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Mindy Audlin is one of my favorite people.

She’s charming, smart, upbeat, and a remarkable speaker and teacher. We held an event together two years ago where I first learned about her What If Up game.

It was life changing.

The best way to understand how it works is to realize the favorite question of the mind is “What if?”

But for most of us that question is asked in a negative, or down, way.

We ask “What if this doesn’t work out?” or “What if I lose my job?” or “What if I’m wrong?”

Obviously, that negative seeking question doesn’t feel good, and leads to attracting the fears it focuses on.

But Mindy asks you to do a what if UP.

You might ask, “What if this works out beautifully?” or “What if there was never a problem in the first place?” or “What if I get a raise?” or “What if my idea makes me a millionaire?”

This single adjustment in how you ask a question transforms you, your energy, and the very answers you get.

The idea is to look for new possibilities by letting your mind be free. When you do this, you feel fantastic. You also send this new energy into the Universe as an order or request.

I recently attended one of Mindy’s local (Wimberley, Texas) What If Up parties. That’s where people break into groups of five or so and take turns What If Up-ing each other. It’s very juicy and even addictive (in a positive way).

For example, when it was my turn, I said I want the infomercial coming out this week for The Awakening Course to be a top seller in the self-help market.

When you state your goal or problem, you’re not allowed to explain it or tell your story around it. It’s not needed. You simply state your desire and let the magic begin.

So I stated mine about wanting my infomercial to be a hit.

Someone instantly said, “What if it is the number one bestseller in all categories?”

Someone else said, “What if it is the number one bestseller of this century?”

Another said, “What if it is the number one bestselling infomercial in all of history!?”

At this point I was feeling electricity pumping through my veins.

Mindy explains that the exercise isn’t to create a to-do list. You don’t make notes or how-tos or to-dos.

The point is to raise your energy, get into the feeling of what you want, and let that experience attract the end result to you.

You still take action, of course, but it’s inspired action. 

It comes from that place within you that feels great and naturally unfolds. You don’t have to make yourself do it; you want to do it.

A beautiful side benefit of doing the what if up exercise a few times is it changes your thinking.

Suddenly you start asking what if up questions in your head rather than what if down questions.

Check this out at www.whatifup.com You’ll find more information there, including how to host your own What If Up dinner party.

What if the site is the coolest thing you saw today?

What if it changed your life for the better instantly?

What if?

Ao Akua,

Joe

PS — The seminar Mindy and I conducted was called The Secret of Money. See www.mindyaudlin.com/secretofmoney.htm 

Note: This Tuesday will be the release of the all new edition of The Attractor Factor. What if it becomes the book of the year for you? For Oprah? For the world? What if???

You’ve been hearing about my new audioprogram The Awakening Course for a month or more. And you’ve been hearing that I have an infomercial for it, which begins testing on television in select markets this weekend. Well, you can see the infomercial right now, by going to http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7709418618355520198
or by clicking on the below image. It’s 29 minutes. It’s high energy and informative. It may change your life forever. Enjoy.

Mandy Evans is in town training my Miracles Coaches in her special coaching mojo, which has worked for me for decades.

Last night we had dinner. I was telling her about some hard decisions I had to make, one about my project to end homelessness and the other about a home we were considering buying, and I was inviting her feedback.

She explained that a client of hers only does “yes’s”.

That means that when he is faced with a decision, he asks himself, “Is it a yes, no, or maybe?”

In other words, does he get an instant inner feeling that no he should not do it, or maybe he should, or, yes it’s a doer?

He doesn’t do any no’s or maybe’s.

I love this simple method for cutting through all the decision making and worrying.

As I looked at each of my decisions, I asked myself “Is it a yes, no, or maybe?”

It was instantly liberating.

In the case of the house, I got a no.

I wanted it to be a yes, but the house wasn’t exactly right, despite great views and location and more.

I’m still open to a new house, of course, just not that particular one.

In the other case I was thinking about the city I am invited to launch Operation YES in.

My first response when thinking about it was a queasy one.

I felt dread.

