accept that fact .. it’s true.
- Your thoughts cause your feelings.
- We don’t need to complicate all the “reasons” behind our emotions. It’s much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings.
- Thoughts that bring about good feelings mean you are on the right track. Thoughts that bring about bad feelings means you are not on the right track.
- Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what is in the process of becoming.
- You get exactly what you are FEELING.
- Happy feelings will attract more happy circumstances.
- You can begin feeling whatever you want (even if it’s not there).. the universe will correspond to the nature of your song.
- What you focus on with your thought and feeling is what you attract into your experience.
- What you think and what you feel and what actually manifests is ALWAYS a match - no exception.
- Shift your awareness.
- “You create your own universe as you go along” Winston Churchill
- It’s important to feel good ( ( ( (((good))) ) ) )
- You can change your emotion immediately .. by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.
- When you get the hang of this, before you know it you will KNOW you are the creator.
- Life can and should be phenomenal .. and it will be when you consciously apply the Law of Attraction.
- Universe will re-arrange itself accordingly.
- Start by using this sentence for all of your wants: “I’m so happy and grateful now that…. ”
- You don’t need to know HOW the universe is going to rearrange itself.
- LOA is simply figuring out for yourself what will generate the positive feelings of having it NOW.
- You might get an inspired thought or idea to help you move towards what you want faster.
- The universe likes SPEED. Don’t delay, don’t second-guess, don’t doubt..
- When the opportunity or impulse is there .. ACT
- You will attract everything you require - money, people, connections.. PAY ATTENTION to what’s being set in front of you.
- You can start with nothing .. and out of nothing or no way - a WAY will be provided.
- HOW LONG??? No rules on time .. the more aligned you are with positive feelings the quicker things happen.
- Size is nothing to the universe (unlimited abundance if that’s what you wish) We make the rules on size and time.
- No rules according to the universe .. you provide the feelings of having it now and the universe will respond.
- Most people offer the majority of their thought in response to what they are observing (bills in the mail, being late, having bad luck…etc..)
- You have to find a different approach to what is through a different vantage point.
- “All that we are is a result of what we have thought” - Buddha
- What can you do right now to turn your life around?? Gratitude.
- Gratitude will bring more into our lives immediately.
- What we think about and THANK about is what we bring about.
- What are the things you are grateful for?? Feel the gratitude.. focus on what you have right now that you are grateful for.
- Play the picture in your mind - focus on the end result.
- VISUALIZE!!! Rehearse your future.
- VISUALIZE!!! See it, feel it! This is where action begins.
- Feel the joy .. feel the happiness :o)
- An affirmative thought is 100 times more powerful than a negative one.
- “What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists.” Alexander Graham Bell.
- Our job is not to worry about the “How”. The “How” will show up out of the commitment and belief in the “what.”
- The Hows are the domain of the universe. It always knows the quickest, fastest, most harmonious way between you and your dream.
- If you turn it over to the universe, you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered .. this is where magic and miracles happen.
- Turn it over to the universe daily.. but it should never be a chore.
- Feel exhilarated by the whole process .. high, happy, in tune.
- The only difference between people who are really living this way is they have habituated ways of being.
- They remember to do it all the time.
- Create a Vision Board .. pictures of what you want to attract .. every day look at it and get into the feeling state of already having acquired these wants.
- “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” Albert Einstein.
- Decide what you want .. believe you can have it, believe you deserve it, believe it’s possible for you.
- Close your eyes and visualize having what you already want - and the feeling of having it already.
- Focus on being grateful for what you have already .. enjoy it!! Then release into the universe. The universe will manifest it.
- “Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it can achieve.” W. Clement Stone
- Set a goal so big that if you achieved it, it would blow your mind.
- When you have an inspired thought, you must trust it and act on it.
- How can you become more prosperous?? INTEND IT!!
- “Checks are coming in the mail regularly”… or change your bank statement to whatever balance you want in there… and get behind the feeling of having it.
- Life is meant to be abundant in ALL areas.
- Go for the sense of inner joy and peace then all outside things appear.
