Works by
Jack Canfield
(Writer)

Books

• Search Amazon for the Jack Canfield and Chicken Soup for the Soul Series
   

• Chicken Soup for the Adopted Soul: Stories Celebrating Forever Families (2008) by Jack Canfield, LeAnn Thieman L.P.N. , and Mark Victor Hansen
  Adoption is a hot topic these days. While the current buzz may have started with all of the celebrity adoptions in the recent news, everyday families are brought together through adoption. From stories about orphaned babies in Russia to kids who spent years in the foster-care system, Chicken Soup for the Adopted Soul is all about finding and creating a family. Readers will be touched by stories of infertile couples who finally find the apple of their eye, single women who defy society's definition of family, and older couples who are given a second chance. These Chicken Soup stories celebrate the lives of adopted children who found forever families and parents who found forever love.

• Chicken Soup for the Soul Celebrating People Who Make a Difference: The Headlines You'll Never Read (2008) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Peter Vegso, and Theresa Peluso
  Chicken Soup for the Soul Celebrating People Who Make a Difference reveals a side of humanity we rarely see heralded on the evening news. This inspiring collection of stories chronicles the small kindnesses that make a huge difference, the ordinary experiences that have profound impact, and the defining moments that change the lives of everyday people. Your heart will be touched when the despair of a lost two-year-old's parents turns to joy as an exhausted rescue team finds their baby in critical condition, but alive. And you may be left wondering if you could act as one woman did, when driving home alone on a dark night she finds unknown courage to come to the aid of someone about to be assaulted at an isolated bus stop. If you wonder about the direction the world is headed and whether kindness and compassion still exists, Chicken Soup for the Soul Celebrating People Who Make a Difference will restore your faith in the human spirit with these true stories of generosity, character, and courage.

• You've GOT to Read This Book!: 55 People Tell the Story of the Book That Changed Their Life (2006) by Jack Canfield and Gay Hendricks
  Authors have invited notable people to share personal stories of books that changed their lives. What book shaped their outlook and habits? Helped them navigate rough seas? Spurred them to satisfaction and success?
  
  A sample of the contributors include:  Bernie Siegel, Christiane Northrup, Craig Newmark, Dave Barry, Jacquelyn Mitchard, John Gray, Kenny Loggins, Lou Holtz, Malachy McCourt, Mark Victor Hansen, Michael E. Gerber, Pat Williams, Rudy Reuttiger, and Steven Covey

• The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to (2004) by Jack Canfield and Janet Switzer
  The Success Principles will teach you how to increase your confidence, tackle daily challenges, live with passion and purpose, and realize all your ambitions. Not merely a collection of good ideas, this book spells out the 64 timeless principles used by successful men and women throughout history. And the fundamentals are the same no matter what your profession or circumstances—even if you’re a student, stay-at-home mom or currently unemployed.
  
  It doesn’t matter if your goals are to be the top salesperson in your company, become a leading architect, score straight A’s in school, lose weight, buy your dream home or make millions of dollars—the principles and strategies are the same.
  
  After learning the basics of success, you’ll move on to tackling the important inner work needed to transform yourself. Next, get ready to build your “success team” and expand all your most important relationships. Finally, because success always includes financial prosperity, you’ll learn to develop a positive money consciousness along with habits that can ensure you’ll be able to live the lifestyle you want—while keeping the importance of tithing and service central to your financial life.
  
  Taken together and practiced every day, these principles will transform your life beyond your wildest dreams!
  
  Filled with memorable and inspiring stories of CEO’s, world-class athletes, celebrities, and everyday people. The Success Principles will give you the courage and the heart to start living the principles of success today!
  
  You’ll learn:
   

  • How to change the outcome of any event, simply by changing your response to it

  • How to access powerful mentors and friends who’ll open doors for you

  • How to complete past projects, heal past relationships and process old hurts, so you can embrace the future

  • How to prepare and be instantly ready when opportunity comes knocking

  • How to implement the unique time management system that insures you’ll have time to focus on success

  • How to say “no” to the good, so you’ll have room in your life to say “yes” to the great

  • How to ask for and get everything you want...from people who can give it to you

  • Why you should drop out of the “Ain’t It Awful” Club and instead surround yourself

  • with successful, positive and nurturing people

  • How to maximize your success with money, your finances, your future...and so much more!

