That’s little Kirk.
He’s seven years old.
He had a stroke shortly after birth.
That photo was taken the first time he was able to bring his hand up to touch the computer screen.
That was last week.
He is learning to read.
My friend Kevin Hogan told me about Kirk years ago. Together we raised money to help Kirk get treatment so he was able to have some movement.
Recently I saw a picture where Kirk smiled.
Another time I saw a photo of Kirk laying on a mat and beaming as he kicked it.
The other day his mom sent me the picture you see above.
Kirk is not at all bothered by his situation or his challenges. His mom told me, “I think one of his main purposes in life is to show us how to love each other — like how he loves us. He looks right past his disabilities & struggles and just puts out love to everybody he meets.”
I’m told that Kirk needs more help. Right now he needs a machine that cost $15,000.
I plan to get it for him, with your help.
And I’ll see that you get $2,500 worth of gifts for your trouble.
Here’s what to do:
Step One: Go to www.amazingkirk.com and contribute what you can to help Kirk. Everything you give will go to Kirk’s healing fund. But my goal is to raise the $15,000 he needs. I will match whatever you give until we reach the $15,000. Kirk’s smile is worth that to me. I look forward to shaking his little hand one day. (NOTE: If the Paypal button on the site isn’t working, you can send money from Paypal direct to [email protected])
Step Two: After that, go to http://landofthefreee.com and collect $2,500 worth of products, for free. You don’t have to give a dime to have any of these bonuses, but it would be good karma to give and then receive.
This is the sort of win-win-win I love in life.
You win, Kirk wins, and I win for helping a little boy gain the use of more of his body.
Please make a difference in Kirk’s life — and yours — today.
Ao Akua,
Joe
www.mrfire.com
PS – See www.amazingkirk.com for a description of the $15,000 machine Kirk needs: “The Quadriciser: a MOTORIZED Therapy System designed for individuals with physical limitations due to Brain Injuries, Spinal Cord Injuries, Stroke, MS or CP, Arthritis or Painful Joints and those who are Quadriplegic or Paraplegic.”
We watched the new Bruce Willis ‘Die Hard’ movie over the weekend.
I loved the first three (well, the first two) and had high hopes for this one.
I wasn’t disappointed.
It’s a non-stop action thriller with the same basic plot line: terrorists find a new way to bring down the country but one man and only one man (Willis, of course) saves the day.
I didn’t see any great life lesson in the movie, but for pure adrenaline rushing entertainment, Live Free or Die Hard is a winner.
My favorite scene in the entire movie is when Bruce Willis destroys a helicopter in the most impossible way and then utters a totally inarticulate self-satisfied grunt of surprised laughter. (You had to be there.) I keep wondering how they wrote such a “line of dialogue” into the script.
Anyway, if you like Bruce Willis and if you liked the first two Die Hards, you should enjoy Live Free or Die Hard.
See trailers at http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808403725/trailer
Ao Akua,
Joe
www.mrfire.com
PS — I’ll be announcing a “Zero Limits” weekend with me and Dr. Hew Len soon. Stay tuned.
Peter Michel got an advance copy of Zero Limits and sent me the following email. I loved it and asked his permission to share it here with you, which he gave. Enjoy. 🙂
Dear Joe,
Wow, gosh. I’m blazing through your book here. I rarely do more than dip and skim books very quickly. I’m already up to page 45, having read every page so far.
It’s yummy — filled with love… clear, concise… again, your best book so far.
I’m not sure if I shared this with you or not, but I shared this with Dr. Len at the dinner you held in his honor in Texas, and I still stand by it — though I’m not sure Dr. Len understood what I was sharing, as it takes a little more explanation that I had time to give to it.
In the Release Technique (see www.theabundancecourse.com), Lester Levinson taught us that every program (memory) is rooted in desire… one of three: wanting approval, wanting control or wanting to be safe/to survive. Above these three is the desire to be separate (from the “I” or “All”).
By applying ho’oponopono only to the individual memories, we are mostly addressing just the branches. We are not snipping the roots. Thus, the tree of illusion regrows until true Self-identification/Self-realization happens.
Releasing isn’t just about “cleaning”; it is very much about Self-identity or “I”-Dentity as Dr. Len calls it. It is about knowing *that* you are — consciously. Being your Beingness only — I am that I am.
Releasing is a tool for clearing the memories so that one can more easily *taste*, consciously, the open awareness in which the memories arise and return to. The more we taste what we truly are, the more we identify with it. This is the ONLY way to identify correctly with who and what we are — to consciously and repeatedly taste or drop into it by relaxing into the open, peaceful experience of just simply *being*… also known as “zero.”
Applying ho’oponopono is, to me, far more powerful when each feeling, clutch, thought, program, pattern or problem that arises in the mind is taken down to: “Is this coming from a wanting approval, wanting control, wanting to be safe or a wanting to be separate?” Then, we can offer that lacking feeling (desire) to the Divine with ho’oponopono (love/acceptance) and clear these MASTER programs, into which EVERY other memory/program is tied (no exceptions).
When we clear these roots, we clear far more “charge” off all the other memories/programs and we sink further and deeper into the “I” with far greater ease… leading us, again, to more fully and completely “I”-Denitfy with what we truly are… Openness.
