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Feb

The "59 Seconds" Self Help Book

By Joe Vitale 27 comments attract money, attract wealth, attractor factor, Books, joe vitale, law of attraction, loa, mr fire, the book The Secret, zero limits

When ABC News interviewed me for their upcoming show on the pros and cons of positive thinking and the Law of Attraction, one of their questions was, “Why are there so many self-help books?”

Apparently a published skeptic felt that if self-help books really worked, we wouldn’t need so many of them.

Does that make sense to you?

Consider —

With all the cookbooks in the world, there will always be more published, guaranteed. With all the books on psychology, or sales, or aviation, or pottery, or martial arts, or law, or religion, or marketing, or sports, or politics, or parenting, or skepticism, or – well, name any category – there will always be more books.

That doesn’t mean there’s a problem with the books already published. It doesn’t mean there’s a problem with the fields themselves, either. It means people are still growing and learning, discovering and sharing.

But somehow with self-help, it’s not accepted.

I find that odd.

I’ve spent most of the day reading Richard Wiseman’s book, 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot. It’s mis-titled, as you can’t read much of it in 59 seconds. Still, it’s an excellent book. It’s research-based self-help. It’s packed with study after study proving or disproving concepts taught in the self-help movement. You should read it.

Side note: It’s interesting that scientific studies in the filed of psychology don’t usually come to any definitive conclusions. In other words, the studies indicate results may “suggest” a particular pattern or insight, but they don’t guarantee it. Even the so-called Law of Reciprocity can’t be guaranteed to work all the time. When you give something to someone, it’s no guarantee they’ll give you anything in return. Still, authors call it a “law” when they don’t allow any leeway for the Law of Attraction. In short, read the psychological studies as entertainment but test their conclusions in your own life. After all, a different study done with a different audience may indicate a different result. Or so it appears to suggest.

But isn’t 59 Seconds yet another self-help book?

Since it has the blessing of science behind it, it tends to be “allowed” as a self-help book, even by the skeptics.

Do you see the illogical nature of this?

I love self-help and success literature. If it weren’t for those books, and my taking action on what I read, I’d still be unknown, unpublished and unhappy.

One night I watched a documentary on happiness. An author being interviewed (I don’t recall his name) said over 70% of the people who change on their own, without therapy or a coach, do so because of a self-help book.

When celebrity fitness model Jennifer Nicole Lee visited me for the Rolls-Royce Phantom Mastermind (which ABC News filmed) she asked me, “How did you get into self-help?”
I replied, “Because I needed help.”

I told ABC News that neither I nor any self-help author I know set out to write more than one book on self-help. It’s the readers who ask for them. It’s the market that demands more. We simply supply what they request.

When I wrote The Attractor Factor, I never considered I’d write The Key or Zero Limits after it. Neither was in my mind.

And lord knows I never intended to write my recent book, Attract Money Now. That came as a result of my seeing so many people struggling. I even decided to give the digital version of the book away, for free, to help them.

I’m proud to be a self-help author. I don’t plan to write any more books, but I never thought I’d be the author of fifty books, either. (Yes, fifty.)

The point: When you need help, consider books. Yes, there are plenty to choose from. But that’s why restaurants have more than one special. Each person is different. Each desires and feels best with a particular approach.

Books that have helped me include —

The Book of est

The Magic of Believing

Think and Grow Rich

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Why Is This Happening to Me…Again?

The Dark Side of the Light Chasers

What self-help books have made a difference in your life?

How to Let Go

By Joe Vitale 8 comments attract money, attract wealth, attractor factor, joe vitale, law of abundance, law of attraction, loa, Secret, the movie The Secret

I received this email and liked it so much I asked permission to share it with you. It helps answer how to use the law of attraction to get what you want while still finding a way to let go and be detached of the outcome. Note: The program he refers to in his email is my audioprogram called The Missing Secret.

Dear Mr Vitale,

I recently had the good fortune to purchase to a selection of your material including “The Secret” and “The Missing Secret” and I have recently ordered some more of your material that I am looking forward to receiving any day now.

