"The Secret" and "the law of attraction" while having value operate on many assumptions that are divorced from the world we all live in - well with the exception of people who are enlightened maybe.

The fundamental problem that most all self-help books posit is this:

"We can be fixed and this book or that can provide the fix."

Fixing implies we may be a machine and while its true we do many things through the filters of our attachments our biology is not mechanistic.

We constantly look outside ourselves to be better. Certainly this is a part of learning that also includes struggle. Because we have physical bodies struggle is endemic to earthly life.

The new age movement has made the ego a bad thing and makes an assumption that we can all live from our Higher Self most of the time. This is illusion because when we think or say "I" ego owns whatever we have done.

Divorcing manifestation from emotions and our bodies into an illusory goal separate from the mind is dangerous and foolhardy.

Without balance and hard work "the law of attraction" is a child's fantasy.