What lets ordinary people tap into unlimited strength, peace, health, and abundance? The Secret.

What offers the same benefits, without asking you to believe in the supernatural? Greatness Without Genies.

As you may have guessed, I am now unveiling my latest ebook, Greatness Without Genies: The Law of Attraction for Realists.

Ever since The Secret came out, people have waged wars over the law of attraction. Choose your side: is the law of attraction the unquestioned lord and master of the universe, or is it a complete fantasy?

I’d like to offer a third perspective. There’s a middle ground. Well, there are many middle grounds, but specifically, you can dramatically improve your life with your thoughts, and you don’t need to believe in a genie to do so. That’s what this ebook is about.

Look, I liked The Secret, despite it having some pretty serious flaws. But many people just don’t want to go near anything that says a genie is going to give you the Midas touch. For years, the realists have been looked down on by people who proclaim that obviously you could move Fort Knox into your basement, if only you would put out the right frequency and get it to vibrate properly. You lazy bum, why won’t you vibrate?

For God’s sake, can’t someone deliver the benefits of the law of attraction without the mystical hype? Why yes, thank you for asking. Instead of just accepting or rejecting The Secret as is, I rewrote it from scratch, creating a new interpretation of the law of attraction. (And I actually refer to it as the principle of attraction as it’s not a scientific law. These details matter.)

You see, we really do have tremendous control over our lives, far more than we realize. I’d hate to see someone miss out on this just because they don’t like the way The Secret was presented. If you like The Secret, fine, so do I (at least the book version). But for the people who need real explanations (not pseudoscience or circular logic) and practical steps (not wishin’ and hopin’), you finally have something for you.

Last week in my Steve Pavlina interview, Steve said something about the law of attraction that I thought was right on the money:

“[The law of attraction] can be so effective for people, but it’s also missing some key aspects, which is why it often fails to work…The LoA is a step in the right direction, but it’s too inaccurate and flawed to work well in all situations. You can get some interesting results with the LoA…but the flaws in that model often leave people with little or nothing to show for their efforts. Holding clear intentions is still important and useful, but that’s only one piece of the larger puzzle.”

I agree, holding clear intentions is just one piece of the larger puzzle. If you’re ready to move beyond that first piece, order Greatness Without Genies: The Law of Attraction for Realists, and see the bigger picture of how you can realistically turn your thoughts into reality.

This ebook is $27, with a 50% affiliate payout. Genie sold separately, but not by me.

This is the first addition to the Resources page: The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles. Published in 1910, one year before the author’s death, this book went on to inspire Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret nearly a century later. Not much is known about Wallace Wattles, but we know that he was prosperous in his later years after living most of his life in poverty.

This book is about the law of attraction, although it doesn’t call it by that name. It’s very similar to The Secret, but of course it focuses purely on the financial aspects. One notable way in which it differs from The Secret is by placing much greater emphasis on taking action instead of just waiting for the universe to deliver. To quote Wattles:

“A person must not only think, but his personal action must supplement his thought. By thought you can cause the gold in the hearts of the mountains to be impelled toward you, but it will not mine itself, refine itself, coin itself into double eagles, and come rolling along the roads, seeking its way into your pocket…Your pocketbook is not going to be transformed into a Fortunata’s purse, which shall be always full of money without effort on your part. This is the crucial point in the science of getting rich — right here, where thought and personal action must be combined.”

One of the biggest complaints about The Secret is that it completely glosses over the importance of hard work, saying only that “action will sometimes be required.” This was my only major complaint about The Secret, so I was glad to see the need for action being stressed in The Science of Getting Rich.

I’ve heard several people complain that Robert Kiyosaki refers to people who don’t want to be rich as “hamsters.” Those people would probably not like to hear Wattles say this:

“It is perfectly right that you should give your best attention to the science of getting rich, for it is the noblest and most necessary of all studies. If you neglect this study, you are derelict in your duty to yourself, to God and humanity, for you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.”

It’s really not surprising that Wattles was ejected from his position in the Methodist Church for heresy.

This is definitely a recommended book, especially for the bargain price of free. The copyright has expired, and the book is now in the public domain. The other books in this series are The Science of Being Well and The Science of Being Great.

Note that this particular copy of the ebook contains an advertising link at the top of each page, and then several more at the end. I’m not affiliated with any of these links, I haven’t researched them, and I have no recommendation either for or against them.

Please share your thoughts on The Science of Getting Rich in the comments.