This book needs to be taken with a grain of salt. I mean, it's got some good points, but the author either failed to properly communicate the meaning of the "law of attraction" or is just plain wrong:
To be fair, I do agree with the book in that thoughts are the seeds to success. Before you accomplish anything, you have to actually see yourself getting it. You have to believe you
can get it, believe that you
will get it, and believe that you
won't not get it. The reason why this works though is that your body and mind are interconnected. What you think ultimately dictates what you do. So if you think and desire getting something (like really badly), then
naturally your body will take the necessary steps to achieve that goal.
However, the Secret completely disregards the fact that you actually need to do things to get your goals. It simply stops at the thinking part and leaves the doing part in obscurity. For your information, you do need to actually take proactive steps in accomplishing anything.
As well, some examples in the book are just plain retarded. There was a story about some guy, Jason (?), who thought long and hard about a feather, and then two days later came across that exact feather on his way to work. The feather matched his mental one down to the most minute of details... voila! Does anyone see the stupidity of this illustration? Congratulations, you happened to find a feather that you happened to think about two days prior. What about all the times something like that
didn't happen? I dream about having threesomes with megan fox and angelina jolie all day. Very detailed too. Never happened
Another claim the Secret makes is that in order to lose weight, you simply need to think it. FFUUUUUU!!! Are you kidding me. I've spend 2 years of my life studying nutrition and I can tell you that you will not lose weight unless your caloric intake is less than your caloric output. This is fact. Yet the Secret blatantly claims that calories don't matter (seriously, the author actually says that "calories don't matter").
So that's my review. Take what you can from that book, but leave the grandiosity behind for another day.