Joe Vitale

People still keep asking me how I lost 80 pounds and became the Charles Atlas of the Internet. I’m going to release my secret method for achieving health and fitness later in the year. For now, I can give you some clues based on what movie stars have done to gain weight.

Sly Stallone packed on weight for the movie Cop Land by not working-out and by eating pancakes every morning at Denny’s.

Robert De Niro added 40 pounds for the movie Raging Bull by not working-out and eating pasta every day.

For the new movie Find Me Guilty, Vin Diesel added 35 pounds to his normally athletic frame by skipping working-out and eating a quart of ice cream every day.

Need I say more?

Don’t exercise and eat pastas, breads and creams and you’ll gain weight.

By the same token, start working-out and avoid the stuff Sumo wrestlers eat (beer, pasta, cream and breads) and you’ll start to lose weight and get fit.

Consider: Each of the above actors gained the extra weight for their movie roles, but they also took it off after the final shoot.

What do you think they did to get back in shape again?

Let me give you a clue:

When I was in LA to train with T .R. Goodman www.procampsports.com, I met actors Ray Liotta and James Caan. Both men are in great shape.

Gee, I wonder why.

Liotta was doing sit-ups on a big rubber ball when he stopped to shake my hand.

James Caan had just finished working-out when he playfully gave me a hard time about the Muscle Milk www.bodybuilding.com/store/cs/milk.html I was drinking and jokingly said he wanted paid to have my picture taken with him. (He was very friendly and even gave me a private tour of the TV set for Las Vegas.)

Where did I meet both?

In the gym.

Need I say more?

Maybe I do…

I know you may not want to work-out.

The thing is, you don’t have to want to, you just have to do it.

There are plenty of days when I would rather not exercise.

I exercise anyway.

Whatever you may think about Nike, they have it right when they boldly state…

Just Do It.

Note: This goes for your marketing, as well.

Quit avoiding; start doing.

Just Do It.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – Lindsay Lohan probably has something to say about losing weight, too. I’ll ask her when she calls me. Meanwhile, see http://mrfire.blogspot.com/2005/11/why-lindsay-lohan-wants-me-bad-or-how.html

I just learned that the long awaited movie, The Secret, will be released to the world on Thursday, March 23rd.

You’ll be able to watch the movie right online, using new technology called Vividas www.vividas.com/ that will work on any computer. Vividas will let you see full screen, broadcast quality video right on your screen via the web. I’m told Disney, Dreamworks and Universal Studios are using it for their movie trailers.

Vividas is for broadband users, but you’ll also be able to buy The Secret on DVD, too.

Believe me, you’ll want to buy this movie.

I am very excited. I’ve seen the movie and think it’s an inspiring masterpiece.

It’s far better than What the Bleep.

I’m in it, as well as my friends Esther Hicks, Jack Canfield, John Assaraf, Bob Doyle, Bill Harris, Bob Proctor, and a long list of other great gurus and teachers of today.

Yes, it brings to life the principles in my book The Attractor Factor www.attractorfactor.com but it also goes way beyond it.

If you haven’t seen the movie trailers for The Secret, go to http://www.whatisthesecret.tv/

The people behind my Executive Mentoring Program http://www.joe-vitale-executive-mentoring.com/info.html saw the movie in February, at a private screening I held, and they all loved it.

Mark your calendar: March 23rd is the day for you to see it.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – Lindsay Lohan still hasn’t called me. I hope she’s ok. Maybe she didn’t see my blog entry about her from a few days ago.

I was just interviewed on yet another national radio show, partly to celebrate the success of my recent #1 bestseller, Life’s Missing Instruction Manual www.lifesmissingmanual.com and partly to see if I would fold under direct attack.

The host began the show with a doom and gloom speech that I’m sure appealed to the majority of people in America, if not the world.

He simply spoke what they were already thinking:

• Poor economy.
• Intense competition.
• Skyrocketing gas prices.
• Shipping charges raising.
• Pessimism about the future.
• Skepticism about the Internet.

You get the idea.

The world is a sad, sad place – at least according to him.

I listened to his dark opening remarks and wondered what he was talking about. I vaguely remembered that I once lived in the world he described. But I left it long, long ago, on the spaceship called Choice.

When the host introduced me, I began by saying —

“I just heard your description and I have to say that I don’t live in the world you described.”

“What world do you live in then?”

“I created my own world,” I said. “There are countless others like me who are making a nice living if not a record-breaking luxurious living by using the Internet, being creative, taking risks and having a blast.”

I went on to tell him how I just made my latest book a #1 bestseller by leveraging the Internet. I told him about the online marketing strategy behind www.themotherofallbribes.com and explained that others have used the same “ethical bribe” formula to sell books and other products.

I went on to tell him about my friend Pat O’Bryan, a once struggling blues guitar player who stood on my front steps one day and with an angry red face said, “All I want is to make enough money to pay my frickin rent.”

