Tag: Books

Anybody who knows me understands that I am a bookaholic. I love books. I read them, write them, buy them, review them, collect them, give them, and more. My world would not exist without books. That said, I am wondering if they are all they are cracked up to be.

I was just in Ohio visiting family. I poked around the dusty boxes of books still in my parent’s basement and found copies of books I didn’t and still don’t recall reading.

I picked up a paperback edition of Napoleon Hill’s classic self-help book, Think and Grow Rich. Apparently I bought it in 1976. I don’t remember reading it. The book has a few underlined sentences. It looks read.

The thing is, if I read that book in 1976, I either missed something or didn’t apply something. I was broke for the next ten years or more. Maybe I just didn’t think enough to get rich while I read it.

I’m not saying this to suddenly be against books. I think you can learn the wisdom of the universe from books. But there’s reading, there’s understanding, and there’s implementation. I don’t think I understood Hill’s book in 1976. I don’t think I implemented it, either.

We learn faster when we have a coach, mentor, educator; someone to help us understand the material and then guide us as we take action and get feedback.

Yes, you can read the book and get results. I’m told more people have become millionaires from Think and Grow Rich than any other book ever written. But that doesn’t mean the process is automatic. I think we need guidance.

There are exceptions to every rule. I taught myself writing. I did it with books. But I read, studied, and implemented every single thing I came across in those books.

Yes, read Think and Grow Rich.

Yes, read Attract Money Now.

But also do something to integrate what you read.

Consider forming a study group or mastermind.

Or maybe get a Miracles Coach and really turbocharge your life and career.

I’ll never be against books. But I do think you have to become one with a book to really understand it. Had I done that in 1976, I might have been far happier, healthier and wealthier at an earlier age.

Ao Akua,

Joe

PS — You can get a free thirty minute taste of Miracles Coaching, see a short video about it, and hear an interview with a Miracles Coach over at http://www.miraclescoaching.com or by clicking right here.

In the below recent short video, my 85-year-old father explains when I started writing. Apparently I was very young. He says I was working on a sequel to the most influential book of all time. We touch on everything from the Bible to Think and Grow Rich, Will Rogers, Rod Serling, Groucho Marx, and more.  Whew. Enjoy.

Can you complete this sentence —

“Money is the root of all –“

Of course you can.

“Evil” is what comes to mind.

But why?

IS money evil?

Many spiritual people think money is bad.  They judge wealthy people as material.

Does that sound spiritual to you?

IS money bad?

ARE wealthy people material?

First, I’ve taught for a long time that the material is the hard form of the spiritual. Think about it.  If money, cars, homes, etc are not spiritual (or at least also spiritual), then what is?

I had a spiritual teacher decades ago who told me, “As soon as you see God in the very thing you condemn, fear or judge, in that moment you will awaken.”

For me, money is simply a tool.

Recently I used it to attract a new car, but I also used it to give funds to build a school in Taiwan, fix a hospital in Mexico, help a young man who just graduated, help another friend with the IRS, fund a movement to end homelessness, and help fund a shelter for domestic help.

Money let me do all that.

Doesn’t sound bad or evil, does it?

When you feel money is evil, or rich people are bad, you have closed off your heart, disconnected with the Divine flow, and become very un-spiritual.

You also un-attract money.

As I explain in my book, Attract Money Now, the actual Biblical quote is, “The love of money is the root of all evil.”

And if you look deeper, you’ll see most wealthy (certainly not all) people respect money but don’t love it. They appreciate it. They utilize it. They leverage it.

What they actually love is freedom, and money helps give that.

Our purpose in life is to awaken. To do that, we have to drop judgments about everything we fear — including money.

When you can say, “Money is the root of all spirituality,” you will begin to understand true spirituality.

In fact, a spiritual teacher I admire (Arnold  Patent) said, “The sole purpose of money is to express appreciation.”

I love that quote.

“The sole purpose of money is to express appreciation.”

Beautiful.

“The sole purpose of money is to express appreciation.”