The reason for my email is with regard to something you said in “The Missing Secret” ‘How To Let Go’. What you stated is contrary to what 99% of authors usually say about manifesting what we want. ie; to focus all of our attention on what we want.

The reason for my email is because I have discovered that I can inadvertently manifest things into my life within a few days “IF” I dismiss the thought just as quickly as it entered my head and you are the first person EVER who has touched upon the phenomena in the Missing Secret.

I couldn’t believe my ears when I heard you describe this because I have NEVER been able to manifest anything into my life by dwelling on it for any length of time, despite what the books may tell us to do. In fact, if a “stray thought” enters my head about a friend or a loved one becoming ill or dying, I find I MUST dwell on them and that thought to be sure that “My Thought” won’t manifest itself.

I realise that this must sound crazy, but I felt I needed to tell you as you are the first person I have ever heard describe the phenomena I experience. Perhaps there are different ways of manifesting things into our lives. My way is like a thought on superfast broadband and usually manifests itself within three days.

These thoughts usually occur whilst I am driving and concentrating on the road. Within a split second a stray thought can enter my head and just as quickly I can dismiss it and forget about it. Once I have forgotten about it it always occurs a few days later. And, the funny thing is, that even though that thought lasted only a split second I can always recall exactly where I was when that thought entered my head! I can’t explain the fact that I can “remember” where I was when I “forgot” a split second thought but I can always recall exactly where I was when that thought entered my head!!!

A few examples I can cite are:

1. A couple of years ago my business and myself were struggling with life and I was bored and wanted some excitement in my life. A split second thought entered my head (whilst I was driving) of being caught up in a robbery and saving the day. Three days later, I was caught up in an armed robbery in my local Post Office. No one was hurt and no one was ever caught for the robbery.

2. A relative of mine has a flash expensive Range Rover Sport and uses it for work but won’t use it to help anyone else out. At a recent family party he and his wife and their 3 children arrived squashed in his wife’s small car so that he could have a drink. At the end of the evening as we were all leaving and as I watched him get into his wife’s car, I said to myself, “I hope your car gets written off.” I said it and forgot it and three days later the brakes on a brand new van careered down a hill into the side of my relative’s Range Rover Sport. It was a right off! Luckily for me, no one was hurt but the Police did say if he hadn’t been driving his car he would have been dead!

3. Since hearing you mention this phenomena I have begun to try and monitor my thoughts. Obviously this is incredibly hard because if I think of winning the lottery for instance I can’t help myself from dwelling on the thought and almost immediately, I have sabotaged myself! So, I tried to think of something obscure that I was not bothered about. “A blue Lego brick.” This was something that I was able to dismiss and forget. Four days later, one of my twin 8 year old daughters asked me to read her a bedtime story from a book she had been given at Christmas. “Judy Moody – was in a mood. Not a good mood. A bad mood.” by Megan McDonald. Page 40-41…I read, “The three of them studied the ground as they walked. Judy found five pink pebbles and a Bazooka Joe comic with a fortune that read: MONEY IS COMING YOUR WAY. Rocky found a blue lego and a stone with a hole in the middle – a lucky stone!” I was dumb struck!

4. I tried an equally obscure thought: This time it was a turtle. A few days later whilst working at my desk, I glanced down at the clear plastic water bottle I had on my desk and the base of the bottle resembled a turtle with its head and legs all stuck out. I realised that I needed to be more specific about what I thought about.

I have not taken this any further but I have found myself devouring books at an incredible rate since the beginning of the year after reading the Master Key and watching the Secret and listening to your Missing Secret. I am now consuming books in days where once it would have taken me weeks to read through them.

I realise that I am only accepting or receiving thoughts rather than instigating them. I have often been able to think of a TV programme or a film only to discover a few days later that it would be on TV.

Obviously, the TV schedules are planned weeks or months in advance, so I must have picked up on a vibration about these programmes from someone at the TV station… I guess!