Pat was more colorful in his expression then, but today he’s got a following, a mailing list, a catalog of products at www.instantchange.com , and he will be hosting his first “Portable Empire” seminar in May – an event that sold-out six hours after he announced it.

I went on to tell the radio host about the clever college kid in England who raised more than a million dollars selling tiny pixel ads on a blank webpage. www.milliondollarhomepage.com

To his credit, the radio show announcer listened with an open mind. He asked me skeptically based questions, but I’m sure he was thinking of his audience, and what they were thinking as they listened to me rant on with a fiery plea for people to be inspired rather than depressed.

I did my best to continue to tell hypnotic stories that would awaken the positive in people. Just the day before I read a wonderful brief article in Ode magazine www.odemagazine.com/article.php?aID=4268 about how the world needs more positive stories.

It pointed out that the media makes us think the world is bad off when in fact we’re doing pretty darn good. Yes, we can improve. But we’re not going to hell in a hand basket, either. It’s up to media to help us focus on the positive. They need to tell us more stories about heroes and heroines, about the problems being solved rather than the problems we still have.

The radio show I was on is simply one of many that focuses on the darker side of the world. The truth is, this focus attracts more of the very thing it’s focusing on. Obviously, this is pure “Attractor Factor” www.attractorfactor.com at work.

I know the media may not change. They know it’s easy to grab listeners if they focus on negativity. It works. It sells.

So what can we do?

Maybe we as guests on radio shows — or as marketers promoting our products — can turn the focus to the positive by what we say, think, and do.

I went on that show and turned on the light.

I could have played into the hands of the host.

I didn’t.

You can do this, too.

It’s simply a choice.

When Hurricane Rita aimed itself at Texas, I took a deep breath and wrote a plea for people to think positive. I didn’t want everyone to fall into victim mentality. Myself included. The media painted a worse-case scenario. I didn’t. https://www.mrfire.com/article-archives/new-articles/stop-rita.html

When I write sales letters, I do my best to focus on the positive. I want to share my love, my excitement, my passion. An example is my article on “Evil Marketing? What a Bufflao Rancer Taught Me About Selling.” https://www.mrfire.com/article-archives/new-articles/no-bs.html

If you don’t believe the world is actually getting better and better, then read Paul Zane Pilzer’s book The Next Millionaires. I interviewed him for my www.HypnoticGold.com program and think he’s an inspiring genius. Read anything by him. www.paulzanepilzer.com

The point is, you have the power to make a difference.

The world doesn’t have to change before you do.

In fact, when you change, the world changes.

The next move is yours.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – I’m worried. Lindsay Lohan hasn’t called me yet. Didn’t she see my blog entry about her the other day?

Last night I dreamed I went on a quest into a dark jungle to find The Secret www.whatisthesecret.tv to health, wealth and happiness.

When I returned from my travels, glad to get to my tent, tired but excited by what I had dug up, famous singer/actress/model Lindsay Lohan was waiting for me.

I was a little surprised, but I just figured I attracted her. www.attractorfactor.com

After all, 7th Heaven actress Jessica Biel loves my book The Attractor Factor and actor James Caan accepted my book when he and I hung out together on the set of Las Vegas. https://www.mrfire.com/photogallery.html

So having Lindsay Lohan in my tent wasn’t too surprising.

So I said hey.

She wanted to hear about my trip into the wilds. She seemed excited and fascinated, her hypnotic eyes locked on mine as I told her my tale.

I told her that weeks earlier I stumbled across a rare plant that could be turned into a tea that helped people start youthing rather than aging.

Despite her young age, and her wealth, and her fame, she was smart enough to know this could be a huge money-maker.

She wanted to know more.

I reached for my dirty burlap bag, and pulled out the root of the plant I had found.

She sensed this was something historic.

“This will help people lose weight and grow younger?” she asked.

“I’m sure of it,” I said. “Look at me. Don’t I look younger already?”

She stared at me as if I were a talking car, but she nodded.

“You look great!” she said.

Nothing like having a sexy movie star compliment you.

She added, “You won’t even need to bribe people to buy this stuff like you did at www.themotherofallbribes.com.”

“I’m not so sure,” I told her. “People don’t take action unless they are motivated to do so. An ethical bribe gets them to get off their butts. They may not even buy the Fountain of Youth in a bottle without some added incentive. We in marketing call it The Psychology of the Second Interest.”

I explained to her that even though my latest book, Life’s Missing Instruction Manual, is good for people, they won’t buy it right now unless something extra moves them to do so.

That’s why I’m offering more than $13,000 in bonuses when people get the book at www.lifesmissingmanual.com

And it’s that very bribe that caused my book to rocket to #1 at Amazon and stay there for four days.

It’s still a Top Bestseller right now.

Lindsay seemed impressed.

She moved closer to me.

I held my breath, not sure what she wanted.

“Joe, can I ask you a question?” she seductively whispered, almost like one of her songs on her new music CD www.lindsaylohanmusic.com.

