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I’m in San Diego at the National Speakers Association event. Arrived in time to hear Randy Gage give a hypnotic presentation on the three main causes of lack programming: government, religion, and media.

They don’t know they are programming us and we don’t know it’s happening – not until someone like Randy Gage stands and shakes us.

I loved that Randy says if you’re not paying more for your shoes than you used to pay for a car, you’re not thinking with a prosperity consciousness.

Look up Randy. Get his stuff.

Awaken from the trance.

And get a new pair of shoes.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – Marci Shimoff from the movie The Secret came over and said hi. She’s reading my new book Zero Limits and gets it. She also said I am very brave to deliver this information. Not everyone will understand the third level of awakening, and will take it out on me. How perceptive she is. Cool lady. Look her up, too.

Now that Zero Limits the book is an official Top 100 bestseller on www.amazon.com and the audio version is an official bestseller on www.itunes.com in the Audio Books section, the reviews are flying in.

Some of them are hilarious, like the person who didn’t even read the book but flipped through it for 15 minutes in a book store and then “reviewed” it, saying it was all hype.

Or another “reviewer” who said Dr. Hew Len doesn’t exisit, that I created him as a literary device. (!)

Most people declare the book to be a life transforming read.

But others say it’s just packed with sales pitches for more stuff.

The latter confuses me.

I looked through the book and didn’t see any sales pitches at all. There certainly are links for more information, much like in these blog posts, but not sales copy to go buy anything.

In a later chapter in Zero Limits I describe some products I created because I had been cleaning, clearing and giving. My zeroing out limits within me opened me to receive money-making ideas.

Those were examples of how wealth can be generated. After all, the subtitle of the book includes wealth as a topic.

I suppose some people interpreted those well intended examples as pitches.

I was with friends over the weekend and I told them all of the above. They pointed out how people are sensitive to my success, that it makes them more aware of their not trying or not succeeding. It’s easier to blame me than to take responsibility for themselves.

Someone remembered the famous quote by German physics professor Georg Christoph Lichtenberg,

“A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can’t expect an apostle to look out.”

We began to have fun imagining people sitting around their homes and bad mouthing me when they saw “yet another” email from my hand, saying things like, “There goes that hypster Joe Vitale selling something else AGAIN!” or “He just wants another Panoz car!”

We had a good laugh and let it go.

But as the weekend evolved, and we were looking for some things online, we saw opportunity to imagine how skeptical minds would react to what we were doing.

For example…

I wanted to find out what the famous song writer and singer Jackson Browne was up to, so we googled his name.

We found his site, saw he wasn’t touring, but saw his online store. You can buy shirts, Cd’s, song books, etc.

So naturally we pretended to be one of my critics and we declared, “Look at that Jackson Browne! Selling more things– even SHIRTS!”

That conversation led to us looking for a Winslow, Arizona site, since Jackson wrote a famous song called “Take It Easy” (which the Eagles made famous), mentioning that city in it.

Sure enough there’s a site the town has up for the famous line in the song “standin on the corner”. And when you browse it, you see they are selling stuff, such as bricks that you can have your name engraved on and then placed on the corner in Winslow, Arizona.

We could imagine people throwing up their arms in disgust and screaming, “Oh my God! The city is selling BRICKS!”

And later Nerissa said she had some old records that Thomas Edison put on the market long ago. Everyone thought they might be valuable. But there were so many records issued during that time period that the things are barely worth a dollar each today.

That led to us jokingly declaring, “Edison was a WHORE!”

We could do this all night, of course.

Many people do it all their lives.

They critique rather than create.

I wrote a blog post a while back about the difference between selling and serving. It goes like this:

If you want the information someone tells you about, you’ll say the person offering it is serving you.

If you don’t want the information being offered to you, you’ll say the person offering it is selling.

Well, is it serving or selling?

It depends on their motivation and your interpretation.

I’m doing my best to serve people.

But what you decide is entirely up to you.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS — I hope this post serves you. If you want to read more, see Thresholds of Deservingness at http://blog.mrfire.com/uncategorized/thresholds-is-it-serving-or-selling/ Hey, I’m just trying to help here. (At no charge, at that.)

I’m speaking in San Diego next week at the National Speakers Association annual convention.

About 1,500+ people are expected to attend my presentation on Inspired Marketing. 

I figured I better go get a haircut so I look my best.

After the haircut — being bald, it didn’t take long — I walked down the street to a book store.

I love book stores. They are my favorite places in the world. Walking. Browsing. Relaxing. It’s all heaven to me.

As I wandered, I came across a new book on display called Why Good Things Happen to Good People by Stephen Post and Jill Neimark.

It’s about the new research proving the link between doing good and living a longer, healthier and happier life.

Since I just told you about contributing to the Amazing Kirk fund yesterday, this book and its research seemed timely.

Plus I’m a book addict and can’t pass up a good one, even when I have 150 books stacked up to read at home.

