Dr. Joe Vitale’s Blog

The following are photographic clues as to my whereabouts. I’ve mentioned several times that I am on a speaking tour. Right now I’m parked in one location. The first person to leave a comment accurately guessing where I am wins a signed copy of my recent bestseller, The Key. www.unlock-the-secret.com Good luck.

Psychologists sometimes use the controversial Rorschach ink blot test to see what is inside a person’s unconscious mind. You look at an odd blot of ink and quickly announce what you think you see. It can be surprising and revealing.

Yesterdays’s blog post seems to be a type of ink blot test: people responded to things that weren’t even there. A few people even got angry, which I find surprising and revealing.

For example, I made no direct comments about my fellow Secret co-stars and why they escaped the San Diego fires; I also made no direct comments about those who were harmed by the fires.

What I did say was I found it “interesting” and I invited readers to consider asking a different question about the experience.

From there, the blog post was interpreted depending on the readers’s mindset.

Considering the few people who seemed upset, it seems under their feeling is the idea that victims and victimhood are real; there is such a thing as powerlessness and bad luck; no amount of healing or cleaning or clearing can help.

I find that mentality to be the real problem.

Too often people say “luck” — whether good or bad — is the trump card in life.

Yet I tend to view luck as a scapegoat. We seem to use it when we don’t understand why something happened. We chalk up an event “to luck.”

But I’m suggesting you are more directly responsible for your life then you ever before imagined. You’re simply calling your unconscious involvement in life “luck.”

This is where we need to awaken.

It’s not awakening to more blame, more criticism, more powerlessness.

It’s awakening to your responsibility for all that occurs in your life.

All of it.

“If it’s never our fault, we can’t take responsibility for it. If we can’t take responsibility for it, we’ll always be its victim.”
– Richard Bach

Ao Akua,

joe
www.mrfire.com

PS — But maybe all of the above is wrong and I’m just a victim, too. I wonder which thought is more powerful, feels better, and will lead to more positive, concrete, life-enhancing results?

 I’m still on the road on a speaking tour but just learned that my latest book The Key is #1 on Google News. Gotta love it. 🙂 You can still get it and about $5,000 in goodies over at www.unlock-the-secret.com Pass the word.

 My favorite singer-songwriter — who performed one of her amazing house parties for me recently — is being nominated for a Grammy music award. You can help her win it. Here’s what Michelle Malone asks in her recent newsletter:

After 20 years of recording and touring with other wonderfully talented Grammy winners like John Mayer and Indigo Girls, I finally made it onto the Grammy ballot with my 9th CD “Sugar Foot” –  I might finally win a GRAMMY!! 

And you can help!

I need your vote to remain on the contemporary blues ballot. Please help spread the word! It’s really important to me.  If you have any time to send out a few emails to any friends you may have who might be voting NARAS members, I would greatly appreciate it! Let’s win one for the independents!

*Remember, votes must be in by Wed NOV 7th**

In Gratitude,

Michelle Malone

www.michellemalone.com 

www.myspace.com/michellemalonemusic

“Sugarfoot is as raw, magnificent, dirty and low down as anything you’ll ever wanna hear in blues music – our blues-breaker CD for the week”
– Dan “Elwood” Aykroyd, House of Blues Radio Hour
 
“Adventurous, slithery and ebullient slide – sings and plays with cool confidence throughout ala Bonnie Raitt and Shelby Lynn” – The Blues Revue
 
“Malone’s “Sugarfoot will take you down to the crossroads and send you back dazed, disheveled and half-naked.”—Harp

“Sugarfoot is a Top 10 blues release of 2006 – Malone’s rich vocals blew me away. Bonnie Raitt you better start sweating now. Great range, too. She’s bursting with attitude and stomping like a prettier Janis Joplin  – straight up slide guitar rock that’ll “drop you to your knees” It’s pure ear candy with a shot of Bourbon.”      – The Blues Critic

“Dirty south, bluesy rock.  Sweet slide guitar.  You’ll feel the earth move under your bare feet – a Top 50 release of 2006” – Pop Matters
 
“Malone’s gritty, emotive vocals and sinewy arrangements that most emphatically define her. She wails like the devil’s on her tail, but she isn’t waiting for Satan to catch up before she catches fire”        – Amplifier Magazine 

“Sugarfoot mixes grit, sass, soul and some sweet balladry into such a kick-butt collection, you’d think she was the daughter of George Thorogood and Susan Tedeschi.” -Star Tribune(Minneapolis)

“Generally stripped-back, but featuring terrific support, Michelle Malone is as well-rounded as she is supremely talented.”   –Hittin’ the Note

 I’m on a speaking tour but noticed yesterday that my latest book The Key became the number one bestselling self-help book at Amazon. Still is, according to rankings as I type this. You can get the book for yourself or as gifts for others from book stores or online. But to claim over $5,000 in gifts, be sure to see www.unlock-the-secret.com Just sharing. 🙂