- We are the creators of our universe.
- Relationships: Treat yourself the way you want to be treated by others .. love yourself and you will be loved.
- Healthy respect for yourself……
- For those you work with or interact with regularly .. get a notebook and write down positive aspects of each of those people.
- Write down the things you like most about them (don’t expect change from them). Law of attraction will not put you in the same space together if your frequencies don’t match.
- When you realize your potential to feel good, you will ask no one to be different in order for you to feel good.
- You will free yourself from the cumbersome impossibilities of needing to control the world, your friends, your mate, your children….
- You are the only one that creates your reality.
- No one else can think or feel for you .. its YOU .. ONLY YOU.
- Health: thank the universe for your own healing. Laugh, stress free happiness will keep you healthy.
- Immune system will heal itself.
- Parts of our bodies are replace every day, every week..etc… Within a few years we have a brand new body.
- See yourself living in a new body. Hopeful = recovery. Happy = happier biochemistry. Stress degrades the body.
- Remove stress from the body and the body regenerates itself. You can heal yourself.
- Learn to become still .. and take your attention away from what you don’t want, and place your attention on what you wish to experience.
- When the voice and vision on the inside become more profound and clear than the opinions on the outside, then you have mastered your life.
- You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.
- And allow the world as others choose to see it, to exist as well.
- People think that if everyone knows the power of the LOA there won’t be enough to go around. This is a lie that’s been ingrained in us and makes so many greedy.
- The truth is there is more than enough love, creative ideas, power, joy, happiness to go around.
- All of this abundance begins to shine through a mind that is aware of it’s own infinite nature. There’s enough for everyone. See it. Believe it. It will show up for you.
- So let the variety of your reality thrill you as you choose all the things you want and get behind the good feelings of all your wants.
- Write your script. When you see things you don’t want, don’t think about them, write about them, talk about them, push against them, or join groups that focus on them… remove your attention from don’t wants.. and instead place them on DO wants.
- We are mass energy. Everything is energy. EVERYTHING.
- Don’t define yourself by your body .. it’s the infinite being that’s connected to everything in the universe.
- One energy field. Our bodies have distracted us from our energy. We are the infinite field of unfolding possibilities. The creative force.
- Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - NOW is the time to change them. You can begin right where you are right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on.
“Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them.” ― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change! ” ― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer. ”― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change! ” ― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer. ”― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“You become what you think about most.. But you also attract what you think about most. (John Assaraf) ” ― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
John is one of the leading behavioral and mindset experts in the world with a unique ability for helping people release the mental and emotional obstacles that prevent them from achieving their very best in life and business.
In the last 10 years, he has written 2 New York Times Bestselling books that have been translated to 35 languages. John has appeared on Larry King Live 8 times, and featured in 8 movies including the Blockbuster smash hit movie “The Secret” and “Quest for Success” with Richard Branson and the Dalai Lama.
John has built 5 multi-million dollar companies including growing Re/Max of Indiana to 1500 salespeople and $4.5 billion a year in sales.
As a founder, Bamboo.com grew from inception to $10 million a month in revenues within the first 12 months and achieved a highly successful IPO on Wall Street.
Today he is CEO of NeuroGym, which develops some of the most advanced neuroscience-based brain training programs in the world helping individuals and corporations maximize their fullest human potential.
Read his full story…
Hi, I’m John Assaraf … a self-made multi-millionaire, international best-selling author with books in print in over 30 languages, and featured teacher from the hit film and book, The Secret, which I helped launch into a worldwide phenomenon.
I’ve built 5 multi-million-dollar companies in real estate, Internet software, and business coaching and consulting and brain research. I live in a gorgeous, six-acre estate in sunny Southern California. I take regular vacations with my family, traveling to exotic locations like Bora Bora, Hawaii and the Caribbean. I get to lecture all over the world on mastering the Inner game of wealth, business and success, and I have been a frequent guest on Larry King Live and many other major media shows worldwide.
But no one who knew me as a kid – not even my parents – would ever have believed I could achieve this level of success.
