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Amy Terrill’s life is changing at a rapid rate.

It’s changing so fast that her family and friends, including her husband, are bewildered.

Not Amy, though.

She’s going for her dreams and she’s moving like Superwoman on super-caffeine.

Amy bought my Hypnotic Selling Secrets www.HypnoticMarketingStrategy.com package a month or so ago. Because she did, she was entered in a contest to possibly win an entire day with me. (Some prize.)

Because she used the steps in my book, The Attractor Factor www.attractorfactor.com, she won. She was here yesterday. And she was bug-eyed excited the entire time she was with Nerissa and me.

You have to understand something about Amy.

She’s 24, mother of a two-year-old baby, and she works four ten-hour days a week at Wal-Mart in the farm country outside of St. Louis. Her life is moving boxes in a hot warehouse, all day long.

But she’s heard about the Internet.

She watches the success of people like me, Pat O’Bryan, Tom Pauley, and others.

She gets on our mailing lists.

She buys our products.

And she begins to dream.

When I announced my Manifestation Weekend www.BeyondManifestation.com, she and her husband signed up for it. It was a huge step into the unknown.

But they did it.

When I announced my Hypnotic Selling Secrets mega-package, she bought it. It wasn’t cheap. For a woman making Wal-Mart wages, this was another huge leap.

But she did it.

When I announced that someone could win a day with me, Amy used the five steps in The Attractor Factor and won that prize.

And get this:

Amy had never flown on a plane before. She and her husband drove to Austin for the Manifestation Weekend. But for the day with me, she was flying.

And she was afraid.

But she did it, anyway.

When Amy came to our home, she began asking questions. They were wonderful, insightful, and surprising questions. Everything from how many books I read a week, to what beliefs did I have to change to be a success. I was in awe.

I gave her a private tour of our estate – from my gym www.gladiatorgym.com/ to our Catarium www.catarium.com to Nerissa’s video room to my office to my library to even my top secret magic room.

No one has ever gotten to spend an entire day with me before, where they got such a lengthy tour, or got to ask whatever was on their mind about my life and work.

If this were you, would you see an opportunity here?

I did.

I gave her an idea for a product within minutes of stepping into our home.

I told her that sometimes people go to seminars, take extensive notes, and then sell those notes later to people who didn’t attend the event.

I urged Amy to record her experiences with me, write it up as a Special Report, and then sell it online as her first product.

Amy is nervous about it.

But also excited.

She’s writing that information product right now.

I’m inspired by people like Amy.

It makes me feel good about people, our world, and the future.

The real winner of the day wasn’t Amy.

It was me.

I got to spend the day with her.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS — Free Copywriting Lesson: The headline on this blog entry is a National Enquirer http://www.nationalenquirer.com/ type. Think what you like of those newsstand rags, they are bought and they are read. Why? Because people can’t resist the strange, the curious, the bizarre, or the unusual. We crave it. This is a tidbit of human psychology you can bank on. So my advice is to use it, at least from time to time. That’s what I did today. And look — You read this post. And I bet you enjoyed it, too. (Don’t lie.) Onwards.

You never know what each day will bring you, do you?

Have you ever wondered why that is?

Who’s pulling these surprises on you, anyway?

Yesterday I turned on the television and caught most of the 1998 sci-fi classic movie, Dark City. I had never seen it before, or even heard of it. But I was absolutely riveted by it.

I’ll tell you why it captivated me in a minute. First, let me set the stage by telling you what the movie is about:

According to the description of the DVD on www.Amazon.com (which I just ordered), the basic plot is this:

John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability to put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him.

Well, that plot description doesn’t do the movie justice at all.

Yes, the movie is about Murdoch slowly awakening, being confused by mental images, and incomplete story lines, and by the nagging reality that no one can tell him how to get to Sunset Beach, which is advertised everywhere.

Yes, there are “Strangers” who control the world he lives in with their hypnotic powers, and no one seems aware of it except Murdoch and a dorky psychiatrist played by actor Kiefer Sutherland (of 24 fame).

But the above is like saying Melville’s Moby Dick is about a big fish.

Truth is, Dark City is about the inside of your own mind.

Here’s how I see it:

The “Strangers” are your unconscious.

They cause you to go “asleep” and become addictive to people, places, things. They also cause you to remember your life inaccurately and incompletely. The Strangers are pulling your strings. You don’t know it because they are hidden from you. When they want you to do something, they make you go unconscious. This is your life. Like the people in the movie, Dark City, you and they have no clue any of this is going on. None. You do things and then wonder why you did them. Others do things and you wonder why they did them.

“Murdoch” is your conscious mind.

It’s the part of you that is awakening but remains confused. It’s the part of you reading this right now. It askes why you keep doing things that hurt you, whether overeat or overdrink or remain addicted to sex or cigars or watermelons or whatever. You (Murdoch) want to control the show (your life), but you can’t seem to grab the bull (the Strangers) by the horn. It’s a constant struggle. You have moments where you seem to control life, but then you lose the power and you’re back in the struggle. Sometimes you awaken after eating a pie (when you said you were dieting). Sometimes you awaken after having an argument with someone (who you said you loved), and now you can’t figure out why you blew a gasket. This is the eternal frustration.

