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I recently had a chance to interview Joe Vitale from the DVD "The Secret". Joe has also been featured on Larry King Live a couple of times recently discussing how we can get whatever we want in life using the power of our thoughts and feelings.

Honestly Joe is one of my favorite people. He's a marketing genius, recently lost 80 pounds (as a matter fact I've seen video of Joe working out and this guy trains hard) and he's one of the most down to earth and unlikely self help guru's around. Joe actually used to be homeless.

When I asked Joe to explain how we can get what we want in life, here's what Joe told me:

Chris: I’m here with Joe Vitale. Joe, what is it that you do?

Joe: Well I do whatever I feel like and basically it’s in the field of writing books, writing information products, being a little bit of an Internet marketer, copywriter, these days becoming a little bit of self-help guru, but I would say, at heart, I do whatever my passion is directing me to do. And that leads me down a whole lot of different roads. Since the beginning I’ve been a writer so I am an author first and marketing consultant, I guess, second, and a spiritual teacher probably third – teaching people about the law of attraction, teaching them the principles that are in my book – The Attractor Factor, as well as some of my books that will be coming out soon. But at heart, the key message for me is I live by my passion. That’s what I do.

Chris: What is the law of attraction?

Joe: Well simply put, the law of attraction means you get whatever you are internally, unconsciously vibrating to. And I am specifically mentioning internally and unconsciously because a lot of people mistake the law of attraction to being you get whatever you think about, and that’s not necessarily true. And that’s actually good news because a whole lot of us are thinking some pretty bad thoughts, pretty negative thoughts, that if they came true would have a pretty lousy life. So it’s good that there’s some down time or lag time between what you are thinking and what you are getting. It gives you a chance to review what you really want. What you are actually getting when you implement the law of attraction is what you are thinking unconsciously. It’s not your conscious beliefs so much as your unconscious belief that’s pulling into your orbit the thing that you are experiencing. So when people want to change their lives they have to go and engage the law of attraction, but they don’t do it consciously, they have to do it unconsciously. And that’s something a whole lot of people don’t know – that’s one of the missing secrets to success in life. Yeah the law of attraction – it’s pretty fascinating and it’s pretty fantastic but if you assume it’s just what you think is what you attract then you are making a big mistake because it works on a deeper level. It’s on the invisible, vibratory, energy level. It’s not on the thought level but it can begin with thought. So I don’t to dismiss thought but I’m not going to give it full credit either.

Chris: What are the five steps of the Attractor Factor?

Joe: Well I can give you the five steps to the Attractor Factor in a cliff notes version:

The first step is to know what you don’t want. And this is really important. Most of mankind, most of humankind is stuck on that step because they are just complaining. That’s the gossip level step, that’s the complaining level step. That’s where they’re just looking around their circumstances, they’re looking at their reality and they’re complaining about it. Most people don’t leave the first step but I think recognizing that first step is important in order to get to the second step.

The second step is to choose what you prefer. So you use the first step – you use your complaint, you use your problem and transform it into an intention. So the second step is all about stating your intention. Intention is powerful. When you state an intention, you align the internal part of you – your body and mind, your unconscious, your conscious – all starts to go in the direction of your intention. And also something magical happens is that when you state your intention the universe picks up on it and pretty much rearranges itself, rearranges people and places and puts you in situations to help make your manifestation, your intention come to be. So the second step is to state your intention.

The third is to get clear. This is important. This is powerful. This is the missing secret to just about every self help law of attraction program that is out there. Getting clear means you have to get clear within yourself of the counter-intentions within you. My favorite example is on January 1^st everybody states their intentions: I want to lose weight, I’m going to exercise, I’m going to do more marketing, I’m going to quit smoking, I’m going to do such and such and such. By January 2^nd most of those intentions have gone with the wind. Why? Because there were counter intentions that were stronger than their intentions. And unless people get clear of those counter intentions, they will keep tripping themselves up. They will self sabotage themselves. So this, to me, is the missing secret to getting results in the world. It is step three: get clear.

Step four – again this is all in the Attractor Factor - is to feel what it would be like to already have, do or be the very thing that you set out as your intention. It is important to feel it not just visualize it, not just imagine it, not just talk about it, not just write it down, but to feel it as if it is already done. Now this is a bit of a metaphysical principle, but what you are doing is activating the Law of Attraction by adding your feeling to it. Feeling is the accelerator. This is what makes it have momentum. This is what gets it into overdrive and puts it into warp speed. When you feel it in your body as if it is done, you accelerate the entire process of attracting whatever it is that you want to experience into your life as fast as I was going to say humanly possible but it is actually divinely possible. So the key in step four is to feel it as if it’s done, not feel what would it be like when you have it, you pretend you already have it and you feel “I already have the money, I already have the house, I already have the relationship, I already have the body” whatever you want. You’ve got it now, what does that feel like. That is step four.

Step five is to let go while taking inspired action. This is a biggie. Most of us, especially in the western society, can’t do it very well because it means letting go of your attachments. Letting go of your addiction, letting go of your need to have it a certain way. Most people who set an intention are desperate about it. They need to have the money by Friday. The need to have this relationship. And that need is actually the energy that’s going out and attracting what they get, which is more need. So you want to be able to playfully say I would love to have more income, I would love to have a better business, I would love to have my physical body, whatever you want it to be. But you are not addicted to it. You are not attached to it. There’s a playful quality about it. That non-attachment, that neutral play makes it happen faster. And then the other aspect of this is one part is letting go and the other aspect is taking inspired action. Letting go doesn’t mean you sit on your thumb, you just sit around waiting for the phone to ring, you do relax but if you get inspired – a nudge from inside to make a phone call to buy a particular book, to attend the program, to invest in something, to go left when you normally go right on a driveway on a road – whatever it is, your part of the bargain with the universe is to take that action. It’s inspired action.

So all five steps are what’s needed, in my opinion, as the training wheels to learn how to implement the Law of Attraction in your life. Once you have learned how to use these five steps then you can probably cut them down to what I think is just one step. And that one step is:

Be Happy Now

Happy people tend to get more of what they want and they are happy whether they get it or not. But that’s one step and most of us can’t do it so I say use the five steps in the Attractor Factor.

You can learn more about Joe Vitale at MrFire.com

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