My teachers wrote me off, taking bets on when I’d land in jail. Even my father didn’t set his sights much higher than hoping I’d get steady employment at a minimum-wage job.
It sounds terrible, I know. But to be honest, I can’t blame them.
As a kid, I was a misfit. I had a bad attitude about school, and I practically lived in the principal’s office.
Looking back, I know now that the problem was the limiting beliefs I formed in response to challenges and painful experiences I had growing up … and the uncertainty and lack of confidence that resulted from those responses.
For example, learning to speak English and French. Our family moved from Israel to Montreal, Canada, when I was just 6. I struggled for years to master the intricacies of English and French … and it made me an easy target for school-yard bullies. Making friends did not come easily to me, and the lower my self-esteem sank, the harder it became to learn new skills and make friends.
Math and science were very difficult for me to comprehend. I put in Herculean efforts only to end up with average to below-average grades. The more I struggled, the more frustrated and embarrassed I felt. I began to resent wasting time learning subjects I didn’t like.
By the time I was in my early teens, “normal” to me meant feeling insecure and uncertain. I didn’t believe that I possessed the intelligence or abilities to succeed in the real world. Feeling rejected by most of my classmates, I ended up hanging around the only people who would accept me – a group of trouble-making thugs. They helped each other when things got rough, which was often, giving me my first real-world lessons about competition and survival of the fittest.
My companions’ influence soon rubbed off. I got into fights almost daily, which meant I was a near-permanent presence in the principal’s office. But the punishments my school dished out were nothing compared to what waited for me at home. My father was a taxi driver, and every time he had to pick me up at school, it meant he couldn’t be earning a living driving his taxi cab. His resentment, shame and anger toward me would boil over, and I’d pay the price with vicious physical beatings.
I hated my father’s uncontrollable anger – how it changed him and left its mark on me. But I never showed him, instead burying my thoughts and feelings. Regardless of the physical and emotional damage he inflicted, I kept getting into more trouble and took more dangerous risks than I care to share here. (It’s all in my “Having it All” book)
The only thing I truly enjoyed and excelled at were sports. When I got older (15-18), my athletic skills helped me escape the thugs I was hanging with and the trouble that came with that crowd.
Yet even then, I was still living a dual life. One John was a nice polite boy from a nice family, who held a real job earning 65 cents an hour at the local pharmacy. The other John was a lying, stealing idiot with low self-esteem, almost no morals and the skills of a hard-boiled egg.
I knew I couldn’t keep living my life with such extremes. So when I was 19, I chose the path I believed promised me a better life. I broke free from my friends, my school, and an environment that offered me nothing more than a shot at mediocrity. Despite having no money, no job, and only a grade 11 education, I left Montréal and moved to Toronto, Canada, where the only person I knew was my brother.
There, thanks to the sage advice of a wonderful businessman, I decided to change my life and get serious. I borrowed money and enrolled in a real estate course. Five eye-opening weeks later, I earned my real estate license. It was one of the first and only times in my life that I didn’t cheat on a test. I had so badly wanted to succeed in a way that I could be proud of myself instead of feeling ashamed. So for the first time ever, I paid the price of discipline. I can still feel the pride and awe that I actually did it on my own.
Receiving my real estate license was a turning point for me. I felt like my slate had been wiped clean and my transgressions of the past had been forgotten. Now I could make something of my life … all I had to do was work hard and upgrade my knowledge and skills.
That’s when I began learning about the awesome power within each one of us to change no matter what has happened to us, the power of GOD, our amazing brains, and the importance of setting goals and then becoming the person who can achieve them.
My purpose in life is to help millions of people believe in and utilize their God-given abilities, providing them with the environment and resources to acquire the confidence, certainty and personal power to achieve their life’s purpose and goals. It’s a purpose I fill by reaching millions around the world via speeches, training programs, television and radio appearances, and my bestselling books, Having it All, The Vision Board Kit and The Answer.
My latest business venture is NeuroGym, a brain research and product development company to help people free themselves from the bondage of their past, bad habits and limited thinking, so they can acquire the confidence, certainty and personal power to achieve their life’s goals and purpose.
