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Dr. Joe Vitale and Hypnotic Marketing, Inc. individually or corporately, do not accept any responsibility for any liabilities resulting from the actions of any parties involved. www.miraclescoaching.com 2 © 2013 by Hypnotic Marketing, Inc. Table of Contents Introduction Secret Session #1 Secret Session #2 Secret Session #3 Secret Session #4 Secret Session #5 Secret Session #6 Secret Session #7 Secret Session #8 Secret Session #9 Secret Session #10 Secret Session #11 Secret Session #12 www.miraclescoaching.com 3 © 2013 by Hypnotic Marketing, Inc. Expect Miracles! An Introduction by Dr. Joe Vitale For more than four years now I have been answering questions from students in my famous Miracles Coaching™ program. They've asked everything from – * How do I stay positive when people around me are negative? * How do I discover my life purpose when I don't know what I want? * How do I attract money in this terrible economy? * How do I attract my soulmate? * How do I improve my self-image? * How do I help others? * What can I do when everything looks hopeless? Those questions – and hundreds of others – have been asked every month for years. I often got on the secret coaching calls with no idea what I would say, but always felt like inspiration led me in answering each question in the most enlightening way. We recorded all those calls, of course. And one day I realized that people not yet in my Miracles Coaching™ program might benefit from my answers. Now, for the first time ever, you can have access to the first volume of questions and answers in my brand new e-book, The Miracles Manual, which you are now reading. www.miraclescoaching.com 4 © 2013 by Hypnotic Marketing, Inc. I believe you will be entertained, educated, and enlightened from just reading this book. Please read, enjoy, and – Expect Miracles! Love, Joe Dr. Joe Vitale Creator of Miracles Coaching™ Author of way too many books to list here Member BBB 2003-1013 www.JoeVitale.com www.miraclescoaching.com 5 © 2013 by Hypnotic Marketing, Inc. Secret Session #1 Joe Vitale with Kory Koontz Kory: Joe, welcome. Joe: Thank you, Kory. I’ve been looking forward to this. Kory: Let’s jump right in with a question you probably get all the time, “What if I don’t know what I want?” How do you respond to this? Joe: One time I had coffee with Robert Anthony, who’s written a lot of successful material over the years, and asked him the same question. He said, “I tell them they’re lying.” So that’s exactly what I do today when people say that. The further explanation is that we easily deceive ourselves. Self-sabotage is rampant, but we don’t usually know it. We blame it on other people, our upbringing, society – everybody, but ourselves. The people who say they don’t know what they want are lying because it’s an easy way to dodge taking responsibility and action. As soon as you say what you want, you have to do something about it. For example, as soon as you admit, “Well, I’ve always wanted to open that doughnut shop. I’ve always wanted to open my own dry cleaning place. I’ve www.miraclescoaching.com 6 © 2013 by Hypnotic Marketing, Inc. always wanted to write my own book. I’ve always wanted to create my own music. I’ve always wanted to sing. I’ve always wanted to dance. I’ve always wanted to be a lawyer,” you have to face the stark reality of what you’re going to do about it, or why you haven’t. For most of us, it’s easy to simply skirt the issue, shrug our shoulders, and say, “I don’t know what I want.” Essentially, it’s a cop out. In coaching, I play little games with people and ask them to imagine possibilities. For example, drift back to when you were a kid and ask yourself, “What did I really like to do? What kind of play was it? What did I dream about being when I grew up?” This starts to unearth answers. You can play with other ideas, too, like if you won the lottery. I’m not into gambling, so I’m not telling people to try to win it. I’m just playing with the idea that if you suddenly had millions of dollars drop in your lap, paid all your bills and taxes, bought all the toys – what are you going to do with your life now? It takes away the survival excuse that people have when they say, “Well, I can’t do what I really want because I need to pay my bills.” That’s just another excuse. We’re deceiving ourselves when we do that because, underneath our tiny little smokescreen, which isn’t all that thick, we do know what we want. We just haven’t allowed ourselves the permission to admit it, because as soon as we admit it, we’ve got to do something about it. We’ve got to go for it and stop making excuses. Just as I did in the movie, “The Secret,” I lean forward, get in your face, and say, “Look, let’s be ruthlessly honest with ourselves. You know what you want. What you need to do is admit it to yourself and, from there, we can devise a plan. It can be a really easy, baby step of a plan to move forward and bring it into being.” www.miraclescoaching.com 7 © 2013 by Hypnotic Marketing, Inc. So, begin with the reality that you do know what you want, that it’s right under the surface of your excuses. That’s where you start. Kory: You wanted to learn how to play an instrument, or learn how to sing – which you’ve done over the last couple of years. In fact, you have a recently released CD called Blue Healer. In order to do this, you had to overcome your own limiting beliefs in regard to your talents. What did you do to get past the fears and “What if’s?” Joe: There’s something big going on with the music, but what’s important to understand is that, before I got started, I didn’t call myself a musician. I hadn’t written a single song, and could only play a few chords on the guitar. I’d never sung anything, except maybe in the choir when I was growing up in grade school. This came about because I admitted to myself that one of the things I wanted in my life was to be a musician. I wanted to create my own music and see what I could do with it. I admitted it, which is one of the first steps. Next I got support – coaches for vocal, guitar, and music – and having these helped me polish my skills fairly rapidly. Then, last October, I ran into a famous singer/songwriter, Ray Wiley Hubbard, who’s on the same level as Willie Nelson. He’s well-known, and knew of me, but we hadn’t met before. We happened to be at the same restaurant, so we sat down together. I couldn’t believe the synchronicity. www.miraclescoaching.com 8 © 2013 by Hypnotic Marketing, Inc. As we got to talking, he asked, “Are you a musician?” and I remember thinking to myself, “How do I answer that?” I thought, “Well, the reality is that I am. I haven’t recorded a thing yet, but I’ve already committed to recording and I am taking lessons. I’ve got my coaches lined up.” So I looked him right in the eye and said, “Yes, sir. I am.” Three months later, I came out with my first CD, Blue Healer, and ended up on the cover of a local magazine. Immediately I said, “Well, now I’m going for the big one, the one that is all me – my own singing and guitar playing.” Blue Healer had been more of an instrumental, a relaxing background effort. While it was a great accomplishment, I wanted to put myself on the line even more – with my own original music, guitar playing, and singing. By the end of the year, I’ll have three CDs out. As soon as Strut is done, I’ll be working on another with my guitar teacher, Matthew Dixon, a Spanish guitar player. When you admit what you want, you release all kinds of energy within you. Then, when you hire a coach, you gain an ally to help and instruct you, as well as someone who’ll hold you accountable. Did I have limiting beliefs or self-doubt? Absolutely. There were times when I thought, “What in the world am I doing?” Last February I signed up to go to a songwriting workshop that Ray Wiley Hubbard and Kevin Weltz were putting on.