by Cristina

Created on: April 14, 2009   Last Updated: April 15, 2009

Jack Canfield is a psychotherapist, educational consultant, trainer and writer. He is the co-author and CEO of the Chicken Soup for The Soul billion dollars company, and it has been called by the Time Magazine "the publishing phenomenon of the decade". His best-selling books include The Power of Focus, Aladdin Factor, Dare to Win and his latest success, The Success Principles Book. From an underpaid teacher to a millionaire, he certainly has a thing or two to say about success and self made millions. One of those people who "walk the walking and talk the talking".

The book is written in co-operation with Mark Victor Hansen, who is also the other co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul.

What does it promise? "Anything is possible...if you only dare to ask. Personal Happiness. Creative Fulfillment. Professional Success. Freedom from fear - and a new promise of joy that's yours for the asking." "You'll learn not only how to ask for what you want, but how to ask and what to ask for. You'll discover the five barriers we all face in asking for what we want and how to overcome them...and you'll read about the seven characteristics of those who ask successfully." "The Aladdin Factor is a practical guide for taking control of your life, realizing better business and personal relationships, having and giving more love, maximizing your talents and skills - and enriching your lifestyle like never before."

The book starts with the author thanking all those people that help them write this book and trust me... that's a lot of them, about three full pages, so many that you start to wonder if they actually did anything at all to write this book. But more power to them for not taking the entire credit for it, a simple "thank you" can take you a long way. The introduction is a story of Aladdin who is talking to the genie about the power of the lamp and of asking. It goes on explaining what it means to ask, what it can bring you and how most of us never think that all they should do to resolve their problems is to... yes, you guessed it, ask. The book itself it's divided in three chapters: 1. The Aladdin Factor 2. Release the genie 3. How to ask, whom to ask, what to ask

1. The Aladdin Factor This chapter goes over the five most important obstacles that keep you from asking: ignorance (not knowing what is possible and what is available, not knowing what we want and what we need, not knowing how to ask), limiting beliefs (very good explanation on what are those and how we got them),

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