I don’t believe that all of this is coincidence because in 1984 I accidentally tapped into this phenomena after splitting up with long time girlfriend.

Christmas Eve 1984 I sat down to watch on TV for the first time, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” At the end of the film Jimmy Stewart’s character stands on the bridge and pleads to God, “Please God, let me live again.” It was the most moving film I had ever watched. I went to my bedroom and prayed with tears in my eyes and pain in my heart, just like Jimmy Stewart did. Probably because of my sadness due to the breakup with my girlfriend (heightened emotion) my prayers were answered. I began writing. I was a graphic designer not a writer.

I had no desire or plan to write, I just began writing, and seven days later I had written a book called “THE QUIET QUEST FOR SUCCESS.” Every word came to me one after the other. Quotations I used came to me from books I had never even read but I knew exactly where to find them. I felt as though the book was being dictated to me.

My book was well received by family and friends who insisted that I get it published. I felt uneasy about this because I was not a success, I was far from a success. I was a lowly paid graphic designer. How could I tell people how to become a success when I wasn’t one myself. However, I did send my manuscript to a few publishers and it was politely rejected by them all. The book sat on a shelf in my bedroom and then ended up in a box and remained in the loft of my house when I moved here in 1987.

In 1986 I met my wife. She took me to visit a village in the Peak District National Park here in the UK called Eyam. Eyam is famous in the UK as the plague village because in the 1600s the local vicar isolated the village to stop the plague from spreading. Whilst we were walking around the village with the old church, the village sign and ‘ye olde stocks’ I thought to myself, “I would love to live in a village like this” and dismissed the thought.

I lived in the heart of the steel city of Sheffield and I didn’t venture very far outside the city. At night from my bedroom I could hear the trains running by and the boom boom of the forge hammers at the steel works, so this village was magical to me.

The following day, I cycled to one of my sisters’ homes. When I got there a friend of hers (whom I had never heard of or met before) was visiting. My sister had told her that my girlfriend and I were looking for a house and her friend said to me. “We are selling our home, why don’t you come and have a look.” They were selling it for £32,000 which in 1986 was way beyond our means, so I politely said I would get the details from their estate agent, but deep down I had no intention of doing so.

A few days later my sister’s friend phoned me and asked me if I was coming to look at her house. I said I would get back to her once I had spoken to my girlfriend. That week I went and got the sale details and discovered it was in a place outside Sheffield called Harthill. I had lived in Sheffield all of my life and I had never heard of Harthill. I looked for it on a map and it seemed miles away, the other side of the motorway. To someone like myself who didn’t venture too far outside the city the other side of the motorway was like visiting another country!

We arranged to view the house and it was located in a pretty village, with an old church, a village sign etc., everything I had wished for in that split second whilst visiting the village of Eyam! They sold us the house at the reduced rate of £29,950 and we have lived here for the last 23 years. It is a quaint English village.

Over the years I had often thought about my book and digging it out and rewriting it or at least getting it on to the computer. Although I had looked for it over the years, I had never been able to find it. In October 2009, I purchased and read the Master Key and within a week of finishing reading it I found my manuscript 25 years after first writing it in a box only 12 inches from the loft opening! I had never noticed it before now.

After I had written “THE QUIET QUEST FOR SUCCESS” I sat down on the floor of my bedroom with my head in my hands and prayed. Opposite my desk I had a large old TV. As I raised my head, I noticed a reflection on the TV screen of a person sat at my desk with their arms outstretched. It looked like the popular images we see of Jesus. I immediately looked across at my desk to see no one sitting there, and when I looked back at the TV screen the reflection had also disappeared. I can’t explain it and it is not something that I have mentioned outside of my family before. It was uncanny.

5. In 1985 I heard a song on the radio called “You’ll never find another love like mine.” I didn’t know who sang it back then but I felt this was the ideal song to send to the girlfriend who had recently dumped me. One day whilst on my lunch break, I came across an old record store that sold second hand records. I had never seen the store before and I had never been in the building before, but that day, I walked into that store with the desire to find that record. I walked straight in, walked to the back of the store flicked through the records and the first record I came across was; “You’ll never find another love like mine” by Lou Rawls. I kept the record.

