Dr. Joe Vitale’s Blog

People have been sending me gifts, either for Christmas or my upcoming birthday (12-29), all week. Some gift-ers are known and some are unknown. I find this curious.

Two days ago the UPS driver had me sign for a package. The small package contained a brand new Ipod Nano. I’ve wanted one so I’m glad “The Attractor Factor” continues to work.

But there wasn’t a clue who sent the gift to me. I still don’t know who this mysterious, generous Santa is.

But he or she isn’t the only one playing gift-giver.

Today someone sent me four quarts of Goji Juice. While I admit I love goji berries, I find it uncomfortable to accept four quarts of juice made from them. Why? Whoever sent it is probably trying to convince me to promote their product in some direct marketing business. Clue: A company flyer was in the package. That’s not wrong, it just feels a little manipulative. At some point I may be cornered and asked if I will represent the product. That doesn’t feel like a true gift. It feels like a loaded gun.

Yet another person — and this one gave his name — is sending me some of his company’s nutritional products. I know this package is coming, I know who it’s coming from, and I know what he expects.

Yes, he wants me to have the gifts. And yes, he’s hoping I’ll promote it for him to my email list. And yes, he understands I may never promote his site at www.assurednutrition.com But he’s giving the gift anyway. He’s smart.

My all-time favorite gift to receive, any time, for any reason, is an http://www.amazon.com/gift-certificates Amazon gift coupon. Over the years people have bought them for me in values of $20 to $200. (The limit on an Amazon gift coupon is $5,000, but you can buy more than one..) You can’t imagine my glee at holding a gift coupon and shopping online for my favorite product: Books!

You’d think after cleaning my office (and no, I’m not done yet), taking two months to dig through books and then get books back on shelves, that I’d be sick of them. Not so. Not even close. I still live for the next hypnotic read. And if I can’t find it, then I’ll write it.

But back to the subject of giving…

I wrote a little book called The Greatest Money-Making Secret In History. It states that giving should be done without expectation of direct return.

In other words, you expect return, but not from the person you gave to. The return will come in time, probably from some unexpected source.

And if you could give without any expectation, then you’d probably transcend all life and be instantly enlightened. But who’s there?

When we give, we want to give out of love, not out of expectation. With the former we invoke one of the keys to the kingdom of wealth; with the latter we invoke our ego, which can’t see beyond its own nose.

To whoever gave me the Ipod Nano, thank you.

Expect something wonderful to come your way soon.

Ao Akua,

joe
www.mrfire.com

PS — I always use a PS but I don’t always know what to say in one. This is one of those moments. (But notice how you read this PS, anyway?)

As I go through the exhausting process of reconstructing and reorganizing my office, I sometimes stop and flip through a book I haven’t read yet, or one I read long ago and want to revisit. Often I get lost in the reading for a few minutes in a rush of excitement. That just happened and I want to share the moment with you.

I was reading The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You are Waking Up and Changing the World by Arjuna Ardagh. This is a huge (almost 500 pages) and inspiring collection of true stores of people transforming the world by following their inner calling. Chapters cover everything from parenting to education to health to business to religion to art to your own self identity.

I loved reading how Odwalla Juice, a bottled health drink I used to drink when I lived in Austin, began. In 1980 Greg Steltenpohl and two friends started the business as a way to pay for college. They squeezed their first crate of fruit out of a back yard shed with a $200 juicer. They delivered fresh juice to restaurants in their Volkswagen van.

By 2000 they sold the company to Coca-Cola.

Today Steltenpohl co-founded an environmentally friendly credit card, called The Interra Card.

I’ve said it again and again: Money isn’t separate from spirit. The material and the spiritual are two sides of the same coin. In order to live your fullest and help the world at the same time, you need to come from the inside first. Money follows those who express spirit first.

That’s Beyond Marketing.

And that’s how you attract money.

Read The Translucent Revolution to get inspired.

Read The Attractor Factor to keep the fires burning bright.

Onwards.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – Or see www.MoneyBeyondBelief.com to discover how to attract money by knocking on your own door. (Go see already.)

I twisted Pete Siegel’s arm (not easy) to get you a discount on all of his programs (see previous post).

Go here to learn more —http://www.incrediblechange.com/OrderPage2.htm

I’m sure he’ll change his mind at any moment, so if you want “Think and Grow Big” or his confidence course, golf course, diet course, or any of his other mind-body hypnosis programs, all at a nice discount, you better hop to it.

I’m sure this would be a nice gift to yourself, or to someone you know.

