Lessons - The Missing Secret Nobody Tells You | Joe Vitale - Law of Attraction's Hidden Formula

In this lessons episode, uncover why lasting success depends on consistent effort rather than instant results. Discover how embracing small actions creates long-term breakthroughs. Understand why focusing on progress instead of perfection builds resilience and explore how acting quickly on ideas turns opportunities into reality. You hear that spiritual message in a lot of different religions where you're trying to reach that level of consciousness. And I do believe that a lot of people don't take the first step into improving their lives just because there's this abundance of pessimism and negativity that really stop people from understanding what they can do. And I think that what is tough for people to figure out or wrap their mind around is to see the full path. So they don't understand how the micro action they take is going to eventually lead to the success they want in 10 years. And they just want the immediate and that's it. And if it's not immediate, it's not real. Or if it's not immediate, it's not valid. And that's wrong. Because I, you know, people that aren't entrepreneurs that don't go through this struggle. Entrepreneurs know this better than anything. I don't mean to speak to entrepreneurs in particular, but you ever ask an entrepreneur or anybody who's a success sports, you know, politics, anybody who has any sort of credibility in their, in their field, it's not overnight. It's, you know, a thousand of all these different. So it's like, just take that same mentality, apply it to any person. And if you want to be successful, it's not going to be the one thing. It's going to be the hundreds of thousands of things that you have to do. Um, anyway, that's that that's my, I don't want to take over this session. This is all, you know, just something I'd be a passionate about. It's very wise and people need reminded of that. That's also true in my case. I've often told people, yeah, I'm an overnight success. If you define overnight as 30 years. Yeah. It is none of us that I am aware of had an overnight success. Everybody put in their time. They put in their hours. They put in their work. And over time, they had little breadcrumbs of success that kept them going. But the, the vision is what kept them going. And the belief in themselves and the possibility of the vision becoming reality is what kept them going. And then at some point, you break through and you, you reach a level where people notice your success and to them, it seems like it was overnight because you just appeared. It's much like before the movie, the secret in 2006, I was pretty well known as an internet marketer as a copy writer because I was one of the first to go on the internet. I was considered an internet pioneer. And from that level of success, a lot of people took notice of me, a lot of people hired me. But then the movie, the secret comes out. And that thing blows across the planet. And suddenly, everybody sees me and everybody recognizes me and I go on Larry King live twice. And Oprah does three specials on the show and Newsweek and New York Times. And I'm being invited to speak all over the world. Suddenly, overnight, overnight, Joe is noticed. Yeah. All the time before, I was doing all the work to be in preparation for a phone call that I didn't even know was coming that would say, Hey, we read one of your books, which I wouldn't have written had I not taken the action to get it done. And we want to put you in this movie, which I didn't know was going to do anything. And then when I'm in the movie, it ends up being this intergalactic historic making film. But all of this was because I was working for 30 years to get to that point. So your point is well taken. And I think people need reminded of that. If they open their business today, they should not expect to sell out today. If they write a book this week, they should not expect it to be a best seller next week. They should be doing the plugging along, doing the action steps, and trusting that yeah, planting seeds. And a little later, you'll get the pluck the fruit. So let's talk about, let's talk about taking the first step. I was, you know, I was reading a little bit of the money, love, speed. So that's like that's your latest book. And I was, I was thinking about, you know, how do I, because obviously there's a whole bunch of things that I wanted to speak about in your life and what you've done. But it's sort of dovetailing quite nicely into this. How do you take that first action? You know, I think that that's primarily what the book is about. But I'll let you sort of say it in your words, because I want to, I want to build out on that. So I think that's very valid for like right now, because people for the first time are realizing jobs aren't secure. They don't know what's going on all time high unemployment. How do you take an action now? What's the next step? Yeah, that's a great question. There's so many things I want to say relevant to that question, because I want to kind of unpack it. Do it. Go forward. Go forward. All right. Well, first of all, you know, we're in a pandemic right now. And people are worried about the virus. And I've made some videos for Twitter and social media, Facebook and Instagram where I said there's two viruses. There's two viruses. Everybody's hearing about the first virus and everybody's nervous about the virus and everybody's going home and hiding because of the virus. And rightly so, we should pay attention to what the health authorities are telling us. Wash your hands, do the social distancing, stay at home, do all of that stuff, because you need to take care of your health. But I'm not dismissing that. But there's a second virus. And the second virus is worse than the first. The second virus is the virus of the mind. The second virus is fear. When people fall into fear because they're watching the news media, which I say the solution is turn it off. The mainstream news is just going to make you shudder in your shoes and they're great at programming you for fear and insecurity. So I say turn it off. And if you're really concerned about what's going on in the world, go on a mainstream news diet. Listen to the