• Chicken Soup for the Mother & Daughter Soul: Stories to Warm the Heart and Honor the Relationship (2003) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Dorothy Firman, Julie Firman, and Frances Firman Salorio

• Chicken Soup for the Sister's Soul (2002) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Mitchell (Editor), Nancy Mitchell, Katy McNamara (Editor), and Heather McNamara

• Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Love & Friendship (2001) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Kimberly Kirberger
  Inspiration.

• Chicken Soup for the Golden Soul: Heartwarming Stories for People 60 and Over (2000) by Amy Seeger, Barbara Russell Chesser, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Paul J. Meyer
  This collection offers readers loving insights and wisdom--all centering on the prime of life. Contributors to this volume include Erma Bombeck, Florence Littauer, Max Lucado, Roy Rogers, Ruth Stafford Peale, and Tom Landry. Readers of all ages are sure to cherish this invaluable collection as a reminder that the soul of those young at heart is truly "golden." Divided into chapters on letting go, giving, learning, the lighter side, across the generations, overcoming obstacles, perspective, believing, living your dream, reminiscing and ageless wisdom, this book celebrates the myriad joys of living and the wisdom that comes from having lived. Readers at every stage of life will turn to this book again and again for the timeless wisdom that will help them live their lives to the fullest.

• Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul - - 101 Stories of Changes, Choices (2000) by Irene Dunlap, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Patty Hansen with Rusty Fischer (Contributor)
  From remembering their own life experience or to watching their own children grow, most people recognize that the preteen years, ages nine to thirteen, can be one of the most awkward times in life-a period of tremendous physical and emotional change. At this age, youngsters are eager to leave the "kid" stage, yet are uncertain about what adolescence will bring; they'd rather listen to peers over parents, and hear all too often to "wait until you're older." Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul will guide kids through this transition. Written by and for preteens, this uplifting collection of stories touches on the emotions and situations they experience every day: making and losing friends, fitting in while keeping their personal identity, discovering the opposite sex, dealing with pressures at school including violence, and coping with family issues such as divorce. Chapters include: On Love, On Family, On Friendship, On Choices, On Changes, On Overcoming Obstacles, Eclectic Wisdom, Tough Stuff, Attitude and Perspective and Achieving Dreams. Contributors indclude: *NSYNC, Mia Hamm, Beverley Mitchell and Karl Malone. Whether first-time Chicken Soup readers or "graduates" of the bestselling Kid's Soul book, preteens are sure to include this in their backpacks and book bags. Ages 9-12.

• Chicken Soup for the Prisoner's Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Hope, Healing and Forgiveness (2000) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Tom Lagana
  Previously available only through free distribution to prisons, this life-changing book is the result of charitable donations from sales of Chicken Soup for the Christian Family Soul and gifts from thousands of individuals. In the spring of 2000, over 100,000 copies of Chicken Soup for the Prisoner's Soul were distributed to prisoners, prison libraries and prison ministries throughout the United States. The hope was that this collection of stories would touch the hearts of prisoners and offer them hope and encouragement, as well as inspire them to transcend the limiting thinking and behaviors of their past. The book was so successful that the co-authors soon found themselves flooded with requests for the book from family members, correctional officers, prison volunteers and others. Because of this huge demand, the decision was made to also release the book to the general public.

• The Power of Focus: How to Hit Your Business, Personal and Financial Targets with Absolute Certainty (2000) by Jack Canfield, Les Hewitt, and Mark Victor Hansen
  The Power of Focus reveals the proven techniques thousands of people have used to attain all of the money they wanted while living healthy, happy and balanced lives. The Power of Focus, the new blockbuster from the coauthors of the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul, is a practical no-nonsense guide that shows readers how to reach their business, personal and financial goals without getting burned out in the process.
  
  Canfield, Hansen, and Hewitt have taken the best ideas from their own successful careers (seventy-nine years of combined business expertise), and distilled them into ten powerful focusing principles. The result is a treasury of insights that is enjoyable to read and easy to understand.
  