When I asked if it was a yes, no, or maybe, I got a clear no.

That made me feel lighter.

But then I realized if I adjusted a few things, and got more support, I could then go into the tentative city to launch Operation YES, and my answer would now be a yes.

As you can see, asking if a choice is a yes, no, or maybe gives you instant clarity.

From there, you can reshape your decision, or your request, or just let it go.

For Mandy, and for me, life is about following your inner guidance system.

Your inner guidance system is (in my words) the Divine leading your way.

It shows up in your life as that “yes” feeling you get when you are considering a choice.

Follow that and all is well in the most beautiful, magical, even miraculous way.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – Mandy is teaching  one of her famous Breakout seminars in October. Go to www.mandyevans.com and see if it is a YES for you to attend.

ABC, CBS, Fox and many national television news shows are interested in my movement to stop homelessness, called Operation YES.

They want to hand me a family that has lost their home, or is about to, and have me work with them as they televise the process.

I’m game. I want to prove that any situation can be changed by handling your belief system, focusing on what you want, consciously implementing the law of attraction, and taking action.

But while I’m eager to make this happen and help millions of people, I also know the people I talk to have to be ready to change.

For example, one news station found a woman who had lost her voice box due to cancer, and then her job.

She has four kids and no way to talk to them. She now writes to them on a white board.

Her husband quit his job to help her, and now they may lose their home.

I asked for more details. I could see from the video footage the news station sent me that the woman is strong. She wrote “I am a fighter” on her white board and showed the camera. I’m convinced she can find new income and save her home with some direction and support.

But I wanted to know more about the husband.

As I wrote in my book The Attractor Factor, if two people are involved in a project, both have to be clear for them to achieve their intended result. If one isn’t, he or she could hold up progress.

So I asked about the husband.

The reporter was impressed at my “astuteness,” as she said the husband was the weak link.

He quit his job when he didn’t have to. Neighbors were willing to drive the woman to her doctor appointments, and help with her children.

If I worked with this couple, I’d have to see that the husband was open to change. Apparently he isn’t, as the news reporters themselves told me so. (The husband later wrecked the car.)

If I worked with the woman, but the husband resisted my help, there would be little if any permanent change.

But this isn’t an excuse to blame other people.

If you’re in a situation where you are struggling, ask yourself how you can get clear of the inner issues in you causing the struggle.

As I’ve explained in my book Zero Limits, and in The Key, the issues aren’t with other people or outer circumstances: they are with you.

Get clear within you and those people will either change or move on.

I’m working on my own inner blocks so I can help anyone, even the husband who may be resistant.

Still, your “circle of support” (as I wrote about the other day) will uplift you or deflate you, depending on their mindset. 

If that woman got inspired because of my personal help, but then went home to her husband who ridiculed her or me, she’d have less energy to make a change. She could still make a change, but it’d be much tougher.

If you want to stop struggling, you need at least these things —

1. The decision to have something better.

2. Support to take new actions.

3. Clearing of your beliefs.

With those three steps you can change any situation. Again, it’s not the situation at issue. It’s your inner state.

And you can change that – with help.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – One way to get the uplifting support you need is with a coach. Check out my Miracles Coaches at www.miraclescoaching.com 

Note: I wrote about “circles of support” here: http://blog.mrfire.com/loa/circles-of-support/ 

  She met us at the door and smiled, her eyes twinkling and her smile charming.

Louise Hay is the queen of the new age, law of attraction, think-it-and-you’ll-attract-it movement.

Her books are classics, from Heal Your Body to Empowering Women.

She’s 81 years old young and as vibrant as a teenager.

Her I Can! events are sold out pep-fests where people get enough juice to last a year.

Louise is known as one of the founders of the self-help movement. Her first book, Heal Your Body, was published in 1976, long before it was fashionable to discuss the mind-body connection. It was revised and expanded in 1998. It’s still considered a classic today.

Louise has helped me personally over the decades, without her knowing it, with her messages of insight and uplift.

I used to read her question and answer section in the back of Science of Mind magazine. It helped me hang in there and focus on what I wanted. It worked, too. Look at me today. 🙂

Given all of the above, you can imagine my delight to be able to have an evening with Louise Hay.