Between 1990 when I married my wife and now, life has been difficult with redundancy etc. I have worked for myself for many years now (mainly as a writer) but I have never made any real money. My wife and I were unable to have children of our own. We tried IVF but it never worked for us, so in 2002 we chose to adopt and we adopted twin girls and they are everything and more to us. Boy, do they put life into perspective!

However, before they came, I had turned my back on God (I was brought up a Catholic), my friends and my family and I suffered accordingly for it… I am only beginning to realise that now. It has taken me 25 years to learn that lesson! However, I now feel like I am being given another opportunity, so when I heard you describe “How To Let Go” I had an overwhelming urge to contact you. I don’t know why I had to contact you but I am beginning to realise that I should no longer question what I am told to do, when I am told to do it.

Thank you for reading this far and for giving me hope and understanding…at last!

With grateful thanks!

Paul Rowland.

Genealogist, Researcher,

British-India Historian,

Writer & Publisher,

Editor, The Indiaman Magazine

Feb

"I Love You" to Zero

By Joe Vitale 13 comments coaching, Dr Hew Len, hooponopono, hypnosis, joe vitale, miracles, unconscious, zero limits

In the book I coauthored with Dr. Hew Len (pictured below with me), Zero Limits, we explain that your unconscious mind is a database that needs to be cleaned of programming. It’s what causing you to attract what you have in your life. We also say that Ho’oponopono, the Hawaiian healing method described in the book, is a great way to do that cleaning.

Recently I’ve been reading books in the filed of neuropsychology and modern brain science. They prove that our unconscious mind is running the show. The conscious mind, the part you think is the driver in the game of life, is oblivious to all that is happening. In many ways, due to the programming in our unconscious, we’re robots. We rationalize our decisions and behavior, but where they originated was below conscious awareness.

For example, in hypnosis a person can be given the command to open a window. Later, after they’re out of the trance state and given the signal to trigger the command, they’ll get up and open a window. When you ask them why they opened the window, they”ll rationalize the action with statements such as, “I needed some air” or “I smelled smoke.” They will never explain that the behavior stemmed from a command in their unconscious.

Ken Eisold’s book, What You Don’t Know You Know, is all about our hidden motives in life, business and everything else. Those hidden motives are hidden from even us. They are in our unconscious. We, as conscious beings, simply act on what the unconscious prompts us to do.

Shankar Vedantam’s book, The Hidden Brain, explains how our unconscious minds elect presidents, control markets, wage wars, and save our lives. Again, it proves that the motor driving us through life is in the unconscious, not conscious, mind.

Since we are so unconsciously driven, does that mean we aren’t really responsible for what we say or do?

According to Vedantam, “We have responsibility for not only our conscious minds, but our unconscious minds as well.”

Back to Zero Limits. In our book, Dr. Hew Len and I explain that you are 100% responsible for your life. No if, ands or buts. No loopholes. No exceptions. It doesn’t matter where you think your motivation came from — unconscious or conscious — if it’s in your life, you are responsible for it. Note that you aren’t to blame, but you are responsible.

Given that our unconscious is hidden, powerful, deep and running the show, how in the world do we clean it up so we stop attracting messes?

Psychotherapy, popularized by Freud, is one way. But according to Dr. Eisold, “Today, there are over four hundred distinct psychotherapies.”

Four hundred!?

According to Vedantam, “Making the unconscious conscious is difficult because the central obstacle lies within ourselves.”

Well, what are we to do?

How are we going to clear the unconscious?

Here are some suggestions:

1. Miracles Coaching. When you have a skilled coach listen to your story and repeat it back to you, focusing on what you may not be hearing, you have the opportunity to make the unconscious conscious. Nothing works faster in getting results than having a Miracles Coach and taking right action.

2. The Missing Secret. This bestselling audio CD program offers step-by-step help in getting clear. There are several methods taught, and you can do them as you relax and listen.