Merry Merry,

joe
www.mrfire.com

I’ve been using hypnosis since I was 16 years old, which means for over 35 years now.

(Thirty-five years? Now I feel old. Pardon me while I get depressed for a sec…..Okay. I’m back now.)

Hypnosis can create miracles. There’s even an old book by Charles Tebbetts called Miracles on Demand, which is rare and very expensive if you can find it. It explains how hypnosis can help you achieve virtually anything you want almost instantly, using the radical short-term hypnotherapy methods of Gil Boyne. Powerful stuff.

Of course, today I know or know of most of the gurus in the field of hypnotism. But the other night I met a powerful figure in the sports therapy world. And I mean powerful. The man weighs 270 pounds of solid muscle, works out every day for two hours (!), has been working with super star clients for over 25 years, and sounds like a cross between Milton Erickson (the most famous hypnotist of all time) and Richard Bandler (the most controversial hypnotist alive today). I’m talking about Pete Siegel.

I know of him from his book and audio hypnosis system called Think and Grow Big, for creating big muscles. (It works, too. Ask to feel my biceps sometime. Or Pete’s.)

Peter C. Siegel is America’s foremost peak performance hypnotherapist. He’s been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, ESPN, CTV, The Jenny Jones Show, Fox Sports Net, VH1, and The Golf Channel. He’s clearly an expert and he clearly gets results. He even trained with hypnotherapy legend Gil Boyne, the subject of Miracles on Demand.

Pete and I spoke last night to get to know each other. That’s when I learned that he has three other programs (among many others) that could help anyone start to believe in themselves and get the results they want. They are —

“Building Super Confidence” (His hands down bestseller)

“Winning at Life”

“Success Mind-Sets”

He over-nighted all three sets to me. I think you should check them out. They use Pete’s unique brand of powerful hypnosis to help you build the inner strength to do just about anything. Since the only limits most of us have are mental, stretch your mind and those limits gets stretched, as well.

These sets would be great gifts to yourself, as well as to those you care about. Visit his site and learn more about those programs as well as several others he has at –

http://www.incrediblechange.com/

Or call his office at (310) 280-3269. (He’s in the LA area.)

And consider: What will you do when you have unlimited self confidence?

Well?

Ao Akua

Joe

www.mrfire.com

PS – In case you’re wondering, this is not some sort of affiliate program. I don’t make any money from endorsing Pete’s products. He hasn’t seen this post. I simply love sharing my discoveries with people. Check out his site and do what’s best for you. http://www.IncredibleChange.com

Today I received a booklet in the mail that fascinated me. It’s a traditional 40-page sales letter in printed and stapled form. That’s the cover of it on the left. Take a look at it.

You’ll note it grabs your attention with a couple of tried and true marketing tricks. To wit:

1. The word “Discover” is a hypnotic word proven to grab attention. It’s used to begin the headline.

2. The essence of the headline is in quotes. As I said in my book fot The American Marketing Association, The AMA Complete Guide to Small Business Advertising, just adding quotation marks to a headline will increase readership by 15%.

3. The headline itself shocks you. How can anyone (let alone an M.D.) not drink water in two decades? You and I both have heard that we must drink water. Well, not so according to this M.D. But how is that possible? It stuns the brain. It makes you curious. You want to know more.

The rest of the booklet follows this same theme. Basically, it is going in the opposite direction of “normal” thinking. Throughout the sales letter you’ll find statements such as “Vegetarians die younger” and “Low cholesterol can be more deadlier than high cholesterol.”

This method works. The truth is, there is no one truth in the world. While someone can “prove” high cholesterol can kill you, someone else can find or create a study that proves high cholesterol won’t kill you. It’s all true. It depends on your perspective, which leads you to find supportive evidence for your perspective.

But that’s me wearing my metaphysical-philosopher hat.

When I wear my marketing hat, I simply smile and realize here’s another person capitalizing on “opposite marketing.”

You might try it. It simply means note what the public is thinking and position yourself opposite from it.

But also note that what this doctor is saying is what people want to hear. At first glance it sounds counter to what people are hearing from their own doctors. It is. But it’s not counter to what people want to hear.

Finally, do long sales letters work?

Does “opposite marketing” work?

You bet. Consistently.

I just signed up for a three year subscription to Dr. William Campbell Douglass’s newsletter and booklets. He sold me.

But I’m still drinking water.

As well as $166 bottles of rare Chartreuse.

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – I don’t think the non-drinking M.D. has a website (he’s traditional old school direct marketing) but you might try Google on him. He’s Dr. William Campbell Douglass at Real Health Breakthroughs.