Dr. Joe Vitale’s Blog

I just learned that the great Heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Patterson died. http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2006/05/12/sports-pattersontrib-05-12.html

I met Floyd more than thirty-five years ago, when I was an idolizing kid and he was a world famous but aging boxer.

I wrote about the experience in my book, Life’s Missing Instruction Manual www.lifesmissingmanual.com

Floyd gave nobility to a brutal sport. One writer said, “Patterson’s best teaching tool was simply being himself, a kind-hearted, generous gentleman who carried himself well in public, signing autographs, speaking at community centers, visiting local seniors and bringing holy communion to the housebound.”

I no longer care about boxing, and haven’t in decades, but I’ll never forget the kindness of the great Floyd Patterson.

He was one of my early heroes.

I miss him.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – Today is my father’s birthday. He took me to see Floyd when I was a kid. Thank you again for that, Dad.

This morning I met famous bodybuilder Lee Priest.

I didn’t know what to expect. Guys like him used to beat me up in high school.

But I’m a new man these days. Today I know bodybuilders and fitness models, once worked out with classic bodybuilding legend Frank Zane www.FrankZane.com, met actors James Caan and Ray Liotta in gyms, and more.

Still, when I went into the gym today, knowing I was going to meet a modern day award-winning bodybuilder, an old part of me expected to be treated like the fat boy of long ago.

But that didn’t happen.

Lee Priest is friendly, smart, clear eyed, clear headed and full of opinions, most of which show up raw and un-edited in his monthly DVD at www.bodybuildersreality.com

I gave him a copy of my book, The Attractor Factor www.AttractorFactor.com. He stood there in the gym and began to read it. I was impressed.

He asked me about my other books and asked me to bring him a copy of my recent book, Life’s Missing Instruction Manual www.lifesmissingmanual.com. He said he likes inspirational works.

Later I followed him to a grand opening of a smoothie shop in Round Rock, Texas, beside a popular Gold’s Gym. Again, he was warm and friendly, talking, joking, signing pictures, etc.

I couldn’t help but notice he is covered with tattoos, including one on his face. I pointed to the inside of his forearm, where the space was available, and offered to pay him if he would tattoo my website www.mrfire.com there. He laughed but he may not have known that I’m serious.

I got the tattoo marketing idea from the great Houdini, who once hired seven bald men to write a letter each on their heads, and then bow together so people could see that the bald heads spelled H-O-U-D-I-N-I.

I think having my website as a tattoo on Lee’s arm is a far better idea. Lee’s picture is taken all the time, and he’s in many fitness magazines, such as Muscular Development. That single ad-tattoo would get me a lot more mileage than Houdini’s seven bald guys.

Anyway, check out Lee’s monthly DVD membership site, run by our mutual friend Scott York, at www.BodyBuildersReality.com

It’s like a reality TV show for fans of bodybuilders and bodybuilding.

The site itself is well done, and is worth a look. You can always learn something new about marketing by studying websites that sell.

Go see for yourself.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – Heads up: I’m going to announce a new DVD of the month membership site of my own in a few days, aimed at anyone wanting to lose weight and get in shape while learning marketing. I think you’ll like it. Stay tuned to this channel for further details.

I just heard that the Internet was destroyed last night.

I’m shocked, too.

I’ll tell you about it in a moment, but first —

I’m reading a terrific new book called Idealized Design.

It’s by Russell L. Ackoff, Jason Magidson, and Herbert Addison. It’s a Wharton School Publishing book, which has been publishing some works of genius. (Note their earlier masterpiece, The Power of Impossible Thinking by Wind and Crook.) www.whartonsp.com

This is another one of them. It’s basically about how to create the future for your business (or your personal life) by focusing on what you desire and not on what you already have.

The book reminds me of The Attractor Factor www.attractorfactor.com but with a much more corporate focus. In fact, the book’s subtitle is “Creating an Organization’s Future.”

But the principles in the book are pure Attractor Factor and The Secret. www.whatisthesecret.tv

For example, one of their guidelines is “Focus on what you would like to have if you could have whatever you want ideally, not on what you do not want.”

My favorite part of the whole book (so far) is where you pretend that the business you want to improve was destroyed last night.

It’s gone.

Burned to the ground.

Obliterated.

Now you are in a wonderful place where you can envision how you wish the business would have been in an ideal world.

From your vision, you can work backward to figure out the steps needed to create it.

This re-engineering type of concept is brought to life in the most riveting way by Russell L. Ackoff, when he opens the book by telling the story of how a CEO of Bell Laboratories walked in one day and announced, “Gentlemen, the telephone system of the United States was destroyed last night.”

As a result of that announcement, which of course wasn’t true, the audience was able to free their minds to go on and create what we now take for granted, such as touch tone dialing, caller ID, speaker phones, etc.

So — If the Internet did in fact collapse last night, how would you rebuild it?

What would your vision look like?

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – I love the Internet. Anything goes. People can be wild, zany, outrageous, and more. If you haven’t heard about the person selling paintings of numbers (!), you simply have to take a look at http://www.onethousandpaintings.com/home/ Go see.