3. Finally, in Zero Limits, we explain that the way out is the way in. The best clearing method I know is the one explained in the book: just silently in your mind say non-stop, “I Love You, Please forgive me, Thank you, and I’m sorry.” And if you want the shortest mantra of all, just say “I love you.”

“I love you” is the fast-track to Zero – that ultimate state of purity. But Zero is contaminated with programming. To get back to Zero, we need to get clear.

I’ll continue to report on other ways to clean the unconscious mind of its negative data, but for now, what could be easier than saying “I love you”?

Ao Akua,

Joe

PS – Pat O’Bryan and I created a new clearing audio you will enjoy. It combines an Alien Guitar, Sanskrit chanting, and binaural beats to create a deep and powerful cleansing sweep of your unconscious. It’s a stick of dynamite to your brain, designed to chase down and chase out all the negative programming hiding in your mind. Get details by clicking right here.

PPS – Picture above shows my crown chakra opening up. Or maybe a candle burning right behind my head. I’m not sure.

Feb

Attracting ABC News

By Joe Vitale 12 comments attract money, attract wealth, attractor factor, cars, Divine, el secreto, joe vitale, law of abundance, law of attraction, loa, Marketing, mister fire, mr fire, optimism, P.T. Barnum, Prosperity, Secret, the book The Secret, the movie The Secret

Last Thursday ABC News sent journalist Dan Harris to my home to interview me about everything from the movie The Secret to the Law of Attraction to James Ray to the entire self-help movement. Along the way we took a ride in my Rolls-Royce Phantom and talked about masterminding, attracting money now, and more. It was quite “the day.”

This was ABC News’ second visit. They were here in January to film the entire Rolls-Royce Phantom Mastermind with fitness celebrity Jennifer Nicole Lee.

Being filmed in a Rolls-Royce with a gorgeous fitness model at your side is a lot different than being interviewed by a sharp mainstream TV news reporter. TV journalists can be pushy and confrontational, and you never know what they’ll ask, all while a video camera is recording your every word and expression. These interviews are often called “firing lines” for a good reason.

Dan Harris is an exception. Oh, he asked the tough questions and he kept firing questions at me, but I could see he’s a caring man with a sincere curiosity about life and people. And I had of course Googled him before he arrived and knew he is passionate about indy music as well as journalism. I saw that he is an exceptional man with an amazing ability to ask questions under pressure. I liked him. Still do.

Still, most of his questions came from a basic belief that money is bad. “You actually charge $5,000 for your Rolls-Royce Mastermind?” Yes, and I’ll be raising the price in March. “You sleep at night selling self-help books?” Of course. I’m helping people and offering solutions to their woes. “You help people to attract millions of dollars?” Actually, I help them to attract money now. “You’re OK marketing all the time?” I’m not marketing, I’m offering.

And so it went. It occurred to me later that I should have asked if ABC News charged their advertisers, and if they slept well knowing they were selling questionable drugs (with side effects such as possible death), etc. I also wondered if the interviewer got paid for sitting around and asking me questions. And doesn’t ABC News promote/market their upcoming TV shows all day long?

It’s so easy to be a critic.

The interview was from a Stage One perspective, as explained in The Awakening Course. It was all about “Who’s the victim?” and “Who’s to blame?” The other three stages of awakening, and certainly Zero Limits, could never be understood on this first level, where the interview took place.

The ABC News TV show will air in May, if not sooner. It’ll be an hour long special on positive thinking. They’ll have people against it (believe it or not) and they’ll have people for it (like me). They’re also interviewing Rev. Michael Beckwidth and Bob Proctor. On the nay side, they’ll talk with Bright-Sided author Barbara Ehremreich and Sham! author Steve Salerno.

You and I will have to wait to see how ABC edits the show. Meanwhile, I wanted to mention a brief moment Dan Harris and I had after the interview in my office.