“Ah….er…yes,” I replied, stiffening.

I wasn’t sure what she was going to ask.

Finally, she spoke:

“Can I go with you on your next trip into the jungle?”

Hmmm. Lindsay Lohan wants to put on a backpack and take a trip into the darkness of the forest with me.

What should I say?

I know what my beautiful Nerissa would want me to say.

That’s about when I woke up.

If I were a student of Jung or Freud and better understood dream interpretation http://www.dreammoods.com/, I might know what this dream was really trying to tell me.

Do you have any idea?

Ao Akua,

Joe

www.mrfire.com

www.HypnoticMarketingInc.com

PS – Despite what you might be thinking about hypnotic stories and hypnotic language and other hypnotic secret things found in www.HypnoticWritingWizard.com, the above was a dream I really had last night. I’m not making it up. Really.

PPS – I wonder if Lindsay Lohan had the same dream? In one of her songs the lyrics could be speaking about me: “I can’t live without you…Can’t breathe without you…I dream about you…” http://www.metrolyrics.com/lyrics/2144148763/Lindsay_Lohan/Over

Back in December I wrote a post about gifts. http://mrfire.blogspot.com/2005/12/why-does-santa-give.html

I openly informed everyone that the best gift for me and probably anyone else with a book addiction is an Amazon gift certificate.

But not everyone reads my blog.

A well-meaning friend who I absolutely love and admire sent me an email a week ago, saying he was sending Nerissa and me a surprise.

He asked if we would be home, because he didn’t want the surprise to perish sitting on the front steps.

I figured he was sending fruit, which I love, or a plant, which Nerissa loves.

I was pretty sure it wasn’t an Amazon gift certificate.

Then the other day Fed-X brought the big white box.

I carried it inside, called Nerissa into the kitchen, peeked at the return address, and shuddered.

“I think it’s live lobsters,” I mumbled to Nerissa.

She whipped around, angry, and said, “You’re messing with me! Nobody would do that to us!”

I opened the top flat, careful not to open the inside of the carefully packaged box, and saw a recipe on how to cook live lobster.

I also heard a scratch from inside the box.

You can’t imagine how nauseated we felt.

Sending two animal loving people live animals to cook is not the right gift for us.

I’m sure some people would relish the idea of receiving live lobsters. Not us. If we had to kill animals to eat, we’d be vegetarians or we’d starve.

The point of this blog isn’t about whether it’s right to eat meat or not, the point is about what do you do when you make a mistake?

I wrote the friend who sent the gift to us, thanked him, and said it wasn’t right for us. I was loving and polite in my note to him, careful not to hurt his feelings, but I wanted him to know this gift missed the mark.

If you were him, what would you have done?

This dear friend wrote back, apologizing, letting me know how terrible he felt, and asked me to Fed-X the lobsters back to him, saying he would take them to the ocean and free them.

That was a brilliant answer.

Not only did he know enough to ask for their return, but he knew that we would love knowing he freed those critters.

I sealed the package, gave it back to Fed-X, and the two lobsters with the most frequent flyer miles in history went back home.

But this beautiful turn-around story doesn’t stop there.

My friend sent us the above picture of him freeing the lobsters, and wrote the following email (which he gave me permission to share with you):

“Attached is a photo of me about to release the lobsters.

“Below zero with the wind chill out there yesterday. Also recorded it on video, but having trouble uploading video to my computer.

“I had a crazy idea to launch a “free the lobsters” website, put out a bunch of press releases, put fliers up around towns on the seacoast, etc.

“Would have tons of videos and photos about how “A Crazed Couple From New Hampshire Are Buying Up All Of The Lobsters In New England And Setting Them Free Back Into The Ocean.”

“The site was going to sell tee-shirts that said, “Free The Lobsters”.

But due to the cold, the amount of pictures and video that we were able to take without getting frostbite wasn’t enough. That is something that would have been in ALL of the newspapers around here. Would have been known as the great lobster hoax.

“Oh well. At least they are free and happy now. Again, I am sorry.”

In my book, The Attractor Factor www.AttractorFactor.com, I talk about TIISG.

That means “Turn it into something good.”

My friend who sent the live lobsters turned the negative moment into something good.

Remember TIISG.

And “Free the Lobsters!”

Ao Akua,

Joe

www.mrfire.com

www.HypnoticMarketingInc.com

PS – I still prefer an Amazon gift certificate http://www.amazon.com/gp/gift-certificates/ over just about anything else you could name, unless you’re planning to send me a 2006 Bentley Continental GT. www.bentleymotors.com Then, I’ll make an exception.

PPS – My latest book, Life’s Missing Instruction Manual, is still an Amazon bestseller. Was #1 for four days. Still in Top 10 on bestseller list right now. You can still grab $13,000 worth of bonuses for getting the book. See www.TheMotherofAllBribes.com Tell friends. They’ll love you for this news. It’s the deal of 2006. It’s sure better than live lobsters in a Fed-X box.