Dr. Joe Vitale’s Blog

I’m getting ready to lead “The Secret of Money” event all day out here in Wimberley, Texas, but first wanted to report that last night’s private house concert with Michelle Malone was fantastic.

She’s a brilliant songwriter, riveting singer, and a charming southern gal that we all loved to be with.

She even let me sit in and play my harmonica on one song. Way cool.

Since I’m in a hurry, I’ll let the pictures do the talking this time around.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – I didn’t have my reading glasses on when I was looking at one of Michelle’s CD’s. So I thought a song called Moanin Coat was called Moanin Goat. Michelle and my guests thought that was pretty funny.

How do you know when you’ve made it?

How do you know when you’ve achieved success?

I’m not sure any of us have a true benchmark inside ourselves, as we all keep wanting more.

I want more, too, but I’m doing something tonight that is making me realize I have truly arrived in the world.

What I’m doing is more important to me than all of my books.

Or being on Larry King.

Or being in the movie The Secret.

Or buying Francine, my 2005 Panoz Esperante GTLM luxury sports car.

Well, maybe what I’m doing tonight isn’t really better than Francine, but you get the idea.

So what am I doing tonight?

I’ve hired one of my favorite musicians to play a private concert in my home.

I’m a big fan of Michelle Malone, an Atlanta rock-folk singer with passion. I’ve never seen her perform or ever spoken to her. But I buy all her CD’s and more. I’m a fan.

When I learned she was playing concerts in Texas, I wrote her office and asked about a private show in my home. Michelle emailed back, gave me a price, and I agreed to it.

And now she’s playing here tonight for me and a handful of select friends.

To put this in perspective, I recall being at a friend’s house about thirty years ago. I was broke. He needed to buy a tape player to hear a talk his wife gave the night before. He went out and bought it. The recorder cost maybe fifty bucks. To me, what he did was what I wanted to be able to do: write a check for fifty bucks for something I wanted. That would have been “making it” for me at that time in my life.

Today, being able to hire my favorite musician to play in my living room is a sign I’ve made it in the world.

I still want more, though.

As a friend in Maui says, “I’m totally satsified, I just want more!”

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – Reminder: The Larry King Live show on how to change your life by changing your mind will air Nov 2 and Nov 16th. I’m on the second one. Watch both. It airs on CNN. It also airs on CNN International. Tell the world.

Melanie Panoz, the wife of Dan Panoz (creator of the Panoz car company), just told me the story of how my Panoz Esperante GTLM sports car got it’s name:

“Both Dan & I were part of a charity organization called “Dare to Share” to help raise funds for kids locally and nationally for several years. We have raffled off an Esperante each year and “Francine” was won by a gentleman in San Antonio. The real Francine is the Chairperson of Dare to Share here in Braselton, GA, so she named the car. She is a phenomenal lady with such passion and drive to help those less fortunate and she works relentlessly to make sure she raises as much money as she can. “

I knew Francine was special.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS — The gentleman who won Francine couldn’t pay the taxes for her, so I paid his taxes, gave him a huge profit, and got Francine for a pretty nice song. I love win-win-wins like that. He’s happy, the IRS is happy, I’m happy – and, ohhhhhh yessssss, Francine is happy, too.

Reminder: The Larry King Live show on how to change your life by changing your mind will air Nov 2 and Nov 16th. I’m on the second one. Watch both. It airs on CNN. It also airs on CNN International. Tell the world.

Someone took a Panoz Esperante sports car and turned it into a flying car.

I didn’t believe it, either, but here’s the picture and the whole story is over at www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/1751557.html?page=1

Francine says she prefers ground travel, thank you.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – The Panoz company owners wrote me yesterday, thanking me in advance for mentioning their cars on the upcoming Larry King show. Had I known about their flying cars, I may have mentioned those, too.

Reminder: The Larry King Live show on how to change your life by changing your mind will air Nov 2 and Nov 16th. I’m on the second one. Watch both. It airs on CNN. It also airs on CNN International. Tell the world.

While the panelists gathered at the CNN offices in LA to prep for our Larry King interview last week, one excited guest said, “I’ve been visualizing this moment for over six years!”

“Really?” I asked. “I only began visualizing this two weeks ago.”

He studied me for a moment, no doubt recalulating his opinion of me. Once he realized I was kidding, he smiled.

But here’s the truth —

I never visualized being on Larry King.

Not once.

I’m elated to be on his show, but visualizing it had nothing to do with it.

Not that visualizing doesn’t work. It does. It’s been proven so many times it’s ridiculous to even question it.

But I’ve found something more powerful:

Love.

All I’m doing these days is silently saying “I love you” all the time.

I mean all the time.

I learned the power of this “technique” from Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, the therapist who helped cure an entire ward of mentally ill criminals with ho’oponopono. (See my article on him at http://snipurl.com/DrLen or www.mrfire.com/article-archives/new-articles/worlds-most-unusual-therapist.html )

At the heart of his method is simply saying the phrase “I love you.”

I say it all the time, as much as I can remember.

I say it on turbulent flights, before and during talks or interviews, when I’m writing blog posts like this or marketing documents like sales letters, or whenever I sense or feel something or someone I’d prefer would change, and so on.

I’ve learned that as I stay in the moment, feeling and expressing love, the flower of life unfolds.

And I end up on Larry King.

Or with a Panoz Esperante GTLM exotic sports car named Francine.

“I love you.”

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS — The dark picture above is from the incredible dinner the panelists and CNN staff had at the Pennisula Hotel Restaurant in Beverly Hills after our Larry King taping. It was an amazing evening. No one at that dinner got out the door without seeing a picture of Francine.

PPS – If you want help in saying “I love you” all the time, look here: www.milagroresearchinstitute.com/iloveyou.htm Enjoy.

Reminder: The Larry King Live show on how to change your life by changing your mind will air Nov 2 and Nov 16th. I’m on the second one. Watch both. It airs on CNN. Tell the world.