Why Good Things Happen to Good People talks about doing good in other ways besides giving money.

For example, I opened the book at random to the chapter on forgiveness. I was stunned to see how it ties in to some of the messages in my latest book, Zero Limits.

Stories about people who were accidentally shot and permanently disabled, or beaten and raped, who managed to forgive their assailants anyway, are inspiring.

And the book offers solid research — fifty studies at forty-four major universities — to support the idea that unconditional forgiving leads to a happier, healthier you.

Forgiving is a way to do good.

And as you practice forgiveness, you get better.

I later jumped to the front of the book and was delighted to see the first chapter titled, “Find the Fire.” (You know, my moniker is Mr. Fire, so it seemed destined.) 🙂

In that chapter the authors declare, “The remarkable bottom line of the science of love is that giving protects overall health twice as much as aspirin protects against heart disease.”

Whether you read the book or not, keeping in mind that there are other ways to do good besides giving money is a powerful way to remind you of your choices in life.

Give love.

Live longer, happier and healthier.

Sounds like a good deal to me.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – If you’re interested in the National Speakers Association event in San Diego next week, visit www.nsaspeaker.org/sandiego/index.shtml Hope to see you there.

News Flash:  Zero Limits became an Amazon Top 100 bestseller yesterday. That’s the third time. The first two times were due to pre-orders for the book. Now that the book is for sale on www.amazon.com and www.bn.com and headed into a book store near you, it is selling even more, and faster. Look out New York Times!

Google has a tool called “Hot Trends” that shows you the top 100 searches per day. I think this is useful information. It’s always good to know what is on the public’s mind, and then find a way to tie you, your product, or service, to it. Here is today’s list of Hot Trends.

Hot Trends (USA). Jul 3, 2007

1. cloverfield
2. david ritcheson
3. cloverfield movie
4. bad robot
5. cloverfield trailer
6. megan fox
7. jj abrams
8. stone phillips
9. eutube
10. dracula s castle
11. ready to rumble
12. life style
13. nick lachey
14. transformers 2
15. beverly sills
16. resultat bac 2007 algerie
17. argentavis magnificens
18. film lovers will love this!
19. alvin henry
20. eu youtube
21. نتائج شهادة البكالوريا
22. nick lachey and vanessa minnillo
23. india vs pakistan
24. transformers sequel
25. david richardson
26. j.j. abrams
27. david henry tuck
28. transformers cast
29. carmella decesare
30. rashard lewis
31. clinton pardons
32. transformers reviews
33. cupcake baking arts scholarship
34. jeff garcia s wife
35. transformers soundtrack
36. national precast concrete association scholarship
37. society of vacuum coaters scholarship
38. gentleman chris adams
39. foundation of flexographic technical association scholarship
40. press tv
41. 1/18/08
42. phished
43. sean sherk
44. arthur agee
45. myspace phishing
46. optimus prime
47. sly stone
48. dominic habsburg
49. نتائج بكالوريا 2007
50. valerie plame
51. peter cullen
52. new godzilla movie
53. rajdeep sardesai
54. 1 18 08
55. see spot run
56. prince vlad
57. mp3sparks.com
58. april bowlby
59. cricket.com
60. nick lachey sex photos
61. kwik e mart
62. transformers characters
63. carmella garcia
64. daisy lowe
65. colleen haskell
66. prince vlad the impaler
67. derek fisher
68. excellence in predicting the future award
69. marge simpson
70. trailers before transformers
71. niurka marcos playboy
72. autobots
73. tatyana ali
74. youtube europe
75. starscream
76. passhe
77. bac2007.dz
78. cloverfield jj abrams
79. quints
80. horney manatee
81. 1/18/08 movie
82. transformers wikipedia
83. grandcentral
84. mallory dylan
85. transformers wallpaper
86. libby
87. biff wellington
88. colin jackson
89. lewis libby
90. eu tube
91. lal masjid
92. val puccio
93. carlos slim
94. life style nick lachey
95. marc rich
96. bernini
97. wendy rice
98. trees
99. how to be happy
100. turners syndrome

I have no idea what many of those search terms mean, so I feel way out of the loop on what the public is interested in these days.

But that doesn’t mean I can’t go to Google’s Hot Trends, do some research, and then either write about one of the hot searches of the day or in some relevant way comment on it. By doing so, I may increase my own blog’s rankings in the search engines.

Who knows, maybe “Joe Vitale” will end up on Hot Trends one day.

You can do your own research at www.google.com/trends/hottrends 

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS — Two of my out of print classics are available for free until July 5th at: http://landofthefreee.com They are:

– Unspoken Marketing Secrets: A private collection of controversial truisms. This information is extremely powerful.

– Zen & Art of Writing: Written in 1984, contains the best techniques, suggestions, ideas and practical methods for improving
writing and creative abilities. It’s the result of 10 years research, study and experimentation in the creative process. It was also my first book.

 See the child in the picture?

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.”