My passions are brain research, quantum physics, spiritual growth, health, exercise, travel, cooking, family, great food, friends and philanthropy.
“A lot of people feel like they’re victims in life, and they’ll often point to past events, perhaps growing up with an abusive parent or in a dysfunctional family. Most psychologists believe that about 85 percent of families are dysfunctional, so all of a sudden you’re not so unique. My parents were alcoholics. My dad abused me. My mother divorced him when I was six…I mean, that’s almost everybody’s story in some form or not. The real question is, what are you going to do now? What do you choose now? Because you can either keep focusing on that, or you can focus on what you want. And when people start focusing on what they want, what they don’t want falls away, and what they want expands, and the other part disappears. (Jack Canfield)” ― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“Your power is in your thoughts, so stay awake. In other words, remember to remember.” ― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“Whenever you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right. (Henry Ford) ”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“When you want to attract something into your life, make sure your actions don’t contradict your desires.. Think about what you have asked for, and make sure that your actions are mirroring what you expect to receive, and that they’re not contradicting what you‘ve asked for. Act as if you are receiving it. Do exactly what you would do if you were receiving it today, and take actions in your life to reflect that powerful expectation. Make room to receive your desires, and as you do, you are sending out that powerful signal of expectation. ― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“Your thoughts become things!"
“The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake.”
“Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything.”
“If you are feeling good , it is because you are thinking good thoughts .” ― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
My Vision:John Assaraf
To help millions of people believe in and utilize their God-given abilities and to provide them with the environment and resources to acquire the confidence, certainty and personal power to achieve their life’s purpose and goals.John is one of the leading behavioral and mindset experts in the world with a unique ability for helping people release the mental and emotional obstacles that prevent them from achieving their very best in life and business.In the last 10 years, he has written 2 New York Times Bestselling books that have been translated to 35 languages. John has appeared on Larry King Live 8 times, and featured in 8 movies including the Blockbuster smash hit movie “The Secret” and “Quest for Success” with Richard Branson and the Dalai Lama.
John has built 5 multi-million dollar companies including growing Re/Max of Indiana to 1500 salespeople and $4.5 billion a year in sales.
As a founder, Bamboo.com grew from inception to $10 million a month in revenues within the first 12 months and achieved a highly successful IPO on Wall Street.
Today he is CEO of NeuroGym, which develops some of the most advanced neuroscience-based brain training programs in the world helping individuals and corporations maximize their fullest human potential.
My Story
If you’ve ever wondered how dramatically your life can change once you master your mindset, look no further because I’m a poster child for the magic that can occur.Read his full story…
Hi, I’m John Assaraf … a self-made multi-millionaire, international best-selling author with books in print in over 30 languages, and featured teacher from the hit film and book, The Secret, which I helped launch into a worldwide phenomenon.
I’ve built 5 multi-million-dollar companies in real estate, Internet software, and business coaching and consulting and brain research. I live in a gorgeous, six-acre estate in sunny Southern California. I take regular vacations with my family, traveling to exotic locations like Bora Bora, Hawaii and the Caribbean. I get to lecture all over the world on mastering the Inner game of wealth, business and success, and I have been a frequent guest on Larry King Live and many other major media shows worldwide.
But no one who knew me as a kid – not even my parents – would ever have believed I could achieve this level of success.
My teachers wrote me off, taking bets on when I’d land in jail. Even my father didn’t set his sights much higher than hoping I’d get steady employment at a minimum-wage job.
It sounds terrible, I know. But to be honest, I can’t blame them.
As a kid, I was a misfit. I had a bad attitude about school, and I practically lived in the principal’s office.
Looking back, I know now that the problem was the limiting beliefs I formed in response to challenges and painful experiences I had growing up … and the uncertainty and lack of confidence that resulted from those responses.
For example, learning to speak English and French. Our family moved from Israel to Montreal, Canada, when I was just 6. I struggled for years to master the intricacies of English and French … and it made me an easy target for school-yard bullies. Making friends did not come easily to me, and the lower my self-esteem sank, the harder it became to learn new skills and make friends.