PPS – If you want to dream and drool, then go here and pick out a castle to buy and live in. http://www.wists.com/chateaux.html Hey, anything is possible. The great ad genius David Ogilvy lived in a castle in his later years. Dream BIG.

Yesterday I met Richard Garriott, called by many a Game God in the world of computer games and fantasy worlds. Richard is a magician, and we were in a meeting concerning magic and marketing. After the meeting, he gave me and a handful of others a brief tour of his gaming empire.

I’ve never played a computer game in my entire life, but I left Richard’s NCsoft Corp offices in Austin ready to fire up my PC and wear a new role in life.

The thing that fascinated me the most about Garriott — besides the fact that he began his empire while still a high school student — is how he creates games with twists.

For example, in one of the early Ultima games, Richard created a program that watched the decisions players made and then judged them as ethical or not. The player had no idea about this feature until the game was nearly over.

In another game Richard set up the user to fail. Most players are the heros who destroy the evil bad guys and gals. Well, in one game Richard set it up so you thought you were the good guy, but after your killing spree, you begin to realize you’re the bad guy.

I love these twists and turns and psychological mazes. I don’t know anything about games but I am now fascinated by the creativity behind some of them — at least the ones coming from the brain of Richard Garriott.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – Garriott’s site is at www.plaync.com His next game has taken five years to complete and the world is excited to see it. It’s called Tabula Rasa.

PPS – My June newsletter News You Can Use is now online at https://www.mrfire.com/a/june-06.html It answers such questions as — Who’s the shaman of hypnotherapy? – What is Sir Richard Branson’s motto for success? – What’s the story behind the famous Canine Concert?- How can you learn Hypnotic Marketing where you sit? – What’s new on my video blog as well as news blog? – Where can you find good news on your television? – And much more. Go see.

Here’s something you know…and something you don’t.

As you probably know, I originally had 1,500 sets of my master home study course, Hypnotic Selling Secrets http://www.hypnoticsellingsecrets.com/g.o/10386 produced.

Then I went and lost 80 pounds. I truly reshaped my body and my health. The new me just couldn’t stand looking at the picture of my old fat self on all of those courses any more.

So I went and did this crazy promotion to move the last of those 1,500 “Fat Joe”courses out the door. I included everything and the kitchen sink, even some brand new bonuses that I had never released before.

And we sold all but a small handful of sets that I had set aside only for past customers of mine.

Or so I thought…

Much to my dismay, I got an email yesterday from my production company. As it turns out, they discovered 7 copies of the Hypnotic Selling Secrets course in a corner from a production overrun.

And then my customer service manager told me there were 3 perfectly unopened returns that came back last week. Seems there are always a few tire kickers that buy courses, and return them without ever even opening them to see how good they are. (!)!

So that’s 10 copies.

Add to that the 3 sets we had on hold for people that were supposed to submit their payment by 5/29 but couldn’t come up with the funds.

That’s 13 copies.

And then we have 4 customer only sets left.

So all told, there are now only 17 special collectors edition Hypnotic Selling Secrets http://www.hypnoticsellingsecrets.com/g.o/10386 courses available anywhere in the whole world.

And I want every single one of these last 17 sets that resurfaced to fly out the door today (May 31st) to 17 lucky people. I want them out of my sight forever.

Now here’s what you may not know:

If you haven’t noticed, my teaching has evolved towards sharing what I have learned about universal laws and manifestation. The movie The Secret www.whatisthesecret.tv and my Manifestation Weekend www.BeyondManifestation.com and my book The Attractor Factor www.attractorfactor.com prove that I’m going in a new direction.

I may or may not ever put out a Hypnotic Selling Secrets home study course like the one I did a couple years ago. If I ever do, it certainly won’t be the same information.

Heck, as of right now, every Hypnotic Marketing product that I have is off the market indefinitely. The only way to get your hands on any of my Hypnotic Writing and Hypnotic Marketing products is to secure one of the last 17 copies of Hypnotic Selling Secrets.

This will probably sell out very quickly, so go here now before someone else gets your copy:
http://www.hypnoticsellingsecrets.com/g.o/10386

I’m excited about my new direction in life. I’ll never stop marketing or teaching Hypnotic Writing and Hypnotic Marketing, of course, but I’ll probably never do another event like the one that created Hypnotic Selling Secrets http://www.hypnoticsellingsecrets.com/g.o/10386

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS. Have you heard the rumor that I’m retiring? With all of the buzz about me closing off ordering of all my other Hypnotic Marketing products and with selling off the last copies of my giant course, some people are saying that I’m retiring. No way. But my teaching has evolved. If I do produce more Hypnotic Marketing products sometime, they will be higher priced and will not include the same information you can get today. This is your last chance, don’t forever miss out on being one of the Elite 1,500 that has all of my business and marketing secrets. If you haven’t claimed your copy yet, get it now http://www.hypnoticsellingsecrets.com/g.o/10386 …before someone beats you to it.