I can’t stop saying it.

In fact, it should probably be written as, “The soul purpose of money is to express appreciation.”

Decades ago one of my first prosperity teachers was Bobby Birdsall. I dedicated Attract Money Now to him. He told me that when I saw a rich person ride around in a Rolls-Royce, I should bless that person.

Bless a rich person?

I was struggling at the time and didn’t see how blessing some rich jerk was going to help me pay my bills.

But Bobby was right. So is Arnold Patent. The more I practiced unconditional love, and appreciation for things I previously may have judged negatively, the more I cleared up my own issues with money.

And the more money I began to attract.

Today I’m the guy in the Rolls (or the Spyker, BMW, Jag, or Panoz) and people like you are being inspired and blessing me with appreciation.

Right?

Appreciation helps point you in the direction of  understanding money as a tool for good – a spiritual tool, at that. To help you understand this new mindset about money, you might want to check out The Secret to Attracting Money at http://www.thesecrettoattractingmoney.com

The Secret to Attracting Money is a spiritual and practical system for bringing in cash — cash that you can use to help yourself, your family, and the world.
In it —

* I reveal new clearing methods for money.

* I explain new marketing methods.  (Based on love and passion.)

* I deliver new insights about money and you. (These are eye-opening.)

* I talk about the Law of Attraction but also reveal the Law of Right Action. (Important!)

* I also created a wealth assessment quiz to help you understand your own hidden beliefs about money.  It reveals your “Money Attractor IQ.”

* I even explain a paint-by-the-numbers approach to making money online that anyone (yes that means you, too) can use.

* I also teach you a way to “rewrite your past” so you can create a profitable future. (Whew!)

* I also explain the money myths holding you back — 9 ways to attract money — the best reason in the world to want money — how to determine your life’s purpose — the 7 principles for turning on your money magnet right now — my counter-intuitive way for attracting cash — my personal time management system — AND the list just goes on and on.

This is all very different than my book, Attract Money Now. It supplements it, while going way beyond the book. http://www.thesecrettoattractingmoney.com

The Secret to Attracting Money is organized into six strategy-packed sessions that will lead you through my foolproof process for attracting money. It all begins with your mindset.

If you’re dealing with money issues, or just ready to make peace with it so you realize money is a spiritual tool to do good things, please look into my book or my audio course.

Remember, “Money is the root of all spirituality.”

And, “The sole purpose of money is to express appreciation.”

Money is good.

Money is love.

Money is spirit.

Money is gratitude in action.

Go forth and express some appreciation.

Ao Akua,

Joe

PS – Of course, you can also dig deeper into how to attract money with Miracles Coaching.

I’ve been working on a follow-up book to Zero Limits (ho’oponopono) for over six months.  It’s titled Beyond Zero Limits. While it’s not ready for you to see yet,  I want to invite you to contribute to it.

The book will reveal the never-before revealed secret clearing and cleaning methods Dr. Hew Len taught me in person and in private.

These go way beyond the simple method revealed in our book, Zero Limits. These are more powerful than I can describe in this post, and not ones I want to share willy-nilly with just anybody.

Since I signed  a non-disclosure agreement when I attended the ho’oponopono classes (which everyone does, as I explained in Zero Limits),  I can’t reveal those methods. No one can. But the ones taught to me in private, and others I have been inspired to test, will be in the new book.

I never planned to reveal these advanced ho’oponopono methods until I began to see people promoting false and misleading information and saying it was ho’oponopono.

It’s time the truth was told.

People are getting stuck and need freed.

If you want to go to the next level, and learn the most empowering and enlightening methods of Hawaiian mysticism ever revealed, you’ll want to read my new book when it comes out.

Meanwhile, I want you to share your own experiences with ho’oponopono and any methods or refinements you have learned.

Did you have a miracle from the method?

Did you create or discover a refinement to it?

Did you receive inspiration about the Divine?

Just write your story or lesson in about 500 words, clean on it so it is the best you can do, and then submit it at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RYFCKP3 or just click right here.