So, how do you break free?

How do you clean your unconscious of the strangers and take control of your life?

How do you create a world of your liking, and not one where you’re the main puppet?

In the movie, Sutherland plays the role of the aware but weak psychiatrist who teaches Murdoch how to control his own mind. Control his will and he can control the strangers. Control his mind and he can direct his intention to do what seems impossible. Of course, Murdoch does this. By the movie’s end, he creates a whole new world, right down to a beautiful Sunset Beach.

The moral of the story for me is this:

You can take control of the “dark city” inside your mind by consciously using your powers of will to awaken.

It may not happen overnight (and then again, maybe it will).

But it can happen, if you work at it.

This was the purpose of The Mental Toughness Institute which helped me lose 80 pounds.

It’s also the message in Steve Siebold’s masterpiece of a book, 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class. www.govesiebold.com

It’s also the message in the now famous viral movie, The Secret. www.whatisthesecret.tv

It’s also the message in the Manifestation Weekend www.BeyondManifestation.com I held recently.

It’s also the message in the monthly DVD that Scott York and I just released. www.mrfiremeltdown.com

John Murdoch is you.

And you can awaken from the hold of the strangers.

Go Conscious.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS — Two more tools for awakening: An author/teacher/speaker I love who works with the “Dark City” of your mind is Debbie Ford www.DebbieFord.com And the audio recording Pat O’Bryan and I just released can help you clean and clear the “Strangers” in your mind. It’s described at www.milagroresearchinstitute.com/iloveyou.htm

PPS – A Disclaimer: I loved the movie Dark City for the great acting (William Hurt, Sutherland), plot, soundtrack, imaginative sets, hidden messages and more. But you may not like it at all. The purpose of this blog post isn’t to sell you on the movie, but to sell you on awakening. Go Conscious. Thank you. I love you.
PPPS – Most of us are like the kitty in this video:

Scott York came to my home gym yesterday www.gladiatorgym.com and lit the torch under my butt.

It was day one of filming for our monthly DVD described at www.mrfiremeltdown.com

I was a nervous wreck before we began. I didn’t know what to expect.

Would Scott be a Navy Seals take-no-prisoners trainer?

Would he ask me countless marketing questions while I panted for air?

I’m relieved to say I survived it.

Scott taught me his unusual 30-minute fitness routine – the one he used to lose 45 pounds.

He also spent time picking my brains about marketing.

I surprised him by some of the things I revealed about marketing and publicity.

He surprised me by teaching me that I don’t have to starve to lose weight quickly and easily. That was good news, as just the day before I was feeling light headed from cutting back on my food and carbs. Scott pointed out that you don’t need to suffer to lose weight and get fit.

And I pointed out that people can succeed with marketing if they do a few things consistently, like model the great showman, P.T. Barnum, who knew the value of publicity. (I wrote about Barnum in my book, There’s A Customer Born Every Minute.)

This is gonna be one collectible, unusual, and unforgettable DVD.

The marketing-fitness site went live yesterday morning at www.mrfiremeltdown.com

Anyone interested in fitness marketing should probably take a look at it.

But I believe anyone wanting to know marketing for fitness centers or wanting a marketing plan for fitness centers or even people who want marketing software, especially personal trainers, would want this new DVD of the month.

I think you can call it Marketing with Muscle.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS — Scott just emailed me one of the workouts he wants me to do. You’ll get to see me do them on the monthly DVD. These are so intense that you may lose weight just watching me workout!

The new members-only monthly DVD I’ve been promising to tell you about went live three minutes ago.

You can learn how to drop weight and get fit AS you learn the inner secrets of marketing by following me once a month on a special members only DVD.

It’s all explained at www.MrFireMeltdown.com

This is the biggest and boldest thing I’ve ever done…and you can be one of only 500 people to watch and learn from every step of this new adventure.

I’m nervous and excited about this, but what can I do now? The site is live.

There’s no turning back now.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – This is marketing with muscle.

I’m going to tell you my ultimate writing secret.

I’ve never revealed it before.

I’m willing to bet no writer alive or dead ever used this method.

Shakespeare didn’t do it.

Hemingway didn’t do it.

Your favorite novelist or copywriter doesn’t do it.

But I do.

And it’s the main reason my books, sales letters, articles, emails, websites and even blog posts seem to keep people riveted to my words.

It’s not the words…but what I am doing as I write the words.

It’s one of the reasons my books become #1 bestsellers and my sales letters melt down the walls of resistance in people and break all known profit records.

So here’s my ultimate writing secret:

As I am writing anything — including this very blog entry — I am silently chanting three magic phrases in my mind.

I am not writing the magic phrases. You won’t find them in this post. But I am saying them, silently, in the back of my mind, as I write these words to you.

If you’d like to know what the three magic phrases are, take a moment and poke your head in the door over at www.milagroresearchinstitute.com/iloveyou.htm

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS — I silently chanted the three magic phrases as I wrote this post and I am saying them in my mind right now as I write this PS. Can you guess what the three lines are? If so, or if not, go see www.milagroresearchinstitute.com/iloveyou.htm