Math and science were very difficult for me to comprehend. I put in Herculean efforts only to end up with average to below-average grades. The more I struggled, the more frustrated and embarrassed I felt. I began to resent wasting time learning subjects I didn’t like.
By the time I was in my early teens, “normal” to me meant feeling insecure and uncertain. I didn’t believe that I possessed the intelligence or abilities to succeed in the real world. Feeling rejected by most of my classmates, I ended up hanging around the only people who would accept me – a group of trouble-making thugs. They helped each other when things got rough, which was often, giving me my first real-world lessons about competition and survival of the fittest.
My companions’ influence soon rubbed off. I got into fights almost daily, which meant I was a near-permanent presence in the principal’s office. But the punishments my school dished out were nothing compared to what waited for me at home. My father was a taxi driver, and every time he had to pick me up at school, it meant he couldn’t be earning a living driving his taxi cab. His resentment, shame and anger toward me would boil over, and I’d pay the price with vicious physical beatings.
I hated my father’s uncontrollable anger – how it changed him and left its mark on me. But I never showed him, instead burying my thoughts and feelings. Regardless of the physical and emotional damage he inflicted, I kept getting into more trouble and took more dangerous risks than I care to share here. (It’s all in my “Having it All” book)
The only thing I truly enjoyed and excelled at were sports. When I got older (15-18), my athletic skills helped me escape the thugs I was hanging with and the trouble that came with that crowd.
Yet even then, I was still living a dual life. One John was a nice polite boy from a nice family, who held a real job earning 65 cents an hour at the local pharmacy. The other John was a lying, stealing idiot with low self-esteem, almost no morals and the skills of a hard-boiled egg.
I knew I couldn’t keep living my life with such extremes. So when I was 19, I chose the path I believed promised me a better life. I broke free from my friends, my school, and an environment that offered me nothing more than a shot at mediocrity. Despite having no money, no job, and only a grade 11 education, I left Montréal and moved to Toronto, Canada, where the only person I knew was my brother.
There, thanks to the sage advice of a wonderful businessman, I decided to change my life and get serious. I borrowed money and enrolled in a real estate course. Five eye-opening weeks later, I earned my real estate license. It was one of the first and only times in my life that I didn’t cheat on a test. I had so badly wanted to succeed in a way that I could be proud of myself instead of feeling ashamed. So for the first time ever, I paid the price of discipline. I can still feel the pride and awe that I actually did it on my own.Receiving my real estate license was a turning point for me. I felt like my slate had been wiped clean and my transgressions of the past had been forgotten. Now I could make something of my life … all I had to do was work hard and upgrade my knowledge and skills.
That’s when I began learning about the awesome power within each one of us to change no matter what has happened to us, the power of GOD, our amazing brains, and the importance of setting goals and then becoming the person who can achieve them.
My purpose in life is to help millions of people believe in and utilize their God-given abilities, providing them with the environment and resources to acquire the confidence, certainty and personal power to achieve their life’s purpose and goals. It’s a purpose I fill by reaching millions around the world via speeches, training programs, television and radio appearances, and my bestselling books, Having it All, The Vision Board Kit and The Answer.
My latest business venture is NeuroGym, a brain research and product development company to help people free themselves from the bondage of their past, bad habits and limited thinking, so they can acquire the confidence, certainty and personal power to achieve their life’s goals and purpose.
My passions are brain research, quantum physics, spiritual growth, health, exercise, travel, cooking, family, great food, friends and philanthropy.