If your contribution is selected for the new book, you’ll be able to get your website listed, and you’ll be helping thousands of people, and you will receive an autographed copy of the published book.

I’m very excited about “Beyond Zero Limits” because it will help explain what people have been confused about from the first book, and it will offer secret methods for clearing that can only be called advanced (though they are easy to do).

Please don’t be taken by all the people who claim to know or teach ho’oponopono. Dr. Hew Len warned me about them and sure enough, they’re out there.  Stick with the original source of the Zero Limits message.

Please also know that I am not targeting any person or organization. There are many good teachers out there. Mark Ryan and I have several wonderful DVDs in our Subliminal Manifestation series.  Mabel Katz has great books and more. There are many doing good work, sharing the good message.

All I’m asking is for you to check in with yourself before buying what someone might claim to be ho’oponopono. No one owns Source, including me, or Dr. Hew Len.

Maybe one litmus test is to see if the person or organization selling ho’oponopono practices unconditional love and 100% responsibility. If they (or their followers) spend time criticizing others or blaming others, it may not be the place to shop.

Just a word to the wise.

As a reminder, if you want to experience Zero Limits “in person,” from Dr. Hew Len and myself, just go to http://www.zerolimits3.com or click right here.

Thank you.

I’m sorry.

Please forgive me.

I love you.

Ao Akua,

Joe

PS — If you haven’t read Zero Limits yet, the first book I coauthored with Dr. Hew Len about ho’oponopono, it is available everywhere books are sold, online and off. It’s in paperback, and hardcover, and on audio, and even as a downloadable Kindle book (which you can also read on your ipad). Or just go see – http://www.zerolimits.info or click right here.

Last weekend I went to Dallas to relive my homeless days while a TV crew filmed it all.

It sucked.

I didn’t like going there.

I didn’t like being there.

But I’m glad I went through it.

I was finally able to break through the black cloud I’ve unconsciously carried from three decades ago.

When people ask me how I went from homeless to bestselling author, all I can tell them is I never let go of my dream, and I persistently and relentlessly worked toward making it a reality.

I worked at my dream while I was homeless, in poverty, struggling with no job at all or jobs I hated so bad I cried driving to and from them.

But I never gave up.

I kept going to the library, kept reading self-help and self-improvement books, and kept applying what I read.

It all helped me.

But it wasn’t enough.

I needed something more.

The giant breakthrough came when I got a personal coach.

I wrote about this in my book, The Attractor Factor, and I’ve told the story many times.

While you’ll grow with books and audios — and you should keep reading them as nourishment for your mind and soul — the dramatic leaps to new levels will come more easily and quickly with a coach.

That’s why I started Miracles Coaching more than four years ago.

It’s to help you dissolve your hidden limitations and blast up the ladder of success.

It’s to help you attract miracles.

To help you taste what I’m talking about, you can have a 30 minute free session of Miracles Coaching.

No charge.

No obligation.

Just go to —

http://www.miraclescoaching.com

Again, it’s free.

It’s a gift to you, to help you move forward.

And all you have to do is request it.

It’ll help you have a better day, too.

Isn’t it time?

Ao Akua,

Joe

PS — I know you may be nervous about talking to a Miracles Coach or signing up for that free session. The first time I went to see a personal coach, I could hardly breathe. And my car stalled on the way there. I knew this was my inner resistance to leaving my comfort zone. But I also knew I had to do something to change. So I told myself and my car, “I’m going to that session no matter what!” As a direct result, I left the old unhappy and unsuccessful me and became a new man with amazing levels of new success I only dreamed of before. You can have this, too — or something even better. Go see — http://www.miraclescoaching.com

PPS – You can also listen to an interview with one of my Miracles Coaches (pictured above with me), and watch a short video about Miracles Coaching, at the site. Again, it’s at — http://www.miraclescoaching.com

Note: The caricature of me is by Jamie Linfoot of New Zealand. He created it and gave it to me as a gift, after reading my books, including Attract Money Now.