  At the outset, the book identifies the three most important fundamentals for consistent success: developing unusual clarity; understanding that habits determine your future; and using a "no exceptions policy" approach to focus on what you want.
  
  This is a must-read for business people, sales managers, entrepreneurs, and anyone who is serious about improving their personal awareness.

• A 3rd Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit (1996) by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
  Bestselling authors Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen present another joyful collection of stories for your reading pleasure. Within the pages of A 3rd Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul you will find shining examples of the best qualities we all share as human beings: compassion, grace, forgiveness, hope, courage, dedication, generosity and faith. Stories may be the most powerful teaching tool available to us, especially when the lessons being taught are love, necessary losses, respect and values. In this volume of Chicken Soup for the Soul, the authors share more collected wisdom on love, parenting, teaching, learning, death, attitude and overcoming obstacles. This book will warm your heart, brighten your darkest day and put a smile on your face that will last a lifetime.
  
  (Includes The Secrets of Heaven and Hell by Fr. John W. Groff, Jr., an excerpt from "A Proper Hell," first published in the
  July-September 1994 issue of Christian*New Age Quarterly, Catherine Groves, ed.)

• The Aladdin Factor (1995) by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
  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.
  
  Now best-selling motivational authors Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen introduce us to The Aladdin Factor — and help us put it into effect in our own lives for untold enrichment and success.
  
  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.
  
  It’s is an important process business and industry leaders have already learned — and want to impart to you. And, it’s a concept you’ll use — everyday — to move outside your comfort zone and seize the prosperity, fulfillment and happiness you deserve. 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.

DVDs

• The Success Principles (2006)
  When Jack Canfield talks about perseverance, he speaks from experience. His best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series was rejected by over 144 publishers before going on to sell over 100 million copies. He's been a teacher, facilitator, and psychotherapist. His seminars and trainings have touched millions of individuals from welfare recipients to corporate leaders. Jack will show you how what you think makes you weak or strong, seven key areas in creating a personal vision, two simple questions that accelerate the achievement of your goals, how to change the outcome of any event, simply by changing your response to it, and the Rule of Five for achieving your "breakthrough goal." Jack Canfield is uniquely qualified to coach you on success. He s devoted more than 30 years to uncovering universal principles for achieving extraordinary outcomes. In this fast-paced, entertaining and powerful program, Jack will share his latest breakthrough principles and detail how you, too, can use them to rapidly achieve your goals in your career, your finances and your personal life. Bonus features include in-depth interview with Jack, audience Q&A session, and more!

• The Secret (2006)
  The Secret is a feature length movie presentation which reveals The Great Secret of the universe. It has been passed throughout the ages, traveling through centuries... This is The Secret to everything - the secret to unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth: everything you have ever wanted. All the resources you will ever need to understand and live The Secret. The world's leading scientists, authors, and philosophers will reveal The Secret that utterly transformed the lives of every person who ever knew it... Plato, Newton, Carnegie, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Einstein.

• Breakthrough to Success

See also:

• 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, Volume 2 (2006), David Riklan, ed.
  
  101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, Volume 2 is the second edition in the series of 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life. No one can narrow self-improvement to a defined list of advice, methods and techniques. There are too many valuable experts who long to impart their wisdom onto you. Here is another amazing collection of 101 great chapters, all written by self-improvement experts from different walks of life--and all with their own unique perspectives and philosophies on the process of personal growth.
  
  Alan Cohen, Bob Proctor, David Lazear, Jack Canfield, John Gray, Richard Carlson and many more of the world's leading self-improvement experts have joined together to give you a ton of amazing, proven and simple ways to immediately change your life for the better. You may know some of the experts already. Others you may be reading for the first time. But there's one common thread that ties all of these teachers together--they're all phenomenal educators who know to help people improve their lives.

• The Secret (2006) by Rhonda Byrne
  Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it.

  In this book, you'll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life -- money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You'll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that's within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life.
  
  The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers -- men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.

• See also The Secret at DREAMWalker Group

• See also What the Bleep Do We Know at DREAMWalker Group