“A lot of people feel like they’re victims in life, and they’ll often point to past events, perhaps growing up with an abusive parent or in a dysfunctional family. Most psychologists believe that about 85 percent of families are dysfunctional, so all of a sudden you’re not so unique. My parents were alcoholics. My dad abused me. My mother divorced him when I was six…I mean, that’s almost everybody’s story in some form or not. The real question is, what are you going to do now? What do you choose now? Because you can either keep focusing on that, or you can focus on what you want. And when people start focusing on what they want, what they don’t want falls away, and what they want expands, and the other part disappears. (Jack Canfield)” ― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“Your power is in your thoughts, so stay awake. In other words, remember to remember.” ― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“Whenever you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right. (Henry Ford) ”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“When you want to attract something into your life, make sure your actions don’t contradict your desires.. Think about what you have asked for, and make sure that your actions are mirroring what you expect to receive, and that they’re not contradicting what you‘ve asked for. Act as if you are receiving it. Do exactly what you would do if you were receiving it today, and take actions in your life to reflect that powerful expectation. Make room to receive your desires, and as you do, you are sending out that powerful signal of expectation. ― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“Your thoughts become things!"
“The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake.”
“Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything.”
“If you are feeling good , it is because you are thinking good thoughts .” ― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“Instead of focusing on the world's problems, give your attention and energy to trust, love, abundance, education and peace. ”― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“You are the masterpiece
of your own life.
You are the Michelangelo
of your own life.
The David you are sculpturing
is you (by Dr. Joe Vitale)” ― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
of your own life.
You are the Michelangelo
of your own life.
The David you are sculpturing
is you (by Dr. Joe Vitale)” ― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.” ― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“Ask once, believe you have received, and all you have to do to receive is feel good.”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“You will attract everything that you require. If it’s money you need you will attract it. If it’s people you need you’ll attract it. You’ve got to pay attention to what you’re attracted to, because as you hold images of what you want, you’re going to be attracted to things and they’re going to be attracted to you. But it literally moves into physical reality with and through you. And it does that by law. (Bob Proctor) ”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“Every thought of yours is a real thing – a force. (Prentice Mulford) ” ― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions. ”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“When you focus on lack and scarcity and what you don’t have, you fuss about it with your family, you discuss it with your friends, you tell your children that you don’t have enough - “We don’t have enough for that, we can’t afford that” - then you’ll never be able to afford it, because you begin to attract more of what you don’t have. If you want abundance, if you want prosperity, then focus on abundance. Focus on prosperity. (Lisa Nichols)
"Many people in Western culture are striving for success. They want the great home, they want their business to work, they want all these outer things. But what we found in our research is that having these outer things does not necessarily guarantee what we really want, which is happiness. So we go for these outer things thinking they’re going to bring us happiness , but it’s backward. You need to go for the inner joy, the inner peace, the inner vision first, and then all of the outer things appear. (Marci Shimoff) ”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
"Many people in Western culture are striving for success. They want the great home, they want their business to work, they want all these outer things. But what we found in our research is that having these outer things does not necessarily guarantee what we really want, which is happiness. So we go for these outer things thinking they’re going to bring us happiness , but it’s backward. You need to go for the inner joy, the inner peace, the inner vision first, and then all of the outer things appear. (Marci Shimoff) ”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“You are the one who calls the law of attraction into action, and you do it through your thoughts. ”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“see the things that you want as already yours”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“A person who sets his or her mind on the dark side of life, who lives over and over the misfortunes and disappointments of the past, prays for similar misfortunes and disappointments in the future. If you will see nothing but ill luck in the future, you are praying for such ill luck and will surely get it. (Prentice Mulford) ”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“If you’re feeling good, then you’re creating a future that’s on track with your desires. If you’re feeling bad, you’re creating a future that’s off track with your desires. As you go about your day, the law of attraction is working in every second. Everything we think and feel is creating our future. If you’re worried or in fear, then you’re bringing more of that into your life throughout the day.”― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can.” ― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“Your life right now is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great. Since you attract to you what you think about most, it is easy to see what your dominant thoughts have been on every subject of your life, because that is what you have experienced. Until now!” ― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
“Neville recommends at the end of every day, before you go to sleep, to think through the events of the day. If any events or moments did not go the way you wanted, replay them in your mind in a way that thrills you. As you recreate those events in your mind exactly as you want, you are cleaning up your frequency from the day and you are emitting a new signal and frequency for tomorrow. You have intentionally created new picture for your future. It is never too late to change the pictures.”― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
