Joe Vitale

Besides Larry King interviewing me last November, I’m being interviewed every day by other biggies, including Time magazine, Bottomline Personal, and Newsweek.

They all want to know if the law of attraction is really a law.

They all agree that gravity is, but they aren’t so sure about attraction.

The people who say attraction is not a law cite examples such as, “I know gravity works. When I drop a book off a skyscraper, it will hit the ground. That’s proof of the law of gravity.”

Agreed.

They then go on to say, “When I try to attract something, sometimes I get it and sometimes I don’t. So it isn’t a law.”

Not agreed.

Here’s why.

Saying you tried to attract something and failed is like saying you tried to drop a book from a skyscraper to hit a particular spot and you missed. Because you missed the spot, you say gravity doesn’t exist.

This is a little like telling a parachutist that because they didn’t land on the red dot in the field, but instead landed in the trees, gravity doesn’t exist.

Obviously gravity exists. You just don’t know how to use it to get what you want in any specific way.

Same with the law of attraction.

When you focus on attracting a new car, but instead attract a moped, it isn’t because the law wasn’t in effect; it’s because you didn’t work with the law.

Everything you have is what you attracted.

You just did it unconsciously.

No biggie.

No need to feel bad or beat yourself up.

The idea now is to awaken.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – Newsweek is publishing a feature story on The Secret and the law of attraction next week. It should hit the stands any day. I’m eager to see what they say. Stay tuned.

If you want to voice your thoughts about this, go see www.TheSecretVersusScience.com/

I’m sad to report that Dottie Walters passed away.

She was a loving and supportive lady, always inspiring others.

She wrote the riveting introduction to my book, The Seven Lost Secrets of Success.

She helped me and countless others get started in speaking and writing.

I knew she passed away earlier this month, but it’s taken me a while to recover from the news and to be able to post anything here at all.

Read about her at www.bookpublicists.org/pages/dottie_walters_tribute.asp

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS — I’ll remember you with love, Dottie.

Last Sunday, at Pat O’Bryan’s recent unseminar, Bruce Burns (husband of my chief assistant, Suzanne), found me alone on the balcony getting some fresh air.

He saw an opportunity.

He decided to ask me some questions.

He said he wanted to create a product by Tuesday night.

But he had no idea what kind of product.

He just had the intention to create one, put up a website for it, and start selling it, all by Tuesday night.

I listened to him talk, and asked a few questions of my own. I’ve always felt that everyone has a treasure inside them that others will pay for, but virtually all of us are oblivious to it. We just need someone on the outside to listen and help us recognize it.

Bruce began to explain he has a gift of teaching people how to negotiate in various areas, from the sales floor to the living room, with clients to with kids.

He’s also a skilled speaker and is a master of hypnotic story telling.

Since it was Sunday and he wanted a product for sale by Tuesday, I urged him to record his how-to negotiate info. Recording would be easy and fast. While he might be able to write a special report by Tuesday, it seemed his natural abilities led him to make a recording first. He might later transcribe the recording and turn it into a special report, an e-book, or even a full length published book.

But first things (and easy things) first.

He then asked a few questions about how to build a website quick, where to put his recording online, etc.

This entire spontaneous consultation took less than twenty minutes.

Bruce now had an idea for a product and a sense of how to put it online.

Now here’s what he did that almost no one else does:

He took action.

By last Tuesday night he had several websites up. You can see them at —

www.yourownbestgood.com
www.yourownbestgood.blogspot.com
www.ourmastermind.blogspot.com
http://radiojobstexas.blogspot.com/

While The Secret reveals the law of attraction, we also have to keep in mind there’s the law of right action, as well.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – If you want mentoring help, consider my programs described at http://miracles.executive-mentorprogram.com Remember, the universe likes speed. Go look right now.

It’s the ebb and flow of life.

Sooner or later the critics come flying out of their dark hiding places and start finding holes in anything that is popular. Start talking about global warming and eventually others will start talking about global cooling. And both will have sound arguments to defend their cases.

This is just beginning to happen with critics of the movie The Secret. One recent article even went as far as to say The Secret is a lie. And even dangerous. The article defends its position with mental images about the poor in Africa, or children dying of diseases.

It’s a pretty bleak view and a strongly worded emotional argument.

So, is The Secret a lie?

Of course not.

It’s no more a lie than anything else taken out of context and reinterpreted in a filtered, limited, negative way.

The movie is all about one idea. It doesn’t pretend to tell you the secret-s of the universe. Just one of them.

And is The Secret dangerous?

At most, it may be guilty of leaving out some important extra steps to creating your ideal life.

If I were involved in the making of the movie (I’m in the movie but I didn’t produce it), I’d also point out there is a law of right action, too.

Also, there are often counter intentions that need cleared for The Secret to work.

And I’d make sure people knew that feeling is more important than thought in creating your own reality.

But maybe those topics will be discussed in the sequel.

Still, the movie reveals the Law of Attraction in a powerful, inspired and inspiring way.

It’s not at all dangerous.

But it’s so easy to be a critic. Simply focus on the negative, find situations or people who the item won’t or didn’t work for, and then condemn the item.

I could take virtually any self-help, personal development, financial success, science of influence, rules of engagement, or any other book, course or topic out there and with little effort find situations where it won’t or didn’t work.

Critics do that all the time.

The media does that, too.

What would be the point?

It would be staying in the negative and keeping people feeling bad.

How would that serve anyone?

I prefer to inspire myself and others.

In fact, my next book, Zero Limits, explains that what you have to do to change the entire planet is change yourself.

My own take is that The Secret will work for anyone who will apply it.

What about the people in Africa?

Well, do you think they know The Secret?

Hardly.

What about children dying?

Well, do you think they know The Secret?

Hardly.

And what if someone who knew The Secret ended up in Africa or with a disease?

Obviously (as the movie points out), they could change themselves and their situation.

That’s the whole point of knowing The Secret.

Rather than condemning the movie by citing examples where people don’t even know the principle let alone practice it, I think a wiser stance is to find how The Secret works, demonstrate it in your own life, and let your life be a model for others to be inspired by.

I think that’s what the teachers in the movie, including myself, are trying to do.

All in all, I’d rather be a creator than a critic.

By creating a life worth living, I make a difference in the world — first in my own life, and then in the lives of others who are inspired to dare something worthy, too.

The Secret isn’t a lie; it’s a law.

You just have to apply it.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – I got a traffic ticket a week ago. I attracted it to me — by not obeying the law. The law is there for me to obey or not. Follow it and I get good results. Don’t follow it and I may get results I don’t want. Traffic law can be considered less important or concrete than the law of gravity. But it’s still a law. So is the law revealed in the movie The Secret. Go watch it again.

TIP: Most people who criticize The Secret are doing so because they want it to work but can’t seem to make it work. One of the biggest reasons The Secret doesn’t instantly work for someone is due to lack of forgiveness. An entire culture can experience this. But it can be changed with one person forgiving. Namely you. I’m doing this myself, and constantly going through my mental files to see who or what needs forgiven in my life (including me). For help, consider the Subliminal Manifestation DVDs or of course Miracles Coaching. And dare something worthy, that will inspire yourself and others, rather than raining on a parade that could heal millions. Don’t be seduced by the dark side. Go toward the light.