Since Dan is deep into music (he’s also a drummer), I told him about my Alien Guitar. He asked to see some of the videos Nerissa and I created where I reveal the alien guitar to the person on camera but not to the camera/viewer. He laughed as he watched one of the clips. I offered to show the alien guitar to him while we filmed the moment but he said it might look like he was promoting it.

I then told him that my master strategy was to get a buzz going and then go on David Letterman to show and play the Alien Guitar. I told him I wanted to wait and get people really talking first.

“I wouldn’t wait,” Dan said. “I’d contact Letterman right now.”

“You would?”

“Sure. His show needs so much content that they’ll latch onto this right away.”

I paused as I considered his advice. Then something dawned on me.

I looked at Dan and said, “You know what you just did with me?”

Dan looked at me and asked, “Encourage you?”

“Yep. That’s what we do in the self-help movement.”

Dan nodded, letting it seep in.

“We listen for the latent desire already in a person and then encourage them to take action to make it real,” I explained. “Just like you did with me.”

I wish that moment had been filmed. It demonstrated what self-help and coaching is really all about.

Again, we won’t know what the entire ABC News show will be like until they edit it and air it in May. (Nerissa filmed the entire interview on her flip cam, so we can match their editing with what was actually recorded.) I think the show will be great. After all, I’m thinking positive.

As for now, I’m grateful to have met Dan Harris and attracted ABC News here. It could mean an appearance on David Letterman, with my alien guitar, will happen soon.

Ao Akua,

Joe

PS — Learn all about self-help, Law of Attraction, The Secret and much more in my Miracles Coaching program. Just click right here.

Feb

Attract Money Secrets

By Joe Vitale 10 comments attract money, attract wealth, attractor factor, Books, joe vitale, law of abundance, law of attraction, loa, mister fire, mr fire, Prosperity, Secret, the book The Secret, the movie The Secret

According to the results of a survey I just sent to my database, the number one thing people want to know is how to attract more money using the Law of Attraction. With that in mind, here are a few choice quotes to stimulate your thinking/attracting:

“The sole purpose of money is to express appreciation.” – Arnold Patent, Money

Think about it. When you write a check to pay a bill, do you grumble and complain, or do you feel grateful for whatever service you received? I admit for the longest time I would feel lousy when I paid my bills. Now I don’t. Per Patent’s insight, when you feel appreciation, you begin to attract more to appreciate. To attract money, appreciate money and what it brings you.

“Middle-class people talk about things that came from a millionaire’s idea.” – Keith Cameron Smith, The Top 10 Distinctions Between Millionaires and the Middle Class

I love that quote, too. It makes me stop and think. Whenever I find myself talking about some product or service I greatly admire — such as a Bugatti Veyron super car worth over a million dollars — I stop and remind myself that it was just an idea. Someone created it. I’m now desiring it. But if you step back and look at the creative process, it was somebody with a dream, who took action, that got me and everyone else talking. To attract money, be the doer of what others talk about.

‘You have no idea what’s going on, but you’re in charge.” – Guy Monroe, Austin Vocal Lab

That quote might seem out of place in the world of attracting money, but consider: most of your life is directed by your unconscious. Ultimately, you have no idea what’s happening, or why. Yet in the midst of the seeming chaos is a captain who can steer the ship through the storm. That captain is you. When you declare where you want to go, you direct the ship, the crew, and the sail to go in that direction. This applies to money, too. Who’s in charge of your money, anyway?

“Prosperity allows us to turn our attention to more transcendent matters – to yearn for lives not just of material comfort but of meaning, balance, and joy.” – Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

I love Gretchen’s book, The Happiness Project, and encourage you to read it. For now, her insight about money being a tool to elevate your thinking and desires is right on the money (no pun intended). When you think of money as bad or materialistic, you limit how much you can attract; but when you realize money is a symbol and a ticket to a higher state of being, you open the doors to attract all you’ll allow.

Just food for thought…

Ao Akua,

Joe

PS — You can still learn how to attract money via the law of attraction with my latest book, Attract Money Now, which you can still read for free by clicking on the below banner:

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