She invited me and my personal fitness trainer, Scott York, to her multi-million dollar penthouse overlooking everything in San Diego.

We were there for the Steve Reeves film and fitness festival, and to finally see the 1976 Jag XJS I bought that was originally owned by Hercules.

But the car will have to wait for another post.

The view from Louise’s penthouse was spectacular.

She poured champagne for us while she pointed out the park, the ocean, the airport, and the other buildings.

She loves San Diego, saying, “It doesn’t have any humidity or bugs.”

She took us to dinner at another high rise location, where we could see planes come in over the top of office buildings as they landed at the in-city airport.

But the best part of all was getting to ask Louise questions.

Her joy in life is to find new authors and promote them to the world.

She’s very excited to have acquired Abraham, brought to you by my friends Jerry and Esther Hicks. Their latest book, Money and the Law of Attraction, is already a bestseller.

Louise travels a lot. She has offices all over the planet. She had only returned from Australia two days earlier when we met her. She didn’t seem travel weary at all, though. She radiated health. Scott and I had traveled from Austin to San Diego that very morning and showed more exhaustion than Louise.

She has an office, and an assistant, right in her penthouse.

She showed me some of her paintings, too, which I imagine is a rare treat. I had never heard of her art interests before.

Our conversation covered many topics, including health.

She said almost every health problem had to deal with anger and resentment.

When she got cancer, she realized she had to forgive in order to heal. She knew her issue was with her parents.

She looked at their childhood, saw how they had been raised, and was then better able to understand and forgive them.

As a result, she is cancer free.

Surprisingly, she didn’t know much about me or my work. To resolve that, I gave her copies of The Attractor Factor and The Key.

I also told her about Operation YES, my upcoming infomercial on The Awakening Course,  and other projects I’m involved in, including my upcoming Miracles Weekend.

Louise said she hadn’t heard anything about the Miracles Weekend. That’s when I realized I had marketed to my email list but not to San Diego. We can all use reminders. There’s always more we can do.

She let me pick from whatever book I wanted in her office and I chose Letters to Louise, which she autographed.

She offered a book to Scott, who said “You don’t have to do that.”

“I know I don’t have to,” Louise countered, smiling. “Are you just going to dismiss the good you are offered?” 

Of course, Scott then accepted a book.

I asked what she thought of all the movies coming out since The Secret.

She said there are more Indigo children born today, and they don’t like to read. They need visuals. As a result, she made her own movie, too, You Can Heal Your Life.

I told her about a female friend of mine suffering from tumors in her uterus. I asked what Louise would do.

She said forgiveness, a nutritionist and a good oriental doctor would help.

She added that most women don’t take care of themselves because they focus on others. She said my friend needs to express her creativity and love herself, too.

But what if someone isn’t willing to change?

“They have to be ready,” Louise asked.

“Can you make them ready?” I asked.

“No one knows why each of us has the challenges we do,” she explained. “They have their lessons and we have ours. You have to take care of you.”

I asked her what book influenced her the most.

She said The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Shinn. (Hay House now publishes it.)

I asked her what book she’s reading now.

She said Success Intelligence by Robert Holden. (She said the photo on the book made the author look like he was twelve years old.)

As I looked around her penthouse, and saw the museum quality furnishings, I thought she reeked of prosperity. But Louise said she’s never focused on money, saying “I just ask ‘How can I serve?'”

Her first book was a twelve page pamphlet. It evolved into her bestselling classic Heal Your Body.

Three hours later, I hugged and thanked Louise for the evening.

I felt as though I had sat with a legend and was torn between asking loads of questions or just sitting in gratitude.

So I did a little of both.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – I know the photo of Louise and me above sucks. (Left click on it to enlarge it.) You can blame it on being so close to the sun on top of her building or so close to her energy. Or both. Anyway, there is a better pic at www.louisehay.com Go see. Sign up for her newsletter on prosperity, too. It’s free. Are you going to accept the good you are offered or not? 🙂