Here’s a buddy of mine (HarpDog Brown) playing Happy Birthday for ya! Sorry I’m a little late. Attract everything your heart desires!

Steve

It’s awesome that you’ve been following since the beginning. We’re having the ride of our lives! Wait a minute… it actually is our lives! haha!

Steve

thank you for your observations of both me and how you see the Law of Attraction working. Honestly, I’m a very lucky man because Sue is handling almost all of the Millionaire Affair setup and she finds excellent people to build our team with. I’ll be alot more hands on when our next event starts.

For me, I’m still not sure about the necessity of action part. It feels like Sue and I are indeed taking big action steps. But in the back of my mind, I have an instinctual feeling that the clarity of purpose or reasons for manifesting “X,” are more important than anything. Do I know? Nope. Will I ever know for sure? Probably not.

The people that put together the Secret movie certainly did know how to make heads turn, and get people to pay attention. It was marketing magic at its finest. But I’ve never felt cynical towards the people that were in it. To me, the message is still clear. If you want to change your life, change what you think about. Obviously Esther & Gerry felt some of the same feelings about the movie, and distanced themselves from it. To me, that doesn’t matter much because the power of the movie is in how it made both Sue and I feel. It was like a primer to a very exciting way of thinking, that has really affected our lives positively.

There are many philosophies like Joe Vitale’s comments about manifesting everything to us. And I probably ascribe to that a bit more than Sue, right now. I am also of the opinion that all of this, is one giant sized amusement park we travel to from where ever souls wait. We believe everything is physical, but I don’t know for sure. How do I know my eyes are telling me the truth? By using my brain to believe them?

We took the family to see a wonderful display called Body Worlds. It was a scientific exhibit of human bodies, with the skin peeled off. It left me with a strange and unique feeling like the souls of those people who donated their corpses to science, were actually in the room with me. I loved it and found a little video for you about it.

Personally, I probably won’t understand how everything works in my lifetime, but I’m convinced that I don’t need to have ALL the answers right now. Some of them will show up in 5 years, more in 25, some only when I die. But this ride, is fantastic.
Steve

Thanks so much for the kinds words. And thanks again for being willing to sign up for our coaching course. And when your connection rocks, so will your dream my friend!

Steve

Amy – I agree…Steve should write more of these awesome blog posts! Thanks for your wonderful comments…you made my day

I have been following your evolution ever since seeing your entry in Maria Andros’ contest last year.

I love to see how things have been progressing for you both via your videos and the toolbox of knowledge and skills that you continue to acquire and share withyour tribe.

Although I agree that you both have a unique charisma and energy in the videos you do – love them, you also have a differnt power of authentic transparency and vulnerability that you convey in a different yet equally powerful way via writing. So I want to encourage you to continue to add content to your site via the written post as well. The combination adds richness to the “Sue and Steve Experience”.
I wish you both much success wth your millianoaire Affair project. Bravo for taking inspired action!

Amy (@LotusAmy on twitter)

The Secret had some very clever marketing and they knew their audience. The book is short because they wanted to make it marketable to those who do not have a lot of time. They use big names in the self-help circuit because they wanted to lure a large fanbase. They broke it down into these steps because they wanted to convince audiences that it was easy for them to do. They knew their demographic and they were very clever about it in terms of marketing (as Herrin mentioned).

However, what separates the light weights Secret believers from the hardcore LOA success stories is action. Those who take the time to learn more about it realize that The Secret was more of an introductory piece to create a curious audience who will hopefully go on to learn more about LOA. There are aspects of The Secret that I completely disagree with (especially Vitale’s comment that we manifest everything to us), but it is a good example of clever marketing and a way to create general awareness of what needs to be done.

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Herrin – I appreciate your comments too. I agree somewhat with what you said about The Secret…yes it was great marketing, turned out really commercial and didn’t really dig very deep into the law of attraction. I can honestly say though that that movie changed my life.

I didn’t even know what the law of attraction was before I saw that movie. After seeing it, I completely changed the way I thought about things. As far as I’m concerned, that’s pretty incredible value to get from a movie. It also made me hungry for more…I started exploring new books to read and stumbled upon Abraham-Hicks who have taught me more about life than I ever imagined I’d learn.

Thanks for all the comments…really appreciate you all taking the time!

It is such a pleasure to watch your prosperity grow, both outside of yourselves and within you and your beautiful family. Success is already truly upon you and sharing this with the world – well, it will help many and it really gives me joy to share in your success…..

It is truly one of life’s greatest compensations, that no one can truly help another until they first help themselves…..

YOU BOTH are wonderful, inspirational souls and I am very fortunate to have you in my life!

There is no room for waste or negativity and we KNOW that eventually we do reach the crest of the hill!

Much love to you both,
Awesome

You will succeed….because you have what it takes to be a millionaire.

You guys ROCK!

Cheers
Pam Brossman

We’re kicking butt man, this thing is flying! Woohoo!

Steve

The Millionaire Affair is already rocking our world. We’ve had hundreds of new signups just today. We’re just bursting with excitement.

Passion combined with making the world a better place is a recipe for TOTAL BLISS.

