Dr. Joe Vitale’s Blog

You can see me in downtown Austin, Texas taking a tour of a small cigar shop. You can also see cigars being hand rolled here. These are in four parts, all filmed by my dear friend Mark Ryan. Go see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3TUR-YhrJc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFSKCxSGbo0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUsvH-cSutk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqDjeoeVe_A

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

 Marketing tip:

Say something different.

Coffee, for the most part, is just coffee.

I gave it up for two years, didn’t notice a difference in my health or feeling, and returned to it with gusto.

I enjoy trying different kinds. A few days ago we were shopping and I noticed a packet of coffee called “Red Eye.” 

It’s coffee “not for wimps!”

It’s coffee “with an attitude!”

So says the package, anyway.

I loved the playful arrogance of the sales copy.

So I bought it.

Now, marketing can often get you to try a product once, but if it sucks, you won’t buy it again.

Did I like this product?

No – I love Red Eye brew coffee!

I even went online and ordered more, an entire keg* of it, as well as a t-shirt.

Lesson: Coffee is coffee unless the marketing suggests it’s better than other coffee.

This is the beginning of Hypnotic Writing.

A realtor could use this principle:  “A realtor with attitude!”

So could a dry-cleaner: “A dry-cleaner with attitude!”

So could a singer: “A singer with attitude!”

Further Lesson: Your product or service better live up to its marketing.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – Get your very own all natural Red Eye Brew at www.stewarts.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=15470&Category_Code=

* A keg? I’m kidding. 🙂

 After my recent request to raise funds to help Kirk — the seven year old boy who had a stroke shortly after birth — we managed to raise over $17,000 so he could have the Quadriciser, the machine he needed to help him train his body and mind on how to move.

Kirk has his machine now and that’s him using it.

Note his smile.

Note that you helped make this possible.

His mother wrote the following to me the day the machine was set up:

“The Quadriciser is all set and ready to go…

We put Kirk in, made sure he was comfortable, and we turned it on!

What happened next was so funny!

Kirk’s eyes got really BIG as his arms AND legs moved then he looked at me and his eyes said, “WOW! So this is what it is like when everything works!”

He watched his legs then he watched his arms (he was very quiet), then he would look at me and then he would watch his body move and move and keep moving!

Then, the unexpected happened.

The stimulation of having his legs and arms move put a smile on his face and he started to respond to the movement!

We have LOTS of work to do, but now all the tools are in place…thanks to YOU :-)”

She later sent an email saying, “Kirk says, ‘Look at me move, Joe!!!!! Thank you Joe! Thank you everybody! My smile says how much I love you !!!”

I hope you sense the love coming your way from a little boy you helped.

He loves unconditionally.

He’s a model for all of us.

I am grateful.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – My original post about Kirk is at http://blog.mrfire.com/health/kirk-loves-you/ and my follow-up is at http://blog.mrfire.com/secret/kirks-gift/ You can still contribute to Kirk’s healing fund at www.amazingkirk.com Thank you. I love you, too.

 Here are some photos taken at the recent National Speakers Association convention where I spoke before 2,000 professional speakers on Inspired Marketing.

This is where I told them about Zero Limits and received a standing ovation. These wonderful people treated me like a rock star, making me feel like Elvis.

 I have no idea what I’m smiling about here.

 2,ooo people!

 Yes, I’m talking to you.

Ao Akua,

joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – All photos by photographybydov.com

Steve Chandler, author of the excellent new book, 100 Ways to Create Wealth, sent me the below email (used here with his kind permission):

I just finished Zero Limits, and I loved it that Hew Len got to ‘kill the Divine’ near the end…..as you know (and I love your persona in the book…the enlightened skeptic! everyman!) even ‘the Divine’ is a human CONCEPT, a story, in other words, and therefore it is interfering with ZERO.

BUT, as your master told you, just like your earlier books, it is a STEPPING STONE to ZERO…..you have to evolve up the spiral of spiritual evolution (itself a concept: awakeness on the way to zero) through such levels and your books boost and boost people up and up and you have to master INTENTION before you master NO INTENTION/just Inspiration, and then there’s something even better after that.

Zero Limits is a huge gift to the world, and you have ‘translated’ Hew Len through hard writer’s work (I know) so that the average seeker can experience him through the eyes of a lovable skeptic and therefore GET HIM!”

Thank you, Steve.  🙂

If you haven’t read Zero Limits yet, you can still do so. It’s in book stores, on www.amazon.com and www.bn.com and even as an audio book on www.itunes.com  

Also, Steve’s books are fantastic. I strongly recommend The Story of You as well as his latest one.

To a life of Zero Limits…

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – Still thinking about registering for the Zero Limits Group Coaching Program? Have questions? Go look at the details at: http://zero-limits-coaching.com The program starts this coming Wednesday the 25th. Expect miracles.