Joe Vitale

If you read my book, Adventures Within, you know I’ve been around the block a few times when it comes to personal growth, spiritual searching and self-discovery.

One of the most powerful and transformative methods I learned along the way is called The Option Method. It’s a simple method of questioning beliefs. I learned it first-hand from Barry Neil Kaufman, author of such gems as To Love Is to Be Happy With.

Barry learned it from the creator of the method, Bruce Di Marsico. I was just given a copy of the late Di Marsico’s little book on the method, called The Option Method: Unlock Your Happiness With Five Simple Questions.

The book is very philosophical and thought-provoking. It reads more like notes from Socrates than a Ray Bradbury novel. But every nugget is mind-expanding.

The section in the back by Deborah Mendel, on how to use the Option Method questions for yourself, is worth gold. These are the very questions I still use today, sometimes naturally and automatically in consultations with clients, but more often then not just with myself, to discover and release my own limiting beliefs to experiencing happiness right now.

I urge you to read this little-known classic.

I’m sure Amazon sells it.

You might also see http://www.choosehappiness.net/

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – The Newsweek magazine cover story on the movie The Secret should hit the stands any day now. I’m excited! I suspect it will probably be one-sided rather than objective, but at least a whole new audience will hear about this inspiring flick. Onwards!

Besides Larry King interviewing me last November, I’m being interviewed every day by other biggies, including Time magazine, Bottomline Personal, and Newsweek.

They all want to know if the law of attraction is really a law.

They all agree that gravity is, but they aren’t so sure about attraction.

The people who say attraction is not a law cite examples such as, “I know gravity works. When I drop a book off a skyscraper, it will hit the ground. That’s proof of the law of gravity.”

Agreed.

They then go on to say, “When I try to attract something, sometimes I get it and sometimes I don’t. So it isn’t a law.”

Not agreed.

Here’s why.

Saying you tried to attract something and failed is like saying you tried to drop a book from a skyscraper to hit a particular spot and you missed. Because you missed the spot, you say gravity doesn’t exist.

This is a little like telling a parachutist that because they didn’t land on the red dot in the field, but instead landed in the trees, gravity doesn’t exist.

Obviously gravity exists. You just don’t know how to use it to get what you want in any specific way.

Same with the law of attraction.

When you focus on attracting a new car, but instead attract a moped, it isn’t because the law wasn’t in effect; it’s because you didn’t work with the law.

Everything you have is what you attracted.

You just did it unconsciously.

No biggie.

No need to feel bad or beat yourself up.

The idea now is to awaken.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – Newsweek is publishing a feature story on The Secret and the law of attraction next week. It should hit the stands any day. I’m eager to see what they say. Stay tuned.

If you want to voice your thoughts about this, go see www.TheSecretVersusScience.com/

I’m sad to report that Dottie Walters passed away.

She was a loving and supportive lady, always inspiring others.

She wrote the riveting introduction to my book, The Seven Lost Secrets of Success.

She helped me and countless others get started in speaking and writing.

I knew she passed away earlier this month, but it’s taken me a while to recover from the news and to be able to post anything here at all.

Read about her at www.bookpublicists.org/pages/dottie_walters_tribute.asp

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS — I’ll remember you with love, Dottie.

Last Sunday, at Pat O’Bryan’s recent unseminar, Bruce Burns (husband of my chief assistant, Suzanne), found me alone on the balcony getting some fresh air.

He saw an opportunity.

He decided to ask me some questions.

He said he wanted to create a product by Tuesday night.

But he had no idea what kind of product.

He just had the intention to create one, put up a website for it, and start selling it, all by Tuesday night.

I listened to him talk, and asked a few questions of my own. I’ve always felt that everyone has a treasure inside them that others will pay for, but virtually all of us are oblivious to it. We just need someone on the outside to listen and help us recognize it.

Bruce began to explain he has a gift of teaching people how to negotiate in various areas, from the sales floor to the living room, with clients to with kids.

He’s also a skilled speaker and is a master of hypnotic story telling.

Since it was Sunday and he wanted a product for sale by Tuesday, I urged him to record his how-to negotiate info. Recording would be easy and fast. While he might be able to write a special report by Tuesday, it seemed his natural abilities led him to make a recording first. He might later transcribe the recording and turn it into a special report, an e-book, or even a full length published book.

But first things (and easy things) first.

He then asked a few questions about how to build a website quick, where to put his recording online, etc.

This entire spontaneous consultation took less than twenty minutes.

Bruce now had an idea for a product and a sense of how to put it online.

Now here’s what he did that almost no one else does:

He took action.

By last Tuesday night he had several websites up. You can see them at —

www.yourownbestgood.com
www.yourownbestgood.blogspot.com
www.ourmastermind.blogspot.com
http://radiojobstexas.blogspot.com/

While The Secret reveals the law of attraction, we also have to keep in mind there’s the law of right action, as well.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – If you want mentoring help, consider my programs described at http://miracles.executive-mentorprogram.com Remember, the universe likes speed. Go look right now.