Steve

I think you can see that we completely agree with you about “engaging the process.” Whether or not it’s MORE imortant than the goal is up to individuals. There are lots of ways to skin a cat man, your ideas are likely exactly what you need to be doing for yourself.

What I now understand clearly for myself, was that my once lofty dream of becoming wealthy was a necessary part of my progress towards being able to manifest the actual millions. I NEEDED the shallow to understand the deep. You may think that dreaming of a QUICK and EASY million dollars is counter-productive to actually manifesting it. But I know that was an essential motivation that Sue and I had to honour, to get to where we are today. So while you’re thinking there are better or more ethical ways to become marketers of stuff, I am reminded of my Law of Attraction studies, which tell me that diversity is a wonderful thing. There isn’t only one path to greatness. And I know that you are doing exactly what’s right for you.

I spent decades being a pessimistic cynic about people or companies with lots of money. I carried around that bitterness with me, and it deeply affected my happiness and the people I allowed myself to hang with. I remember one millionaire guitar player guy I met a few years ago. He was quite willing to get to know me and came over lots to record with me for fun, because he’d been a guitar player all his life until he started a very successful music distribution company that he later sold for zillions. I told him honestly after about 10 visits together, that I just couldn’t hang around with him because I was going crazy wishing that he could teach me or make it easy for us to have a lot of money. He knew I wasn’t ready, and politely left me alone with my bitter-coloured glasses.

So please, understand that my comments are about our experience, and that we don’t have a desire to tell anyone that they can only get wealthy the way we are doing it. But I’m also Ok with the marketers who try to slamdunk the easybake oven method of getting rich fast. There are people that those guys attract, and those guys are doing the right thing for themselves and their clients. There is no wrong way to improve life, there are just some ways that work better for some people than others. But don’t take my word for it. You’re doing just fine.

Here’s a plug for your very hip looking, content rich blog! For Effective Classy Websites, check out Herrin’s.

And if you’re interested in more brilliant marketing guys, I highly recommend Chris Brogan.

Steve

Wow Ibiza! I have a good buddy who lived there a long time… Liam Kelly.. know him? hehe

Vive les differences. Herrin’s retort is good, he’ll see the light after my reply to him.

Criticism is part of the growth, we have to accept it, handle it, and no allow it to affect the dream. I think the dream even needs to include visualizing handling the criticism head on. I’m totally thankful for Herrin’s post on Sara Prout’s blog because it gave me the incentive to write the response. We’ve had a lot of people questioning our motives… usually I just let it go. But last night I just decided to write about why making a million dollars is fun, rewarding and makes the world a better place. Every adult day of my life, I have dreamed of leaving a legacy of creating hope for people who feel left out. It’s taken me 30 years to understand how I could do this. If it wasn’t for my wife, and her patience with me, I’d still be an angry old musician left behind by an industry that I was unwilling to adapt to.

Life is frikkin AWESOME now!

Steve.

I EXPECT great things from both of you.

Steve

Brett and I are students of the Law of Attraction and Social Media. We have read lots of books on success principles, believe the Law of Attraction. Gary Vaynerchuks book really helped me in understanding the social media world. I truly felt that I was too far behind in the world of Social media to ever figure it out, thank goodness I have Brett. I also felt our age was a disadvantage-who is interested in some Baby boomer couple and what they have to say!

I thank you both for your show, your dreams and for sharing everything you know and learn on your journey. You have worked super hard, are totally dedicated to what you are building. I agree that there has to be action, a plan to success and working hard is part of it. Thank you again! meg :~D

Herrin, well compiled retort and yes the law of attraction takes a little more effort than the Secret led a lot of people to believe but conversly it also led a lot of people to scratch the law of attraction surface, get interested and find out more.

I too have deflected criticism for following the law of attraction etc but my groundedness keeps me firmly rooted in my belief that through my positive attitude and dedication to helping others I too am indeed centred, aligned and right on track to becoming a millionaire.

Thanks Steve and Sue, I eagerly await the harvest of your hard work from my home in Ibiza, Spain.

Belinda from http://www.ChasingHappiness.net

Firstly you are both clearly nice people and I don’t believe I ever called that into question.

Nor is my issue your desire to become millionaires. In fact I wish you all the success.

My issue is the minimizing of the process that it takes to create success or even happiness.
A lot of marketers do it to make their product sound like it will be the answer to all your money worries. Just take this one product they say and you will succeed.

And in the short term sometimes it does work.

The Secrets main crime is that it is a mixture of truth and illusion.

1. Ask 2. Believe 3. Receive

What? – The Secret succeeded 1. because they had a great marketing campaign (ironically enough) and 2. because there are a lot of people that want to believe that belief is enough. If that were so the world would be full of millionaires.

Now to be fair to you, you’re taking loads of action. I commend you for that.

Success, happiness, love, a great song. All these things require us to engage a process in which we can find ourselves.

Along the way our preconceptions and illusions will be tested.

Interviewing successful people you will discover the elements of financial success and be exposed to their processes as well. This will be valuable for sure.

And I am sure you will be able to compile all that into something valuable to other people.

My point is that engaging the process is more important than the goal, at least to me.

At any rate, thank you for taking the time to write and share of yourself.

Health and Happiness!