Here’s an example:
If I feel pride over something, I can ask myself which of the “wants” is it coming from. For me, pride arises often from a “wanting to be separate” root program. By saying, “I love you. I’m sorry” to that wanting to be separate feeling in my body-mind, I allow myself to let go of not only that pride program, but also EVERY OTHER program that is FED by that master control program of wanting to separate myself from others… such as my being “bossy” or “not listening,” etc. Everything tied into this root can be cleared much more rapidly when I “ho’oponopono” the root instead of just the branch (the particular memory or current expression born from that root).
I have felt to share this with you each time I have thought of ho’oponopono. This occurred to me first as Dr. Len was speaking to the group. It feels born of inspiration.
You don’t need to do anything with this perspective. I’m just feeling to share it with you. In truth, I’m the only one who needs to apply it 🙂
I love you and deeply appreciate you for sharing this, Joe.
Your book is living up to what I had felt it would be — POWERFUL and full of LOVE. Tears came to my eyes reading Dr. Len’s words. And, the book is beautifully written. It is some of your better writing.
If I’m around on July 10th, I will be buying a bunch to help ensure it reaches number one on Amazon.
What’s amazing is that it was written just for me, as “I” am the only one Here.
With much gratitude…
Om Namah Shivaya and Aloha,
Peter
Note: Peter sells a “release machine” that I endorse. Get details at
www.releasemeter.net/zero-limits and of course remember to check out www.theabundancecourse.com .
Ao Akua,
Joe
www.mrfire.com
Someone sent me a blunt email saying they were surprised I didn’t realize I attracted my food sensitivities, and even more surprised that I didn’t know I could un-attract them.
Of course I know both.
After all, I’m the teacher in the movie The Secret who went on Larry King (twice, thank you) and declared you attract everything via the Law of Attraction.
No exceptions. No loopholes.
You simply do the attracting UN-consciously.
In fact, some advanced teachers are now explaining that all manifestation is unconscious.
When you read my (and Dr. Hew Len’s) book, Zero Limits, you’ll learn that even your intentions — which you think are being consciously decided — are actually bubbling up from your un-conscious.
The great goal is to awaken.
To become conscious.
No matter what you have in your life, you can “un-attract” it, or attract what you prefer, by doing some work to clean up the unconscious.
That work can be anything from EFT to releasing to Sedonna to belief work to hypnosis to ho’oponopono to DVDs to therapy to Healing Codes to coaching to even transcending The Secret— the list goes on.
But here’s my point:
You usually have to do something to get clear and attract what you prefer.
People seem to forget that when you want to un-attract something, you usually still have to take action.
The fact that I took a blood test doesn’t imply I don’t know about the law of attraction.
The fact that I’m abstaining from unsafe foods for me, at least for a short time, doesn’t mean I don’t know about the law of attraction.
When you awaken to a problem in your life, you have to do something to handle it.
This fact seems to get glossed over by even fans of The Secret.
They watch the movie but somehow forget I’m the guy in it saying the universe likes speed and action is usually necessary to attract results.
So, if you discover you attracted something you consciously don’t want, whether a food sensitivity or anything else, you might have to do something to un-attract it.
You might have to get clear.
You might need a Miracles Coach.
You are a co-creator in this universe.
The “co” means YOU have to participate.
Ao Akua
Joe
www.mrfire.com
PS — Zero Limits is shipping to people who pre-ordered it. The big launch will be July 10. Get ready to start your engines!
My name is Joe.
I’m a crackberry.
“Hi, Joe.”
I’m addicted to my Blackberry, so this post won’t be a fair review of the new smart phones: Apple iphone vs Blackberry Curve.
Plus I haven’t actually seen the iphone yet, so this is not a legitimate review at all.
But let’s look at the marketing of both phones.
Steve Jobs has done an excellent job of garnishing publicity. His new baby is being reviewed and talked about in magazines and on television. This is enormous free exposure.
He’s getting so much interest for the iphone, which releases today, that I decided to push back the book launch of Zero Limits until July 10.
I didn’t want my book promotion to drown out the release of Steve’s iphone.
I hear he gets mad easy.
Anyway, the TV commercial for the iphone is excellent. It clearly shows you how it works by demonstrating it right there on the screen, before your eyes.
Whenever you can demonstrate your product or service, quickly and directly, so people can see the benefits to them without much thought, you are very close to making a sale.
From what I can tell from the TV spot, I doubt typing on the iphone will be very easy. A few early reviewers have already complained that the on-screen keyboard is clumsy and slow to respond. In fact one reviewer said that if you do mostly email and text messaging (which is me) you had best stick to your Blackberry for now.
As for the new Blackberry Curve smart phone www.blackberrycurve.com, which went on the market last week, I love it.
It’s small, light, easy to use, now has a camera, can play music as well as video, and the battery seems to last for days.
I bet it’s better than the iphone www.apple.com/iphone/ but again I won’t know until I wander into an Apple store (the only place to get it) and examine the smart phones side by side.
But back to the marketing of these phones.
The Blackberry Curve has gotten a lot of free press, too. Reviewers are calling it the long-awaited hit from the people at RIM, who make the smart phone.
I don’t think the TV ads for the Curve are as good as the ones for the iphone. The Curve ads are more brand and image oriented, where the iphone ones are more practical and direct.
In the end, you’ll have to look at both phones, try them out, consider what you want them for, and then roll the dice on one of them.
For me, even though the iphone has a better commerical, I’m sticking with my Blackberry Curve.
At least for now.
Ao Akua,
Joe
www.mrfire.com
PS – Launch date for Zero Limits is now July 10. Expect fireworks! Get your camera phones ready! Tell Steve Jobs! And Oprah! Heck, tell EVERYONE!