headlines for five minutes. See what you need to do. Turn the sucker off. The other thing that's going on is when we fall into fear, ironically, we lower our immune system. When we lower our immune system, we make it easier for the first virus to come and visit us. So what I've been advising people is we got to focus on the positive. Jason Miraz has a new song right now called Look for the Good. And boy, do I love that message because I wrote it. I recorded a song called Look for the Light. It's the same concept. Look for the good. Look for the light. Look for the positive. It's always there. It's the old Mr. Rogers thing. He says even in disasters, look for the helpers. There are people doing good things. In fact, I think the warriors of our times right now are the Amazon delivery drivers and the food service people who are coming to our door bringing us grub to eat. So we have new heroes out there. But what I say is you got to focus on the positive. Now this ties into what action do you take? If you focus on the positive, you can start to see with a little bit more clarity that there are opportunities here. In fact, you mentioned that there are millions of people who are unemployed. In my mind, I translate that to say there are millions of people who are about to become entrepreneurs. I think that what's going on with this pandemic is almost a divine conspiracy. It's almost like the divine, which I some people would call that God. You can call it the universe. You can call it source. You can call it the higher power. You can call it nature. Whenever you want to call it, that's bigger than all of us. I think it's sent us to our room. I think it's put us on notice. I think what this divine conspiracy is is a conspiracy for good. So let me explain that real quick, because when people are told go inside and what they're looking at is go inside your room, go inside your house. I reinterpret that in a metaphysical way. Go inside means go inside yourself. Go inside. This is our time to meditate, to contemplate, to reset, to reconnect. This is our time to be alone. And we're being told, stay away from others, at least six feet away, social distancing kind of a thing. So it's almost like we've been put on an enforce spiritual retreat. So okay, so now we're inside, we're meditating, we're contemplating, we're reflecting, and maybe we get to see that, what are some opportunities here? All those times we said, I wish I had time to fill in the blank. You now have time to do it. Anybody who's ever said, boy, if I had time, I'd write a book. Boy, if I had time, I'd learn how to play the saxophone. Boy, if I had time, I'd learn a language. Go to YouTube, type in how to fill in the blank. And there will be tutorials free for you to watch over the great gift that we didn't have a hundred years ago. And we had the other pandemic, the great gift being the internet, Facebook, social media, and what you're doing right here, using and leveraging it for good. So all of this is to say it's our time to go within. Now as we go within, we're going to get ideas. And as we get ideas, this is where action comes up. The whole point of the title, the title of the book is Money Love Speed. It's one of the eight laws of money. And Money Love Speed means that when you have an idea for a product or service, you want to speedily, quickly, rapidly act on it. Partly because when you have an idea, it feels good. And that feeling good is an energy, is an electricity that you can use to manifest your idea. One of the reasons I've had 80 some books, and in fact, you listed this as my most recent book. But while you were speaking, I released another book, the art. And this is because I know money loves speed. Yeah. So here we are acting on it. And this is what I tell people to do. And you have an idea, you see an opportunity, you need to act. Part of it is just using the momentum of the energy that came with the idea. Another part of it is I believe the universe, the cosmos, whatever you want to call it, collective unconscious, is feeding ideas to us. And they're gifts. And the sooner you act on an idea that comes as a gift, the sooner you will profit from it in the marketplace. I want to say one more thing because I'm on a roll with this. And like I said, I have a lot of things to say. It's good. One more thing when people consider action, they often say, well, I don't know what to do or I don't know where to start. And that's when they procrastinate. Well procrastination comes from overwhelm. And what I tell people, it's the old Theodore Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt said, do what you can with what you have right where you are. That's it. I tell people, look where your shoes are. All right, on your feet. What is the first baby step you can make right now? The baby step. I'm not asking you to complete a business plan or open the business or finish the book and write the end. I'm saying, what is the first step you can take right now? There's always a first step. An easy baby kindergarten simple first step. That's the step you take. And here's the profound great news. You take that step. The next baby step becomes apparent. You take that step. The next baby step becomes apparent. Steve Jobs said, you cannot connect the dots of your life looking forward. You can connect them looking backwards. But looking forward, you sit here looking out into the future and you don't know what the dots are. You don't know where the dots are going to lead. You can't explain it. You can't create the map to it because it doesn't exist yet. But if you look backwards, you can tell the story like I can now of how I got here. But the story of how I got here is so incredibly unpredictable. That I never would have been able to tell anybody how I got on the internet. We didn't know what the internet was. It didn't exist when I was in college or on an unemployed and broke in the 70s. Same with the movie The Secret. I never would have guessed I'd be in a movie because I didn't know that the movie was ever going to be made. You cannot predict, but you can look and see the baby step. And that, Scott, is where the first step is. But baby step, take that. Thanks for tuning in. 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