Secret

These seven pictures are rare. They were sent to me by Elaine, a reader of this blog. The photos are of Steven Tyler of Aerosmith with the 1998 Panoz AIV Roadster he autographed and I just bought. Pictures are probably from around 2004, when Tyler himself put the Panoz up for auction. Neither the Panoz family or the man who sold me the car have ever seen these shots before. Enjoy.

 Dinner tonight was amazing. Hanging with the great Vic Conant of Nightingale-Conant fame was a wonderful moment. The man is humble, wise, and full of stories about the legends of personal development. I urged him to write a book about his life but I doubt he’ll do it. Still, you never know. I need to make this short as I need to get up early and get back into the studio. More soon. Wish me luck.

 I’ve been in Chicago all week recording a new audioprogram for Nightingale-Conant. I was here ten years ago to record The Power of Outrageous Marketing, which has been and still remains a bestseller. This new program will have little to do with marketing but everything to do with the “missing secret” to success. This new program will come out mid-November. You know I’ll tell you when it’s available. 🙂 If you’ve never browsed the famous Nightingale-Conant catalog, you’re in for a treat. Go see www.nightingale.com Meanwhile, I’m off to have dinner with friends in the beautiful windy city.

 It took me 53 years and nine months, but I finally did it.

On January 1st I wrote about a climbing rope I bought from John Wood and set up on a 15 foot tower outside by my gym. (See http://blog.mrfire.com/uncategorized/on-continuing-a-rocky-story/ for that original post.)

My goal was to climb it, of course.

I couldn’t do it growing up and my gym instructor humiliated me for my failure.

I didn’t try as an adult.

But it was unfinished business in my life. I wanted to succeed at this personal challenge and goal.

So virtually every day I tried to go up that rope.

There were several setbacks along the way, including an emergency appendectomy.

But I kept trying.

My trainer Scott York was patient and encouraging.

He’d climb the rope as if he were a monkey and then do chin-ups on the tower at the top.

I wanted to do that, too.

So I kept trying.

Every day.

And yesterday I climbed the rope!

Fifteen feet straight up.

No one was there to photograph the moment but now that I’ve succeeded, I know I can do it again, and even more easily than the first time.

I’m sharing it here to inspire you to set goals that are meaningful to you and work at them every day.

Persistence is a secret to success.

And it’s something you can practice every day.

If I can climb a 15 foot rope after 53 years and nine months of failing at it, what can you do?

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS —  What’s “the rope” in your own life?

“In your ongoing learning, have you discovered a faster way to clear beliefs?”

That’s what one of the people asked me the other day when I visited the offices where they run my Miracles Coaching and Executive Mentoring programs.

“I haven’t found a faster way than the ‘I love you’ mantra written about in Zero Limits,” I explained. “But I have found a better understanding of what to focus on that has made the clearing happen faster.”

I then went on to explain that recently a few people complained that the more they cleaned, the more things have gotten difficult for them.

This is understandable. My own observation is the more you clean, the more you find to clean. At least at first.

Our unconscious is stuffed with old programs and beliefs – old data – that is blocking us from being connected to source. The only recourse is to keep cleaning, cleaning, cleaning.

But I wondered what my coauthor, Dr. Hew Len, would say about this. I wrote him and he wrote back the following:

“It is not ‘them’ that’s talking but data.  It is data that is saying ‘Things have gotten more difficult since I’ve been doing ho’oponopono.’  Because it is data speaking, I’m cleaning with it in me.”

When I understood better that it’s all “data” — beliefs, programs, limitations – speaking through people, then I better understood that what I am to keep cleaning on is everything that I perceive as a problem/program.

It’s not the person; it’s the program.

Knowing that, the cleaning picks up speed.

In other words, focusing on the person who is speaking, whether me or someone talking to me, is focusing on the wrong place; the place to focus is on the program.

As I feel or sense the program (belief, data), I keep saying the cleaning statements, such as “I love you.”

As I do, the cleaning happens and I’m closer to being inspired by the purity of the Divine.

Something to consider: Even “I love you” is a program.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com 

PS –  People are reporting truly amazing results from non-stop cleaning. One woman told me she just kept cleaning on her mate, who had a phobia about committing, and now they’re married. One eight-year-old student kept cleaning on a new teacher who was belligerent to everyone and now the teacher smiles and waves to all the kids. It’s truly astounding what cleaning will do. And it all stems from “I love you!”.